Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "60 years of African-American history in photographs - BBC News" video.

  1. Frank Stewart born in Memphis, TN Northcross v. Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools. The lawsuit compelled city officials to voluntarily desegregate schools starting with the first grade in 1960, Frank was 11 years old. Memphis was rife with Civil Rights education, but he says he didn't get any? How is that possible?
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  2. 0:44 Frank should look at the experience of Eldridge Cleaver and the other Black Panthers in Cuba. He can only say what he does because that history is not taught, and he knows it.
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  3.  @Sweet-Rat-Milk  Jazz is American history just as Art Blakey stated.
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  4. True of religious people, too, and nationalists, so a common human trait we all need to mitigate and moderate. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your comment.
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  5.  @Sweet-Rat-Milk  No, Historians lose their minds, and humans who believe in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, and not the ideology of hate and division to gain power over others.
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  6.  @sebastianguerre6868  Agreed, and defines who you responded to in almost exact terms.
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  7.  @Sweet-Rat-Milk  Wait, the definition you just used does not include "race" and is grossly outdated in terms of the "post-modern" critical theory dictionary.
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  8.  @JeffreyGoddin  I'm 68, was in elementary school in the early 1960s and was taught about civil rights and even about the crimes against native Americans in my state of California. Stewart was in Memphis, TN and in 1963 attended the March On Washington and heard MLK Jr.'s speech. I don't believe him, and having said that, he's someone I've met and worked next to. I'm very disappointed.
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  9.  @LIONTAMER3D  Depends on this person's age. If born after 1960 in America, then ignorance would most definitely be "willful".
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  10. Frank Stewart should remember what Art Blakey said about the origin of Jazz in America.
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  11. Partly, yes, but in American we often go by the "one drop" rule. The most radical of Black Feminists, Angela Davis, turns out to have white ancestors who came on the Mayflower in 1620. Our history is complicated and nuanced, but the race grifters, contrary to what they say, want to narrow the discussion, not expand it.
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  12. Lincoln Center has enslaved Jazz, hung it on a wall like the dead museum piece it is.
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  13. DeSantis has as Surgeon General someone more African than Frank Stewart.
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  14.  @headreallyhurts  Not much of a reply, care to elaborate, or are you speechless in the face of truth. I've met Frank Stewart and worked beside him as a jazz photographer myself. He was born in Memphis, TN and grew up during the hotbed of civil rights activity in the 1960s, MLK Jr was murdered there in 1968 when Frank was 19, yet he says he was unaware, but he also took pictures as a 14-year-old at the March on Washington in 1963, yet you believe what he says in this video. Why?
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  15. "Bigotry" is not segregated by race, it infects all humans, and even some animals. It's not the sub-set of history being objected to, it's the neo-Marxist tactic being used by those with a power based ideological agenda to overturn the existing "Social Superstructure". It's in the conical literature of "Liberation". Not secret, not theory, but real, and being played out on the BBC.
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  16. For us, 3,500 years and the struggle continues.
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  17. 0:13 Stewart was born in Memphis, TN the year Jackie Robinson came into baseball, 1949 and partly went to school in Chicago, even took his first photographs in 1963 at the age of 14 at The March On Washington. His statement he was not "taught" about his culture seems disingenuous. As a Jazz photographer myself, I've met Frank and worked beside him on occasion at festivals. I'm disappointed in this discourse. In 1996 I held a symposium on the Internet at The JazzTimes Convention and was a member of The Los Angeles Jazz Photographers Society.
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