Akala : Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

[@minimead368]

This is why tv is dead because good discussions are limited to 5 minute snippets while every other program on ever channel is a spin off of the same big brother stile formate

[@adriancarlos9155]

Dumbing us down !!!

[@nate9198]

Painfully true

[@fyt54321]

With lame gits as overpaid hosts.

[@achiepalaago]

It's almost as if the producer or someone behind the scenes gave the host a signal to end it just when Akala was dropping some facts.

[@marksn4020]

Akala as always is straight up with the facts. I hope his bestseller book sells on and on. Will buy it

[@CSSP_1188]

I really relate to things he says about being discriminated against in school. I'm not black so I never faced racial abuse but I was one of the only working class kids in a school full of middle class kids and the teachers there hated my mum and always degraded me. Growing up I felt like a mental disability that no one was telling me about coz my school always treated me like I was mentally slow. I remember I used to go to breakfast club in years 5 & 6 and at the end of breakfast club the juniors would get to go out onto the field and play football or whatever and the infants would stay behind and have a story read to them and would be taken to class by the teachers while the juniors would walk themselves to their classrooms when the day starts. U might be able to tell where this is going. Me and my twin brother were the only children in years 5&6 who were made to stay behind and listen to the story and be walked to class by the teachers like the infants. It even made is late for class on multiple occasions. Another instances that pops to mind is we used to do Christmas carol concerts at the church near our school and one year my brother got selected to read a section of the Nativity story from the Bible, on the first rehearsal he had his part of the story taken off of him and given to someone else because of his accent. He started reading in a London accent as that's where we're from and was immediately humiliated by the teachers because of it. They treated my mum even worse tho, they got social services involved with my life countless times, all thru out my childhood I was seeing different social workers and key workers all because the school simply didn't like my mum. One time I burned myself severely during an accident while making a cup of tea and I had to speak to the head teacher about it, during our conversation she kept insinuating that my mum inflicted the wounds... She didn't. Obviously this kind of thing happened often, I'd fall over at the park and come in with a grazed knee and they'd call social services and accuse my mum of beating me. I'd have a fight with my brother and turn up with a black eye and they'd call social services and accuse my mum of beating me. Etc, etc. The funny part is, they never did this to anyone else. My best friend at the time, his mum was a raging alcoholic. She would turn up to school pissed as a fart, could barely walk or string a sentence together and they never did anything about it. Social services were never called in. My mum's best friend even took the boy off of his mum and tried to gain custody of him and the school knew that he was living with her because his mum was too dangerous and yet they never called social services or even said a single bad word about this obvious junkie. It's so obvious why they did all this, we were a poor family from East London with funny accents and they didn't like us. They saw my mum as a scummy council flat London commoner and saw my and my brother as sub human. This effected my learning too, they were so horrible our accents that during guided reading or phonics or anything regarding speaking I would pretend I couldn't read certain words just to avoid being picked on for my accent. I even had my own teaching assistant, the only other two children to have teaching assistants were a dyslexic boy and an autistic girl, I have no learning disabilities. All the teaching assistants ever did was humiliate me and make me feel stupid. And again this had a mental effect on me, thru out my entire life I've been convinced I have mental disabilities that no one's telling me about and even when I was screened and proven not to have any learning difficulties I still feel like my brain doesn't work properly, literally I remember a year ago I was in school completely zoned about, feeling like shit telling myself that I have autism and everyone's hiding it from me because I missed one social queue from a kid I rarely ever spoke to. I was always put on the special needs table or the lowest graded table in primary school and was consistently given work that was too easy for me, I was even put on a programme called lexia, which is a platform with learning based computer games made to help children with learning disabilities... I had to request to be leveled up because it was too easy and I found it boring. Everyone else in there was leveling up by completing tasks. The list goes on, I ain't got all night to type a comment that no one will read

[@keryn.n]

This is sad. Sorry this happened to you.

[@ShizukaRose]

Let the man speak !

[@chome4]

Unless it's rap!

