Nikole Hannah-Jones: What drives me is rage

Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times Magazine, spoke about Charlottesville, 400 years of racism in the US, and how we educate our children, at The Power of Storytelling 2017.

[@callmeabutterfly1625]

I know the intention was good, but the negative reference to "she ended up going to an HBCU....", .is really negative and damaging when you have students who got high ACT scores going to HBCUs by choice when they could have gone to almost any school in the USA. Please note that HBCU schools take students who have low scores and turn them into scholars ( like my brother who has an PhD from a major white institution and is a college professor) and further develop those like my daughter who had top ACT scores, testing out of her first year of Chemistry, Physics and Calculus and could get into almost any top white university, (she is a science researcher at an Ivy league institution). Both are graduates of HBCU institutions.

[@bonnett5463]

@@ursamajor6347 , consider your tone and approach when you want respect. Mind your attitude toward those you want to realize your "plight". People are NOT PREJUDICE, NOR RACIST because of skin color. They treat you that way because of your ATTITUDE, DEMEANOR and your tone in which you convey it. So far it's been just violent, very hypocritical, and CONSTANTLY finding fault

[@malcolmking3329]

@@bonnett5463if only there were a mirror somewhere around

[@bonnett5463]

@@malcolmking3329 I'm confident in what I see in my mirror. I understand I'm not "perfect", yet I'll ALWAYS be judged and ridiculed by those like you that can ONLY blame and find fault regardless. Those, like you, don't know compliment, just complaint Stay with it, it's "worked" for forty some years now, ... right (?)•••

[@bonnett5463]

@@ursamajor6347 and THAT IS THE POINT, you outed yourself right there as APATHETIC. You don't care, you just want to FIND FAULT and be malevolent.

[@malcolmking3329]

@@bonnett5463 🤷🏾‍♂️ Since you didn’t get it, I’ll try another way. Reflect on you telling someone to be more respectful and to frame/phrase a topic in a way better suited to you so that you can feel better or be more engaged. That’s thought number one. Number 2 is this; now think about saying that in a disrespectful way. The mirror I mentioned earlier symbolized reflection. But I guess that’s just too much to ask. Well, have a good one.

[@codygajewski7436]

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

[@bonnett5463]

Well said👍

[@wespeoples3333]

False Evidence Appearing Real!

[@amaljones6983]

well when you push a race of people to a point where the KUMBUYA rhetoric gets really fucking old Hate produces .Eventually it will burn me you and this country and you know what??? maybe it should.

[@bonnett5463]

@@amaljones6983 and THERE'S your simian instinct toward (only your) "RESOLUTION"

[@amaljones6983]

@@bonnett5463 until mankind learn to respect each other's humanity this will go on and on. But looking on the bright side of things we have death to look forward too. # KEEP on rocking in the free world!!!

[@cosmicartsastrologicalserv242]

I found the passage that was deleted from the Declaration... "He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither … And he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he had deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."

[@Sullaban]

Cosmic I am glad you found it I will read it again, kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@geridinewhite869]

That's pretty deep !

[@andreialexandrunichiforel]

@@jeffp7776 then you are an idiot. But I wouldn't expect someone who can't even write "cite" correctly to have any deeper knowledge pertaining to history.

[@BloggerMusicMan]

@@jeffp7776 Sure. Here's plenty. google.cat/books?id=54APyrC_4lcC&qtid=b87e78c2&dq=editions:BLA0021948446&output=html_text&source=gbs_quotes_r&cad=7

[@jojodiver8706]

And the millions of us who lost ancestors who died in the civil war fighting to free the slaves? Do we get reparations?

[@leetate1963]

I respect her, but I totally disagree with forced integration......... I do not want to be around people who do not want to be around me. That actually causes more problems. Give us equal resources and we're fine..... Begging people to let us be in their presence actually makes them feel more superior and makes us feel more inferior... They are not so special that we just need to sit next to them. We can sit next to each other

[@curtiswatkins1192]

Amen

[@freethinkinmelanin6795]

This is my logic. I can't wrap my head around why black people were happy to be allowed in to spaces where they weren't wanted.

[@leetate1963]

@@freethinkinmelanin6795 Agreed....

[@michaelhardwick8382]

Brother you are right I feel the same way I been discriminated against all my life I don't want to be around them what for they don't. Want me to and I damn sure don't want to be we are the light of this world but our people's are ignorant and doesn't know it that 2 parts of our people will never get it. No matter what may peace be upon you shalom

[@leetate1963]

@@michaelhardwick8382 Peace to you also brother Thank you....

[@robg2865]

Some folks will never accept truth.

[@Sullaban]

Robert E. So true white people do not want the truth. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@jrizaac]

If you think this is because of a problem to accept the truth, well that's NOT it. This is an issue of human nature. People of privilege are very much "AWARE" of the problems that black integration would bring them. It will drive down the property value of their homes, it will make them fear their kids' grades will deteriorate and they'd be influenced into gang culture. It will cause more white flight and investors pulling out of the community. If these people think their "racial utopia" can be achieved by simply "educating" people about "narratives", then THEY are the ones who are uneducated. THERE IS NO SOLUTION!

[@Lone432345]

You mean like how revolutionary war was about slavery. Even tho the brits didn't free there slaves until 1833. 50 years after the war. Like that truth

[@jrizaac]

Burner Fire this is the kind of outcomes we get from the people who are over focused on “privilege”. RUINING it for everyone else who rely on Uber and Lyft as a ride service and a job because of their contempt for the 1% while calling it “compassionate” yet helping NO ONE, all while developing an unhealthy sense of moral superiority www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/20/tech/uber-lyft-california-shutdown/index.html

[@Sullaban]

@Marduk 144p thank you for those thoughtful words. Imagine I wrote that reply/ that comment some time ago. But you are a thinker which is wonderful. Keep thinking as this world needs it. PS you might want to Google Bible Matthew chapter 24 verse 14. I am saying. But keep thinking as it is good stuff.

