Meet the Forgotten BLACK GENIUS Who Designed Our Capital City 🏛️✨

[@greymatters7039]

Thanks!

[@BlackJournals]

Thank you so you for your support. Much appreciated!

[@dewrannsterling1332]

I SALUTE YOU ALL MY ANCESTORS

[@acouncil8254]

Very well, now pick up the torch and move forward.

[@prentissbelton4042]

@@acouncil8254 Aman

[@DeniseG-c7p]

@@acouncil8254 Moving forward includes getting what is old to us, eventhough on this earth we can never be repaid/compensated for what happened to us. God will deal with that.

[@ridge7524]

🥰🥰🥰🗽💯💐

[@evonza4858]

YES Me too 😉👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚

[@brenstar6412]

There are so many, more stories of Black greatness that we will never know because of the lies to hide the truth. What is done in the dark will come to light. Bless and protect our people!

[@bmdounds8977]

All the work the black folks did to built this country we shouldn't be paying no taxes today we went through hell to build this country up

[@bmdounds8977]

@Lilspoon93 get the hell outta here with dat bullshit you pale face gobbling

[@YouTubeBBQ]

@@Lilspoon93 shut up 🤡

[@xelaguarbey3664]

Black is an adjective last time I checked. If you consent to being an adjective and human chattle, you should be taxed. Wake up!!! Literacy matters! Pax et amor

[@redeemedliving555]

@bmdouds8977 The message was clear, Thanks.

[@RickyRamsey-sl8dn]

@@bmdounds8977 facts

[@KarenLynne]

I love my ancestors ❤ Black Excellence

[@larrysmith8290]

It sickens me to the core of my being in knowing the hatred of White Mutants towards a people they STOLE everything from. Black people were always on this land called, The United Snakes of AMERIKKKA. A land to stole. Black people. Leopards breed leopards the spot never change

[@rhasaunwilliams3795]

Banneker can never be forgotten!!

[@folashadethomas3229]

Agreed. Thx for telling the history. Continue the good job

[@robertpundsack1363]

@@rhasaunwilliams3795 not the point. No person should be remember for never did. Thus is d black bull propaganda. By a few blacks ego trip trying to change truth history to fit black. Sick. As the first expedition to the artic. It took more then one. Yet usually the leader is given notice. Others mentioned. I'm sick of such blacks deliberate lies to make themselves more then are. As well it's an individual not the whole. Just because there's a few in any color . Who are racist haters dividers. Agitators. Certainly anyone with common sense. Knows can not blame, label others. Look how to many blacks. Labels. Yet it was blacks , labeling all whites. Can't trust whity. You hypocrtes. A person need be recognized as an American accomplishment. These sick blacks, make it black. They keep racism division alive. They are as sick as a white ,brown racist truth over color of skin. How about more blacks walk off the victim plantation.

[@acouncil8254]

None of our Ancestors should be forgotten, yet here we are voting in a racist white man over an educated sister because your ego won’t allow it.

[@dwightlove3704]

This man needs his life story told

[@greatestone4eva]

@@dwightlove3704 yes but not by wypipo

[@dwightlove3704]

@greatestone4eva Why would you think I would want the enemy to do it we have plenty of black filmmakers that are qualified to put it in the theaters but I get your point they would screw it up

[@paulfelix9081]

@dwightlove3704 a movie of epic proportions exactly 💯

By way of reparations, yes.fucc a movie

[@warrengeti5493]

Black People are Heroes of the World🖤👍🏿💐🙏📚💯🌟👑💡⚫🇺🇸

[@tiwantiwaabibiman2603]

We are the parents of the world. The first and only divinely created indigenous people of the world.

[@harounali7917]

OF THE FUCK'N WORLD 🌎!

[@Isaidwhatisaid8701]

I did my ancestry and he is one of my ancestors!!! Makes me proud

[@SirBossberger]

I believe American Slavery was due to rejecting Jesus Christ; there is a News Story showing that a mute and deaf Black man knew fluent written Hebrew. A Black Jew ... 400 years of slavery.

[@jamesdandridge7567]

This should be a major movie/tv multi part series also not just this historical fact but many more showing the true American history all the contributions of black Americans.

[@KimBreckenridge]

Absolutely genius - I love my Black people

[@Julie-l1s2n]

Yes I do love my people, especially when those that know their history and walk with pride for their people first and foremost; and still can acknowledge others for what they contributed to America and the world because we know who we are !!

