Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history. Combining unapologetically provocative storytelling with meticulous research based on primary sources as well as the work of pioneering Black historians, scholars, and journalists, Harriot removes the white sugarcoating from the American story, placing Black people squarely at the center. With incisive wit, Harriot speaks hilarious truth to oppressive power, subverting conventional historical narratives with little-known stories about the experiences of Black Americans.
Michael Harriot is a columnist at theGrio.com where he covers the intersection of race, politics, and culture. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, NBC, BET, and on his mother’s refrigerator. He is a political commentator on MSNBC and CNN and has been honored by the National Association of Black Journalists for commentary, digital commentary, and TV news writing. Michael is the creator and cohost of the podcast Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History, produced in partnership with Pharrel's OTHERtone.

[@jjutt87]

"The only difference between a colonizer and a burglar is - who writes the police report." - Michael Harriot

[@everywon8010]

Historical White Colonizer: Liar, Bugalar, Robber, Murderer, Rapist, Enslaver, Racist and so on and so on

[@stephencarter744]

Colonizers don't write police reports. Burglars don't stay in the homes that they Burglarize. *Using correct analogies is crucial to Critical thinking* !

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

38% of Black pregnancies are terminated in America, over half in NYC. Please research THE NEGRO PROJECT.

[@drstevej2527]

What other colonizer has endeavored to make those who were colonized equals? There are more people in slavery today than at any time in history. None are in the west! They are however in Africa and Asia.

[@terbospeed]

​@@drstevej2527 What is your point? What do you mean by what you say? It is not very clear.

[@niecey3692]

We were already here. We are indigenous of this land. There is a small percentage of fricans that came to this continent.

[@lolam.5062]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏽👍🏽🫶🏾🫶🏾yes yes ndeed!

[@mommadeb2433]

All facts! People stay trying to separate us from our Ancestral land.

[@Lioness-Ma]

Where were you before the migration to America? Or are you suggesting that Life actually began in America and everyone else migrated out from there? Or is it that Indigenous Americans are a totally different species to other melanated hue-mans around the world with no connection other than being placed on the same earth.

[@tryagain4469]

No you were not -- that was then this is now -- embrace your divinity that you have now and nothing can hold you down -- especially whitey of yesteryear

[@Mrbamis22]

That's Partially True, But Even Those Of Us Who'd Been Here For Thousands Of Years Originally Came From Alkebulan Independent Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade.

[@anikacorbett7714]

We Africans have to teach our own children our history POINT BLANK PERIOD 🙌

[@dreltagibson2536]

I taught mine!!!

[@theopposition8616]

The number One thing we should teach our children is .... BLACK AMERICAN DECENDANTS OF SLAVES...... ARE NOT and we're NEVER AFRICANS. WE WERE AND ARE HEBREWS

[@anikacorbett7714]

@@alastordomio forget you MF

[@anikacorbett7714]

@@dreltagibson2536 me too ✋️

[@manueldavidson1398]

A definite right on to that.

[@sknmwms6516]

My GRANDFATHER was A GARVITE! BORN IN THE 1800s. We lived a very special life that left me with an open mind!

[@victorjones9951]

This book must be taught in Church!! "A people's history is Sacred. Wise people do not trust their history to anyone else" .. Amos Wilson

[@amaradominique]

Go read the book about how Eurocentric church has brainwashed us.

[@kelila_1688]

Good luck with that. Just one of the reasons I left religion.

[@jameslawrence3410]

Michael is a reason to keep hope alive along with working it😢😂

[@anikacorbett7714]

No hope ..have a plan 😊

[@niecey3692]

How d I did t this brother do all his research and didn't find us already here?

[@mommadeb2433]

That's not what he was looking for.

[@LauranaE-ob4vp]

He says we were already here from both continents called Africa and Australia. Two peoples of dark complexions were identified as being already here.

[@theresaedwards6542]

In 2019, I bought the book "Black People Invented Everything." It was really eye-opening. There is a chapter in that book that is titled, "Black People Invented Everything But White People Invented The Patent Office." It tells you everything you need to know about how the history of our contributions to this country are told.

[@kennethmueller5840]

and you believe that? Ten times as many slaves went to Brazil, what did they build or invent down there? How about Haiti, the richest island in the world until the brother's slaughtered all the whites and burned down the buildings. Why would you burn the buildings down when your plan is to take over the country? Pretty dumb, but blacks lack foresight which is why they can't plan for the future. Asians work hard and save, blacks hardly work and spend all their money on crap for their image. So the blacks in America invented everything. Why haven't the billion Africans in Africa build anything, Sub-Saharan. Hell, black kids poo on the beach in Haiti because blacks can't build an out house. Yeah, blame it on the patent office.

