Deaf TikTok video goes viral

Nakia Smith, a Deaf woman, posted a TikTok video of her great-grandparents and it went viral.
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[@beyondthesunpodcast]

Thank you for this interview! I will subscribe to Nakia’s channel. I appreciate the fact noted by Nakia’s grandfather that deaf people are “human” and the “same”. I was amazed to learn the reason BASL was developed was due to segregation. Not like being deaf on its own in a hearing world has its challenges. 🙄 Racism and many other isms are the dumbest concept that fuels so much on this Bizarro planet. The majority of us who want better change will make it so.

[@estxd6764]

Wow her grandpa made a point about the opposites positions between deaf and hearing communities. Her great parents r soooooo adorable 😍

[@lindadavid714]

Thank you for this interview. I am hearing but I am also a GODA (granddaughter of a deaf adult) and live in Washington, DC. I learned to speak sign language from my grandparents and there friends. I am also a member of Shiloh Baptist Church where for many years we had a large black deaf congregation. I have just recently been hearing about BASL. I think I have always spoke BASL! It was so good to hear from a deaf persons perspective. Your grandparents remind me of mine (who have passed on) and I am interested in learning more signs and will continue to follow you. Great to see a deaf person of color posting on social media! Thank you again.

[@karens.strickland9634]

❤❤❤❤

[@wcstewart1128]

And in watching these I love seeing how BASL has influenced ASL and that it is getting it's recognition.

[@berthasherman5212]

I've always had an interest in learning SL Love this young lady and her family. Heart warming♥️🌞. SL is awesome to know, as it is another language, and a very expressive language, I might add. This young lady is awesome. Sorry that this ran 3 yrs ago, and. I am just now seeing it, but still resonates

[@karens.strickland9634]

My ASL teacher was post lingually deaf, and his wife was profoundly Deaf. I wouldn't learn from a hearing person Unless they were raised by their Deaf family. I even learned pigeon sign or home sign from them. My Interpreter instructor was the only hearing member of his family. He told the class that it was His first language and the teachers at his school would tie his hands down to force him to speak. This was many many years ago ❤

[@seanforbes]

She is my latest favorite influencer!

[@bellajaid]

I'm sitting here thinking "Why? What did she do wrong?" I read that as LEAST favourite twice 🙃

[@isettacrawfordrawls3576]

One evening last week I couldn't hear my television, the elevator bell, the toilet flushing, my building's LOUD fire alarm. Then the PAIN, an ear infection! I already lost hearing in my left ear, years ago, but I'm alright if I'm close enough to touch someone. Crowds, what's behind me, machines that hum, car motors, traffic, all problems. A phone is close enough if there's no other noise or music or television-or worse-a speaker phone! Now that I don't hear anything, I'm looking up the signing I know I'd be using. But you go so fast, isn't there a way to slow it down some? And shouldn't I start with the alphabet and my name, and maybe a few most-common words? At this speed I'm hopeless. Please help me to help myself. And I'll teach it to my great-grandchildren.

[@kiarasmith1961]

THIS IS BASL BTW A DIALECT OF ASL

[@christadauria4362]

Still I am subscribed for KZbin in both Z5-MAX(Desktop) and ZAGG 1-PAD-6 only. I haven't used Tik Tok video. Previously I have heard about BASL (Black ASL) being bit different from ASL as I really wonder in a fact.

[@cobyrachal9673]

I. Have lost all my. 👂 i am stell learn to ASL.i go by pitcher i cant read very. I see back .am learning but slow. Going to move were i can learn ASL sometime I feel so isolated I don't know how to communicate with no one now

[@ak5659]

5th generation? Damn! I'd love to see some 'ASL police' hearing interpreters try to 'correct' her sign.

[@ohsweetfreedom]

AK 565 a lot of things are signed differently in Texas tho

[@2463sugarbear]

@@ohsweetfreedom Its not ASL, they sign with BASL

[@2463sugarbear]

See her Tik Tok on BASL, Her grandfather was using BASL from the 1800s= Black American Sign Language

[@sharonwittrock2042]

What her name on TikTok??? I kissfist on TikTok....

[@tinaigbintade5706]

Awesome challenging.

[@phyllysburr8986]

She is not looking good, Alex is better.

[@nikkibeasley1691]

hey dont be rude!!!!!!!!1