Part1-Master Class on Frantz Fanon with Prof Lewis Gordon Mar 17 2018

[@khulekamaphisa5453]

Prof thank you for your excellent analysis. I'm just concerned there might have been a loss in translation with the old man in Khayelitsha (Cape Town). We call ourselves (aba)ntu - the people - plural. The concept of Ubuntu - being umuntu (singular) is centred on being a person, a human. When we greet, we say (Sa)nibona - we (plural)see you (plural). We acknowledge both your humanity and your ancestry all in a greeting. By saying we see you, we're actually saying me and my ancestors "see" you as a human, we literally recognize you as a same specie to us, deserving of all the natural rights due to you as a human.

[@AfroHairScience]

This presentation /lecture is so profound. His take on Frantz Fanon is EXACTLY how parents in the hood perceived and explained the behaviors and mentality of white people. Our parents understood we as Blacks were always trying survive white people's neurosis and their obsession with their lack of any and everything. This lecture could held in any home in the hood and everybody's momma, daddy, and grandparents would reply, "Oh but when I say what that professor just said, yall look at us like we crazy and don't know nothin cuz we ain't got no degrees." And the sad part, it's true. 😫 We pay and borrow hundreds and thousands of dollars to be taught and told the same thing by someone whose diction and vernacular is different from our parents and grandparents. 😩 He is an awesome professor. Outstanding lecture. I'm certain Dr. Joy DeGruy, my parents, and my grand parents would approve. ❤ As we say in the hood, "It's a Black thing. You wouldn't understand it." I totally get it now. Totally.

[@simontalcott1800]

1:00:50 "How do you justify your practices of justification" Brilliant!

[@DjWrightLicsw]

He is ignored because he is a trained psychiatrist and that means he intellectually has the capacity to raise these issues. He was a revolutionary and belongs to the revolutionary spirit of Africa. Anglos have to be able to look at themselves and as of date it is still a problem for them to do. If his work is read without the emotional tone about race then another world will open up. 🌹❤️🙏🏿😷😇

[@Jamluji]

Any other books you recommend? I'm struggling asserting myself as a Black man in the corporate world because of my anger at the system. It's eating me up and crippling me. Worse because I have been reading Fanon and Co, and this has awakened this revulsion at never having really paid attention to the subtle ways racism plays out. So how does one transcend?

[@simontalcott1800]

I really like how he starts out!

[@khulekamaphisa5453]

so, essentially, the old man will always acknowledge his humanity - even when he greets. The problem is the humaninty of those who've implemented policies based on prejudicial racial understanding. The question falls on their claim to legitimate humanity since they cannot recognize humanity in others - a condition of being human.

[@medicuswashington9870]

The fact of successful Atheist Communist China has opened the cage of colonialism.

[@mridularobert5165]

57:24

[@reallivebluescat]

I wish people would stop coughing!!!!!

[@wovokanarchy]

Pure academic nonsense. Totally removed from reality, just like most of Fanon's ideas.

[@hodnsumedocin4046]

His ideas changed the world..what have yours done?

[@wovokanarchy]

hodn sumedocin specific examples?

[@hodnsumedocin4046]

@@wovokanarchy so you want me to give you examples on something you claim to know and called nonsense?.for us who went under slavery and colonialism fanons work is crucial and always important .time has come when blacks dont need approval of white scholarship again .for me i see freud as nonsense ,at best important to "white"psychology ONLY.

[@wovokanarchy]

@@hodnsumedocin4046 Yes. It hasn't worked in North/South America, Australia, New Zealand, or Hawaii. So where has Fanon's ideas worked?

[@hodnsumedocin4046]

@@wovokanarchy you are still thinking the world revolves around white people kingdoms with just aprox 800 million people ..dont you see you are becoming irrelevant?.you keep mentioning colonizers then hoping to use an anticolonizers philosophy to be applied in a colonizers kingdom..no need replying you good day