[@Andre-wf8cb]

True story or his story is the 📛

[@bobbywilsonfunfaithfamilymusic]

Thanks for sharing this conversation with Michael Harriot, he is a wealth of information and inspiration. Ms. Tiffany Cross thank you, kudos.

[@victorjones9951]

When you don't say Who did the offense, you are perpetuating the offense

[@carolynstokes333]

This was a great podcast. MH is so knowledgeable about our History. He shares his unique and truthful expressions about real life situations. Michael Harriott is skilful in the art of storytelling. He truly makes you go back in your mind and think again. The things that make you go ........Hmmm

[@Anastasia63788]

For me I never feel safe in this America ever what’s very terrifying we can’t go back home to Africa We are lost and in deep trouble PTSD is real in the black community

[@RR-ur4kz]

This was amazing. The author is a walking white n black encyclopedia. A brainiac! 💯😊🤎🏆👑🇲🇼

[@justmyopinion9883]

@24:15 I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Taylor Swift song either. Thank you for sharing this conversation with Micheal Harriot; I want to read his book.

[@heatherhiller5581]

Yep

[@tracyclark7560]

I love Janet J, Alicia Keyes, Erika Badu, Taylor Swift's 'Delicate' and her 8 bar Blues song--forced me to find her.

[@sharongillesp]

@@heatherhiller5581 I was looking for some music and Taylor Swift popped-up, so I listened. Was NOT impressed at all … I didn’t get it. I’ve listened with enjoyment of musicians from all races. I don’t get the Taylor Swift phenomenon. More power to her though.

[@southern4comfort]

Being "indestructible" brings some pride and OTHERS are EXHAUSTED from always being the unprotected target. She didn't ask: why stay when there are better other options?

[@adnaloy9025]

I love them both, both brilliant. Tiffany Cross is the reason I no longer mess with MSNBC, at all. None of them, Rachel, Ari, Lawrence, etc. even said anything at all about her treatment there by those losers. Michael Harriot is one of my favorite people to follow on any platform.

[@cind8347]

I know what you mean. But I had to continue to support Joy Reid. But I noticed no one else said anything. I think Chris tried though.

[@TheJmgregoryjr]

These are the exact conversations that are needed...perhaps in a townhall-type forum around the country. I've recently purchased the audio version of his book and truly felt like his style of historical storytelling is amazingly powerful! A must-have for any library and or personal collection. I will listen and play this over and over for friends and family for the foreseeable future!

[@warriorwoman432hz]

Many of us were always here, but reclassified many times over to erase our true culture, land ownership rights, and stake in the Americas.

[@kelila_1688]

💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

None of us were already here.

[@warriorwoman432hz]

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 Clearly you have some digging to do, beloved.

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@warriorwoman432hz I’ve been digging longer than you have been living hun. Stop wasting your time digging down those rabbit holes. Instead ask yourself why the entire population of the earth is lying about Black Americans.

[@warriorwoman432hz]

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 You know me not, but do tell old wise one. Class in session...

[@marilynnjones951]

Great seeing you Tiffany and she's the perfect moderator for Michael Harriot's book to educate,elevate and encourage our community to live in our greatness!

[@elainadariah2431]

I love this book so much, I also have it on audible. You owe it to yourself to get it on Audible to hear him (yes, he is the narrator) tell our truth.

[@yasminaabdurrafi968]

Black Friday began in the black community but it wasn’t called Black Friday. If someone can make money from it; it’s heard. I was sharing an experience with two white sales person. They pretended they didn’t even hear me. So they don’t hear you unless it’s beneficial to the myth of who they are.

[@skip031890]

Stop making stuff up and being so jealous of white people. 😂😂😂

[@miawiggins5760]

Purchasing the book asap!!!! Such an insightful dialogue. Thank you!!!! I feel lifted!!

[@cind8347]

What a powerful pair. Two of my favorite people. Michael's book is awesome. By far the best book I've read in a long time. Thank you for writing it Michael! Everyone please RUN and get this book before it's banned. Informative and funny. Never read anything like it.

