Can We Ever Get Rid of Racism? How Revenge & Ego is Tearing this Country Apart. Karen Hunter

[@manueldavidson1398]

Very profound "if I ever become equal to you I will be less then myself".

[@DrKB1014]

I was today years old when I realized another point of view on the saying “Be better than me.” My mother said it to my sister and I, adding in she had a Master’s degree, now what were we going to do. My sister and I went and earned professional doctorate degrees (I even added in a MBA later). I’ve said this to my 12-year old daughter, and I see I need to reframe. Thank you Dr. Black for the prospective. I want her to have all of me, our village, and more! ❤️

[@jtFacts77]

No you don't need to reframe. The good doctor is wrong. Is it wrong for a drug addicted mother to tell her child to be "better" than me? Is it wrong for consistent womanizing, cheating, lying husband to tell his son to be better than him? You are hearing what Dr. Black said through a non-critical lens. He's wrong and YOU of all people should be able to see it, with your "professional doctorate degree". Here is some advice. There is a youtube channel called "Soft White Underbelly", where the host interviews the margins of society. Listen to some of the origin stories of prostitutes, children of parents who sexually abused them, drug addicts, etc. During moments of lucidity, some of those parents told their children that they should be better than them, and THEY WERE RIGHT. I guarantee you will leave that channel with a different perspective. Perhaps Dr. Black should listen to those stories also. He might learn something.

[@AleciaHBOP]

We were fooled as a first people because we thought someone’s “ice’ was better… Even classism is about Materialism…

[@bobbywilsonfunfaithfamilymusic]

Professor Hunter, Dr. Daniel Black, thank you "putting where the goats can get it" kudos

[@Miss_Kyra]

I love Dr. Daniel Black ❤

[@01sandes]

Dr. Black is a whole vibe....delivering facts.

[@zeepickens9049]

*He's a TOTAL VIBE!!!!* 👑

[@danacooper6723]

"The most attractive thing on the planet is confidence"

[@f.e.gaskin2034]

When Dr. Black said oooh and put on his glasses, I was expecting him to start speaking in tongues, then as the conversation was winding down I was waiting for the organ to start playing and the passing of the plate. I said that in jest, BUT this is a WHOLE SERMAN, of truth. I have re-watched this several times.

[@feliciahammond6251]

I agree. To be like them is to be less than who you really are.🍏

[@4techologysolutions639]

Yo Professor Hunter I don’t want these conversations to end they always end on a good note and I’m like wait don’t end yet appreciate what your doing❤

[@demetrishowell2739]

You have listen to her show on XM radio. I heard it live and was waiting patiently for it to pop up on KZbin (for sharing purposes). The full show was enlightening!!

[@Camie.in.Philly]

Omg. I got me a new line. If I ever become equal with you I will become less. Can't wait to have a conversation with the grandchildren tonight.

[@micheleholley9730]

Professor Karen, Doctor Black spoke a whole word. What he spoke was REAL and liberating. The need to own other people as a sign of success.

[@DRGeorgiaYoungbloodBey]

Yes, yes brother speak that truth.

[@umiiyabode]

Dr. Daniel "Omotosho" Black, you better speak! You were absolutely on fire today! "If I become equal to you, it means that I have become less than myself" My God!

[@quietstorm6710]

FACTS Dr Black

[@ChocoBeauty8]

Love this conversation!!! So many gems in this short segment ❤❤❤

[@manueldavidson1398]

Thank you Professor Hunter and Dr. Daniel Black for your very insightful and intelligent conversation.

[@deborahblackshear3325]

❤ I love Dr Black. Karen thank for your truth, on this segment.

[@jrg6284]

I have replayed this several times!! Dr. Black👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@zeepickens9049]

*Hopefully, when WE know BETTER, WE do BETTER! I think many BLACK FAMILIES were just culturally socialized to say "BE BETTER THAN ME!" Just like these same families probably said you have to be TWICE as better and work TWICE as HARD, something I'm sooooooooo HAPPY my family NEVER said to me! Imagine killing yourself to be better than MEDIOCRITY and (know that you can't compete with) NEPOTISM!!!!!! Thank you Dr. Black for that 💕cultural gem💕, maybe that will shift the mindsets of many!*

[@Missy714]

I heard the original Color Purple's Shug Avery humming after Dr. Black said slavery was about materialism and ownership & we praying for our turn. Personally I want autonomy to be human uninterrupted, providing I am not harming others and minding my own business (& not just for myself) but I #StayWoke. Context matters with comprehending phrasing/sayings we impart to others and words are powerful.

