FOREST WHITAKER FINDS HUMANITY IN IDI AMIN

[4289twelve]

I read that later Ugandan Governments of Obote and later Democratic leaders murdered many more Ugandans than Amin ever did. Strange, how the world works.

[MrPindali]

The woman narrator should not be allowed to speak. MY ears hurt.

[EpiclandOfficial]

great actor

[kushjay1]

ldi amin u mean idot amin laugh me rass off

[bornagain4virgin]

So he found humanity in Idi Amin?

Forest Whitaker suddenly seems a lot less cool now.

[Samgurney88]

urm no I don't see them yet :)

[Tripo1iSamson]

I love how people defend awful dictators while taking stupid shots at the US, even when the US has nothing to do with the current video.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson I actually hate double standards. I don't care if US, UK, the 'muslim world' or Ugananda is doing something wrong- it is something wrong. Jingoism is just the icing on the cake. Now stop believing everything you read and do some research.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 "Now stop believing everything you read and do some research." Nice fucking generalization. If you ever want to go toe to toe citing sources we can do it jackoff, and you'll see that I'm able to back up my statements. Dick.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson as hypocritical since I doubt very much she would tolerate vietnam declaring war on her for being capitalist or her pretexts for entering iraq as legitimate... blah blah you've probably heard the story before. You could write a book about all the stuff she gets up to if only it wasn't just books about history and politics.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 And you probably never heard of the Vietnamese cultural revolution that occured once the US left Vietnam. You also probably never heard of the fact the US never lost any territory to the Vietcong in any battle that involved a company of US men or more.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 You say it's all relative, but that's just an argumentative defense against you ever admitting that the US did anything better than any one else- if it actually came down to you seeing how open the rest of the world was about its own racism, supremacy beliefs, and wars of attrition/gain, your ultimate answer would be "well it's all relative." Sure.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 "since I doubt very much she would tolerate vietnam declaring war on her for being capitalist ..." Okay. Never once has a "capitalist" nation had a cultural revolution where they deliberately killed more than a tenth of their population. Cambodia, Laos, China, Vietnam, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, none of these places can say that. So shove your relativity up your ass :)

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 America's such a big and easy-going place that they're just hypersensitive to their own mild violence and affirmations of their right to exist- America tries to go to war with someone who's going to kill off more than a million of their own people? Oh, well that's America being "imperialist." American kids play "violent" videogames while Palestinians actually own guns? Oh, that's just America's fault and sick obsession with violence. Blah blah blah I've heard it all before.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 In the 1960's 1 in 3 people globally lived under communism. Under communism, you are generally considered property of the state. Every time you claim it's all "relative" you insult every immigrant who ever left their despotic country for a better one, usually America.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson Despotism or war torn thanks to the US. So you're seriously defending the US' rights to be in vietnam?? Obviously I do not think the US murders its own civilians. Just other countries.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 Haha, okay. If you believe the US policy is to deliberate murder civilians constantly, then obviously you don't understand why the US invented the smart bomb and laser guided technology, while the Russians just used gas cans mounted on helicopters to drop onto villages. Get real loser :) And it's hilarious that you STILL try to say every cause of war ever was caused by the US- you're like a guy I saw online, saying that WW2 was America's "fault," lawlalwlawlalw.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 Couldn't post the links here or send them to you because you have friend lock, so it's posted on your channel.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson Thanks :)

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 wtf, have none of those links showed up on your profile? Or are you gettin em off there when/after checking them? Are they at least showing up?

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 I mean do you really demand that one "do some research" while all you express is a perspective, no actual facts or events cited except generalizations or single paradigms of "good" and "bad" ?

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson I am not interested in perpetuating malice and point scoring. When I wrote 'Do some research' and whatever else I said, it was because I do not like the reference to the muslim world as if said actions were the responsibility of Islam. It is fear mongering which spreads this image of Islam as this menacing religion which is incredibly insulting to someone who knows many muslims who would rather see humanity living together happily.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson The US and the 'west' is the cause of much of the actions which have brought disreputability onto islam; Mandating arab countires after ww1, subsidising isreli terror, funding the mujahideen to get the soviets of out afghanistan and other jingoistic actions which have earned the US its reputation of hegemony. I would be surprised if after such turbulent history there weren't fanatics with delusional beliefs indoctrinating their own children with hatred and disinformation.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 haha, okay. Jihad existed long before the US ever existed, would you like to see my sources on the Jihad in the Ottoman Empire against the Russians, or the instance of early America hearing from Muslim pirates that enslaving infidels was okay? "I would be surprised if after such turbulent history there weren't fanatics with delusional beliefs indoctrinating their own children with hatred and disinformation. " Okay? The west is very lax, very liberal, and the east is erratic, but

