America's First Freed Slaves Bought This Island. Now It’s A Luxury Resort.

Long before Hilton Head Island in South Carolina became a vacation destination, it was a refuge for formerly enslaved people. But have you ever heard of the Gullah Geechee?
This community - with its own identity, language and culture - has been under relentless siege by threats of commercial development and land acquisition.
Their story is a warning to tourists everywhere: Your dream vacation could be happening on someone else’s ancestral land.
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[@mrnancy1114]

Native Hawaiians and the Gullah people need to move on a massive class action lawsuit.

[@mrnancy1114]

@@angelagomez3333 Yeah , sorry about that , but I was responding to the VICE documentaries I saw back to back, but to be sure they need to be in this.

[@juicebigelow6250]

Yes

[@Ozama1221]

They starting to do the same thing in Puerto Rico

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Interesting how everyone forgets us American Indians Nothing can be solved until America is released back to us So keep dreaming and living in your white supremacy fantasies

[@Difficult000]

YES !!!!!👍🏾👍🏾

[@moniquewrites9046]

Who builds a resort in a graveyard?! That’s just sick!!

[@iamsacredtransformations]

There no words to describe that level of disrespect. Those beings have no spiritual connection. For the third time - I say Soul Less...may they too endure in kind. I am so hurt and angry at this moment. On behalf of all Gullah people.

[@queenofbuttercream]

My brother in law is buried in Sea Pines... The tourists were freaked out because they realized it was a living graveyard and not just a historical graveyard.

[@jayste9334]

Evil ppl

[@Mr.Wilcox87]

Whites do this to us because they don’t respect us! They would never do this to their graveyards

[@mareerogers364]

Manifest destiny is today's white privilege 😢

[@tinaamariee832]

As a Gullah Geechee descendant this breaks my heart. What can I do to help.

[@blacktoafricamovement6696]

I think a fund needs to be set up for legal aid and for assistance in paying back taxes. Also, someone needs to look into the Hilton Head government being the largest "purchaser" of the land, especially since most of it is being lost due to property tax sales.

[@gaetansobze8966]

You can go there and visit your them. A moral support can also help sometimes. Visit, learn about them and be more close to them

[@josemanuellopezgiraldez404]

Money

[@africanqueen1655]

Please let set up a fund so that we can all contribute...

[@kingsamoanOG]

If these are your people then get out and make your voice known!!!! If you're financially secure take that money and help your people losing their properties for Pennies on the dollar!!!!

[@mayaj291]

I never understood why my people and our land couldn’t be listed as a historic area but then I realized what we looked like and then I remembered what country we live in.

[@mariarod6998]

Agree

[@wtfishappening8476]

That is so sad. So many selfish greedy people in this world that want what they want and don't care who they trample on. It's only going to get worse all around the world. They have numerous properties and don't care about the displaced/homeless/poor people.

[@butterbwoi1344]

Bingo!

[@daphneytennard3267]

It's all over the world...not just here.

[@Lioness1499]

Well our people just need to learn to fight RSEE

[@SweetsE1983]

It was heartbreaking to watch the auction proceedings. It’s almost like what’s the point of claiming your property if there is a large chance of it being purchased by someone else. People don’t care, as long as they can make money. I feel for this beautiful community.

[@kimcole2865]

Don’t worry they TIME IS UP🙏🏽

[@Nimonjeua-Ndiangang]

Yeah it's not that people don't care...."Europeans" don't treat our people right! I wouldn't call those demons, people...

[@stantleygreen7655]

Yes it is a sad thing what they do it is hard to watch,but the mistake that those who viciously purchase their property knowing what they're doing, totally disregard in these people'slives the big mistake that they make is that these people on the people of the Lord Jesus. And the Bible says that the curse is in the house of the thief .so everybody that's coming there this doing that the contract was the developers the real estate people they land purchases they are heaping curses upon themselves and upon their children upon everything that they have,and also as these people join not a God you can best believe that God is fighting for them and judgment is coming to those who do evil against his people God said touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm he said vengeance is mine and I will repay not I might God said I will repay,I wouldn't buy none of that land knowing this knowing that these people this is their land if they sold it to me for one penny I would not buy it if I did I buy it and give it to them understanding that these are the people of the Lord hell and death and the grave is waiting on these people that are taking these lands, this is what is waiting for them. So they would do good to just give it back.

[@Revellius21]

Shout out to that old TV show Gullah Gullah Island back in the 90's. That show introduced me to the Gullah people as a child.