[@judithmccrea2601]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼. Yes.

[@mikki6341]

This is amazing Professors. Dr. Black put into words what I've known since I was a child, living thru being called an n-word by a melanemic girl. I felt sorry for her and actually found out why she said it. Her dad. Point blank period. As yall!!❤❤

[@EricMajiedMajesticMusic]

This is a beautiful conversation. Thank you very much.❤

[@hhsamcox]

Another delicious and gem-filled program that made me run it back again because a few of the gems touched on topics that I think the audience would have enjoyed hearing Dr. Carr and Dr. Black volley with for a moment. Could the parents' admonition "to be better than" be a Sankofa connection with the ancestors urging us to reclaim Maat? Could knowing the factual history of the "42 Negative Confessions" be a motive factor or blueprint for not being less than but becoming the beings our ancestors envisioned for humanity over 5000 years ago? Thank you for these synapse firestorms Prof. Hunter!

[@liamwhit1]

Cmon, Dr. Black! Tell the truth, shame the devil! I want to win also!

[@glencarey5274]

TEACH!!!!

[@litcetera]

Dr Black is on another plane!! Love the insight.

[@Terry_Wayne]

Professor Hunter i think i know what you were getting at about “be better than me”….i always thought it meant to not make the same mistakes they made. Also, we SHOULD be better anyway because some of the hard lessons our parents had to learn, we walk into the world ARMED with the knowledge of those hard lessons so we don’t have to bump our heads to get it. Besides that, he went off today!! I love it when he gets in his bag on a spiritual level!!

[@paulhendricks7386]

I am so glad you realized this. "Be better than me" is like replanting your family's legacy in a bigger pot. Its vitally important.

[@coreviaflynn594]

So much truth.

[@ettaadams6125]

TRUTH!!❤😊

[@ARaiThompson]

I love it! While I appreciate the clips... oooh we, it leaves me wanting more. It goes without saying, Karen, you are the truuuuth.. but Dr. Black, (and Dr Carr), I kan't say nothin' else! 👍🏾✊🏾 ( A Rai Speaks)

[@rhondabarlow860]

Words of uncomfortable truth. I say all the time I'm pissed because I gotta pay for knowledge my people thought they were doing me a favor not to pass on to me. I'm running to the farm-life

[@sagreen19]

I don't want to oppress anyone.

[@Jamal-bx6cx]

About that scene with Malcolm x not willing to pray with the white person, I think we grossly underestimate the power of conditioning. Brother Malcolm will always be Dear to me.

[@geekmeee]

Jesus really knocked out of the ballpark when he gave us the analogy of the camel passing thru an eye of a needle 🪡

[@glencarey5274]

ALRIGHT NOW!! ... NOW WE TALKING!!

[@TommyStovall-g6y]

Oh miss Hunter i love your obtermistic view of the world, shows the big heart of yours yearning to live free in your true spirit to love, and live in your.vission of solidarity with each other, nothing wrong with that, its how it should be.

[@KennethBurgess]

Wow! You are so on point! It’s like a prison to live under this. I think we (humans) are being asked to evolve our collective identities regardless of “race.” You said it, it’s about Liberation. It’s a continued journey, a life long journey. And if Black people as the Parents of humanity can evolve identity beyond race and color, the others, our children, will learn from us. And, like you said, it’s about Consciousness. Consciousness of the One collective human. Being conscious of the human assignment given by the universe, To Continue To Evolve. And can’t and won’t until we get out of the prison mindset shackled by race.

[@michaeljamesonx2691]

11:17 THAT IS IT RIGHT THERE! SOMEONE PASS THE COLLECTION PLATE! BOOM! Never acquiesce to someone else's foolishness. It is never worth it!

[@Jamal-bx6cx]

The panthers said you can't fight racism with racism.

[@mychann33]

Whoa... Dr. Black IS dropping bombs.

