Who or What is Black?

[SincereJustice]

I was watching this video of this guy named Supreme Understanding on YouTube. He says pretty much all people of color are black. What do you think of that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ftfLC3uiE

[akillerkidofcolor]

wow interesting...
idk somewhat true.
really thought provoking.

[LesYpersound]

@ 3:33 - so, basically, white ppl's oppression defines blackness >> political blackness. i don't know why this guy needs to CLAIM blackness though when there's a healthy tradition of righteous struggle in his own culture and history (looks to be south asian maybe). be comfortable from where ever you come from.

@ 5:54 - all white ppl are aliens/non-human and are never, ever oppressed ... bleah, ppl ought to acknowledge class issues and unite folk who're oppressed to take down a system that's always been about power, money, and control -- race is the divider, the interference, some catnip to distract from the real issues...

@ 8:25 - re: WWII japanese being w/ black people... uhm. not historically accurate--imperial japan's conquest of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific was all about creating an empire worthy of the "superior" japanese race. imperial japan was apart of the Axis Powers (Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy) they brutally raped, forced incest btwn parents & children before execution, experimented and tortured POWs & civilians, and of course gleefully murdered civilians that they saw as mud people (e.g. anyone not japanese).

but, whatever. just saying. japanese ppl aren't on black folk side and they weren't bombed b/c they stood up to the White Man.

[maria]

who is this man?

[El Machetero]

i don't know who he is personally, but by his name and some of the phraseology he uses, i can tell he is a member of the Nation of Gods and Earths, aka a Five Percenter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation_of_Gods_and_Earths

i know what his angle is and i don't have a problem with it per se, and i dig his "colour, culture and consciousness" concept, although one very unpopular opinion i harbour is that the whole concept of Blackness is basically only defined as such in relation to "whiteness", which therefore, in a subtle but no less twisted kinda way, still basically puts white people at the centre of the universe, and does little to question or undermine their power to define and categorize the rest of us.

Don't get me wrong.....i fully get how Blackness means different things to different people and how the concept has obviously taken on a far greater life of its own since that original colonial period when such definitions and classifications were first invented, but i think that too many basic questions of that sort are never examined properly.

And i agree, folks should read books those books by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima he mentions, such as "African Presence In Early Asia/Europe/America." Serious eye opening facts in there.

[kifaru]

Knowledge, Knowledge God!

I ain't mad at him but his rhetoric is only on point to the ignorant or a person "searching" for something. I've been one of those searching folks before and this guy's intentions may be good but he's spewing alot of stuff that has little or no value to the well read. May god bless him for his good intentions.

[Compound Egret]

Pretty interesting. I can appreciate the sentiment, but my thing is give up some game and bring other people in. If you are ethnically a south asian, but consider yourself "Black", bring some of the good game from your ethnic group with you. That could be tutoring math, science, engineering, money management, vouching for brothers and bringing them into business ventures, so on and so on. You accomplish two things...you help to build capital in the "Black" community and you hopefully help to break down those barriers you were talking about.

Also impressive that Supreme was driving the whole time.