Louis Theroux on Black Nationalism
American black nationalist groups have been branded anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynist and racist by the mainstream press. Louis Theroux goes to Harlem in New York to meet its proponents.
Theroux meets the Reverend Al Sharpton, the main point of contact in the black nationalist movement. Theroux also meets Khalid Abdul Muhammad, dubbed by the media ‘the most dangerous man in America’ and visits the Israeli School of Universal Practical Knowledge, who believe that blacks are the true Israelites and that all English monarchs until early modern times were black.
Theroux also joins Al Sharpton on a march on Wall Street to protest at the shooting by New York police of Amadou Diallo, who was shot 41 times. (Excerpt from Wikipedia.org)
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What can I say but WOW! The New Black Panther Party wants a separate nation for black people down south? That’s like peace in the middle east…it will never happen. White people are too forward and they have a strong sense of entitlement, but a separate state no way.
I understand some of this thinking about the white man, but it is not all white men. It is the elite who want war and vilolence. I think most people want peace, but there are always those few who convince others violence is the only way.
I am a white woman, but I would like to say I am willing to work toward a world where black people and white people live in harmony. I also think if they want to be separate, let them. I do not want to force my views on anyone. No one should do that, regardless of the color of their skin.
I know there have been some terrible crimes perpetrated by white people against black people, and some of those crimes continue today. Not all white people do things. Some of us realize the injustices in the system, and we want it to stop. I think that requires we all work together.
This is why we have problems in america we should take all the racist balcks whites and outhers and put them in a single state and wall it off
“That’s another devilish question.”
That dude was pretty funny (in a sick, racist kind of way).
Louis was great. What a culture shock- and strangely I agree a little bit with Al Sharpton. How strange that there is a group that believes that beethoven etc. were black- or that it matters. Tom Jones- really?? Good stuff.
I am a black dude and this has saddened me, some of these people make black people look ******. One thing i have learnt in life is that violence only causes more violence. I really hope that all nationalists black or white disappear and fade away.
I am black and this Documentary DID NOT sadden me. How do so many say its racism on the Black Panters part when the message is “We have tried only to get slapped in the face”. I don’t agree with being separate at the same time take a look at who is really doing the separating.
My city is one of the most segregated cites in terms of housing in the USA. Who’s fault is that…the black panthers?? I think not. We STILL have discriminatory lending here.
When I go to apply for work I have to look around to see if they have any other blacks working there, if they dont, I know not to get my hopes up.
The list goes on…there is privilege to being white that they will never understand, the BPs are simply tired of the injustice.
And I don’t think this video made black people look ****** at all, if anything Louis T. looked ****** because he was trying to make light of the reason why the militants felt that way… He tried to make light of a lot of things… Hes a very likeable guy but still he bordered on disrespect/disregard at times…he reminded me of Borat…trying to fake ignorance to attempt to get an irrational reaction from the black people.
why was the presenter behaving like a little boy?
10/10 great documentary Khalid Abdul Muhammad spoke the truth, the Israelites dropped some knowledge & I learned a little about Al Sharpton too..I just wish it could’ve been a little longer.
I love Louis Theroux’s character although i think this this time in this film he was ignorant to the the wrong group.THe leaders he interviewed missed his point of peace entirely because that same ignorance is part of the machine there trying to destroy. So i think a more interesting approach may have been from a black journalist with less ignorance.
louis’ got some stones on him, that must have been some scary stuff going into some of those places in harlem. Sharpton is cool, that Khalid guy is a scary lunatic that is so credible he got kicked out of the nation of islam for being racist, and well those black israelites they were something else entirely. They did dress pretty sharp though i must say and they taught me that cleopatra looked black but she was actually white. Did anyone else think they were gonna say Michael Jackson instead of Tom Jones, that caught me off gaurd. These were different times, and not just cause the twins were still standing, so I can understand the hostility. I’d like to thank the new black panthers for showing that white people don’t hold a monopoly on racism and i’d like to note that wounds don’t heal if you keep picking at them. 400 years this, back of the bus that, sure it was awful but if you keep living in someone else’s past how can you expect anything to ever change?
I should mention that i don’t live in the messed up U.S. so my personal experiences may vary from someone that lives in detroit or philidelphia. And whats up with the “we tried only to get slapped in the face” ? last time I checked slavery was abolished, people could sit where ever they wanted on buses, drink out of whatever water fountains they pleased. Seems to me that alot has changed in the past 40 years which is a very short time frame compared to 400 years. racism is a two way street and its not going anywhere unfortunately. I just hate it when people are blind to their own prejudices and try to validate them with things that happened before they were born.