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 somehow that's the fault of the west? I can't help it if you've swallowed whole the "victim" propaganda from the ENTIRE world.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson Just stop being a cock this is not about point scoring, im giving my opinion. I'm not being contentious but the point you have just made about jihad is interesting so yes I would actually like citations so I can do some research not just to challenge that fact. But my point still stands, Hitlers fanatical beliefs id not gain credibility until the second economic depression in Weimar germany... I simply view the US as a catalyst. Obviously though, this is just propaganda :/

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 "Just stop being a cock this is not about point scoring, im giving my opinion." I don't know about you, I'm dealing in fact, not opinion. People who try to act as if their "opinion" is some static, unchangeable thing are just, like you, relativists who believe their beliefs are so special in their little comfort shell that no facts or truths will change it. Anyway, I'm going to post my links here, or privately send them to you.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson No, you gave me a good historical note about Jihad I didn't know s I accept it. Do not be under any illusion that you are not propagating anything other than opinion and that there is no debating it. I am not blind enough to see that my views are opinion and not fact. Obviously by virtue of their being my opinion I believe they are true. People who bring up this issue with relativism do not understand it tbh.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 Haha okay. Yeah, my facts are just opinion, your opinions as good as fact, so it must all be relative huh? Genius rhetoric man.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 Haha, by virtue of their being my opinion. Nice unwarranted self importance.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson Not at all XD I meant it as in- why would I have an opinion I didn't think was the best opinion to have. However, I am as fallible as the next person and I keep in mind that I might be wrong which is what makes it opinion. Not 'all my opinions are infallible'. I seriously don't want this to be about point scoring I just want a mature debate and respectful disagreement.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 Sigh, I give up. I posted a shit ton of links on your page but they kept/keep disappearing. Just look up Jihad in the Time of Jefferson, and Ancient Jihad, and other books/free sources. There was Jihad in Russia before the US even fought WW1. There was mullahs supported by the nazis, by there mutual hate of the Jews, before Israel even existed. And no, a debate isn't stubborn opinion stabbing, it's facts. Fuck this shit.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson So are we now debating about how we should debate or both telling the facts of how it 'should' be done? I'm confused.

I know that my beliefs will not always be accepted by everyone. And I would rather not debate at all than debate with someone who is intent on having only one point of view remaining but who hasn't proved his argument enough so that that is the state of affairs. If you give me facts and argument, then we will agree. But uncertainty and opinion are found everywher

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 Nice. Your obstinate ways are astounding. And no, we're not debating about anything now. We were "debating" in such a way that I was referencing history and you were referencing an attitude.

[Samgurney88]

@Tripo1iSamson On this basis, I can only work within the 'interlocuters' own paradigms and show up the contradictions in a socratic form. I believe that the US is better than Tunisia, for example, in terms of freedom and has a better foreign policy than north korea too. But I see no evidence to hold the US in high esteem. It is all relative- on the same scale that I measure US entry into ww2 as 'good' I measure her intervention in vietnam, cuba, iraq...

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 "But I see no evidence to hold the US in high esteem." Okay. So? "It is all relative." This is a dangerous statement. Stopping despotic communism is better than say, cutting Berlin in half and trying to starve your own hostages, as Russia and German leftists did.

[ToksPianoTube]

the narrator is stephen hawkins wife

[xxxdieselyyy]

The guy really did mean good, for his people. However he just got a bit too power hungry and when economic plans of his went awry due to poor planning, the entire ceiling just went crumbling down. I try to keep an open mind...and many ppl in Africa who have lived under Idi Amin and support him still say he was very approachable as a man, he never put on any pretenses etc.

I have yet to come up wif 1 truly honorable world leader without blood in his r her hands....

[xxxdieselyyy]

@xxxdieselyyy --------2----------->Indra Gandhi had similar characteristics to Idi Amin rule. She declared national emergency, expelled a lot of second generations immigrants settled in India, started a war cutting Pakistan in 2 etc., but for us natives, she was a person who wanted to make us a world power and protect us from foreign exploitation and corruption.

[fumystyka]

man, Force should read some history this is a sorry azxx research he did. Humanity in Amin is like hairs on a dolphin.

[badman1972]

motherfuckers keep forgetting they are responsible for killing more people than any other Race in the world. Africans, Jews, Indians(the real Americans) oh and lets not forget the Japanese

[mrblujet]

It appears you have a bit of a racist problem yourself. What villain has been glorified by Caucasians?

Let me ask you: do you admire Idi Amin? Did you support a racist, anti-Semite, mass-murderer? Do you understand that Amin killed thousands of his fellow Ugandans, mostly black men, women and children?

There was nothing humane about Idi Amin. It looks as though Forest Whitaker is not the only individual who is naive about Amin's past.

[mrblujet]

Humanity in Idi Amin? Forest Whitaker is one naive individual. I guess it is difficult for someone like Whitaker to accept the fact that there are blood-thirsty dictators in his own ancestral homeland.