[@johnnycrowe2487]

drive1786 my god you’ve just called him a black man when the whole point is that you need to look at the individual🤣

[@albondeb]

It's illegal

[@jaijai5250]

@@johnnycrowe2487 they seem to forget that some of us black people don’t subscribe to the one drop rule. Only a black man and black woman can produce a black child, anything else is mixed.

[@PM-gp3oy]

Peston is desperate to bring this interview to a close -, not used to listening to an intelligent black guy i guess.

[@fbaallied]

Jan Valach why do you look like a fucking yeti/Neanderthal??? Go sit down in a cave....

[@liamroyce5958]

Scaramanga maybe just maybe he has a schedule to keep on a TV program

[@Taine0_]

Scaramanga he’s not black

[@elpistolero9394]

liam Royce Nah, best to blame it on racism. It’s the default setting of the Left. ALWAYS.

[@liamroyce5958]

@@elpistolero9394 oh yes I forgot feeling's over facts

[@henridobbs2423]

Sometimes I think we'll be back in the EU before Peston finishes a sentence.

[@markant9534]

They put my biracial friend in a foundation unit at school where they were given D level GCSE work and couldn`t get a grade above that, years later he went to college and got an A grade in GCSE English.

[@saberaahsan3287]

I went to a secondary modern school failed 11 plus was bullied by teachers and the students in the 1980s rampant racism was top 3 in English on maths and still told I would be in the bottom sets as a punishment. Was nearly expelled. Ridiculed by my teacher when I said I wanted to learn Spanish because I found French challenging. Now I have three masters degrees I worked in policing and government run my own business I'm a policy adviser in human rights equality and counterterrorism I have written five children's books a novel and I'm absolutely fluent bilingual in Spanish. This is what Manchester in the 1970s and 80s was like. That's Manchester Northwest not Manchester by the sea

[@shacklock01]

gettin onto a lot of mainstream platforms more and more is our akala, beeb seem to love him atm.

[@BandOfHarjaps]

Preston bit off a bit more than he could chew.

[@NateDogg8870]

Enigma MK completely agree. There was nothing combative about this interview. If anything it was a very well reasoned dialogue.

[@vickythomas5953]

He was obviously very uncomfortable, hence the abrupt end to the conversation.

[@fyt54321]

(4:53) "Look there's so much I want to talk to you about and we haven't got an enormous amount of time." ... Pathetic self-serving moron. You know the entire segment is only 6 minutes long, same as any "interview" you ever conduct. Why bother saying that at all, except to admit that you and your show are worthless for interviews.

[@anthonybrowne3942]

@@fyt54321 Agreed. Why have an interview at all if it only last 6 min?

[@jayangielovely5524]

One thing that I like is a straight talking, no beat about the bush BLACK KING and AKALA is one of millions. Respect everytime yo!

[@discipleofwocca4267]

June Smith he's not black, he is mixed race

[@jayangielovely5524]

@@discipleofwocca4267 mixed race is more BLACK as appose to white. His Dad is also Black and when Blacks referred to mixed race as half cast, not realising that it's a negative wording it was the police and those power's to be that referred to them as Black. They may or may not have European features but they don't look white and nine times out of ten, they have tightly curled hair just like their black ancestors. Furthermore the way that they are treated is very much the same treatment that Black people receive on a daily basis and that is a fact.

[@Jon962-h4i]

@@jayangielovely5524 "Mixed race is more black"? WTF? And who are you to make that statement on behalf of everyone of mixed race?

[@cosmicdiasporapoems2916]

@@discipleofwocca4267 So was Mark Duggen yet everybod the MSM called him Black get a brain how did England make all this money.

[@jaijai5250]

@@jayangielovely5524 mixed race is not black. Do you suppose that the non black parent didn’t contribute half of their dna to the child. It has nothing to do with recessive and dominant genes. Only a black man and woman together can produce a black child. And No!!!! I’m not saying they are less than, I’m simply saying that they are not black, they’re mixed . It’s a shame that black people are happy to accept anything and everyone. Simple 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@thehoneyeffect]

There’s so many hurt white feelings on this comment thread lol

[@elpistolero9394]

thehoneyeffect There’s so many black racists on this comment thread lol

[@marcwareham9351]

Agreed! It’s not ok to be white! Whites are being picked on and feel victims of the lesser races now. If whites are not careful and don’t restore order then they will eventually become extinct.