[@debrapowell7271]

So proud! I'm from Gary Indiana. We had a school named after Benjamin Banniker. Children and everyone need to learn about this great man and patriot.

[@TheNeworleansgal]

No wonder we're hated, genius❤ thank you Sir Benjamin Banneker we will never forget your contributions🙏🏽😘❤️

[@ButterFlyGoddess]

@@TheNeworleansgal ✊🏾POWER TO MY PEOPLE ♥️🖤💚✊🏾

[@VanessaLKing]

✨💫🧐Oh if only our black churches would open their little used classrooms & teach/share videos like this!🙏🏽

[@A.M.7886]

Please, they don't want to lose their 501 or whatever!

[@melangreathouse2209]

@@VanessaLKing I so agree with you. Racism particularly in the American Educational System, reared its ugly head , only as long as it was tolerated. How grateful I am for Brave, erudite and articulate African Americans like Dr. Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks. Trailblazers who President John F. Kennedy came alongside and opened up opportunities for all ethnicities. It’s a shame that I had to wait 6 decades to find out about Black Excellence on this level.

[@essencefrazier2398]

Every Saturday.

[@acouncil8254]

You can also do it. Each one teach one. Pass it on.

[@oludummo4593]

Yes instead of teaching slave religion to brainwash blacks into waiting for white jesus to come from the sky to save them . Instead of saving them selves first.

[@CaliforniaAllStars]

Keep building our OWN Curriculums outside of their Fairytales and lies! Love this, we need to each one teach one and pass it down. Forget their fake false history.

[@susanwilliams4953]

Higher learning of black excellence. Thank you!

[@angelathompson1733]

So impressed my ancestors were so amazing . Sad how they hide our inventions. I share with my family and friends .

[@nasa_sidthesciencekid3105]

This should be A Movie Awesome True Story🥰

[@daquanbenson549]

I love that Bannecker was a polymath I am obsessed with intellectuals!!!

[@Julie-l1s2n]

Never heard of him and I'm 66 years old. Thank you for the knowledge. And keep expanding our minds of who we are and the good stocks we come from. We truly are great People even in the midst of the most hateful racist individuals known to man kind. It also shows that a genius can come from anyone GOD Chooses.

[@claytonsinclair9137]

@@Julie-l1s2n Wow this is also new to me. I’m 67 there’s so much they kept from us. Just learn of Black Wall Street also.

[@sharonbrooms7271]

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BLACK 🖤 JOURNALS!

[@beverlypasley]

I HAVE neverforgotten this genius & his many contributions !

[@janetbarber6781]

I'm so grateful for this video. As a Benjamin Banneker research writer (i.e., his mathematics and his cicada research - which so many know nothing about), I felt his presence in my very soul from this very spiritual and professional narrative ❤️ Thank you, thank you, very much!

[@drchrisheidelberg]

@@janetbarber6781 I grew up not far from his Oella home and have been there many times.

[@sunnylamine]

Love Benjamin Banneker! Learned about him in the 5th grade and his example led me all the way to graduating college with an engineering degree. His museum is in Baltimore Country, Maryland. I intend to visit more in the new year.🌟

[@Avant402]

I’ve always known about Benjamin Banneker when I took AP African American history while I was in High School during the Mid 1980s. There are so many great black inventors such as Granville Woods who developed the railroad telegraph that transmitted messages. There was also Elijah McCoy who developed a device that lubricate steam engines. The history of black America is there, it’s just so much of are history is not taught. You have to take it upon yourself to look for that knowledge, because we have contributed so much to building this country. ❤

But why when we're obviously Americas history lol

[@tahira1]

@Avant402 I knew about him too, and I am from the UK.

[@larryholland1466]

Why isn’t there a movie on this man, and it shows you who’s important in this country history

[@StevenEverett-jj2bk]

HE WAS AN TRULY!!!!! AMAZING!!!! INTELLIGENT!!!! GENIUS!!!!! PRAISE!!!!! GOD!!!!!! MAN!!! CAN'T DO ANYTHING!!! WITHOUT!!! GOD!!!!

[@EricGibson-b2e]

Thanks for sharing. Just a reminder of how brilliant we are. Individually as well as collectively.❤

[@jaredrobinson4571]

There's Benjamin Banneker Elementary in New Orleans.

