Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of "Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy"

We look at the life and legacy of trailblazing Black feminist scholar and activist bell hooks, who died at the age of 69 on Wednesday. We speak with her longtime colleague Beverly Guy-Sheftall, professor of women's studies at Spelman College, who remembers her as "a person who would sit with young people and community people and students and help them understand this world in which we live, which is full of all kinds of domination." Working in the tradition of intersectionality and Black radical feminism, hooks's critiques of "imperialist white supremacist heteropatriarchy" called attention to the interlocking systems of oppression in hopes of eradicating them, Guy-Sheftall says.
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[@Baffon100]

Reading "The Will to Change" this year helped me shed light on how pervasive the system of patriarchy is and how it helps reinforce capitalism and imperialism. RIP. ❤

[@JesusIsKingAndSavior]

The Hiden Administration supports slave labor and genocide in China. ‘It’s a cultural difference’ When we ask for industry back in the US - you call us Nazis. You’re a plutocrat tool.

[@Lisa-rx6io]

Yes !! should be mandatory reading for all.

[@anthonyreidout1539]

I'm a 52 year old African American man and bell hooks was the one that heightened my level of consciousness, she was unbelievable two books of hers, Salvation and Rock My Soul literally changed my life, I and people like me will always love and will miss her in the physical form, but spiritually she will live forever!!!!💜🙏🏽

[@johneta7665]

She was a full of shit feminist who helped divide the black family.

[@anthonyreidout1539]

@@johneta7665 whatever dude, youl guys crack me up, so hooks is responsible for helping divide the nuclear black family unit, not racist government policies like welfare, not the school to prison pipeline, really dude???

[@aaronsailor827]

@@johneta7665 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@ksager123]

Smh

[@feralLove]

RIP Bell Hooks. You were such a gift to humanity and your legacy will live on through your brilliantly written books. 🙏❤

[@dawnpalmby5100]

* bell hooks All lower case***

[@LJRoss-zv8hw]

She was against black men.

[@gwendolynwilliams1730]

@@LJRoss-zv8hw her father is black/ you sound ridiculous.

[@LJRoss-zv8hw]

@@gwendolynwilliams1730 You obviously didn't read "We Real Cool".She clearly didn't like her father.

[@gwendolynwilliams1730]

@@LJRoss-zv8hw You are very dumbfounded/ stop making shit up/ do you know who your father is?

[@beverleyreid7572]

You tell your truth - and we’re labeled as ANGRY!! bell hooks will be missed

[@WithoutJustice]

@Kirk Tuss You choose to self identify as "white". Will you consider being a human being, a person, instead of a perpetuator of "white" RACE pseudo science?

[@steelpenguin1]

No they won’t

[@rawrsince718]

@Kirk Tuss nobody taught you how to NOT be self-centered.

[@MultiEightiesgirl]

@Kirk Tuss LOL

[@MultiEightiesgirl]

@@steelpenguin1 LOL

[@thesoundsmith]

Thank you for this. Ms. hooks was not nearly as well-known as she should have been, kinda proving her thesis...

[@mattj8799]

Very good point, sir.

[@pinwheelart2825]

More young "activist" should read her work to see what real activism looks like. Rest in Power!🖖🏽💖

[@defianceforhumanity]

Absolutely agree!

[@OnTheOnlyShipButHalfWannaSink]

Yeah, cuz older activists have nothing to learn.

[@johneta7665]

No she is a horrible example. A tool used by feminism to destroy the black family. Despicable

[@The10thManRules]

@@johneta7665 Please elaborate on how she's a feminist tool that destroys the Black family. What is your information source?

[@najeehouse78]

Won’t confuse my daughter with her work. I’ll pass.

[@thesupremeveggieburger427]

I read “ from margin to centre “ over the summer , and ill never be the same , bell hooks should be a mandatory read for everyone , R.I.P ♥️

[@BigFatHeretic]

Yes, Bell Hooks should be mandatory reading in our public schools. Also Martin Luther King, history of Harriot Tubman, Rosa Parks, etc. etc. etc.

