Documentarian St. Claire Bourne takes a close-up look at author and historian John Henrik Clarke, who, on camera for much of the film, bounces back and forth between a description of his own personal history, and his views on the history of Africa and of Pan-Africanism.
His points are backed up by old newsreel footage, and by images of artwork depicting Africans and their civilization over the centuries. Actor Wesley Snipes executive produced the film and serves as a narrator.
John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk was made in 1996, with Clarke suffering from glaucoma, barely able to see as he gives his sweeping account. He talks about his own upbringing, and his growing interest in Pan-Africanism, the failures of the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement, his close friendship with Malcolm X, and his critical assessment of Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March.
He also gives a primer on the history of African civilization, and argues that no conquering or colonizing power ever “brought civilization” to Africa, but rather these nations destroyed what civilization they didn’t understand, and brought many of Africa’s ideas back to their bases in ancient Greece and Rome.
He also describes how Black Africans were methodically removed from the history of the civilization of the Nile. He details how leaders like Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ghanaian Kwame Nkrumah spread the ideas of Pan-Africanism throughout the U.S. and the world.
John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk was shown at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and won the Best Documentary award at the 1997 UrbanWorld Film Festival. Clarke died of a heart attack in 1998. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi
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And FINALLY, Gordon!
You should seriously consider hiring ME as a Writer. As the very least, you would have constant True, Accurate AND Correct information about WHATâS REALLY GOING ON in the Black Community. You all and your Readers (some who are ALSO looking for accurate, true & correct Info) are SERIOUSLY being intentionally mislead by the RED-party Nocturnal Animals and the BLUE-party Nocturnal Animals (for the reasons stated before)! I believe that I can now Let You In On a Little Secret: Black people do NOT appreciate being directly or indirectly referred to as âmonkeys.â âJust Trying to BE HelpfulâŠâ
Now, I must leave to create a List of Black Licensed Professional âLawyers and Accountantsâ that apparently the current President has been unaware of that have existed to help Black people and all people in the Last Sixty (60) Years!
Black people are Fannie Lou Hamer-like SICK and TIRED and SICK and TIRED of the Nocturnal Animal Republicans and the Nocturnal Animal Democrats! The Nocturnal Animals claim to speak for Black people, but you couldnât get 50 people that didnât know them to sit in a room and listen to them â THANK GOODNESS!
They are what Malcolm X referred to as âWhatâs-The-Matter-Boss-We-Sick?â-type of Nocturnal Animals who work ONLY For the respected political parties who signs their checks. They are narcissists who donât care about Black people, but only for personal fortune, TV fame, & interracial sex.
Now that the US empire is coming to an end (in 20 years, perhaps?), and White Supremacists are open about wanting the Fascism for the US of the Hitler, Mussolini, & the âBusinessmensâ Plotâ type, black people have the opportunity to do whatâs best FOR US â not whatâs best for White Supremacists.
White Supremacistsâ enemies & the White Supremacist Nations i.e. the surveillance-state âFree Nationsâ), the majority of the time, ARENâT Black peopleâs enemies! Black people, like most US citizens of good sense, donât want to fight Chinese or Russians or Iranians or Syrians or Venezuelans or Africans or Palestinians.
Iâve always said (to everyone): Not all White Supremacists are white PEOPLE, and not all white people are white SUPREMACISTS. Malcolm X said that Black people DID need Allies, but ONLY those of the type Dr. John Henrik Clarke described.
My heroes include Malcolm X, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, John Horse, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, John Brown and Marcus Garvey. They are NOT pedophile slave owners hypocrites like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Yet, the White Supremacists want Black people to recognize them as OUR heroes! You know, like âwhite Jesus.â
The last time I voted for a Democrat was in 2008, and Iâve NEVER voted for a Republican. I want to know what a politician is going to do SPECIFICALLY for Black people â just like every other race wants to know what is going to be done specifically for them. Black people have HAD IT with The Black âAND BROWNâ coalition, âMINORITIESâ, people âOF COLOR.â
Black people are put out there as the FACE of âAffirmative Actionâ, yet we get the smallest benefits, and WHITE WOMEN get the majority of benefits. Black people are put out there as the FACE of welfare, BUT the MAJORITY of welfare goes to Rural White communities. âPercentagesâ OR âNumbers.â Which ever works best for White Supremacist propaganda.
I truly understand why Chris Hedges said he came to hate Liberals. BUT, as evil as the last 50 years of the Democratic party has been, it PALES besides the evil of the last 50 years of the Republican party.
Itâs time to move away from âEVIL.â Black people reject âCritical Race Theoryâ, because itâs a Red Herring to provide a target for White Supremacists to attack us as they promote their âPatriotic Historyâ and continue to leave out Black contributions to creating Civilization.
As Master Teacher Dr. John Henrik Clarke said, âBlack people donât want so-called âRevisionist Historyâ, but we DO want TRUE and CORRECT history.â But I am here to tell White Supremacists that Black people donât NEED âyour approvalâ (OR PERMISSION) to teach OUR children OUR history (which started in Ancient Kemet, NOT in â1619â). Brown v. Board of Education was NOT about integration; it was TURNED into that by people who meant us no good. It started as our rights to EQUAL education (i.e. dollars and resources).