[@detectiveshonburras1268]

Mr. Benjamin Baneker is an Awesome, Intelligent. Man ! Who was so ahead of his time. 💯

[@felishaspersonalmail4953]

I saw his plaque whilst walking in the park by his property. I felt empowered . Beautiful and extraordinary we are

[@meboomshocklaga732]

The narrator spoke the words that this proved that intelligence was not a matter of color, but colonizers saw the inventions in Africa first hand and deemed the people barbarous in nature. Not only did they snatch these intelligent human beings from their homes but also tried some many times to dumb down their existence. Still the laureate and poet Maya Angelou wrote,”And Still I Rise.” Thank you to all who have proven time and time again that humanity started in Africa and will always be a beacon for the learned community.

[@2ndchic862]

Thank you for the video. the w man knows that black people are not inferior. They know what we are capable of doing. Why they didn't want us to go to school. They didn't want the competition. The Tulsa story said it all.

[@TiroroPetitDo]

Soon all black people living in the American continent will have a free mindset 👑🇭🇹💪🏾

[@leobvenzen8565]

Information alone will not give Blacks anywhere a free mind or freedom! As long as Blacks continue to exist in and practice an alien reality and cultural paradigms, their minds remain bound! "Freedom is being Shackled to your Identity its Goals and Purposes!" Pro. James Small.

[@Better_off_dead-j1i]

I hope you're right! ✌️☠️💀

[@cssacademy0129]

It's time.

[@acouncil8254]

They have it now, they just don’t know they have it. Knowledge is power. The library is your friend, use it.

[@oludummo4593]

@@acouncil8254 problem they wanna be American so bad to prove to the eurooean that they can be equal !

[@ronthomas5273]

Writers and history publishers write Black people out of history. Today, I searched online for the designer of Washington DC. The search returned Pierre Charles L’Enfant a non-Black, French, artist, professor. The struggle for equality and recognition continues. Nevertheless, our return to power and glory is coming soon.

[@Vegas.-]

Its because its all bullshit, you are the bottom of humains and you know it.

[@drchrisheidelberg]

This is because L'Enfant did the original design for Washington DC. But he got into a dispute with the Congress and returned to France with his design. Banneker did the design from memory from the survey. He arguably improved the design.

[@judymuttari5929]

Great story loved it.

[@BlackDadzRoCK]

We WILL RISE 2025❤🔥💪

[@normabracey6794]

@@BlackDadzRoCK Not with Donald Trump at the helm.

[@BlackDadzRoCK]

@normabracey6794 you joking right????😭😭😭😭 Can't nothing stop US but US y'all devils tried everything to kill us GODS....we will tap into our power 2025 ....wit me at the HELM💪

[@C.kBrown]

I am so pissed off at the fact black history has been deleted from America’s academia- beyond fed up.. we always been engineers & inventors first

[@chriswarmack1786]

Simply Astounding work from this gifted individual. I heard about before, BUT, this additional information makes me appreciate him more !!!!! 🎉

[@reginald2771]

This is beautiful keep sharing

[@delppalme5324]

Thank you Benjamin Banneker

[@damonreeves]

Stay Vigilant FBA B1 FAMILY ✊🏽🔴⚫️💚⚜️💯

[@everettcarson1473]

They killed him and burned the evidence. That tells you how very powerful this guy was.

[@Julie-l1s2n]

I can believe this.

[@brigitteharris7031]

Glad the school was mentioned in College Park Ga.

[@kevinrichardson6628]

They make us pay for our own land our ancestors got work the shit out of them

[@bhydrated9829]

I believe it's my first time here and was blown away by this top Notch symposium! Excellent research, clear concise comprehensive factual information. Thank YOU so much i took lots of NOTES

[@Gabu-San]

Were owed so much😢

[@acouncil8254]

We are smarter than waiting on people to make us whole. Go out there and earn an honest living, raise our children, and support all black causes.

[@prentissbelton4042]

Aman. The truth is on its way.

[@robinharrington8073]

What you're saying, happens everyday, in black communities. But, a debt is owed to black Americans. A "huge debt." A monetary one.​@@acouncil8254

[@DeniseG-c7p]

@@acouncil8254 Hello, We are not actually waiting on someone to make us whole. We want this world to pay for what they did to our Ancestors. In addition, we are simultaneously earning a honest living, raising our children and supporting black causes.

[@SirBossberger]

We're owed nothing! I believe American Slavery was due to rejecting Jesus Christ; there is a News Story showing that a mute and deaf Black man knew fluent written Hebrew. A Black Jew ... 400 years of slavery.