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

“It is essential to our struggle for self-determination that we speak of love. For love is the necessary foundation enabling us to survive the wars, the hardships, the sickness, and the dying with our spirits intact. It is love that allows us to survive whole.” Bell Hooks, All About Love

[@macphallic]

She was beyond remarkable, she was prophetic and a visionary, and most notably absolutely loving. She challenged and provoked, and demanded us to love more deeply and more profoundly. I’ve read almost all of her books, bought her children’s books into my workplace for the adoptive youth that I work with, and her specific work “Rock my soul: black people and self esteem” is the book I clutched to my chest in tears when I heard of her passing! She will be sincerely and desperately missed! I encourage everyone to Read More bell hooks!

[@bernardheathaway9146]

bell hooks introduced me to feminism! For ever grateful to this amazing woman!

[@bpalpha]

Good job on this one DN! Bringing her voice to the forefront is important. Peace to the DN! community.

[@damonreeves]

Rest In Power bell hooks. Stay Strong Keep Informed My People ✌🏽❤️ So Cal

[@DeCleyre161]

We must carry on her work and her words. Thank you for everything you've done, bell hooks

[@elissa8242]

I read Bell Hook's book All About Love at the start of this year (and then read it again a few months ago) and it was the first book I've ever read to radically transform my life and my perception of the world. I will forever be grateful to Bell Hooks and excited to read more of the truth-telling she's generously left us. Rest in Power.

[@GreenOrchid9]

Her books should be required in high schools and colleges!🌄🕯 RIP bell hooks "yearning and love" ✌

[@malcolmjelani3588]

Unfortunately for me, several of her books were required. I didn't agree with most of it but stayed silent because my school was being over run by feminists.

[@GreenOrchid9]

@@malcolmjelani3588 Im sure being :over run" taught you some.awareness of the plight of women including those in your life. Men stay silent as long as they have the upper hand and womens voices and pain are ignored until they are labeled ...unfortunately .and im not a femininist🌄👊😷

[@carlgumpenberger8761]

she is a racist

[@malcolmjelani3588]

@@carlgumpenberger8761 how

[@carlgumpenberger8761]

@@malcolmjelani3588 how not

[@janetmatthews7973]

How brave of a woman she was. The question still remains why not be angry.? I’m black n native with a masters degree yet I have no job, own no home, and have no savings.And had never heard of Bell Hooks until in college.Though I was raised to love my beautiful brown skin…. Life reminds me everyday it’s not good enough…my sincere condolences 💐 🩸😇❤️

[@76shian]

Look at it this way You own no home = you have no mortgage debt. You have no job = you have no audience to perform for daily, your time is your own. You are black and native = you should take a DNA test because we all need to learn the truth.

[@jenniferhampton5171]

Above all you are beautiful, brilliant and loving. Worthy.

[@happylindsay4475]

Some of the ignorant, hateful comments in this section is proof that her work is needed more than ever. Your work has touched my mind and heart.

[@johneta7665]

She was a tool used by white supremacy to destroy black families. All of this craziness going on around with the youth in America her work is partly to blame.

[@markdarnell614]

@@johneta7665 - why do I feel this is coming from a middle-aged WHITE Man?! - and if this is triggering You, it must be ON-TARGET!

[@TheVuduYuDu]

@@markdarnell614 You'll also hear this from some brand new black folk who are repeating what they heard instead of actually picking up one of her books and reading it.

[@TheVuduYuDu]

@@johneta7665 Actually anyone can be a tool to be used by anyone for destructive or constructive purposes. Have you actually read anything that she has written? Watched her lectures?

[@happylindsay4475]

@@markdarnell614 💯

[@IsaDesOsiers]

This is a phenomenally moving segment by Democracy Now. I did not know that much about bell hooks, although other writers I follow often have referenced her. This gave me a real feeling for why she was and is so revered. RIP bell hooks. Everyone should throw a little money to Democracy Now every year, even $5 per year makes a difference if you are a listener. I say this because it is the "Holiday Season" and a time of giving. The quality of reporting given to the world by this non-profit news service, which is award winning, is so important in a time of corporate takeover of the mainstream news. A voice of true Democracy, a light in the world. I have been donating something faithfully for many years. If all listeners gave even a small amount they would be safe. (I feel the same about Wikipedia and other things precious to my intellectual life).

