WEBVTT - 032324 Way Black History Fact - Black Power and Palestine

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, let's discuss our Way Black History Fact.

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<v Speaker 1>Way Black History Fact is going to be a way

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<v Speaker 1>Black History Fact. But it's also going to be a

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<v Speaker 1>call to action become a better ally. Right, We're going

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<v Speaker 1>to ask you to read. We're going to discuss really

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<v Speaker 1>the history, as I mentioned, between Black people and Palestinian people.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a much deeper history than I knew about and

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<v Speaker 1>that many people know about. And so we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>share with you a book. But I'm going to tell

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<v Speaker 1>you about the book before I ask you to go

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<v Speaker 1>read it. So this comes from Stanford University Press. The

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixty seven Arab is Israeli War rocketed the question

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<v Speaker 1>of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers.

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<v Speaker 1>Power activists saw Palestinians as a kindred people of color

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<v Speaker 1>waging the same struggle for freedom and justice as themselves. Soon,

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<v Speaker 1>concerns over the Arab Israeli conflicts spread across mainstream black

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<v Speaker 1>politics and into the heart of the civil rights movement itself.

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<v Speaker 1>Black Power and Palestine uncovers why so many African Americans,

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<v Speaker 1>notably Martin Luther King, Junior, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali,

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<v Speaker 1>among others, came to support the Palestinians or felt the

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<v Speaker 1>need to respond to those who did again. This is

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<v Speaker 1>from nineteen sixty seven, Okay Right. Americans first heard pro

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<v Speaker 1>Palestinian sentiments in public through the Black Freedom struggle of

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies. Robert R. Fischbach uncovers

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<v Speaker 1>the hidden history of the Arab Israeli conflicts role in

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<v Speaker 1>African American activism, and the ways that distant struggle shaped

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<v Speaker 1>the domestic fight for racial equality. Black powers, transnational connections

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<v Speaker 1>between African Americans and Palestinians deeply affected by US black politics,

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<v Speaker 1>animating Black visions of idea to be well into the

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<v Speaker 1>late nineteen seventies. Black Power and Palestine allows those Black

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<v Speaker 1>voices to be heard again today and chronicling this story Fishbox,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Sorry. Fishbox reveals much about how American peoples of

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<v Speaker 1>color create political strategies, a sense of self, and a

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<v Speaker 1>place within the US and global communities. The shadow cast

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<v Speaker 1>by events of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies continues

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<v Speaker 1>to affect the United States in deep structural ways. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the first book to explore how the conflict in

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<v Speaker 1>the Middle East shaped the American civil rights movement. And

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<v Speaker 1>just so you know, because we believe in credible sources,

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<v Speaker 1>we believe in journalistic integrity. So forth, I'm gonna tell

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<v Speaker 1>you a little bit about the author Fishbock. He is

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<v Speaker 1>a professor of history at Randolph Macon College. He is

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<v Speaker 1>the author of four previous books. He was awarded grants

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<v Speaker 1>by the Macauthur Foundation in the United States Institute of Peace.

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<v Speaker 1>He has presented at numerous academic and diplomatic settings in

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen countries on for a continent. So one more times

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<v Speaker 1>from Stanford University Press the nineteen sixty seven Arab Israeli

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<v Speaker 1>War and the book is Black Power and Palestine. So

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<v Speaker 1>I want to make sure we say the author's name right,

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<v Speaker 1>that's Michael R. Fishbok. We call him Robert earlier that

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<v Speaker 1>I have reading, Okay, sorry about that. So knowing that

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of what it is that we're talking about

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<v Speaker 1>today in today's conversation, and that there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>people who in recent years have taken to activism, particularly

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<v Speaker 1>through twenty twenty and the Black Lives Matter activism. You

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<v Speaker 1>would imagine seeing the type of support that we're starting

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<v Speaker 1>to see now that the information is fully diffusing through

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<v Speaker 1>the communities, and my hope is that we will be

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<v Speaker 1>able to support and ultimately a free Palestine.