Thanks for showing this interview from 1989. It's good to hear there has been some improvement, change comes about slowly.
@dougdigby7653 жыл бұрын
@aG a Some changes for the better. We all know it's not a perfect world.
@carsandzombies76063 жыл бұрын
Been SOME improvement? Lol are you kidding me? Anybody can do anything now. Sorry you apparently live in the past but noone is a victim anymore.
@MisterAMuck3 жыл бұрын
Another great one David 1989 is the perfect year for this subject. Keep on keeping us thinking, it's a healthy habit ;-)
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
There sure was a lot going on that year, that's for sure!
@MisterAMuck3 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate Please give me some good stuff I had broken my neck in 83 and was still trying to adapt to my new life as a Quadriplegic. I was 27 in 1989 using a Mac computer that was bought for me in 84 when they first came out. Keyboard & Mouse were a challenge, but here I am ;-)
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
@@MisterAMuck wow, what a story! I'm afraid I don't know what you meant about giving you good stuff but you're welcome to come visit my KZbin channel, I do my best to put good stuff over there!
@MisterAMuck3 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate I haven't forgotten you I'll be back soon. Thanks. Alan
@groove9tube3 жыл бұрын
In the 80s, lived in two major East Coast cities. One was pretty integrated, the other not. A lot depended on geographic location.
@troytanner16933 жыл бұрын
Segregation > Abolition
@SherryHill-k5y2 ай бұрын
This is a gem. Thank you David!❤
@tamarrajames35903 жыл бұрын
What a fascinating man. He has information on a great deal of statistics, but delivers them in a very neutral tone...I suspect a longer conversation could become more complex as well as more nuanced. Thanks for sharing these interesting snapshots in time.🖤🇨🇦
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
It's so great to get these glimpses into people and times. It's such a treasure for humanity, really!
@tamarrajames35903 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate so true, and David is quite unique in what he brings us.🖤🇨🇦
@absinthemindedJ3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting David. As always, great work!
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
Isn't his channel amazing? To actually be able to see real history and hear perspectives that were never taught in school?
@absinthemindedJ3 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate LOVE DAVID💕
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
@@absinthemindedJ Me too! I actually got to have a conversation with him! 5 months ago- it's called Passionate Millenial KZbinr interviews David Hoffman. That was such a wonderful experience. He let me share my edit of the conversation on my channel too!
@davidcarbone33853 жыл бұрын
The person being interviewed looks as if he is being very sincere and thoughtful. I'm hearing him say discrimination was openly advertised, widely accepted, and even expected, but that began to change in the early 40s, which coincides with the USA's involvement in WWII and the fight against Hitler and his racial ideology. Perhaps Americans began getting more sensitive? It sounds as if expectations for change outpaced actual change and that led to great frustrations, which is understandable. I can understand some folks' attitudes that America is the same or worse. If you didn't live or experience the past directly, or indirectly by reading or watching films or speaking to folks who were alive in the past, it's hard to appreciate the change that's occurred. Sadly, what change that has been achieved seems to be in part a driving force by some to try to get things back to where they were before 1940. It seems with each push forward there's a push backwards. Take 2 steps forward but get pushed back 1, but today it seems the pushback is to try to go back 10 steps or more. Sad.
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
It really does feel that way. I'd love to hear more about what brought about that shift in the early 40's.
@dpunch51923 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate Mass Media.
@peternicholson25043 жыл бұрын
It's good to hear this man speak. Some of the old things like the sign that says people of a certain race are not allowed to sit in certain places are gone but it is an ongoing process. Thanks for this interesting video.
@troytanner16933 жыл бұрын
They should all be living in chocolate countries
@peternicholson25043 жыл бұрын
@@troytanner1693 Belgium is a good place for chocolate. Brussels is sometimes called the chocolate capital of the world.
@troytanner16933 жыл бұрын
God had all the races separate on their own continents in the beginning the way it should be forever
@peternicholson25043 жыл бұрын
@@troytanner1693 People from different races are mixed all over the world now and have to learn to live together. Mostly they have. That's the way it is.
@TheTruthlady3 жыл бұрын
Another gem! 👍❤
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
This guy's got a thousands lifetimes worth of gems!
@helengrunow50943 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate wishing you & yours a Happy Easter.x
@Juacka23 жыл бұрын
David Hoffman just found your channel. this one is a keeper. subscribed.
