The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)

[@TheNerdStorm]

Still watching these old videos in 2021

[@010MSJB]

I can't wait to watch each section of the doc.

[@zak27986]

What a fascinating documentary miniseries absolutely emotional and inspirational. I as a Black Australian man of East African Somali descent love the Black American community. I myself have no enslaved and segregated ancestors because they were East African Somali people who were never captured or kidnapped or sold into slavery because they came from a strong empire. I am the proud son of two East African Somali immigrant parents both my father and my mother plus my paternal uncle which they all successfully immigrated to Australia in the mid 1990s escaping the Somali Civil War which devastated the country. My family and I still live there today. I love Australia because it is so peaceful and relaxing here plus I enjoy my life here in this incredible country. If I was a descendant of an amazingly tough enslaved and segregated ancestors who went through so much suffering I would always honour them plus remember them. I would never disgrace or forget what they had to experience the painful torment of racism. My heart goes out to all the oppressed Black people in the past that had go through the African Tribal Warfare, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Chattel Slavery, the Colonial Wars, the Domestic Slave Trade, the American Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan Racial Terror Lynchings, the Race Riots, Convict Leasing, Jim Crow Segregation, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Redlinings, the Inner City Gang Violence, the War On Drugs, Police Brutality, the Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System, and Private Prison Abuse. In the United States of America today there is still Inner City Gang Violence, Police Brutality, Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System, and Private Prison Abuse so depressing. America needs a huge criminal justice reform, economic reform, gun control reform, immigration reform, police reform, political reform, and prison reform. I send my love plus support all the way from Lakemba, New South Wales, Australia. To all my fellow human brothers and sisters around the world, always remember be genuine & take care of one another.

[@overthetopunderthestairs]

I can't wait to see this.

[@clairecolvin4077]

I want to see full length episodes. You should be grateful that people want to watch these and stop chopping them to pieces...

[@mirandascott3073]

Dr. Gates doesn't need your approval rather you watch this documentary or not. His purpose is to educate black people because the public schools purpose is to teach white supremacist and suppress the greatness of black people. Public schools only teach lies and suppressed all the black inventors and scholars.

[@forevr_disturbd]

@@mirandascott3073 I honestly find your answer untrue. I believe he does care what his viewers think and those who love his work. I find it more being the guests who appear do not want their info....out for free at least, and that's why they are chopped. His work is amazing and you shouldn't come off so forceful if that isn't his way. This man is the reason I'm tracing my genealogy ♥️ and it's changed my life.

[@stevenrayallensr750]

Good show 4 all!!

[@DavidKeithWilliams]

"You prepared to take the oath Senator?" "I am!"

[@Hands2HealNow]

I wish these people would address the expansion of middle class through worker rights and expansion of individuals inalienable rights above all other laws.

[@CS-hy6es]

There is a "forks road" similar in Parker road in Texas similar always wondered when passing there why road shaped that way it had a strange 'feel'

[@Dieuaimebeethoven]

America wasn't truly founded by the Founding Fathers -- i.e. a small group of high-minded, intellectual elites. It was founded by puritanical pilgrims who wanted to live apart from everyone else. And though the ideals of the Founding Fathers were kept alive by the country's leadership and taught in universities, a good chunk of the population still shares the mindset of those first puritanical pilgrims, and want to live in autonomous communities, separate from, and not necessarily equal to the rest of the country (see: "State's rights", which is an all too common refrain in US politics -- we don't want to come together as a people, we want the government, foreigners & strangers to stay out & leave us alone). And in that light, the slave-era makes perfect sense. Even many of the families of the Founding Fathers originally came to the New World to either profit & enrich themselves (which also fits in neatly with slavery), or to escape authority & create their own authority, like all the various religious sects that immigrated. And their vision was not of a secular, egalitarian society.

[@saroyafanniel8932]