[@DianeBooker-h1i]

Thank you for sharing this amazing history

[@welfaredad]

Never forget

[@xelaguarbey3664]

High honors to the brother Ben Bey

[@marieljohnson9241]

What an extraordinary man. Way ahead of his time. Reminds me of Nikola Tesla. Oddly enough both after death had tragedy unfold when it came to their possession. So sad

[@pete7326]

Thank you for the long overdue informed information

[@mairarodriguez1525]

Amazing ❤❤❤

[@communitydevelopment6739]

Benjamin Banneker, not only did he design the District of Columbia, he did it in spite of white Engineers saying it was impossible to survey that land. And another thing the video left off, Benjamin Banneker was not only a part of the team he actually designed the United States capitol building. SHALOM 🕎

Same with carver and designing and the mechanical engineering for the 1st cars which were Ford

[@SirBossberger]

I believe American Slavery was due to rejecting Jesus Christ; there is a News Story showing that a mute and deaf Black man knew fluent written Hebrew. A Black Jew ... 400 years of slavery.

[@betjeashudson1449]

@@communitydevelopment6739 Please stop destroying history. SHARE the History of All People that share their Gifts and Skills to the World. There are many "Bibles" ; the REAL ONE Still Exists! It Will Be Revealed!!!!

[@dwightcarter2961]

Loved hearing about Benjamin. Took me back in time.

[@AlainDitDat]

Amazing how prejudice was fought with intelligence and not with empty screams

[@KenRobert1]

I love information like this. Thank you so much. My dream is for all black men and women to consider Africa their home and all inventions, sports, arts bring it there. We can create a system just as amazing as we did in white dominated countries.

[@stephaniemillsaps3626]

LOVE 🙏 🙏🙏🎓

[@FOD832]

Amazing ❤ thanks to this channel 💯

[@amosfrench7452]

Never taught in Public school, and college. Education is so important.

[@HiboMohamed-k1z]

Black teachers and guides are my salvation now. Thank you.

[@AssuredServices]

Benjamin B. How could I forget

[@romecottrell6444]

I am glad that I've seen this video 📹 on Benjamin Baker an African American man who made a difference among all Americans in the U.S.A. I shared this video 📹 with my family members and friends 🧡.

[@reeree1234able]

Thank you for keeping our history alive and inspiring us as a nation ❤

[@MissRedWine]

I feel like God created technology specifically for us because notice how many of us are waking up from watching videos on the internet. We’re learning stuff they would never teach in public schools. Think about that.

[@GodsSon-g1m]

Yup, what they meant for evil God turned to GOOD

[@nathanjames-qz9ft]

" A very powerful' point"...(thnx)

[@DeniseG-c7p]

Yes, knowledge is now at our finger tips. I would not be surprised if they prevented this technolgy due to us being able to research and report on our people/history. However, we still want our rightful place in the school books.

[@GodsSon-g1m]

@@DeniseG-c7p yes, I'm in the process of buying nothing but black history books

[@philthai99]

Thank you Benjamin Banneker. Salute.

[@melaniem5971]

Thank you!

[@queendiambikabatusuila4565]

Thanks!

[@michaelhodges8167]

Being a native Washingtonian, I knew about have of this from school teachings, a third from previous research and today y/o that he was a clock/watch maker. Look them up, I'll be buying one....VERY NICE WATCHES♠️♠️.

[@NYC11213]

I am soo grateful that you educated me with Benjamin's life story and history. I never heard his name until today. I did hear that Washington D. C. was built my Native bloodlines, but never was I told his name! Thank you, Black Journals. Keep this education of true history going because they do not teach this information when they speak of inventors or architectures.

[@christinianamariahsain19]

The So Called Black Man Is The True American Indian… We Are The Indigenous People Of America… 🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶 Great And Powerful Video… ♥️

[@h.b.j.252]

We are the Aboriginals... Malcom X was trying to wake us up from our slumber but that moment in time was not the time. 😊

[@christinianamariahsain19]

@@h.b.j.252 And That Is The American Indian The Indigenous People Of America… 🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶

[@h.b.j.252]

@@christinianamariahsain19 The rabbit hole runs deep and there are many trails the rabbit can take. According to current understanding, the Aboriginal people of Australia arrived first, meaning they came before the Native Americans; the ancestors of Aboriginal Australians migrated out of Africa earlier than the ancestors of Native Americans, who primarily migrated across the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia to North America. Even then, it still runs deep. There is a name for those people that they removed from American History in school.