[@CacaoFlower]

That was my show as a jit.

[@minorcek]

Commercial development is coming to ever major city, leaving the poorest people literally trapped in rental units and completely unable to afford housing.....it's happening not only in the US but the whole world. It legit scares me

[@kingsamoanOG]

And this is exactly why so many people are homeless and houseless!!! People are just scraping along and now all the US Covid money is gone the 🇺🇸 is about to get real scary especially with inflation

[@timmyjones1921]

Yep Trapped On Food Islands.

[@basstard4639]

What goes up must come down. You can only push people so far. These people keep messing around and they are going to end up decapitated by the people they are screwing over.

[@kimcole2865]

It’s all planned

[@minorcek]

@@kimcole2865 it's a lot easier and a lot less scary to just paint it as some grand ol conspiracy, isn't it Kim? Smh Our founding fathers stated Loyd and clear that this democracy is an experiment but I'm sure there's really little point in debating with someone such as yourself

[@jennief7114]

Property taxes should be outlawed.

[@dejawest3976]

Truly heartbreaking..they hear you say hier property but still want to buy ...evil evil

[@afrinaut3094]

It never seems that African-descent & indigenous peoples “are forgotten”, it seems as though government systems very much remember them & want them eradicated.

[@ms.ebbiel.3550]

It has NEVER stopped, since they set foot on Turtle Island. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@copperpenny7639]

Did the same in new york which is now central park but was formerly Seneca village

[@douglasrobertson1330]

The tyranny of slow genocide!!

[@kasheem1747]

They’re not from Africa though

[@afrinaut3094]

@@kasheem1747 the Gulla Geeche? They are.

[@shadonchestewart8483]

It’s heartbreaking, Im a Stewart raised in Atlanta and have always had a connection to the island spiritually. I don’t want my family’s history colonized, it’s literally the closest ancestral land we have left.

[@timmyjones1921]

I've traveled all over America lived in Missouri & Mississippi and Minnesota , This Is What America Does .

[@karlshaner2453]

If you go to Africa, you will find where your ancestors came from...Not some Island of the east coast of America.

[@Movies4118]

@@karlshaner2453 Same applies to you as well. Whatever your race or ethnicity you belong to.

[@karlshaner2453]

@@Movies4118 Indeed. The point was that in Africa you don't have rich people building communities and forcing locals out. Hawaii is having similar problems, and it is nothing new that wicked men take what isn't theirs. As for me...My ancestors have been forced out many times over the last 4000 years, and as recent as the mid-1800s in Missouri. They weren't so polite as to call it back taxes. They called it an "Extermination Order".

[@karlshaner2453]

@@Movies4118 Wanna talk about taking from others. Slavery was the ultimate evil in this regard. And Africans did it to Israel (whites) long before the 1600s. It seems the Lord has collected on that 400-year debt just as Isaiah had foreseen.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

That horrible woman who told the people who lost their land "sarry it didn't work out the way you expected but I am glad you are here" is so typical of false American niceness masking hypocrisy and the abuse of anyone who gets in the way of American greed.

[@pmpscheduler]

That’s the evil in the white world that created the despised feelings for white people by blacks. They are still evil people having great racist power of dumb as policy still in place stemming from Jim Crow rule. May the people who bought the land by disrespecting heirs tradition suffer great pin in the near future!

[@flaviapeltier5654]

Property tax needs to End as your home will never be yours.

[@Wtfwhatisthis]

Americans aren’t taught Black history… many kids in schools (no matter what race) never learn about minorities, their struggles, what actually happened to Native Americans, the horrible things that happened to enslaved people (before and after 1865), the Chinese Exclusion Act, and as a history major in college- my professors put a primary focus on it, and I wish we could shout it from the rooftops. This information, along with the legacy of the Gullah Geechee (and their continued struggles) all deserve to be in history books! In order to teach kids love and compassion, they have to understand the struggles of the people around them. As a white kid from the Midwest, I can guarantee my school (and many schools) never taught any of this. There are so many changes that still need to happen in the US!