[@thelife2242]

They haven't read his book. I have and he makes some incredibly good arguments and actually he isn't anti white at all. Biggest misconception about him. I'm white and don't feel threatened or victimised. I'm also a libertarian from a single parent working class household before anyone calls me a liberal leftie elite snowflake etc.

[@liamroyce5958]

@@thelife2242 he said he is ashamed of his mother's whiteness Champagne socialist mans a race baiter If he wasn't stirring the point he would be irrelevant Coming from a black man

[@liamroyce5958]

@HNK GG great response loool Shows you know fuck all

[@watchulla]

In a majority white school they put my nephew in special ed class and my mother removed him out of the school. He is now a fucking Mechanical Engineer. This shit happens all the time.

[@elpistolero9394]

watchulla So racism, right? 😴

[@martytrain]

TELL THEM AKALA

[@sbeav1105]

Yes, their game was supremely weak...big props to AKALA

[@jasmineluxemburg6200]

Akala speaks for me too - although I am not black. On class and on gender - same struggle to survive and become politically aware . A few of us make it in spite of the odds. I will add his book to my big rebel collection !

[@TheNadiabear]

more conversation like this please!

[@coraltaylor8159]

Nadia Bear I totally agree.

[@blackgold1980]

First Last like Barbados.

[@FirstLast-cf4mi]

Barbados HAHA!

For saying Roger Penrose instead of Brian Cox he gets extra points. No disrespect to the Cox.

[@bluevaseconspiracy7294]

Remember : the controllers get to choose who gets the public platforms.

[@oliverbeaumont5852]

all i see is people..... humans, living organisms.... size, shape, colour is irrelevant. people are a reflection of their environment... You are a trooper and on the right path, don't let politics stray you away from your end game.

[@damienhowell3727]

Wisdom truly is for the blessed I wish brother akala all the best jah bless

[@sunstarthunderlighting6983]

Akala Heavens Blessings, I really appreciate your work, keep going brother, Heavens Rising.

[@drjosephsmaresca8256]

Successful students do their homework consistently and read books often. Good literature teaches sentence structure and advanced vocabulary. Students who do very little reading will have more problems with advanced collegiate study. College requires work-at least 2 or more hours for each hour in class. There are a few brilliant students who can do less work but these students are the exception rather than the rule.

[@switchoffyourdevices7142]

hilarious, the host didn't know what the f@@@ was going on... my man was on a completely different level loool

[@damienhowell3727]

I hope he gets to have a 1 on 1 with theresa may or even Boris Johnson oneday my goodness that would be interesting.... fingers crossed

[@adriancarlos9155]

Nigel Farage and Katy Hopkins the indigenous one 😁😁😁😁😂😂

[@abdullahyate6626]

The subtle baiting that seems to be the trend format applied to any interview to dictate the narrative of a discussion quickly fell apart from the clear frustration of the host and panel. Bit of light hearted ownage on Akala's part, pretty amusing.

[@SJones-kk5lg]

He said, "You have a white mom and you're black ....." That bothers the heck out of me. He was formed in and birth from a white woman. Genetically, he is biracial not black.

[@laurenpaterson3475]

I have. A friend she was West Indian and school was happy for her to miss classes to get to sports competition

[@laurenpaterson3475]

In the end she refused go as she wanted pass her exams

[@thalibrafraudster7795]

Same happens at my school for English kids , with rugby mateches, and music classes.

[@thefactisfactis]

I was thrown out of A-Level Biology for being too informed. I proved the teacher wrong by bringing in my encyclopedia on fungi... then I was told I'm causing a distraction... and promptly moved to an adult class on Wednesday evenings between 20:00 and 22:00 hours at night, and far away from where I lived. Ended up dropping out. 🤔

[@adriancarlos9155]

@@laurenpaterson3475 She lucky she had the choice !!! Check out James O'brien with Akala KZbin: very good !!!

[@Vybrationz1]

"Not in my view on the empirical data"....It's very important to be able to quote studies and scientific fact based information when dealing with the dominant culture Aklala is the Papa Levi of toasting or Galzu to the children of Anu....SALUTE MI BREDA EVERYTIME!

