Edited by Azizi Powell
Update: January 21, 2018
[Pancocojams Editor's comment: This pancocojams post was originally published in 2011. I made a few changes and additions to my 2011 written editor's comment, including the addition of a brief comment about some Black female natural hair styles after 2000.
I replaced a video of African American folk singer Odetta since the one that I had previously published was no longer available. I also replaced a video of African American R&B singer Aretha Franklin with one of South African singer Miriam Makeba since that video of Aretha Franklin was no longer available, and since I already showcased another video of that singer, but hadn't included one of Miriam Makeba. And I added some additional videos of early 21st century Black women's large, unstyled natural hairstyles and other natural hairstyles.]
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S COMMENT
An "afro" (also known as "fro") is an African American term for a natural hairstyle that is worn or was worn by some Black females and Black males. For centuries people in some Black African nations, and some Black people in other part of the world such as in the Fiji Islands and in Australia have been sporting what Americans would consider to be "afros". However, since the early 20th century, with the development & marketing of hair care products for Black people by Madame C. Walker and other Black hair care entrepreneurs, chemically or heat straightened hair were the principle ways that Black women (in the United States) wore their hair. Until the mid 1960s, few African American teenagers and women would have even considered wearing their hair naturally out in public.
The emergence of the afro and other Black natural hairstyles in the United States during the 1960s was closely tied to the "Black is beautiful" movement. That Black pride movement was fueled by the large number of African nations that became politically independent from Europe rule in the 1960s. The hey day of afros for African Americans was in the 1970s. It appears to me that particularly in large urban US cities, more Black people-including teenage females & males-wore their hair in afros during the 1970s than in any previous time or to date. Check out this Soul Train television show video for an example of the different ways African American males & females wore their hair in the 1970s:
Soul Train Line Dance to Curtis Mayfield Get Down
Uploaded by bysolo65 on May 3, 2011
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In the 1960 & the 1970s, the wider & bigger the afros the more they were highly valued by afro-centric (African cultural centered) Black folks. Indeed, because of the wide and also sometimes "wild" appearance of many afros, one vernacular nickname for the afro that Black folks used was "bush". Calling someone's fro a "bush" could be positive, negative, or neutral depending on who said it, and when & how it was said.
For many Black people, afros are just a hairstyle. I started wearing my hair in an afro in 1966 and I've consistently worn my hair in an afro style ever since then. For me, the afro is much more than a hair style - it's a statement of Black pride. I remember when some Black males and females started wearing their hair in afros, a lot of Black folks were incensed that we would show the world our "back to Africa" roots. And many non-Black folks thought that everyone wearing their hair in a fro was a radical who hated White people. That of course wasn't true then and it isn't true now. Furthermore, lots of people who didn't wear afros- including some Black people - thought and still think that people who wore/wear their hair in afros didn't wash or comb or style or nourish their afro hair. That is also untrue.
From the 1980s to the early 2000s, it seemed that very few African American adults chose to wear their hair in an afro. For example, during that time period the only women I saw wearing afros in my adopted city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were a few Black women over the age of 40. I purposely wrote "adults" because even in the 1960s and 1970s, and also today it seems to me that very few African American children under 18 years old wear their hair in afros-although this may be slightly changing now with the attention being paid to more natural hairstyles for Black folks such as corn rolls & dreads (dreadlocks).*
*Added January 2018- This has definitely changed since I wrote this comment. I think that it's less common nowadays to chemically straighten Black girls' hair, particularly before the age of 13 years or so. One commonly found hairstyle for many Black American girls under 12 years of age is wearing their natural hair (or extensions) in multiple braids, often with small plastic beads attached. And a lot of Black American females over 12 years girls wear their natural hair out in long, undefined hair styles that are the same as those shown in the videos for Black women that are found near the end of this updated post.
-end of addition-
Nowadays [written in 2011 but still true in 2018] there appears to be more styles for afros than I remember in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the early 2000s or so, I've been seeing younger Black women wearing closely cropped (very short) afros, or moderatedly short but styled 'fros. And this year (2011), I've been seeing more young African American women (and African American men) sportin' large wide naturals*, but not halo shaped as Angela Davis' hair style was. I think that there are many reasons for the (still moderate) increase in Black folks wearing their hair in afros (or naturals, since I think the term "afros" is rarely used). One reason is the recycling of fashion trends. In addition to the reasons I have already mentioned, some females who wear their hair naturally indicate that they do so because that style is easier to take care of than relaxed (straightened) hairstyles and/or the belief (which I think is fact) that natural hairstyles are usually healthier for the hair.
*"A natural" is another term for an "afro" and other hair styles (such as dreadlocks) for tightly curled* hair that are typical of people of Black African descent when that hair is not hot combed or chemically treated. Person who have natural hairstyles (i.e. afros, twists, locks etc) shampoo and condition their hair. Females or males may highlight their hair with colors and may put beads or cowrie shells in their twists or dreadlocks. Furthermore, afros may be texturized (chemical treatment may be added for a shorter time period)to loosen some of the hair's natural curl. If this happened in the 1960s - 1980s I didn't know about it. Also, females & males may choose to have their afros cut & styled in beauty parlors or barber shops. That said, there is a trend nowadays for some big afros to be worn seemingly unstyled - or maybe I should say that the seemingly unstyled wide afro is a current style.
I attended an event this week (August 2012) and saw a Black woman who was probably in her forties with a very short closely cropped afro that was probably texturized and also dyed blond. I also saw another Black woman around the same age who wore her natural hair (not a wig or hair pieces known as "extensions") in an unstyled wide afro. Her hair was dyed brown with red tinges. Those colors were almost certainly the result of a beauty parlor or barber shop treatment. Furthermore, her hair may have also been chemically treated as it wasn't tightly curled but somewhat straight. Instead of the hair in her afro being tightly curly and close to her head, and big (meaning touching her shoulders in length), her hair was away from her head and went every which way. But she (like me and other Black people) may have some portions of her hair that are naturally straighter than other hair portions, and therefore her wide somewhat straight afro might have been all natural except for the hair colors. Also, there are some Black people who have naturally brown hair or other non-black hair color but in that woman's case her afro hair colors probably weren't "natural". I should also note that these women were very attractive.
*"tightly curled" is the term I prefer for various textures of hair that is considered typical of the hair texture for people of Black African descent although it isn't hair textures of all Black people and isn't hair textures which are exclusive to Black people. I say "textures" because there are a range of tightly curled hair textures. Other terms for "tightly curled" hair such as kinky, nappy, frizzy, coarse, woolly often have negative connotations and can therefore lead to negative consequences by those who use them.
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Added January 21, 2018
The terms "afro" and "'fro" and the purposely halo shaped short or wide natural hair appear to have been retired from use. Since at least the early 2000s, Black women, in particular, have been wearing their hair in a number of natural hairstyles, including large coils with undefined shapes. This hairstyle is largely the result of combing out multiple thin braids and leaving the hair "as is". That natural hair style is quite different from the purposely rounded, halo shape of 1970s afros. Some examples of these early 2000s to date [2018] Black women's natural hairstyles are found near the end of this updated post along with a few other examples of Black women's natural hairstyles.
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FEATURED VIDEOS
This post showcases several music videos of Black women wearing their hair in an afro. Videos are presented of featured vocalists from four African nations and from the United States. I've also included a video from the Fiji islands to show examples of what Americans would consider to be afros in that Melanesian nation.
Each featured video is presented with my subjective description of the length and style of the afro given in parenthesis*. By no means is this a comprehensive presentation of the ways that Black women wear afros or the nations of the world where females wear afros.
*I'm not a beautician. My apologies if these descriptions of afros are subjective and simplistic.
Without further comment, here are the featured videos of female afro styles from very closely cropped to very wide:
Angelique Kidjo –“Mallaikka” (Benin, West Africa)
Uploaded by equinoxrox on Apr 28, 2007
African singer Angelique Kidjo from Benin sings love song ballad in Swahil at the Africa Rollback Malaria Concert. English subtitles. On March 12 and 13 in 2005, some of Africa's greatest musical talents got together to play for two nights in downtown Dakar while trying to spread the message about combating malaria.
[a very closely cropped afro which has been dyed blond; Since about the 1990s, a small number of African American women also began to dye their straightened hair blond and dye their (usually) closely cropped or relatively short afro blond.]
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Laura Mvula -"She"- (In South Africa) - by Damian Weilers
Laura Mvula, Published on Nov 17, 2012
Shot by South African director Damian Weilers in Montagu, Western Cape.
'She' is taken from Laura Mvula's debut EP available now
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Vocalist Laura Mvula was born in South Africa but grew up in the United Kingdom. Her hair is worn in a closely cropped afro.
Hat tip to http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-video-new-sound-of-laura-mvula-she.html for alerting me to this video.
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Cesaria Evora - "Mar de Canal" (Cape Verde, West Africa)
Uploaded by alcom34 on Jun 8, 2007
Voz d'Amor - 2003
[a short afro which appears to be "texturized" (slightly chemically treated?)]