[@patriciamoore7449]

This is so wrong, but it is happening everywhere. My family has been on the same farm land for 7 generations, but every farm around it has been sold to developers. 200+ houses to the west, 300+ to the north, and 300+ now going up to the east. These latest homes are being sold for 500-7-00 thousand each. It is a matter of votes as well as tax base. Our little farm does not produce the amount of income that all of these other people do combined, that's for sure. Also, we have 3 voting adults vs. how many adults living in these developments?? We don't stand a chance, and eventually ( in the not too distant future) my mom will be pushed off of land that she and my dad worked all of their married life 62 years together.. They milked cows, tilled the fields, and raised 6 kids. They paid their taxes, were never in trouble with the law, helped everyone that they could and would give the shirt off of their backs, while doing without themselves. Why should they push her off of the farm??Because they are rich and she is not. The developers have an army of lawyers and politicians in their pocket and they know just what to do to take it away. My Aunt and Uncle had their home taken away by Emminent Domain. It was a home that my Great Grandfather built by hand and had been in the family for 4 generations. They said it was to widen the road. Road has never been widened, but the house was torn down. Stand your ground!! Hold on to every inch that you can and find a smart, savvy lawyer who will back you. Praying that you stand strong, and are victorious!!!!

[@jeremiah5881]

@Patricia Moore get your family to put the property into a trust, it make it harder for eminent domain to occur. Government don't like to get into battle that much with trusts and LLCs. They mostly look for personal property owners.

[@bohemoth1]

Honey you hold on to your land. Let those evil asses build all around you. Grow your own food and harvest rain water. Raise your own food too. Learn how to can and properly store your food. Because when The Shit Hits The Fan, you won't be running to the supermarket or worrying about having DRINKING WATER which you MUST deny it to those CAUCASIAN PREHISTORIC NEANDERTHAL CAVE DWELLING SPECIES. Marie Antoinette once said " LET THEM EAT CAKE " Well darling you will be saying to those Vultures EAT CONCRETE AND SHIT. The shit is going to hit the FAN really soon. Get the means to PROTECT yourself and your land. I have my farm and I walled it off. I have my own source of energy. I went into deep debt to fortify my farm. GOD has blessed me when I hit the four Digit LOTTERY numbers which I used to pay off all of my debts. I see the day when the entire world will collapse. People in America will become CANNIBALS. In fact people who are not BLACK around the world will become CANNIBALS. That's why I am teaching my children and nephews and nieces to raise their own food and harvest their own rain water. I'm also teaching them how to use DEADLY FORCE in order to PROTECT our land. This summer will be A LIVING HELL ON EARTH. So please BE PREPARED FOR EVERYTHING POSSIBLE. You see how PRESIDENT BIDEN is giving out CRACK PIPES?

[@jeremiah5881]

Also get in contact with Institute for Justice they help out for free. They could give you some informing and if need be fight on your side.

[@leboutousocraf3436]

@@jeremiah5881 Yes, an irrevocable trust. Many people do not know about propecting their assets

[@meowmeow-hw8wo]

I think a fund should be set up to help these people pay back taxes and get their land back!!! This is heartbreaking 💔

[@daphneytennard3267]

I think the family member should get together and pay their own taxes...we cry wolf when its to late to do anything. I see this a lot with our people...won't pass it down and won't pay the taxes either. It's as if we have a spirit of stupor!

[@Feedingcrowsmedia]

All these celebrities we worship and applaud… where are they now? Somewhere not thinking about you. Stay Woke.💪🏿🧿⚔️♾

[@iamsacredtransformations]

Where are all of our people who are wealthy. Celebrities and the like? This is heart breaking and mind blowing.

[@iamsacredtransformations]

​@@FeedingcrowsmediaI didnt see your comment before I commented.

[@shirleymyahs_dghtr8182]

@@daphneytennard3267 Romans 11:8...."(according as it is written, Yah has given them the spirit of slumber (stupor), eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear); unto this day" & v10

[@gileschavous]

Just a 79 year old white native South Carolinian. Spent spent many summers at Bluffton growing up and Hilton head before the bridge. Met many Gullah’s and they and their culture was great. What happened was a culturural and environmental tradgery. I wish that the past could come back.

[@BigBlackRod]

This is the golden rule of capitalism: "He who has the gold, makes the rules."

[@dustyjarvis464]

Yes sir

[@wattswo]

Well, more like he who steals.

[@IvySnowFillyVideos]

Rooles R made 2 B BR0KEN

[@prophetesskamilahnicole]

What type of Heart must a person have to bid on land after knowing it's Heirs Property? GOD IS WATCHING✝️

[@brina6680]

Exactly!! I was thinking the same thing. I couldn’t do it. I wld feel like I would have bad karma. I believe you don’t get away with anything in life. Biding on someone else’s property after you know that they are present and trying to fight to keep that property is just despicable and disgusting.

