Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Why Fear Is Driving the Current Era of Racial Backlash

[@judit1783]

What is not to love about Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr?? Perfect.

[@deloreswillis9224]

A perfect loyal dedicated hero 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

[@justmyopinion9883]

I love listening to Dr Gates. He has such humility and wisdom. He is also a great writer.

[@Heartcoachtalk]

Dr. Gates deserves all of the praise and accolades he receives. Thank you for helping us unlock and find our roots. You inspired me to find my 3rd great grandfather, Jack Hutto, born in Africa around 1780 died in South Carolina around 1880. This rich history has been a blessing to me and my family♥️ Thank you Dr. Gates🤴🏾💪🏾❣️

[@calebmcgowan2493]

What part of SC?

[@Heartcoachtalk]

@@calebmcgowan2493 Barnwell & Bamberg counties

[@calebmcgowan2493]

So grateful you found your roots! Keep the faith Queen 😍

[@Heartcoachtalk]

@@calebmcgowan2493 thank you 🫶🏾 I hope the same for you and your family ♥️

[@donaldnewman5836]

All I see him is doing white people ancestors history. I'm sick of hearing about the rich people in his stories . Do they pay for it? I wish he would find some poor people sometimes because we don't have the money and some of us would like to know about our ancestors

[@sallytedesco2192]

I ❤️ Finding Your Roots. Henry Gares is an excellent host. 👌 His credentials are impressive and he is just a lovely human being. God bless you Professor Gates 🙏

[@timnewman1172]

What a lovely conversation... I have a huge respect for Dr Gates, it ony expanded more after your interview!

[@floraaranibar7421]

Dr Gates is an American treasure! He represents the best in the Academia. 😊

[@jamesbrown9553]

❤️🖤💚 Reparations Money Now......He Is Talking Loud Saying Nothing..... 👁️👁️

[@tflg3257]

@floraaranibar7421 Gates is no more than an establishment pet.

[@elizabethcooper9552]

He’s a world treasure. His argument for diversity in economic class is extremely pertinent to my Canada, for example. The history may be somewhat different but racism and its backlash at present is very apparent here too!

[@kingleo8422]

I love the teachings of Professor Henry Louis Gates, jr 💯✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@robinboyko2080]

I was thrilled to find this interview in my KZbin suggestions this morning! My husband and I watch Finding Your Roots every week. I'm a family historian, and genealogy is my hobby. I'm ashamed to say I never knew of Henry Louis Gates Jr. before Finding Your Roots. He's such an intelligent man, and I enjoyed hearing his thoughts on race and ethnicity. And now I'm off to order a few of his books! Oh, PS, Dr. Gates, watching the regular, non-celebrity people on Finding Your Roots is just as interesting!

[@neuropsychroberts8922]

Robin check out his series Many Rivers To Cross. There's so much history we never learned in school. Enjoy!

[@lamartinezola8507]

....and Black Americans are very good at spreading racial propaganda. Hatred

[@user-ql5yb2hs2p]

Such an inspirational man. Calm, well educated and speaks well. So nice too!

[@mayrav1155]

Thanks for allowing us the honor of hearing from Dr. Henry Louis Gates, a very inspiring, sophisticated, illustrated person! 💖

[@bethfinne3260]

Could listen to him speak all day. Love watching Finding Your Roots. 🎉

[@newpilgrim]

A man of reason...thank you, Dr. Gates and thank you TIME for providing a platform for reason and civil discourse.

[@bobzimmerman1282]

Thanks for this important interview. I think I’ll go right out and buy “The Black Box”. I love “Finding Your Roots”; I try to never miss an episode. I myself am pigmentally challenged, but applying that 99.99% rule, I’m both proud and humbled to call Dr. Gates my brother. We need to keep these conversations alive.

[@MonaeMalome-dq6ru]

I LOVE THIS Gentleman and his beautiful work.