[@taidas55]

When the United States was born, slavery was very common. Between 1530 and 1780, only in North Africa, a million or more European Christians were enslaved. George Orwell said "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

[@northstar5240]

They don't care

[@archiebishopprofessionalno4034]

Ironically, that is not an Orwell quote. Nice try, though.

[@catherinefox5078]

Give me a Black break!

[@shelbydavis3311]

The Europeans you're talking about were black....

[@taidas55]

@@shelbydavis3311 no, white

[@raychang4185]

She has a point. Can’t expect other people to write your story. If you want your story told, you have to write it.

[@hellogoodbye4061]

A race grifter and it is sad that you bought into her grift hook, line and sinker.

[@arlenehotep381]

When people don't want you to know your history then you must be the original people and you must have come from royalty. This inspire me to inquire even more.

[@oscarwarren8017]

Pgh,Pa. in the 60s...My Mother took us out and self bussed us to the new school.Multible Carnegie-Tech-Mellon graduates etc.Good jobs..Amazin!

[@jaida728]

I try not to comment when there’s controversy but I can’t help it. My history teacher always put it this way- getting the constitution passed was difficult, and the founding fathers had a bureaucracy like we do. It was hard enough to get the constitution as it was. With many slave owners in the US- do you really think, if they’d put abolition into the constitution, that we would have a constitution? You have to keep in mind the constitution was made when our nation was founded - we were a new, very fragile country. I’m not advocating for slavery, not even then, but they compromised. In 1807, there was the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves. They had thought slavery might die out, and abolitionists continued to work to ban slavery all together- abolitionists were usually the same people who campaigned for women’s suffrage, and other reforms, such as improved education. You can’t hold all of America, I should say, all white Americans, accountable for one group. Those white Americans who can trace their roots back that far, which I don’t believe is a majority of white Americans, probably find their ancestors were poor and unable to do anything about it anyway.

[@karlshaner2453]

You would be surprised how many can trace clear back to Plymouth rock. I also agree with your whole point. Some of my white ancestors were against slavery and in some cases killed and driven from states for it.

[@rhondabarlow860]

Your fragility is showing. You begin by saying what she said and then got caught up in defending something not defendable. Again, the question is asked, "Who are you willing to sacrifice for what you want?" Your comment implies sacrifice everyone but the White people.

[@karlshaner2453]

@@rhondabarlow860 The post is fairly old and your point is not clear to me at least. Neither post above defended slavery if that was your point. Your comment of "implies sacrifice everyone but white people", makes no sense when both posters above clearly spoke against slavery. No one deserves reperations for the deeds done by others long gone. If that were not the case, everyone would be in line ahead of you.

[@gkeith64]

When Caucasian and Anglo-Saxon people of ivory skin came here to our land, we opened our arms to them. We fought for their freedom. In return we got diseased blankets, and all our land taken, our families where separated by hue of skin, those who made it to Oklahoma and rebuilt a city where bombed! Those who stayed behind where redesignated as coloreds, black, negro, black and now African American, though most of the people of color are indigenous to America. While these things are not your fault, they are the history of the Gentiles overall. Yet, we have hope that soon this hellish nightmare will end and righteoUSness will be established not only in this land, but in this world.

[@lomiejoysj]

The only problem that I had with this lecture was how she referred to HBCUs. She said that a particular black student had to apply to an HBCU, not that she didn't want better. I was shocked that she spoke this way not only about HBCUs who have educated our people and very well, I might add; but also in a room full of foreigners whose opinions are shaped by what Black people say about each other.

[@mikedraper8316]

She has a white mother and a father who chose white over someone who looks like her. So naturally she holds our former slave master in high regard. We all have all been effected by the self hate tool of white Jesus. We are ISRAELITES and they know it.

[@19blondie93]

Not all HBCU's offer such a great education anymore. Many have become institutions that cater to incorporating white students. Many have gone broke and many have become a shadow of their past. Really, only the big names like Spelman, Howard, Emory and a few others are able to keep their head above water and keep a clear message of superior education for us. HBCU's were the go to for our black children, no longer is that always the truth.

[@Sullaban]

Lom Nikki Haley's dad was or is a full professor at an HBCU. Look it up. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@michaelcampbell5817]

My name is Maurice Campbell aka Mark Abdullah and my organization Renaissance action National Network is organizing our 1st Annual Asiactic black Diaspora Economic Summit in 2021and the goals of the Summit: Create Black Ownership Groups Create black Investment Groups Create black pro-fit sharing Groups Create black women Business Groups Create black Political party Reparations Movement Stay tuned for more information.

[@kevinodom2918]

@@mikedraper8316 this entire message about white privilege, supremacy, etc. being taught to children is white supremacy. She like others is telling black people and kids consciously or subconsciously that white people are better in every way and if whites would just let us be around them and go to their schools and live by them wed be better. This message trash and is a big part of the problem

[@bertramdavis7120]

Give equal resources to Black kids and leave us alone !

[@bertramdavis7120]

America care nothing for it's people!!!

[@johnjackson7441]

Bertram Davis That's the deal, real deal.

[@squests3139]

See that is the problem. You must take it. But remember this this is the only country we have so fight for what is yours. And the original sin was not created by white American or European. It was by Africans. So we are a new people. Hell our bloodline has been mixed and our culture was recreated here.

