Farrakhan breaks down The Color Purple Movie

[@mcrodriques3562]

"Your rise is the fall of their world"!! That's such a powerful statement.

[@beb5407]

So profound and a raw truth 😊

[@c.l.9344]

Powerful.

[@PeaceOnPurpose7]

That statement has been true all along. You see how hard they try and have always tried to diminish black people.

[@alantaylor-vb6mn]

Not only that, we represent their "genetic annihilation". The color black or brown, is a very dominate trait. No whyt woman can make a melinated baby only by a melinated man.

[@Sequr2289]

It's supposed to mean instead is the rise and fall on the Word. God is the Word and he doesn't lie. 😂Lol🎉

[@DianneReevesFan]

The media banned Farrakhan from all tv and print for a reason: Every word he speaks is enlightenment.

[@TheBashar327]

Well the fact he's also a racist. And probably had a hand in Malcolm X's death. But it doesn't mean he can't speak truth every now and then.

[@treasurethetime2463]

I never understood why Danny Glover would agree to this role.

[@TheBashar327]

@@treasurethetime2463 , money and fame is a helluva drug. Look how Harrison Ford sold out his fans and masculine image to be stomped into the ground in Star Wars The Force Awakens and Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny.

[@Sequr2289]

Enlightenment from one source, one God Almighty. Any other enlightenment is fake. Lol

[@darnellpowell6212]

He’s a racist plain and simple

[@newyorkny533]

It’s amazing how prescient his words were! It’s now 2024 and his words from decades earlier were spot-on.

[@bjwitdashitztv81305]

2024 HERE FACTS 11 yrs ago STILL FACTS IJS

[@stars-are-us]

He is blame shifting to make black men feel better instead of diving deeper. Slavery and jim row caused black families to fracture. Now we can actually build better lives TOGETHER . Stop black female oppression. Stop telling us to stay in our places because white America already got that covered. Ask why Keke got beat because she was trying to pull a brother up. Why our men not having this discussion?

[@paulettelamontagne6992]

😂😂😂

[@liveyourlife495]

This clip is over 30 years old.

[@paulettelamontagne6992]

@@bjwitdashitztv81305 what facts?

[@Atreyufolife]

Based on the media's portrayal of this man I was expecting to not like what he had to say. I was wrong his speech was/is amazing!

[@CandieP]

That’s why you should never judge a book by its cover and experience life and people and places for yourself.

[@peacegod44]

Learn to do your own research and learn think for yourself.

[@normanlove3919]

Media is so full of it.Everybody has the right to speak for us except us!! Ridiculous.

[@onevoice4894]

That’s because the media is run be a certain group of people who the honourable Minister is not afraid to speak the truth about. And rather than debate him on his critique, they choose to demonise him.

[@ToDDthaGod1973]

All of his speeches are amazing which is why there is vested intrest to paint him as a hater.

[@omalichanwa1877]

The fact that this was the 80’s and he was already in his 50’s is mind blowing.

[@tracywells7808]

Not…. Late thirties early forties💪🏾

[@omalichanwa1877]

@@tracywells7808 what do you mean? The Color Purple came out in 85. He was born in 1933. I think I’m misunderstanding your comment.

[@tracywells7808]

@@omalichanwa1877 my bad your right 💪🏾 early fifties my mistake

[@Jaycarbrownie12]

So handsome

[@Vlad-Determined-Hustle]

The fact that he was saying everything about degraded styles with music ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO is mind blowing.

[@jessesaffold1165]

i know huh

[@FeliciaStands]

Exactly and he’s right with everything he pointed out

[@Vlad-Determined-Hustle]

@jonathan03ist Is the book worth a read? How much different is it than the original movie in your opinion?

[@kingrayog]

@jonathan03ist The book read like a one of poems. What I saw in the movie kind of represented the book. The movie was meant to do something different and tug at everybody Black!

[@TEM14411]

Damn he nailed it. People really need to be mindful of what they consume and what they meditate/ruminate on.

[@vashtikelly6837]

agree

[@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS]

The way the media makes Farrakan look... it makes you not listen to his truth. That is "their" goal.

[@vashtikelly6837]

@@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS AGREE

[@ericnielsen5441]

This movie was not some corrupt narrative by a white man. It was based on a novel by a black woman.

[@FeliciaStands]

Agree I’m 2024 why was this remade I wish the collective ignored this traumatic movie it’s not educational

[@JamesCH08]

This movie had such a grip on our community back at that time, that teachers had us watch it in elementary school. I didn't get it at all at that time, hell we we're just in 3rd grade, we all made fun of it, back then. But it's CRAZY to think our black teachers thought this was important and that we were learning something by watching this movie.

[@trackgrad08]

Dang, 3rd grade? 😮😮😮

[@JamesCH08]

@@trackgrad08 Yeah I know we were young, but I grew up during the 80's & 90's, we were the latch key kid generation. Parents didn't give our generation as much nurturing, or parenting as later generations of kids got. We had to grow up quickly, and adapt fast. If you watch the movie Home Alone, watch how the family treats Kevin. Kevin's only 9 in the film, yet they want him to pack his own suit case for a trip over seas, what 9 year old knows how to do this ??? But that's how kids were treated back then. Plus also there wasn't much black representation in movies or TV back then, nor was there much school approved books about black history to teach from. Especially not on a historical or conscience level, all I ever heard about was Martin Luther King, as far as Black history goes. So I think the black teachers believed that by showing us the Color Purple, that it helped, because it shows some of the Jim Crow South of that time period, and because during the 80's there really wasn't many films that showed this type of history of us. I mean outside of "Roots" the TV series, there wasn't many movies or TV shows that showed our history in America at that time. Most Black Hollywood movies during the 80's were comedies from Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor, Spike Lee came along in the 80's. But he didn't really blow up until he did "Do The Right Thing" in 1989. An most of TV was just sitcoms, Cosby Show, Amen, 227, Jeffersons, A Different World, and horrible ones like Gimme A Break, Webster, Benson, and Different Strokes. So I think the teachers thought they were showing us how things were for our people back then, and how we were treated as a people. But I think if the teachers had known better movies would be coming out during the 90's that better showed our plight as a people, I really doubt they would've shown us that movie. But no one can predict the future, so how would they have known 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@orderedme_ohgee8607]

This movie is a complete reflection of a large part of Black American history, and the community, especially southerners. This picture is painfully ACCURATE