Didn't Whitaker support Obama?

[badman1972]

hello stupid, who glorifies villians more than cuacasians, answer=nobody.when a white guy slays lots of  people he is called a Grand Dragon and or President of the United States, but is as soon as there is an African, then you call him Monster, Fuck off

[Samgurney88]

I think you are the most naive person here- you are the one forgetting that even though he was a vicious, troubled and monstrous dickhead, he wasn't a monster- he was a human being with emotions, family e.t.c As was hitler and all other 'monsters'- you are naive to beleive that their monstrocity forbids them to be human.

[mrblujet]

Kid, you are only 14 years old. Get back to me in 10 years after you have done some studying and research. Also, how can you state that he was a "monstrous dickhead" and then say that "he wasn't a monster - he was a human being with emotions" in the same sentence?

By the way, I think you will find it difficult to find a Holocaust survivor who thinks that Adolf Hitler was capable enough to be a human being.

[Samgurney88]

I am not in any way justifying the evil of hitler. Studying and research has nothing to do with this- what I am saying is valid irrellevant of my years. Evil is a man made thing, that has no basis in reality- once our projections and boundries that define evil are removed from the equation there is no good or bad. The fact someone does something our society rejects and calls evil does not deny him the fact he is a human being, although an attrocious one, like you and I.

[Samgurney88]

If we consider what the basis of evil is-- greed, insecurity, anger, predjudice all things which are human in nature. In fact, evil is the most human trait of all. The very fact someone is driven to such boundries of evil is evident of their humanity, fallibility and emotion. Quite the contrary to your conclusion that it excludes them from their human nature. I am not denying Amin, Hitler, Stalin as evil, but all I am saying is their faults are evidence of their humanity.

[Samgurney88]

You need to accept that whilst evil, these people are people nonetheless. Whitaker is not naive in accepting this, he knows that the man had a family, emotions and a life away from being a bloodthirsty bastard. This has nothing to do with race, age or research- Evil people are people.

[xxxdieselyyy]

@Samgurney88 ------------Evil is a man made thing--------->if u are on the losing side, u r evil. If u r on the winning side, u r not , simple as that . If Hitler won WW2, the genocide of Jews would be hidden but genocidal activities of the British Empire would b revealed and highlighted. And perhaps genocide of Native Americans would b highlight as a part of Hitler propaganda.

Who is evil or good depends on who is writing the history- it's the winning team as they say.

[Samgurney88]

@xxxdieselyyy Almost absolutley true. History is written by the winners every time. When America bombs another third world country because they don't like their leader, then they are fighting of a world menace. When we do it, its not terrorism, but when they do it- they are fundamentalists. Killing is wrong, whoever is doing it. I count many of the US leaders among my list of mass murderers, but the fact still remains Hitler was certainly one of the worst. There is no room for double standards.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@Samgurney88 Yeah because America's all for spreading Wahhabist Islam and beheading people and blowing up kids with bombs strapped to them. Oh wait, that's the Muslim world.

[Biafrans7]

Can we find humanity in the British that took over a land not theirs (theft), set him up to his monstrous rule.

[AvEryBadApPLe]

i found humanity in a bottle of jack daniels, once.

[joygursky]

good man..

[kindin10]

me too!!!!!!!!!!!

[josealonsoleon]

How obvious, but of course one can find humanity in the sickest and most cruel specimens in mankind. I am sure if someone went to the same trouble they would also find humanity in Hitler and Darth Vader but does that mean we need to show mercy and respect for the psychopath deranged and obviously retarded dictator. You be the judge of that dear human audience.

[ROBERT9205]

it is nice to hear whitaker caring and wanting to help the indigant in africa,however i do find it troubling he was nice to fat fawk's family

[soccersprincess]

Well, yeah. But Idi did those terrible things, not his brother or his sister.

[vim90]

Forrest Whitaker is an ignorant American nigger. He knows nothing about Idi Amin, Africa,or Amin's Kakwa murderers. How can he find humanity in a murderous cannibal????

[DIONYSES000AD]

"splendid fellow" ....

[DIONYSES000AD]

Nicholas goes to see Amin who is watching porn with his goons. He gloomily tells Nicholas that he did it to make an example out of Kay. Outside he is stopped by the guards and brought back inside where Amin is gleeful and jovial and teases Nicholas for "running away from me". He tells Nicholas that Palestinian terrorists have hijacked an Israel plane and he has allowed them to land in Uganda. Amin feels this is an show the world what a great leader he is.

[DIONYSES000AD]

Nicholas rushes to the hospital only to hear creepy wailings. Following the noise he finds series of crying people in the hallway, some appear to have gone insane. Going down to the basement he finds hordes of distressed people and goon#1 telling them this is what happens to those who betray Amin. Entering the morgue he finds Kay's dismembered body. Her legs have been sewn on in place of her arms and her arms sewn on in place of her legs.. Her son is in the same room.