[@jamesdrummond5894]

This is happening everywhere. May God put a stop to this robbery

[@kimcole2865]

These people are Demons!!! They don’t want the Geechee people to keep they land… this is sad! They take over everything & don’t care & this is why they are all facing they Karma right now 🙏🏽

[@sippingsocialite9494]

So are blacks males

[@llauram3650]

"I do want that tradition to remain here" Sure, Jan

[@ar2042]

Well some "traditions/attracrions" do increase the property value

[@maddykalell1270]

I grew up watching Gullah Gullah's Island and I had no idea that today it is known as Hilton Head Island. I feel super ignorant, glad I know now.

[@angelonfire]

There are many islands connected to the gullah people. This is just one of them. You have more research to do…

[@shelbyden23]

I went there for vacation and had no idea. There was nothing there at all that would of made me think it was an historic area just new homes and shops.

[@davidcanatella4279]

Money is the most deadly product of mental illness

[@carlomuratti6800]

" the market will correct itself "... in this case at the expense of the Gullah Geechee

[@melanisticmandalorian]

The catch phrase is nothing more than a catch phrase. Nothing is ever corrected, they just say it to shake responsibility off themselves to do the work necessary to correct the market.

[@Goly230]

I see this, and I feel like it's the same story here in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. I feel for them and it's infuriating. Had to struggle to finish the video. The advice at the end for turist and people interested in moving to a new place is the right one. Hope there's a solution for them!

[@glennis-dankuwel6020]

Oh they’ve been doing this to our indigenous grandparents for hundreds of yrs. We need to pray to protect our grandparents & curse the land they take to fail. If the land doesn’t work financially for them they will abandon it & move on. Psalms in the Bible have many prayers good & bad to protect us. We must stop being SHEEP 🐑 we’re stronger than that.

[@knotzed]

3:40 he should tell them they're golfing on graves!

[@hirenpatel7549]

Exactly

[@Mansa216]

On that case I'm going to go play basketball on a Stonewall Jackson Memorial

[@TheLadyrose01]

Do you think white people care?

[@Beautifully_Elle7]

They don’t care

[@davidmilton5887]

Caucasians don't care. Remember lynchings were after church social gatherings for Caucasians. Caucasians are the natural brute beasts of the human population. No people have savagely slaughtered like Caucasians,and it's not close.

[@factsnotfeelings3247]

2:00 Its weird how AJ+ put English caption when the black guy speaking, but he speaks perfect American English.

[@Bot-tm7hs]

There are many dialects within the English language, and it can be difficult to understand a dialect that you aren't very familiar with. The dialect he speaks is used by a minority of Americans, so the majority of English-speakers could potentially have a harder time understanding him. Whether or not the audience really does have a hard time understanding him is up for debate, but I don't think it was racist or anything to give captions for him

[@davidmilton5887]

@@Bot-tm7hs You mean Caucasians,right ?

[@elizahhoward3923]

Gotta love good ole colonialism

[@josemanuellopezgiraldez404]

In this case is not colonialism but the failure of the government, which really is all about corruption.

[@josemanuellopezgiraldez404]

@@danielgellineau7508 by your logic europeans colonized themselves during the dark ages.

[@josemanuellopezgiraldez404]

@@danielgellineau7508 “you people”, anyway it doesn’t matter if it happen in the past this event will be the past, I was pointing out your logic. From the start the reason all this events happen in the video are because of the governments intervention not some outside power with a different culture forcing its way massacring the opposition.

[@664theneighbor5]

Yes. I’m proud of our peoples colonial history

[@carmennicholson2867]

@@664theneighbor5 Do you belive in that saying, EVERYTHING in life must have on end, even the breath one breathe?? If I were like you, I would ask the ALMIGHTY to give you a change of heart, you committing genocide, stealing of lands, Artifacts, dropped bombs on prosperous black communities( tulsa or black wall street just to name a few), were some of the actrocties you and your forefathers have done and is still doing!! Do you really think this is somthing to gloat about? Don't you know what goes around will one day comes around? Do you think all these wickedness goes unnotice? My only wish for you and the occupants of this land is for a Tsunami in its biggest and swiftest force to come and wash you and your people into the depth of the ocean!

[@zubeia-k6k]

It needs to be a territory with autonomy, and the same for Hawaii.

[@erickr.8977]

You do realize that may take many of their rights away right? That is also a absolutely stupid idea.

[@aaroncohoon5603]

This saddens me but it happens so many times. I remember a video I watched from a few years back talking about how the Gullah have to fight with descendants of other Gullah people who have moved from the area and come back home to sell the land to developers instead of keeping the rich history and family land.

