Posted on 07/01/2012 9:01:49 PM PDT by MaryLou1
I should NOT watch pbs but I did :(
Full Show: Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past June 29, 2012Bill opens this weekend’s Moyers & Company with a reminder that behind this Fourth of July holiday are human beings, like Thomas Jefferson, who were as flawed and conflicted as they were inspired, who espoused great humanistic ideals while behaving with reprehensible racial discrimination. That conflict – between what we know and how we live – is still a struggle in contemporary politics and society.
No stranger to the contradictions of history and their racial touchpoints is Bill’s studio guest Khalil Gibran Muhammad, head of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and author of The Condemnation of Blackness. Muhammad and Moyers discuss the importance of confronting the contradictions of America’s past to better understand present issues of race and equality.
you can see the whole show at the url if you want to
I thought that's why inspiration was needed: that fallible human beings are flawed and conflicted.
“who were as flawed and conflicted as they were inspired”
Ah, if only those miserable Founders had been as pure of character as men like Fidel, Che, Uncle Ho and Uncle Joe!
Contradictions - oh yeah, the unctious, holier-than-thou Moyers who was behind the disgraceful 1964 “Barry Goldwater will blow up this little girl with an atomic bomb” ad for Johnson, and helped displace the rightfully elected Georgia delegation of delegates for one more friendly to Johnson - and also less black - at the ‘64 ‘rat convention - I doubt that he talked much about those “contradictions”.....
book review at amazon
“A dazzling study that illuminates a great deal about the social construction of black criminality. Muhammad does a superb job of explicating the role that social scientists, journalists, and reformers played in creating the idea of the black criminal and sustaining racial inequality. This important book is a vital contribution to our understanding of the role of racism in American society.
—Aldon D. Morris, author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement”
explication aka explaining-nice esoteric choice of words
this book has more reviews than reader comments
it would have maybe been helpful 20 years ago, but not now, not now
Bill MOyers should have a show about how his former boss LBJ stole elections in Texas.
I KNEW I shouldn’t have watched PBS - especially moyers!
aposiopetic:
“who were as flawed and conflicted as they were inspired
I thought that’s why inspiration was needed: that fallible human beings are flawed and conflicted.”
excellent!
He left politics because the Johnson people could not stand him. Totally self-absorbed, totally self-righteous.
Moyers is one of the reasons that I have a hard and fast rule. 1. Never vote for a preacher. 2. Absoulutely never vote for a Baptist Preacher. 3. If you must vote for a preacher it is preferable to vote for a Jesuit over a Baptist, you know what you’re getting with the Jesuit, so you want be disappointed.
Race race race I am sooooo sick of race, I am sooo sick of overgrown babies making everything about race because they’re too stupid to deal with real issues and matters in life, what’s next, Christmas is racist because Santa Claus, St Nicholas are white? I would kill myself if I woke up every morning looking for problems and racism everywhere, I wish all these race hustlers would just drive their own selves nuts before they drive the rest of us nuts!!!! Sheesh, I am SO OVER race issues, I have RACE FATIGUE!!!!
That’s implied upon mention of the name.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
How very not original....
I caught a second or so of this while flipping through he channels.
I had forgotten what an Ass Moyers is.
LOL!
Newton Minow was right.
I wonder if he’s a FReeper? Free Republic is a bit more challenging than television.
According to Ms. Helen Alvare, Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University, 5% of children born in 1960 had unwed mothers. In 2010, the number was 41%. For black women, it's over 60%. It doesn't take a brain surgeon (or a rocket scientist) to figure out a correlation between generations of absent fathers > no moralistic role model > black on black / black on white crime. there's no racism in the equation whatsoever: Predatory young black males do not discriminate, availability equals target.
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