[@idressakatta148]

Wow this guy is very smart

[@iammslala7017]

Loved how he checked other guest about Glasgow reference.

[@maximusandsenecagloballlc1209]

How is his discussion limited to his difficulty in society

[@thedonpascoe728]

thanks Akala brother lets get these people aware of what's happening to our kids

[@Amir-ns5yn]

Interesting discussion, those from private schools are destined to be high flyers however if they are of colour will be more of a struggle. I guess next in line are the grammar schools who probably end up getting jobs that make Eton educated executives look good. Remaining public school educated individuals where white counterparts have it easier to get into jobs or university places compared to the ethnics.

[@wmurray003]

"This is above our heads..." -GuysAtTheTable

[@elpistolero9394]

Musa I of Mali It really wasn’t. This is tired GCSE level Lefty nonsense

[@ag7dragonfly]

@@elpistolero9394 LOL you are so mad bro lolololololololololol. Dang the truth hurts huh?

[@rahulkemp8347]

@@ag7dragonfly are u a black?

[@kenhutley971]

Is Peston an educated man? Serious question! I'm not, so I feel qualified to ask!

[@thebishop1301]

This boy is good. End of.

[@monalisawm]

Akala his very intelligent well done.

[@zvigier]

Wow can you let Akala get his point out without interjecting.

[@michealcurrie8272]

Preston, Kept referring to black people, wasn't just black people. Not the case at all.

[@arsenalf.c.6343]

I got to say he does talk sense,don’t agree with everything he says but he certainly knows his stuff,keep it coming mate.

[@adriancarlos9155]

What don't you agree with? So sick and tired of people like you who don't go through the same experiences on a everyday basics for your whole life: so called white naugty kids could swear spit and do whatever they still won't get kicked out there's always an excuse for them: time and care only the really rotten ones end up in special school for behavioural issues unless really bad and is given loads of chances b4 expelled: or put in a specialist school: stop trying to down play someone'else'ss life experiences; you don't believe it because you never went through it !!! Akala is spot on !!! Most 40 something so called "Black" English: yes English know exactly what he is saying !!! You know nothing

[@timcahill4676]

@@adriancarlos9155 poor you such a hard life maybe you should just get given money for doing nothing?

[@adzmanc5650]

Britain is a very unequal society when it comes to class

[@blainegoodwin1878]

THE SONG AT THE END ! LOL!

[@Iamharryparker]

Preston was irritating and interjected too many times, poor interview from him

[@eswyy]

what is food on the table?

[@paulpovey]

Preston sounds like talking whilst sat on a washing machine on spin cycle ,,jeez man I got headache

[@harleyfrench9997]

This man is awesome

[@richardrich1384]

He's still sort of doing the who's the toughest clearly Glasgow but he is doing a lot of good

[@markant9534]

I took an IQ test in 2008 and scored 78 in one test, 79 in the next test and 84 in the verbal test, the woman testing me said I would struggle to do normal work in a job! The past grade for an IQ test is 85 and in America I would be put in a special needs room yet 2 years ago I did an IQ test on the computer and scored 90, what a load of bull.

[@thebridge5483]

Mark Ant that shit is subjective man there are many ways someone can be intelligent and smart, it’s not set in stones

[@markant9534]

@@thebridge5483 👍

[@tiddlerz]

the english had a lot of great inventions, unfortunately one of them was not the guillotine

[@adriancarlos9155]

What inventions?

[@wildekroko]

Let the guy finish his story dude

[@Sanjinator1]

Peston was pretzeled.

[@DSC141]

Not trying to give you a pump

[@Ziggyziggy1]

Why do i get the impression, The guy asking questions has no interest whatsoever... It's really sad....

[@DNice5865]

Cut him way too short that was damn near disrespectful

[@TwiceBorn369]

Great fucking music!

[@xaviersariceable]

4 against 1 why....