[@enigmaticflow3004]

Not the “liaison” blaming them for not trusting…why would they. Useless.

[@dorothydavis7730]

The “liaison” sounds as if she’s not be trusted! All skin-folks ain’t kinfolks.

[@pathansahunkhan8303]

Government must compensate real owners in a justified way and make them part of development for good future don't rob there ancestor home , let them live in peace and dignity... Stop racism

[@andrewm5612]

Nothing to do with race this happens to rural communities all over America regardless of if it's Mexican, black. white, or American Indian communities If these people settled inland this wouldn't be happening.. Gullah Geechee is a stretch of costal land stretching from North Carolina to Florida of course real estate developers want to invest in the land and the rising taxes are just a symptom of rising property value

[@davidmilton5887]

@@andrewm5612 Wrong. Race is in deed a factor. America was founded on racism. Caucasians hate Negroes and always take their land in many ways. Bruce's Beach in California Rosewood,Florida Ocoee,Florida Ashville,North Carolina There are many more instances. Durham,North Carolina

[@Bootstataboots]

Good advice at the end. Unfortunate how people can just take, take, take without a care of who it affects.

[@daphneytennard3267]

They didn't take it they purchased it at the auction...our people to lazy to pay taxes...my mother left land she was behind 3 years... A white man called me wanting to buy. I had to find out when where and what...she left no documents of the land...her cattle were missing off the land ...my sister and I called and found out how much she owed and we made arrangement to pay the taxes. The clerk said 'you called at the right time we were going to put it on auction next month" Dec.2021. We still have the land want to build on it for future generations. I notice a lot of our people do not pay their taxes and just let the land go...my nephew buy houses where our people haven't paid their taxes...he fix it up then sale or rent the house. Our people are lazy and do not leave family members any information about what they have...I feel luck! we found our land in Navasota Tx. They are taking it because the land is cheap and we're not doing a damn thing with it!

[@richiexp2]

Black People need to get back to practising group economics or this will forever keep happening, I don't care if other people think it's racist because other ethnicities practice self preservation too as they should...

[@AB-qp3ud]

You’re right it’s not racist. If there’s a stereotype that you’re race or culture is not financially wise then change it and invest and empower whatever you identify as your group.

[@sippingsocialite9494]

No, as most black males reject education. You need to have knowledge and self discipline to truly conquer Colonizers and the majority of black males do not have that.

[@AbeJacoby]

@@AB-qp3ud So says the white boy. Alllways trying to justify stealing, murdering, and pillaging. That's your history...across the planet.

[@iamsacredtransformations]

Or get back to casting spells. And, I mean that!!!

[@accidentsafe]

We need a website so we can help them pay their taxes.

[@davidmilton5887]

Very good idea. Let me know if that hapoens. I'll contribute.

[@jermen5137]

There is one. I believe it’s a cash app account too.

[@zico739]

Same is happening in Cumberland Island in Georgia.

[@hualani6785]

“If youre able to get in, or be trusted by ‘them’’ consider yourself lucky” DuBois spokesperson for “The Town” when asked about lack of trust by the Gullah community.. Spoken as an outsider, hired by the town. Gee, sounds as if no communication of value or depth has occured. Why wasnt someone hired from wothin the Gullah community?

[@missanamarie]

Exactly...I was side-eyeing her. She knows what's up, but probably couldn't tell the real truth for the sake of her livelihood.

[@AB-qp3ud]

You can see she’s trying to sabotage them. You can hear the guilt in her breathing and shaky breath.

[@24k.purelife]

God bless protect the Gullah Geechee people! 🙏🏾❤️

[@monnie1027]

This should be a Historical community!

[@deonlyke589]

Just watching this was devastating. More light needs to be shined on these. Our people. 😪

[@mayaj291]

When they were talking about fried fish with mustard and oysters nostalgia, when they said all shut eyes ain’t sleep and said Binyah yea I miss home. And oyster dressing (we don’t saying stuffing in Georgia) is so delicious.

[@missanamarie]

This deserves more views.

[@Junkman2008]

*"All shut-eye is not sleep."* Damn, that was deep.