[@dionnerobb7397]

The confusion is much woven in our psyche...For us not say what we really mean..."I hope you work half as much as I do". "Be like me...Not be better than me" Thank you for "clarity" Sir!😉

[@startpage717]

Can't separate anything because if you had just move the Boat the battle would not have been. Dr. Black is so correct the institution status is Evolving out of Negoship....Revenge is a continuous cycle so NO Revenge..."If I ever become with you I will be Less then Myself" OMWord!!! PHEW! Never thought about this "Do better then me" My family said that to us...OMG!! Dr. Black, Dr. Black shut it Down today...Phew!

[@celdiadivis1013]

Karen and Dr. Black: I 've never articulated "Be better than me" to my children, but, while raising them, that was always my goal--"better" in any way possible, but principally, Spiritually better--I think, more Evolved than me. As in the phrase, "Every generation stands on the shoulders of the one who went before them." Always striving toward the most highly evolved expression that the Creator has for us. I was drawn to your u tube clips, Karen bc I think you may believe that, too--though I could be way off base here. BTW, I am one of those white people who tunes in to learn from you. Thank you for all you do.

[@amaradominique]

That is what corporations do every day to employees based on the ownership mentality

[@bridgetfeaster7065]

❤❤

[@TWILS02119]

Sis, this is a great discussion. 4:30 something seconds in, and to our brother Dr., I have to disagree. I am an oppressed black man who is keenly aware of my oppression . I have no desire to oppress others. Neither is oppression the solution for us. We are all interested in equality. I am trying to break the yolk of oppression Revenge is not the goal. Justification and a return of Equity is the goal. He is correct about equity because in reality we have the propensity to be > Peace family

[@MorganMingo70]

God, I love this man!!! ❤😂

[@shavonnestoddard6428]

Can we live and let live?!!!❤

[@donaldwhite5345]

There going to keep letting you know who and what they are... so we better be ready to finish them 😤

[@ChiSmithWellnessCareCocaching]

If I'm not following the village, than who am I following...Wow!!!...

[@taylortaylor5542]

I want to revisit that LeVar Burton clip, but can not find it.

[@dr.mjones7410]

"The most attractive things on this earth is CONFIDENCE" ...yes!

[@ask_why000]

No... it's kindness, honor, nobility.

[@marleyjanim5033]

Competency

[@AleciaHBOP]

Yep materialism ignorance 👍🏾😍

[@paulatrent60]

Materialism stems from selfishness, the self(ego) is center, selfishness is the root of all evil.

[@sharonchilds3871]

No one like Dr Black 😊

[@mikec5641]

I agree with EVERYTHING Prof Black said. Wanting more than your parents could achieve is judging your life based on stuff. Remembering any form of coveting things is greed... But that scream," How's that possible?" Is hilarious. I know it was not intended to be comedic........ thank you both..

[@Niayolonda777]

Be who you are and first love yourself (of course after GOD) AND everything else will fall in place! Period.

[@sugashy45]

I receive that message Dr Black❤️✨I also see that go-tee moisturize it with that beard balm 😜

[@therealdeal4589]

The chair over the head represented so much more than the hit, Karen. You know that. Let’s not pander to who you think is listening.

[@KarenHunterShow]

I do NOT pander. I say what I think and feel. That chair over the head wasn't necessary.

[@TheErikaShow]

You clearly don’t listen to the show regularly. You may need to go back and listen to that part again. You act as if she condemned the whole thing. It is called humanity and empathy. I did not like that woman getting hit either…AAAND I STILL want a folding chair T-shirt for Xmas. Two things can be true at one time. Why be so quick to go there? Unqualified people trying to snatch “Black cards” up in here.😂

[@ottogreenjr.7857]

When love is understood, we will collectively get ish right!!! ✊🏾🙏🏿✊🏾🤎

[@willienixon6847]

If i ever become equal to you, I'll be less than myself

[@EthelByrd-fj4pl]

Well!!!! Look like we better be doing is complying to the Most High Yahawah Yahawahshi is to love your enemies and di good to those that oppress you and let Him revenge!!!! Get under the Shadow of the O'Mighty Yahawahshi!!!!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@taylortaylor5542]

Ruby Bridges

[@AleciaHBOP]

“ Addicted To White: The Oppressed In League with the Oppressor” by Jerome E. Fox

[@AyanDaceStudios]

Sista, Prof. Hunter, I know this is off topic for this video but will you post the video of your conversation with Jennifer Todd?

[@AyanDaceStudios]

That was such a great conversation.