[@oliviawilson8161]

The interviewer keeps interrupting 🙄

[@fortheloveofamothertheblac2012]

Akala is the more intelligent on most panels and in interviews. This 'host' interrupts Akala and speaks over his researched points. This is a tactic often used by the less intelligent and or those with a manipulative mind and hidden agenda. All kudos to Akala for attempting to educate and impart knowledge despite being faced with a male with poor hosting skills.

[@blackworldonline]

It's the same as caste system but worst.

[@Phoonguy]

Caste system is sick and that makes india disgusting

[@rahulkemp8347]

@@Phoonguy are u indian? or maybe chinse?

[@Phoonguy]

@@rahulkemp8347 no I'm black

[@rahulkemp8347]

@@Phoonguy in london?

[@Phoonguy]

@@rahulkemp8347 not London but close

[@sholaebofin6090]

Getting away with it how ironic..

[@cbx360]

They where doing that in Sweden

[@adriancarlos9155]

Akala putting that fire on them

[@michaelwhite8031]

Narcissism

[@carlossimpson]

Five minutes just?

[@justincoombes5205]

Perhaps in fairness, I should of watched the whole episode first before forming a opinion the interviewer isn't as bad as I first thought therefore I shall hold my hands up and admit to being wrong in judging him, his just comes across for me as a annoying little prick. As for Akala despite doing well for himself, he continues to play the game rather well up to a point, you see in his countless interviews never once have I heard him acknowledge God, and that worries me somewhat simply as I wonder what his ultimate objective is, and wonder what his agenda is. His still very interesting though.

[@taq1238]

Racism is an ideology and a construct built by Europeans. As with all of the isims such as socialism, communism and capitalism theres is a structure and a doctrine that is followed. Racism is no different. Laws have been institutionalized and attitudes have bren formed through the implementation of racism by Western societies for centuries. Those of us that have historically been affected by institutionalized racism and explicit and implicit racism have a right to speak on how it has affected us whether you like it or not. Those of you who have benifited from this ideology do not have a clue. We are the experts on racism since we are the victims of it. It is a well oiled machine that is on all the time and the noise that it makes has provided background noise for so long whites dont even hear it anymore. Like a dog whistle, we hear it loud and clear.

[@elpistolero9394]

Racism has always existed in one way or another. I suspect you’re the actual racist. You seem to blame the world’s ills on white people. Do fuck off.

[@luaseast1251]

Marcia Eternal victim complex at its finest. Just be grateful you have access to modern western European culture my third world friend.

[@ag7dragonfly]

@@elpistolero9394 Nope just telling the truth about history, race is not a real thing, back in the day it didn't exist as it does now. People were not racist in the past it, started with European colonialism. Take a college course and you'll know I'm not lying. The truth upsets you, but it's still the truth. And the truth will always come out no matter whose feelings it hurts or how hard you try to suppress it.

[@ag7dragonfly]

@@luaseast1251 Nope just telling the truth about history, race is not a real thing, back in the day it didn't exist as it does now. People were not racist in the past it, started with European colonialism. Take a college course and you'll know I'm not lying. The truth upsets you, but it's still the truth. And the truth will always come out no matter whose feelings it hurts or how hard you try to suppress it.

[@ag7dragonfly]

@bishap global86 Nope just telling the truth about history, race is not a real thing, back in the day it didn't exist as it does now. People were not racist in the past it, started with European colonialism. Take a college course and you'll know I'm not lying. The truth upsets you, but it's still the truth. And the truth will always come out no matter whose feelings it hurts or how hard you try to suppress it.

[@thementor9764]

those other guys werent diggig it...hahahah look like puppets

[@Ziggyziggy1]

Strange! Important issues which effect our society, are only rushed on this tv discussions! I guess (only way is Essex) or as I would put it,(only way is to be moron) Is more relevant to mainstream media....

[@miketheman4341]

Who needs actual scholarship when you have a rapper writing about history! Exactly why YT is not the basis for any degree program.

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

Does anyone else think this Akala guy is so boring. He will just talk and talk for hours about the same thing if you let him. This reminds me to never make polite conservation with the person sat next to me on a long train/coach/plane journey.

