Watch A Black Woman Smile In The Face Of Racism

[Garion_55]

Watching A Black Woman Smile In The Face Of Racism Is Pure Delight. Then She Goes In For The Hug…

Mo Asumang is a German TV host and filmmaker, and what she pulls off in this video is amazing. Not only does Mo speak with groups of people who claim to hate her (which she does with grace and compassion), but she actually gets a few of them to let down their guard and reveal they might just have a heart. It's fascinating to witness and probably the one and only context in which you can root for a racist — to stop being racist!


http://www.upworthy.com/watching-a-black-woman-smile-in-the-face-of-racism-is-pure-delight-then-she-goes-in-for-the-hug?c=bl3

[freshwest]

1. K&R. That felt good.

[cvoogt]

2. The Klan members & neo-Nazis are not so scary

It's all the other people who don't bear obvious physical symbols that I am much more worried about.

[heaven05]

6. +1000

palin, bachmann, zimmerman, wilson, paul, hannity, limshit, cruz, and the legion(s) walking america's streets and living in bundylands itching for a race war to take their country back from the "brown tyrant". Amerikkka has really, over the last 6 years shown it's true racist nature. Obama has brought them from under their rocks and from their putrid swamps into the light and it ain't pretty, unarmed people of color are being murdered and executed in the streets.

[big lu]

3. "Nobody is a racist that is in the Klan" LOL Wut?!

[demwing]

8. They claim that they are not anti black

just pro white.

It's pretzel logic.

[heaven05]

4. I applaud her effort

yet in the long run, hasn't changed one person who is a racist, even that KKK member who lies through his teeth. She is naive. These people do not want to co-exist with other races, they are like that neo-nazi. "You non-whites will be deported to the USA", that melting pot that is a simmering cauldron of racist hate itself. I hope when her country "re-nationalizes" she can find a peaceful place to live. Good luck on that.

[demwing]

9. I disagree, but would like to ask you a question

If change will not come through her path, then how? What is YOUR solution?

[heaven05]

10. It is time for white people to embrace people of color

blacks have been reaching out for generations. Just to end up an unarmed dead person in the streets with 10 bullets holes in them. This 'love' your enemy garbage is weakness that I don't agree with. My solution is to give what's received. Period. And will escalate if necessary. Don't get me wrong, a hand offered in friendship and genuine peace will get mine in return. Otherwise, no. Return what is given, in spades, that is my solution.

[demwing]

11. You're wrong

Instead of "return what is given" we should be embracing "give as you want returned," and engage in non-violent non-participation

[heaven05]

12. yeah okay.

Martin Luther King jr. non-violent and dead by an assassins bullet- took no bigot with him, which he wouldn't do anyway. Ghandi, non-violent dead by an assassin-took no one with him. Which he probably wouldn't do. No one has a right to disrespect my humanity because of my skin color. Malcolm X, pre-mecca had it right. George Jackson, Mark Clark, Angela Davis et al: were on the right track. And I say to any person of color it is your right to defend yourself, both verbally and physically from verbal and physical assault from a racist whether he/she belongs to the bundy crowd or the wilson/zimmerman-pig crowd. Period. Turning the other cheek you say? Okay. I will never.

[Hulk]

5. It just demonstrates how really primitive we can really be.

I'm racist, yet this KKK member, and his fellow members are not? Wow....is that strange, or what? I can't help it. I will always be racist. I love people of color, I love people of different ethnicities and religions; but I will always, in the back of my head, see a difference and wonder. I am married to a lovely Mexican woman, and I adore her skin color. I think I grew up trying, along with ALL my friends, to have such a beautiful shade of tan. But I also look at a black man and have suspicion in the back of my head. I would respond to him/her with kindness and go out of my way to give them every bit of respect I could to a person with my own skin color; but I can't say I am not a racist. I see race. I have 66 years of using racial and ethnic jokes. To deny what is part of me is ridiculous.

Tell me what I am, if I'm not racist? The way I see it, if I could simply look at another human being as a person, and not someone "different" than me, then, and only then, I would say I am not a racist. I can't do it; and I'll most likely never be able to do it, because I have a part of me that grew up seeing them as less, or something to mock or make fun of. Our generations will simply have to go out of our way to treat everyone as equals, and then take our racism to the grave.

For these damn fools to continue their love of hate is such demonic ignorance. To listen to fox-nonsense proclaim how the country ISN'T racist anymore, when the majority of Americans treat people who are different by skin color, ethnicity or religion as stereotypes...well, it's all so damned hypocritical and ignorant to me.

We must all be comfortable living in a state of denial...until someone like this young woman has the courage to confront us and ask us to wake up out of our stupor for just a moment and confront who WE really are behind the facade.

[Veilex]

7. This gives me hope.

At a time when there is so much that makes me concerned for the future...this is so nice to see.