[@AleciaHBOP]

Yep the earth will destroy humanity 👍🏾😍

[@dr.mjones7410]

Karen, That's exactly what Dame Dash did when they was plotting and planning with Jay-z without him. He bust in that meeting and told them off. Everybody looking at him crazy but he was right.

[@truthBreal2030]

That’s why I keep moving farther and farther away from Chicago. It’s the land of lawlessness.

[@KarenHunterShow]

move to Anchorage, Alaska...probably more your speed.

[@truthBreal2030]

@@KarenHunterShow No because Alaska has a higher percentage of criminals and unsavory people per capita. I’m fine in the upscale suburbs of Chicago away from the city. Thanks for your concern.

[@DemoRats]

We can be the best we can be and ask for our reparations. Just like the Jews did 👍

[@brittybelle409]

Well apparently Dr Black doesn’t want you to get your 40 acres and a mule eventhough you deserved it. See, only white people according to him has the right to earn money.

[@DRGeorgiaYoungbloodBey]

These people feel as though they can just do what they want with your products wrong,...., they are going to feel the wrath of the universal creator.

[@sugashy45]

❤❤❤ I have always thrived in authentic self uniqueness. Even when I had that you kill my dog I’ll kill yo cat mentally. Wow I told my children that very phrase. Now I wanna break down 10 fold as it relates to magnification of our seeds and ancestors.

[@charlenegraham1923]

All oppressed people DON'T dream of the right to oppress or to oppress. That's a totally ridiculous blanket statement. Yes. I'm offended. Race will, in fact, disappear when it is no longer economically useful to white people. They associated economics with race so they will have to disassociate it. As for having a need for power in order to oppress, that is certainly culturally generated. The problem is the framing of this discussion as a judgement on black people with white people standing the frame.

[@brittybelle409]

Thank you. Most people on here commenting are fans and did not understand like you do.

[@akaziaj]

💎💎💎💎

[@redshoes5301]

Dr Hunter I request that a follow up video be done to this video and perhaps be entitled Restitution is not Revenge, Restitution is not Equality, Restitution is not Subordination. Restitution requires full restoration of what was taken and in the absence of being able to fully restore --just like any insurance policy -- then the insurer must replace in order to bring about full restoration to the victim. We must be careful not to confuse the necessity for justice and restoration with equality as those are different things. When a Prosecutor seeks justice she is not seeking equality instead the purpose of prosecution is to protect the innocent and convict the guilty, not to seek revenge, to protect the constitution and legal rights of all persons. A significant part of seeking justice is Restitution in other words to restore what was taken. When our parents say they want us to be better than them, it means they want us to be absolutely free to be all that they were prohibited to be whether we choose to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, rocket scientist, US President, the Head of the NFL, etc. Note: We have to be careful not to fall into the predators playbook of "taking the higher ground, when they go low we surrender the right to restoration," fail to seek justice and restoration for past enslavement and living in the current enershia of failing to achieve full restoration otherwise we fail ourselves, our children, our future unborn thrivers, and our ancestors. We all strive to acquire material things which are necessary for the preservation of life and some strive in excess of necessities which is their prerogative. We are individuals not a monolith! One of the main difference between the oppressors and the non-oppressor is that the non-oppressor has never sought to oppress but instead pursues freedom for all, liberation for all and restoration for those who have been oppressed and those who are currently marginalized to restore them to a level playing field which does not require for anyone to go low while the oppressor goes high.

[@demetrishowell2739]

This excerpt made me look into the mirror. Did I make the incorrect choice of sending my two sons to a PWI instead of a HBCU? I told them it would be their first choice to make in adulthood without my objection. Should I have put my foot down and made this my last choice, whereas I wanted them to attend an HBCU? Hmmm🤔

[@nwananka]

It's okay you made the best decision based on your awareness at the time. Your intentions were pure. This awareness made all of us think too.

[@HANDSnSTICKS]

Aliens - a true outside threat - that's it - the only way we will come together - even then, there will be holes in the union.

[@uncletruth4529]

The aliens will probably side with the most powerful group/country and use them to divide and conquer.

