"BLACKNESS" IS A POLITICAL IDENTITY — NOT A CULTURE — Transcript

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1. 0:00I vividly remember as a child flipping
2. 0:03through [music]
3. 0:03family photo albums and thinking to
4. 0:06myself, why is it that the culture
5. 0:09[music] I see represented in these photo
6. 0:12albums drastically different than the
7. 0:14culture I see represented [music] around
8. 0:17me and on television?
9. 0:22Why is it that so many of the people who
10. 0:24look like me seem to want to strive to
11. 0:27look like what they see on television as
12. 0:30opposed to what they see in their
13. 0:31[music] own family photo albums. I
14. 0:33understand that fashion trends change
15. 0:35over time, but the very demeanor and
16. 0:38mental predisposition seem to
17. 0:40drastically [music] change. The very
18. 0:42cultural ethos is radically [music]
19. 0:45different than that bygone era.
20. 0:52I've spent the better part [music] of
21. 0:53the last 10 years extensively
22. 0:54researching a wide range of history and
23. 0:57culture.
24. 0:58>> [music]
25. 0:58>> And what I found to be the case when it
26. 1:00comes to what many people call blackness
27. 1:03is that it's not an authentic identity,
28. 1:05[music]
29. 1:06but rather a deliberate political
30. 1:08agenda. In the days when black men and
31. 1:11women were getting married at higher
32. 1:12rates and the black family was intact,
33. 1:14multiple studies show that Negroes by
34. 1:17and large were trending in the right
35. 1:18direction [music] on the basis of their
36. 1:20own merit and being rooted in Christian
37. 1:22values within the [music] context of
38. 1:24Western civilization.
39. 1:26Unfortunately, at the same time, there
40. 1:28was a number of black artists [music]
41. 1:30and activists and poets who themselves
42. 1:33were hand selected and commissioned to
43. 1:35play a part and they would be complicit
44. 1:37[music]
45. 1:38in helping to manufacture what we would
46. 1:41understand today as black culture,
47. 1:43[music]
48. 1:44which for all intents and purposes is a
49. 1:46faux culture.
50. 1:48I am producing a documentary called The
51. 1:50Myth of Blackness, which seeks to unveil
52. 1:52the truth behind this fake culture and
53. 1:55we answer the question, why?
54. 1:57Why this deliberate attempt to gradually
55. 2:01morph the identity of a people into a
56. 2:04political block?
57. 2:05This is a story that needs to be told
58. 2:07and understood, especially since we
59. 2:09chronicle the pervasive and incremental
60. 2:12attempt to convince a people to turn
61. 2:15their backs on God. [music]
62. 2:17This is an independent film with a
63. 2:19stellar cast that's growing, and what
64. 2:21that means is we [music] are going to
65. 2:23need your help and producing it. The way
66. 2:26that you can help is one [music] of
67. 2:27three ways if not all three.
68. 2:29One, we could totally use your prayers.
69. 2:32Two, we can totally use [music]
70. 2:35funding. So, if you feel so inclined to
71. 2:37contribute to this project, go to
72. 2:39chadojackson.com, [music]
73. 2:41go down to films, click or tap on Myth
74. 2:44of Blackness, and that will take you
75. 2:46right [music] to the contribution page.
76. 2:48And then third, we would like to hear
77. 2:49from you. What are some things that you
78. 2:51would like to see covered in [music] the
79. 2:53Myth of Blackness? Feel free to comment
80. 2:56in the comment section or email us at
81. 2:58[email protected]. [music]
82. 3:01While I do have several films in
83. 3:03pre-production right now, my aim is to
84. 3:05build Historev Olada to where it's more
85. 3:07[music] than just a film company. I seek
86. 3:10to make Historev Olada a resource that
87. 3:13can be relied [music] upon by schools,
88. 3:16teachers, students, and individuals
89. 3:19to delve into history and to recover the
90. 3:21truth of history [music]
91. 3:23in the world in which we're living.
92. 3:25Thank you all for your support. Thank
93. 3:26you for your prayers. I'm Chad O
94. 3:28Jackson, and we are just getting [music]
95. 3:30started. Thank you.