[@d3dd440]

Learn what domestic violence

[@TheGobblersGetback]

@@orderedme_ohgee8607 Accurate “to a certain degree”….The problem was, like Farrakhan stated in this video, it leaves out the “how factor” that put Mista and poor blacks in their struggling and dysfunctional families. If you’re casted out by society (yes sir, no sir, can’t shop here, can’t use the bathroom here, can’t stare white folks in the eyes, lynchings etc;), what kind of attitude do you think the head of the house/most scrutinized (the black father) will have? Newsflash: It ain’t no da-n smile and rosy attitude…..#THINK

[@joy2theworld488]

I always thought it was such a Depressing Movie, still not understanding why they keep remaking it..🤔

[@PerfectContradiction]

Oprah recreated it, let’s just say she isn’t Miss Sophia no more smh she won’t get my money

[@victorporter1970]

He just told you why🐣™️💯

[@richmondraider716]

Propaganda as he said. Keep repeating your message so it eventually seems like the truth

[@balance7350]

They keep recreating it to further divide the black community

[@90ejb]

To keep us in mental bondage, and the ones who truly suffer have to relive it and can never truly heal.

[@df2324]

Farrakhan was way more wise than we ever gave him credit for. His consciousness is and was more evolved than the common man, He was trying to raise us all up!!!

[@beatricewoods8377]

Farrakhan makes sense even change the way I eat .

[@bmefilms6879]

he raised you up not me. my father did that!

[@df2324]

@@bmefilms6879 my words were he tried to raise us all up. There was a series of people, a unit responsible for my elevated consciousness, not Farakan.

[@bmefilms6879]

this is a man, aging, dying like us. Everything man has elevated in you is temporary. Search for the true God and let his wisdom awaken in you a motivation for sacred service that has everlasting rewards.@@df2324

[@beforeyourimmigrants8471]

​@@bmefilms6879 "trying to raise" vs "raised". What is the function of the "ed" suffix?

[@angelamack5300]

I am not a Muslim but found this to be very enlightening. The man just preached a sermon about The Color Purple. This is deep.

[@terryadams4853]

Teach Hard Bro. Minister.2024

[@johngrimkowski598]

he is a con artist.

[@quamifilms]

It’s interesting, because I always saw the color purple as a horror movie and when people would try to explain to me, how good it was I would tell them and break the movie down on how much of a horror movie it is. It’s terrible, breaking up of a family incest , the destruction of the man, the destruction of a woman it’s a horror movie. Let me tell you I’ve seen some horror movies I’m a horror, movie fan and the color purple is a class a horror movie I have spoken.

[@MrKelzKelz]

Wow never looked at it like that but makes a lot of sense.

[@UniqueSassy91]

He was not her real daddy

[@shenberry]

@@LM-op7wu From what I hear it flopped but she will bring it back to Broadway or maybe Vegas who knows.

[@moonhoneymami]

I always thought juice was a horror movie too

[@quamifilms]

@@moonhoneymami it is!

[@faithwilliams7826]

I never did like the Color Purple so was really not interested when it emerged again most recently. There are a lot of hidden subliminal messages within the script. You always have to look for the subliminal messages.

[@jenniferfrazierlpc7171]

Agreed 💯 %

[@bombay3201]

Facts 💯💯💯

[@edp3202]

That's why I didn't like the movie The Help either.

[@annacopeland6339]

Color Purple vexed My Spirit 😢

[@juniorjames7076]

I used to wonder why, in the '80s, they always wanted White directors to tell Black stories (Spielberg - The Color Purple, Norman Jewison - A Soldier's Story, etc.). I assumed it due to studios wanting bigger name directors being more reliable or competent, etc. Now I think the reasons go much deeper.

[@EMPRESSGLADYS]

I remember bending down so no one would see I was tearing up when Celie was reunited with her children; and after all this time, that scene still made my eyes water.

[@divinationdestiny2021]

I cried all through the movie. Don’t feel bad

[@Findaway2day]

Everything after @19:30 I totally agree with. Farrakhan has been warning our people for decades, I'm a Christian, so we have some differences, but I agree with much of what he teaches and dread the day we no longer have his voice. Our people are slow to listen and slow to learn. When he's gone, another light will be out and we'll be plunged into more darkness.

[@domtee]

I agree and I too am a Christian but your comment was spot on! Completely!

[@carnellclark744]

This is so True. Not many will stand with a voice .

[@TertulienT]

That is a very negative way of thinking God will ALWAYS send us the light when we need it. We need to not limit God and trust that there indeed is order amongst the chaos

[@TertulienT]

@@carnellclark744those that stand with a voice have a calling on their life and God will always lead them to speak the truth The Lord knows what he is doing let’s not limit

[@jeriwinston647]

Min. Farrakhan makes you see the “unseen”. So powerful!

[@omni201]

I remember watching Rosewood in 6th grade and to this day, the scene where the dude violates the woman in the shop is burned into my mind. I told my mom that I saw that movie and she came to the school and let’s just say that she wasn’t very happy

[@nimatullahking3595]

There are a few scenes from that particular movie that haunt me to this day. Smh, it's not good.

[@omni201]

@@nimatullahking3595 Agreed.

[@chanteledwards3615]

Are you black?

[@juliansearcie1758]

Unlike the the color purple rosewood was reality..

[@tamikabland79]

I've never watched that movie or Roots. I've seen a few images, and it's honestly too painful to watch

[@jahkarimirza7286]

What he said is facts. The small hats do not want your rise. They control your image, but we take such degrading roles for money. They will never put you in roles where you look good.

[@honeybdream]

Exactly! Just like the Oscars won by us folks are always for negative roles! This all goes deeper. The Matrix & Get Out are real! IYKYK

[@skizztrizz4453]

Love & Hip Hop is a prime example. Shit is embarrassing AF.🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@yashayasoldierofyasharala3597]

Spielberg directed the original and the remake.

[@davidadams220]

Spielberg did not direct the musical...smh!

[@juniorjames7076]

@@yashayasoldierofyasharala3597 I used to wonder why, in the '80s, they always wanted White directors to tell Black stories (Spielberg - The Color Purple, Norman Jewison - A Soldier's Story, etc.). I assumed it due to studios wanting bigger name directors being more reliable or competent, etc. Now I think the reasons go much deeper. Remember how much Hollywood HATED Spike Lee? Just like after positive Afro-centric Hip Hop was replaced with Gangsta rap, film Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton's positive message) was followed by Menace To Society/Training Day/Hustle&Flow (nihilistic violence, criminal drug worship). They NEVER stopped gaslighting us.

