Talking Black in America - Roots

[@thegreencouchshow4029]

Us Africans need to start telling our own part of the story. I was born in the Republic of Congo and many slaves of that part were taken to Brazil and the Caribbean, our ancestors didn’t tell us about a Trade between Europe and Africa, but rather a capture campaign that took our loved ones. But all over the world even in our own schools back home they’re still teaching the perpetrator’s version of event. This needs to change.

[@frana.4086]

Exactly! The time is now, start telling your truth!

[@ms.branch1207]

Thank you. If we don't teach young people how our parents taught us. They will be brainwashed.

[@ShowemRight]

Please tell it, I am speaking from the point of view (POV) of a Diaspora Israelite aka black man. Lately in my life while hearing and seeing our peoples struggles on here or in the news, "our greatest wealth is each other" I mean, we all we got.

[@TUXMAN06]

Blues is koo nimo 🎶

[@amehka5416]

Who's stopping you?

[@patriciasimmonds5233]

This is a POWERFUL documentary. Our heritage is the World. We are in the Museums more than any other nationality, always being studied, world Leaders always in meeting about us, but the majority of us can't see the God Spirit in us-uniting as one mind and body.

[@MissJB1]

It's going to happen! We are going to reunite sooner then you think! We just have to be prepared!

[@marciabernard3820]

Black people we r the most beautiful people in this world 🌎 second to no one ❤ my people ❤

[@ernestinebernoudy6915]

...Mannn, SO DO I...🤗💓

[@deloreswillis9224]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@deloreswillis9224]

amen 🙏🏿

[@worldpeace0266]

Yes indeed❤❤ if only we truly knew and believed this❤

[@standingbear998]

no racism here. lol

[@arvilcampbell1249]

When I was younger growing up, I use to hear the old people, singing like that in Jamaica. For what I can see black people are the same regardless of the different language they speak, bless up my African brothers and sisters. Love u all.

[@AL-ALady]

No, we are similar but not the same.

[@ashonlewis9353]

​@@AL-ALadyWe are the same

[@anthonyeden2677]

You do not need to have their records; you are the record, and the Most Highest Power knows the record of His people and the records of the heathens.

[@standingbear998]

more racism

[@anthonyeden2677]

@standingbear998 Europeans created racism - a system of racial hierarchy - so what do you expect ?

[@evelynassiam4847]

Just come across this channel and WOW, i wish that i was taught this black history in school in England. I hated history in school, i just couldn't relate to it. This is food to my soul...learning about black history.

[@deeprootshealthconsortium2563]

What an absolutely phenomenal documentary.

[@frana.4086]

This is a beautiful documentary! Hearing Africans telling the story, not Europeans! They don't know our pain like we do!

[@PamalaBotts]

Excellent documentary may we continue to heal from our collective suffering. Still we RISE!!

[@bertramdavis7120]

When we unite the world will quiver with fear.

[@Воздушныйзмей-г2л]

Объединитесь против чего? Или за что? Мир содрогнется от страха? То есть ты сам так сильно боишься мира и не согласен с сегодняшним собой и своим проявлением, что живёшь прошлым? Кто ты сейчас? Почему столько гнева и боли в тебе? Ты будешь счастлив если тебя, наконец-то, будут бояться?

[@joycelynschmid6928]

In Trinidad and Tobago there is a type of music which derived from Calypso called ex-tempo. Two singers are telling one after the other insulting things in song but in a jovial way. It’s so interesting how cultures travels

[@amehka5416]

You can't take away what's in your DNA. Africans, Caribbeans, Black Americans.

[@janice3842]

Thank you for this truthful and powerful documentary about our ancestors. We are the most resilient ,strong and beautiful people in the world. We are God's children. We always arise from every thing placed on us by our opressors. We are one of a kind. ORIGINAL!!! AGAIN I thank you. GOD BLESS YOU!!!

[@marysegova9651]

I enjoyed this documentary and discovered my instructor Akosua Adoma Perbi from when I went to study History as an International student back in 2004. Thank you for Blessing me and the world with this Knowledge

[@paulad574]

We are influencers all over the world! We are home, let's go home. When I am in Senegal, I feel at home and no I do not blame Africans for what happened to us! They did not have a choice. Place the blame where it belongs!, let's heal Black African people! We are a great. You cannot take Africa out of me!

[@loraineebomah9678]

Professor Griff❤👑🤛🏿💯💯💥⭐️👏🏿👏🏿this is blacknificent history Documentary🔔🔥🔥🔔⭐️⭐️🔥🔥💥💯💯🏆🏆

[@sharlenenjohn]

this was so educational and informative. it make a great difference when people are allowed to educate you on their customs and history.

