Dr MAYA ANGELOU TELLS A TEENAGER NOT TO CALL HER BY HER FIRST NAME

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[KevinWilliams-fjjx]

I'm "old school" and I think MAYA was being a little extra.

[kenbaker-psej]

Meanwhile, flying at 30, 000 feet:

Captain: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Is there a doctor on board?”

Maya raises her hand.

[rainbowrose]

That girl thought she was speaking respectfully she had no bad intentions whatsoever. Jesus would even say that. No. Not okay. And the explanation is bull.

[rainbowrose]

She sounds horrible speaking like that. So unnecessary to speak to that young lady like that.

[ahhhhhh]

Honestly she was fine. It was the host and the lady in the crowd that escalated it and made it so much worse 😬. She honestly critisizes them basically saying if they have a problem with the children of today its their fault for not teaching them.

[blackacrossthepond]

Maya Angelou came from a time where she would never address an adult by their first name. Yes times have changed, but also the level of respect between youth and adults is diminishing. I was raised to never address adults by their first names, and I must admit I do shudder a little when my daughters friends call me by my first name and I see the ones that call me "mom" as a bit more respectful. I do think it's also a cultural thing.

[RYLAN-leez]

She was so caught up with her interpretation of disrespect that she didn't bother to answer the child's question. I wonder what that child learned from that teacher in that experience.

[rodwilwin]

Maya should not have become offensive because a young person called her by her first name. Yes, it's respectful to address another person as Mr., Mrs, Ms followed by their last name, i totally agree, but her response was too harsh. Maya came across as a person of great superiority. I think her response should have been said in a different manner, such as, please call me Ms. Angelou and then answered her question. She didn't have to say you don't have a license to call me by my first name.
Im very surprised Maya answered in that way.

[Averagewannabe]

That girl is never going to stand up and speak her mind or ask her questions ever again out of fear. Thanks a lot, Maya. She probably went home in tears. So rude and prideful. She called Maya by her first name as a way to continue an obviously very open and intimate conversation. She was personable, kind, and sweet and probably wanted to relate to maya as a trusted friend - as someone who has the same value as Maya...because she DOES. Just because she's on an earlier chapter in her book of life doesn't make her book less valuable than Maya's.
She instantly shot down that girls ability to see herself in maya because all because she wanted to do was put herself up higher and embarrass the young girl who had no malice in her whole body.
I hate this clip. It breaks my heart. I wonder where that girl is now.

[imperfectstranger]

I personally abide by trying not to call my elders by their first name unless they insist because I'm Nigerian and it's just ingrained in my mind; but, this is a stranger & imo she most likely had pure intentions & was very soft spoken, so i think she didnt have to be that harsh. & this has also been a theme I've seen in my culture where the elders think you should worship the ground they stand on even if they're doing you dirty & being disrespectful. Kind of a "your age hasn't earned me owing you any respect, but you mine has & i get a pass". A simple "I prefer Ms. Maya for future reference" & moving on would've sufficed instead of a whole blanket analysis on the flawed youth & listing her various titles- cuz that girl seemed very respectful to me. It is ego that speaks when you think you are owed something from people because of the things you've done.

[nathanaceron]

the young girl just called her by her first name and she was rebuked

[tyrone]

I call Jesus by his frist name a d helps me. Mya was full of herself here. A simple correction would have been done but she decided to corrected a young black woman that made a small mistake. She acted like she says "hey girl"

[bradstreet]

She said someone can call her auntie but not maya? Doesn’t it seem more disrespectful to Hop up on stage and call a stranger auntie? This just seems so sad, the girl didn’t come from a place of disrespect. She highly respected maya Angelou, clearly enough to value her answer to such a hard hitting topic for the time, and maybe even considered her idol a “friend” at that moment. She could have very kindly said “would you mind calling me miss Angelou, please? Here’s what I think about-…” etc. just sad to see, they say don’t meet your idols for a reason.

[kenbaker-psej]

She also insisted on being called “Doctor” because of a piece of paper awarding her with an “honorary doctorate”. That’s an insult to the individuals that actually earned the privilege to use that title. Congratulations Maya, you have joined the ranks of other such “doctors” like Kermit the Frog, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake.

[Tsebaota]

Ms. Angelou did not do anything wrong the lady is a writer a poet so it's no surprise she will be particular on how she is called. Most of yall in these comments are not used to being corrected.

[CreToGraphy]

Dr. Angelou Said nothing wrong. Even called the girl "Ma'am" before proceeding to belt to as$. I wish we can find the, once upon a time, girl and see If this interview benefited or traumatized her

[bigralph]

I'm old school and when I was that young woman's age and younger, I NEVER called my elders by their first name unless given permission to do so from them. Here's an example. I have a neighbor by the name of Mrs. Audrey Gaylord. I NEVER called her by her first name then and I still don't do it now! My grandmother taught me to respect my elders by calling them by Mr., Mrs., or Miss. I don't think Dr. Maya Angelou's approach was disrespectful by any means. My grandmother would've corrected me in the same tone and manager she did. Most of my neighbors I grew up with have passed away and from my childhood years until their deaths, I NEVER called them by their first name! That was what my grandmother instilled me at a young age and I still go by that at 45.

[robbey]

For someone who claimed to be about the estime of black woman, she did an extremely harmful thing to this girl and that was to humilate her in public for no real reason. And I have never called my mother, my autie, by the title Miss. And I must say, that in the Black community in Los Angeles, young people always address my as Sir, I was quite surprised how much sir and ma'am.

[ralphangel]

People these days calls being corrected rude or disrespectful. Traditions of respect has been laid to the waste side. There's no separation of adults and minors anymore and that's the problem

[SL-hqmg]

She was not wrong and people need to teach their kids to respect elders