[@fullmetalprism5249]

Chester Donnelly and yet here you’re watching his boring talk Get a life

[@TheUnQuake]

its a great book

[@TheUnQuake]

@Diogenes the Cynic have u even read akalas book

[@TheUnQuake]

@Diogenes the Cynic wow... Really dinks you dink

[@melissadavis1942]

Akala it's is a good thing to do to give me and Justin Davis my son born in Selma Alabama with the Bill Cosby show carte de angel and the annunciated church in Altamonte springs FL at the Wyndham Resort and the kind of love it is to help us with this racism and put us in this penthouse vice president Kamala Harris I emailed and donated by her champagne for government she is vice president Kamala Harris.

[@supergirliex123x]

this host is just irking me! Let the man speak... social skills my dude

[@2005peasah]

Akala big up to you, fuck haters.

[@mkdon101]

Akala4pm.

[@hfive2715]

Race baiting 101

[@OfficialTechnician]

Race baiting 101- Low IQ right wing rhetoric when they can't actually contest any of the points in context

[@hfive2715]

Tehknician Music who said I was right wing!

[@hfive2715]

Paul Charles a devastating rebuke, cut to the core!

[@sb4621]

H FIVE but he’s talking a lot about class in this though..

[@ICanSayKatarina]

Learn history, the affects of white history

[@QueensCage]

Hmm?

[@SteaksOnSpear]

I find it strange that a man who thinks Egyptians were sub-saharan african, is allowed to teach history...

[@mishkaosborn5364]

Why? do you not realize Egypt is in Africa.

[@SteaksOnSpear]

@@mishkaosborn5364 i obviously know its africa fool

[@ag7dragonfly]

@@SteaksOnSpear Egyptians were black Africans just look at the old depictions they made of themselves they were black and proud of it. Europeans have changed the historical narrative to reflect their own white supremacist ideals but no worries... the truth always comes out.

[@SteaksOnSpear]

@@ag7dragonfly hmm not really? No european hidtorian claim they were white. Its not a competition. Saying they were sub saharan african just doesnt make sense concidering the evidence.

[@mishkaosborn5364]

@@SteaksOnSpear what doesnt make sense is why your such a pompus jerk!!The first Egyptians were African before Egypt was conquered. You must be naieve and believe everything the media says and I ain't no fool. I just state the truth either way and it's funny how it pisses some people off.

[@robc1168]

presenter couldn't wait to "run out of time"

[@markant9534]

4:16 Just cut in! No respect at all!

[@mars_bars2397]

For Britain.

[@irishbrother5303]

Should have just called the book ''''''Victim Mentality''''''''

[@Pilotalphapapa]

irish brother you’re an ass

[@irishbrother5303]

A P Please do not call me names,i will write a book and live my life as a victim,i need my safe space now LOL Akala is a clown that talks complete and utter garbage,simple as that,and he and i a guess the like's of you think that HE is a Genius smdh facepalm

[@irishbrother5303]

A P Thank You for that

[@liamroyce5958]

A P the man sister was a pop star I doubt he really grew up poor He has said its on KZbin he was ashamed of his mother's whiteness come the fuck on

[@Pilotalphapapa]

liam Royce anyone with a fully functioning brain should be able to understand what he’s saying

[@bigworm7350]

Class is the issue not racism. Theres one divide and that's rich and poor. We're stronger together ppl .... dont believe the media all they do is divide and conquer.

[@deejones6431]

Easy for you to say when you may have never had to deal with racism. Racist folks are triggered by color. They could care less about the class

[@paul5899]

He just completely runs rings around supposedly intelligent people.

[@cheeky19681]

The failed rapper

[@markant9534]

I think your missing the bigger picture here, who gives a shit about rap music?

[@Phoonguy]

Failed rapper are you serious he is one of the best lyricists on the planet and is only getting more famous

[@moneytttt1140]

Your face is a failed rapper

[@alexpurchas1538]

Other rappers say his fire in the booths number 4 especially are unbelievable. You think he's failed coz radio don't like positive black music

[@combedpubes]

I like Akala but he has some warped ideas man

[@thehoneyeffect]

He has warped ideas if you’re uneducated

[@123Andersonev]

not warped i think he gets a lot of kick back due to everything he talks about is usually centred on the negative