Why I Changed the Channel Name: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/is2ShdNe1qmylps.html I’ve been in the process of moving back to the US in order to start my Master’s. Thank you to everyone for your patience :) -Will

I love how you bring obscure ideas in dense books to life and make them more accessible. Also, as I always say, the politicians are usually the last to the party.

It's astounding to me the act of _ending_ segregation, _forcing_ people to live and work in their designated area, could have been described as tyranny by people like Wallace. Segregation was the tyrannical act, not ending it. And what I find even more horrific is that, today, there are still a significant number of people in this country that don't seem to realize that fact.

It may take a while for a new video to come out, but when they are uploaded they never dissepoint me!

Great video, you do such a good job of breaking down topics that are complicated and rarely discussed :D

Interesting video. JFK is one of my favorite US president and although he played an important role in the passage of the Civil Rights Bill (his 1963 speech and his death), his record on Civil Rights was average at best. Unlike some of his predecessors, I don't think that JFK was a racist. But I do think he saw the whole civil rights issue as an annoyance. JFK was after all a more foreign policy president than a domestic one. Sure if a domestic issue had enough support, he was a type of politican that could adapt and suddenly support that issue. And until the university of Alabama incident and the 1963 speech, I don't think he took the Civil rights issue as serious as he should have. As good as a legislatior LBJ was, I honestly don't think LBJ would have passed the Civil rights bill if it was not for JFK being assassinated and him being able to frame the debate by making the bill part of JFK's legacy. At least not as soon as he did because it's was the same Congress as the one JFK dealt with in 1963. And apparently LBJ didn't want to have civil rights as a campaign issue during election hence his rush in passing the bill as quick as possible. Which does make sense considering who he was running again. Anyway I did like the video and I will be subscribing. Keep up the good work!

it is easy to forget that the president's job is to represent his population. Even if the population is racist, he must represent them too. Ideally, apresident is simply of the voice of his people. If his people are racist president needs to be racists as well, even if he personally knows it is evil. At 11.12 you mentioned that before Bermigham only 4% of Americans believed civil rights was the priority. He acted when 52% of Americans wanted him to act. He was doing his job. It is up to society to grow and then govenment reflects this grows in laws, not other way around.

Well done. But there are a couple of facts on JFK's side. One, giving the June Civil Rights speech did not help him politically. Until early 1963 JFK's Gallup numbers hovered around 70%; by September his poll numbers dipped to the mid 50s. He suspected that the Civil Right speech might hurt his poll numbers, but made the speech anyway (evidently through the prodding of his brother). Another fact to consider is that without JFK's death the 1964 Civil Rights bill would have never passed (probably 1965's Voting Rights Act too). LBJ used his predecessor's martyrdom to shame recalcitrant Congress members into voting for HR-5271, a bill, by the way, written by a Republican from Ohio, Rep. Bill McCollough (the scion of abolishionists).

Great video. I don't know much about American politics, mainly because I'm Dutch, but it is interesting to see that after all this time racial tensions is still very high. Not only towards black, but also towards whites. It's like a catfight, (mostly) both wanting equal rights, but at the same time fighting and destroying one another. But, under my youth, racial violence is getting lower. It are just the extremists that do not know how to stop. And I live under this moral code: As long as people do okay/nice to you, you do okay/nice back. No hate until they would 100% hate you. And if you do not like the person, then walk away from it and let it go.

He's back! Glad to see you amongst the living. And yeah, the name change fits your channel well

JFK was a minor hero to King's real heroism, but to say JFK was no hero when he was an adept political player who had to let the facts sink into what are status quo people the majority of people. King was absolutely right about 'wait' meaning 'never' and that direct action being absolutely necessary at times, but JFK wanted things to stay civil enough for the status quo people to get on board.

Little late to the party but I really, really loved this piece. My favorite line is when you stated that any time someone told the Black American to wait and hold off...it always meant "never." Brilliantly stated and brilliantly proven. Even Johnson had to face the same protests and wanted "hold off" but when he saw that it would go the same way as Pres. Kennedy he got behind the 1964 Civil Rights law and the rest is history.

