The Case for Black Patriotism

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Roland Martin: For me personally, I feel identify as believe I am an American. It feels that there's a longing for other tribes mentioned Jewish but what I honestly feel is Russian and Ukrainian because that's where my family is from. There's a tradition there within the American umbrella and some of it is humor. But now with the war in Russian Ukraine interestingly enough,. Even that little thing becomes also source of negative tribalism. What is black patriotism? And why do you feel?

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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:12) – Martin Luther King Jr.
(16:00) – History of slavery
(30:39) – Equality of outcome
(47:02) – Math and economics
(1:03:17) – Racial groups
(1:16:33) – Black patriotism
(1:26:26) – MLK and Malcolm X
(1:40:07) – Joe Rogan controversy
(1:59:23) – Accusation of racism
(2:07:08) – Elon Musk and Twitter
(2:12:41) – Universities
(2:21:19) – Cognitive inequality
(2:33:45) – Politics
(2:53:10) – Ketanji Brown Jackson
(2:59:14) – Thomas Sowell
(3:04:28) – Barack Obama
(3:23:06) – Mortality
(3:35:20) – Meaning of life