[@traceygrant3386]

I’m 59 years old and my dad was Muslim he use to go to the mosque on 125 st Harlem new York my father knew Elijah Mohammed and Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X we had a photo of my father and Elijah Louis and Malcolm together. My father also met and marched with Dr. Martin Luther king jr. I’m from Harlem New York and I heard the stories of our history Ive seen a lot. I’ve been listening to this man speak for a very long time. Farrakhan has always spoken the truth.

[@BigBlackRod]

I saw this movie once, and never saw it again...

[@jamaalcurry8990]

Same here

[@milesfolley6840]

It is important to know how emotions are a bridge to keeping us living fragmented. What I saw are people who live in trauma bonds. And how those trauma bonds are the groundwork for the United States.

[@kenzayeec]

This really hits different beyond just the movie … this is the agenda 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@d3dd440]

00:05 ✅✅✅🎤💋🛎️🛎️🛎️

[@mhampton8358]

Yes ..yes it is….this is what katt williams is trying to tell us thru comedy 🎭

[@aarondigby5054]

That was real life Hartwell Ga rural poor southern living, but he had a tractor, mules. Cows, big house, land owner etc,...

[@sweets8973]

🎯‼️

[@beb5407]

​@@mhampton8358GREAT OBSERVATION! THANK YOU FOR COMMON SENSE. ❤

[@bondmembersaxon2832]

This was a master class!

[@renesluby7390]

In the movie Color Purple, "Mista" did elevate at the end. He also tried to make amends to Celie for what he did by bringing her sister back. Did we not forget that lesson? This was a story written by one writer. We need to stop being so sensitive. We also should see things as they are and stop trying to shield and deny bad behavior such as abuse in our communities.

[@teiashort1451]

You would think that the black men would be ashamed and change.

[@ladyruler9585]

Exactly!

[@MrsThollo]

Also, I don't think Harpo is in that scene where she's saying take her children home. Before anyone says anything: No I'm not missing the point of his speech.

[@artfuldodger7747]

@@teiashort1451the color purple was made to cause division not bring awareness to us. That movie had black women hating black men for decades. It’s just like these Tyler perry movies always made to make us look dysfunctional and have the man look like a monster. That’s why Hollywood caters to women cause no offense but alot are gullible. Why in the world would Hollywood try to bring awareness to us when Hollywood don’t give af about us. That movie was made to pull on the heart strings of women and y’all ate it up. And now look, the media has turned on the woman after putting them on a pedestal. Do y’all not see what’s going on

[@artfuldodger7747]

@@teiashort1451idk why some black men won’t change. It’s always gonna be a few rotten apples but why focus on them

[@lovettetlb]

My mother gave me the book 1st to read then I went to see the movie. The book was way better and my mother explained to me this is what she came from vs what she became today! She lives a way better life and raised us all to do the same!

[@jaislays83]

That’s exactly what I got from the movie, what your mother said. I saw what most of our grandmothers were dealing with back then my granny was 13 married to a 28 year old man. In my opinion the movie was about a woman who suffered abuse in almost every way since she was a preteen and her overcoming it all and reuniting with the sister she tried to protect from it. Men don’t like that movie because it exposed just how horrible some of them really were back then.

[@lovettetlb]

@@jaislays83 So true my mother was 13 married to a 25 year old WW2 veteran! he cheated on her so many times that he ran up on some hookers in New Orleans and didn't want to pay them so they got him killed! Found his body on the train tracks! That's what my oldest Sister told me!

[@clarity20]

When is our society going to learn the people that are silenced are the people who make the most sense.

[@Freedom_Peace838]

He’s absolutely RIGHT! I am a Christian, but this man makes totally sense.

[@taylorspastpresent1014]

I agree. I am not Muslim. Jesus is my Lord and Savior. A broken clock is correct twice/day!

[@risingphoenix8072]

@@taylorspastpresent1014he is correct more often than that. But his words are difficult for black people to hear.

[@trackgrad08]

@@taylorspastpresent1014Muslims believe in Jesus too 🤔

[@lilit384]

@@trackgrad08They don’t believe he is God. That’s the difference.

[@TheGobblersGetback]

@@risingphoenix8072Naw, we hear it……Too many of us have been brainwashed by the media against loving ourselves, so we block it out (not me).

[@CarmenGlover]

Incest, rape and abuse continue in the Black community because victims are bullied into silence. The Color Purple is an important movie about an aspect of the Black experience that we hide to our detriment.

[@Anime_diaries]

Ok so more movies need to be made about black men being raped and abused by black women.

[@visualvision2488]

I swear this stuff really be happening

[@sweetrose19]

What’s the cause and solution?

[@Anime_diaries]

More movies need to be made about black women abusing men.

[@Anime_diaries]

@@visualvision2488 nobody said it wasn't. It's interesting that black women are glad a movie like this is made. While white men abuse black women more, there is no movie like that.

[@philrichjr]

Beautiful thing about Minister Farrakhan is although he’s Muslim he’s able to go beyond religion to speak truth to power. You may not agree with everything he says but he’s able to at least cause you to take a moment and think

[@12131910]

I don't see where it matters if he is Muslim or Christian concerning his view on the Color Purple. He is not talking about religion, he is stating facts. I don't see where it has to be brought out what he is. It is accepting the TRUTH.

[@philrichjr]

@@12131910 … you literally just said what I said but in a different way. Lol I’m highlighting for the ppl who get hung up on the fact that he is Muslim, as if it invalidates him. Thanks though

[@Mae-gu9iq]

I love to hear Farrakhan speak. A GREAT MAN TO LISTEN TO

[@Helloitsme0923]

THATS what people are missing.. it’s not about religion.. it’s about injustice and negative expose and what it does to the emotional and physical psyche of the targeted audience….

[@kingrayog]

That, he does. I totally disagree with him about some things, but this one was spot on and something I knew intrinsically when I saw the first movie. I haven't seen the 2nd, because I don't care to revisit how angry it made me feel.

[@souldigspeaks4331]

🎙️This message sure did age well… Still quite relevant today.

[@SMScott-if3lv]

I don’t agree with some of his assessments but got an opportunity to hear him speak at my university and he is amazing.