[@msrubie11]

@@squests3139 You definitely reaffirmed the way I feel. I find it amazing that people from some, especially those from other countries criticized America, (it be should in many aspects), but millions of people are trying to get in this country everyday. They are taking jobs and opportunities that Black people have fought and died for so that their children would have a better future and they are giving it away. There is still slavery in Africa as well as Caste implemented by other Africans.

[@Sullaban]

Bertram D. This country will die first. It needs to die. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@jlodge9281]

There are two philosophies of education. Parents who believe in it and make sure their children attend and parents who don’t.

[@Professional_street_hustler]

The like to dislike ratio and the comments are telling two completely different stories lol

[@reinerwilhelms-tricarico344]

That's the problem: With rage you are unlikely to find the truth. Rage and fear are two modes that shut down reasoning.

[@theninjateacher5203]

America was built on rage...and murder. You’re right. Reasoning has been shut down.

[@anjeanettecoleman6027]

It's a metaphor as a person of color I can say, when I think about the way yt ppl have treated poc and what this country is entrenched in it will make u mad

[@willenalee3063]

you heard ONLY what you wanted to hear in this speech

[@TG-zu2ih]

Rage never fixed anything. Rage only produces more rage.

[@mlittlitt]

She obviously has never read the Anti- Federalist papers

[@jackreacher1717]

She has never read anything other than her own words.

[@blackhercules1753]

You obviously didn't listen to a word she said.

[@jackreacher1717]

Oh I listened,I just live in the real world.

[@blackhercules1753]

@@jackreacher1717 so you learned absolutely nothing. Why did you waste your time?

[@jackreacher1717]

It's good to know what the enemy thinks.

[@faith3276]

Thank you

[@nicolej615]

This lady is great. She knows her stuff.

[@Pentazoid111]

@Ashok Hegde shes blinded by rage

[@jacquelinelakes7242]

@Ashok Hegde how is she misguided?

[@Sullaban]

Nicole C. Jones It is going to be interesting. Thanks kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@othaday54]

@Ashok Hegde How about you take your Russian BOT perspective back to the kremlin

[@newcovenantguy610]

Deception: www.wsj.com/articles/the-1619-project-gets-schooled-11576540494

[@MrsNonya]

People keep talking about how it’s wrong for her to be driven by rage; but anger directed towards evil is, good. If you see a child being abused, you are motivated by rage to stand up for said child. So, rage is not always a bad thing. Y’all knew EXACTLY what she met, but felt the need to make a point against it.

[@slowandeasy8581]

her analysis is like a study in history of Columbus and she found out that he came on a 747 and landed in a corn field.

[@Iloveswedes]

You sound high. Her analysis is spot on.

[@commonsenseamerica1685]

She is excellent speaker and advocate for learning black history which is American history.

[@Sullaban]

Common Sense Yes this lady is deep So much information. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@catsweet2231]

Thank you Miss Jones for all of this knowledge but would you please please write a book because my vision is not that good and I want to get it on Audible so could you think about this strongly and by the book of 1619 thank you again and God bless

[@Sullaban]

Sweetness Keep on going to KZbin as there is much info there kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@Healer09]

Record yourself reading the 1619Project aloud and create 10 minute sections/soundbites in format that works best for you, i.e. mp3). Then you can listen to it at your convenience.

[@southern4comfort]

If there's no force to make a party change & they gain from remaining the same, it's not natural to just stop and it's psychotic to willingly stay where you inevitably lose and COMPLAIN.

[@geridinewhite869]

That's where the fight start.

[@jlodge9281]

Who enabled the mass capture and transport of slaves?

[@earlofmar7987]

During the depopulation of Africa in the 1500's nearly 40 million were killed. My understand, going elsewhere to work, was better than death. And I've also read, that many were either drugged or they got them drunk on rum. And the Chief's loved rum and would trade slaves for rum.

[@jobuckley2999]

The title says it all.

[@jermaineedwards5077]

Brilliant

[@Sullaban]

Jermaine E. Yes it is interesting I want to hear it all. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@nebiyahmelody9805]

Ms Jones I appreciate you for all your success "The 1619 Project." Its amazing to me how so many people have negative comments about "The 1619 Project" who are not descendants of slaves but instead are descendants of groups of people who have a legacy of demeaning others and are afraid because they know, though they seek to deny it, The Day of Reckoning is here.

[@montello33]

She went to Notre Dame. So be inspired, but no, she is putting a stop in your brain.

[@bradleymcdonald6273]

Which family member of mine are you specifically talking about? Are you sinless? Who made you judge over man?

[@bradleymcdonald6273]

Do you have hatred in your heart towards other human beings?

[@nebiyahmelody9805]

@@bradleymcdonald6273 No hatred. Love speaks & acts upon the truth. There is the principle of spiritual & natural reckoning which guarantees that 'you reap what you sow.'

[@nebiyahmelody9805]

No one has to wonder what I mean by reckoning, just Google it.

[@carolwiggins5834]

The eyes can not see when the MIND IS BLIND……..

[@geridinewhite869]

Anger blinds !