I know louis just had to identify himself and he was set free but way to go for making an effort!
p.s. technically speaking i’m metis, a half breed, but after so many generations more like a 1/32 breed or whatever so boo-hoo, the whites didn’t want my ancestors and neither did the natives, All I know is you don’t see me walking around begging for a handout because of things that happened long before I was in the picture.
I’m a black man and I absolutely HATE black nationalist. Why blame the majority for the actions of a few? Why must today’s generation pay for something done in the past? All I see is ignorance.
I spent my early childhood in an inner city. Probably a ratio of 1:1 of black:white people. I spent most of my later childhood in an all white community. Every Sunday the KKK would march on a corner in front of the town’s pet store. My daycare ‘teachers’ would sit a gossip about how it wasn’t ‘okay’ if their friends dated black men. So much hate oozed out of this little white town. It was the 1990′s.
@lisaO:
”I am a white woman, but I would like to say I am willing to work toward a world where black people and white people live in harmony.”
Black and white people have never lived in harmony and never will. It’s natural that people of one race wants to love among people of their own race. Why do you think whites leave when blacks move in? Because of the color of the skin? No. It’s because of what blacks do: crime, blackmail, complete destruction of towns…
”I also think if they want to be separate, let them. I do not want to force my views on anyone. No one should do that, regardless of the color of their skin.”
Funny you should say that. When whites wanted to live segregated, they were labeled as racist and eventually forced to live among blacks. If whites today wanted to, and more of whites do, live segregated from blacks, you’d label them as racist. And again, it’s not about a color of skin, but character.
”I know there have been some terrible crimes perpetrated by white people against black people, and some of those crimes continue today.”
Some of THOSE crimes continue today?! Really? Have you seen what blacks are doing to whites TODAY? 100 black on white rapes EVERY single day, untold robberies, attacks, murders. Nearly forbidden for whites to speak lest they be labeled as racist, which does not apply to blacks. Etc.
For how long do you think this will go on, along with whining about what FEW whites did in the past, before whites have finally had enough?
”Not all white people do things. ”
Makes me think you’re actually black, and not white. How insulting to ALL whites. Not ALL white people do things. Let’s flip it. Just because FEW blacks aren’t lazy, depending on white people’s money, robbing, raping and killing, it doesn’t mean that MOST are in fact doing just that.
”Some of us realize the injustices in the system, and we want it to stop. I think that requires we all work together.”
Yeah. 250,000 white women raped by black men in the past 10 years, 50,000 whites murdered since so called civil rights movement, old white women getting beaten on streets, white people getting butchered (Anne Pressley, Knoxville couple, etc), constant blackmail ”I’ll call you racist if you don’t…”, complete cover up of white race’s destruction. Yeah, WE want it to stop, and WE will have to rise up once more to save us.
If you are, by any chance white, you and your with white guilt inflicted mind are not only embarrassment for white race but an accomplice in white race’s destruction.
@Mina:
”I am black and this Documentary DID NOT sadden me. How do so many say its racism on the Black Panters part”
Yeah. How, when only whites can be racist, right, along with mantra that race is a social construct that doesn’t exist? When whites wanted to stay segregated (compare the crimes of blacks against whites in those time to nowadays)they were labeled as racist. If whites today wanted to be segregated, and more and more, as they are learning about what blacks are doing (but not via mainstream media, as that caters only to eternal victims that are blacks)do in fact want to be segregated (white flight), they would be, again, labeled as racist. The question begs itself to be asked: if whites who want to live segregated from blacks are racist, why the hell are blacks pushing themselves onto whites all the time?!
”when the message is “We have tried only to get slapped in the face”.”
What exactly did blacks try to do?! Ever since so called civil rights, they understood this as an open season on whites: rampant crime in forms of robbery, attacks, beatings, rapes and murder, along with complete destruction of any place they moved to.
Whites are the ones who tried, and got a LOT more than just a slap in the face. They misplaced their compassion, poured untold money into black communities, lowered any possible standards, from tests on, to appease blacks, were forced, via affirmative action, to hire incompetent blacks or be sued for racism then, or later, if someone were to look a black in a way a black would interpret it as racism, and a black will scream racism for ANY thing. The crime statistics of black on white crime is mind boggling, yet swept under the rug, and all we hear in the media is slavery and Jim Crow, but NOTHING of Anne Pressly, Knoxville brutality etc.