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Rebecca Malope - “Hamba Lenquola” (South Africa)
Uploaded by MAURA MACIVER on Apr 13, 2008
[moderately short, styled afro]
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Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (Live 1967)
Miriam Makeba Official Channel, Published on Mar 17, 2015
[moderately short afro]
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Aretha Franklin - Jump (Soul Train 70's) (United States)
MyRhythm NSoulTV, Published on Apr 10, 2014
[moderately big/wide afro dyed light brown]
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ODETTA
pining4apple, Published on Nov 23, 2011
[moderately short, styled afro]
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Fiji Music (Fiji)
Alexey Bekmuratov on Nov 18, 2009
Vinaka Vakaniu Collection-2
[moderatively big afros]
Also, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1vrUNfTTBY&feature=related for other photographs of Fijian females and males with what Americans would all "afros".
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Ethiopian Music Kassahun Taye (sora ye wello bahlawi)
[long style with partially braided hair on top; Americans would call this look a natural hairstyle which if worn out might be called "afros". That said, Ethiopians are unlikely to consider this style an afro.]
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Natalie Cole - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) 1975 (United States)
Uploaded by jondbee56 on Aug 8, 2010
[very big/wide halo shaped afro]
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Esperanza Spalding BLACK GOLD- OFFICIAL (credits) (United States)
Uploaded by montunoartists on Feb 5, 2012
Official Site: http://www.esperanzaspalding.com
...This song is singing to our African American heritage before slavery. Over the decades, so much of the strength in the African American community has seeded from resistance and endurance. I wanted to address the part of our heritage spanning back to pre-colonial Africa and the elements of Black pride that draw from our connection to our ancestors in their own land. I particularly wanted to create something that spoke to young boys.
[very big/wide round shaped afro]
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[Update January 21, 2018]
Viola Davis speaks at Women's March
CNN, Published on Jan 20, 2018
Actress Viola Davis gave a passionate speech at the Women's March in Los Angeles.
[very large, unstyled, undefined shape with hair coils emphasized, i.e. left uncombed]
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DAISHA - GOOD LIFE OFFICIAL VIDEO
iamthedaisha, Published on May 18, 2016
90s house vibes! EP "I Am The Daisha" drops May 20th!
[really very large, unstyled, undefined, hair coils, with other Black women's natural hair styles]
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Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady [Official Video]
janellemonae, Published on Jul 30, 2014
Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady [Official Video] - Directed By ALAN FERGUSON
[various Black women's natural hairstyles]
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Cardi B, Michelle Obama and other celebrities show their natural hair!
M.C.rush, Published on Apr 3, 2017
Cardi B, Michelle Obama and other celebrities show their natural hair!
After wearing her hair in protective styles at the White House, now Michelle is free to let her hair hang down. You go girl!
Clips of celebrities included:
Michelle Obama
Uzo Aduba
Brittany Sky
Jessica White
Gabrielle Union
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Whoopi Goldberg
Kim Fields
Esperanza Spalding
Jenifer Lewis
Kimberly Elise
K.Michelle
Leela James
SZA
Jhene Aiko
Porsha Williams
Goapele
Teyana Taylor
Winnie Harlow
Rihanna
Aja Naomi King
Keri Hilson
Denise Boutte
Jasmine Tookes
Toya Wright
Karlie Redd
Cardi B.
Rasheeda
Masika Kalysha
Tahiry Jose
Tammy Rivera
Kenya Moore
[various Black women's natural hairstyles]
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RELATED LINK
http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/videos-of-african-american-males-music.html "Videos of African American Males (Music & Natural Hairstyles), Part 1"
That post presents videos of afro hair styles worn by various African American non-religious music performers (from 1969 - 2002). That post also includes an essay that I wrote on "The Psycho-Social Implications For African Americans of Natural Hair Styles".
Note: I haven't updated that series on Black male hairstyles to include post 2002 fashions.
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Sunday, January 21, 2018
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Actress Viola Davis' Powerful Speech At The Women's March 2018, Los Angeles, California (Video & Unofficial Transcript)
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post is a video and an unofficial transcript of Viola Davis' powerful speech at the 2018 Women's March in Los Angeles, California. Other Women's Marches were held in a number of cities throughout the United States.
The content of this post is presented for sociological, cultural, political, motivational, and inspirational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Viola Davis, and all the organizers and participants of the Women's March, Me Too Movement, and Resist! Movements.
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Click https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/us/womens-march.html for a New York Times article about the Women's Marches in the United States (January 20,2018).
and
This daily kos diary includes photos and comments about the Women's Marches in various United States cities: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/20/1734458/-Stronger-than-ever-Check-out-the-massive-roaring-crowds-across-the-nation-for-the-Women-s-March. [Warning for those working at schools or other public institutions: There's one instance of profanity occurs in the comments.]
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Viola Davis speaks at Women's March
CNN, Published on Jan 20, 2018
Actress Viola Davis gave a passionate speech at the Women's March in Los Angeles.
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Added January 21, 2018
I also want to note that I was particularly impressed with Viola Davis' large early 21st century non-defined, freely coiled hair natural hair, which is quite different from the large Angela Davis type halo shaped afros of the late 1960s and the 1970s.
However, I was disappointed and disgusted to read a number of the comments in that YouTube video's discussion thread which were racially offensive, including some comments that referred to Ms. Davis as a monkey, and some comments that were sexually offensive. When I read some of that discussion thread, those types of negative comments outnumbered the ones that were politically supportive of Trump and, therefore, opposed to the causes that Viola Davis discussed.
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UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF VIOLA DAVIS' SPEECH AT WOMEN'S MARCH 2018
"In the words of my fellow American, Malcolm X, I'm gonna make it plain.
In 1877, America, the greatest country on this planet, put laws in place called the Jim Crow laws. And the Jim Crow laws restricted the rights to quadroons, octoroons, Blacks, Hispanics, Indians, and Malays. Restricted medical. Restricted relationships. Restricted education.Restricted life.
It told us that we were "less than" and it came on the heels of the 13th Amendment. It came on the heels of fifty five individual great Americans writing the greatest document called the Constitution of the United States, saying "We the people".
Now the reason why those destructive laws came into place, I think can be greatly described by Martin Luther King. And what he said about time is. He said "I'm not ready to wait a hundred years, or two hundred years for things to change. That I think actually that time is neutral. That it can either be used constructively or destructively. That human progress rarely rolls in on inevitability. It is through human dedication, an effort, that we move forward. And that when we don't work, what happens is that time actually becomes an ally to the primitive forces of social stagnation. And the guardians of the status quo are in their oxygen tanks keeping the old order alive.
And so that time needs to be helped by every single moment doing right.
And the reason why these Jim Crow laws were in place that stifled my rights and your rights is because we fell asleep.
We fall asleep when we're moving ahead and we don't look to the left and the right and see that we're no including people in this move ahead. Because really, at the end of the day, we only move forward when it doesn't cost of anything. But I'm here today saying that no one and nothing can be great unless it cost you something.
One out of every five women will be sexually assaulted and raped before she reaches the age of eighteen. One out of six boys. If you are a woman of color and you are raped before you reach the age of eighteen, than you are 66% more likely to be sexually assaulted again.
Seventy percent of girls who are sex trafficed are girls of color. They are coming out of the foster care system. They a re coming out of poverty. It is a billion dollar industry. When they go into the sex trafficing business- and they call it a business, trust me - more than likely they are gang raped.
I am speaking today not just for the 'Me Toos', 'cause I was a 'Me Too,' but when I raise my hand, I am aware of all the women who are still in silence. The women who are faceless. The women who don't have the money and don't have the constitution and who don't have the confidence and who don't have the images in our media that gives them a sense of self-worth enough to break their silence that's rooted in the shame of assault, that's rooted in the stigma of assault.
Written on the Statue of Liberty is "Come, Come you tiredless, poor, yearning to breath free- to breath free."
Every single day, your job as an American citizen is not just to fight for your rights. It's to fight for the right of every individual that is taking a breath, whose heart is pumping and breathing on this earth..
And like the originators of this "Me Too", the Fannie Lou Hamers, the Recy Taylor who in 1944 was gang raped by six White men, and she spoke up. Rosa Parks fought for her rights. She was silenced. To the Tarana Burkes. To the originators, the first women to speak out -it cost them something. Nothing and no one can be great without a cost.
Listen, I am always introduced as an award winning actor. But my testimony is one of poverty. My testimony is one of being sexually assaulted, and was very much seeing a childhood that was robbed from me. And I know that every single day when I think of that, I know that the trauma of those events are still with me today. And that's what drives me to, to the voting booth. That's what allows me to listen to the women who are still in silence. That's what allows me, even to become a citizen on this planet, is the fact that we are here to connect. That we are here as three hundred and twenty four million people living on this earth to know that every day that we breath and we live that we gotta bring up everyone with us.
I stand in solidarity with all women who raise their hands because I know that it was not easy. And my hope for the future, my hope- and I do hope- that we never go back.
