Following the roots and evolution of racist concepts in the United States in order to understand today's society. | dG1fSE1ZTEZRYnlJdTQ
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00:00 When we think of the history of racism in this country, we're really thinking of the
00:09 history of power.
00:13 There is a myth about the founding of this country.
00:17 People want to erase American history as it truly was.
00:25 Past ideas of African people as beastly, worthy of enslavement started circulating.
00:31 And it worked.
00:38 What happens when we tell these myths about who black people are and what their role in
00:44 American society is, it is crucial that we pay attention to it.
00:49 These stories all about what's wrong with black people has so many real social ramifications
00:57 because of the amount of people who have bought into the myth.
01:04 If you make us the threat, then you remove our humanity.
01:10 It justifies all kinds of horrific actions.
01:17 How are we intentionally questioning what is being given to us and what we are ingesting?
01:23 We who have suffered at this are now saying to you, civilize yourself.
01:28 The myth of black inferiority is destroyed.
01:35 I love all of the things that blackness has given America, whether or not America acknowledges
01:41 it.
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