[@arlenehotep381]

Humanity originated from the Black man. Egyptian Pharoah's have alot of melanin in their DNA. The Pharoahs were Black. King Solomon was Black. This is why they don't want to teach real Black history. Thx you Benjamin Banneker.❤

[@tlive1800]

We aint no damn Indians yall love the colonizers .our history go wade beyond 1492

[@ButterFlyGoddess]

✨✊🏾POWER TO MY PEOPLE♥️🖤💚✊🏾🧚🏾✨💫

[@MinabTzagai]

Thank you for your work that informs & educates the new young african generation. I want to inform that if you read the Ethiopian astrology then you will find that many stars have Ethiopian names !❤

[@A.M.7886]

Great, only most of us are not so called Africans ( a new word introduced in the 1700s)! Copper colored skin and wooly hair doesn't mean the fabricated word African! Use your brain!!

[@marciaabrigo5069]

Thanks for reminding me of the contributions of B.B. I now want to collect all of the African American stamp collection.

[@james-go2cp]

❤"BLESS GOD" 🖤"VERY INFORMATIVE"💜

[@jeannieves6275]

We’re Incredible people from Beginning 🌍🖤⭐️

[@rickeyjohnson1557]

Thank you

[@magsbayou]

A teacher once told me "if you can read, you can do anything". I always found black people brilliant. Brilliance allowed them to survive and create innovative ways to work, escape and rise.

[@delppalme5324]

They became bless not curse. That why the black, was heroes, and created. That why they were able to come smart, and intelligent, inyentor, creator to build.

[@normanbonk8064]

Wow! Prayers.

[@AssanRaelian]

Excellent video & sharing away on Facebook 👌🏾

[@hallejuahhour3348]

Excellent and Wonderful! Thank You!

[@dorotheaburchall9938]

AFRICANS ARE THE TRUE TEACHERS OF TEACHERS IN THIS WORLD AFRICANS NEED AFRICANS AFRICA IS THE REAL HOLY LAND

[@beverlypasley]

CIVILIZATION started in that great continent : AFRICA !

[@lindashipp9368]

This was very enlightening ❤

[@JeevanaWells]

Awesome amazing American history ❤🎉😊

[@skylaindigoink2013]

Ooooo! Me and my youngest sister was just speaking about Sir. B. Banneker. Noooo, he’s not forgetting. He’s a staple in my context (born and raised in WDC). I will speak about him beyond the grave (since his life’s work is part of my writings). Many thanks for this one! 🖤♠️🧩👣🗝️💝💯

[@Muura97211]

I remember when Martin did an episode about Benjamin Banneker. It was funny & informative.

[@ElvaMoss]

thank you so much

[@ladylovve6059]

Thanks for sharing God bless I'm learning a lot I appreciate you one love keep telling the truth 🙏🏾🙏🏾🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@DjubiCusas]

I'm not surprised, because those slaves taken criminally from Africa, most of them belongs to the great civilizations from Nubio-Kemet-Egypt, Mali, Ghana, Songhai and they were the most intelligent men in the earth. Peace to their souls. We forgive but never forget.

[@TexasLadyP]

Our ppl are such geniuses ❗

[@gagecarty4290]

Learned what more about the things he did, that haters couldn't dispute and his legacy 😮

[@consultkevintyler]

Now this would be a movie to watch! Imagine if Hollywood would be brave enough

[@dwannamontriel58]

I learned a lot.

[@tru333]

Amazing!

[@tigerkhanshort3053]

This is the first time that it was mentioned that the French guy left before the work was done.

[@marquisgilmore1501]

@@tigerkhanshort3053 the French gentleman was always under the influence of alcohol and that is the reason why President Washington fired him.

[@pattydinero6292]

So glad you did this video! I did learn about this in school (K-12), and again in college (US History course). I was lucky apparently.

[@annierodgers539]

Excelent.

[@georgeroberts7462]

Yes, I was taught that Bannaker was purchased right off a slv vessel by a wyt wmn, but everything else was in point

[@greatidea7808]

It's not our Capital City. It's theirs!

[@deborahzenquis4666]

His home was destroyed on purpose. Whoever set his house a fire trust me they took what they felt was important and said the rest of blaze to erase his genius.