Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's Necessary Speech to The United Nations

Dr. Hill before the United Nations on November 28, 2018

On Wednesday November 28, 2018 news correspondent Dr. Marc Lamont Hill spoke before the United Nations (UN) on Palestine.  Dr. Hill had just left Palestine moments earlier.  He spoke to the United Nations on his observations of the treatment of the Palestinian people by their colonial occupiers.  In speaking on this injustice, Dr. Hill held America accountable for its role in the occupation of Palestine and its correlation with America’s internal history of racism  On November 29, 2018 a Cable News Network (CNN) spokesperson announced that Marc Lamont Hill was no longer under contract with them.  He had been political commentator at CNN.  This was a day after Dr. Hill’s speech before the United Nations. 

There are many shares on the Web of  Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's speech before the United Nations. Here is just one. Further down in the article a similar speech presented April 4, 1967 will be discussed.
Dr. Marc Lamont's November 28th Speech Before The UN

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's Speech Before the United Nations Has Sparked A Firestorm

To criticize Dr. Marc Hill because he lost his contract with CNN after speaking for justice is to criticize others like Malcolm X, Dr. King, Cynthia McKinney, Yonah Lieberman, Cesar Chavez and Angela Davis for speaking out on the similar injustices.  They too took risks including risking their lives.  Remember Malcolm X was to speak before the UN on America's racism.  Today, fewer Black people in America seem willing to make such sacrifices.  Such sacrifices will always be necessary to fight against oppression.  Dr. Hill made such a risky sacrifice.  Respect to the ancestors, the elders and all our people who have sacrificed. 

 

Dr. Hill’s speech was spoken with eloquence, intelligently presented, comprehensive and showed he was well informed. In mentioning the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, America's history of racism was brought forward in a way the world would connect and understand. The Declaration was created by the West post their own genocide of WWII which was brutal against the Jewish people of Europe. He alludes to the hypocrisy of western words as it creates its propaganda for worldwide invasions to spread democracy and free people from tyranny… Like many such written agreements, it too continues to be broken. There are those who realize that Palestine is in Africa and not the so-called Middle East. His speech reminds the world of South African apartheid which America supported. Many Black prisoners are in solitary confinement in America's mass incarceration as mentioned regarding occupied Palestine. Black people in America are automatically considered guilty (FBI's extremists). There are too many American chickens worldwide for them to ever fit if they all come home to roost. In speaking on occupied Palestine, Dr. Hill showed to the UN some of those chickens.

Press TV is an example of one way the world is responding.  Press TV is an Iranian media that has responded in reminiscent of when the world watched police dogs attack protesters during the time of the Civil Rights Movement.  As America warred all over the world in its self righteousness back then, especially in Vietnam, the world put in America's face her savage history of racism.  This was at the time of the Civil Rights Movement that the world was watching America’s treatment of her African America citizens.  So the world watches now.  They are watching and responding. As the results of Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's speech the world has been empowered to again tell self righteous America her savage history when it comes to racism. I had to pause for a moment when I saw this posted as it brought back many memories of the Movement. Please watch Press TV’s response below. 

Press TV VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! Racism is still a big problem in the US!

This share by Press TV posted on December 1st on social media says the world understood Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's speech.  In any speech one must really know and understand their audience.  His was the world that sees injustice in and by America. 

Not only are shares on America's racism on social media in response to his speech, there are calls to boycott CNN for firing Dr. Hill.  Originally, rather than terminate Professor Hill, Temple University in Philadelphia stood behind him and his right of free speech. 

Social media defends Marc Lamont Hill after CNN firing over Palestine 

Dr. Cornel West also came to the support of Dr. Marc Lamont Hill in his support for the people of Palestine.  As Dr. West spoke with TheRealNews he states, "All he's saying is that Palestinian babies deserve the same rights as Israeli babies,"  

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has created a petition to reverse CNN's decision to terminate ties with Dr. Marc Lamont Hill and in support of his stance for the people of Palestine.

Sign petition against CNN's termination of Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

On his social media account, Yonah Lieberman wrote on Dr. Hill’s experience after speaking before the UN. “The conversation @marclamonthill has become about the meaning of “from the river to sea”. The conversation *should be about* the fact that an extremely credible journalist was fired by a centrist media company for openly supporting Palestinian freedom.”  Yonah Lieberman is a member of the IfNotNow Movement of Jewish Americans for the end to the fifty year occupation of Palestine.

As usual mainstream media is out of touch as evidenced by their reporting on his speech before the United Nations.  In comparison, social media and some independent media has come to the support of Dr. Hill.

Dr. King's Vietnam Speech Heard In Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's Speech

After listening to Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's speech on Palestine before the United Nations, I immediately thought of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech on America's war against the people of Vietnam.  Both speakers took a risk when they spoke on an injustice to a people. Both speakers were able to eloquently connect these wars aboard with America's history of racism. Both were able to point out the hypocrisy in America's foreign polices and her history of centuries of racism and treatment of Black and Brown people in America. Both were valiant in taking risks for the benefit of other people in the world. Both were valiant in taking risks for the benefit of their own people by showing the similarities and presenting them to the world.

Today, Black America speaks out, points out and posts on social media when it comes to racist acts committed in America. Actions and risk taking need to follow. Yet there is condemnation of our people who are bold enough to take the necessary risks by acting.   

Below is Dr. King's speech, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" on the war American waged against the people of Vietnam. Dr. Hill's speech rings similarities.

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill career includes journalism, authorship, political commentating, news correspondent and being a scholar.  As an academic he was a professor of Media Studies, urban education and American studies and African American Studies.  The link to his website is below.

DR. Marc Lamont Hill - Journalist|Scholar|Author|Activist 

What prompted me to write this piece is finding the critique by young African Americans of Dr. Hill for risking his career to speak out against an injustice.   Having lived through the Civil Rights Movement and the anti-war movement of the 1960s, I was quite aware of risks that were taken by many who participated in these movements for change.  Young African Americans will have to consider taking similar risks to end mass incarceration the current enslavement of Black people in America afforded by Amendment 13 of the Constitution; the murdering at will of Black and Brown people by white police officers; and the criminalizing of being Black in America.  One on the reasons America has escalated in her second Post Reconstruction is due to the lack of taking actions with risks by Black America. So I write urging support for those who like Dr. Hill have taken the necessary risks.