[@beejayca]

Wrong motivation. Wrong result. Can't proceed from a false assumption...😉😎

[@Zionreignsforever]

😳😳😳😳😳

[@BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY]

This Earth is filled with the dust of our loved ones And with that of the ones who showed us no mercy But the Evil ones knew no better having themselves Been victims of a horrible power called government The truth is that the victims of Evil are so numerous that If they went back to their natural instinct of survival, Nobody could ever harm them and their loved ones, but For that they need courage that they have no more. Yet, there was a time when we ploughed the land, Rode on horseback, swam in rivers and lakes, ate the Food that we, our parents, wives, and children grew, But, not anymore because we lost our humanity. Most humans have devolved to worse than animals With bones and muscles only for show on stadiums They more often walk not on earth, but on dead matter. Where is that earth that once was sown with their dead? A creature offered to advise me about my funerals and I replied I was not from Earth. When she was shocked or puzzled, I added that anyway if I were a human, when my time was up, I would just have to jump over the cliffs of Dover, and it’s free. Once upon a time, our ancestors owned the land, but not anymore. Now, we have polluted waters, air, bodies, and our earth blossoms No more, produces no more what is safe and healthy for us. We pay governments to make the 10% rich and the 90% wretched. God is dead and might is right; fair is foul and foul is fair. Now, we pay creatures to come on stage and laugh to amuse us. We are fed with lies and drugs day in day out, and we love it and Our fathers and mothers have no more tears to shed. Oh God, the All Merciful, why dost Thou not feel or see our pain? Why should we humans have to beg You when we never beg our Own Fathers and Mothers because they always knew our needs? But, we are now all owned by the government as their slaves. We know not what good life is and we go back to Nature only to Enrich the tourist industry when we are surrounded by Nature. We even pollute our fishes and eat them; we pollute all morals And we rejoice at it in the name of Equality and Democracy! Our men are not men anymore; our women not women anymore. And, our depravity knows no bound; we have become child abusers! Dishonesty, cowardice, treachery, hypocrisy, covetousness and Greed are our way of life and we have no remorse. IS THERE GOD? BAFS Saturday 4th of July 2020

[@lucifermorningstar666prais7]

There's no god

[@BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY]

@@lucifermorningstar666prais7 Idiot!

[@lucifermorningstar666prais7]

@@BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY you did question it 😂🤣

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

@@lucifermorningstar666prais7 But look at your name. How is there Satan if no God?

[@SKF358]

More specifically what drives her is rage that her egomania isn't resoundingly resulting in everyone acknowledging that she created America and that it should be handed over to her immediately. (She's in for a very big fall.)

[@number4cat1]

Say the name: GIBSMEDAT!

[@Iloveswedes]

Thanks for nothing "Hans". Go away.

[@louise-yo7kz]

Love her referring to a country that posits itself on freedom and democracy, yet......

[@Sullaban]

Louise Yes, this country pretends it is so great so wonderful and it is of the Devil. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@travv88]

@@Sullaban Feel free to go to Africa forever.

[@Sullaban]

@@travv88 comment from a white boy. go figure.

[@dakotastyles]

@@Sullaban how do you know he’s white? See that’s the problem someone makes a comment that you don’t like so you just assume what race he is?

[@Sullaban]

@@dakotastyles believe me, you can tell, you can tell.

[@nocomment5007]

Ok so you said. Quoting from memory, (mad cow) I felt I was put here to study and write about this. You Ma'am are perfect in your approach and knowledge from 1619 forward. I read today a story about your tenure letdown you have experienced. So the first question I asked myself, is what is 1619. Though this video is only the second I listened to today, and I'm far from knowing everything, I can honestly say from today forward I will challenge my way of thinking and analyzing any and everything that is talked about when it comes to Race and equality Please for the love of all things holy, do not stop writing and teaching us. The way you explain things is an absolute must have in our society and this written word you speak. Awesome. Honestly I was not expected to be knocked on my ass when hearing America's truth, but you. Nice job.

[@justmyopinion9883]

Nikole Hannah-Jones is beautiful and brilliant. I'm so glad she is telling our story.

[@oliverphippen1957]

She is not telling your story She is telling your desire ????

[@justmyopinion9883]

@@oliverphippen1957 Whatever. She makes my heart happy. There are some people in this country who hate to see anything positive about or by African-American people. Those folks will never have anything good to say about Nikole Hannah-Jones or anyone like her. So---I hope Nikole continues to do her thing.

[@anastasiabeaverhousen5042]

@@justmyopinion9883 NO, just don’t care for LIES and victim hood!

[@hellogoodbye4061]

@@justmyopinion9883 A race grifter and it is sad that you bought into her grift hook, line and sinker.

[@claibornebanks9795]

Those that didn’t like Miss Jones’ HBCU comment may have missed a message. By wanting better perhaps Miss Jones meant being in a multicultural institution with a multicultural student body. How many Whites attend Tuskeegee, Howard, or Grambling? Do these institutions have the best facilities? I didn’t see that in the mid Nineties at Grambling. I was shocked at the poor exterior quality of some of Grambling’s physical stock. It was depressing. The white institution I trying to escape in Northern Louisiana had newer more modern looking buildings. They also had the Deep South attitude where Blacks had a “place” never to be left. So no, the buildings at the White college didn’t make it a better place for education. It’s just Grambling had me feeling as though it was below the standard of the white college. I didn’t transfer to Grambling nor did I finish at the white college. I was an Army war vet trying to work two jobs and attend college. I was mostly in a re adjustment to society struggle. That was about 1995 or ‘96. Just at the end of 2021 have I got more peace back in my life. A long struggle. Lastly, racism’s real. It needs to be solved. It’s going to take more God, more love. Racism does indeed destroy lives. Peace.

[@heffrezos6443]

The wonderful thing is its a free country. You can leave if it is so horrible, you may not know this but this type of rhetoric actually deepens the divide. And your option is no more important than the greater at Walmart or the kid mowing my yard, so stop grandstanding and enjoy life in this free country. Jesus loves you

[@heffrezos6443]

@@ursamajor6347so has every other race. Why can't you understand that? Why is your vision so narrow.

[@lazarocedeno5270]

1619! Yes, and thanks for sharing your beautiful experiences. I am always hopeful. I am also angry. And sad. And in desperation.

[@turquoise770]

She needs to go over to Africa and use her talents to get rid of the actual slavery that still exists there today.

[@williamcobb1930]

No matter if in Africa today or America in the 1500's - 1865 it's still the same oppressors!