[@CalvinWatkins]

I will never forget that statement from Farrakhan, "...then we are able not to see things, but to see INTO things." How powerful and true it is, even to this day what the "New" Color Purple is displaying. Subliminal messages to keep us from becoming a unified people.

[@stars-are-us]

We are not unified by choice. Our young men and boys are still not nurtured, in large part, by the black community .. and sadly, their fathers who are horrible role models. If we blame others we can't heal.

[@marcusa.fromthebay7514]

Well, he wouldn't be a liar just because he is not a Christian now, would he? Think.

[@wanderlustly313]

@@stars-are-us LOL You do realize you just blamed Black men for not "nurturing" our boys, which is the Black woman's job, right? And we're not divided by choice, we are divided by design. It's like you didn't listen to the clip, or didn't understand it? Stop playing the role the slave master gave you. Think for yourself and stop repeating lies about YOUR man. Worry about YOU being unified with a Black man. That's the only way we rise, one family at a time.

[@juniorjames7076]

I used to wonder why, in the '80s, they always wanted White directors to tell Black stories (Spielberg - The Color Purple, Norman Jewison - A Soldier's Story, etc.). I assumed it due to studios wanting bigger name directors being more reliable or competent, etc. Now I think the reasons go much deeper. Remember how much Hollywood HATED Spike Lee? Just like after positive Afro-centric Hip Hop was replaced with Gangsta rap, film Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton's positive message) was followed by Menace To Society/Training Day/Hustle&Flow (nihilistic violence, criminal drug worship). They NEVER stopped gaslighting us.

[@stars-are-us]

@@juniorjames7076 Racism exists and movie making requires lots of money. I am sure Alice Walker lived well out of the rights to her book. Is Keke Palmer gaslighting us when she showed her man choking and throwing her around like a rag doll. That was a color purple moment, duh. Yeah, when I was young, I was beat until I blacked out. He could have been any color. Why can't domestic violence be called out in the black community without being called racist? Why can't black men have that discussions amongst themselves about why many men still beat on women? My ex fiancé's dad beat his mom down often and my ex came at me with a belt and told his boys to bail him out of jail for busting my lip. I pulled out my gun and said, never and bye. He told all of our family and friends I pulled a gun on him. I never removed it from the holster and it has a safety trigger key. and barrel lock and would have not discharged... he didn't know that and he didn't know where the keys are hidden. No man is worth going to jail over. Highlight this please. I am not a 304, I am a 30 yr retired navy doctor who was trying to live a peaceful life my black male companion but he refuse to acknowledge his trauma or heal. Domestic violence of all races should be highlighted. Black women are most likely to be killed by black men but media focuses on their lovely, high valued white women more.

[@worstcase6163]

You know, I was about to turn this off but after 6 minutes he finally got to the point and now I can see it!

[@Bcryptic-de2qt]

Me too😅 somehow HE has a way to rope u in with his storytelling. ALWAYS on point with his message

[@ethorpe125]

I love the Minister and typically agree with him on many issues. However, I find it difficult to do so here because the book does not deviate from the story written by a black woman. These are the experiences of the great Alice Walker. So I find it difficult to blame the unseen white man as her story is her story.

[@Grace-hh7ok]

I thought I was the only one who disagrees with his perspective I don’t see what he sees in this movie although I’m Christian and I agree with some of his viewpoints but this is far off to me smh

[@tmack7563]

you really have to understand why the powers at b decide what movies get produced and the ones that dont. its true its her story but why would they put this out at this time. the enemy dont do anything without a reason. we as blackpeople need to b more sophisticated in our thinking. we still have to many blackfolks mentally sleep saying that movies are just movies like there is never anything more deeper in the movies. just silly

[@Speedkid]

It is a work of fiction. It in not Alice Walker's life.

[@Demarcointuit]

It is fiction from a lesbian black woman who was once married to a white man. You need more depth to your perspective.

[@TonyAtmos]

​@@tmack7563 Some people prefer the lie over reality. They'd prefer to live in a world where Disney wasn't putting out racist content and putting Dicks in children's movies. Because the characters are so cute with catchy songs. There's hundreds of great stories to be told about the American black but every film with a large push is a slave movie or some pain.

[@de3428]

I didn’t like this movie when I was young. It was so traumatic. I haven’t seen the new version, not sure I will.

[@SonyaHudson]

Please.... don't. I wish I didn't. 😔😟🙁😥

[@dblewis1779]

Minister Farrakhan isn't for everyone. At times isn't for me But there's always wisdom and truth in words

[@sheenageran8837]

OMG THE MESSAGE AT THE END! Dont let it go over your head

[@bradlee2706]

My People, What The Minister Is Saying Is That Behind Every Movie And Picture, There Is Always A Writer With Motives That Are Psychological In Nature! Our Rise Would Mean Their Downfall! TRUTH REVEALED! I AM ONE WITH GOD!

[@A_Muzik]

What's your tiff with Alice Walker?

[@kevinjones3613]

@@A_Muzik kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGqrcquldsl_lZY

[@IK_4]

And as long as they don’t portray black men in a bad light, you’re fine.

[@Mita7538]

A Black woman wrote the book.

[@IK_4]

@@Mita7538 And?

[@beforeyourimmigrants8471]

I remember this when the movie came out! Thanks for posting this.

[@visionknox8572]

This whole speech is spot on. It resonates even more today. I would say prophetic but he saw it up front and vividly way back then. It just grew into something more monstrous than many people can admit or understand.

[@stevenwarner8135]

Yawn,

[@IK_4]

🥱🥱🥱😴😴😴

[@LauraleeKnight]

Black 😂men all throughout history since the beginning of time have always been weak the the only time a black man is strong it's because of the black woman. And even then he's doing everything he can to destroy himself and her. Black women throughout history have died trying to lift these s called men up to no avail. No such thing as a good strong black man unless he's broken the back of a black woman trying to lift him up and trying to keep him lifted up. Not even in our entire history. The black male has always been weak cowardly when it comes to other men especially any man that's not in his ethnic group and meanwhile taking out all his frustrations and impudence on the Black Woman.

[@melvinwallace2816]

Exactly on point!!! Nothing points it out more than child custody cases and child support… breaking up the black family and putting barriers upon them… preventing them from rising so that the enemy won’t fall.

