Black History Matters | Don John | TEDxSouthampton

Black History should not just be important to Black people but should be important to all peoples for a fuller understanding of the relationship between black & white people socially and politically. Yes, Black History Matters and Black Lives Matter is only the beginning of a process.
Don John is a film maker, author & DJ as well as a consultant in the field of community cohesion. He has been a pioneer in the development of “Race & Diversity” issues across the southern region for over 30 years and was the founder and coordinator of Black History Month in Southampton over more than 20 years.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@Cybernaut551]

Human history as a collective goal matters. I agree with this.

[@CC-cu5we]

Oh man you and your voice are comforting. Know that your maturity and respect are appreciated.

[@irenedavo3768]

Do you watch Afrimax English

[@carlettagoodrich-mann1377]

Greatness presents itself. This speech is the height of my day. THANK YOU

[@nisamae2]

White people I just want y'all to understand no one told you to hate yourself. Just accept and acknowledge your history. The good and bad.

[@eddietrope5291]

I think the biggest problem is that most don’t know there own history. Big reason why everything is beginning to look like the 50s 60s.

[@pamelabean9929]

Very intelligent comment,well done

[@colinparkerwelsh8418]

I will if you will !!!!

[@FurbyGender]

Nisa, the fact you embrace being an “African American” and have no anger towards the Africans who sold and still sell their own people into slavery and human trafficking, shows you have an inability to acknowledge your history.

[@marius4451]

You do know that the roman empire enslaved evrey nation they conquered regardless of they're skin colour, ottoman empire did the same, atilla probably did the same.

[@Uduwerage]

Don John is a true advocate for Race Equality and Southampton is immensely privileged to have someone with such gravitas as a resident and contributor to diversity of belief and thought in this city.

[@Fidelisjoff]

The assumption is different races and cultures and beliefs are all equivalent and contribute equally. They do not and that is why so many non Europeans wish to live in Europe

[@hollydubrasich8276]

Beautiful thank you 🙏

[@Sophie-bf6zd]

Growing up in Southampton... YES.

[@serenityvalley3251]

This was a great dialogue. I would love to see him with Dr Joy Degroy

[@knight4395]

This is a monologue, not a dialogue!

[@T8lor]

Why would anyone put a thumb down to such wealth of knowledge?? This is truly inspiring.

[@angelapowell790]

Thank you , thank you for this in June 2020, God Bless...……..

[@adohkno1702]

i love it

[@rein7015]

This is so important for a multitude of reasons I can’t articulate. Thank you

[@RobizGaming2024]

Proud to be white. ✊

[@yogiegemini2053]

How can I attend a Tedx meeting live?

[@pearlbarkley1019]

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!

[@russells.soehnerii8308]

I will watch Cicely Tyson, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter.

[@shakeenajackson4216]

Beside all of the hate comments I love this. It was Beautifully worded !

[@FurbyGender]

It’s not hate, just a confusion for why you embrace the people who sold their own people into slavery to begin with and still do it today.

[@anthonyvaughan4853]

BRILLIANT DECONSTRUCTION ON THE TOPIC !!

[@anthonyvaughan4853]

AMEN TO THAT !!!

[@sameerahajia4600]

Very well he is good😉

[@graciebara8280]

Wow

[@shariecebrewster5962]

I love my history

[@christenasmalls6118]

After 2022 years of common history it is important to understand that there are things in the earth that has become harden.....racial hostility is one of those things. Writing, speaking, preaching about it has a purpose to a degree. But I have lived long enough to recognize that harden beliefs often are impossible to change. Rather each individual must decide how they will approach their life on earth.

[@anthonyvaughan6470]

BIG UP RESPECT !!! SHALOM !

[@bryanpepple3276]

where can i get his contact details

[@TheHumbleHorse]

I know him....

[@arlethavondell5162]

@@TheHumbleHorse How can I contact him?