[@emanuelthomas5530]

I'm surprised she's on stage with a black man

[@cind8347]

Both are excellent books that you it appears you could benefit from reading.@@alastordomio

[@sandraanderson8892]

Great interview. Tiffany did a great job, Michael was simply amazing wow 💫💫😊

[@BelieveWhatyouwant]

Doctrines of discovery...bacon rebellion, black nobility, paper genocide, natives turned Africa slaves, 500 nations, Is any of these topics inside the book?

[@elvendarkness1]

How much time do they have to teach this in schools? Hell… kids these days don’t even know basic history about the founding fathers who gave the opportunity to speak freely, a lot of y’all don’t get that or can even comprehend that.

[@frankhutson2106]

My brother, we are kicking against the pricks. There's a distruction that is coming that would take the coming of the Messiah to save us. Haiti's fate wasn't an accident because they had rebeled against their task master to the point that they had overcame them to void their punishment but because of disobeying God's. And to do so without retribution was making God a lier. What I am saying, it wasn't because of our tenacity or resilience that we hadn't cease to be a people but because of God's promised to Abraham, our forefather. God said only if they could remove sun and moon from the sky then and only then we would cease to be nation before Him.

[@leboholmes6576]

He gave us what we need to do! It’s already known about the assault put on us. We need to go to the courts for our justice!

[@joandrahollis2511]

Greetings from the Middle East. Michael, By far, the best Black History lesson in the time given! Thank you for sharing/enlightening... Tiffany, keep doing your thing in "your" platforms! Much ❤️ and appreciation ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@SimonePhoenix]

The book is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥, get it ASAP, folks! 👊🏽🙏🏽

[@harrietjohnson1930]

We Black people are magnificent, awesome, spiritual, magical people. Only God knows ALL that we’ve overcome. We are incredible. ❤️🖤💚

[@skip031890]

😂😂😂

[@robinsonrochelle7033]

Love to see other folks not defer to whiteness. Now we must be more radical in our understanding of how capitalism, imperialism and racism are the basis for both major parties. We have to follow Dr. Claud Anderson's reconstruction plan for our communities and businesses, and for pro-Black politics (not multi-cultural).

[@harrietjohnson1930]

Black economic advancement and progress benefit the country.

[@skip031890]

You people sound totally ridiculous.

[@KevinColeman751]

We want that Money back YALL

[@SaveThatMoney411]

Love it. Yes, non-Black people gaslight Black people all the time. It’s ok to seek validation.

[@reggied1811]

So proud of you Tiffany Cross

[@user-mr1rq3gs9b]

Wit and humor is indeed what Mr. Harriot brings to Black AF History, but the depth and gut wrenching events detailed in it is what I think makes it such an important work of non fiction.

[@user-mr1rq3gs9b]

@@alastordomio yes, very witty, great sense of humor and intelligence that's obvious. And his English is easily understood by anyone who is a native English speaking, as American born people are. Sorry that isn't supportive of your racist stupidity. But I am not given to appeasing such.

[@Christopherkairos]

Excellent interview. Had no idea of the Auburn Avenue Research center.

[@Claribelle401]

I am looking forward to reading this book. He is witty and knowledgeable.

[@evelynbourne2500]

I just bought the book. Now, calling Tyrone. . .

[@eauchellassariangcl9994]

When she was reading that part on Colombus" "discovery ". I thought KZbin was going through some severe shakes. I thought it was gong to surely collapse.

[@luvbig41]

Yes....They dusted off Condeleeza Rice and brought her on a talk show where she made the statement that: "CRT is bad because it makes white children feel bad." That was quite upsetting that a Black woman could sit down with a straight face and repeat that garbage line.

[@RR-ur4kz]

Agreed! 💯

[@marlenestewart7772]

Republicans are liars. And she is one

[@stephencarter744]

CRT undermines Black children's self-confidence. CRT is way worse for Black children than White children hands down!

[@sknmwms6516]

CRice is a the dynamic of FRANTZ FANON BOOK, "BLACK MASK WHITE FACE". PULL UP AUTHOR READ THAT BOOK!

[@stephencarter744]

@@sknmwms6516 Try expanding your reading list to subject and authors found OUTSIDE your local _'African books and Oils emporium'_ .

[@KOKAYI69]

Places of worship buy the books and hold the classes!

[@leboholmes6576]

How we survived, we’re God’s Chosen, and ALL GLORY IS TO GOD!!!!

[@elvendarkness1]

We are all human, thus, we are all Gods children. How righteous can you be to think the color of your skin puts you above anyone else? Especially in Gods eyes? You bleed red don’t you? Well… so do I. We are all human. Your skin color is no more special than someone else’s skin color. GOD HELP US ALL.

