#56 Recovering the Loss
Reimagining Black Relations
English - January 29, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBEducation Society & Culture black white brown blacklivesmatter equity inequity equality inequality justice injustice Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dr. Marketus Presswood is an Historian with specialization in the socio-cultural interactions of the Chinese, Africans, and Africans in Diaspora. Dr. Presswood juxtaposed China and the U.S. on the subject of racism. He discussed: the role of China and the U.S. on the global order for Africa and Black Diaspora and emphasized the urgency of establishing the "United African States".
"At the same time, I saw friends, and friends of friends, who didn't have the same support system, and they fell by the wayside. For me now, when I think about some of my classmates who were brilliant students - I had one classmate who was a great mathematician - much smarter than me in that regard. I remember a few years back when I was in Chicago, I ran into him on the street. You can tell that he was homeless. And I just thought - what a waste of so much talent and genius. This is the problem - my critique of America is that, how much do we lose because we fail to nurture every segment ..." - Dr. Marketus Presswood