04.03.31 Manning Marable at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
Manning Marable speaking on Structural Racism and the Challenge of Black Leadership: The Challenge to Youth Leadership at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Dr. Manning Marable, one of America's most influential historians and political interpreters of the black experience, delivered the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture in the Social Sciences. The talk was entitled "Structural Racism and the Challenge of Black Leadership: The Challenge to Youth Leadership", which is the title of Marable's new book. Manning Marable started his talk with the observation that while the question of the 20th century was RACE, the question of the 21st century will be GLOBAL APARTHEID. He inquired of his audience if they would be the last generation to live under white racism, if they could visualize life without racism. While "Jim Crow" laws and segregation are in the past, color blind racism is the situation today. Citing the terrible triangle of structural unemployment, mass incarceration and disenfranchisement, Marable wondered whether or not race relations were improving or deteriorating. Marable referred back to his growing up black in Dayton, Ohio, where his father, a WWII veteran, faced discrimination in employment and housing on a daily basis. Citing his own experience, Marable spoke of how he almost died trying to catch a cab in New York City to go to the emergency room.
During the Q&A period, I asked about the myth of non-violence in the civil rights movement. As Marable struggles to answer this question, you can see the dichotomy of non-violence and self-defense.
Read MoreDr. Manning Marable, one of America's most influential historians and political interpreters of the black experience, delivered the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture in the Social Sciences. The talk was entitled "Structural Racism and the Challenge of Black Leadership: The Challenge to Youth Leadership", which is the title of Marable's new book. Manning Marable started his talk with the observation that while the question of the 20th century was RACE, the question of the 21st century will be GLOBAL APARTHEID. He inquired of his audience if they would be the last generation to live under white racism, if they could visualize life without racism. While "Jim Crow" laws and segregation are in the past, color blind racism is the situation today. Citing the terrible triangle of structural unemployment, mass incarceration and disenfranchisement, Marable wondered whether or not race relations were improving or deteriorating. Marable referred back to his growing up black in Dayton, Ohio, where his father, a WWII veteran, faced discrimination in employment and housing on a daily basis. Citing his own experience, Marable spoke of how he almost died trying to catch a cab in New York City to go to the emergency room.
During the Q&A period, I asked about the myth of non-violence in the civil rights movement. As Marable struggles to answer this question, you can see the dichotomy of non-violence and self-defense.
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