[@kashmoney7421]

I think the message got a little muddled but this was a very good and important discussion. What I saw as the final take away was that black people are trying to compete and win at capitalism and instead we should be focused on being our best selves. (Whatever that may mean). This is very ambiguous and as a group our goal is ambiguous or non-existent because I don't get it. When Europeans arrived in America they initially went along with the system the natives had set up for a short while. But they had in their minds the idea of western civilization and racialized capitalism and while they needed to follow the natives for the short term and learn their ways as to not die in the wilderness they soon implemented their system which they feel is so good it needs to be imposed and established worldwide. For right now we need to yes compete and do all we can under the current system of capitalism as we see our people becoming more unhoused and displaced. However what is the grand vision. I hear the talk of community and harmony etc. The result of you guys logic is capitalism and western civilization have to go. It needs to be replaced with a more cooperative form of economics. But that is not what I have ever heard the CBC, tha Karen Hunter show, or black america at large call for. At least not full throated. So i would advise black people until we as a group actually get some imagination and some goals like free people then its in your best interest to do whatever you can under the current system to keep you and your family fed.

[@TheTruthlady]

Peace Islam eradicates racism. That was Malcolm’s point.

[@geekmeee]

The point is Malcom X was closer to MLK at his end. But Malcom X’s end doesn’t generate as much interest, or ratings, as his middle.

[@howardturman4689]

Until we understand that there's only one race and that's the human race and that there's only one family and that's the human family. Remember we're not born a racist that's a learned behavior. The bible says as a man thinkist so is he. Racism is power. Sankofor 🌍

[@geekmeee]

@@howardturman4689 Good luck, that'll never happen. Man has been told he is of one race and made in the image of God, over 2000 yrs ago... But man has rejected that, in order to teach something else where he is the center.

[@cassieschneidee2033]

Africa our first contingent blessed with the majority of natural resources one could need. Gave its land and people away to opportunist. I watch how skin folk still fight, lie, cheat, steal, overdose and sell out their own. This is not a euro problem this is a cultural issue. Until we see ourselves in divine light personally we shall suffer as a community.

[@jamesmurray8558]

It's not going to bring anyone together. Sounds like Nixon.

[@KarenHunterShow]

sounds like Jesus.

[@race-abolitionist]

I’m sorry, but Dr. Black is wrong. His answer explains how we got racism. The reason why we can’t get rid of racism is because race is one of many manifestations of racism and we love the idea of race.

[@KarenHunterShow]

He's not wrong. You just don't agree. And that's fine. What makes your opinion more valid or right?

[@race-abolitionist]

@@KarenHunterShow In human history, there have been materialistic societies before without the presence of racism. The Mali Empire is one that comes to mind. So, materialism can’t be the reason why racism will always be with us. Our racial identities are manifestations of racism from the minds of oppressors who were driven by materialism. However, people have always been materialistic, but people have not always had racial identities. To get rid of racism, we have to get rid of all of its manifestations. Racial identity, being one of racism’s manifestations, will always be protected by our racial pride.

[@shuggins3918]

I say hell no‼️

[@brittybelle409]

I know you have many fans who will agree with you on everything you say but after the first few minutes- I couldn’t watch anymore. Please stop blaming black peoples for racism. Fighting against injustices and inequities have NOTHING to do with materialism or wanting to own somebody else. We do not want to oppress jack!!!Freedom has everything to do with the intangibles. Give me one example of when we have ever oppressed anyone throughout history. It’s not about revenge. It’s about equality. Equality is not abt being less than what you’re worth. Do you suggest we just roll over and stay passive. Sad part- we don’t even fight hard for justice anymore. Dr. Black - I find it insulting to place black peoples in a box and telling America that we are all about materialism and not about humanity, kindness, respect, understanding and forgiveness. We are probably some of the most forgiving , understanding and passive to others but you’re painting us as materialistic and aggressive. I’m so tired of micro aggressions from white and black people. Clearly you want us to continue to accept racism and being poor. Money means health care, housing, safety, protection, transportation, education-survival. Another black person wanting to keep us down.

[@wraithx7]

I think that it MIGHT be possible to get rid of skin color race based bigotry as time goes on and people are exposed to more people of various skin colors and/or date/intermarry, but it is impossible to get rid of bigotry in general. Remember, bigotry is part of human nature as a potential defense mechanism against things that we don't understand and might perceive to be a possible threat. However, we can overcome our bigotry through socialization and education.

[@georgerogers5410]

Black jibberish!!!!!

[@KarenHunterShow]

hmmm. Thank you. Now I know we are hitting on all cylinders!

[@brittybelle409]

I agree.