[@dereosroads]

Incredibly moving person. I'm looking forward to reading her books.❤

[@backtalk9343]

What is your Instagram?

[@charleskesner1302]

She was a champion. RIP

[@johneta7665]

Yea a champion for destroying the black family

[@dawnpalmby5100]

She is absolutely right, I don't understand why some white ppl would interpret her as angry - she's so passionate about what she's saying, it effects so many ppl. I wish other white ppl would just listen, stop thinking about your answer or what u want to say and just listen, learning from others is the best thing you could do for yourself. Just listen.

[@vklnew9824]

Keep your sub saharan nonsense to yourself and away from my people.

[@jancheema6776]

Thanks Amy. We be journaling. Truth telling. 🍁🌾🍍🥊🎯🏅 nj🍃

[@kosmikprince6561]

Excellent Broadcast! Exceptional woman -- definitely going out to pick up some of her writing. Thank you for featuring her today!

[@mortalemily]

may her memory be a blessing as it already is

[@alisarashid5650]

RIP bell - gone but not forgotten. Thank you Dr. Guy-Sheftall - excellent interview

[@RobinHerzig]

Rest in Power, Queen ✊ + thank you for your magnificent important work

[@ericdecker2914]

I just learned about her and her work last week. Farewell and Rest in Power bell hooks.

[@evolutionmelanin8017]

Rest In Power Rest In Peace Rest In Happiness Somewhere Amicable. My condolences, warmest thoughts and comforting prayers to your loved ones 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 You are unforgettable.

[@manuelsalinas5705]

I am currently reading one of her works: "From Margin to Center." It's a really great read that opened a new perspective on feminism for me. It sucked I learned about bell hooks shortly before her passing. May she rest in peace.

[@Tiffanysmith339]

It feels good about changing my profession to writer when I see such women.

[@lilyofthevalley2248]

Rest in POWER my Sister💪🏾💪🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🥰🥰🥰✅💯

[@j01150126]

Not sure why anyone would try to control minority and or black voting. Minorities are a part of our country, nobody is going anywhere and we sure as hell are not going back to any form of segregation.

[@johnnycreighton29]

Good day ❤️ ! Rest in peace, bell hooks. Resquiat in pace. Again, thanks Amy Goodman, & DN. PEACE 🕊️ 💕 LOVE, for all of us/you all!

[@solomonjohnson2628]

When wisdom builds her house, you my sister will be there....RIP

[@MultiEightiesgirl]

bell hooks may your spirit live on through the work you have left us. You left us a legacy of scholarship. Upset right now. A true pioneer of critical thought. And God says, "Job well done".

[@lucymolockian1849]

As their numbers decline the hatred for them grows and grows.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Rest in Peace you don't see Activist like her anymore.

[@shivadave3174]

Rest in love, power and peace, Beautiful Soul!

[@andreadaerice]

Thank you for this segment! I didn't realize how much I love bell hooks....I'll be reading her much more now.

[@richardgaya3965]

Knowledge is Power .....R.I.P.!!!!

[@itsmissvsworld]

Imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy is what bell hooks referred to this society as. I'm already feeling her absence. Rest well lady. Rest well.

[@NellieKAdaba]

Just learned about her. May she rest in peace.

[@warlockpaladin2261]

She sounds like every other pseudo-intellectual who shouts and calls people names while refusing to explain their position, all the while hoping that people will pay money for a copy of their book.

[@itsmissvsworld]

@@warlockpaladin2261 she didn't have to hope that anybody would buy her books. At least one of her books made the New York Times Best Seller's list. And I'd read that her book "All About Love: New Visions", which came out in 2000, made it back on the list during the pandemic. So if you're interested, check out one of her books from the library. They're free. You may even find the occasional free PDF online.😉

[@moeezS]

Thank you for this interview with Beverley and the remembrance for bell hooks.

[@susanbradleyskov9179]

Love has always been and will always be a radical act.

