Akyrah34 Vigier Joseph Mankiewicz was also the one who directed Sidney Poirier in his first film "No Way Out", a movie that took a provocative look at race relations.

+Jacolby Green It is "shameful" that this speech remains so resonant today.

+Jacolby Green His speech will remain relevant until things change. In fact the rights hard won by the back woking class are being taken back. I think the argument now has to include class. Since James Baldwin, the establishment has created space for a new black middle class, out of necessity, and I think the black middle class are guided by self interest. Where are today's James Baldwins? Have they all joined the establishment? Under Eric Holder former black Attorney General, the Black liberation icon Assata Shakur is a terrorist. She was added to the FBI “Most Wanted Terrorist” list. Why are the Panthers and other political prisoners still locked up in prison in solitary confinement for over 30 years?

James Mac Great point.

+James Mac "White guilt is dying" --good. No one should be hostage to something they didn't do. If your sibling or parent was a serial killer (and you had no knowledge), should you, your kids, grand kids be held liable and in contempt indefinitely?

Agent Smidt Hostage? So racist white people are racist because the are hostage as results of sins of their fathers?

Joseph Léon. Great individual...very inspiring and motivating

Stay Fly ???????

commodus What's up?!

And the question is still the same as the one Baldwin points out at the end. It is nothing to do with who such terms label, or the difference between black and white, but to do with the drive to exclude and stigmatise groups, and to maintain the position and feelings of superiority of the dominant group. The same issue that also underpins the stigmatisation of 'immigrants' and the 'underclass' today

D Stu If you look back in history the same supremacist tendencies could be seen in situations like the relationship between the Romans and the Celts of northern Europe. Now back then it wasn't based on race but more of a sense of cultural superiority. Human beings have a biological impulse towards tribalism and racism plays off of this tribalism. The tribalism was already there and the European invention of race gave it justification and allowed it to fester.

Completely agree. And to deal with/diminish racism this needs to be fully acknowledged. Baldwin actually also made a similar point in his criticism of Uncle Tom's Cabin, that, among other problems, it never asks the question as to why white people were manifesting these forms of behaviour. We need to stop trying to only condemn racism, or to deal with it only on a moral level, and understand it as a product of humans and social organisation, and how this results in social hierarchies

I would do him in a heart beat

Ha! me too!

HE was SOO BEAUTIFUL! 🔥😏

I do love Brando❤

+Lisa Jackson If you listen closely, They were putting black people secondly not first. They said thought it was about all people. But all people were not on the back of the bus or not allowed to got to the university. Or had to use the black bathroom. It was all word games. Charlton Heston proved to be a very racist man after the fact.

Heston had Alheimaz....

Elle Morgan what did he do?

Lisa Jackson, I experienced those times and civil rights was a popular cause celebre to be a part of then. There were so many famous people who marched and were a part of the civil rights movement of all races. The more popular side is the one that is spoken of here, yes even among the masses...not even close.

That is because racism is nowhere near as prevalent in today's America.

he was the only one on that table who wanted to look at the mechanism of human hate

This was about the civil rights march on Washington ?

The Black panelists concentrated on the day and what this march on Washington meant to Black people in the USA, that day! The lack of dealing with the racial problem at hand that day is why there was a march of 200k Black souls !

We had a lifesize Marlin sculpture on our North Hollywood dwelling wall called Marlon .

You touch my heart

We need more of this now more than ever for people to stand up for what is right and beneficial for the good of this country and for all the freedoms that all citizens of this country deserve and our country now as it stands needs this all of our problems climate change gun violence racism inequalities wage disparity have to be addressed God bless these wonderful men

well said

Henry Ovalles reality tv is a television show for a reason. Wow

Toni Francis The sad part is, here we are 55 years later still having racial issues!

just thinking the same when I was watching.

smh

Yup.

smh

ninosimone x unfortunately it's still relevant.

Bruno my comment was to say how sad the world is ..how the system is still ugly..we must continue to talk about it..I agree

Not true - you can hear this level of dialogue today - it all depends whether you can be bothered to seek it out

Look what the coward US government did when their greatest ever athlete spoke up. Rejected him the very next second, and for what? For an unjust and aimless war that they had no business getting involved with in the first place

Poor millenial 🤦🏻‍♂️ Marlon Brando was a genius as an actor and also as a human being. Wikipedia? seriously ? You better go read a book on Brando's biography.

@@capitanfuturo594 His daughter would have begged to differ.

@@capitanfuturo594 yeah Wikipedia about him really wild and too much gossip and there are Soo many bad biografi too about him. only his autobiography and his documentary tape i trust.

she was mentally ill....

+cromagnum yes

These issues are not trivial enough for popular talk shows

We used to have discussions like this on talk shows that’s why they were called talk shows. Nowadays these talkshows, I just vehicles for celebrities to plug the latest book the latest concert tour, their blog or podcast to gain soundbites for their next political or celebrity show and it’s seen as a self promotional tool talk shows in the old days were meant to be thought-provoking and informative because you wanted people to gain information and insight. It seems the populace with a lot more literate also.

As a whole people are way too impatient nowadays to even endure, a show like this people would be complaining that it takes too long. Why don’t they get to the point blah blah blah because people in this culture like excitement they like controversy they like noise they like conflict and soundbites not information

U mean technology isnt advancing our culture??......awwwwww maaaaaaaaan.

what a stupid example

Paris Hilton Sez the gal who named herself after an ubertwat.

Rest In Peace 1/7/2021

And giving them thirty minutes without interruption! The media today has been corrupted, and this is a big part of the problem.

Did you know that James Baldwin and Marlon Brando use to live together for 4 years. I found this out last week; while writing my paper on literary influences. I chose James Baldwin and his work A Talk To Teachers.

what is your source?

Baldwin befriended actor Marlon Brando in 1944 and the two were roommates for a time.[Field-Douglas 2009]. They remained friends for more than twenty years.

They were lovers, too.

They can't it was a theory.

He’s very smart I love him and Toni Morrison 🤎

Carol Levison Mankiewicz was way ahead of his time. He wanted Dorothy Dandridge as the lead in Cleopatra.

...when brando was speaking about native american rights

John Wayne is a racist who cares what he would have said

OakhillSailor Who should be at the table now ? 2018..who's worthy?

This level of debate is not lacking today - however, seeking it out requires effort

@@BernieHollandMusic and THAT is the point! These debates used to be featured on the major TV networks, now they are buried away on obscure cable/satelitte stations and on the internet. Fewer people are aware of their existence or access them. Back in the day these high profile debates did have an impact on an important section of the viewership of the big channels, providing water cooler discussion points.

Sidney Poitier (90) and Harry Belafonte (90) are both still very much alive!

It's 2022 and it's gotten worse

MLK also dead. Malcom X also murdered. The casualties of this war are still being murdered by scared bigots.

Context is usually the first casualty of history.