[@earlofmar7987]

@@williamcobb1930 There are always oppressors in every country that are the same color.

[@williamcobb1930]

@@earlofmar7987 True they are primarily all Caucus Mountains descendants.

[@alcraw2551]

She is AMERICAN!

[@ronaldlawrence2229]

Why would she do that when there is so much work to do here, where she was born, like you, and has EVERY right to be in her "home land" doing a good work?

[@patrickjones7434]

Black poeple need to change history by choosing there own history first.

[@eddiemckinney2529]

Patrick Jones you are so right.

[@lesleykramer7207]

Well you can start by stop using the label "black" which is an artefact of slavery, and was a label imposed by enslavers on enslaved people of African descent.

[@michaelcampbell5817]

@@lesleykramer7207, we Identify with Black, because we as are the Asiatic Black People and not Africans. Africa was named by the Romans and their leader, by the name of Scipio Africanus. We are heading in the right direction, as we keep learning how we got here as enslaved people and what was our origins 16,000 years ago, as the first people to step foot on the soils of the Americas.

[@lesleykramer7207]

@@michaelcampbell5817 No, you identify as black, because that's the label the white man assigned to you. Africans never described or thought of themselves as black, until the label "black" as opposed to "white" was created by "white" supremacists, to indicate "black" people as being "inferior", and justifying their being enslaved. It's interesting (not to mention funny), that you now take the label imposed about your ancestors, and wear it as a badge of pride.

[@5th-Season]

Nikole wrote the history for all black people, so there you go. Feel the rage.

[@richwoodson]

This is great. She really connects a lot of dots.

[@Sullaban]

Rich Woodson Yes, this is going to be interesting. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@prometheus5700]

She invents the dots when there is nothing to connect

[@geot4647]

Yes, these are the dots: blame.anyone.but.blacks.themselves

[@jarvispierre6909]

When it comes to education, let's stop looking down at our HBCU.

[@mkmgramirez]

Especially since HBCUs are the highest producers of black doctors, lawyers, engineers and various other high paying positions. As an alum of a HBCU, I can tell you many companies come to HBCUs to recruit black employees while they go to PWI for white employees. At least that was how they did it for the accounting field.

[@ahayahlove37]

HBCU PUTS OUT A BUNCH OF SO CALLED BLACKS WHO LOOK DOWN ON THEIR OWN KIND I HATE HAVING THEM AS BOSSES ALWAYS HAVE TO PROVE TO MISTER CHARLIE THAT THEY'RE GREAT OVERSEERS WHILE EVERY OTHER RACE TREAT THEM WITH NO RESPECT AND MAKES THEM THEIR EQUAL HA

[@Sullaban]

Jarvis P. Yes I agree. Stop looking down on HBCU Stop it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@bigdaddycros]

I don’t look down on HBCs. But why can’t whites have back there HWCs, Or Asians or Hispanics? Seems racists, blacks get on whites for not being involved with them. But they want to go to black colleges. Sounds like they want it both ways.

[@jojodiver8706]

Funny how the FAA lowered air traffic controller testing scores to accommodate the black community.

[@timsimmons9042]

We don’t deny our history. Those us that don’t function with ‘Rage’ in our hearts tend to move forward. I try to live by the golden rule instead of bashing others over the head with my own narratives and beliefs or bashing them for mistakes past. Makes no sense to me to keep blaming people for things that were not of their own doing, nor hating on any culture with a blanketed bias.

[@Forgoneconclusion.]

The Pilgrims used rage to break away from the Queens rule, facts are what they are and you obviously only cherry picked what you wanted to hear. Rage is not always a bad thing and can get positive results... i.e. America!

[@Rtab12296]

Because it's not the past

[@lazarocedeno5270]

Yes her reference to Historical Black Colleges and Universities seemed badly referenced. I believe, now she teaches at Howard. Our first female VicePresident is a graduate of HU.

[@timmajors5017]

Blackfaces and high places don't mean anything if they don't represent American black citizens or" isn't going to do anything for black people " ,stop the gender and color hustling it isn't working in 2023!

[@islamicchronicles5381]

THANK YOU

[@jj-et5kj]

Before the very first slave landed on American shores he was first captured, transported and sold by his fellow African brothers, who were compensated for him with rum guns and trinkets

[@northstar5240]

Sad fact and there was also white slaves if I remember right

[@ricodelavega4511]

but first the mexica people built Santa Fe, NM in 1609...Barrio Anulco. In the Pueblo revolt of 1680, Popay the leader surrounded the white spaniards and made this demand: :"send out all the natives to us, the pueblo, the hopi, even the mexica who came with you."

[@rbaraka1]

She is a POWERFUL speaker who breaks down the truth in a simplistic way.

[@Sullaban]

R Baraka Yes there is some great truth here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@Sullaban]

@ We have to be careful of some of our leaders as there are wolves out there. There are some good and some bad. We must be careful. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2fSgntpnKt6h6c

[@5th-Season]

It’s simple, but it not truth. Woke people believe truth is a white social construct made to keep the black people oppressed

[@codylee729]

In the United States, we are not debating as to whether or not the war was about slavery. Obviously there will always be people who argue this, just as there are fools who will argue that the earth is flat. There is wide consensus that the war was about slavery, and perhaps she is out of touch with the sentiment of us who are to be the arbiters of the course of this nation.

[@timothylawson3262]

Love my black people.

[@Sullaban]

Timothy Lawson. We need to love one another. And even President Carter wanted to keep white people comfortable. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@fannie2529]

It’s sad that she don’t feel things will get better, than what is the point. We must believe and push for better. If black people thought like she did with that comment we all would still be slaves afraid to fight and get free from the slave master. Hope is what makes us strive beyond the rage of injustice to be successful.