'Blk' people went from "negro" ("negros di tierra" "blks of *this land"* in Portuguese) to "colored" then "blk" and now "African American". Yet they were here from the start. Gates spoke of the "Triangle Trade" yet not the "Saltwater Trade" (the *very first* enslaved people were the Eastern Woodland tribes taken throughout the Caribbean, Americas, Africa AND Europe). Mainstream scholars always leave that one out because it goes against their standard narrative of enslavement and indenture. The obscuring, omissions and out right lies of American, and even World, history is abominable: 1) the majority of people brought from Africa went to South America (S. American history completely contradicts US narratives); 2) the majority of the people the Spanish found here were described as such: "look the same as Ethiopians" - and thus referred to them as "negros de terra" ('' 'blks' of *this* land"). My own lineage is Cherokee and Mattaponi (in addition to Hibernian, or 'blk' Irish - a whole other can of worms regarding the 'white-washing' of European nobility and royalty and appropriation of identity [He [brew]]). Americans have no clue how the ideology of the Constitution was lifted from the Iroquois Confederacy 'Great Law of Peace' (they were a current and practicing confederacy for over 800 years prior to the Spanish arrival upon Turtle Island). The Constitution is a mere skeleton of superfluous platitudes compared to the GLoP's inclusive, collective moral directives. The chiefs were betrayed following its adoption by the 'fumbling fathers'. The glaring contradiction that key (and a majority of) signatories' owned human beings, in addition to women and children still considered as property, while they cried "freedom" from King George, presents a compromised foundation for building a nation upon. Especially since "certain unalienable rights" refers to 'wht' males only and is the reason why 'blk' people did not have any semblance of "documented" 'rights' until the 1964 Civil Rights Act - *which must be renewed every 25 years* - and it came within a hair's breadth of being trashed by the GOP in 2019! Or I should say returned, since there were 'blk' Congressional members up until 1898 when Wilmington was stormed (like Jan. 6, 2021) and the 'blk' members ousted (it would be 90 years before 'blks' would have political office again). Yet the Civil Rights Act is *still negated* by the 13th Amendment which re-enslaved 'blks' by criminalizing them during 'Jim Crow'; continuing to this day using the Demos 1994 'Crime Bill'. The denial of this system of 'wht' "affirmative action" called the CONstitution (and all it Acts, Amendments and Orders which can be found in chronological order at the Library of Congress WEBsite) written by murders, thieves and ra [pi] sts is a hard pill to swallow yet it is the *TRUTH.* It is time for folks to awaken from the American Dreaming and grow up. _________________________________________________________

[@Hands2HealNow]

Are you in favor of a forward direction of Individual inalienable rights primary to all other laws?

[@hamstersaremagical6557]

what i don’t know how i’m here i was just watching asmr i never watched this

[@Leureuna]

The last guy who commented ... A joke?

[@awbonn]

Excellent!!!!!! good for my AS !282

[@roniquebreauxjordan1302]

Very informative

[@dgrjazz]

That was 2013 and are things any better? I doubt it. Anyway, I’d love to see these same folks having the same discussion now, 2020, but with the additional topic of “what are the colleges actually teaching”. Also, I felt that often some of the panelist sounded like the only colleges worth going to were Harvard and Yale. As a resident of the left coast I would say that there is a “little known” school near Palo Alto that might be worth going to as well. That aside, almost every thing they said was and is right today. Also, who knew then that a frightening aberration would be elected president.

[@adderley525]

love it

[@CrowdPleeza]

Finesseboxing I don't think Black-Americans need to assimilate in the traditional sense since we have played a big role is shapping American culture in various ways.

[@g.gg.g4539]

I thought this was about the documentary. They just debated affirmative action.

[@rebeccasmith9536]

Thank you so much!

[@dorandacolbert5973]

who gets the opportunity? That is the issue.

[@ahalpert]

That bit about forcing welfare mothers to work as the solution to the black class divide was deplorable. I stopped watching. The oldest people on the panel are the least enlightened.

[@19thcenturyneedleworktradi42]

Without a doubt, what we call ourselves ..... that is African Americans is incorrect we are all Ethiopians. THere are over 80 Ethiopian Tribes, we just do not know what tribe we descend from. ETHIOPIS is the oldest people group on the planet, now here in the ancient scripturescan you find the the term of word Africa. WE are the ancient descents of the holy blameless Ethiopians .... the original and true children of Israel. BLESSED LOVE.

[@tonyaparham6215]

No, the Bantu is the oldest = Khoisan and the TWA dating back 100,000 years or more. This guy doesn’t go back far enough about our history and who was originally here in the Americas long before there was a Turtle Island or Atlantic anything. There is more to our story than Slavery. He is telling half the story that wears the face of Slavery only. Our land was one with Africa. I know people are saying that no one was here during Pangea but that’s based on Euro-Centric lies to keep us not knowing and to keep the Caste system of Separation going. I have heard of road ways built under the Ocean floor leading from Africa to the Americas during the Archaic period when only the first people in the world existed. The TWA was the ones who built the Mounds buried under the so-called Pyramids in Mexico. There is so much we don’t know because we only stop at the dates only going back to slavery. Please look up other Black Historians who know like Dr. Klyde Winters who will eat this man alive in Historical facts if they were to debate. Let’s stop going only to Slavery and stop there.

[@tonyaparham6215]

I’m not saying your wrong I am just saying this video and his documentary is not telling everything. I really like what you said because it is also true too.

[@patriciadennis5818]

What is that white man up to. Tricks and trickery

[@CerromeX]

Hidden Colors 3 is gonna put this to shame

[@schnellguy]

"Poor Me,Poor Me,Pour me Another One"

[@mirandascott3073]

These videos are to educate black people because public schools purpose is to teach white supremacist and suppress the greatness of black people. If you don't like the truth, you don't have to watch it.