[@itsmpume5314]

Amandla!

[@nomthee888]

Awethu👊🏾

[@Hawk95969]

History Matters The statues should not be taken down but the plaque below the monument should be rewritten reflecting the truth. If we cover up the past the truth becomes lost and then the past is often repeated. Take what has been saved from history in Germany and what was done to the Jews. History is the window to our salvation through learning and not repeating the same mistakes.

[@albumgenericflipper7110]

One question.. Why didnt it say " National Geographic Presents" at the beginning?

[@flemingsburgfarmscommunity6390]

please contact i have matter that needs to be addressed i have history that is about to be lost i have the history of john henry and city is trying take the land plow over where john henry and his grandparents are buried please help me go to flemingsburg farms & community workshop john henry

[@JonDoeNeace]

Because it's not just about slavery it's about the last 150 years since then.

[@reic0002]

ok. i have calmed down now and apologise if I offended anyone,. However, I stand by what I say albeit in slight less inflammatory language!

[@aaronpresley]

Enriching speech

[@wellhelltherefellwhuman4637]

I read 'Don John' as 'Josh Dun'😂

[@tonyfairey7733]

Basically you've got none ,own it.

[@djacnoc6690]

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[@jakemoran287]

Low-key didn’t know that Egypt was in Africa, wow.

[@stuartpringle913]

Jake Moran ...or that Algeria was in France!... fire in the booth 🔥

[@jakemoran287]

Algeria isn’t in France, it’s in Africa too. Although part of the population does speak French!

[@stuartpringle913]

Jake Moran 😂😂😂 have you been smoking dakka? Actually why did you even bring Lowkey into it? Lol

[@arlethavondell5162]

@@stuartpringle913 lol, too funny!

[@norahdavid6399]

Is Rotherham a safe place to live?

[@loxodonwizard9867]

I remember being supposed to take one of two opinions regarding European occupation of India in college. It went something like should Europe have helped them via subjugation or given them an undeniably bad international deal, for their own sake. I was disgusted. I write that the British should have simply shared their knowledge, neither subjugated nor occupied the country. I received an F. All hail the holy liberal publications of history.

[@nadegefotsing5130]

So sad 😣

[@Gabby-kb9vv]

When was this???

[@marius4451]

LoL. You don't get it do you. The third option that you chose if you as an adviser to the British empire suggested that to the British empire you would be hanged for high treason( in 2020 its perfectly reasonable but back then not so much).

[@instagramlive9247]

28k views how sad

[@RobizGaming2024]

I know should be less

[@casperhansen7505]

Where was it he worked? I dont understand what he said, sounded along the lines of jermajesty treasury! Some1 help me

[@donjohnsierra]

HM Treasury Whitehall

[@charlesmitchell8982]

The lawn mower was invented by English inventor Edwin Beard Budding in 1830

[@EvilEmpire1129]

J A Burr invented the Rotary Lawn Mower. Patent number is #624,749.

[@John-pk9rw]

We wUz Nefertiti n shieeeet

[@anthonygee2441]

Until the 17th century Britain and her people were under constant attack by barbary pirates. Coastal towns where invaded and people taken as slaves by those barbary pirates who also attacked British merchant ships. This continued Until Britain built a navy powerful enough to defeat the barbary pirates. Rule Brittania was written, later put to music, as a poem of thanksgiving. The barbary pirates came from North Africa

[@jacquelinewhite3705]

Portuguese who did not consider themselves as people of colour and who were the first biggest enslavers of Africans. There were plenty of white barbarians who relentlessly attacked UK

[@thewatcher7940]

Meanwhile the British went and enslaved Africans too. Not sure what you meant by this.