[@sankofanyame]

so proud of dis documentary, as a jamaican/gullah/afrikan rastaman born inna north (baltimore) and raised inna souf (atlanta) I feel so seen. dis documentary touched on alla right spots and yall contacted alla right people and went alla right places. I think most black people inna U.S. rn could benefit from watchin dis. especially with da cultural erasure goin on and all da attempts to disconnect us from our ancestas and afrika. da connection is undeniable. dis documentary told our story how it should be told, from da root to da fruit.. with no interruption or interference by colonial perspectives. I'm not sure who exactly was behind dis whole ting but dis was definitely created with Afrikan people's interest in mind. our story, told by us. dis is a vital cultural artifact fa us as a people. I'm glad da stigmatization is fading and we finally recognize dat we not wrong, stupid or backwards, we jus afrikan. and we rememba who we is and where we from. original people from da original land. and even tho we dont all kno our original names and where we originally come from, we clearly aint forgot who we is! so proud of dis documentary and so proud to be afrikan. my ancestas wunt no slaves, we was warriors, we was nobles and before allat, we was what we is today - afrikan. even with all we been thru I wouldnt change being afrikan out fa NOTHING.. slavery and all, racism and all, I am what I am today bcuz my ancestas was before. they was proud, honorable, dignified, strong beyond strong, resilient, tenacious and unbreakable!! and to think.. we went thru ALLAT?? AND I'M STILL HERE???? what CANT I do?? FAIL. I cant express enough how perfect dis documentary is.. obadele kambon was a perfect addition too! and a NEEDED addition! when I seen him I KNEW what typa time yall was on. fa da people, by da people. abibifahodie. abibitumi. FOREVAAAAAAAA!!!! ASE'OOOOO!! 🔴⚫🟢 - side note: da pebble tapping at 51:49 brought me back to high school lunch tables and people who would beat with their hands and pencils. da rhythyms dey'd make was always INSANEEEE and ofc we always knew da riddim came from afrika (cuz who else hittin like us?) but to SEE it is a beautiful confirmation and connection. - I go on and on bout dis. but all Imma say is thank yall. mi a give NUFF thanks fi unnu. medaase paa!! keep up da amazing work. AFRIKA TO DI WORLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!

[@lordelltaylor5165]

Q 1

[@behaviorwellnesspodcast9574]

My late father always said when I played Bob Marley it sounds like funeral music ! Daddy was Gullah and a musician.❤

[@vincentlewis5188]

All these beautiful ways of expression! something you can not take away from any culture. I learned a lot from watching this. Thank you so much

[@aniankh]

Professor Obadele Bamon BIG UPS Him!!!

[@harrietjohnson1930]

We Black people are a magnificent amazing people. Let's help each other know that deeply. 💞 As Langston Hughes said in his poem: MY PEOPLE The night is beautiful. So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful. So the eyes of my people. Beautiful also is the sun. Beautiful also, are the souls of my people.

[@andredrake7340]

The Most Blessed thing, this Dialogue Created for our Global African Loved One's Is Uhmoja the Swahili Word for Unity instead of the opposite ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@BRKS627]

BS

[@BernardAsare-bh9gp]

Incredible documentary

[@sunnyoforkansi608]

God made me to be what I am and am glad to be a typical black Igbo man.

[@OloRishaCreole504]

Shucks..here in New Orleans,Louisiana..if you notice our local dialect is watering down.. In notice a major difference since early 90s

[@nancyshell2855]

Thank you for posing this program It offers so much knowledge and history about language I did not know.

[@goldenlady00730]

Thank God that this showed up in my feed 🙏🏽

[@belle6071]

This was good. It would be wonderful to actually respect and value one another. 😢

[@sandraroberts7406]

VERY INFORMATIVE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO. GOOD KNOWLEDGE FOR ME.

[@kingstonrebel]

👍🏿👏🏿...Well done. Thank you.👍🏿👏🏿

[@tudy4564]

I truly enjoyed this documentary! Thank you

[@BearsThatCare]

Beautiful work with this project!

[@1jonbarnes1]

31:18-31:44 rings true, for generations. Thanks for the upload.

[@bloomindoom]

fantastic docu-series, thank you for posting it

[@LifestylesWithAjikeWilliams]

I Loved watching this documentary I will share this.❤

[@HowardJohnson-m8i]

hello you are so beautiful like a queen❤❤❤

[@RonitaElease]

Thank ❤you! My pain turn to big 😁😁😁😁lovely! Sharing right way.