[@claudepatterson1828]

Understanding Willie Lynch and racism

[@kingsjoy207]

So no one received the message of FORGIVENESS from this film… Although mister was a very broken and abused Celie she was able to forgive him although he has mistreated her and abused her. She wasn’t going to be in a relationship with him anymore but she ultimately forgave him.. and the same message was displayed with shug her father was upset at her for abandoning her gospel roots and he refused to acknowledge her…. But he was able to forgive her although she hurt him by not singing gospel anyone…. What I understood was ( maybe god is trying to tell you something).. forgiveness 💜💜 be blessed.

[@Cinnamon84582]

@kingsjoy207 Thank you for saying that... YOU have my attention...Our GOD is an Awesome GOD....❤

[@LuckyLiger-zg7hx]

A very forgiving and merciful God! Thank you🙏🏾

[@str8alphamale]

Another 1 ahead of his time. I wish more black celebrities would listen to this brother. This should be taught in classrooms to lessen the chances of our brothers and sisters selling out.

[@Yungpap]

Wow 11 years ago the definition of a prophet 💯💯💯💪

[@LeoMarcus81]

1986! 35 years ago

[@OrIgInAlMan1914]

1986= 38yrs ago!🙄🤔

[@allthecolorsofthewindremai8240]

@@OrIgInAlMan1914He’s speaking on the year this video was uploaded 🙄

[@OrIgInAlMan1914]

@allthecolorsofthewin My previous comment was directed @ the comment above mine, NOT the original post!🤔

[@Yungpap]

Yea the year it was uploaded lol thank u before anyone else wanna get on me 😂😂 85 the first movie came out

[@samuelkwarteng535]

As a child, this was my mother's favorite movie growing up in the late 80's/early 90's. The mother who divorced and degraded my father, abused me and my siblings, birth children by three different men, lived on welfare, contracted HIV and now lives sickly, bitter, and full of hate. So you see, the minister' s message of influence is all so very true. It is my reality. Thank you Minister Farrakhan

[@renesluby7390]

i am so sorry to hear about your experience and I hope you are well. I can't help but wonder about your mother's experience growing up and what types of abuse she experienced. It seems that abuse gets handed down to the next generation. I hope you can find it in your heart to have peace with your mom if you already haven't. Power and Blessings to you young man. Peace.

[@juniorjames7076]

I used to wonder why, in the '80s, they always wanted White directors to tell Black stories (Spielberg - The Color Purple, Norman Jewison - A Soldier's Story, etc.). I assumed it due to studios wanting bigger name directors being more reliable or competent, etc. Now I think the reasons go much deeper.

[@rockboi91]

​@juniorjames7076 even if there's no agenda, it just bothers me that they dont choose to write stories that show us as the beautiful, worthy folks that we are

[@tysmith2138]

​@@juniorjames7076Yelp! Notice how they showed Oprah getting slapped by the White man! But they don't show her hitting him! They conveniently have a car pass by! As to say we don't want to give you any ideas of retaliation against us!

[@bettysavage5638]

Oh wow & sorry for your unfortunate horrible experience

[@khummitkeshinro246]

Subtleties are a gem in cinematography but many of us just watch movies

[@purejoy1985]

I was invited to go see it. Felt like everyone around was memorized except me. As if the film had hidden agendas but couldn't be sure or not. I thought it was in my mind.

[@TEM14411]

They all have hidden agendas. Always have. You can research the origns of Hollywood. They created illusion all the way around. Promoted lifestyles and values and bigotry and discrimination that they wanted society to accept as truth.

[@vincentrimmer5844]

People seem mesmerized during Mr. Farrakhan's speech, as well. Everybody has an agenda, don't they?

[@joshtondurrah8048]

@@vincentrimmer5844 What agenda would that be?

[@katrance]

Wow the timing always on time 💜

[@georgiannalaurie9592]

This was some good teaching for every age

[@hb120877]

Excellent Study.... Excellent Presentation 😊............!

[@valencian6836]

Thank God out of my father, grandfather, great uncles, uncles, brothers, and my husband I have never seen any of these poor characteristics in any of the amazing men in my life.

[@fayebradford3197]

You have some of the characters confused! Your interpretation is your view 😮!

[@andrejamison2723]

​@@fayebradford3197explain please

[@Zan823]

You experience with black men in your family are exceptions not thr rule.

[@wanderlustly313]

@valencian6836 And thank you for saying that! The saddest part is that it's really NO one's experience- it's literally fiction; however we are such sheep that we believe it sans any evidence. Notice the comments where people are telling you, a complete stranger, that YOU have misinterpreted YOUR experience LOL because it speaks against the white man's lies. God help us all

[@juniorjames7076]

@@Zan823 Her experience with the Black men in her family is the RULE and not the exception. You grew up in dysfunction, obviously. Don't assume the rest of our community shares in YOUR families dysfunction. In my Black family our men are lawyers, accountants, teachers, government employees, and business owners- all proud fathers with thriving families. THIS is normal.

[@juliet.nebblet-cox]

I grew up with a father who dislikes his family. I grew up in an environment of men who abused their families. It's hard to not identify with the movie then😢

[@stars-are-us]

Men want us to serve them even after they abuse us.

[@sladepowder1]

I don’t believe it, u just been brainwashed by bitter women & you’re unable to separate yourself from your mother, grandmother & aunts 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@pauloskidane2819]

Human beings can be selfish... true​@@stars-are-us

[@CarAhvvahk]

Whom has done this to you

[@teiashort1451]

What I don’t like is how they want to dismiss that part. He said 60% of the audience were victims of incest. Yet he wants to address what the white man focus is. The message should have been that the black man should seek to do better, black women are responding not creating. Sorry you had to go through that

[@QueenmadivaQueenmidiva]

YOU BETTER PREACH MY BROTHER 🙌🏾✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 I SAID THAT SAME THING

[@vincentjohnson7519]

11 years ago , yet resonates today even louder than it did then ....

[@MentLeee]

What was 11yrs ago? This is from 1986

[@vincentjohnson7519]

@MentalBeatss thanks for the correction. Don't know where I got 11 from but it just makes the message even more impactful

[@Tyler_Solomon]

​@@vincentjohnson7519 The video was uploaded 11 years ago on this channel.

[@trackgrad08]

Farrakhan was not this young 11 years ago 😂

[@kbernieshoW]

This means nothing changed they just changed how it looks

[@Willywoo1975]

EVERYBODY WAN GO HEAVEN BUT NOBODY WAN DEAD! Farrakhan was simply blessed with the truth!!!!!