[@charlesmitchell8982]

The guitar was used in 12th century Europe

[@tbrown4111]

Charles Mitchell your right the Guitar was used in the 12th century in Europe. What Robert Flemming did was make it better. Flemming invented a guitar he called the "Euphonica" that he believed would produce a louder and more resonant sound than a traditional guitar. The U.S. Patent Office granted Flemming a patent (no. 338,727) on March 30, 1886. He also received a Canadian patent (no. 26,398) on April 5, 1887

[@stuartpringle913]

T Brown .....so not the actual original guitar then...

[@arlethavondell5162]

@@tbrown4111 Well researched and nicely articulated!!

[@Ambera3407]

Alternate history matters.

[@joshuawadsworth6417]

*Laughs in Morgan Freeman*

[@stuartpringle913]

So much hate in the comments... 👊🏼👊🏾👊🏿

[@user-is3tn2hp1f]

Unfortunately, some are not really understanding

[@Flashyfinancier]

Morgan Freeman

[@deepdesire6967]

ALL HISTORY MATTERS!!

[@Itchyback]

2017 and a victim complex larger than the universe, who would have thought?

[@JohnSmith-dh3kx]

@528302 You got it backwards.

[@Michael21870]

The oppressors have no heart or human soul.They continue to steal, kill and destroy, denying others of their humanity in this world.And when someone stands up, they think it's a complex.Sad human being you are.

[@johnnybracciole5490]

Yup blacks need to stop being lazy and blaming others

[@stuartpringle913]

Can I be proud to be white? I was born white. I refuse to hate myself, so I will love my untrendy being.

[@TheJeremie247]

Be proud

[@user-is3tn2hp1f]

Augustus Mars ...our people?

[@user-is3tn2hp1f]

Of course..?? Idg how your skin colour should play in role in being proud?

[@marius4451]

Be proud because you are a human beeig , the way you are raised determis how you think and how you act

[@stuartpringle913]

@@marius4451 some of us were raised by animals and still survived to be decent humans.

[@Pokemaster_416]

I can’t get over that name.... don john

[@thomasdequincey5811]

He could at least use the Spanish version of his name: Don Juan. P.S. Britain is in the centre of maps because of the Greenwich meridian. This talk has a very shoddily laid out argument.

[@johnnybracciole5490]

Whining won't get you anywhere...blacks need to get up and be productive

[@aniyalogan4532]

He's not whining and he actually has an impressive job compared to you whos sitting behind a scene being a baby

[@locdinwithzaza]

@@aniyalogan4532nah he’s a whining commie

[@grahamt5924]

The only reason that Blacks did not invent as many things, is that they did not need to. Necessity is the mother of invention. Living in very cold climates creates necessity and it forces inventions.

[@TheSamster1072]

Wow, you're a brain donor.

[@erinknight5742]

Go watch a Hidden Colors part 1 and hush

[@asuraazoth7137]

Cold tough climates sped up evolution. Forced Europeans to become better. Which is why they have come to dominate the earth.

[@rgfhjfghjk.]

we wur kangs

[@locdinwithzaza]

Commie alert

[@raquelvaldez4600]

How does blacks like this message

[@blazedandconfused477]

Not to me, bro.

[@charlesmitchell8982]

Alexander Dumas was only a quarter black by his paternal grandmother

[@yrretgnortsmra8955]

Charles Mitchell a quarter?, are we really going there?

[@arlethavondell5162]

@@yrretgnortsmra8955 You know Charles Mitchell has to discredit the Blackness somehow......

[@johnnybracciole5490]

Truth hurts

[@nbarrett259]

Zzzzzzz ..we gave you history..words ..language..everything..shooo go away ..

[@jassensummogum]

NOT TRUE.

[@deantokwana9829]

Go read up on your history please

[@Africasoil]

You stoled every thing From us Mr Snow bunnie.

[@nbarrett259]

@@Africasoil good ha ha

[@arlethavondell5162]

@@Africasoil That is absolutely correct! They had no writing system of their own but the Afrikans did and they inspired the Egyptians with their text.

[@eastcoastsaltwaterfishing6744]

No it doesn't