[@ronrichards3213]

TITLE3 SAYS IT ALL

[@blackelephantintheroom9616]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@cynthiawpowell]

It is great to hear "the truth" being spoken about the African American experience. The facts will always make a difference for honest people.

[@BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY]

"What drives me is rage" and the fact that I AM NOT BLACK ENOUGH?

[@hueykhalidX]

What?

[@Lone432345]

Its true, mixed race people have a lot of issues.

[@BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY]

@@Lone432345 Its true, white racists have a lot of issues.

[@northstar5240]

I know right

[@northstar5240]

@@Lone432345 As a mixed person it was hard because my mom is hispanic and the racial hate I got from hispanic people made life rough for me

[@leongardner710]

When you have done wrong for so, so long it's hard to change. America is good at sugarcoating n it was founded on that principle. That's one reason we have ppl saying the country's not racist, when it is embedded in every fiber of it...."Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin

[@msredd1965]

Dr Joy DeGruy and this lady has given me a new found pride in who I am as an African American(Black) woman.... at 55 I have ALWAYS known I matter. These narratives give us what we need to push forward with TRUE equality

[@vbrown5482]

great story, enjoyed

[@Sullaban]

V. Brown I keep checking out #ADOS because there is a great truth here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@summerbrooks9922]

Love your hair color and your look as well as your story. My experiences were very interesting also, being born in a small town in Missouri and attending a segregated school, all the while wondering why the black kids attended a different school. It got very complicated. The only thing that temporarily saved me was the local library. But viewfinders took me to Africa and the pandora box began to open. I made up my mind to go to Africa then. I did. Never wanted to come back. Couldn't stay. That was the downturn of my life. Coup de estat. Now I sit an old lady with a memories. of memories.

[@summerbrooks9922]

With a headful of memories.

[@cherlyngibbs9305]

Yes I did too

[@erichatch7621]

Truth....Truth......thank you

[@snoopdog3771]

www.wsj.com/articles/the-1619-project-gets-schooled-11576540494

[@5th-Season]

Woke people like Nikole think truth is a social construct made by white people to keep the black people oppressed.

[@habeebahk8504]

You are amazing and it shows how threatened people are by your comments. Why is the truth so hard to swallow? Rock on !!!!

[@sometimesommelier4373]

Totally. I posted a comment here months ago and people go out of their way months later to attempt to rebut my appreciation for Nikole Hannah-Jones’s work with BS ad hominem attacks. The racist indoctrination in this country is root deep.

[@ShakiraAbdulAli]

WOW WOW WOW!!! I had NO IDEA that School Desegregation actually WORKED!!! Thank Ms. Hannah-Jones for opening my eyes to that fact! I wonder what we'd learn if we superimposed property tax policy on top of desegregation data. Wonder what we'd see ...

[@__-nj6ky]

Excellent speech!!!

[@Sullaban]

Yes there is good information here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@hellogoodbye4061]

A race grifter and it is sad that you bought into her grift hook, line and sinker.

[@jefffetzer8201]

How will you know the education is equal?

[@ingridgreenjones7065]

I enjoyed this talk until the last comment "the young lady end going to an HBCU". The phrasing came across as though HBCUs are second class schools. That is absolutely not the case. I respect Ms. Jones' work however that was a mistake on her part.

[@hodgemoss]

I think it started before 1619 it started with a papal bull 1458 when the Italian pope said it was okay to trade Africans for money and other perishables.

[@MJ-hg1mk]

1619 is the beginning in the future U.S. ... The Atlantic Slave Trade began much earlier in the Carribean, South & Central America. Thus the earlier date of the Papal Bull (Dum Diversas) you mentioned.

[@moodahs]

Very informative message...

[@Sullaban]

Moodahs and if you want more information check out Tone-talks on KZbin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@franksullivan1873]

The Civil War was about money the same as all wars.No one gave a fig in government about slavery.The South succeeded over money and tariffs on its trading partners and used the issue of slavery to promote fear in the White population to fight.The Northern Industrialists through their influence on Congress got tariffs passed on the South’s European trading partners and their imports of finished goods to the Southern ports,which were making them rich.The North wanted the South to buy it’s finished products instead of Europe’s.The North also used the Slavery issue to promote fear of a loss of jobs in the North if the South got more powerful with the use of free labor.The irony is that after the War and a half million dead the country and its industrial base would grow and the machine was rendering the use of slavery as a useless expense and that experiment is about to reach greater heights today as AI takes over many jobs.The age of the average low skilled worker is coming to an end.Although the Western nations have long rid the scourge of slavery from their shores it is still practice in Africa and in the Parlors of the sex trade industry to an estimated 50 billion dollar industry.

[@southern4comfort]

Acknowledge your role in dysfunction. If you refuse to leave no matter what, it's your ultimate power, what's the incentive for the other party to stop or think you're rational??? "Asking" isn't an American power move. Average history books bury real power moves.

[@southern4comfort]

@@ursamajor6347 incorrect strategy. No oppressor has both agreed to see the oppressed as equals and done it on the same land. Jewish people after a 5-6 year nightmare have a huge empowerment from having their own land to go to. Blacks, after over 400 years, have that but don't leverage it nearly enough. Read COLOR OF WEALTH & you may see how much money is gained by others from blacks socio economic status/behavior in the US. Leaving or isolating financially (read: taking the money) is a power move. Not "asking". Good luck with the psychology.

[@muralikrishnareddy5373]

Nicole is amazing. She is so authentic. She is committed and so passionate. She is a Gift to Humanity. God Bless Nicole.

[@galanis38]

Her arguments are also full of holes.