@beckyenglish47833 жыл бұрын
As usual, quality uploading. Cheers, David!
@JWF993 жыл бұрын
I've seen significant change for the better in terms of racial equality, at least in the town I live, and it's been the most noticeable to me only within the past 30yrs, I'm sure there's a multitude of reasons that we should try and learn from, hope someone knows this man name ? It would be interesting to see an interview with him, or someone with the statistics today
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
That would be interesting- so much has happened in the past 32 years!
@JWF993 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate for sure Kate 👍
@EyeLean52803 жыл бұрын
Discrimination in employment included discrimination against Catholics, too. Even in the 1950s, newspaper want ads would specify whether Catholics could apply. Imagine how much worse it would have been for Black people!
@CatholicTraditional3 жыл бұрын
I’m discriminated today as a poor-white Catholic, with the blessing of the Church. ☹️
@scottrobinson97522 ай бұрын
We recently sold my dads house (in late 2023). My parents bought that house new, in 1972, when I was a year old. It was mostly a white area, with a fair amount of hispanics (we are in Texas). The hispanic population had historic connection to the area, and were not migrants. I never saw a black person in school until the 5th grade...and it was only one girl. Gradually there were more... and by the time I graduated high-school, they were maybe 60 to 80 in a school with about 2000 students. Fast forward to last year when we moved my dad out of his house (his health was failing and he moved in with us, and has since passed away), and the majority of the town is now black and hispanic (majority migrant). As people grew old or moved away, and sold their houses...investors bought most of the neghborhood and turned them into rent houses. So it is a pretty much an all black and hispanic area now. Businesses are failing and being replaced with CBD shops, payday loan businesses, eyelash and nail salons, taco stands, tattoo parlors, tire shops, liquor stores (it used to be a dry city), immigration law offices, bail bonds, and fast food chicken places. It used to be a really nice quiet town. It was an awesome place to grow up. The old schools are all updated and expanded, lots of new schools have been built...so its not an education thing. But the whole area has gone way down hill. My dad refused to leave until his health dictated it, he was 83 years old. But it is downright unsafe there. I hate correlate it to race. But what else it? The grocery store has 4 armed guards (3 in the store, and 1 in the parking lot). This is the same grocery store that used to let me grab a gallon of milk on my way home from school, and put it on my parents tab. It used to be a very high trust area, now its a war zone.
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
On my channel I had a conversation with a black friend- it's called "Is white privilege real" and it was motivated by a facebook post that I shared. It said, "White privilege doesn't mean that your life wasn't hard, it means that the color of your skin wasn't one of the things that made your life hard." Or something like that. I've had people miss the point so much, claiming silly things like to say that it's real is to be racist against white people. I'm so passionate to watch your videos, to have these conversations, to learn beyond my limited perspective. We need to be willing to listen outside of our little bubble. I had no idea what POC have gone through, of the fear and the microagressions. I'm so thankful to have a platform and friends that I can ask uncomfortable questions and learn uncomfortable truths, so that I can grow as a person and other people can grow with me. I believe that's how we can change the world and make it suck a little less.
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
@@theforcedmeme I think it depends on the intent of the person using it. My black friend was explaining the reality of it and I listened and asked questions. Our intent of the conversation was to grow. Sure, it can be used in a vapid, meaningless way. Like a lot of other words. I invite you to check out the conversation and come up your own conclusion afterwards.
@saintd_ii3 жыл бұрын
If you don't see a blatant anti-white bias in news, journalism, and the general media then there's no hope for you. You have no sense of what is cherrypicked, what is revised, and what is censored.
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
@@saintd_ii It's been anti black for so long- those of us who are white can listen and learn and. It's not hard.
@saintd_ii3 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate If you think treating the founding stock of this nation with discrimination and destroying its European Christian identity is the solution to racism, then you're just another self-hating shill of the narrative fed to you, and you truly don't have a mind of your own.
@jaklumen3 жыл бұрын
I've done careful, intense, and very cautious pondering on this issue for many, many years. I don't buy into the microaggression theory. I think class socialists have been feeding us a lot of Trojan horses many years. If you broaden the scope past that- and include Luciferians- it's been centuries. These people think in terms of CENTURIES. It's more than Mao's Destroy The Four Olds, more than all the subversion tactics that a certain KGB defector spoke of. It's social inversion through duality ideology, pitting every person against each other, male, female, every tone of skin, ethnicity, and more. I must very politely and categorically tell you to take your white guilt and shove it. It is myopic and has actually served more to divide and conquer, than to unite. You are well-meaning, but you are clueless if you buy into this diversity, postmodernism nonsense. Consider things carefully, or be away from me.