That it's not a just about clapping your hands and screaming and shouting every time someone says something that sounds good. It's about keeping it rolling once you go home."
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This is my transcription of Viola Davis' speech* which is shown in the video given above. I used italics to represent the words that Ms Davis emphasized in this speech. The space near the beginning of this speech represents a (I believe purposeful pause that Ms. Davis made in her remarks.
This transcription doesn't include audience cheers to this speech.
Additions and corrections are welcome.
For the record, Ms. Davis isn't looking at any notes while she deliver this speech.
Here are links to some information about the four specific women that Viola Davis gave a shout out to in her speech:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer
"Fannie Lou Hamer (/ˈheɪmər/; born Fannie Lou Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting rights activist, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and philanthropist who worked primarily in Mississippi. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey."...
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recy_Taylor
"Recy Taylor (née Corbitt; December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017)[2]:297 was an African American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama, US. She was born and raised in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow era Southern United States. Taylor's refusal to remain silent about a brutal rape she suffered, perpetrated by white men, led to organizing in the African-American community on behalf of justice and civil rights."
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
"Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1]
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation. Others had taken similar steps, including Bayard Rustin in 1942,[2] Irene Morgan in 1946, Lillie Mae Bradford in 1951,[3] Sarah Louise Keys in 1952, and the members of the ultimately successful Browder v. Gayle 1956 lawsuit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) who were arrested in Montgomery for not giving up their bus seats months before Parks. NAACP organizers believed that Parks was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, although eventually her case became bogged down in the state courts while the Browder v. Gayle case succeeded.[4][5]
Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation"...
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From https://hellogiggles.com/news/me-too-movement-black-woman/ "Actually, a black woman created the "Me Too" movement 10 years ago" by CAITLIN GALLAGHER, October 18, 2017
..."Although most people think the idea originated with Milano, the original “Me Too” movement was started by Tarana Burke, and she created the campaign for the youth organization Just Be Inc. in 2007"....
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Visitor comments are welcome.
This pancocojams post is a video and an unofficial transcript of Viola Davis' powerful speech at the 2018 Women's March in Los Angeles, California. Other Women's Marches were held in a number of cities throughout the United States.
The content of this post is presented for sociological, cultural, political, motivational, and inspirational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Viola Davis, and all the organizers and participants of the Women's March, Me Too Movement, and Resist! Movements.
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Click https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/us/womens-march.html for a New York Times article about the Women's Marches in the United States (January 20,2018).
and
This daily kos diary includes photos and comments about the Women's Marches in various United States cities: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/20/1734458/-Stronger-than-ever-Check-out-the-massive-roaring-crowds-across-the-nation-for-the-Women-s-March. [Warning for those working at schools or other public institutions: There's one instance of profanity occurs in the comments.]
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Viola Davis speaks at Women's March
CNN, Published on Jan 20, 2018
Actress Viola Davis gave a passionate speech at the Women's March in Los Angeles.
-snip-
Added January 21, 2018
I also want to note that I was particularly impressed with Viola Davis' large early 21st century non-defined, freely coiled hair natural hair, which is quite different from the large Angela Davis type halo shaped afros of the late 1960s and the 1970s.
However, I was disappointed and disgusted to read a number of the comments in that YouTube video's discussion thread which were racially offensive, including some comments that referred to Ms. Davis as a monkey, and some comments that were sexually offensive. When I read some of that discussion thread, those types of negative comments outnumbered the ones that were politically supportive of Trump and, therefore, opposed to the causes that Viola Davis discussed.
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UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF VIOLA DAVIS' SPEECH AT WOMEN'S MARCH 2018
"In the words of my fellow American, Malcolm X, I'm gonna make it plain.
In 1877, America, the greatest country on this planet, put laws in place called the Jim Crow laws. And the Jim Crow laws restricted the rights to quadroons, octoroons, Blacks, Hispanics, Indians, and Malays. Restricted medical. Restricted relationships. Restricted education.Restricted life.
It told us that we were "less than" and it came on the heels of the 13th Amendment. It came on the heels of fifty five individual great Americans writing the greatest document called the Constitution of the United States, saying "We the people".
Now the reason why those destructive laws came into place, I think can be greatly described by Martin Luther King. And what he said about time is. He said "I'm not ready to wait a hundred years, or two hundred years for things to change. That I think actually that time is neutral. That it can either be used constructively or destructively. That human progress rarely rolls in on inevitability. It is through human dedication, an effort, that we move forward. And that when we don't work, what happens is that time actually becomes an ally to the primitive forces of social stagnation. And the guardians of the status quo are in their oxygen tanks keeping the old order alive.
And so that time needs to be helped by every single moment doing right.
And the reason why these Jim Crow laws were in place that stifled my rights and your rights is because we fell asleep.
We fall asleep when we're moving ahead and we don't look to the left and the right and see that we're no including people in this move ahead. Because really, at the end of the day, we only move forward when it doesn't cost of anything. But I'm here today saying that no one and nothing can be great unless it cost you something.
One out of every five women will be sexually assaulted and raped before she reaches the age of eighteen. One out of six boys. If you are a woman of color and you are raped before you reach the age of eighteen, than you are 66% more likely to be sexually assaulted again.
Seventy percent of girls who are sex trafficed are girls of color. They are coming out of the foster care system. They a re coming out of poverty. It is a billion dollar industry. When they go into the sex trafficing business- and they call it a business, trust me - more than likely they are gang raped.
I am speaking today not just for the 'Me Toos', 'cause I was a 'Me Too,' but when I raise my hand, I am aware of all the women who are still in silence. The women who are faceless. The women who don't have the money and don't have the constitution and who don't have the confidence and who don't have the images in our media that gives them a sense of self-worth enough to break their silence that's rooted in the shame of assault, that's rooted in the stigma of assault.
Written on the Statue of Liberty is "Come, Come you tiredless, poor, yearning to breath free- to breath free."
Every single day, your job as an American citizen is not just to fight for your rights. It's to fight for the right of every individual that is taking a breath, whose heart is pumping and breathing on this earth..
And like the originators of this "Me Too", the Fannie Lou Hamers, the Recy Taylor who in 1944 was gang raped by six White men, and she spoke up. Rosa Parks fought for her rights. She was silenced. To the Tarana Burkes. To the originators, the first women to speak out -it cost them something. Nothing and no one can be great without a cost.
Listen, I am always introduced as an award winning actor. But my testimony is one of poverty. My testimony is one of being sexually assaulted, and was very much seeing a childhood that was robbed from me. And I know that every single day when I think of that, I know that the trauma of those events are still with me today. And that's what drives me to, to the voting booth. That's what allows me to listen to the women who are still in silence. That's what allows me, even to become a citizen on this planet, is the fact that we are here to connect. That we are here as three hundred and twenty four million people living on this earth to know that every day that we breath and we live that we gotta bring up everyone with us.
I stand in solidarity with all women who raise their hands because I know that it was not easy. And my hope for the future, my hope- and I do hope- that we never go back.
That it's not a just about clapping your hands and screaming and shouting every time someone says something that sounds good. It's about keeping it rolling once you go home."
-snip-
This is my transcription of Viola Davis' speech* which is shown in the video given above. I used italics to represent the words that Ms Davis emphasized in this speech. The space near the beginning of this speech represents a (I believe purposeful pause that Ms. Davis made in her remarks.
This transcription doesn't include audience cheers to this speech.
Additions and corrections are welcome.
For the record, Ms. Davis isn't looking at any notes while she deliver this speech.
Here are links to some information about the four specific women that Viola Davis gave a shout out to in her speech:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer
"Fannie Lou Hamer (/ˈheɪmər/; born Fannie Lou Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting rights activist, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and philanthropist who worked primarily in Mississippi. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey."...
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recy_Taylor
"Recy Taylor (née Corbitt; December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017)[2]:297 was an African American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama, US. She was born and raised in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow era Southern United States. Taylor's refusal to remain silent about a brutal rape she suffered, perpetrated by white men, led to organizing in the African-American community on behalf of justice and civil rights."
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
"Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1]
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation. Others had taken similar steps, including Bayard Rustin in 1942,[2] Irene Morgan in 1946, Lillie Mae Bradford in 1951,[3] Sarah Louise Keys in 1952, and the members of the ultimately successful Browder v. Gayle 1956 lawsuit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) who were arrested in Montgomery for not giving up their bus seats months before Parks. NAACP organizers believed that Parks was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, although eventually her case became bogged down in the state courts while the Browder v. Gayle case succeeded.[4][5]
Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation"...
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From https://hellogiggles.com/news/me-too-movement-black-woman/ "Actually, a black woman created the "Me Too" movement 10 years ago" by CAITLIN GALLAGHER, October 18, 2017
..."Although most people think the idea originated with Milano, the original “Me Too” movement was started by Tarana Burke, and she created the campaign for the youth organization Just Be Inc. in 2007"....