We Black people are the ONLY race in which the Federal government has actually conspired with laws and actions to keep us in a state of servitude or one kind or another. Slavery could have only been maintained with the help of the Five Civilized Tribes, who actually owned and fought in the Civil War to maintain slavery.
The reasons that the âTreatiesâ were âbroken by the USâ was because they refused to abide by the 1866 Treaty to free and compensate their former black slaves. There is a movement for Black people to abandon BOTH political parties.
We realize that we are NOT âAmericansâ and have never been treated as such â and will never will. We donât want our children exposed to concepts that ANY child is not mentally ready to process, like sexuality, homosexuality, and trans-sexuality (have you noticed now that the Right-Wing no longer rails against this, AS LONG AS itâs being taught in BLACK schools, and NOT theirs).
Itâs amazing the BS that comes from the Propagandists and the Willfully Ignorant! âThe Civil War was NOT fought over slavery.â âThat low-down Red Army had NO reason to exact vengeance on Germany and the Wehrmacht in WW2.â âMichael Shrimpton is a racist even though Iâve referred to Black people as âmonkeysâ on at least 2 occasions.â âThose NEEE-Grows should just âGet Over Itâ.â â âTHE Blacksâ all want Marxism and Communism (even though you couldnât find 1,000 Black people in the US who have actually READ âDas Kapitalâ, or could even tell you what Marxism IS, just like everyone else).
U.S. Black people have 3 main problems, #1 being that the majority of us ACTUALLY believe that we ARE âAmericansâ, ignoring the advice Malcolm X gave us nearly 58 years agoâŠ
ââŠAmerica has a very serious problem. Not only does America have a very serious problem, but our people have a very serious problem. Americaâs problem is us. Weâre HER problem. The ONLY reason she has a problem is she doesnât WANT us here. You represent a person who poses such a serious problem for America because youâre NOT wanted.
Once you face this as a fact, then you can start plotting a course that will make you appear intelligent, instead of UNintelligentâŠyou sure donât catch hell because youâre an American, because if you was an American, you wouldnât catch no hell. You catch hell because youâre a black man. All of us catch hell, for the same reason.â Itâs time for us to give up the âAmerican Dreamâ & find our own way.
CNN, like all the so-called âLiberalâ media, is not going to do ANYTHING except run 1) their mouths and 2) a one-time story while their Blue-party black-sellouts wring their hands and lament how âSADâ it is (the Red black-sellouts will say nothing, of course as always). Their are NEVER, NEVER, NEVER discussions about actually PUNISHING the white supremacist race soldiers, or their white supremacist prosecutors or judges who orchestrate these CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (apparently that definition does NOT include black US âcitizensâ, but they will âinvestigateâ âthe police DEPARTMENTâ). U.S. Black people have 3 main problems, #1 being that the majority of us ACTUALLY believe that we ARE âAmericansâ, ignoring the advice Malcolm X gave us nearly 58 years ago.
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I didn’t listen to the whole thing, but I saw a white woman giving a presentation to a large audience the other day explaining that white people didn’t exist in this world prior to 4oo years ago.
I’m gonna listen to this video while I do homework and gather up all my sht from the past month.
I’m so totally down with Mr. Clarkes first comment tho.
My buddy came over a few weeks and must have looked up what my 2nd ever personalized plate says and thought he was gonna do with me about it because it means mixed breed of European and Carribean black & white people.
Ha…I laughed and said “now do you understand I’m not an average white man?”.
Clarke introduction,, thats so me.
The same happened with Gaddafi, he was just about to start along other Africa countries a African Development Bank and a African common coin supported in gold as comerce exchange currency between Africa countries That’s why Killary ordered his murder.
The missionaries share the tents with the gem stone addicts.
They play Good cop Bad cop.
Everyone else is duped into thinking the whole thing was “charitable opportunity”.
When did it become fashion/tradition to use diamonds as wedding rings ?
Thank you for this. It’s inescapable that Manifest Destiny was based on the racist notion that Europeans were chosen by God to rampage around the planet, displacing the indigenous, stealing their land and resources, and in the case of the US of f-ing A, owning them. This is exactly the same as what the European Ashkenazim are now doing in Palestine, except for the owning them thingy, although keeping Palestinians starving in concentration camps is actually worse. Those on this site who don’t believe this is true, just have any Native American or Palestinian to explain it to you.
…just have any Native American or any Palestinian explain it to you.
uh…”Thanks?”
Master Teacher Dr. John Henrik Clarke (who mentored Dr. Anthony T. Browder) is my favorite hero SECOND ONLY to Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)! Listen to Dr. Clarke’s Lectures now on YouTube, ESPECIALLY those about the TRUE origins/history of the “religions.” There are those who will mention his name for CLOUT, but their writings reflect NONE of what he was trying to teach…
I forgot to include Earlier on my Hero List: Dr. Claud Anderson, author “Black Labor, White Wealth” and “Powernomics”, Madame Harriett Tubman, Patrice Lumumba (one of our many Black heroes MURDERED by the CIA and “The West”), Madame WINNIE Mandela, and David Walker.
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