You're videos are amazing. As a person who is really into politics and history, your channel is a gold mine. You really can portray history from the perspective of the people from back then, not your own, when you know what happened. Waiting on your next video and hoping on a Q&A and the next part on the Russian revolution.

Politicians are the same no matter the color

Outstanding and profound. Thanks for giving me something to ponder over for a few days. As an uncommitted liberal born in Huntsville Alabama, raised in Tenn/Bama/Georgia, and currently living in Southern California I have often thought of these issues. It's a shame that the tension still exists and is so strong in the South. I wonder what the world would be like if King hadn't been assassinated. Was his death the needed catalyst for the cause or did it deify him much like Kennedy and Lincoln?

A protagonist is merely the focus of a story, not necessarily a morally good character.

This channel is one of the best: Analytical, smart, but intriguing enought for my ADHD self. Welcome back!

Funnily enough even though I already researched this topic I still watched this vid just because of the quality of your vids

Wow! Your argument was multi-faceted and very graceful! I was almost going to root for Kennedy's civil rights reform but then you pulled the plug again...with great evidence to back it up! Well done sir.

I find the notion of requiring a permit to march to be highly abhorrent. Recall the 1st Amendment that it is the RIGHT of the people to peacably address the government for redress of grievance. Doesn't say anything about permits.

“In order to figure out, we need to go deeper” *turns phone sideways*

Fairly new to your channel but love the content, plenty of details without giving fact overload. Keep up the excellent work , you have a subscriber in me

I agree with you on this. I admire JFK greatly but always knew he never emphazied with the blacks. I think however he knew that civil rights was an issue he couldn't ignore. Had he lived, he would have bowed to poltical pressure and helped out the blacks as lbj did. JFK would have had a real HARD time doing so in the south, but i think he would have got it passed in the end.---even though he didn't want to lol

Very fascinating; I'm not an American (I'm German) and had a less reflective mental image of JFK. Good stuff. Also it'll take a bit to get used to the new channel name but I fully understand your reasoning for changing it.

As always, your channel has outstanding content and meticulous detail. Good luck in graduate school, I started grad school in August as well ☺️

Hi Will!

Really interesting video but what was the piano piece at the end of the video played over the march on Washington just i cant find it in the description with the other music and I really want to know what it was.

Great story Will, demonstrating the power of, well, demonstrating ... by any chance have you listened to Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast. There is an interesting episode related to this (S2 E4: The Foot Soldier of Birmingham)? It actually to the photo you showed at 11:14

Just wanted to say your video didn't appear on my alerts even though I am subscribed to you, I have just recently become aware of your new vid.

Wieder ein super Video. Immer cool deine Videos zu sehen!

Forgot how much I loved the ending of your videos

King was a Marxist. Sad but true. This broke my heart when i heard it, and continued to do so when i researched it myself. Take it as you will. Truth will always out.

I don't know why, but I thought that it said "why mlk opposed the march on washington." I was really confused.

A historian named Dallek, “HISTORICAL INACCURACIES WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!!!”

Excellent video!

Really good keep up the good work

Hey Will! Wonderful video as usual. Putting aside the wonderful exploration ;) of this topic you've put forth, I want to compliment your music choices!

I learn so much from you I never knew

Great stuff here, Will.

Bloody hell i am just encountering this channel! Brilliant stuff all round

You can cherry pick all of the quotes and aspects of it that you like in retrospect. Doesn't mean you have the first idea as to what you're speaking about. People at the time did not feel as you're portraying here. Say anything you like in hindsight, doesn't mean you're even close to being correct.

Absolutely brilliant! You help us understand the past so we can better try to figure out what’s going on right now.

Thank you for the work you put into these videos! I love educational channels and I really think you have one of the most quality political history channels here.

You make him out to be evil, he was obviously for civil rights but, his vision for how it should be achieved was different and kinda stupid... but still.

One of your best. Keep it up man!

maybe JFK getting clapped in Dallas wasn't such a bad thing.