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Friday, January 12, 2018
Don Lemon's CNN Tonight Opening Statement About Trump's Shithole Countries Comment (video & unofficial transcript)
Edited by Azizi Powell
As those who are familiar with this pancocojams blog know, I rarely focus on political subjects. Also, as those who are familiar with this blog know, I screen out profanity in comments and don't feature any videos that include profanity. This post is an exception to both of those rules.
This pancocojams post showcases a video of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon 01/11/18. I'm showcasing this video because I feel strongly that the entire clip of that news show should be watched and heard, but in particular I believe that Don Lemon's opening statements are just as eloquent and historically important as the Golden Globes acceptance speech that Oprah Winfrey gave which I featured in another pancocojams post last week (http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/01/oprah-winfreys-golden-globes-cecil-b.html Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech (2018) with full transcript).
This post includes my transcription of host Don Lemon's opening statements (cold open/monologue) for that segment of that news program, prior to the segments with the political correspondents.
This post also include segments with a panel of guest political commentators.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, and political purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Don Lemon, and thanks to all the non-racist participants in that television segment.
-snip-
Click https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/durbin-trump-shithole_us_5a58c7ffe4b02cebbfdb29c8?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 for context information about Don Lemon's statement.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: CNN Tonight with Don Lemon 01/11/18 | CNN News Today January 11, 2018
Amanda Scott, Published on Jan 11, 2018
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UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF DON LEMON'S OPENING STATEMENTS (CNN Tonight 1/11/18)
"This is CNN Tonight. I'm Don Lemon.
The president of the United States is racist. A lot of us already knew that.
Today, President Trump talking with lawmakers in the oval office about immigrants from Haiti, from El Salvador, and from Africa said-and I quote-“Why are we having all those people from shithole countries come here?”
But you know who he said he would welcome here? He said, "The U.S. should bring in more people from countries like Norway."
And CNN has been told that he went on to say “Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out.”
Those comments are frankly, disgusting.
There’s other language I’d like to use, but we are on television.
But you know what, they’re not shocking, not even really surprising. Because this is who Donald Trump is. This is what he thinks. Apparently, we have to go through this repertoire every time he says something like this, or exhibits some racist behavior.
This is a man who in the oval office last year said that Nigerian immigrants should, in his words, “go back to their huts”.
Who in that same meeting said “All Haitian immigrants have AIDs”.
A man who bases his entire political career -for years- on the racist birther lie that President Barack Obama was born in Africa.
A man who reportedly still believes that to this day.
A man who started his campaign trashing Mexicans and then made the Muslim ban a centerpiece of his bid.
A man who responded to White supremacists who killed a young woman in Charlottesville by claiming, in his words, “very fine people on both sides”.
A man who responded to protests by Black NFL players by calling them quote “sons of bitches”.
Do we go on with all of this? I -I get tired of saying it.
This is a man who today complained about immigrants who quote “are from shithole countries”.
Tonight a White House official told CNN that they’re not worried. They think that this is good for them. And the President’s comments will actually resonate with his base.
Jesus.
Admitting that for all their talk about making America great, the President is playing to a base that welcomes his racism and will enjoy it. And that is disgraceful.
With that said, here’s what’s worse. And probably the most important point. So gather around the television everyone. And this is for anyone who may be taken aback by my comments. I want to be very clear here. I don’t really care if you are. I hope you are.
For years now-it has been, you know, two and a half years since he officially entered the political arena.
For years I and others have been trying to tell you the American people that this man was exhibiting bigoted behavior.
I asked him about a number of times and he denied it. But kept up the racist rhetoric and behavior throughout the campaign and now while he’s in the White House. His supporters made excuses, continue to make excuses for him. Some of the people I personally know. Some of them are his friends, as a matter of fact. And I can hear them now telling me “Oh, Don. Donald didn’t mean that. Donald isn’t a racist.”. Or people who don’t know him “I don’t think that was what he said. It was taken out of context. I’m not sure.”
Well, how many examples do you need of this?
But he is a racist.
And for all of you who over the last few years have uttered that tired, lazy, uniformed, uneducated, ignorant response of calling me and others who point out racist behavior racist, you know what, you can go do?
I can’t say that. But you can go read a book- a history book. Because you might learn that people from some of those shithold countries were slaves who were brought here by force to help build this country. And then start your learning process from there.
You also might want to do some self-examination. What does it say about you that no matter what, no matter what, you continue to make excuses for this man, for his vile behavior, his sort of vile behavior? Doesn’t that make you just as bad, if not worse than him?
And I have to be honest. I was , I was not shocked that Donald Trump reportedly called the majority of Black and Hispanic countries or continents “shitoles.'” I wasn’t shocked. I’m not I’m really not outraged. I’m not outraged. I’m tired of being outraged, as a matter of fact. I’ve been outraged too many times. It’s more important to be strategic than to be outraged. Some people can be outraged, but it’s more important for level headed people to be strategic rather than outraged. Otherwise, it becomes a sky-is-falling situation every time he says something dumb or stupid or racist.
Here’s why I’m not outraged-because People of Color warned you.
You called us racist or race baiters.
I’m not mad that you called me those things because I’m not one of them.
So why are you mad if someone calls you a racist if you know you’re not one? Think about that.
If you know you’re not a racist then why are you made about it when someone calls out racism?
What does that say about you?
You know what those Black and Brown folks who you called racist are saying now?
They’re saying “You bought it. You own it.”
And as we say in the South-you know what this means- “Bless your heart”."
-snip-
This monologue (as Don Lemon referred to it later in that clip) occurs from the beginning of that video to 5:26 of that video clip.
Portions of my transcription are gleaned from these two articles:
http://ew.com/news/2018/01/11/don-lemon-donald-trump-racist/ Don Lemon slams Trump and his supporters: 'The president of the United States is racist' by DEREK LAWRENCE January 11, 2018 AT 11:29 PM EST
and
http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/anderson-cooper-don-lemon-donald-trump-racist-shithole-remark-1202662653/ Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon Call Trump ‘Racist’ Over ‘S-thole Countries’ Remark; By Erin Nyren JANUARY 11, 2018 8:45PM PT
Additions and corrections to this transcription are welcome.
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As those who are familiar with this pancocojams blog know, I rarely focus on political subjects. Also, as those who are familiar with this blog know, I screen out profanity in comments and don't feature any videos that include profanity. This post is an exception to both of those rules.
This pancocojams post showcases a video of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon 01/11/18. I'm showcasing this video because I feel strongly that the entire clip of that news show should be watched and heard, but in particular I believe that Don Lemon's opening statements are just as eloquent and historically important as the Golden Globes acceptance speech that Oprah Winfrey gave which I featured in another pancocojams post last week (http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/01/oprah-winfreys-golden-globes-cecil-b.html Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech (2018) with full transcript).
This post includes my transcription of host Don Lemon's opening statements (cold open/monologue) for that segment of that news program, prior to the segments with the political correspondents.
This post also include segments with a panel of guest political commentators.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, and political purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Don Lemon, and thanks to all the non-racist participants in that television segment.
-snip-
Click https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/durbin-trump-shithole_us_5a58c7ffe4b02cebbfdb29c8?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 for context information about Don Lemon's statement.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: CNN Tonight with Don Lemon 01/11/18 | CNN News Today January 11, 2018
Amanda Scott, Published on Jan 11, 2018
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UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF DON LEMON'S OPENING STATEMENTS (CNN Tonight 1/11/18)
"This is CNN Tonight. I'm Don Lemon.
The president of the United States is racist. A lot of us already knew that.
Today, President Trump talking with lawmakers in the oval office about immigrants from Haiti, from El Salvador, and from Africa said-and I quote-“Why are we having all those people from shithole countries come here?”
But you know who he said he would welcome here? He said, "The U.S. should bring in more people from countries like Norway."
And CNN has been told that he went on to say “Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out.”
Those comments are frankly, disgusting.
There’s other language I’d like to use, but we are on television.
But you know what, they’re not shocking, not even really surprising. Because this is who Donald Trump is. This is what he thinks. Apparently, we have to go through this repertoire every time he says something like this, or exhibits some racist behavior.
This is a man who in the oval office last year said that Nigerian immigrants should, in his words, “go back to their huts”.
Who in that same meeting said “All Haitian immigrants have AIDs”.
A man who bases his entire political career -for years- on the racist birther lie that President Barack Obama was born in Africa.
A man who reportedly still believes that to this day.
A man who started his campaign trashing Mexicans and then made the Muslim ban a centerpiece of his bid.
A man who responded to White supremacists who killed a young woman in Charlottesville by claiming, in his words, “very fine people on both sides”.
A man who responded to protests by Black NFL players by calling them quote “sons of bitches”.
Do we go on with all of this? I -I get tired of saying it.
This is a man who today complained about immigrants who quote “are from shithole countries”.
Tonight a White House official told CNN that they’re not worried. They think that this is good for them. And the President’s comments will actually resonate with his base.
Jesus.
Admitting that for all their talk about making America great, the President is playing to a base that welcomes his racism and will enjoy it. And that is disgraceful.
