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always love your vids, they really speak to stuff i dont always know how to express. ive definitely felt this before, especially in learning more about the ideological origins of the bpp and black anarchism in general. ive felt the desire for a messiah, or a savior, or just someone who could speak the truth and unite people, because it seemed to me then and still does now that its impossible to achieve the unity needed to improve our lives without a "hero" to guide us. but i couldnt reconcile this desire with what i know the government and the people in power do to us when we do rise up. every time topics like this come up i think of all the brave young black protesters who were murdered after the ferguson protests in 2014. it feels like no one remembers them, but i remember the boy who was in that picture with the flag that was spread everywhere, and i remember that hes dead. its so hard to know what we can or should do when just trying to assert that we are people is so inherently dangerous. i can only hope that one day itll make sense. thank you for the work you do, its very much appreciated <3

People would be much more inclined to see through the storybook setup if belief in storybook characters like Jesus weren't still commonplace.

people getting mad at the white savior thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I appreciate not wanting white people shoehorned into stories that don't have any business in but what exactly are you expect white people and white characters to do? Stand by and do nothing? You can't have it both ways.

The black messiah will not be human, but be a GOD. Other races have them. So do we, our history was just taken from us so we think we cant. There have been many recorded black messiah figures even during slavery. They just dont want you knowing the power you have. They fear it, because they have seen it.

Now that I've seen the whole video I can agree a man alone can't be a Messiah or a savior\hero or whatever your looking for. But I believe the Bible which says God is the ultimate savior, but In this world the people glorify men who have so many faults. Just look at all these Pastors, or celebrities in scandals and yet for some reason we treat them like a Hero. It takes a sort of truly organized movement to change something not one Man's limited power and reach.

What have heroes accomplished for us? We are still broke. We still have bad neighborhoods. We are control nothing. There is no Black messiah who will do the work for all of us. We have to save ourselves and help others a little. No one man can do it.

I feel like this is precisely the reason why so many culturally significant black artists end up either spiraling or giving up on the culture entirely. Tupac, Kanye, Kendrick most recently, etc.

Dang my dude it’s been a minute

I think the central statement of this video loses sight of the reason heroes and leaders exist and the value they provide that lead them to be necessary in political movements. People are predisposed to apathy and maintaining status quo for the sake of familiarity. The revolution only happens if someone can motivate and inspire ppl to take action to change what already is. Otherwise, there's no revolution to kill in the first place If not for kamina, humans would have stayed underground forever. If not for aang, the other nations would have surrendered to the fire nation

Oh shit I hear a no name fan🙌🏾I love this video man excited to see what you do next🙏🏾

Your content is GOAT’d

As an Afro-Latino 19-year-old dude named Messiah in real life, this shit helped a lot. Thank you.

I'm new to channel. I dig what you're doing. I'm about to start going through all your videos. Keep up the good work

I tried to give this video a chance up until you mentioned that there was such a thing as the British black Panthers. Lol. The UK has been cucking to the left since way before the us and yet in a progressive 2024 society it's still not enough for y'all. You lost me there.

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I’d argue the hero complex phenomena is a cry for help because of the white supremacy eurocentric euro-centered society that has been created. The self inflicted inferiority complex european people placed on themselves to 1. Create race so in turn creating black and white… has created villains of people and in turn victims of the rest looking for hope. But “hope” is a word and the system was made by people and upheld by an ideology. So the hero to many is the only way out and they forget how powerful they are. If someone can be so warped in their thinking they can create a system like this. By that alone there are people who can look to themselves with others to topple it.

“Finally someone said it” is usually something people been saying.

Are there any Black Brit "messiahs"

I think something like this is especially true in Africa, seeing the reactions to the West African Junta leaders has made me think of this. Everyone is sitting and hoping for the one magical president that will come and save the country by himself. A guy comes into power and says something bad about Europe, says some Pan-Africanist things and suddenly he's the messiah who will save Africa by himself. It builds a cult of personality around that person that acts like a shield. One that makes people never question what economic ideas does that person have, or even if they actually know how to run a country. Nobody cares about it until it's already been years and the country has made no development, people have died because the government's head is simply a soldier who had no real plans or economic knowledge and his cult of personality has boosted his ego to a level to where just questioning him can get you thrown in jail or executed. Then another coup happens and the cycle repeats.

People who left the franchise early are going to watch 6:14-9:52 and say "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?".

This is giving me bitter, failed, dreams and expectations for me. There is no black Messiah there never will be and black people can and should act as a radical collective. We are not giving up and we will be arrested and killed by police regardless of not neglect from the structural racism we experience Have you joined a black lives matter group? Have you went to a protest?

This video is libertarian conservative and tone deaf. The FBI will target activists and organizers as the next emerging black messiah not over the fault of their own but over the fear of black people and racism., leading to attempts of assassinations and isolation. Some people are stereotyped as the up coming black messiah against their will and it's not their fault. Some people are not necessarily being saviors some people just are not comfortable with the present times of today and are struggling and fighting hard is how they cope. It should be good to want to see us win. Some people don't want to be a Messiah but don't want to be a libererian goody too shoes, bourgeoisie.