Whites, try as they may, are getting destroyed on every corner, yet all we hear is about po’ oppressed blacks.
How much longer, I ask? DO blacks really and truly believe whites are not about to explode?
”I don’t agree with being separate at the same time take a look at who is really doing the separating.”
Yet, you never ask yourself WHY are whites separating. Let me give you a hint: contrary to what you believe it’s not about the color of the skin, but the character. It’s far better to be judged (and *****) based on color, then on character.
And saying look who’s doing the separating implies that whites, who want to separate are racist for it and don’t even have the right. As if wanting to live among other whites, as it is natural, and away from blacks, is something negative, something bad. And again, blacks will never ask themselves, why is it that everyone is avoiding us, why is everyone leaving behind the homes they built when we move in and they move away. Look at Detroit.
”My city is one of the most segregated cites in terms of housing in the USA. Who’s fault is that…the black panthers?? I think not. We STILL have discriminatory lending here.”
As I said above: blacks will never ever take a good look at themselves and ask why are whites really and truly segregating themselves from blacks. They will never ask themselves if it could possibly be something that blacks are doing?! No, because personal responsibility is a foreign notion for blacks. Always the victims, ever when they rape and butcher whites, and never to be responsible.
Let’s take a look at crime statistics of blacks on white crime before so called civil rights, and TODAY. Whites back then knew what and mostly – why they were doing what they were doing. At least they were alive, lived in peace and didn’t have to read police reports of how their daughters, mothers, sisters were butchered, raped and murdered by po’ blacks.
When white people realize it’s far better to be called racist (and this word is losing its power anyway) than dead, whites will wake up.
And then, then blacks will once more wonder what have they done.
As far as documentary is concerned, more of such info is needed. The media is doing anything but covering what is being done to whites. White people need to learn about this, instead of thinking how po’ and oppressed and innocent blacks are. The picture of reality is completely opposite. Truth is being hidden from whites, for a good reason, and every white person should spread such info to as many other whites as possible.
With internet, this will be easier as the days go by.
Why are these blacks saying that Beethoven was black? It’s because of the inferior complex born out of notion that blacks didn’t create nor invent anything. They are only using what whites created and invented. Now, which other race would be as pathetic and delusional to claim a German White musical genius as their own when he was not one of them? Imagine, whites claiming 50 Cent? Embarrassing. And not needed in any shape or form. But with blacks, if you don’t have it, if you didn’t earn it – steal it and claim it as your own, and don’t even flinch how ****** and pathetic you sound.
I didn’t even do nothin’.
Wow. There’s more racism in the comments than there are in the entire documentary. It’s a good thing we live in a society that frowns upon this kind of overt racism.
It’s not overt racism to tell the truth. For example; White farmers in zimbabwe are being killed because they are white.
Of course it’s not racist to say that people are being killed by racists. But it’s racist to say that all white people are racist, or that blacks are lazy ingrates. When you make generalizations about a race of people, that’s racist.
True…but the big problem today is that only white people are called racists, and that free speech isn’t very free anymore. Anyway, the term “racist” has lost any meaning…
That’s not true; Rev. Jeremiah Wright was called a racist. Hell, even Obama has been called a racist, but I don’t think that’s justified. The black nationalists are definitely racist, and most people would agree. The reason you mostly hear white people being called racists in countries like the U.S. is that there are just way more white people.
Name one black person that has been put in jail for speaking in racist terms against white people. Funny you should mention Obama…it’s even called racism to call him a socialist. Anyway, we should go to the forum if you want to continue this debate, the comment section are for film reviews.
Oh dear, someone has been watching too much Fox ‘News’.
@M.C. — Well said–thank you!
William shakespeare…still laughing. Great documentary. Lets just go to
Palestine…i heard if you find the reference in the bible about being the chosen people America and England will give you your own plot of land…then we can kick the isralies out and live ahppily ever after
Theroux is more like a little kid than a reporter. Maybe he was trying to be funny, but awkward silence gets old after a while.
If you haven’t watched it yet don’t waste your time.
Good doc, some excellent comments too. Again Religions rear their ugly heads. And again Racism is seen as purely the province of the non whites.