[@susanr5546]

Excellent interview. Dr. Gates is one of my great favorite researchers and just fascinating to me. 99.99% the same. I love Piedmont, West Virginia, like so many of our fellows, hard working people in a town that was a community, carried themselves with dignity, and were well regarded and treated each other with respect. He is one of our national treasures! His humor is also delightful!

[@reedykat30]

👏🏾👏🏾 Bravo!!! This man should be celebrated for being such a scholar and amazing teacher. He brings so much joy to those Finding their Roots. Well deserved, Sir.

[@rtracewell69]

Great interview. Henry is a great guy and I’m glad I was made aware of him. I hope his new book explodes in popularity. In my opinion, we all need to get that message into our brain once and for all.

[@JulieAnne17-dn]

Wow! We’re born the same year! I have so much respect for Dr. Gates. I never miss Finding Your Roots and love it immensely, especially since my dear grandfather immigrated from Greece.💙🇬🇷

[@junemorkin6336]

Thank you for this interview, it’s been wonderfully interesting learning about Mr. Gate’s life. My husband and I enjoy watching Finding Your Roots very much.

[@elizabethpresleyhazard2348]

Glad I found this video! I love Henry Louis Gates Jr ~ Good stuff! 🥰

[@robynrains7252]

On of my favorite episodes of Finding Your Roots was LeVar Burton. Love finding out more about Dr Gates early life 🩷💕

[@christienelson1437]

I have only great respect for Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and all he has gifted to others. His family and foundation have always made him an exceptional,Intelligent, hardworking, honest human. His spirit has always shined through him and I am proud to have learned from him. 🙏💕🙏💕

[@charleswalker136]

Thank you for what you do for us Mr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. I learn a lot from you on the ancestry TV program. THANKS PROFESSOR Gates.

[@kshyne]

I'm 37 I've been watching you for years. I've always been interested. Especially for Jamaican Caribbean history

[@JernellWells]

He is absolutely a wonderful teacher and human being

[@janicetribueburnette5893]

I loved the interview. I felt so refreshed inside listening to Dr. Gates ' conversation😂🙂.

[@kathydauz9956]

I laud & applaud all of the comments about Dr. Gates; I love this man! I love his heart, his caring for others, his intelligence, his faith, his humor. I started watching Finding Your Roots a couple of years ago bc my little sister in TX (I am in So CA) has been devoting many hours in trying to solve a maternal family mystery. (My sister discovered that our grandmother’s NYC birth record is incorrect; her birth name was put on the wrong birth certificate. Her mother was Jewish, emigrated from Eastern Europe & was unmarried & had only one child. Our grandmother wouldn’t give our mom any info about her background or bio father). My sister has been working on this mystery for several years, despite her busyness being married & raising/homeschooling 4 children. I help her as I am able (I retired at age 60 in 2014). My own children are 1/2 white, 1/2 Filipino. I enjoyed this podcast immensely & would love to hear Dr. Gates in future podcasts! ❤️

[@subobing3551]

That was great! I love Dr Gates and we watch Finding Your Roots religiously. My partner and I are really into geneology and it is what bright is together again after 40 years! I love learning about Dr Gates and find him a really great man. I live in NO VA and if I’m in the Piedmont area soon I will visit the town.

[@jodithomas9303]

Love Dr. Gates! Great interview!

[@Ai-qx9gb]

Dr. Henry Louis Gates - a National Treasure and a necessary & great American.

[@rosemarieroberts9168]

As a West Indian teenager I read Ebony etc which was available in the Public Library during the 1970s . Later I read about Rosa, Martin, Malcolm, Nelson etc that guided me as a Mother of 2 sons who ensured they read about Rosa etc. We have to make the hardships of our Ancestors proud of our accomplishments to date.

[@claramitchell746]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for this interview. I cannot wait to read The Black Box.👌🏾🙏🏾🌺

[@shakeemwinn3647]

Humanity is at the tipping point for a major event and when it happens. It wont matter what color we are because we will all feel it in the same ways.