With that said, here’s what’s worse. And probably the most important point. So gather around the television everyone. And this is for anyone who may be taken aback by my comments. I want to be very clear here. I don’t really care if you are. I hope you are.
For years now-it has been, you know, two and a half years since he officially entered the political arena.
For years I and others have been trying to tell you the American people that this man was exhibiting bigoted behavior.
I asked him about a number of times and he denied it. But kept up the racist rhetoric and behavior throughout the campaign and now while he’s in the White House. His supporters made excuses, continue to make excuses for him. Some of the people I personally know. Some of them are his friends, as a matter of fact. And I can hear them now telling me “Oh, Don. Donald didn’t mean that. Donald isn’t a racist.”. Or people who don’t know him “I don’t think that was what he said. It was taken out of context. I’m not sure.”
Well, how many examples do you need of this?
But he is a racist.
And for all of you who over the last few years have uttered that tired, lazy, uniformed, uneducated, ignorant response of calling me and others who point out racist behavior racist, you know what, you can go do?
I can’t say that. But you can go read a book- a history book. Because you might learn that people from some of those shithold countries were slaves who were brought here by force to help build this country. And then start your learning process from there.
You also might want to do some self-examination. What does it say about you that no matter what, no matter what, you continue to make excuses for this man, for his vile behavior, his sort of vile behavior? Doesn’t that make you just as bad, if not worse than him?
And I have to be honest. I was , I was not shocked that Donald Trump reportedly called the majority of Black and Hispanic countries or continents “shitoles.'” I wasn’t shocked. I’m not I’m really not outraged. I’m not outraged. I’m tired of being outraged, as a matter of fact. I’ve been outraged too many times. It’s more important to be strategic than to be outraged. Some people can be outraged, but it’s more important for level headed people to be strategic rather than outraged. Otherwise, it becomes a sky-is-falling situation every time he says something dumb or stupid or racist.
Here’s why I’m not outraged-because People of Color warned you.
You called us racist or race baiters.
I’m not mad that you called me those things because I’m not one of them.
So why are you mad if someone calls you a racist if you know you’re not one? Think about that.
If you know you’re not a racist then why are you made about it when someone calls out racism?
What does that say about you?
You know what those Black and Brown folks who you called racist are saying now?
They’re saying “You bought it. You own it.”
And as we say in the South-you know what this means- “Bless your heart”."
-snip-
This monologue (as Don Lemon referred to it later in that clip) occurs from the beginning of that video to 5:26 of that video clip.
Portions of my transcription are gleaned from these two articles:
http://ew.com/news/2018/01/11/don-lemon-donald-trump-racist/ Don Lemon slams Trump and his supporters: 'The president of the United States is racist' by DEREK LAWRENCE January 11, 2018 AT 11:29 PM EST
and
http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/anderson-cooper-don-lemon-donald-trump-racist-shithole-remark-1202662653/ Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon Call Trump ‘Racist’ Over ‘S-thole Countries’ Remark; By Erin Nyren JANUARY 11, 2018 8:45PM PT
Additions and corrections to this transcription are welcome.
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Monday, January 8, 2018
Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech (2018) with full transcript
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech.
Excerpts from Wikipedia's article on Oprah Winfrey preface the video and transcript of this speech.
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and inspirational purposes.
All copyright remains with their owners.
Thanks to Oprah Winfrey for her artistic, entrepreneurial, and philanthropic work. Thanks to the publishers of this video and the publishers of this transcript.
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INFORMATION ABOUT OPRAH WINFREY
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey
"Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.[1] She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.[6] Dubbed the "Queen of All Media",[7] she is the richest African-American[8] and North America's first multi-billionaire black person[9]and has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history.[10][11] Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world.[12][13] In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama[14] and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.[15][16]
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy.[17] Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[18] she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication,[19] she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized[19][20] the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue,[19] which a Yale study says broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream.[21][22] By the mid-1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality.
[...]
Publishing and writing
Winfrey has co-authored five books....
Her memoir, The Life You Want, is scheduled for publication in 2017.[71]
Winfrey publishes magazines: O, The Oprah Magazine; from 2004 to 2008, she also published a magazine called O at Home.[72] In 2002, Fortune called O, the Oprah Magazine the most successful start-up ever in the industry."...
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech
Pop & Sports HQ, Published on Jan 7, 2018
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FULL TRANSCRIPT OF OPRAH WINFREY'S GOLDEN GLOBES ACCEPTANCE SPEECH (2018)
From http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/08/entertainment/oprah-globes-speech-transcript/index.html
Read Oprah Winfrey's rousing Golden Globes speech
Updated 8:58 AM ET, Mon January 8, 2018
"In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother's house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: "The winner is Sidney Poitier." Up to the stage came the most elegant man I had ever seen. I remember his tie was white, and of course his skin was black, and I had never seen a black man being celebrated like that. I tried many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl, a kid watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door bone tired from cleaning other people's houses. But all I can do is quote and say that the explanation in Sidney's performance in "Lilies of the Field":
"Amen, amen, amen, amen."
In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B. DeMille award right here at the Golden Globes and it is not lost on me that at this moment, there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award. It is an honor -- it is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them and also with the incredible men and women who have inspired me, who challenged me, who sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible. Dennis Swanson who took a chance on me for "A.M. Chicago." Quincy Jones who saw me on that show and said to Steven Spielberg, "Yes, she is Sophia in 'The Color Purple.'" Gayle who has been the definition of what a friend is, and Stedman who has been my rock -- just a few to name.
I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because we all know the press is under siege these days. We also know it's the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice. To -- to tyrants and victims, and secrets and lies. I want to say that I value the press more than ever before as we try to navigate these complicated times, which brings me to this: what I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. And I'm especially proud and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories. Each of us in this room are celebrated because of the stories that we tell, and this year we became the story.
But it's not just a story affecting the entertainment industry. It's one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics, or workplace. So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They're the women whose names we'll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they're in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They're part of the world of tech and politics and business. They're our athletes in the Olympics and they're our soldiers in the military.
And there's someone else, Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and mother walking home from a church service she'd attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped, and left blindfolded by the side of the road coming home from church. They threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone, but her story was reported to the NAACP where a young worker by the name of Rosa Parks became the lead investigator on her case and together they sought justice. But justice wasn't an option in the era of Jim Crow. The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died ten days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday. She lived as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up.
Their time is up. And I just hope -- I just hope that Recy Taylor died knowing that her truth, like the truth of so many other women who were tormented in those years, and even now tormented, goes marching on. It was somewhere in Rosa Parks' heart almost 11 years later, when she made the decision to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery, and it's here with every woman who chooses to say, "Me too." And every man -- every man who chooses to listen.
In my career, what I've always tried my best to do, whether on television or through film, is to say something about how men and women really behave. To say how we experience shame, how we love and how we rage, how we fail, how we retreat, persevere and how we overcome. I've interviewed and portrayed people who've withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights. So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say "Me too" again."
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This pancocojams post showcases Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech.
Excerpts from Wikipedia's article on Oprah Winfrey preface the video and transcript of this speech.
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INFORMATION ABOUT OPRAH WINFREY
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey
"Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.[1] She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.[6] Dubbed the "Queen of All Media",[7] she is the richest African-American[8] and North America's first multi-billionaire black person[9]and has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history.[10][11] Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world.[12][13] In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama[14] and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.[15][16]
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy.[17] Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[18] she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication,[19] she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized[19][20] the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue,[19] which a Yale study says broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream.[21][22] By the mid-1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality.
[...]
Publishing and writing
Winfrey has co-authored five books....
Her memoir, The Life You Want, is scheduled for publication in 2017.[71]
Winfrey publishes magazines: O, The Oprah Magazine; from 2004 to 2008, she also published a magazine called O at Home.[72] In 2002, Fortune called O, the Oprah Magazine the most successful start-up ever in the industry."...
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech
Pop & Sports HQ, Published on Jan 7, 2018
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FULL TRANSCRIPT OF OPRAH WINFREY'S GOLDEN GLOBES ACCEPTANCE SPEECH (2018)
From http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/08/entertainment/oprah-globes-speech-transcript/index.html
Read Oprah Winfrey's rousing Golden Globes speech
Updated 8:58 AM ET, Mon January 8, 2018
"In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother's house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: "The winner is Sidney Poitier." Up to the stage came the most elegant man I had ever seen. I remember his tie was white, and of course his skin was black, and I had never seen a black man being celebrated like that. I tried many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl, a kid watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door bone tired from cleaning other people's houses. But all I can do is quote and say that the explanation in Sidney's performance in "Lilies of the Field":
"Amen, amen, amen, amen."
In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B. DeMille award right here at the Golden Globes and it is not lost on me that at this moment, there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award. It is an honor -- it is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them and also with the incredible men and women who have inspired me, who challenged me, who sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible. Dennis Swanson who took a chance on me for "A.M. Chicago." Quincy Jones who saw me on that show and said to Steven Spielberg, "Yes, she is Sophia in 'The Color Purple.'" Gayle who has been the definition of what a friend is, and Stedman who has been my rock -- just a few to name.