[@leboholmes6576]

@@elvendarkness1 Now no where in my comment did I say anything about color! I believe in God and no one else delivered us. So u crossed the line not knowing how I identify! Ur a troll

[@nadinehall9631]

Wow! Thank you, MH! Thank you!

[@theopposition8616]

A person like this is who Should be running for office. Id vote for him off his knowledge alone.

[@skip031890]

🙄

[@chriefprescott7166]

This is awesome….✔️🎤💯🔥🥃💡👍🏾📞✊🏾🎤

[@tracyclark7560]

head start also started by Black ladies ideas

[@bigshot9891]

🙄😒

[@jeronronnunkoffunk4691]

Thank you for sharing, this was a great conversation and dialogues!

[@amaradominique]

This conversation is so refreshing. Because I am so sick of the gender war conversation for grifting black folks to make money.

[@mrs.stanley-bryant5605]

Great interview!!! Just ordered my copy can’t wait to read. Thanks ❤

[@Aboriginal_baby]

This U.S. government is a REPUBLIC!!! Saving WHAT DEMOCRACY? What are you talking about? Get it right!

[@mrme2653]

Was originally a Republic but no longer never fully developed into it!!!!!

[@skip031890]

​@@mrme2653 Yeah, we're so far removed from how it used to be that it would be unrecognizable to the founders.

[@mrme2653]

@@skip031890 true!!

[@sharongillesp]

EXCELLENT. Buying the books!

[@cookiescorner]

Thank you for this conversation! I must and will buy and read Black AF History in 2024. ❤🖤💚

[@kalis.891]

"Black People know what they need". Amen. And Amen.

[@patriciagarrett9042]

My excitement is hearing you speak. A Baby Boomer is what they call 66 yrs in America. My question is, how do I build in a community that has shown me so much adversity & disparity in the future.

[@amaradominique]

It is just the way it is. But what we do is want to procreate with them.

[@leboholmes6576]

I’m voting for Cornell West to win or give leverage to my Black, Brown, and poor and working communities!!! I think we need to consider West. Vote for ur families! Get behind him and should he lose we use our vote as leverage! It’s important for us to have an agenda for what WE NEED!

[@daddiesgurl1968]

I will not throw my vote away on Cornell West. I respect the man but he will not get my vote.

[@leboholmes6576]

@@daddiesgurl1968 As long as u vote for who u think will help u and ur family, u can’t say ur throwing it away. America got here by trying to vote for the winner so much til we’ve lost our way as to how we should vote. We use the word conscience, but mean who would help our families the most. Just let that thought marinate.

[@skip031890]

​@@leboholmes6576 You are the reason why everyone should not be voting. 🙄

[@johnnyg215]

If we are going to have big industries we will need a group of trained individuals to protect what we build

[@robynmosely]

Exceptional! MH is brilliant!

[@theresagosha201]

Reparations, whatever you want to call it, you owe us for all the things you stole from us and destroyed everything we built for ourselves. Add it up, the days are gone for anymore studies, you’ve studied us to death 🤔🧐🤨🙄

[@javonmaye2637]

I got my copy of the 📕 book! ❤️

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

Thank you, Tiffany and Michael. #Machetes ✊🏽🙌🏽

[@neverendingjourneystilllea5271]

Thanks

[@welfaredad]

Best interview ever.

[@cheesetoast8312]

Ok, good to see there were others like me. Back in the late 60s our parents got us the Black History Board Game featured in Ebony and Jet. We loved it and it led to most of us to dig deep for more. Oddly enough in Ohio those of us who were lucky went to a Friends School and boy those Quakers sure didnt hold anything back. They taught us we had the same enemy as they in the English slaver. Amish, Mennonites, all german Baptist fled from them as they were being killed in Germany. The church is a beast and will kill to get its way. that made us understand why our history was hidden. I would not respect whitey if he didnt try to hide it. Well Done MH you got it to the young folk and thats a blessing.Maybe we can get our black pride back before the 1980s set us back so hard there was no one to teach the folks we are GREAT. Like when Hannibal the warrior told Ceser when asked if he thought he was a good warrior. Hannibal said of course, I set the template as there were none before me. Europe asked Africa to civilize it because Africa invented civilization because we were the first Humans to walk upright and think. Never forget, whitey was still slowly evolving when we had empires

[@darlenebanks3358]

"whitey" was the ish folk also. In charge.