[@iiicuuubreathingfullyoohoohooh]

Thank you for the carpet ride to the paper mill town Dr. Henry Lewis Gates’ family grew up in. Loved hearing a mentee and mentor have this conversation together. Can definitely relate from how my parents raised me, in an upper middle class area here in Northern New Jersey.

[@TheRWKBS]

Love you, Skip! We treasure our priceless experiences of Piedmont, WV!!!

[@doloreswilliams6826]

I enjoyed this podcast. I was born 1951 in NYC. I went to school with kids from around the world.

[@sunnymoondog]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 I could listen to him all day.

[@barbarabooth4955]

Thank you for having Mr Gates

[@rhondalight70]

I never made it to college, but I am so glad Dr. Gates shares his knowledge with all of us. He could always still put a pool table in Ellie's room and teach her how to shoot pool!

[@nj3195]

Love Dr Gates!

[@jaelo2314]

WOW. Thanks for letting me sit in on your conversation

[@sjones2088]

Congratulations Dr. Gates

[@junebowe8864]

Excellent ! Informative ! Inspiring !

[@brendagrant9382]

Yes He is!! Congrats!! A fan of his show!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@petrifiero-akselsen6290]

Henry Louis Gates is an inspiring individual. I learn so much whenever I listen to him. Long Live HLG!!!

[@PhoenixToluwa]

He is one of my all time black living legends !

[@christinestangeland7771]

Love this man, classy and brilliant, what a treasure.

[@sherrellbigbie2291]

I love all of his programs 💕💕😍

[@rosemarieroberts9168]

Keep up the excellent work

[@kimberlyross6688]

I absolutely love Henry Louis "Skip" Gates! He's brilliant and erudite. Anytime Wole Soyinka calls out your gifts and future, you're a force to be reckoned with.

[@deidreshepherd3776]

This was an amazing conversation.

[@maxyogi]

Thank you.

[@melody84126]

Excellent interview with Dr. Gates.

[@cjfl1962]

in the deep south in Louisiana where I'm from, we had a lot of hate when we integrated in 1970.

[@marilynclarke6092]

The absolute Truth! Fear is doing the driving because we all are aware of what's going to happen "soon and very soon." 🙏🏾♥️🙏🏾

[@lunarose1066]

Not fear but greed. They do'nt want to share or be fair. That's it.

[@frederickgriffith7004]

Well said. That about sums it up.And what is scary is if this Democracy no longer benefits them and only them.Then they would prefer to be rid of it.But that could be a miscalculation on their part. Simply because they may believe that their rights and protections will remain in place at the expense of people that they don't like.

[@kiloub]

@@frederickgriffith7004 you're right but I doubt it's a miscalculation. It's probably a 'either my way or let the world burn' type of mentality. I've studied these people and they do not compromise. They don't care if they burned in the process. They're weird like that.

[@frederickgriffith7004]

@@kiloub It funny you say that because I had a late neighbor who was born in Germany.1930.Member of the Hitler Youth.He once warned me."The Flames of Hatred if not stopped,at some point consumes everything in its path.Including those who started the Fire."He also made the observation that it is usually the most marginalized of people who are the ones who saves those who wield the most Institutional power from themselves.If their voices are rendered silent in any society.Then it is a danger to us all.

[@kiloub]

@@frederickgriffith7004 yes, your late neighbor is 100% correct. Basically these people consumed by hate, have a destructive form of mentality shaped by their childhood traumas that they never overcame. It consumes them in a way that blocks any external positivity or help, fearing any emotions that might connect them to lost feelings and a potential second traumatic experience that might completely destroy their fragile constructed new egos. They have power so they try to shape the world in their own internal image which is suppressing connectivity and positivity and destroying what remains in fear of it fighting back what they have become. They'll probably get defeated by a newer more informed generation, but maybe not just yet 😅

[@jeanettesdaughter]

Precisely because the fear has been there from the beginning of our unfortunate encounter. And it is well met. Id be afarid, too had I their reputation in the world! The way forward is not all that mysterious. It takes a political will to enact deep social change. They dont have the will so they dont see the need for change at least not as we do and we are, the entire black abd brown worlds have reached a boiling point and must be dealt with on better terms than in the past. So. We carry on. Time is on our side. So is self determination.