[@chrischellemata]

Oh my God those people trying to outbid rightful owners/heirs should wake tf up! The fact that the people have to try defend their property is pathetic..so immoral. (bidder #110 and the rest all should be ashamed) they have some nerve 👿

[@chrischellemata]

Why do these people keep doing this? Displacing native inhabitants and desiccating culture? Who raises their child to have no consideration or respect for someone else. Such evil greed it's sickening 🤯 The united States government overthrew my queen and forcefully took away my kingdom of Hawaii in the late 1800s. Stole our land for commercial sugar production..tried to ban the speaking of our language..convert to Christianity..illegally imprisoned our then reigning Queen in her own palace by threatening bloodshed and genocide. Stole our rights, our heritage, and ultimately our culture and humanity.. How shameful..no heart and pure evil.

[@robertwhaley6325]

Award all the properties to the native people. Charge rents to the visitors... the money goes to fund an education and healthcare system for the native people. Let them own it and govern it how they wish.

[@ladybug7624]

Amen 🙏

[@jacquelinekrantz3937]

These greedy white people will never let that happen. They need money to pay the taxes asap.

[@Fefe559]

I was there at beginning of covid. Just before we were locked down. (From Canada) drove down to visit my sister & family who gad just moved there for work. My Boyfriend & I WENT TO THAT GRAVEYARD!!! It was INCREDIBLE!!! I wanted to cry when I saw it tbh. I want to ho back & drive all through the southern states someday, seeing all those gravesites. It blew-my- mind. The history was on the island seemed like the only interesting part to me. The rest looked like upper middle class upper class, gated communities & expensive boats

[@trevessence]

They have so much and we have so little yet they want ours 😢

[@Bv3276]

They are great in The Kingdom of God. Trust me! 🫶🏽

[@marilynhudson5805]

I'm 75 and I would be glad to pay Rent to visit for a month. I'm so tired of Chicago it's terrible and I worked 42 year's I'm a Retired Registered Nurse. I heard a lot about the Island but never been there. My Parents were from Natches Mis. My Mom used to visit her Cousin on the Island many years ago.

[@aponirayn9099]

This is so heartbreaking!!

[@atashikokoni]

I'm grateful that AJ makes these docs, even if it's for their own benefit

[@iamsacredtransformations]

This is absolutely disgusting! What kind of people would buy this land. There is wrath that is coming and it will consume these heartless beings that have purchased these taxes. May they truly eat their own vomit.

[@mykiamoto7145]

This is truly heart breaking and pisses me off

[@mayaj291]

The same is happening to St. Simons, Jekyll, and Sapelo island in Georgia.

[@maggiemae7539]

Robert Sepher had a video last night about the titanic and Jekyll Island was discussed in it also. The tribe of Indians were wiped out for the land and what it was used for.

[@jthomp72]

I'm...very white lets get that out of the way lol. But, my great-grandparents moved to the Island in the 1910's. I'm born and raised on the Island and I can (as weird as it is) speak a little and understand basically without problems the Gullah language. I was born in 1990. At that point there was plenty of Gullah still around. I remember growing up driving home to our house on the water and there would be entire areas of dirt roads and Gullah fields of crops and several people I interacted with weekly were very very Gullah. Didn't think anything of it to be honest. Slowly, year after year, the land was sold and the area of Gullah influence has been eroded. I moved away for college and have stayed away because well it's a retirement community and I'm not 60 lol. I don't blame in any way the Gullah families who made huge amounts of money and secured family security and wealth, I wish the developers were more like the original developers in the 1950's who respected the Gullah culture a lot more. Y'all gotta realize the island was successful and grew (in terms of popularity) because it was different. Because it was peaceful. Because it was definitely a different culture and vibe. We should be protecting the Gullah culture there like...way more than we do. End Rant.

[@iboqueen43]

After watching this, I am thoroughly pissed off. My people were forced into slavery for free labor for over 300 years and they practically built the racist south. Leave us African-Americans alone and give us the reparations we deserved!!!!!!!

[@eagledice2008]

God please wake up the spirits that are sleeping in that golf course may they wake up and cause so much havoc to the people who have stolen this land

[@ladybug7624]

Exactly my thoughts! To those spirits, I say for them to, Disrupt those who have disrupted them and their people.

[@rjrgjr]

We be Geechee. Praise be Creator. Praise be Ancestordem.

[@Aussie_Truth]

It is so F'd up. My heart goes out to the community

[@Ivan-sv9df]

Praying for you guys!

[@clbo9878]

Black people, YOU are the reason you have lost all of your land because you don't see yourselves as a NATION WITHIN A NATION, UNITE, ORGANIZED and WORK TOGETHER as people. Instead, you go to so-called church all of your lives jumping around praises some man Jesus giving tens of millions of dollars each year to Jesus, and spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on material garbage. Also, you are a $2 TRILLION dollar people but you can't seem to operate in a SANE and INTELLIGENT state of mind and take care of yourselves on this earth? No, YOU are your problem not other people.

