• l’année dernière
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00:02 - When we think of the history of racism in this country,
00:06 we're really thinking of the history of power.
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00:13 - There is a myth about the founding of this country.
00:17 People want to erase American history as it truly was.
00:22 (bouffement)
00:24 - Racist ideas of African people
00:27 were the first to be recognized.
00:30 - This beastly worthy of enslavement
00:33 started circulating.
00:35 - And it worked.
00:36 (bouffement)
00:38 (musique rythmée)
00:41 - What happens when we tell these myths
00:44 about who black people are
00:46 and what their role in American society is,
00:49 it is crucial that we pay attention to it.
00:52 - These stories all about what's wrong with black people
00:56 are ramifications because of the amount of people
00:59 who have bought into the myth.
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01:04 - If you make us the threat,
01:06 then you remove our humanity.
01:08 (musique rythmée)
01:10 - It justifies all kinds of horrific actions.
01:14 (musique rythmée)
01:17 - How are we intentionally questioning
01:20 what is being given to us and what we are ingesting?
01:23 - We who have suffered at this are now saying to you,
01:27 "Civilize yourself."
01:29 (musique rythmée)
01:31 - The myth of black inferiority is destroyed.
01:34 (musique rythmée)
01:37 - I love all of the things that blackness has given America,
01:40 whether or not America acknowledges it.
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