I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because we all know the press is under siege these days. We also know it's the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice. To -- to tyrants and victims, and secrets and lies. I want to say that I value the press more than ever before as we try to navigate these complicated times, which brings me to this: what I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. And I'm especially proud and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories. Each of us in this room are celebrated because of the stories that we tell, and this year we became the story.
But it's not just a story affecting the entertainment industry. It's one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics, or workplace. So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They're the women whose names we'll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they're in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They're part of the world of tech and politics and business. They're our athletes in the Olympics and they're our soldiers in the military.
And there's someone else, Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and mother walking home from a church service she'd attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped, and left blindfolded by the side of the road coming home from church. They threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone, but her story was reported to the NAACP where a young worker by the name of Rosa Parks became the lead investigator on her case and together they sought justice. But justice wasn't an option in the era of Jim Crow. The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died ten days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday. She lived as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up.
Their time is up. And I just hope -- I just hope that Recy Taylor died knowing that her truth, like the truth of so many other women who were tormented in those years, and even now tormented, goes marching on. It was somewhere in Rosa Parks' heart almost 11 years later, when she made the decision to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery, and it's here with every woman who chooses to say, "Me too." And every man -- every man who chooses to listen.
In my career, what I've always tried my best to do, whether on television or through film, is to say something about how men and women really behave. To say how we experience shame, how we love and how we rage, how we fail, how we retreat, persevere and how we overcome. I've interviewed and portrayed people who've withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights. So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say "Me too" again."
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Real Talk About The Continuing Rape Of African Resources: Sierra Leonean Mallence Bart Williams' TEDTalk - "Change Your Channel"
Edited by Azizi Powell
This post showcases a video of a speech "Change Your Channel" by Mallence Bart William, a Sierra Leonean woman at TEDtalks Berlin (2015). Selected comments from this video's discussion thread are also included in this post.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and motivational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Mallence Bart Williams for her powerful talk. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the producer of this video on YouTube.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Change your channel - Mallence Bart Williams TEDtalks Berlin
Lyfeblood.com/DarcSun Entertainment, Published on May 25, 2015
See Mallence Bart Williams speak on the contradiction of charity sent to Africa, the need of Afrca's resources that supplies the world economy and how we change the way we view the way we "help" Africa and it's people.
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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
Selected comments from this video's discussion thread are given in chronological order with the oldest comment given first, except for responses. However, these comments may not be in consecutive order. I've assigned numbers to these comments for referencing purposes only.
2015
1. Lutendo Modau
"Powerful talk!... I am soo inspired by this woman, with woman like this, Africa is in good hands, and the future looks more promising than ever... Well presented Mallance Bart-Williams"
**
Reply
2. Selmix Elmi
"+Lutendo Modau
Thank you so much. I said exactly that to my self. The day Africans wake up from their deep sleep."
**
3. Morris Hicks
"Is there a way I can get this in text format"
**
Reply
4. Colin Bellew [2016]
"+Morris Hicks click "more" for the transcript.if you use a smartphone you can copy and paste it"
**
5. Alisha McFarlane
"Preach it ! The best video I have ever seen"
**
6. Ian Tharp
"Teach them! Yes!"
**
7. Kilpatrick Jones
"ASE'
Absolutely amazing"
**
8. Lioness Izasha
"While one hand gives under the flashing lights of cameras the other takes in the shadows....It's super sweet of you to come with your coloured paper in exchange for gold and diamonds... #RealTalk"
**
9. Chloe Sachikonye
"Well spoken Mallence. And I love the attitude. You go girl!"
**
Reply
10. Nobubele Monica Mapetshana
"+Chloe Sachikonye u mean her zillion trillion confidence!!!, she's trully amazing!!!"
**
11. Sirak Bahlbi
"You must watch this. The way she delivered is exquisite. She hit the raw nerves and made the audience twitch in their sits. The philosophy and policy of Eritrea is now becoming widely accepted in Africa. The philosophy of self-reliance. Not very long to go before Africa's true freedom and prosperity arrives. She put it beautifully "... Why does 5000 Units of our Currency is worth 1 unit of your Currency while we have all the Gold and Diamond Reserves" "
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2016
12. Gerald Ray
"It all starts with one bold individual. After watching this i can't help but think we've been asleep for a while now. This is a wake up call to take ownership of what is rightfully ours. Enough of the exploitation and low self esteem. Let us all stand up to the west and their atrocities. I'm with you Ms. Mallence Bart Williams. Africa is the FUTURE."
**
13. Yolande Perry
"Probably one of the best TEDtalks I've watched...Africans need to see Africa in our own eyes instead of the way in which the West portrays us."
**
14. Thabo Molefe
"Wow powerful, this is a must watch, she is straight to the point and got the audience frozen, excellent speech"
**
15. BlackCinemaClub
"Beyond amazing. The delivery of this presentation cuts like the sharpest of knives."
**
16. Khadijah Love
"Such a profound message with so. much love you delivered it. I am a Sierraleonean and proud to hear this..bringing this message to light just lifted y sprit..i thank you for your courage.. change is here for Africa. peace nd respect! 😊💝"
**
17. Iyabinghi Ashanti
"I Love this Sistah!!! I Love this Sistah!!! I Love this Sistah!!! Did I say how much I Love this Sistah!!! You talk to them my Sistah. You talk to them!!! Let them sit there and feel uncomfortable! Let them squirm Mallence! Let them hear the Afrikan woman speak TRUTH!!!"
**
18. Spacely Hendrix
"knowledge is power.. I love you sista for telling the truth... they brainwashed us many years n took our resources.. this is the age of information!!!!"
**
19. Onye wuchi
"God bless you my sister, you will live long.
African leaders are puppets to westerners, that's the problem"
**
20. JSings11
"The Ancestors are truly at this sistah's back. Abibifahodie!"
**
21. Onye wuchi
"... if any one of them wants to lead the way this time,am telling u it's not gonna be like Gadaffi, or Sankara time. Our eyes are open now."
**
Reply
22. benjimehh
"+Onye wuchi the problem with all leaders is that they have used their ego to corrupt themselves instead of use it as a tool, the predator is their own ego and now it's time to convert them and replace the leaders with better ones :)"
**
23. Neisha C
"Black people to nice to people who don't respect us, we have a big heart and that needs to change. Change is coming and the ancestors will be proud."
**
24. Omar AMNI
"Just a little and maybe insignificant point: the oldest university in the world is University of AL Qarawiyyin located in Fes (Morocco) , it was established in 859. The university of Tumbuktu was established in 982. Sources: Wikipedia."
**
25. kaluba wakunguma
"You know someone is speaking the dead cold truth when there is no clapping...Even though some people will argue against her in the comment section * WE SEE YOU* It's true
See how they sweat and the awkwardness in the room... Yes..that's guilt and fear
no matter what the the reason for against.,i understand half it will come from non-africans or westerners ... but that's because they refuse to acknowledge that half the privilege they enjoy , luxuries and all was at the expense of Africa and its people... black americans included
they will be quick to blame you,calling it our own failures.. see that is cowardice.
they will say we can,t progress without their technology or machines, but don,t worry,Africa is waking up to the deceit and that scares them.."
**
Reply
26. eys292
"What is your beef towards Black Americans??? What exactly did they do to be included in what you just said??"
**
Reply
27. kaluba wakunguma
"+eys292 I don't think you read correctly...I am referring to the African/black Americans who were used as slaves and whose labour literally built America."
**
28. EvilGeniusTheOne
"Does africa need the West? do we need anything from the west? Can we not establish our own markets and trade amongst each other since we have all the resources we need?........ i don't think we need any aid from the west.... the tools to build the futures we want for our countries and our families are in our minds and under our feet."
**
Reply
29. hatimjm1
"It is easier for you to travel to Europe than it is for you to travel within Africa. The West created travel restrictions that were maintained by African governments."
**
Reply
30. EvilGeniusTheOne
"that is very true its very difficult to travel within africa especially for an african"
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31. heinrich heinz
"It's an easy way to blame white people(the west), for the problems africans have solve these problems and do not complain. She said sierra leone is the richest country in the world (wrong : congo) , this is because the resources are valuable(in the modern industry : the west) . in a country without industry i would rather have a gun than a diamond. In fact the resources in the emirates are valuable , and they are one of the richest regions (strange no?). also the people who are draining resources out of africa (right now) aren't white people, they are chinese. There is a reason why europe is far more advanced than africa : it is not survival of the fittest , but survival of the most adaptable , even before colonial times. i do not understand why there is so much ignorance in this section of youtube."
**
32. Trell West
" "Human beings are supposed to reason and wish for a better future for the world" I love it"
**
33. Lorenzo Tosi
"Can somebody write down what she says between 5:12 and 5:40 ?
I get it, but I want to be sure about two or three words she used.