[@sweety0931]

Finally got my book!

[@norabained8837]

Enjoyed this conversation! Only one thing though...is "The Book" the title of the book? Not one mention of the title during the entire conversation. Any reasoning behind that?

[@peaceangel4192]

The book is amazing!! Thanks to Michael Harriot & Tiffany Cross for this most welcome conversation.

[@tracyclark7560]

Awesome

[@siriuslyspeaking9720]

Why do so many of us assume that other people don't do many of the things we do? How do we know how they are at funerals? Why must we continue this charade that there is one way all Black people are? We arrived here often as different people , and have become more so since. If so many of us are willing to accept that trauma can be passed down through genes, what do we expect genes to do in their normal function? Many of us have significant genes other than Black genes. Why wouldn't they also manifest themselves in ways other than pigment? We propagate stereotypes while complaining about other people placing them on us.

[@classiql]

The story is fantastical....... Facts

[@tameekawyndon2665]

This is a very necessary conversation that can be a conduit towards critical thought on family members reading together and recognizing themselves as the primary educators of their children vs waiting for truths to be told in ANY supposed learning institution. ALL humans living in this 21st century need to surrender themselves to intuiting for truth, to lean into the change that is happening as we view this eye-opening description of stories from times before. Thank you Auburn Avenue Research Library🎉

[@ez4u2shopllc8]

This is how I think of black people....GREATNESS!!!!!

[@skip031890]

What you think and what's actual reality are two different things. Grow up.

[@yvettea7253]

Masterful ❤

[@lolam.5062]

🙌🏾🙌🏾👍🏽👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾🎉🎉❤❤💥💥💯💯💣💣💫💫tell it Michael🙏🏾🙏🏾!! SAY THAT!!

[@classiql]

Collection plates please...... Let's support this

[@theopposition8616]

Where can i get this book?

[@user-cj1ho6oi6o]

Umm,umm,umm! Making me sick!😂 Getting on my last toenail!

[@omi0777]

As long as people are looking to the sky to solve their problems, you are reacting to your problems and you have loss by default.

[@classiql]

Where would I even hear a Taylor swift song as a black person in the wild 🤣

[@deborahridges5974]

We are the global majority

[@AmericanPatriot4-19-95]

Your faaaasaar from the truth. You only make up 13% of US population. I am pretty sure that asians and Caucasians are the majority!!!!!!!

[@lolam.5062]

Absitively posolutely 9/10ths of the world's population is us melanted people

[@skip031890]

And you've done nothing worth noting. 🙄

[@loism8645]

Did Michael say when people talk about reparations they only talk about slavery and not Jim Crow and all of the continuing injustices against ADOS? The intellectual abilities of Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore, the creators of the ADOS movement, expanded our justice claim for reparations to also include the Jim Crow era, subsequent and continuing injustices. He spoke of intellectual theft while committing it himself. This is wild AF. Then he tries to make an argument that reparations in America should not be exclusive to the descendants of those who were slaves in America which is contrary to ados' position. Wild AF for sure.

[@vermithrax7796]

Yeah, they refuse to operate in good faith. The ease in which they outright lie about the ADOS position let's you know they have no intention of every having a conversation with Antonio or Yvette, let alone be in the same room. Tiffany Cross has been taking shots at the ADOS movement for years.

[@mommadeb2433]

Michael is Hatian, so yes he would want to include the time period when his people immigrated to the US to be included in our reparations claim.

[@mommadeb2433]

​@@vermithrax7796 any "Black" person who is against reparations, check thier paperwork.

[@user-ui5gh7me4y]

Black AF (Absolute Freedom) History

[@harrietjohnson1930]

Love his expanded light about reparations. ✨

[@michaelcostley9659]

Yeah...I'm interested in the book,...BUT... the first thing I listen for is this slave ship theory...like it wasn't no Black people here before the African slaves...I know better...suspicious

[@arguescreamholler]

*Exactly!* He did all that research and didn't discover Aboriginal Indigeneous Copper Colored NEGRO American Indians Was ALREADY HERE? *How is that possible when we've been sharing the pictures, documents, books detailing both continents and the Atlantic islands inhabited by Copper Colored American Indians For At Least A Decade Now?*

[@arguescreamholler]