[murphyopalmen]

wow, voice over artist needs to take a step back from the mic, heavy breathing to the extreme

[batboyboogie]

Saw the movie; major impressive...

[johnnyjb2006]

hadnt seen much of forrest before i saw last king but he really played it well hope he and others put out more films as good as this in the future

[kannon9]

Forest is incredible, he is really intelligent and talented man not just another great actor. I am glad he is helping that he is helping orphans in Uganda. I wish more rich people would go to all parts of the world and do that so we could truly help pple.

[surrealgeorge]

it was 300,000 of his people that he killed

[batboyboogie]

@ surrealgeorge;

Some say it were 100,000 some say it were 500,000 how on earth would you know?

[kannon9]

Yes Idi Amin was an evil man extremely mental ill he murdered even more from what I understand than 300,000 he ruined Uganda. Maybe if he hadn't been insane and was a true humanitarian he could have made Uganda a great nation.

[Aknarad]

90 to 100 thousand thats what humangroups say. he was a crazy mofo.

[kannon9]

Yes Idi Amin was insane it was rumoured he had syphilis. It just to bad he was insane and evil, just think if he hadn't been insane and really knew love and compassion he could have helped his pple instead of killing & torturing them.

[Tripo1iSamson]

@kannon9 Or maybe the problem is people keep looking towards a single dictator to help them, not that the person they look to is fucked up.

[asafiscool]

he did... he won...............

[Salvatrucho213]

Forest Whitaker deserved an Oscar for that performance

[maximuserectionus]

@Salvatrucho213 He won one

[antsman88]

UGANDA!!!!!!!O YEAH!!!!!!!!

[ternak001]

Idi Amin was the perfect Dictator...He was evil, but didn't show when he gave his speeches, just like Hitler...Except if you watch this movie, you start to like Amin until the last half and then figure out he is evil...Especially what he does to his third wife in the movie, pretty brutal.

[allaaaah]

a lard-ass bully with an ego ...

good ridence

nothing racist

just anti-twatist

[jkhgjht]

fuck this bitch what she's talking about

dictator idi amini? fuck her

idi amin wasnt a dictator like nyerere who steal zanzibar and doesnt give it back to zanzibar people and these dickheads western leaders and americans who are supporting these silly drunkers africans leaders to kill us they just wanna see us strugling forever and they want us to go to beg them for aslam in their countries

[Ulfnarr]

"they just wanna see us strugling forever and they want us to go to beg them for aslam in their countries"

very true.

[jkhgjht]

these white people are killers and racist trust me bro

they are happy seeing black people dying everyday, dont ever think that to give feregners people aslam is because they love us: never ever ever they hate black people so much i know them very much they are the one who supporting their friends(dictators) to killing us , they exchanging weapon with diamond and gold and oil because african leaders are foolish and useless

[DamosAbadon]

General Amin was a great man & a great leader! All ov you racist white trash obviously don't know what you're talking about.

HAIL IDI AMIN DADA!

[luvpump1]

well if calling Amin a homocidal manic means i am a "Racist" then i am proud to say i am one !!!

[DamosAbadon]

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. WHO did General Amin kill, who didn't already DESERVE IT?

[tonikipriani]

fuck you rethink ur lyf

[okorewq]

You claim to be knowing what you're talking about and so I hope you are in position to tell me HOW Arch.Bishop Luwum deserved to die. He is one of sooo many and you will have to prove your position esp since I'm Ugandan and therefore know what I'm talking about.

[jemel101]

dis motherfucker purple

[jemel101]

fuck yo black ass forest

[seanca1983]

Idi Amin raped kids

[sleepypoodle]

He was a megalomaniacal dictator with charm that is all.

[dreddlocked]

@afrikaneer, like your namesakes you exaggerate at everything!! 4,000,000 people?? basic geography tells us that is an impossibility...400,000?? maybe...

[AfricanCrusader77]

these are lies idi amin killed indians, not his people

[dreddlocked]

@onu, afrikaa, khart, and all who think like they do...

Idi Amin, was the product of colonial rule. When you are disenfranchised from everything but told you can have it all, your only discourse when you have immitable power is to reach out and grab all that you can get. Idi was a monster...born AND BRED. Learn your history,

[Afrikaaneer]

idi amin was like hitler he murdered 4 million people from india he also tried to take over sudan, kenya, tanzania, and congo but faied to occupy sudan

[onurozbatir]

He was a the freedoom fighter.Your comments ıt's not objective.

[cliffordescott]

Forest is awsome

[khartoumy]

viva idi amin, the freedom fighter

[gerdnerd]

idi amin is a fucking ass...

[datkenikja]

The have tot do to you what the did with the doktor in the movie last king of scotland, peace of shit!