This documentary points out that racism is not just perpetrated from whites to blacks. Sadly, racism bridges cultures, creeds, races, religions, etc.
“The list goes on…there is privilege to being white that they will never understand, the BPs are simply tired of the injustice.”
Yea I remember dropping out of university to work a minimum wage full time job to help my mom with the bills because we didn’t have money to get food or to turn the power back on or even enough to pay for my diabetic supplies and thinking; “Damn it feels good to be a middle class Canadian white man born into privalege.”
Thanks for generalizing my exsistence based on the color of my skin.
I’d like to purpose an expierment. Let’s go to the senate, congress, parlaiment etc and replace every white politician, with a black politician and give them 8 years. The let’s wait and see if the quality of life significantly improves for the other 99% of minorities that dont hold these positions of power. IT WONT. Its class that should divide us not race. The upper class love to see middle and lower class races fighting with eachother. Distractions like this make it much easier for them to run off with all of our money. Minorities look at those in power and see that they are all white, and they are, but then they jump to the conclusion White = Power & Privalege. The white working class man is your brother way before the black wall street criminal. Remember that.
how can anyone with a brain bigger then a chimps agree with that book that those black muffasa towellheads were nagging about. i think we have sound the missing link in our evolution
I think this guy Louis was a joke, he’s a comical commentator, gonzo style journalism. The situation of the majority of Black people in the US is no laughing matter. I personally found this of poor taste.
Rev Al Sharpton is old school, he’s trying the best he can to walk the same path as Dr. King.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad had enough, he believes that a radical change should have already been done. You can’t blame the man.
I think a lot of Blacks and Whites have really no idea what’s happening in some southern States still today. I think middle class and upper class Black people are often very hard on their own race. I think White people talk a lot on how it’s not right for the Black people still nowadays, but they don’t do anything concrete.
If the US government (the big guys in Washington DC & the President) would have put there foot down or would put it down finally today, against the politics and way of life in the Southern States by the White scum running these States and Towns, then maybe the Black people would feel different about a few things. I could talk a lot on how Black people are look at and treated.
Please, don’t give me that bull $hit about Black people having all the same opportunities then the White people.
Peace.
Those guys at the Israeli School of Universal Practical Knowledge are mind-bogglingly ******.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad is articulate, intelligent, and either completely deluded, or else a total phoney. I suspect the latter. He is visibly pleased to have the camera following him around as he walks down the street because it makes him look important, which makes him feel important. I don’t believe he believes his own hype. He is just an attention seeker. Anyway, supposing I’ve misjudged him, and he firmly believes everything he says, if he were to get black people to rise up against the whites, who do you think would win? The dissidents would shoot off a round, sure, but the US Military would see to it that they would be dead before they had a chance to reload. How could he, in good conscience, lead the people he professes to love towards certain doom?
I’ve got a lot of respect for Al Sharpton. I felt quite inspired by his final words to Louis: “You not only should get involved…you must get involved. That’s the only way we’re gonna turn this thing around…if everybody gets involved…and just because some people may not want you to get involved…that should make you wanna do it even more…cos it’s right…and it’s the only way we’re gonna turn the world around…think about it” I felt a lump in my throat when he said, ‘cos it’s right’.
And on previous comments, C.J., if you have ever wondered why nobody really seems to like you as much as you think they should, I can tell you. It’s because you’re an *******. Allan, you’re spot on. It’s about class, not race. Couldn’t agree more…love ya bro (even though you plagiarized george carlin a little, i forgive you!)
“The upper class love to see middle and lower class races fighting with eachother. Distractions like this make it much easier for them to run off with all of our money.”
Those guys at the Israeli School of Universal Practical Knowledge are mind-bogglingly ******.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad is articulate, intelligent, and either completely deluded, or else a total phoney. I suspect the latter. He is visibly pleased to have the camera following him around as he walks down the street because it makes him look important, which makes him feel important. I don’t believe he believes his own hype. He is just an attention seeker. Anyway, supposing I’ve misjudged him, and he firmly believes everything he says, if he were to get black people to rise up against the whites, who do you think would win? The dissidents would shoot off a round, sure, but the US Military would see to it that they would be dead before they had a chance to reload. How could he, in good conscience, lead the people he professes to love towards certain doom?
