Ta-Nehisi Coates - Black Boy Interrupted: American Plunder and the Incomplete Life of Jordan Davis

[@kyraocity]

34:00 Begin to see your country clearly.

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22:00 Natchez Mississippi significance during slave trade

[@kyraocity]

34:50 Conscious blindness. This is why I am talking about cognitive justice.

[@kyrie1410]

I would love to hear more about cognitive justice.

[@kyraocity]

24:21 Henry "Box" Brown. Frederick Douglass hated his guts.

[@kyraocity]

34:27 Does having an African American president blind us to sleep?

[@inquizative44]

+Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. When Obama became president it set a precedent of complacency in the cool waters of apathy. We simply felt that the issues facing us would simply fix itself by the mere presence of a black president. We felt the oppression of white supremacy was easing it's reins, while ignoring the dark clouds of a rain storm of racist backlash. We never required Obama to do anything for black people and reveled in the fallacy of nouveau equality, in a fantasy of a colorblind society.

[@jsinvictim5063]

+Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. He's 52part's White and ONLY help's Alien's & Muslim's Can't you TELL.????

[@kstanz5437]

+Jsin victim the absurdity in your response is quite telling. The absence of knowledge allows one to make silly comments lacking in substance and analysis.

[@kyraocity]

This is one of the strangest threads I've ever been part of. Google+ seems like convos with strangers who bring their own contexts along and don't care if others share them. It's disconcerting and curious to observe. #confused

[@kstanz5437]

It confounds our ability to recognize the affects of a racialized construct in all facets of our lives.

[@kyraocity]

27:35 Condoleeza Rice said slavery is America's birth defect. But Coates says it's America's handmaiden. 28:15 If you sold all the slaves before Civil War they'd be worth 3 billion dollars.

[@adamdevereaux2713]

You sound very ignorant to the process of slavery and the appraisal of a slave, in general. The monetary worth explained is contingent on what they contribute on average, and not how much they were sold for during that period. I have an innate feeling you're just baiting, but I figured I'd provide further context to the point that Coates made.

[@kyraocity]

{{wailing}}} 26:23 Box's recalls when his wife was sold off. 26:40 Little child pointing his little hand towards me

[@iali00]

Man, I love the way he doesn't let people get away with anything.

[@antp1900]

This is what piss me off why do black women always take away from the black man struggle with this women stuff.

[@JustMe-cs4nd]

AWFUL

[@kyraocity]

32:50 When you get in a courtroom (Trayvon and Jordan Davis). We have built a sensibility for robbing people of happiness, liberty and life.

[@kyraocity]

27:50 "Slavery is America's handmaiden"

[@hanifahal-amin3583]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@antp1900]

What is so wrong with black men Holla at you if a man didn't Holla at you then thats a problem, I hate this side tracking stuff

[@elliebrunson9110]

At 41:01-41:29 he's talking about what's happening now with interacial births.

[@DariceDavisjprocks94]

After Toni Morrison in any form and James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates is a literary hero to me! I wish to comment about a turn of phrase used after discussion of Henry "Box" Brown at apprx. 27:17. Mr. Coates says of slavery and its destruction of Black relationships and families -- that this was " ... common (occurrence) ... just what happened in America ..." Having been taught by Irish Catholic Nuns in an elementary school I integrated, and predominantly by white teachers throughout my education, I have developed a highly trained and analytic ear. So, I wish to clarify just for those of any background who might need that: Just because something is "common" does not mean it's Okay! Further, I would add that as is typical throughout American history as it relates to Blacks, minorities, women and those without a voice, just because slavery activity was "common" and it was the reality of life for most Blacks especially on the run up to the Civil War -- those two facts in no way diminish or negate that buying and selling of human beings for profit and bondage is wrong, immoral and unconscionable -- even if it was done by a Methodist Minister among many, many others. My metric used here is if interaction is fun/funny, and in this case profitable for one, but not for the other(s) in the exchange, then there is a problem -- in this case a serious issue of corruption. In my point of view legitimacy is not ascribed by majority rule -- that distorted thought is part of the foundational elements of what I term "the cancer of the American soul" -- exclusionary political and governmental policies driven by the spiritually bereft and emotionally immature demands of unactualized members of American society. We need among other things to group up as a nation!

[@SteveLeicht1]

Yeah, like you've done so well after the Civil Rights movement. Handed the keys to the kingdom and you blew it.

[@Mallymalback]

This is amazing..saved

[@Oracle1426]

Great read authorized Author professor @ University A Van Jordan