@brucecaldwell67013 жыл бұрын
I grew up in a small town just outside Houston & our public school system didn't integrate until I was in the fourth or fifth grade, so mid 60's. Of course blacks were relegated to "the other side of the tracks" but I just don't remember much open hostility to integration & perhaps that's because the number of black students was very small. Although I had racist grand parents somehow my parents were not racists, my siblings & I were taught that everyone is equal. I guess many in the "woke" crowd would dispute that claim now days. I've spent a good deal of time the last year listening to black intellectuals who find the anti racial movement problematic, my favorite being linguist John McWhorter. Have I noticed a change for the better in racial attitudes in my 64 years & do we still have a ways to go? I would answer yes to both questions.
@chaserofthelight17373 жыл бұрын
I wish!!! When our schools were integrated my governor stood in the doorway of a school swearing to never let it happen, the National Guard had to be brought in. My school didn’t integrate until 1969 and until 1970 it was still illegal for blacks and whites to marry here. Racism is still rampant in this state, many of my family members are racist. Just about three years ago I sat down next to a young black woman at a restaurant. I hadn’t even sat down good when I received a text from my cousin who was there. It simply read KKK. To meet my family members and others you’d never know it unless and until you had access to the inter circle.
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
@@chaserofthelight1737 Wow! What a sick legacy of that govenor. I'm sorry you have to deal with that kind of disgusting mentality.
@nerdbamarich20633 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this gem😉
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
I like your name- Nerdbama. That's fun!
@nerdbamarich20633 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate thank you so much😉💜
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
@@nerdbamarich2063 How long have you been a David fan?
@nerdbamarich20633 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate I've been a fan of his for a while. He always has great content to post. He's incredible person.
@markmaurer63703 жыл бұрын
Has your voice really changed that much or is the recording equipment adding color? I'm not suggesting that your voice is unpleasant, I very much enjoy listening to your stories.
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker3 жыл бұрын
My voice has changed, especially during allergy season. David Hoffman filmmaker
@georgeforgerty28753 жыл бұрын
We have all black colleges, black tv, black beauty contest, black newspapers, black fraternity and black sorority , man we have come together as a country!!
@MahdiRanger3 жыл бұрын
You need to ask yourself, why did they need to create their own colleges, networks, contest etc....
@westonmeyer31102 жыл бұрын
@@MahdiRanger Ask yourself why they still exist.
@MahdiRanger2 жыл бұрын
@@westonmeyer3110 Money at this point.
@westonmeyer31102 жыл бұрын
@@MahdiRanger More like tribalism.
@MahdiRanger2 жыл бұрын
@@westonmeyer3110 I was listing why they started really that's all
@rrogers50773 жыл бұрын
We need MORE change!!!
@AshtonCoolman3 жыл бұрын
This is a very timely video to watch while the Derek Chauvin murder trial is going on. Here we are in 2021 dealing with the same UNDERLYING problems we had in the 50s and 60S.
@AshtonCoolman3 жыл бұрын
@@66smithra don't be obtuse.
@awsome16053 жыл бұрын
@@66smithra don’t be obtuse
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
Exactly! The problems are the same and it's amazing to see how relevant something made in 1989 has to do with today. I do hear David's heart of hopeful optimism that things are on an upward curve of getting better. What can we do without hope for that?
@whitney66413 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure the autopsy showed he died from a fentanyl overdose. Not that what that cop did was ok, but the evidence showed he didnt kill him. Lesson here, don't eat all your fentanyl to avoid getting caught with it, because you might die.
@cyndik99213 жыл бұрын
When will humanity become truly civilized?
@CityofDreams953 жыл бұрын
Obviously never
@cyndik99213 жыл бұрын
@@CityofDreams95 Definitely not in my lifetime. I shall retain hope for future generations though. Thank you.
@rich525693 жыл бұрын
Never, when we finally become all one color, we will go after each other for other things. It will never stop.
@ravenwilson79793 жыл бұрын
So interesting
@batman52243 жыл бұрын
I still believe the sexual revolution ruined the civil rights movement. In the late sixties/early seventies, a lot of other groups tried to adopt the language of the civil rights movement, even though their causes weren’t very similar at all. Martin Luther King’s philosophy was very much rooted in religion and morality, but the sexual revolution brought in a kind of secularism that went on to seize control of the culture.