I’ve got a lot of respect for Al Sharpton. I felt quite inspired by his final words to Louis: “You not only should get involved…you must get involved. That’s the only way we’re gonna turn this thing around…if everybody gets involved…and just because some people may not want you to get involved…that should make you wanna do it even more…cos it’s right…and it’s the only way we’re gonna turn the world around…think about it” I felt a lump in my throat when he said, ‘cos it’s right’.
And on previous comments, C.J., if you have ever wondered why nobody really seems to like you as much as you think they should, I can tell you. It’s because you’re an a887ole. Allan, you’re spot on. It’s about class, not race. Couldn’t agree more…love ya bro (even though you plagiarized george carlin a little, i forgive you!)
“The upper class love to see middle and lower class races fighting with eachother. Distractions like this make it much easier for them to run off with all of our money.”
Morgan Freeman was asked on 60 min. “How can we stop racism?” His reply?, “Quit talking about it.” Don’t agree or disagree, just tossing it in. Interesting comment.
Maybe it’s just me but Khalid Abdul Muhammad seemed slightly off. I like blk people he didn’t seem all the way there.
Maybe it’s just me but Khalid Abdul Muhammad seemed slightly off. I like blk people(I am black) but he didn’t seem all the way there….I’m done b/c this is a joke and those people should have done something better with their time instead of sitting around blaming all their problems on white people. Morons>>>>>All of them
@shane
I actually “plagiarize” George Carlin a lot lol. Not to steal his idea’s, but because we have the same idea’s and I adore the fashion in which he articulates them.
hahahaha the shot in the church with him looking really distraught sitting beside the image of the white man as a beaten bloody priest… priceless
They want Race-War? We give them Race-War! :D
Best Scene was when they arrested Louis at the end btw.
and that guys WHITE firend mohammed just made everything he believes in an apsolute joke. so he got to know one white guy and shock he likes him, so maybe hes not the devil.
and i loveeeeee louis hes HILARIOUS , he should take this as a joke they are apsolute ****** ha ha ha
wELL the honroable Klahid muhammad allah bless his soul has many good points. After years of interacting with white people and trying to make a genuine effort to know and understand white culture and white people and even “befriending” the whites just to get an idea of where there head really is, I have to come to the conclusion that most of the things Khalid says are sadly true. All white people are racist and so to varying degrees. There can be no harmony among blacks and white living under 1 roof as far as I can see. Whites seem to just naturally hate blacks and will do anything they can and abuse any position of power to suppress blacks so I think Kalid is right
This country would be better off if we just divide it up by race. The south for black, the south west for mexicans, the north west and central for whites, and the north east and mid west +california for those who still want to be intergrated.
Its was funny because Louis almost seemed skeptical when the black israelities told him that shakespear and beethoven were black, everyone knows this. There is actually a book written about bethoven documenting his black skin, curly hair, and even his name is not german in origin. Beethoven is not even of german ancestry.
As for Tom Jones I always suspected he was black, I mean I know many welsh people and most have freckled white skin and organge or orange brown hair. Tom Jones is a welsh person with skin darker than 95% of the normal white population and hair that looks black.
While I deeply sympathise with the generations grief, frustration and anger that have lead to the idea of black separatism, the actual mentality of groups such as the one where they claim everyone important in history was black are
A) just ridiculous
B) crudely and simplistically try to distort history in a way that does nothing for the future of black americans and fails to take into account their very real contributions and triumphs in the face of a system designed to break them and deprive them of their humanity
Racism is an ideology that certain races are superior to others. According to this definition anyone can be a racist, but because the definition has subsumed under a cultural-historical stigma it is often associated with “Whites” but not all other races.
Thus the racism in its pure definition can apply to anyone including minorities. However racism in its historical-cultural context is something that applies specifically to the dominant group, specifically white people. In this case the dominant group is often perceived as the suppressors or aggressors while the minority groups are perceived as victims and people who resist against suppression.
When we use the term racism we generally think of the latter understanding (cultural-historical context) but we tend to forget the former definition which applies to anyone ethnic group that sees themselves as having superior values over others. Both definitions, however, are possible. Racism can apply to any groups, at least the pure definition of it, but the latter understanding usually applies to the dominant group. The suppressors can cause any ethnic group being suppressed to become racist.
The suppressed group will try to redefine their identity in a positive light and begin to perceive the dominant group in the negative light. Through this they are reversing the binary opposition of superiority vs. inferiority (good vs. bad). This is similar to how the Black Panthers and Nations of Islam reacted towards racism perpetrated by the dominant group.
