Black Lives Matter Because All Lives Matter w/ TEDxOcala's James Jones

The Golden Mic Podcast w/ Marc Cordon and TEDxOcala

Ep. 039 Black Lives Matter Because All Lives Matter w/ James Jones

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If you told the young Jimmy Jones that he’d grow up to be a college professor telling his life story on a podcast, he wouldn’t believe you. Jimmy grew up in the segregated south, which gave him a narrow perspective of what he could accomplish later in life.

Through the encouragement of his cousin, as a pre-teen and teenager, James made it a personal goal to read all of the books in the tiny library in his town. And it was in that tiny library that James started to find his voice. Specifically, The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson was particularly salient as it made the argument that education is the means for African-Americans to get out of their current subjugated roles in the greater society. This book became particularly salient as it moved James to attend the HBCU of Hampton University. As a student he was challenged by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) to dig even deeper. And in his digging, James read The Autobiography of Malcolm X. It’s no surprise that Dr. Jimmy Jones is now Professor Emeritus of World Religions, Executive Vice President of the Islamic Seminary of America, and former Chair of both the Dept of World Religions and the African Studies Program at Manhattanville College. 

In this conversation, James breaks down the constructs of “us vs them” and puts the new perspective of “oneness” in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. Incredible! 

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See James Jones in a limited live audience or live-stream on Saturday November 7, 2020 from 10am - 4pm EST at the College of Central Florida. 

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