Darnell Moore — Self-Reflection and Social Evolution

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Darnell Moore says honest, uncomfortable conversations are a sign of love — and that self-reflection goes hand-in-hand with culture shift and social evolution. A writer and activist, he’s grown wise through his work on successful and less successful civic initiatives, including Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to remake the schools of Newark, New Jersey, and he is a key figure in the ongoing, under-publicized, creative story of The Movement for Black Lives. This conversation was recorded at the 2019 Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England.

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0:24.4	Darnell Moore embodies for me an emerging story we've barely begun to tell ourselves
0:30.4	about new understandings of change and healing in this young century.
0:34.6	The self-reflection that goes hand in hand with social evolution.
0:39.1	I don't want to become a better man because you all know what I've been told manhood is.
0:43.2	It's not anything I'm trying to aspire to.
0:45.9	I want to become a better human person.
0:49.0	And if we can help people sort of journey to that place,
0:52.5	we might find ourselves holding on to the keys that can unlock the cages that are keeping so many of us
0:58.3	who have been identified, are identified as men, are socialized into manhood.
1:03.7	Freedom might be on the other side of that.
1:05.2	So, you know, I talk about unbecoming, not becoming a man,
1:09.2	but what it might mean to unbecome.
1:11.2	Our failing at this project, this cage, these ideas of manhood that have been sort of mapped onto us.
1:18.5	I think to me that is where our freedom lies.
1:21.6	I'm Christopher Tippett and this is on Being.
1:28.3	Darnell Moore tells the story of his formation in his book No Ashes in the Fire.
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