I don’t think any ethnic groups can co-exist as long as they hold unto the “us vs. them” mentality. The world we live in is impersonal, indifferent, undifferentiated, and non-dualistic. Yet we decide to give meaning to the world according to our assumptions and confine ourselves into our own framework and exclude the “others”, perceiving them as foreign or as enemies.As long as we do this we won’t get along, and I think people need to start looking at the world as it really is; the world really does not give a **** about our prejudices or opinions, it simply is.
The illusion of self-governance and sovereignty in a conquered land is quite delusional. Yet, the promise, immersed in religious lore, makes the impossible seem plausible.
@C.J.
I admire you!!! Everything you said is the truth!!! Thank you.
phil atio you are deluded , i was actually semi agreeing with you untill you mentioned the ludicrous claim that beethoven and shakespear were black , what are you basing this on ? did some black guy tell you ? and 3% of the welsh population have red hair , most have dark hair as do the irish , go and do some basic research before you pollute the net with your nonsense
Louise could have asked much more to the black panther people. weak questions, honestly.
I thought that one guys finger nails were awesome…..not
I am white; when my black girlfriend first went to school in Atlanta, she came home saying she encountered so much more racism towards white people then she had ever encountered from white people. She also said she met many black people that fit the definition of n word due to the extreme level of ignorance.
I agree with K and I also agree Louis was acting like a boy during some parts..My guess is this was due to the culture shock and Louis simply being uncomfortable and/or intimidated.
I am black and think that “Black Nationalism” is outdated. What are they protecting me from? I have all the rights as everyone else and if I feel discriminated I will do something about it. I do still think that there are problems in the government that can be phased out, but down here in the trenches, I’m good.
Hard to watch do to the ignorance portrayed by way of the presenter and the subjects.
Before this episode, I watched Louis’ episode on Survivalists. At one point in that doc, he went to the “Aryan Nation Church” out in the middle of nowhere and listened do a pathetic old white “pastor” spew hate and bigotry with a grin on his face.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad was a little younger, sharper looking, and smoother-talking, but their messages were identical. What a shame.
Many studies have demonstrated that the overwhelming majority of the population (regardless of race) is racist to one degree or another ( meaning subconsciously associates good and bad or has prejudices based solely on skin color).
I think I agree with t-dog keep ur prejudices to self and work em out with self.. stop blaming others on problems. If they don’t like harlem so much, they should f-in move.. I lived in NY for a year.. hated it, so I moved. Not that hard to do folks. I see just as many poor and distraught whites as black… and im doin much better than many whites in my community… no silver spoon just a lil work and creativity.
I’m not rich either… far from it… im barely middle class. Sadly I experience more overt racism from the blacks than the whites in my community. Let go of shame white ppl.. If u did not directly hurt black ppl.. tell em to f@#$ off cos we all have problems. I have been robbed by my own race many more times than by some white man. And I was abused by my own race as a child… thats where the focus lies & not some strange historical figures from decades ago that have absolutely nothing to do with our present lives and personal experience.
Just STFU about racism and move on.. race is not only subject of prejudice.. height, weight, demeanor, clothes, language and more affect how we get treated… stop crying about race as if its the only thing that makes ppl treat us diff. I was raised in a all black nation (born in west Africa) and i do not recommend it.. I appreciate the diversity and openness of US and Europe. Peace Earthians/humans/life/people.. we’re all one & same.
Black State my ***. I am black and from the south. I’ll be damned if we walk away from everything we have help build in America. My granddaddy fought in WWII, just like other Americans, fought for freedom when he had none. It does amaze me how the south can hate black people so much, when they benefited the most from black people. I won’t go into a long list, but I think we can agree that it was black people who actually grew the cotton, i.e. knew the land, how and where to plant, when to cultivate, etc. Black brought rice from Africa to the Carolinas. Provided raw materials (cotton) for the factories in the north, were labor for industries when whites went on strike (this is 1 way they divided the poor blacks from the poor white–white people we didn’t want to break y’all strike, they forced us, at least y’all got paid & weren’t beaten), completed road work and helped usher in the industrial age in coal and iron mines (convict lease system)
We (besides the lunitics in the video) love America just as much as white, people, this country is just as much ours as it is yours, we share it together…we’re not going anywhere, we’re here to stay.