[@decarlowilson]

Thank you for having this tribute in your broadcast Amy. A small critique that is aimed at the transcriber of your show. I would say the transcriber is biased against Black people. The transcription is spot on until something Black comes up, then it is either misspelled or completely incorrect. I only bring this up because deaf can be just as racist as hearing people. Other than that, excellent tribute.

[@maazkalim]

Which “transcriber”, exactly? The one for the subtitles throughout this video?°

[@decarlowilson]

@@maazkalim Yes.

[@TaylorMiddlebrookvids]

@@decarlowilson (it’s a robot, not a human, that makes the subtitles. Not many channels on KZbin pay a transcriptionist to make sure the robot does its job)

[@decarlowilson]

@@TaylorMiddlebrookvids thank you clarification. What that leads me to believe is they are being programmed racistly. It can understand whites when they talk, yet can't understand Blacks when they speak. Stranger things have happened. Remember auto soap dispensers/ water faucets. They weren't programmed with any darker skinned complexions. But I guess that wasn't discriminatory? Just justifying my stance. I hope clearly.

[@spuddog68]

Rest easy beautiful lady. Love is Everything, without love there is no hope, with love anything is possible. Much love to her family and friends at this sad time. Love from the UK.

[@musicg1696]

She was a gift

[@raj_poorman]

Truth liberates, love liberates

[@rogercarroll1663]

Wonderful work. Thank you, thank you.

[@timfahey7127]

"The keeness of insight." We WILL miss you.

[@StrLab]

Rest in peace, Yuri Bezmenov. You warned us.

[@oghyeahoo6165]

"This is America" -Gambino

[@jancheema6776]

RIP BELL HOOKS 🌹🌻🍁🍃🏋🏽‍♀️🎯🏋🏽‍♀️🥊🎈🎉🏅 nj-usa

[@AudioPervert1]

Bell Hooks Rocks !! Rocked !! her book about Love is a must read for all, well all Men for sure. Bell Hooks Bell Hooks

[@ArcadiaOccult]

Best news I've heard all year! She will not be missed.

[@homerco213]

"Bell Hooks confuses capitalism, with capitalist patriarchy; Me and the caps-lock key know that to be malarky." This is a good-natured jibe from lyricist MC Paul Barman; and the first time I'd heard of Bell Hooks. Strange how my college educators never assigned any of her work for me to read. I learned her name from a Jewish rapper.

[@WithoutJustice]

Actually, Bell Hooks was NOT confused about capitalist exploitation. Neither did she conflate this with patriarchy (aka male supremacy/female oppression). However, she did group systems of oppression into one coined phrase. "imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy".

[@travisriva9655]

@@WithoutJustice Not an actual thing

[@neskebeks]

WHAT A TEACHER 💖✨

[@jesseholt6475]

The challenge is to reach across spiritual belief systems and recognize that we all come from the same Creator although we worship in different ways! Love is a universal concept! Amen???

[@mgkallen99]

Everyone has the right to live and not be drugged.

[@Tbethsheehan]

So grateful for this - insightful, impactful and beautiful tribute to her ...

[@guiller2371]

The first time I faced an "angry black woman" was at my first ever job at McDonalds. She was extremely defensive and over reacting in a way that it didn't make sense at all. It took many years for me to understand why she had such a negative actitud. The actitud of most people within my community towards African Americans was simply fear. I remember one of my neighbors, she will panic just by seeing Black men a corner away from her. Once she was assaulted by a black African American. It takes more than listening to the media to actually understand. You have to experience driving as Black in a mostly white middle class neighborhood before 2015 and even go back to the many historical events and even get to know the actual Black Community outside television to understand. This is why critical race theory is vital to solve racial issues in US.

[@travisriva9655]

No, she was angry because she was crazy. Nothing more, nothing less

[@buzzofftoxicblog791]

💚🌏Mother Earth 🌎 ❤ what a amazing human bell hooks' will go down in history as a global nonprofit leadership love. 👏 🌎🌈👏👏👏Thank you Amy Democracy Now now I now about bell hooks 💚💚🌏Sorry to hear of her passing. 😢

[@taalibalexander891]

I use to respect bell hooks util I read her scathing diatribe against Dr. Betty Shabbazz. She seemed to envy the fact that Dr. Betty remained faithful to her husband - Malcolm X - even in death and that she was a noble woman who effused toi denigrate the moral tenor of her late husband’s legacy. Dr. Betty, like her late husband, put her life on the line for the liberation of her people and became a widow with six young and tender children at a young age. For, me it is not just my love of Malcolm X that made me spurn bell hooks but here, a privileged academic, revelled in taking pot-shots at a defenceless and admirable easy target which was unconscionable.