[@indiscriminatethoughts6269]

Something about this man’s smile just never sits right with me

[@cher_sh]

I love the ending, the reunion. I cry at this scene, Teary eyed when mister broke them apart.

[@Mrhoodtmz]

I just find it ironic that role Oprah played that made her famous is the complete opposite of who she is in real life

[@ddot9566]

That’s called acting.

[@ohkboomer9088]

Oprah already had her show before the movie

[@SSSS-wq4vn]

@@ddot9566ikr

[@d.j.3531]

@@ohkboomer9088 The Color Purple movie debuted in 1985, and Oprah debuted in 1986.

[@kingrayog]

Not quite. Her man is as weak as Harpo was in the movie. I don't know him personally, but from what little I saw, he stays in the background and lets her run the show.

[@juanlewis7205]

He can’t deny he knows that movie like the back of his hand. Great movie but I didn’t take it so personal. Depicted many different tropes and black characters.

[@SamuelNeale-b5x]

Call it like it is. Oprah has taken every opportunity in her movies to down grade the Black man. Even when you look at how she treated Black men in her early shows to get women of color and white women to watch her.

[@nishashawn2021]

It's selfish thinking. Yall say this as if the stories of bw don't matter. Or we should just be silent. Unfortunately for the bw, many of our hardships were at the hands of bm. We should be able to discuss that... Plus the book was written by a bw...

[@ajseeingred]

​@@nishashawn2021name one hardship?

[@rookholgado]

Yeah, but Oprah herself has an agenda, look at all the white pedos that she’s friends with in Hollywood, then look at all of the black men who she vilified and dragged through the mud over the same nonsense. She’s not our savior at all regardless of her involvement with telling black stories and experiences! She’s bias af for the most part

[@countbakus9369]

@@nishashawn2021what about the stories of good black men being abused by black women…to ignore them is to be narcissistic as u lack empathy for the other side

[@bernardcole4911]

@@nishashawn2021you refuse to believe any of it because it will pull you out of this life you only know, which produces more children from this thinking you have been given, it is said that a people with a lack of knowledge will not prosper that ain’t some script to just throw out there when the argument calls for it, it points out that my generation love this lying life we have and we don’t want anyone interrupting our beautiful lie it is evident and it will always show

[@Mrs_SheSaid]

Much Appreciated 🙏🏾

[@MrEhu3]

I remember this speech but I had the cassette, thanks for posting this because I never saw the video.

[@handsomeX]

Me too

[@beautifulwoman172]

His skin is so beautiful and colored perfectly. Smooth.

[@TheSpinnerRack]

I was 14 and I knew that white society created this dynamic.

[@TheSpinnerRack]

In the book Celie get together at the end. Spielberg took that out.

[@WapajeaWalksOnWater]

​He also took out the good Blk man who loved his wife, served God, and raised Celie's sister and children in Africa.

[@d.j.3531]

Good for you.

[@karenjones9863]

wow that was so profound!!!! i never understood that movie and i am 30 years old!!

[@kimichele1908]

I loved the movie & enjoyed reading the work of Alice Walker as a teenager. But after listening to the minister speak on this piece, it only confirms my belief that we need more stories written & rewritten- fiction & non-fiction.

[@Realogn]

I ain’t never seen the movie but the few clips shown made me realize I underestimated how far they went and now they got a remake whhoooo we in trouble now

[@MR-qz4zj]

Happy to be back on the Farrakhan side of KZbin , I use to watch his vids all the time then they disappeared out of no where

[@geminilove7634]

Recent teachings of his are available on Instagram.

[@MR-qz4zj]

@@geminilove7634 why provide this information if you’re not going to provide where on Instagram to find it ?

[@donnicapierre5369]

I read a poem once, and by every descriptive stanza relegated to whom and what the poet loved, i swore he was speaking of his love for a human. Contrary to my perception, he was vehemently expressing his love for his chosen career. Movies are watered down versions of books in many cases as is THE COLOR PURPLE! While his eloquent vernacular of his perception of the COLOR PURPLE demoralizes the rise and fall of the black male, i beg to differ. It's whatever the author Alice Walker exemplifies its intended purpose to be defined. She is the author! It's her story! I love the COLOR PURPLE because it resonates with personal familiar tragedies that evolved to positive outcomes in the end. Many people identify with the arduous circumstances and remain hopeful for their happily ever after. Forgiveness is POWERFUL AND LIBERATING! WE all have an opinion and perception... Clearly, a plethora of you all in these comments NEVER READ THE BOOK AND NEITHER DID the minister 🤷🏿

[@daddyschoc]

U don't know wtf the Minister read. Tf Outta here. Hr spoke on THE MOVIE. STAY FOCUSED OR.MOVE TF AROUND.

[@davidadams220]

The minister did not read the book. It is about women not men..the men don't even have names

[@juniorjames7076]

In the 1990s, I attended a few lectures/seminars where Alice Walker has stated she was VERY upset at the direction the studios and Spielberg went with the film, particular with the depiction of Black men, and completely wiping out from her story how White society demoralized and emasculated Black men- deliberately. Mental colonization goes DEEP. "Forgiveness is powerful and liberating" - Philosophy of a Happy Slave.

[@troy8579]

Same with people that were wearing X hats after Spike Lee's movie about Malcolm X like it was a fad; but never read the actual book . I'll admit I never read Alice Walker's book; but REFUSED to see the movie, because I knew it had an agenda to it to perpetuate horrible stereotypes of black males to their detriment and a camouflage to the reality that black man are perceived as the biggest threat to white male superiority complex . History doesn't lie, and the feverish drive to emasculate black men in the entertainment industry is manifested by evil executives insisting that they wear dresses, and subsidizing a music culture ( not ours anymore ) that glorifies violence and self degradation . Racism is played out on a surreptitious level, making it more effective . Halle Berry got an Oscar for soft porn and Denzel got his leading actor Oscar by playing a rogue cop constantly using the " N " word .

[@msfancy9280]

​@@juniorjames7076EVERYONE knows about slavery. So what are bw supposed to do with conquered men??? Distance themselves and DEF stop having kids with them

[@Derry-k5p]

One cannot deny the impact of a coulrr purple... Our story is the epic of creation it self...