[@5th-Season]

I don’t see how she is helping humanity with her rage and revisionist history

[@Zionreignsforever]

@@5th-Season white males think as you.

[@5th-Season]

@@Zionreignsforever you obviously don’t know many people.

[@oliverphippen1957]

And she is not telling the absolute truth ??????

[@rogerleemeyzindi2979]

This lady is really awesome! Her words are powerful because she speaks the TRUTH !

[@Sullaban]

Roger Lee M. Please look into #ADOS because there is more info and it is good. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@lmp9256]

Nothing she says is true you absolute🔔🔚

[@joyjenkins7756]

She is Brilliant

[@Sullaban]

Joy J. I see I have a lot to learn how did we get stuck with Trump? kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@joyjenkins7756]

@Isaiah Wilson Jesus loves you. Surrender today!

[@CynthiaMackey]

Every thing I think but have trouble putting into words.

[@vanofgold1029]

Truth, Nikole is the promise we been waiting for along with Breaking Brown (Yvette Carnell) and ToneTalk (Antonio Moore) Thank you! #IamADOS.

[@renewashington9119]

Right. Trying to PROVE something is Futile to a person who 1) already KNOWS the truth and does not care and 2) who is Wicked and foolish and is intent on destruction

[@timothyvaughn4828]

Segergration was the absolute best thing for all of black Americans and I would like to see those laws today reinforced period.

[@Dentsun4228]

so glad she got tenure..and at howard too. she's a national treasure.

[@ngoziuk]

What happened in 1866. A law was passed by the Republicans that gave everyone born in the US citizenship. It was the first civil rights law passed.

[@ngoziuk]

Now telling your own story is one thing but telling a true historical story is different. Slavery happened throughout the world for millenniums. To say that a great country started when the first bought person arrived on America is shameful to the writer. I see why UNC had trouble giving you tenured position. We all studied & know history. To say that 1619 us the start is shameful to the writer. It's like you don't know history of the world or history of America.

[@Dentsun4228]

@@ngoziuk The Civil Rights of 1866 did not address political rights, which include the right to vote and the right to hold public office. If people are not allowed to vote under the law, they are not full citizens. The Fifteenth Amendment gave blacks the right to vote, but had little impact for almost a century because states imposed poll taxes, literacy tests, and other restrictions that kept African Americans from voting. It took until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to address this problem. so blacks didn't become full citizens until 1965.

[@Dentsun4228]

@@ngoziuk Her point about 1619 is that america's greatness is based on slavery. so, if it wasn't for slavery america could never have been great. america would have been india...or the balkans. there probably would not even be an america if it was not for slavery. it would have been a bunch of settlers who ran farms for a while, but eventually lack of labor would have caused them to fail. a few would have stayed. many would have moved south. or back to europe. but there would be no real reason for millions of people to migrate to america. slavery is what created america's wealth. it was that wealth that drew people from all over the world to america. so, slavery was what made america's existence possible. without slavery there is no america. so america's identity as a country begins when slavery in america starts.

[@ngoziuk]

@@Dentsun4228 What? If it wasn't for slavery, America wouldn't be great. You don't know world history. Slavery has been going on for millenniums. Making that statement proves that you don't understand world history. England, the country that started it in America, stopped it about 50 years earlier. In England, the owners were given money unlike America. America is successful because of it's free market ideology or capitalistic framework. They understood Europe so they made a country that was stronger and better.

[@marshallsmith750]

Yes!!!

[@brianploszay7202]

Black history needs to be told. My high school education absolutely discussed in detail Black history including slavery, emancipation, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement. As for the 1619 Project, Hannah-Jones is more of an activist than a historian. Her work needs to examined and criticized for inaccuracies. Remember, the country was set up by White people to benefit White people. It shouldn't be a surprise that concerns for native Americans were swept aside. And African slaves were considered factors of production, not citizens. The story of slavery, as I learned, is much wider and encompasses much of the Americas. Brazil, by far, was the leading importer of slaves and North America was a much smaller market. And slavery was not widely used in the Northern States. Hannah-Jones is part of a movement to deconstruct early American mythology due to sins of racism. Our celebration of our country binds Americans together, creating cooperation, a shared destiny and harmony. We have a wonderful government that happened to be created by men who abused humans of African and Native origin. Yet tearing down statues mostly creates division. Instead, face our history and elevate historical heroes that are right in front of us: Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

[@MJ-hg1mk]

Really?!? You end by offering more Lincoln & King? #speechless

[@marquispatton8198]

Lincoln was cool but I wouldn't put him in the same category as Dr. King. Remember that Lincoln signed an amendment that allowed "peonage" to flourish after emancipation.

[@brianploszay7202]

@@marquispatton8198 Historians have to look at the time frame. Lincoln lived in an age before mass media and his prejudices were typical for the time. What he accomplished was ending slavery. At least he's the best we have for the 19th century in terms of American heroes. I am a fan of MLK as well.

[@hellogoodbye4061]

The "black history" you are being taught nowadays centers solely around eternal victimhood. What a sad mindset to put into black children's heads.

[@marquispatton8198]

@@hellogoodbye4061 i agree. Thats why we need to learn more about successful forms of resistance.

[@kennethbeeler1]

Love you my dear sister 👌🏾

[@torreyintahoe]

Don't drop out of school. Don't get pregnant. Don't break the law. Work hard. Do those things and you will be successful regardless of your personal circumstances.

[@Maatization]

Don't be racist.. don't support police who kill innocent black people.... don't support the falsification of history by eliminating the truth of 400 yrs of slavery...don't rely on your privilege at the expense of others..you are already successful so don't be greedy by denying others from being all they can be...

[@zeenuf00]

​@@Maatizationno, actually it's the first comment.

