- Hey guys, it's Jouelzy.
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We are here for a quick video.
Usually I do a little bit more research,
little bit more planning for my videos.
But this one I want to do off the top, off the dome.
Twinning with my girl in the background,
she's from Cuba, I'm from America.
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But let's get to this topic
because some of ya'll click on the title
like okay what's this child got to say.
Let's get to it.
Slavery, obviously is not a choice.
More so than breaking down the idiotic Kanye statement,
I really wanted to come and kind of riff off top
to explain some basic history about slavery in America.
So Kanye West recently did an interview with Jon Caramanica
trying to back peddle and clarify the slavery is a choice
statement he made to TMZ back, what was that?
The beginning of June?
The Shade Room posted about said New York Times article
and said statements trying to clarify
said previous statements and the comments on
the Shade Room post...
I mean, first of all, don't we all just go to the comments
on the Shade Room?
That's what we'll all here for.
I was horrified at some of the statements
people were making trying to assert their knowledge
about the transatlantic slave trade.
And I was like, "No where are you
getting your information from?
Where are on god's green earth
did this idea that slavery only lasted
from 200 or 250 years come from?"
200 years, I do not believe that anybody is dumb.
I believe we all have intelligence within ourselves
that just simply has to be pulled out.
Dumb is an effort.
With that being said,
I also understand that for the most part
in the public education system,
really anywhere in the world
you don't really learn about
the nuisances of American slavery.
The most I learned was that...
And I took AP US history.
WE kind of got a little more into it
but it was really just kind of framed
as slavery being a necessary evil.
So the most unfortunate part is that black folks
don't really get a chance to learn about the history
of their people and what slavery really was,
the systems, the structures, the culture that come from that
unless they take an American history class
in college or grad school.
And if you're not from the States,
I don't know how, when or where
you would ever really learn about this.
So here I am to just give you a few basic facts.
So as I was saying earlier,
where do people get this idea that slavery in America
lasted 200 or 250 years?
And on the Shade Room I was really surprised
to see someone say, "Slavery was only 200 years,
so Kanye was saying that y'all was slaves by choice
the other 200 years."
First of all, if you want to say Kanye is a musical genius,
sure, but stop trying to extrapolate that genius
and place it on the historical genius
because he is definitely not.
He got a guided tour of
the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
That is the Black Smithsonian that's on the mall.
His mother was a professor.
He has direct access to all these people.
But first of all this wasn't even about Kanye,
let's get back to something...
But in the comments it was like seeing Jess Hilarious
say thank you to someone who said slavery was 200 years.
So when I say slavery,
what I'm referring to is the transatlantic slave trade.
Which is where Western Empires came to the coast
of West Africa and took, kidnapped African slaves
from West African countries and brought them over
to Europe, and the Americas.
That would be North, Central, South and the Caribbean.
Now one of the other things to understand
about the transatlantic slave trade
is that slaves were moved around.
As countries and colonies expanded
and certain countries abolished slavery,
Enslaved people were moved around.
As industries changed, as capitalism gonna capitalize
and the plantation owners were trying to franchise
and expand their businesses, what they do?
They took their enslaved people with them to other places.
When we talk about slavery in America,
we are talking about this huge apparatus
that was in line with other major
imperialistic powers from Europe.
And so the transatlantic slave trade has been going on
since the late 15th century,
that would be the late 1400s.
Like we're in the 21st century and it's 2018,
15th century would actually equal the 1400s,
and the late 1400s is when
the transatlantic slave trade began.
It's not really a period that again
you would learn about in public school system
because then you would have to address the erasure
of Native Americans, so it's largely skimmed over,
unless you get yourself a book like this.
Here's a grad school history book, Out of Many:
History of the American people.
It pretty thoroughly covers the Native Americans,
what the Americas look like, how slavery came into play,
who was doing it, what.
Now I think what people are saying
when they say, "well slavery has only been around
in America for 200, 250 years,"
I think what they are more so referring to
is this economic boom that happened in southern
United States where major plantations became a thing.
Now, before I bore you,
this idea that African-American enslaved
people did not revolt
or that they were making some choice to be enslaved,
just such malarchy, because there were plenty of
revolts happening; people ran away.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Yes I know she made a comment about
she could have freed a whole bunch more but look,
if you ever get into liberation theology,
which I tend to throw in to
different conversations here and there, right?
The basic principle of liberation theology is that
in order for an oppressed people to survive,
they do have to absorb some part of the oppressor.