Brillaint videos mate! well presnetd and explained. Kepp up the good work mate.

Good job will 😊

Good work my dude 👂🏾🧠❤️👀🙏🏿

thank you for sharing!

Great episode demythologizing JFK's role in civil rights. Eventually, Lyndon Johnson would get enforceable Federal legislation on civil rights which superseded local and state law. King's and Johnson's actions far outweighed any act of JFK's. Your work is much more valuable than Doris Kearns Goodwin's myths of JFK's greatness.

this has a very high quality, you should extend it to a MLK video of 2 hours. His death means probably a extreme slowdown in civil rights, Vietnam war and fight to poverty

Awesome video thanks for posting it.

Incredible video! Loved it.

Hey, great video! Keep it up!

Man, your stuff is just awesome, great love for you and your work from Russia. It even brings some memories back from days i was in Russian military, it takes some huge balls to oppose system and corrupt people who just cant understand importance of RIGHTS.

Great video, thanks.

Great piece and great work as always. In this story, are you concerned that you are drawing conclusions from opinions? Dallek for instance - He made an assumption about's Kennedy's empathy based on his privileged life. Doesn't mean a man can't feel. Secondly the critique on Kennedy trying to discourage the march. Didn't he meet with the organizers? Thirdly, he addressed the issues and considered a calculated approach to resolve them. Here we are, what 54 years later, looking back and deducing what?... writers' collected thoughts, analysis and conclusions. You take them and create a lesson of denigration. Those were my formative years and i remember them, first hand, alongside my black and white, Catholic, protestant and Jewish neighbors. When I here Kennedy reference the fishbowl and the Founding documents, I don't consider that approach politics. I consider them to be a moralist approach. Yes Kennedy was a womanizer. But as a leader he spoke to the issues of civil rights, confronted convention, and applied lessons of conscience with a modicum of practicality. It is your show and your effort, and I salute them both, and appreciate you bringing the level of honesty and critical thinking to bear. It's easy for me to comment. But i hope you don't mind me doing so. Kennedy, in spite of his shortfalls was a positive agent of change. When we listened to hom speak, as we Martin Luther King, and to a different degree Malcom X we felt. These feeling appealed to our sense of right and wrong. It gave us pause, and for some of us, connecting through or pastors and rabbis, increased our empathy, our sympathy, our respect, and our love for one another. We found our black brothers and sisters waiting to welcome us, and we all, for a while, made the world a better place. Those who didn't get the message still don't, and there were far more of them than us, and those of who lost our way through Viet Nams, Watergates, bubbles, bursts and Bush, the first black president and fifteen years of war, and now Trump. Maybe the real issue is not looking back critically at Kennedy, warts and all, but why it did not work, and with eight years of African American leadership, it only got worse. I've often asked myself why. And I'm sad to say, your critique should focus on the democrats, from the 60s on, white and black. I wish you could go back to that day, when the principal walked in to the class room and called Sister away, and she came back crying and lead us in the rosary, sent us home early. When I got back to the projects, the women were all sobbing, black and white together. They cried again when they shot Martin. and we kids played kick ball in the alley. You piece missed that with all its, I'll call it "intellectuocity".

Can't say that I agree with all of your interpretations.

After all, politics lead not society; it is downstream from society and its culture. Change from below drives it upwards.

He lives!

Illuminating as always, glad to see you sticking to your guns.

Another great video will, direct. action. works. folks.

incredibly well made debunking of the myth that is jfk.

QUALITY CONTENT

why focusing so hardly on JFK's mild approaches about the Black people??? what do you want to prove? Were the other presidents so performant in that regard? but it looks like it is a club here and most of the commentaries are admirative of this video... if i could resume my intervention, i'd say JFK went as far as the Americans were willing to go. This is what we call "real politik". And if you go too far as a president, you end up like JFK...

I know there's millions of videos of this out there but can u do a video of the whole Israeli and Palestinian thing?