[@lawbanger4yahlawbanger4yah33]

I worked on Hilton Head some dispicsable ignorant pple visit. God will give it back or take it away.

[@lyndaslocs]

For a few hundred dollars, I'd be willing to help someone save their property. Is there any organized way to do that?

[@sheilahill3876]

You probably have to contact the person over this video to find out.

[@AbeJacoby]

Please, let's start a GoFundMe for these Gullah families, NOW (7/5/23)!!!!

[@itsmecommenting4283]

Money is the grossest thing on earth and so are the heartless soulless beings😢

[@iamsacredtransformations]

Heartless and soul-less, they will be repaid in kind. No kindness or understanding exists for this.

[@khaleayoungblood3774]

We need to hold onto our land as best as we can ❤❤❤

[@lisamarie2961]

Keep rising my black people. We are the original people, we CANNOT BE ERASED 🙌🏾✊🏿👊🏾

[@clbo9878]

Black people, YOU are the reason you have lost all of your land because you don't see yourselves as a NATION WITHIN A NATION, UNITE, ORGANIZED and WORK TOGETHER as people. Instead, you go to so-called church all of your lives jumping around praises some man Jesus giving tens of millions of dollars each year to Jesus, and spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on material garbage. Also, you are a $2 TRILLION dollar people but you can't seem to operate in a SANE and INTELLIGENT state of mind and take care of yourselves on this earth? No, YOU are your problem not other people.

[@drizzey680]

We're erasing ourselves with Gangbanging, Race Mixing and Hom*sexuality. 🤬

[@dng6121]

When you own land, you still have to pay taxes, forever.Why?

[@missapril9889]

This is the truth, everywhere we are. So sad. Thank you for showing our truth.

[@rosequartzjewelryllc]

I grew up on hhi and it is now a completely different town! There is no affordable housing what so ever! Most workers commute in awful traffic. A lot of stores and restaurants close 3 to 4 days a week because they cannot find staff anymore, unless they pay higher wages. My parents rent land from Gullah descendants and they are the kindest people you’ll ever come across, they’ve had many offers to buy but it’s a matter of principle for them to keep their land. The house I got married in was also owned by a Gullah family and the owner’s donated some of their property to be converted to a local park that educates visitors about slavery. So Many rich people want to live there my friend who lives in a neighborhood near a beach said people often knock on her door and make her offers for her house! It’s getting quite ridiculous! Yes it’s a wonderful place to live but when only million dollar homes get built there it becomes an under serviced overrated resort, instead of a diverse interconnected small town with a cultural rich background. There are talks of the town stepping up to preserve more and add affordable housing but I’m currently unsure that will happen in my lifetime 😅

[@earvetta]

This is so wrong by all standards. Why hasn't other African American organizations stood up and fight for these people. Even if funds was raised to purchase the prime real a state for them. Pay the back taxes in order for them to keep their homes and land. There's something that can be done. This is pure discrimination. Some attorneys should help them with this fight.

[@mareerogers364]

Because they have drunk the kool-aid and stuffed their pockets. Who is their representative?

[@mareerogers364]

Where's Oprah???Gale king makes more than enough!

[@flaviapeltier5654]

Property tax needs to end as your home will never be yours

[@denisewilliams4022]

They need to get a Go Fund me page to get these properties back , within that year. Too bad relatives, even living outside of Hilton Head should pay the property taxes.

[@leewalker1420]

Conquer or be Conquered is a game played out throughout time and that will never change.

[@sailoranimegirl101]

Is there a go fund me for the lady who was outbid on her property?? I would love to donate 😭

[@AlieciaT]

Why can't they just leave us and our things alone, literally smh

[@slaphappy5252]

This hurts my heart. This very much so upsets me.

[@carmimoultrie1448]

Wow. Not only sad but angering.

[@philsarkol6443]

It seems to me local government is selling out to big money. I just do not understand the ignorance and greed. I feel sick just looking at those people at the so called "auction". Greedy devellopers, shady buisness everything that is immoral and wrong, ugly capitalism.

[@breath888]

Nothing is ever enough for the greedy. Curses on all their houses! May the takers have theirs taken. May they end up in powerless shoes and be on the receiving end of the same injustices they took part in.

[@arty2637]

How can we help this community generations to come and preserve this great culture in the America???

[@shalomccs]

They should go for a community class action lawsuit against the government. Why they don’t have the same city or state services? If they don’t get good lawyers to fight against those developers, they will keep their lobbyists in the legislature offices.