That means that all of us watching this video,
no matter how high and mighty we think we are,
have absorbed some faction of the oppressor.
We have absorbed some frame of white supremacy
that colors our lens,
that gives us a bias towards other people.
Wow I really took my fire alarm down
and didn't put it back up, ooo.
Ya that's what I'm trying to say,
we all have absorbed some level of the oppressor
in order to survive as an oppressed community.
Now in order to liberate said community,
you don't tell them that they've been enslaved by choice.
That's not a choice you make,
it is literally an instinct of survival.
We tend to think of slavery as a very minute,
small piece of American history.
As major plantations became a thing
in southern United States,
it wasn't that there was one plantation owner
and a bunch of black people
who were being treated like cattle,
that were lazy or lethargic
or just moping around the plantation like,
"Yes Master I'm going to do whatever you want."
Much like you go to a corporate job
and you have CEO who makes a ton of money
and you probably getting paid less than you deserve
and you have not revolted,
you have not ran up on nobody like you Dame Dash
and pressing for your doggone money,
because there's a system.
There's a structure in place.
There's HR, there's managers, there's supervisors,
there's VP, there's executives, there's Csuite.
Okay so, dudes might not have had no computers,
no excel spreadsheets, they might not have had payroll,
they might not even have had IRS,
matter of fact they didn't have IRS
or regular taxes, tariffs, okay?
They still had a system and structure.
Slavery was not like a handful of white men
just doing what they wanted to do,
it was an entire legal system, a structure
that employed other white people
and any time a black person got free
they were usually employed back on the plantation as well
to keep all these people in check.
Slavery really built the foundation of this country.
White folks were able to pass down generational wealth
to their families and black folks,
because we weren't even seen as humans, were stifled.
With understanding that slavery in America
happened for over 400 years,
ending with the emancipation proclamation in 1863
and we just had Juneteenth like two, three weeks ago.
Juneteenth is a celebration of June 19, 1867.
Supposedly the last slaves were freed in Galveston, Texas.
I don't even know if that's all the way true
because if any of you put together your family history,
your family tree, you'll quickly realize
that a lot of your family was in probably some way,
shape or form so disenfranchised through labor
that they technically still were slaves.
Around post World War II,
which would put us at the late 1940s.
Now even if you want to contend
that slavery ended a little over 150 years ago,
after slavery we had a brief period of reconstruction,
which was where the federal government,
and we know how well they do their job as social services
with computers, so imagine what they were doing in 1867?
Well tried to reform the lives
of formerly enslaved black folks
and give them some sort of, a small piece of, a taste,
of what potential equity could be.
That era quickly came to an end in 1877
thanks to white supremacists going to white supremacise.
Is that even a word?
Racists are going to be racist;
capitalism going to capitalize,
is built on the back of slaves bro.
White folks just went back to their old ways
and then we enter into what's considered the darkest period
of racial tensions for African-Americans in America
called, I say nadir (nay-deer), I think it's nadir (nay-der).
This is where you see the great migration happening
of black folks fleeing the South
to flee the violence and lynching
and burning of their communities.
Which is why it's so weird to me
when people mention that Oklahoma Wall street.
Like yes, it was a community that was flourishing,
that was doing well for itself, that was burned down.
Now if black folks had the same generational wealth
that white people have access,
don't you think they would have rebuilt the Black Wallstreet
somewhere else?
But black folks have been facing terrorism
from the white man since the 15th century.
So to suggest that slavery is a choice,
to suggest that black folks have sat in a slave mentality
since slavery, I take it very offensive when folks
like Candice Owens try to posit decisions that black folks
make based off of survival as still being on the plantation.
Since you know nothing about the plantation,
you don't know enough about the history of your people
to make such an equation
and it's straight offensive.
I personally do not have any shame of being a descendant
of enslaved Africans.
I personally would recommend anyone
to definitely visit the Black Smithsonian,
the National Museum of African-American History
and Culture in D.C.,
but I really think you have to understand the resilience,
the strength that you ancestors has to survive,
build this county, the ingenuity they had in crafting
such a distinct, beautiful
and colorful and flavorful culture.
You have a culture, African-American is in fact a culture.
Okay, be proud.
I have a whole video talking about
the blessings of being African-American
and please do not assert misinformation in order
to misplace genius status
on somebody who doesn't deserve it.
If there's maybe something specific that I mentioned here
that I could talk about more in another video
that you're interested in,
let me know in the comments down below.
If there is something that you just learned from this video,
let me know in the comments down below.
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African-American's a culture shirts very soon
watch out for that, deuces.
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