[@calvinlindsay3305]

I Don't kno you but u put the analogy of this woman in its proper perspective she was a feminist which meant. she sided with some of the most Anti blk racist organizations of 🇺🇸 so i Salute for that

[@MikaelaSimone]

RIP Bell Hooks, very sad to hear she has passed.

[@dreykini407]

RIP bell hooks💜

[@mariansmith7694]

RIP

[@bibbole5351]

RIP QUEENIE, BELL HOOKS - SHE WAS SOOO BUTIFUL - HER EYES 👀 WERE WOWFACTOR-!!

[@df3575]

It's doesn't work here for bell's friend and academic to drop the "capitalist" from the phrase "imperialist.....patriarchy". At all. Amy Goodman missing the mark here as well. bell was clear to articulate, in the excerpts shown from her 2006 remarks, "exploitation and oppression"....a distinction that communicates the relationship between capital and labor (exploitation) and the technologies of social and institutional control (oppressions) that fuel and maintain the system. For some, hooks may have inappropriately buried the foundational social relationship that is exploitation within the mechanisms that sustain it....but she was consistent in her analysis of political economy. This clip dubiously erases that political economy. Dubiously.

[@bigjohn2484]

Gloria jean Watkins my lovely family member

[@sashanoel8766]

💕💕💕

[@rzdanger]

Rest in power Bell Hooks!

[@gloriaf6971]

I met her once.She signed a copy of one of her books for me.

[@natenelson100]

You will be missed RIP ( bell hooks)

[@LIVE-SAGT]

Love yourself. Please. It's not easy, but it's so important.

[@ShaneFlett]

Im a free man as of now by being unemployed but rent and bills are coming and have to get a job soon.

[@CoreyHarrisinterviews]

My father's family is from Hopkinsville, KY RIP bell hooks

[@Food4CriticalThought]

A legend. Gone but never forgotten.

[@Star-hg1kt]

R.I.P Bell Hooks

[@williamchristensen7354]

Memory eternal.

[@sarkiskhananisho6781]

R.I.POWER

[@LJRoss-zv8hw]

She was against strong black men.

[@JohnSmithNYC]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@WithoutJustice]

She was against patriarchy (aka male supremacy).

[@travisriva9655]

@@WithoutJustice Not an actual thing soyboy

[@Rubylove48]

Sorry for my ignorance but is there a story about why she did not use capitals in her name? Thanks.m

[@THEREALSOURCE]

Check her book covers. This was always how she chose to write her own name. Early in her career she talks about why.

[@Rubylove48]

@@THEREALSOURCE okay thank you. I’m in a country where I can’t access her books, that’s why I asked.

[@THEREALSOURCE]

@@Rubylove48 No problem. In an article I read she didn't want any focus on her personally. She only wanted people to focus on her work. She thought lower case letters would have that effect. She used her grandmother's name as a pen name or pseudonym instead of her birth name. Some have speculated the name change has something to do with childhood trauma or abuse. I'm not sure about that part.

[@Rubylove48]

@@THEREALSOURCE Interesting. Thanks so much...I will look into it more when I return to the us and can purchase her work. Appreciate it. 🥂✌🏽

[@peacedove9513]

RIP..BELL✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽 ✌💜🎼🎵🎶

[@RealAlishaGray]

No words 💔.

[@queenmommie8295]

They don't want black people to love ourselves but guess what we are loving ourselves. We are loving our Creator TMH God and put our Father first in all things here on this earth. You are the head and not the tail. HalleluYah, HalleluYah HalleluYah APTTMHY May The King 👑👑👑 Reign FOREVER 🌈🌈🌈.

[@UhuruFrontier]

Who the hell posted this video and didn't capitalize Bell Hook's first or last name in the title?