[@sunnymoondog]

I've always wished Dr. Gates was my dad or grandpa.

[@lollolowski8956]

I love him

[@janellejames8815]

Loved this!!!

[@JMoroccoMisterBoy]

Tks., much appreciative.

[@ganczha]

My favorite person and show!

[@claramitchell746]

Truly wonderful!!!

[@LilliLamour]

Well deserved 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@tammielynn8273]

Terrific interview.

[@BrandonTWills]

This guy’s story is amazing, but I’m 10+ minutes in & haven’t heard a thing about “Fear Driving the Current Era…” Very frustrating.

[@OnlyLoveCan38]

Emmett Till was tortured.

[@velinabrown2708]

Good interview. Thanks.

[@ozdaniels2051]

He should be Man of the Year

[@yuriajones]

I've always liked Dr. Gates and I found this to be an interesting discussion. One thing I didn't agree with though, was his statement about "affirmative action being reparations". I think that's a problematic way to look at access to elites spaces such as college/university campuses. Reparations should be given across the board to all among the harmed party. However, affirmative action doesn't work that way. Minority students still need to achieve grades that make them eligible for those colleges, and for most who come from poor communities, they'll never match up. In fact, the recent SCOTUS case that saw affirmative action struck should be a sign that AA can't be used as a form of reparations.

[@orchidpanda2253]

If people want reparations, then people need to stop voting for politicians who vote to increase military budgets by tenfold b/c we already spend billions and instead spend it on reparations or free health insurance -- that'll benefit millions of black and Latino people who still cannot afford healthcare... and it's only gonna get worse as AI displaces workers.

[@bethparker1500]

I love it, treated like a little prince.

[@tandt7694]

Except for eating in the same hangout spot or dating their children...

[@DebbiePerson-h7d]

Why does my taxes pay reparations to Israel and Ukrainian farmers but no one will say blacks Americans should not be compensated

[@orchidpanda2253]

Exactly. If people stopped voting for politicians who send money to Israel and who keep increasing the military budget by billions, there would be money for reparations, free healthcare, education, etc... Americans are so clueless about how much of their taxes go to building more weapons and creating wars to justify building more weapons.

[@johnclay661]

Exactly!

[@dottiebaker6623]

The exact question I ask myself. When we start talking about this as a nation (and I think we will), leaders from the black community should lead a multiracial commission charged with the power to make decisions on how we should do this. There should also be descendents of slave owners on the commission.

[@KyloG-G1228]

Thank you Mr Louis gates for sharing the truth 😅😅

[@victoriavillaleyva4558]

A person I admired and respect.

[@marilynfoster5279]

Great, Great, and Greàt❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@yeshiworkgashu3192]

He is American treasure ❤

[@medusagorgon9]

Yes! That world is gone! Humans must move forward progressively. Looking back and trying to implement life of the past just does not work. A lot of issues we face today were created in the past. We must look forward, and work towards a future that works for everyone.

[@robynrains7252]

Worth listening to 😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Getouttovote]

I love him 💕💕🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@ellanina801]

I appreciate “finding your roots”. It makes it feel more tangible. I’m 38, but i have questions about my ancestry. I know what I’ve been told, and by who…

[@roseneal2392]

His foundation was supported by his environment, an ideology we only dream about. “The Learning Tree.” The honorable Gordon Parks did the cinema of this inspiring movie. Regards

[@temitopeej8407]

I love hearing from Dr. Gates and it was interesting to hear him talk about Professor Wole Soyinka, one of my favorite people.

[@KyloG-G1228]

DR,DR GATES BLACK AND PROUD TO BE !!!

[@azizabahati7037]

💔 this all makes sense now. Thanks for including the Black community even if you don’t practice Black unity.

[@aleathacoleman6413]

@@azizabahati7037 ?

[@azizabahati7037]

@@aleathacoleman6413 did you watch the video?