[@jojodiver8706]

Millions of us lost ancestors who died fighting to free the slaves during the civil war. We want reparations. Pay up.

[@karlshaner2453]

When people talk of reparations, you and I agree. Everyone would be in line. Not one African American alive today was enslaved, and not one white American owned slaves. Everyone, white black, yellow, have someone in their past who was treated unfairly, killed, enslaved. They receive justice from God.

[@jinnylinn9542]

Not only the fact they're segregated schools and promotions etc... but we see it, live it every day of our lives. Not only that, there are African American leading over these poor run Black and Brown communities, bad to unequal services, homeless, barely promoted, only one or two Blacks promoted in NYC.

[@robertwright4220]

One more thing and King expressed this before he was murdered! The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not cost the government anything. One would think that the most logical and non-invasive approach to Jim Crow (which the term itself is condescending) would be to make a system of separate but equal which was vastly unequal, EQUAL. Or to at least make marked movements toward equality which could only happen at that time in a separate paradigm not integrating people behind the curve into those with excess. The only viable thing about the act that I agree with is public accommodation. But not integration and integrated schools in-particular. The Civil Rights Act and integration was a scam to boot designed to quell any black identity movements and further fragment the mind and so-called black community. For the record, the hood and ghetto are not the black community, we don't have one because of integration. So this is the one thing I do not agree with this lovely and intelligent woman. DAMN integration! Reparations is a debt owed, cut the check!

[@feffygracie]

Sequel to Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

[@anastasiabeaverhousen5042]

ABW - what a shock !!!!

[@nicollettenyob]

She’s got the mixed girl accent going on! Interesting to hear about racism from a biracial perspective. Of course her dad is black...annoying self-hater he must be.

[@sharmaineSLH]

And what are you saying, but not saying? :/

[@robyndismon394]

Why does her fatherchavex2 be a self hater?.There are many same race relationships where one or both parties hate themselves, their lineage, how and where they were raised, their gene pool, and the list goes on. It is possible that a black and white person can meet, fall in love and then get married without any of the reasons you've prescribed

[@renewashington9119]

I’m Thoroughly enjoying Sister Hanna’s talk. What I Learned from my Mama at a very young age is that NO ONE can rob you of Anything least of all an Education. I’m certain that people Understand we have the POWER to Educate ourselves on whatever Interests us Collectively and Individually. SEEK out information and Value it as we would a hidden treasure. Value educating YOURSELF freely and willfully, and then most importantly we should APPLY what we have learned in our lives. What I know for Sure is that All “education” ain’t Good Education. Most of it is Pure Propaganda 💜

[@MrQuent63]

I loved your speech please Kelly up all your good work...

[@hellogoodbye4061]

A race grifter and it is sad that you bought into her grift hook, line and sinker.

[@anpdm1]

She's very succinct. She speaks volumes with very few words. That's powerful storytelling.

[@Sullaban]

Yes, She speaks truth she might want to talk to Atonio Moore and Yvette Carnell. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKXYi5KvYs9ojKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKetdX-Qdth0jtk

[@jahmeheru]

hearing the children's stories and trials r horrid!!!😥

[@jefffetzer8201]

Segregation or Self segregation. Races tend to associate with their own race

[@oliverphippen1957]

Thats why Jim Crow was so popular Black national anthem is voluntarily

[@jefffetzer8201]

@@oliverphippen1957 Sarcasm . Why are blacks now asking for safe (black only) spaces on college campuses.

[@yvonnerockymore9140]

Should we not be enraged?

[@5th-Season]

We all can find something to be enraged about. Let’s all do it a go to war with each other. Sounds wonderful.

[@ronrichards3213]

and the dems run the southern states so jim crow was a dem thing! like the kkk!

[@thomashammonds2833]

That last girl she talked about was probably better off going to a HBCU than a big White institution.

[@mrsveronicanickey]

Actually I prefer HBCU’s

[@oliverphippen1957]

HBCU are not on the same educational plane that the other colleges are ???? Kamala is a HBCU grad and she is dumb ?????

[@mrsveronicanickey]

Klan

[@mrsveronicanickey]

@@oliverphippen1957 follow the money how much money have they made off c.genocide.

[@oliverphippen1957]

@@mrsveronicanickey I dont know you tell me ???? and the specifics that backs up your claim

[@oliverphippen1957]

@@mrsveronicanickey I think the Klan has more credibility than BLM because the Klan is HONEST BLM is not

[@oliverphippen1957]

The power of story telling is for the masses like Jim jones

[@anastasiabeaverhousen5042]

🤣 😂😂😂😂😂

[@oliverphippen1957]

@@anastasiabeaverhousen5042 Recall its story telling ???????

[@dakotastyles]

I think it’s great that the New York Times had to go back and retract parts of the 1619 project because of her inaccurate bs.

[@leono8811]

They only retraced a word, don’t spread lies if you won’t spread the truth. Of course white American is going to try to pick it apart because we never want to address the truth head on

[@dakotastyles]

@@leono8811 yeah the truth is that she tried to perpetuate that the revolutionary war started to keep slavery. Which is false.

[@ronaldlawrence2229]

I don't recall any "retractions" but my understanding is that there was a "clarification" of 2 words. New York Times doesn't publish bs.

[@theninjateacher5203]

@leon O - so what should she have written?

[@Lisa-hj8fh]

@@leono8811 stop with the racist " White America" comments. Ever think that maybe its not the truth? Maybe thats why more than White people attack it. History is your friend, not your enemy. Read a book, research on the web. Do something to educate America about the truth, which this is not it.

[@atom6277]

I agee with her 100%.!

[@Bourneinlight]

Powerful stuff

[@franksullivan1873]

I am done listening to people who think they are morally superior.