[@dustyharris1061]

Government and the rich will continue to take what they want when they want . When are the people going to take back what they deserve? Why should it be excepted to just get by week to week. Enough is enough. The battle is soon to begin . Prepare yourselves.

[@iamsacredtransformations]

Precisely!

[@garethpaine3222]

Hahaha you are just tourist! Kanaka Maoli say.. Go Back Home! in Hawai'i. Really touching that there is other cultures with similarities.

[@jccruz8203]

Cheeehooooo tell em!!! Kanaka proud!!!

[@davidmilton5887]

Hawaii ? Are you "black" ? The indigenous Hawaiians were "black" (I have photos from the very early 1900's). The Asians were shipped in by the boatloads (I have photos of the packed ships) starting in 1885 to work the fields .

[@slowhand256]

That's the story every where. USA stands for "Under Siege Always"

[@topnotchchick42]

I'm from here and this is literally happening. I can't afford to live at home

[@davidmilton5887]

I feel for you sister.I hurt inside for you. Really upsetting.

[@sheilahill3876]

Take out a GoFundMe account & buddy up with people with like interests! I lost family property, grieving over the relatives thats gone & I couldn't no longer work to pay for it myself!! Try all you can!!!! I wish you much success!!!!!!!!!

[@AbeJacoby]

@@sheilahill3876 I just suggested starting a GoFundMe to pay or assist these families with their taxes. Too bad they don't know how to do it themselves.

[@lawrenceraysor1217]

Saying Heir's Property to a culture of a people who choose opportunity over things like culture, peace, and compassion is sadly futile. It's like the scream of the one animal who was targeted by a pack of predators. This capitalist culture (culture not capitalism in general) has always been more wild and savage than the animals we watch and document in the safari.

[@kehaulani1467]

The auctioneer is Most familiar with the tradition amd continued to take bids without respect to the heir or the tradition. Someone should investigate whether taxes are due by heirs, or was it granted tax free like some granted land.

[@TheBlackManInTheVillage]

*Black Man* in the village says HI..... From USA now living in Leyte Philippines

[@PenaTv1990]

This video was sp hard to watch especially the auction. The auction was a spit in the face to those Heirs. After standing up claiming heirs the auctioneer continues the bid as if nothing was just said. The way they built a golf course over burial grounds. Americans have no decorum they don't care about other but themselves and the pursuit of money.

[@ladawnemalone2955]

I wish they had a go fund me and brought awareness I would’ve definitely contribute to help them keep their land but they do need some sort of legal assistance to put a temporary hold or some sort of payment plan option but that makes too much sense.

[@seversley831]

My family is from Bermuda, off of the coast of NC, same situation going on 😞 just sad..

[@mrheimdall]

Gentrification at it finest.

[@GVvoltaire]

I hate this crap. Racism is alive and well in this country. You who will read this keep smiling because you can care less. No one will help struggling black people. If they were Chinese, money from the federal government would smother the people.

[@FreeAssange_]

I care, but they need to take matters in their hands, burning the whole city tactically, step by step.

[@bestia2.063]

Unfortunately racism has always existed since the beginning of humanity, it exists now and it will continue unfortunately to exist in the future to come.

[@iscreamesworld]

Sounds like the towns spokesperson was scared away from helping them and she doesn't,that's terrible.

[@Carolina_girl86]

I’m going to Hilton head tomorrow, haven’t been since ‘01. I want to go on a Gullah tour and go see Dafuskie Island. I’ve been into Gullah culture since I was little back in the 90’s when this show “Gullah Gullah Island” use to come on Nickelodeon. I had a friend my freshman year of college from Charleston and she was Gullah. She’d be talking to us and then she’d get a phone call from her mom or dad and her Gullah accent would come on out of nowhere. I asked her “are you Gullah”?? She said “yeah” I was like “that’s so cool!”

[@barbarafreeman169]

How are other people allowed to purchase those Geechee property? It would seem that the Geechee people need to get an attorney and national support to help their cause. This needs national attention.

[@papacheezie2838]

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[@kehidupankanada]

I dun like what the real estate land developers planning to see to occupy the land which is not their territory. What belongs is that island -truly from the cultural old timer & ancestors !

[@michellesingleton8344]

My grandfather owned a little restaurant in Hilton head called the Golden door since the 70s till 90s.My family the singletons are still there,some of them sold there property.

[@pantherblue]

Get land as historical and vote out current politicians.