This talk is SUPER POWERFUL."
**
Reply
34. Suzanne Toure
"Well done Oxfam, Unicef, Red Cross, Life Aid, and all the other organizations that continuously run multi-million dollar advertisement campaigns depicting charity porn, to sustain that image of Africa, globally. Ad campaigns paid for by innocent people under the impression to help with their donations."
She was being sarcastic I guess. In a good way though just like her all speech depicts."
**
Reply
35. Lorenzo Tosi
"Thank you Suzanne!
I'm not sure she was sarcastic. Charity porn was the expression I wanted to be sure about, bcs it reflects some thoughs I had for a long time about these things, and I think the expression fits perfectly.
Thank you again!"
**
Reply
36. Suzanne Toure
"You are welcome Lorenzo.
The charity porn is what I interpreted as sarcasm in relation to all those NGOs.
The expression fits perfect! I watched the entire video 5 times, and I'm bookmarking it to share with my daughter when she'll start learning her history ;-)"
**
37. J CUDOS (Jérémie Beaulieu-Perrier)
"Did I hear right at 6:47 "...weaken Western economies established on the post-colonial free meal system."
If that is in fact what she said, does anyone know what the "free meal system" is? At first glance, google doesn't seem to have heard of it.
If you have relevant information please provide a link. Thanks!"
**
Reply
38. obl
"I believe she means the exploitation on African nations by the west under the mask of 'free meals' or charity"
**
39. Reply
J CUDOS (Jérémie Beaulieu-Perrier)
"+obl Thanks, that seems to make sense with the context. I thought "free meal system" was supposed to be a recognized economic concept rather than a turn of phrase.
**
40. Marwa Dridi
"This is the most powerful speech I've heard in a long time.
"The absence of donation produces quality in a self sufficient manner"
"Charity merely creates inferiority and dependency"
"Never see a lack, see abundance, always, everywhere...and watch the universe conspire"
So much energy in such a calm tone :)"
**
41. Marine D
"Hey guys! I really loved this video. What a speaker she is. Some of her comments have been pointed out in the past concerning South America (Eduardo Galeano the open veins of south america). But we do need more and more people to point out this hypocrisy. On another note: doesn anywone know the music that is playing around 10;30 ? i really like it !!! Thank you in advance!"
**
42. Vusumzi Ndude
"The naked truth versus a well dressed lie! Well said Mallance"
**
43. AK 1448
"I can see 25 unlikes for this!!!! Africans wake up!!!!!! DO YOU THINK THE UNLIKES CAME FROM AN AFRICAN????!!! STOP BEING NAIVE AND SEE HOW OTHER RACES IN REALITY TREAT YOU!!!!!! YOUR ARE NOTHING IN THE WORLD!!!! UNLESS U STOP BLEACHING,SNITCHING YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND STUDY UR HISTORY OF WHICH IS HIDDEN FROM YOU..."
**
44. Cori Jacobs
"Yes, yes she is a inspiration. Well well well said. Africa is not poor it's Rich!!!! It's not about Charity it's about Sharity. I love that."
**
45. msjayfree
"Brilliant talk! Responsibility, and accountability...fearless."
**
46. Michael Basra
"Off topic, but HER VOICE!! My god, like silk it is"
**
Reply
47. Bella DeViante
"was just thinking exactly that, she has a hypnotic quality to her voice. .."
**
Reply
48. kay k
"I agree"
**
49. Tasoi Ngo
"Mallance Mallance Mallance.... I LOVE YOU. Well said, Well Put and I love the calculated pauses...Impactful...You drive the point home ...I am speechless... I speak for your mothers of Africa....Bless the womb that bore you my dear. Asante sana!"
**
Mimi
" "Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation. Let your greatness blossom." TATA MADIBA (Nelson Mandela)."
**
51. Julius Okuto
"I like the TONE of the presentation. I refuse to call it powerful talk because the tone excavate the deeper meaning of the words spoken in between. The tone sympathizes with Africans without surrendering to the Western Economic Brutality. What makes this more profound is the question she posed, " How does the West make sure that the free Aid keep coming to them?????" and the answer is; "By systematically destabilizing the African wealthiest Nations." This, I say, is beyond powerful words. It is the awakening of the African Spirit and the silencing of the Western unfounded pride. It is directing the Africans towards the true enemy and a piecing and reconciling the same Africans' misdirected anger."
**
52. Paa Kwesi Inkumsah
"Mallence speaks of what is, the real picture as we have it in Africa. That a continent so rich yet wallows in abject poverty, a reality its people helped to create. The provocation in her speech, although subtle, must awaken the sleeping giants on the continent because the day Africa wakes up, the world will listen. There will always be people that would take advantage of the African situation if this renaissance doesn't happen and fast. Thanks Mallence for been a great ambassador of the continent. #wakeupAfrica"
**
53. Susan Abulhawa
"This is the best TED talk I’ve heard. Science lectures aside (which i value separately and differently), I’ve often felt that TED was a feel-good series where privileged people pat themselves on the back; and I longed for talks that challenged prevailing post-colonial narratives. In comes this brilliant woman."
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54. Khaldoun Azzam
"this lady talks about the west regimes and how it stoles the African Resources supplying their economy, While Africa endures of poverty and dictators regimes, and she points to the western PR campaigns the leave the world under the impression that Africa is poor and dying continent and merely surviving on the mercy of west."
**
55. Rabo Micah
"God bless you my sister."
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Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
Visitor comments are welcome.
This post showcases a video of a speech "Change Your Channel" by Mallence Bart William, a Sierra Leonean woman at TEDtalks Berlin (2015). Selected comments from this video's discussion thread are also included in this post.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and motivational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Mallence Bart Williams for her powerful talk. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the producer of this video on YouTube.
****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Change your channel - Mallence Bart Williams TEDtalks Berlin
Lyfeblood.com/DarcSun Entertainment, Published on May 25, 2015
See Mallence Bart Williams speak on the contradiction of charity sent to Africa, the need of Afrca's resources that supplies the world economy and how we change the way we view the way we "help" Africa and it's people.
****
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
Selected comments from this video's discussion thread are given in chronological order with the oldest comment given first, except for responses. However, these comments may not be in consecutive order. I've assigned numbers to these comments for referencing purposes only.
2015
1. Lutendo Modau
"Powerful talk!... I am soo inspired by this woman, with woman like this, Africa is in good hands, and the future looks more promising than ever... Well presented Mallance Bart-Williams"
**
Reply
2. Selmix Elmi
"+Lutendo Modau
Thank you so much. I said exactly that to my self. The day Africans wake up from their deep sleep."
**
3. Morris Hicks
"Is there a way I can get this in text format"
**
Reply
4. Colin Bellew [2016]
"+Morris Hicks click "more" for the transcript.if you use a smartphone you can copy and paste it"
**
5. Alisha McFarlane
"Preach it ! The best video I have ever seen"
**
6. Ian Tharp
"Teach them! Yes!"
**
7. Kilpatrick Jones
"ASE'
Absolutely amazing"
**
8. Lioness Izasha
"While one hand gives under the flashing lights of cameras the other takes in the shadows....It's super sweet of you to come with your coloured paper in exchange for gold and diamonds... #RealTalk"
**
9. Chloe Sachikonye
"Well spoken Mallence. And I love the attitude. You go girl!"
**
Reply
10. Nobubele Monica Mapetshana
"+Chloe Sachikonye u mean her zillion trillion confidence!!!, she's trully amazing!!!"
**
11. Sirak Bahlbi
"You must watch this. The way she delivered is exquisite. She hit the raw nerves and made the audience twitch in their sits. The philosophy and policy of Eritrea is now becoming widely accepted in Africa. The philosophy of self-reliance. Not very long to go before Africa's true freedom and prosperity arrives. She put it beautifully "... Why does 5000 Units of our Currency is worth 1 unit of your Currency while we have all the Gold and Diamond Reserves" "
****
2016
12. Gerald Ray
"It all starts with one bold individual. After watching this i can't help but think we've been asleep for a while now. This is a wake up call to take ownership of what is rightfully ours. Enough of the exploitation and low self esteem. Let us all stand up to the west and their atrocities. I'm with you Ms. Mallence Bart Williams. Africa is the FUTURE."
**
13. Yolande Perry
"Probably one of the best TEDtalks I've watched...Africans need to see Africa in our own eyes instead of the way in which the West portrays us."
**
14. Thabo Molefe
"Wow powerful, this is a must watch, she is straight to the point and got the audience frozen, excellent speech"
**
15. BlackCinemaClub
"Beyond amazing. The delivery of this presentation cuts like the sharpest of knives."
**
16. Khadijah Love
"Such a profound message with so. much love you delivered it. I am a Sierraleonean and proud to hear this..bringing this message to light just lifted y sprit..i thank you for your courage.. change is here for Africa. peace nd respect! 😊💝"
**
17. Iyabinghi Ashanti
"I Love this Sistah!!! I Love this Sistah!!! I Love this Sistah!!! Did I say how much I Love this Sistah!!! You talk to them my Sistah. You talk to them!!! Let them sit there and feel uncomfortable! Let them squirm Mallence! Let them hear the Afrikan woman speak TRUTH!!!"