[@CribNotes]

I don't know about today, but Farrakhan definitely did not understand The Color Purple back when it premiered. The movie is a masterpiece. But like any high art, you need higher vision to understand it correctly. I'm a 60 year old white guy. I've watched The Color Purple at least a dozen times over the last 40 years. It's like a prayer to me now. When I watch it, I AM Celie, I AM Nellie, I AM Mister, I AM Shug, I AM Sohpia, I AM Harpo, I AM the preacher. They all represent aspects of my personality and the journey of my entire life. And by the end of the movie, they ALL come home where they belong!!

[@geminilove7634]

I’m surprised that you are able to share the fact that you as a white man can identify with black characters. It just proves to me that a human experience is relatable to others despite the color of their skin.

[@CribNotes]

@@enthralling8673 How can I not relate to the lives of other human beings going thru similar shit that I've gone through? If you think that's odd, you have some work to do.

[@CribNotes]

@@geminilove7634 The Color Purple is a magnificent story about a collection of fkd up people transcending their limitations and achieving higher levels of themselves. If you can't relate to that, you're doing it wrong. LOL.😆

[@enthralling8673]

@@CribNotes ofc you can relate to the emotions of other human beings. But you can’t relate to the after math of black slavery. That is what the movie was essentially based on. The characters were limited, and had their minds polluted by past slavery, and the racist system. Sure you can relate to certain aspects of “the color purple,” but definitely not the black experience. The black ppl who think otherwise are just brainwashed, and I have no time to debate.

[@FredUAW]

I was a 14yr old high school freshman when this film was released. It was so confusing to me, because my Mom and the other Women in my life cheered on this movie as if this was their shared experience. The Men in my family were decent Men......husbands and fathers, I have no delusion that they were God like perfect Men, but they forsure were nothing like Mister and/or his father. Not only were none of the Men in my family anything like Mister, I didn't know anyone at all who was remotely as evil as that character. So why did the Women of that era accept that "Mister" trope as if it was real life observable truth? Low-key it kinda messed up my self esteem as a young Black Man. I actually feared that at some point when I become an adult, I would magically turn into some sort of abusive, domineering, sexual predator. As a husband and a Grandfather I can see what this film was intended to be. It was a psy-op that worked like a charm. I've come to terms with that. But what I still have a problem with was a generation of Black Women who were so eager to run with this narrative and take an active role in the character assassination of Black Men. "The Color Purple" needs to be a discussion with my Mom, as well as an entire therapy session in the very near future.

[@shontaescott3026]

Wow. I'm amazed by how prophetic he was back in the 80s. I was a little girl when this movie was made. I thought it was just entertainment. Now, I see and understand.

[@johneleazer5232]

Still today is worse with house wives of Atlanta, Black inc, basketball wives, power, love and hip hop, finding happy, the Kardashians,etc.these shows has brought black separation between BLK people rapidly. We have failed.

[@jacquelynbostick4680]

Mr. Farrakhan I appreciate what you are saying because you are honest and tell the truth.

[@vswayz490]

He was in his 50's here. Minister Louis Farrakhan, takes great care of himself.

[@anonymously_me1803]

Still relevant today. Sad but true!

[@mrsbond9743]

Everything he says is absolutely true I was born in the 60s so I know exactly what he's saying

[@sylviajohnson1353]

This my favorite of all time! But damn I NEVER EVER looked at it through this lens. Wow... he was so right! I never saw the true message! One of my saddest thoughts is Minister Farrakhan getting older and we lose his voice! 😔

[@sherreer.104]

Good breakdown but that was not Miss Sophia's husband standing on the sideline, it was Lawrence Fishburne's character waiting on gas to be finished pumping that she told to get her children out of here. Other than that, great analogy🙏

[@rogeronealjr8051]

I will admit that as a young boy after seeing this movie I hated Danny Glover for a long time, but I also didn't understand why Celli allowed him to treat her so bad but be so good him.

[@deloresboudreaux2755]

And, this is what many AA can’t see this what an Oppressor does.

[@blackonepac]

Our Great MINISTER is right and exact as usual !!! The MINISTER IS GODS voice to all people!!

[@trob9100]

That movie should have won the awards, the original movie!!!!

[@davidhart9460]

So true. I would like to see the unedited version of this video

[@SandiKay]

He is a beautiful speaker. I would have liked for him to ask a different question. How many of you have LIVED this story? She (Ms Celie) overcame. Many of us who lived that experience have overcome and have loved our Black men anyway. We arent all sheep.

[@consciousgentile5141]

That movie kicked ass. One of the greatest movies ever. Nice discussion, though

[@kellijasper5912]

The issue with this movie is there are too many BM who don’t acknowledge the pain and suffering BW go through at the hands of BM. Mister is real. For some he was the father, uncle or brother. Celie was embodied of those who experienced incest and/or SA. Sophia was one who by a willingness to fight didn’t end up experiencing what Celie did. Nettie was the one who was being groomed to be abuse but like Sophia ultimately fought back but her fight came at a great cost. Shug was the one who took her own path and was shunned because of it.That shunning played a part in the poor decisions that she made. At the heart of all these sorrows were men who believed they had the right to behave the way they did. Please spare me the whataboutism. BM aren’t abused to same level by BW. Yes it happens but that isn’t the subject of this movie or post.

[@veronicajata3121]

Exactly.

[@reneew9125]

🎯

[@andrejamison2723]

I'm apologize but I think you truly missed what he was saying and also the reason for this book and movie. Yes Danny Glover character was not the best man possible. But there were no strong black men in the movie also what gives the woman the right not to forgive? In essence you have the lesbian, the sister who truly has no rights in his house the woman who couldn't control her mouth and thought she was a man and all of them are brainwashed into thinking they could do without a man. This is the society we live in now which is also the cause of feminine men

[@kellijasper5912]

@@andrejamison2723 no I didn’t miss what he was saying at all. I remember the controversy when the original movie was released. Many BM were denying that these type of BM existed or if BW encountered this type of the behavior it was somehow their fault. The experiences of these BW were being dismissed out of hand. In this speech the Minister does acknowledge that BW were subjected to these behaviors. In fact he quoted a statistic that indicates nearly 60% of BW had experienced sexual inappropriate behavior from a male member of their family. Could one argue that there was an imbalance, it is possible. This was a story being told through the eyes of BW and their experiences with the BM in their sphere. Oh and as Celie pointed out the white folks would have never got Sophia if Harpo hadn’t wanted to rule over her. She was a woman of strong opinions. A woman having opinions isn’t disrespectful but it is to a man who is weak and Harpo was, just like Mister. Only weak men have to prove their authority by being abusive or violent.