* 33:10 Take note that No Ancestry DNA Test Have Results Of Aboriginal Indigeneous Copper Colored American Indians!* NONE! All DNA test results says ALL CALLED BLACK ARE FROM AFRICA! *Take note of how they say the genetics is scattered all across the continent?* (this is to say several tribes was mixed in slavery, but! all still would have come from one area and not the entire continent IF EVER HAPPENED. Which it didn't. DID HE START AT 1619? DOES HE KNOW THE LAND IS 4 BILLION YEARS OLD? *What Happened Before 1619?* Take note of how they say this date only. The date of THE FIRST AFRICAN SLAVES ON THE CONTINENT, (first african slaves?), Whopping Number Of 20, Mostly Women And Girls. *1452 American Negro Indian Slave Trade!* THE REAL ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. *Both Continents, And Atlantic Islands Named INDIA! THE INDIES!* 1300's. ATLANTIS!!! INDIA of today was named HINDUSTAN! Their News Paper Today Still Named THE HINDUSTAN TIMES! 1300's.

[@iamshebeeloloindigenous]

​@@arguescreamholler Flawed research.

[@lolam.5062]

Surely he knows many of us were already here! C'mon.

[@mommadeb2433]

Michael is Hatian so his objective will not be to connect Americans to thier land.

[@veronicadave1450]

I wish the conversation would not mention unimportant people to our community.

[@50cynt11]

@33:03 “when black ppl came to this country BLACK PPL were ALREADY HERE!”

[@daisychuju8944]

52:02 Parenting is essential. Parents who raised children to value learning, respect educators and adults . Then we food should be accessible and nutritious in our communities. He mentioned healthcare, but places like Georgia have gaps where young people cannot get any health benefit.

[@atolliver91]

I thought I was going to get his book 😂😂😂 1:02:07

[@shirleyjbaker1096]

Salute HRPO VA/AL\NC 1💚🌎 Peace #jimcrowsouthsurvivor63 #AmericanIndian #Indigenous

[@hj8501]

❤when will all these scholars group all our people together , to make a real movement. Like all so.called Christian churches and leading So called black organizations..such as NAACP..BC...❤

[@antoniogould853]

Black Excellence

[@LauranaE-ob4vp]

Ithis BOOK is so Profound. YES, This is the unmet need to fulfilled.

[@rhondaherbert9282]

What Taylor Swift did to EWF's song SEPTEMBER was horrendous and insulting to EWF and music, in general.

[@julietadams3821]

We survived because we are the Real Children of Israel! God(SoNINI NaNINI) is on Our Side!🤔👏🏽

[@Siriuan]

No weapon formed against us shall prosper...

[@j.h.777]

Our differences as people are not problematic as long as we understand sometimes it’s cultural and be okay with this and still respect the beauty of difference, not make it “foreign” and not use the word different as insulting as we can weaponize words that then hurt. So, I have heard of this book often on a radio program that I listen to, but have yet to get. I’m interested to read history because I am guilty of not remembering some historical facts because life gets busy. When she asked about why we represent a small % in America, yet are emulated. Well, that requires big ears and a big heart to care enough to accept on all sides of the color spectrum. How do you know so much and still not walk through life angry? Understanding that the reasons of this type of hierarchy in some spaces is on a spiritual, psychological, biological, economical level. It’s also a mindset that requires a person to re-and de-program themself out of, with tools of knowing how to know thy self. This is a conversation that will be on-going until the Messiah returns. Also, last thing, knowing thyself could mean…while always loving the musical Genius of Erykah Badu, you can also appreciate and listen to and sing along to the musical talent of Taylor Swift😊.

[@moe_factz]

Our obsession with history is like driving while staring in your rear view mirror. Nonconstructive behavior at best.

[@Siriuan]

Generational Trauma. It's the remnants of a culture lost. Trying to piece together their past....I get it.... it's a form of healing, it has to be done....I recently found out about a town - Mound Bayou. We are truly God's children.

[@hairandscalptruth.7040]

10 14 23 THANKS.

[@jparker9911]

Just happened upon this and am grateful for this accomplished work. But I think the elephant in the room that some of the group's questions stemmed from in regards to 'what do we do from here' is quite clear. But unfortunately, as evidenced by the shade thrown by the moderator (not the author to be clear) re lineage, that we have never truly had or enjoyed as a people in this country is political capital at a federal level.

[@emanuelthomas5530]

The woman on stage with him talked shittt about black men and voting. That was slick the way he did that

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Black? Thats a color not a race of a people!

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Some people thought it was all true tho.... Many were BIPOC