[@gloriathompson6606]

I would love Professor Gate to do my family tree. My father never knew who is father was. I was born in Hamilton, Ala. to a land holding grandmother.

[@Bklyn112]

Who wouldn't! However you can do it yourself with the assistance of groups like the Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society. They are national organization and Dr Gates is affiliated with them in someway. They have chapters all over the country.

[@tandt7694]

Go to familysearch. You can do it yourself if you're know names of anyone as recently as 1950. You check those 1950 census records for clues that lead you to previous census. If you already have names of ancestors prior to 1950 you can start with an earlier census. You can also get good clues from death certificate records. You will be amazed at how much of all our family history the Mormons have collected. It's something remarkable when you find new ancestors that you had never really thought about.

[@tracyclark7560]

Mother and father worked together for the benefit of their boy children. Daddy must have been so proud.

[@kraykray4446]

I do not think Dr Gates realizes the effect he has had on American Culture. Maybe his contribution won’t be felt for generations but I feel it now.

[@michaelfant4052]

@kraykray4446 Yes love history of times and now. Roland Martin gives excellent info too.

[@i.am.navkaur]

"We are 99.99% the same." I need to use this as my mantra when I visit the US next.

[@JAD73567]

We’ve been in backlash since 1492.

[@shakeemwinn3647]

Racial backlash is the least thing we need to be worried about as a human species.

[@Peter-oh3hc]

First time listening and first time I have heard of a school integrating before Brown. What would America look like if that had been the norm?

[@JohnDauffenbach]

In the metropolitan Detroit area in the 70's the Lions share of black folks worked in the auto industry and had both dad and mom in the home . I remodeled a lot of their homes. Most said they couldn't find black contractors that new what they were doing or could trust. I had good relations with them as customers and people.

[@mattrainey7120]

Why are that not a visual feels like listening to the radio

[@seandail1]

It's a podcast.

[@moralfortitude...2217]

as a youth, WE question the, WHY of the situation & only to be told: that's just the way it is & stuff that makes absolutely no sense, only tends to make US want to try/do it even more...such as dating/love individual's/person's of a different color... ❤

[@b991228]

As a campaigner for Barack Obama I used to sometimes get guff for advocating for a black man yet like them I was lily white. When Barack Obama was elected president these people that had accused me of being a traitor argued with me that he really wasn’t really all that black. I guess that illustrated to me that our whiteness, blackness, redness, yellowness or whatever is a social construct. It’s how you and I choose to identify each other. As my school teacher told us all in science class we should all find the thrill in being able to embrace our kindred African ancestors.

[@tandt7694]

It really bothered me how the narrative completely ignored the fact that Barack Obama had a Caucasian mother and grandparents who were his primary caregivers growing up. Very unfair IMO.

[@dab7553]

"LONG LIVE THE ABORIGINAL "BLACKS" OF NORTH AMERICA. Those who Dr. Gates "knows" have been reclassified numerous times with the latest reclassification being African American. Silence is betrayal, complicity is unforgivable." - The Ancestors.

[@LKonandupward]

Hmm, saw this last week and decided to listen today. Thank goodness there are all types in this world. Something is off to me. Seems like prof gates seems to be over the moon with all the whiteness of his heritage and that of his daughter and grandchildren. For the record, date/marry/procreate with whomever you choose.

[@davanmani556]

I would like to see if James Taylor would open up to him.

[@harrietjohnson1930]

Prof. HLG’s thoughts about “abolish the police” around minute 13 is what all fair-thinking people mean by “abolish the police.” We want to be served and protected. We want bad police, police brutality and criminality abolished.

[@agoogleuser4356]

I put down my race as human. As a high school freshman in Biology class I learned that race was a construction and still you could look at skull dimension ratios and faces and see the variety of origins. Later in my life I noticed that in the black community.

[@filmladyproduction]

Time Podcast. He also needs the Nobel Peace Prize if he hasn't gotten it yet. Hopefully this coming year. His resume is inspiring and impressive and one to model.