WEBVTT 01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:05.000 On corporate elites, the ultra rich, the less than 1% they're the ones that don't want us coming together. 01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:16.000 And that's why I encourage you. There's antiracist groups all around, I'm sure, on campus and in the city. 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:20.000 I know lots of them. I was fortunate enough to have one even at the University of Illinois, when I was a graduate student in my Phd. 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:31.000 Program. And so in this all races are involved in. In fact, most of the anti-racist groups that I've been involved with has been predominantly white. 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:44.000 There's lots of white people that reject this. That's why I say, refuse to cooperate, because this is the system that you know has been dividing our country from the beginning. 01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:50.000 I wanna take one more question, and then I wanna open it up to if you're interested in purchasing the books. 01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:56.000 They are $55. I do have Zell, if you don't have cash or check. 01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:13.000 If anybody still uses those. But anyway, I'll take this one last question. Yes. 01:07:13.000 --> 01:07:21.000 Right, sure, very much so. 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:33.000 Yes, exactly. 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:39.000 Yes. 01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:49.000 And all of his experiences. 01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:54.000 Yes. Well, I think you know conversations like this writing. 01:07:54.000 --> 01:08:04.000 The book is important getting that book adopted talking about it in the classrooms and in our communities, and again having the language to be able to make these connections because, again, the politicians you know, these quote unquote anti-war politicians. 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:12.000 They don't want us making these connections. They want us to have these connections. 01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:18.000 They want us to have these kind of metadata for insurance, I mean for us to have these kind of metadata for insurance, I mean for for history, right? 01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:20.000 So you just have this metadata, you know, 1607. And this date. 01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:27.000 But you don't have any analysis right? This analytical and conceptual tools. That's what they don't want you to be. 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:42.000 Able to have, because then once you learn about intersectionality, right then, you can make these connections and then come up with an analysis that sets out in plain language so that people can understand it in day-to-day life right. 01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:51.000 Okay. This is the last question that I'm stop because you haven't go ahead. That's okay. 01:08:51.000 --> 01:09:03.000 That's okay. Sure. 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:19.000 I can. Yeah, I agree with you. I agree with you. 01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:30.000 But first of all, you have to get it out there, and I've done, because this is a labor of love for me personally. 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:46.000 Why? In terms of right? Right? Right? Yeah. Well, I again, I think that it really becomes for understanding that the things that divide us is more systemic. 01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:47.000 People don't know how to talk about issues of whiteness and race. 01:09:47.000 --> 01:10:09.000 So I've given, I believe, a framework for kind of understanding it, not just because I'm wide I'm automatically racist, but for understanding that here are these systems that happen when the when America was settled, and that here's how we set out to differentiate groups of white people from one 01:10:09.000 --> 01:10:13.000 another, because a lot of this tension is intra-racial, it comes out and is expressed obviously against black people. 01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:31.000 But a lot of the tension, like Bacon's Rebellion, and all of these rebellions, these white backlashes are really white people, being mad at the elites for not giving them these benefits that they were promised and so just by you putting this out there by me putting 01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:41.000 this out there in my book, in a way that kind of shows the systemic nature of this, then perhaps people can realize that it's not this kind of personal thing. 01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:42.000 This is really more systemic, and that people can then divorce themselves from the I'm white. 01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:53.000 Your black into. You know we're all human, and that we have this racial system that was designed to keep us apart. 01:10:53.000 --> 01:11:03.000 And now that I understand that it's really a sustainic thing and not kind of a biological, then, perhaps even as somebody that's white, I can then reject that. 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:07.000 That's what my goal is. In. My home is. Thank you very much. 01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:13.000 I appreciate that. 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:19.000 Thank you so much. Dr. Thompson, and you know I just wanted to say, I think where Dr. 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:29.000 Thompson started with the current assault on any kind of accurate history and information about race about the foundations of this country. 01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:32.000 Those are attempting to erase any any kinds of information like this. 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:36.000 So we are in an information war, and I think it is incredibly important that you know this book and the intellectual work. Dr. 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:44.000 Thompson is doing is one of those weapons that we can use to fight that intellectual war. 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:50.000 So we can win. I wanna thank everyone for coming again. 01:11:50.000 --> 01:12:02.000 I want to remind you that the Black Bag Speaker Series are archived on Psu's libraries website, so you can get it through the library. 01:12:02.000 --> 01:12:08.000 Or through black studies. Department's website. And this recording will be up, probably in a couple of weeks. 01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:24.000 I want to thank, especially Thalia, Martha, and Azlin, who are incredible, support staff and just organizing that hack they're just organizing the hacks out of the school of gender race and nations, and I am so thankful for that. 01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:26.000 And I want to thank the office of academic innovation for co-sponsoring as well. 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:48.000 Please, if you have not signed in, we do have a sign-in sheet at the back that Martha is personing that helps us not only keep track of how many folks were here, but also to rebuild our mailing lists, so we can keep letting you know about this and lastly Dr. 01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:51.000 Thompson is selling copies of the book in the back. 01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:52.000 So please get that copy. We do have one here at the Psu library, but you're going to want your own. Obviously. 01:12:52.000 --> 01:13:03.000 So thank you all again so much, and I hope everyone has a great day. 01:13:03.000 --> 01:13:11.000 Oh, and eat food, food, food with you. Take take a plate, put some food in there, put a plate on top. 01:13:11.000 --> 01:13:21.000 We paid for it. So take it all.