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Uncle Tom

(soft music) When you look back at the history of black people here in America, once we...

(soft music) When you look back at the history of black people here in America, once we were free from slavery, we were successful in ways, and we overcame things and we did things far beyond our predecessors could have imagined

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When you look back at the history of black people
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here in America, once we were free from slavery,
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we were successful in ways, and we overcame things
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and we did things far beyond
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our predecessors could have imagined.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
01:05:11
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
Production
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Movie Summary

An oral history of the American black conservative.
Simply because we had that almost instinctively in us. - Uncle Tom 00:05
Simply because we had that almost instinctively in us.
As blacks emerged from slavery, - Uncle Tom 00:07
As blacks emerged from slavery,
And yet in 1/2 a century, - Uncle Tom 00:05
And yet in 1/2 a century,
And economic historians call that - Uncle Tom 00:07
And economic historians call that
So, in the late 1800s, - Uncle Tom 00:16
So, in the late 1800s,
And we had real movers and shakers - Uncle Tom 00:05
And we had real movers and shakers
Because at one time, blacks were Republicans, - Uncle Tom 00:04
Because at one time, blacks were Republicans,
Those seven years after the Civil War, - Uncle Tom 00:05
Those seven years after the Civil War,
You had more blacks in the House and Senate than you do now, - Uncle Tom 00:08
You had more blacks in the House and Senate than you do now,
But then what happened was that Democrats realized - Uncle Tom 00:10
But then what happened was that Democrats realized
That brings us to the rise of Jim Crow. - Uncle Tom 00:05
That brings us to the rise of Jim Crow.
The Jim Crow era and Ruby Bridges going to school, - Uncle Tom 00:08
The Jim Crow era and Ruby Bridges going to school,
But we had Hiram Rhodes Revels - Uncle Tom 00:10
But we had Hiram Rhodes Revels
So, there's this gap of missing achievement that we have, - Uncle Tom 00:13
So, there's this gap of missing achievement that we...
You can't depend on a government school - Uncle Tom 00:08
You can't depend on a government school
You're gonna see people like even Frederick Douglas - Uncle Tom 00:11
You're gonna see people like even Frederick Douglas
He was a Republican, very American. - Uncle Tom 00:04
He was a Republican, very American.
When they wanna teach you somebody that was great - Uncle Tom 00:07
When they wanna teach you somebody that was great
And they also, and this is sort of one of the biggest myths - Uncle Tom 00:07
And they also, and this is sort of one of the biggest myths
Because they can't acknowledge - Uncle Tom 00:09
Because they can't acknowledge