[@tmack7563]

the whiteman is even more real and have been way more harmful to us all but yet black women see pass that huh. massa can do no wrong. smh

[@UniquelyVickie]

I stopped watching these oppressive movies 2 decades ago. We need to stop letting Hollywood profit off our pain.

[@bruhkisg6662]

I am 50 and watched this with my mother when I was in middle school. I have always saw this movie as a stark reality for the black woman….mistreated by her community and a second hand human. I look at this movie from a place where we as black men and our community will never do horrible things to our women again.

[@marvinhagler4721]

Only certain black men acted in this manner, MY father NEVER treated my mother like that EVER, and hes one of the MANY who didnt

[@bruhkisg6662]

@@marvinhagler4721 I hear you. I grew up without a bio father but there were good men like my neighbors and great-grandfather. The most important thing Iis that our women are to be cherished and always elevated!

[@CarAhvvahk]

Who you know did this

[@ericpowell4350]

Bro, you've been indoctrinated. The Color P was meant to separate the blk man and the blk wmn. Why do you thnk Oprah was so involved? It went along with her tv show that ushered in the emenist agenda. Now, 40 years later, there is no blk community.

[@autsept7116]

​@marvinhagler4721 many back women are not whores or prostitutes either. That does not stop.the.music or the beef from black men

[@yudeen979]

I met a woman from afar who said to me, "I love Nelson Mandela" me: "Twenty Seven Years..." Her: And he still forgave those fuckers." Her: "I hated Winnie. She was such a bad person."..... Me (inadequately): "look at what they took from her."........Just before the above video ended, the minister mentioned 'the destruction of their children's minds and ours. Elders have spoken to the notion, idea, fact that the TAST (African Holocaust) did not only traumatize the victims but also the perceived Victor's as well. Yet, Paulo Freire reminds us that 'in returning the power to the people challenges the previously oppressed to either become the oppressors or to restore the humanity of both'........words are easy......sounds and images are easier.....

[@jeromedawkins704]

I've seen movies where the black man leads his family. It was a movie. See it, like it and go on. Don't throw dirt on everything just to make yourself look good.

[@ShocMane]

NEGRO PLEASE you off the subject when Jaws came out no one wanted to go the beach. Movies control more than you think you probably think sports is not a distraction too

[@LenoraMarks-y6g]

We love you Minister Farrakhan

[@brightemerald3924]

Haven’t seen the movie and no desire to see it. Black men need to turn back to black women. Much respect for most black men.

[@customercare8195]

Sometimes you really have to enjoy a movie and let that be the end of it. It’s fiction. That’s all. But if we are going to treat this fiction, as truth, then we have to recognize that there are people who lived lives such as these characters, and there were Black men who were abusive and weak. There still are.

[@imanilovely176]

The most sensible comment here.

[@edp3202]

The black men in this movie were so broken down by white society they took out their aggravation and hurt on other black characters.

[@GeminInnergy]

Yes indeed!!! My grandmother was 14 when she started having children and her husband abused her. Some of her male relatives molested her children. I don't know why they want to say this movie has an agenda when some of us know this bs happened to some in real life.

[@stars-are-us]

What? So ignore what plagues us just because someone made a movie about black love struggle and white supremacy's impact on our community. Mr described her as Black, poor, ugly, you are a WOMAN, you are nothing. How many modern day black men are hating on black women today? I cry even more today seeing these clips of the movie. Not only are white people not supporting us, but black men are destroying us with their words and actions in 2024... With their diminishing of our beauty. Look at Kevin Samuels [ Mr of 2022] telling us we are less than pretty and act too smart for our own good. Mr samuel's said in one of his clips about a black woman, "I'm a PhD --- bietch" referring to a successful black woman who call him on a live broadcast for all the world to see. Our black men, our rise is their fall.. who wants to say That wasn't a movie, that is black women's reality being hated by most of these black men who are mad when someone ask them to take care of the babies they make or honor your family and be more loving and supportive. Even today black men want us black women under their feet, tell us we are not feminine enough, take the abuse like my mother did, stay in your place... you are just a woman...a black one at that. You have no real value except to open your legs and do as I say...be SUBMISSIVE.

[@sweetrose19]

The question is: why are these men broken? Black people sometimes feel uncomfortable with the reality of white supremacy and it’s affects on black people.

[@mariarod6998]

Every word father Farrakhan said is correct

[@thereasonwhy5188]

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[@mariarod6998]

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[@StevenBiko1]

@@thereasonwhy5188 Devil 👿

[@thereasonwhy5188]

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[@JEWinTx]

I encourage anyone who wants to hear a more effective orator on this topic and black African studies, please look up lectures from John Henrik Clarke

[@bernardcole4911]

John Henry Clarke is no longer available and anything that he talks about is what have us fighting now, and if you don’t know his teachings came from Elijah Muhammad you need to know he was once a follower of this man, there is nothing to learn from him other than some old literature about Africa

[@JEWinTx]

@bernardcole4911 There are literally dozens of John Henrik clarke lectures available on this platform #1. # 2, what has clarke ever stated that has us fighting? # 3, I never said anything about Elijah muhammad, I commented on a farrakhan video. But since you went there, brothers like Clarke has educated black people that Islam in Africa to this day is a political means of enslaving Africans. Show me a video where farrakhan teaches the nation that they are changing their white slave masters names to Arabic slave masters names

[@joy2theworld488]

This Breakdown hits the bullseye 🎯

[@agnesn3209]

Excellent analysis from a brilliant man!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@kayfreddie6056]

It's unbelidvable how men don't see the wrong or damage they cause to women & children. But thinks it's okay later down the line when they get old, to try and fix things when it was their hands that caused the grief, separation & destruction. let's talk about how they never protected us from the oppresors. They always skip over that part.

[@geminilove7634]

History teaches buck breaking. The slave master broke down the male slaves so much so that they would be killed when they tried to protect their wives and children. Those brave men that fought for their families were killed before the other slaves. That led to the fear of losing their life or limb to the point that they learned to stand back and do nothing.

[@donnasheppard7371]

Agree and Oprah bringing it back to light for her "masters" is so disturbing. The fact the black community praises this is beyond me😢

[@headsNshoulders]

Especially with her treatment towards the actors who are speaking out on pay and treatment

[@djblondi138]

agree 💯