How to decolonise your mind | Kehinde Andrews

Kehinde Andrews explores colonialism's lasting impact on society and individuals.

The long term societal impact of colonial rule is present in the way our institutions operate and how we, as individuals, view the world and other people. In this talk, Kehinde Andrews explores how we counteract these effects, the best way of decolonising our perspective, and how we can all do better when it comes to talking about society, race, and decolonisation.

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Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University's School of Social Sciences. He led leading the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.

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[christiangodin]

As long as you put people into skin color categories, there will be no hope to give human beings equal chances. We cannot make people "equal". We can only give everybody the same opportunities and chances in life.

[NessaBarczak]

How do you think Drama could be used as a tool for decolonisation?

[ultimate.phoenix]

Irish people were shipped to Barbados and we have white skin

[DavidChapman-hueq]

Keep this guy off tv i love and greatly respect black people youre living in the past very bitter reverse racism 😢😢😢

[Diotiman]

Who is it who quoted from 7:45-8:30? I couldn't quite make it out,

[ultimate.phoenix]

Stop Division. Equality cannot be achieved by creating division

[ilyaivanov]

Lot of bigots in the comment section whining about this video. That's how you know you're on the right track.

[dlon]

Haiti punished today for defeating colonial west. Respect warriors

[cacshx]

I hear people talking about this issue a lot. No one ever seems to say what the end game is. When will it be enough and how do we quantify that?

[iheartURhair]

He’s speaking the truth. If it’s triggered you, that’s a sign to keep digging for more information instead of rejecting it out of emotionality.

[mmarkotan]

What exactly does Isaac Newton have to do with slavery? There is a lot of nonsense in this video

[SpirallingUpwards]

Ahh IAI, you drew me in with a fantastic bit of Kehinde Andrews and now you asked me to subscribe 😥
worth it tho

[GEdwardsPhilosophy]

'Science, liberal democracy and industrial production are unequal(sic), illusionary and distorted... but I'm not really saying they're 100% untrue'

He said, running from the Motte towards the Bailey 🙄

[GeoffV-kh]

KA is correct to point out that even some Enlightenment figures had a darker side to their own world view, ; likewise he is correct point out that there is a dark side to the way some races (and classes) of people were appallingly oppressed during the Industrial Revolution period and the decades before and after. But he is wrong to say that none if it COULD have happened without colonization, slavery etc. It certainly could, but the tragedy was that it did not. Whenever I listen to kA speak, I always get the sense he is operating from an agenda, simply to trash the West, dump on any apparent progress its societies have apparently made, and paint white people as intrinsically evil.

[timsmith]

We’re all entitled to opinions, but I’ve watched and listened to a lot of what Professor Kehinde Andrews has said over the last year. Digging in and questioning Winston Churchill, even questioning Nelson Mandela at times, the damn busters during the 2nd world war and just being overall negative about everything as he just reads into things so much and is always looking for an error, and he’s very articulate in that way. Just watch all the Good Morning shows he’s been on with Piers Morgan. I’m sorry to say it but he frustrates me because it’s utter BS and he’s looking for a unique argument to make himself stand out. Obviously I’m not saying it’s a popularity contest, but his arguments are ridiculous. He’s an activist and that’s his right. He’s basically trying to alter history and abolishing certain things in a nutshell. Unfortunately today’s society is so fixated on being politically correct and stricken by certain things you can and cannot say.... people will see my comment and will automatically say ‘yep this guys a racist’. It’s pathetic.

[uruson]

6:05 - "So that's why it's really important to destabilise the myths of how great the west *is.*" [Proceeds to talk about the past.] Beyond that, the guy doesn't seem to say much.
He bloviates a bit before talking about how some people were wrong about race. Which ...doesn't matter. Bad ideas are thrown on the trash-heap, then we move on.
The valuable thing about science is not its content, but its method. Observe, hypothesise, *attempt to disprove hypothesis, * repeat. The output is knowledge, until proven otherwise.
And ...needless to say, being wrong about one thing doesn't make you more or less wrong about another thing.

[Abraham_Tsfaye]

Prof. Andrew's is one the best minds out there today.

[btmbangalore]

Good analysis. West wants to be leader for ever and ever, they were not always a leader, they did not even have a proper religion. It is not a leader in ethics but only in material.

The others (non white) have to reject the white world in toto, build an impressive model as good or better to challenge their world. It is very much possible. It is on way in many parts.

Now for an case study, if the African continent were the first to industrialize, not the europeans, it would then be in a stature to spread its model of success all over, if the other are lacking (This difference of progress of different peoples creates human crises). How an powerful africa goes about doing it is of great importance, does it use cruelty? does it want well being of all or a dependence? Does it sabotage or destabilize systems deliberately in order to feel safe and well? Do other people have the right to resist African industrial model? If Africa were the first industrial power will it be benign? May or may not.

Ethics of human beings is independent of wealth, it however does need science to deliver the best justice. An old world ethic was flawed due to its shaky foundation. Many in the West however claim to be better or best humans, not true. A flawed human wants a flawed system.

A racist hopes others do not catch up. He prevents others from gaining parity.

[apuppynamedoz]

Kehinde Andrews.... I really wish this guy had listened in school.

[minchul]

I don’t see how the speaker is saying anything that we don’t know already. We know that slave labor was used for millennia (and still survives to this day in parts of the world). Empires are also one of history’s most unoriginal ideas - if anything, the Europeans were quite late to that game, only gaining significant possessions from around 1500. Prior to that, many European nations, eg. Spain were THEMSELVES colonies. European imperialism pretty much came to a halt after 1945. There’s nothing to stop so called “western ideals” being successfully adopted elsewhere either. In fact, the balance of the world’s wealth and power has shifted east over the years, while the west has stagnated and in some cases gone backwards.