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Stamped from the Beginning

They have lived like beasts without any custom of reasonable beings. They have no...

[animal roar] [Zurara] They have lived like beasts without any custom of reasonable beings. They have no understanding of good, but only know
how to live in a bestial sloth. [tense music playing] [Kendi] Gomes Zurara's book wasn't just the first major text
by a European written in Africa, it also became a bestseller

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[Zurara] They have lived like beasts
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without any custom of reasonable beings.
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They have no understanding of good,
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but only know how to live in a bestial sloth.
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[tense music playing]
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[Kendi] Gomes Zurara's book
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wasn't just the first major text by a European written in Africa,
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it also became a bestseller.
Duration
31 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:38
Uploaded
Apr 12, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
One Story Up Productions,story27

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Movie Summary

A hybrid documentary/scripted feature based on Dr. Kendi's National Book Award-winning "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas".
These racist ideas of African people as beastly - Stamped from the Beginning 00:08
These racist ideas of African people as beastly
[Dr. Autumn Womack] The work is naturalizing these racial hierarchies. - Stamped from the Beginning 00:07
[Dr. Autumn Womack] The work is naturalizing these racial hi...
{\an8}I mean, that's how popular culture works, and that's how power works, right? - Stamped from the Beginning 00:06
{\an8}I mean, that's how popular culture works, and tha...
[Jeffers] In order for you to do that and to make yourself feel good about it, - Stamped from the Beginning 00:12
[Jeffers] In order for you to do that and to make yourself f...
Otherwise, - Stamped from the Beginning 00:09
Otherwise,
Nobody wants to think of themselves that way. - Stamped from the Beginning 00:05
Nobody wants to think of themselves that way.
[Kendi] Gomes Zurara wrote - Stamped from the Beginning 00:12
[Kendi] Gomes Zurara wrote
["Get Over Here" by Major Babe, feat. Jayy Starr playing] - Stamped from the Beginning 00:17
["Get Over Here" by Major Babe, feat. Jayy Starr p...
[man 4] The Negro in this country today stands for venereal disease, - Stamped from the Beginning 00:20
[man 4] The Negro in this country today stands for venereal ...
[woman] This is happening 'cause we're Black. - Stamped from the Beginning 00:09
[woman] This is happening 'cause we're Black.
Somebody told a lie one day. - Stamped from the Beginning 00:05
Somebody told a lie one day.
They made everything Black ugly and evil! - Stamped from the Beginning 00:06
They made everything Black ugly and evil!
Look in your dictionary and see the synonyms of the word "black." - Stamped from the Beginning 00:13
Look in your dictionary and see the synonyms of the word &qu...
But he didn't necessarily create whiteness. - Stamped from the Beginning 00:05
But he didn't necessarily create whiteness.
And whiteness as a construct - Stamped from the Beginning 00:12
And whiteness as a construct
[distant music playing] - Stamped from the Beginning 00:12
[distant music playing]
We had indentured servants from Europe, who were trying to make their way, - Stamped from the Beginning 00:09
We had indentured servants from Europe, who were trying to m...
[whip crack] - Stamped from the Beginning 00:06
[whip crack]
{\an8}[Dr. Dorothy Roberts] One of the greatest fears of white landowners - Stamped from the Beginning 00:18
{\an8}[Dr. Dorothy Roberts] One of the greatest fears of whi...
And it became clear that this was a real possibility - Stamped from the Beginning 00:17
And it became clear that this was a real possibility