**
18. Spacely Hendrix
"knowledge is power.. I love you sista for telling the truth... they brainwashed us many years n took our resources.. this is the age of information!!!!"
**
19. Onye wuchi
"God bless you my sister, you will live long.
African leaders are puppets to westerners, that's the problem"
**
20. JSings11
"The Ancestors are truly at this sistah's back. Abibifahodie!"
**
21. Onye wuchi
"... if any one of them wants to lead the way this time,am telling u it's not gonna be like Gadaffi, or Sankara time. Our eyes are open now."
**
Reply
22. benjimehh
"+Onye wuchi the problem with all leaders is that they have used their ego to corrupt themselves instead of use it as a tool, the predator is their own ego and now it's time to convert them and replace the leaders with better ones :)"
**
23. Neisha C
"Black people to nice to people who don't respect us, we have a big heart and that needs to change. Change is coming and the ancestors will be proud."
**
24. Omar AMNI
"Just a little and maybe insignificant point: the oldest university in the world is University of AL Qarawiyyin located in Fes (Morocco) , it was established in 859. The university of Tumbuktu was established in 982. Sources: Wikipedia."
**
25. kaluba wakunguma
"You know someone is speaking the dead cold truth when there is no clapping...Even though some people will argue against her in the comment section * WE SEE YOU* It's true
See how they sweat and the awkwardness in the room... Yes..that's guilt and fear
no matter what the the reason for against.,i understand half it will come from non-africans or westerners ... but that's because they refuse to acknowledge that half the privilege they enjoy , luxuries and all was at the expense of Africa and its people... black americans included
they will be quick to blame you,calling it our own failures.. see that is cowardice.
they will say we can,t progress without their technology or machines, but don,t worry,Africa is waking up to the deceit and that scares them.."
**
Reply
26. eys292
"What is your beef towards Black Americans??? What exactly did they do to be included in what you just said??"
**
Reply
27. kaluba wakunguma
"+eys292 I don't think you read correctly...I am referring to the African/black Americans who were used as slaves and whose labour literally built America."
**
28. EvilGeniusTheOne
"Does africa need the West? do we need anything from the west? Can we not establish our own markets and trade amongst each other since we have all the resources we need?........ i don't think we need any aid from the west.... the tools to build the futures we want for our countries and our families are in our minds and under our feet."
**
Reply
29. hatimjm1
"It is easier for you to travel to Europe than it is for you to travel within Africa. The West created travel restrictions that were maintained by African governments."
**
Reply
30. EvilGeniusTheOne
"that is very true its very difficult to travel within africa especially for an african"
**
31. heinrich heinz
"It's an easy way to blame white people(the west), for the problems africans have solve these problems and do not complain. She said sierra leone is the richest country in the world (wrong : congo) , this is because the resources are valuable(in the modern industry : the west) . in a country without industry i would rather have a gun than a diamond. In fact the resources in the emirates are valuable , and they are one of the richest regions (strange no?). also the people who are draining resources out of africa (right now) aren't white people, they are chinese. There is a reason why europe is far more advanced than africa : it is not survival of the fittest , but survival of the most adaptable , even before colonial times. i do not understand why there is so much ignorance in this section of youtube."
**
32. Trell West
" "Human beings are supposed to reason and wish for a better future for the world" I love it"
**
33. Lorenzo Tosi
"Can somebody write down what she says between 5:12 and 5:40 ?
I get it, but I want to be sure about two or three words she used.
This talk is SUPER POWERFUL."
**
Reply
34. Suzanne Toure
"Well done Oxfam, Unicef, Red Cross, Life Aid, and all the other organizations that continuously run multi-million dollar advertisement campaigns depicting charity porn, to sustain that image of Africa, globally. Ad campaigns paid for by innocent people under the impression to help with their donations."
She was being sarcastic I guess. In a good way though just like her all speech depicts."
**
Reply
35. Lorenzo Tosi
"Thank you Suzanne!
I'm not sure she was sarcastic. Charity porn was the expression I wanted to be sure about, bcs it reflects some thoughs I had for a long time about these things, and I think the expression fits perfectly.
Thank you again!"
**
Reply
36. Suzanne Toure
"You are welcome Lorenzo.
The charity porn is what I interpreted as sarcasm in relation to all those NGOs.
The expression fits perfect! I watched the entire video 5 times, and I'm bookmarking it to share with my daughter when she'll start learning her history ;-)"
**
37. J CUDOS (Jérémie Beaulieu-Perrier)
"Did I hear right at 6:47 "...weaken Western economies established on the post-colonial free meal system."
If that is in fact what she said, does anyone know what the "free meal system" is? At first glance, google doesn't seem to have heard of it.
If you have relevant information please provide a link. Thanks!"
**
Reply
38. obl
"I believe she means the exploitation on African nations by the west under the mask of 'free meals' or charity"
**
39. Reply
J CUDOS (Jérémie Beaulieu-Perrier)
"+obl Thanks, that seems to make sense with the context. I thought "free meal system" was supposed to be a recognized economic concept rather than a turn of phrase.
**
40. Marwa Dridi
"This is the most powerful speech I've heard in a long time.
"The absence of donation produces quality in a self sufficient manner"
"Charity merely creates inferiority and dependency"
"Never see a lack, see abundance, always, everywhere...and watch the universe conspire"
So much energy in such a calm tone :)"
**
41. Marine D
"Hey guys! I really loved this video. What a speaker she is. Some of her comments have been pointed out in the past concerning South America (Eduardo Galeano the open veins of south america). But we do need more and more people to point out this hypocrisy. On another note: doesn anywone know the music that is playing around 10;30 ? i really like it !!! Thank you in advance!"
**
42. Vusumzi Ndude
"The naked truth versus a well dressed lie! Well said Mallance"
**
43. AK 1448
"I can see 25 unlikes for this!!!! Africans wake up!!!!!! DO YOU THINK THE UNLIKES CAME FROM AN AFRICAN????!!! STOP BEING NAIVE AND SEE HOW OTHER RACES IN REALITY TREAT YOU!!!!!! YOUR ARE NOTHING IN THE WORLD!!!! UNLESS U STOP BLEACHING,SNITCHING YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND STUDY UR HISTORY OF WHICH IS HIDDEN FROM YOU..."
**
44. Cori Jacobs
"Yes, yes she is a inspiration. Well well well said. Africa is not poor it's Rich!!!! It's not about Charity it's about Sharity. I love that."
**
45. msjayfree
"Brilliant talk! Responsibility, and accountability...fearless."
**
46. Michael Basra
"Off topic, but HER VOICE!! My god, like silk it is"
**
Reply
47. Bella DeViante
"was just thinking exactly that, she has a hypnotic quality to her voice. .."
**
Reply
48. kay k
"I agree"
**
49. Tasoi Ngo
"Mallance Mallance Mallance.... I LOVE YOU. Well said, Well Put and I love the calculated pauses...Impactful...You drive the point home ...I am speechless... I speak for your mothers of Africa....Bless the womb that bore you my dear. Asante sana!"
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Mimi
" "Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation. Let your greatness blossom." TATA MADIBA (Nelson Mandela)."
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51. Julius Okuto
"I like the TONE of the presentation. I refuse to call it powerful talk because the tone excavate the deeper meaning of the words spoken in between. The tone sympathizes with Africans without surrendering to the Western Economic Brutality. What makes this more profound is the question she posed, " How does the West make sure that the free Aid keep coming to them?????" and the answer is; "By systematically destabilizing the African wealthiest Nations." This, I say, is beyond powerful words. It is the awakening of the African Spirit and the silencing of the Western unfounded pride. It is directing the Africans towards the true enemy and a piecing and reconciling the same Africans' misdirected anger."
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52. Paa Kwesi Inkumsah
"Mallence speaks of what is, the real picture as we have it in Africa. That a continent so rich yet wallows in abject poverty, a reality its people helped to create. The provocation in her speech, although subtle, must awaken the sleeping giants on the continent because the day Africa wakes up, the world will listen. There will always be people that would take advantage of the African situation if this renaissance doesn't happen and fast. Thanks Mallence for been a great ambassador of the continent. #wakeupAfrica"
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53. Susan Abulhawa
"This is the best TED talk I’ve heard. Science lectures aside (which i value separately and differently), I’ve often felt that TED was a feel-good series where privileged people pat themselves on the back; and I longed for talks that challenged prevailing post-colonial narratives. In comes this brilliant woman."
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54. Khaldoun Azzam
"this lady talks about the west regimes and how it stoles the African Resources supplying their economy, While Africa endures of poverty and dictators regimes, and she points to the western PR campaigns the leave the world under the impression that Africa is poor and dying continent and merely surviving on the mercy of west."
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55. Rabo Micah
"God bless you my sister."
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