A good video, nicely narrated and edited but, the whole presidency was a juggling act, you may say that one of the reasons this guy was shot, was his stance on civil rights, one which enabled support to remove him. You can read about what happened to Abraham Bolden, the first African American secret service agent, jfk was despised by the rest of the secret service for employing him. Ultimately JFK, MLK and RFK paid the price for being brave against America's core which was opposed to equality and justice for all of its citizens. Ultimately, it's impossible to rule over so many people and such a vast territory and keep all happy. To put things in perspective, MLK credited JFK with saving his life, that night he was arrested and detained. Try having the CIA lying to you about Cuba, the joint chiefs pushing for all-out war with the Soviets, the Wall Street and steel crisis created to leverage the president and living under constant threat of assassination. He paid the same price as King. He only had Lyndon Johnson as VP because he carried the southern votes, JFK hated Texas and the southern backward mentality, he was a supporter and admirer of Lincoln. It was a very tragic decade of American history, but some change was brought, but, people paid in blood.

The privileged are the slowest to recognize the inequalities in society. Kennedy was privileged,never faced racism in his childhood or in his family.

Because he was a Nazi didn't you watch the Simpsons?

Thanks for sharing 🙃

France treatment except black soldiers as equal, not Americans

Well, marches on the capital are never a purely positive event.

Good work, but JFK was shallower than he appeared, thus, he did nothing for anyone who wasn't a Kennedy.

8:30. Old Seth Meyers?!

I love these motherfucking videos man.

JFK was a (my) hero. Fast forward 55 years - now protesters blockade Disneyland with primal screams. And the 'light of the world' descends into the jungle abyss.

This is why I find "moderates" so frustrating.

So he's Clinton before Clinton.

The moral leader of our nation:A man whose wife had to have the courts seal his sex tape recordings for 50 years.

It seems slightly historically inaccurate to say "southern" senators. When it was more correctly Southern Democrats. Likewise it was not Southern Whites but Southern Democrats who opposed Civil rights. Kennedy did not like Johnson a southern Democrat. But choose him because he needed Texas to win the Election. And to garner southern Democrat votes. As it was still Southern Democrats in Miss and Alabama rejected Kennedy for the Democrat Robert Byrd. Johnson called Kennedy an Irish Mobster. Kennedy and Johnson were dragged to Civil Rights by the Republicans in Congress.

Meanwhile in soviet union every ethnicity (over 150 too be exact) and even woman etanded university half of the engineers and scientists there were female.... more educated citizens = less racism lower unemployment rate and equal grounds.

Because he had bad feet.

Woo hoo new vid!

There were a lot of false facts

Even the greatest ones...fail

Well, aren't we a Republican!

Excellent video. I see some parallels between the arguments used by some to justify some current events. Although when you analyze the reasoning of today's activists and the activists of those earlier times you see a clear distinction: they actually had valid arguments to organize rallies and protests back then.

Have you been to Detroit, lately? It might be JFK thought black integration might be "cultural society suicide" and not "political campaign suicide"

Hey Hey Hey! What happened to the Political Junkie?

He was the best democrat president ever was

my father was a veteran and had what he called the 1/6 th or 16% rule. his belief was that any entity, organization, work environment, school system etc, etc, was greater than 16% black it will fail because of the genetic emotional and intellectual limitations of the african/ african american. after 34 yrs of adult life i see what he meant. js

JFK: Hey! Martin Luther King, do you want to have some fun? MLK: Umm... Check out this video. JFK: What? MLK: It's a propaganda which it said that I'll fight against you for racism. JFK: What? I didn't promote racism. MLK: Yes. But I mean, this is a documentary video which was made by Lyndon B. Johnson. **Lyndon B. Johnson is running away with a documentary script. Then JFK follows and chases him while holding up a table.** JFK (being furious): GET BACK HERE!!! I'LLL SMASH YOU WITH THIS TABLE!!!!!

When you quote Sen Russell as for civil rights it is obvious you are very ill-informed. Maybe you have heard of the solid south .Read something not written by Black Lives Matter

A better question is why JFK and LBJ voted against the earlier civil rights act in the Eisenhower administration. JFK sucked.

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