[@mattj8799]

I believe that's how she herself spelled it.

[@GRACELEADERROM828]

Listen to the video.

[@heavydownn2962]

"Who the hell" listened to segment--and failed to understand WHY she chose not to capitalize the first initials of her name? As T.K. Kirkland would say: "Who RAISED ya?!?"

[@ernestomorales2487]

Good to be a Man and hetero. Thank 😊 🙏

[@dawnpalmby5100]

Smh.

[@grmpEqweer]

🤮

[@TheVuduYuDu]

And?

[@gdub8568]

And not a self-destructive Marxist. Here's to the individual and the nuclear family, may collectivists reap what they sow.

[@TheVuduYuDu]

@@gdub8568 A family is a collective, nuclear or extended. SMH.

[@happygucci5094]

I miss her brilliance and hope.

[@TheresaofTheWorld]

9:03

[@robertpendergrass7996]

We as Americans must learn from our pass. So we Can avoid not repeating it in our present or future. Today in America we are living the hypocrisy of historical political lies . That have divided America for over 325 years. The greatest nation on planet earth because of its diversity of people from every continent on earth. Have yet to understand what made it great. It's diversity and everything each minority group have contributed to the greatness of America. That's what makes America the envy of the world .We Regardless of American political party must come together as a country and save our Republic democracy and all branches of American government. Or welcome to fascism dictator ship rule. Truth + Wisdom = Peace ✌ 🙏. Thank you Bail hooks for your constitution to American greatness.

[@robertpendergrass7996]

@delreydavid No matter how many years it was it was definitely 2 many years of slavery100 years of Jim-Crow and 60 years 1960-2020 of civil rights and voting rights fights still fighting voter Is suppression and germandering 2021. You do the math because I'm tired of counting. Truth + Wisdom = Peace ✌ 🙏.

[@dogblues4829]

Oceans of blessings y'all

[@elyah1665]

A short memory

[@SSs-ch4ey]

"Wypipo bad"

[@unseenbutwellheard3046]

Extremely bad. The absolute worst.

[@sollymadeit]

💙

[@Originalking]

Femininism for zaddy smh

[@JohnSmithNYC]

I knew if I scrolled long enough I would find at least 1 soldier. 🙏🏽

[@stephenmukaabya8442]

Another sacrifice?

[@RichardAugustMatthew19Man]

So what? One more feminist died. Bury her with her books and her cats.

[@alvindlee1]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Miami1991]

😂😂😂😂

[@vipertongue3]

Such a stupid, hateful, telling comment. No matter how much you insult strong women, you're still going to suffer from impotence. Flaccid is your future, impotence is your constant companion. It's not us, it's you.

[@Superlife1369]

So all the other words in the title of this video get capitalized EXCEPT HER NAME? If nothing else was capitalized, her name should have been it! The disrespect!

[@GRACELEADERROM828]

She chose to use small letters...listen to video.

[@larrylyn210]

It’s proper to not capitalize bell hooks because that is the way she wanted it just like e e cummings. The people who read bell hooks are the ones not capitalizing it.

[@1steyevisione]

💜👁💜

[@TealJadeTurquoise1]

"salvation: black people and love"!

[@JD-jc8gp]

She wrote a lot of racist shit about black men.

[@pinwheelart2825]

Was it racist or true...🤔🤔🤔men, with their 🤏little egos, are never good at taking critique.🤷🏽‍♀️

[@JD-jc8gp]

@@pinwheelart2825 I'm talking about a lot of unsourced neoliberal talking points about black men being at fault for their own oppression.

[@happylindsay4475]

You clearly have read none of her work.

[@JD-jc8gp]

​@@happylindsay4475 I've read We Real Cool. Have you? Hooks wrote many hateful passages about black men including this racist whopper: "prisons in our nation are full of intelligent capable black men who could have accomplished their goals of making money in a responsible legitimate way but who commit crimes for small amounts of money because they cannot delay gratification."

[@johneta7665]

@@pinwheelart2825 Shouldn’t you be more worried about the crime waves that exist in Puerto Rico? The sexual assault and pedophilia that is common place in Puerto Rico shouldn’t be worried about those issues?