I really like the points you touched on especially with Kamina and Gurren Lagann, the only thing I don't agree with is chalking up Kamina's entire character to an immature caricature of "toxic" masculinity he is much more complex than that, what I would say is that Kamina represents many of the old school/traditional ideas of masculinity which unfortunately does come with some toxic traits but Kamina himself as a character for the most part is not really what I would call toxic based on his actions, If anything I kind of feel like Kamina was sort of the beginning of what masculinity is now which is that you can be strong but also loving, supportive and understand your feelings and let go of silly things like chauvinistic nonsense. (ie. him accepting Yoko as a fighter very quickly despite his initial comment about women) From the very first episode alone when the underground shakes begin and Simone begs Kamina to go somewhere more safe Kamina almost immediately snaps out of his stubborn mindset of "Don't run" and realizes that Simone is scared because his parents died and Kamina comforts him within seconds, that is not something that a toxic male would do. Most toxic masculinity is about not feeling your emotions, lacking empathy and just mindless brute strength. I found Kamina to be a very supportive and loving person to the people around him, another good example is during the episode where Team Gurren is captured by one of the generals and simone is digging his way out with a tiny core drill, Yoko reflects on a conversation that she had with Kamina where he opens up about his insecurities which is rare even now for some men to do.

Is this why you resonate with Jaden so much?

Sir you could not be more right , what makes everything in this meat grinder of a sistem is us , not the capital , not the State , and if we all colectively want to and persever for it , we can take everything down and rebuild it in the way we want.

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We're ALL supposed to be the Black Messiah. But we're so brainwashed, we're just sitting around waiting on Jesus, Barack, or some other nonsense that will almost certainly serve the system in the end.

Sometimes it seems like a lot of people to struggle to comprehend the idea of multiple people being responsible for making something good or bad. Like when you said 2 people leaving might not have been responsible for Boonsdock S4 being bad, the comments sections were really confused

Basically the whole Black Messiah is just an offshoot of the "Great Man Theory". The idea that someone will come and bring us to glory. I feel that image has done so much damage to a lot of societies because it has people waiting for something that will never come and create egomaniacs and narcissists.

I thought Jesus was the Black Messiah.

Perfect video for Black August!

Great video

Iykyk…And no man shall redeem you…

Man I love your channel so much. Big love from Los Angeles !! Hope to work with you one day

Sometimes it's just enough to remind people that they aren't alone.

Starting to see people treat Vince staples like this…

Phenomenally well done video, especially the points about individuals vs communities

Love how you connected ATLA, DBZ, and Gurren Lagann into this

Another tops vid man, brought to mind my thoughts while reading Soledad Brother, a lot of the topic runs parallel with the struggles of George Jackson.

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"Miracles only occur for those with the determination to never stop trying!!!" - Imperious Ivankov -One Piece

I think that there can be a need for a savior figure in terms of someone to get the ball rolling and organize what the movement is about into a codified system that then everyone hopefully can adopt. Power to the prople is great until you realize 1000 people have 1000 different ideas of how to run the revolution. It becomes like a body trying to move in several directions at once. Ive been a part of 3 movements here in the states and I can tell you, everytime there wasnt someone or group to come out and say "this is what we're about and what we justufy and dont justify", the movement died out. Still, youre right about if you have a singular leader or group, you get all that drama. But its the cost of taking on that role. Thats the cost that life places on them. Its true for all animals and its true for us.

I’m white, so can only speak from that experience, but this reminds me of something I’ve seen in white dominated political spaces. It’s well documented that the pop culture obsession with “heroes”, when aimed at white society, is concerned with lionisation of the police. However, I think there’s another effect that you touched on with the white saviour complex, and that’s the infantilisation of minorities and their political concerns when they clash with the dominant white systems. Whenever something like abolishing the police or prisons is bought up to a lot of white moderates, it’s not just the predictable “what do we do with the r*pists?” comments that follow, but something of a “we know best” attitude. It’s often couched in very performative (and probably sincere, not that it makes it less toxic) language, but you’ll hear stuff like “but the police are needed in black majority areas because of the high crime rates! They need the police to protect them!”. It reads, to me at least, as if what’s actually being said is “these communities don’t understand their actual needs, we (white outsiders) do, and so we need to enforce what’s good for them by bolstering the police/prisons”. I also hear similar when other marginalised groups advocate for their concerns, such as how so many cis people have spoken about the Cass Review when trans folk call it out for the violence it is: “they just don’t understand the Cass Review! It’s designed to help trans youth!”. The overall effect being whatever mental gymnastics are needed to avoid actually listening to the group in question. Also not surprising this is the same rhetoric that’s justified all manner of “civilising” measures through imperialist history, coming home to roost!

I think the fear of a messiah figure made it easier for us to see them as our only option out of struggle It helped create the myth, kinda like how the destruction of the air temple deified Aang to keep with the metaphor

Cult of personality is always the problem, people use it as a rally point before devolving into tribalism. What are "we" doing is the biggest truth 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Its all about the group effort!

Power comes in numbers. The vanguard is a myth.

Today I was thinking about artists I idolize too much, and remembered I like that you’re just a person. I don’t come to this channel hoping for some grains of truth from my well of knowledge lol. I come here for analysis or political strategy and praxis from a fellow nerd that wants to make a difference. I don’t come back here for a homily, I come back here because it’s like coming back to my roots. Reminding myself why I decided to grow in the first place.

I think a lot of the chosen one type narratives is a particular issue cause of the Great man theory that is everywhere. When you look in history textbooks its some great man at is central to historical events rather then a acknowledgment of the people their with em that made it happen. Many of us have interized this narrative of history and so it shows.

I think the black Messiah thing is a racist assumption made by governments that think we're stupid and will mindlessly believe any charismatic figure