@senixahaa3 жыл бұрын
YES!
@sc13383 жыл бұрын
Religion doesn’t equal morality
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
@@sc1338 That's for sure.
@senixahaa3 жыл бұрын
@@sc1338 He said religion AND morality
@benakinjo3 жыл бұрын
@@sc1338 Show me one moral society without religion. I'll wait. You might think you're a clever Atheist and rebuttal, "but there are immoral religious society", but that doesn't change the fact that there has never been a moral Atheist civilization. All great civilizations have been religious. You should probably wonder why that is. Morality without religion leads to the last 20 years of debauchery we've been seeing in America. Civilizations weaken in tandem with how far they move away from their founding mythos/origins. The sexual revolution made America more secular. That is a fact. And our Republic has weakened the further we've strayed from morality, aka, from God. That is also a fact. It's no wonder that so many say America is going the way of Rome. Mark my words, America is going to see a religious revival in the coming years. Not 50 years, or even 10. I'm talking next 3-5 years. The writing is on the wall already. Either that or I'll see you in the Gulags and breadlines.
@dpunch51923 жыл бұрын
1:30 The introduction of television into the American household.
@bordaz13 жыл бұрын
the power of tv is far-reaching, but were there any afro-americans/minorities on television in its first decade? What programming do you think could have influenced white americans to be more tolerant at the start of tv? Genuinely interested. IMO, and it's just a guess, the postwar boom relaxed competition for resources between many white and black folk.
@whattheysayk95583 жыл бұрын
The problem with America is that America is always changing I feel like out of any place in the world America changes the most and that in itself will be the end of this place you might die and never see the day but I’m sure it’s coming
@terrytube52473 жыл бұрын
Shut up.
@Hopscotch_243 жыл бұрын
I cannot find the “join” community button. Can anyone please help? I don’t want to miss out!
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker3 жыл бұрын
Casey: It is on the right side of my KZbin community page where I post still photographs. Do you not see it? David Hoffman
@Hopscotch_243 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I still can’t find it but I’m on my phone. I’ll try it on my desktop. Thank you, David Hoffman. I am a huge fan.
@uchihahikaku16303 жыл бұрын
Do you have a tiktok account David? I feel like your videos will be quite popular on there.
@EpicKate3 жыл бұрын
I think they would for sure, but I'm also pretty sure that he's not interested in going over there...ooh, I'd love to edit his content to over minute videos. That would be such a fun challenge!
@uchihahikaku16303 жыл бұрын
@@EpicKate I think it would be good for him because you need to see the entire videos to appreciate what they're talking about. So the minute long clips will be good bait for bringing them to his youtube
@MrShazaamm3 жыл бұрын
Grew up in the 80's and 90's as a teenager, and I've seen more racist in around 2010 to 2019.
@Lifebeam873 жыл бұрын
Because everything is record and posted online
@JeromeWade-lm8jh Жыл бұрын
OH REALLY,young buck?
@MRCAB3 жыл бұрын
Is that a faint pre-echo?
@WryGrass1003 жыл бұрын
Is this a young Chomsky? Looks and sounds like him.
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker3 жыл бұрын
Chomsky is not an academic researcher as this guy was. David Hoffman filmmaker
@4764293 жыл бұрын
Could the man be Eric Foner?
@kareneDallas3 жыл бұрын
Eleanor Roosevelt spoke out in the 40s in support of African Americans (oops! I was typing too fast & left out an “o” in her last name. Fixed now .)
@watan93973 жыл бұрын
Prejudice and bigotry has been exposed through trump in my small town. Now they are retreating, but it's too late. It's not the same.
@Sam-fc8ik3 жыл бұрын
Good
@miketresham47833 жыл бұрын
And now it's payback time. I play my no white guilt card.
@westonmeyer31102 жыл бұрын
And not for the better.
@seano16423 жыл бұрын
You do know what a social engineer is!
@gailseatonhumbert91993 жыл бұрын
Ah it was a bit worse. Women for example were not equal and even in the 1970s you needed a male relative to sign with you to buy a car for example.
@kzh25593 жыл бұрын
USA as a continuation of Roman empire naturally has segregation and apartaid this actually is long history more than 2000 years since Spartacus /Спароток/