[@theresaobrien3909]

SOO much respect for the FOREPARENTS & what they’ve been through😭😭😁😁😁😁😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@theresaobrien3909]

The mouth organ

[@theresaobrien3909]

In Grenada COUNCH, Sapodilla!! Fish Broth,Souse, Ochoroes etc. Similar!! One people

[@CissyNDallas]

I am an Ugandan and we jeer or suck teeth too. Kenyans and Tanzanias do it too. Even “cutting eye”

[@TeOriwaWaiariki-qr3ch]

The Term Migrate when it relates to Black Communities from all over America Moving from 1 space to another in the Same Country is just that > Moved Not Migrated. When a People Leave their Country of Origin into an Unhabited Country that's Migrating and If they leave their Country of Origin to an already inhabited Country that's Immigrating. Comn now keep the record straight☝🏾💯

[@GeorgeChildress-p5c]

Truth be told absolutely old school hard times Mississippi

[@theblackestbeauty]

Wherever we go, there we are. It’s crazy how we black Americans were stripped of everything we knew about Africa, but we still remained African.

[@BRKS627]

Did your elders and your family told you that

[@anikacorbett7714]

​@BRKS627 yes they did ..im African just happened to be born on American soil..my dna proves that 😊

[@BRKS627]

@@anikacorbett7714 No you are what your parents and grandparents are. You can't go back to the 1700's in America if your grandparents were in Africa or another country. Stop the 🧢 troll and a liar😆

[@anikacorbett7714]

@BRKS627 my parents dba said African..if Chinese have babies over here today..their saying they're Chinese American. American is a Culture Not a Race hun .I'm African

[@anikacorbett7714]

@BRKS627 my mother side is from Gabon tribe of ateke and tsogo and Angola 🇦🇴 tribe of mbundu tribe and my father's side is from kanuri tribe of Nigeria 🇳🇬..so proud of my original country

[@belvedere92]

I have wondered where bobbing and weaving of the head by AA women came from and then I visited Ghana in 2007 and saw it, but in a different context. I went to an open air vegetable market and on my way there I saw women with baskets on their heads who had stopped and were having a conversation. They were balancing baskets on their heads and bobbed and weaved to accomplish this as they talked. I had seen the same thing in the Caribbean.

[@paulaannstewartTHANKFUL2024]

THIS WAS BRILLIANT!!!

[@HowardJohnson-m8i]

hello you are so beautiful like a queen❤❤❤

[@tlive1800]

Beautiful document ❤️💚🖤✊🏾

[@prenticeperry]

Excellent, Sweet Reflection, Spirit Uplifting and Inspiration & Pride To Be Afrikan even in a harsh land!!!!!!!❤💯💯

[@CultureTalk222]

This was nothing short of amazing ❤

[@benatiyah]

Elmina Slave Dungeon, it was no castle for us!

[@gogochee1095]

@5:10. The tour guide at the slave camp, Aaron is wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Caesar Borges on it.

[@ernestinebernoudy6915]

...WOW... I saw it. ...👀 😟 😖 😩

[@JetBlackAir]

The writing under Borgia said "Original Gangsta". The shirt wasn't actually about Jesus.

[@carlweeks7928]

IKR, I WAS SAYING THE SAME THING...!!!

[@CL_Easterling]

With ORIGINAL GANGSTER on it

[@marjorielemons2577]

And we all know about Caesar Borges

[@djuanathediva2008]

I agree, You know certain Gullah words are found in the Caribbean. My husband is from Jamaica & I have heard "oona"; we at the end.

[@PurplePillRiches]

Many carribbeans were brought to south Carolina. It makes sense when u here Bahamians and Geechee ppl

[@genesiajames3293]

I agree 💯

[@BROK3N.876]

I MUST VISIT MAMA EARTH 🌍🔥

[@jjsparksshow4772]

Great video very informative jah blessings ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@donkenobi]

Brilliant....

[@keronbonnick9961]

Please stop saying the slaves, they weren’t slaves, they become slaves not by choice, by force. We should stop using the word Africa , it’s Alkebulan meaning the motherland and garden of Eden. ❤

[@avendillon4217]

HALLEYLUYAH HALLEYLUYAH APTMH GLORY HONOUR PRAISES TO ABBA YAHUAH HALLEYLUYAH

[@taboshousrochester3977]

I love this video so informative. I'll definitely will be sharing this

[@jeanroyster2330]

beautiful and excellent.

[@juliebarry5375]

A VERY STRONG PEOPLE

[@user-dj1hh7sh2x]

The Africa leader helped in carrying out all those activities. Until they are brought to book, European would continue to refused such label.

[@obadiahbenjudah8798]

Please understand that the Africans hand's are not clean regarding the criminal part's of Africa's involvement in the trans atlantic slave trade ! I believe that Africa should pay land reparations to the Diaspora families for Africa's part helping the European's to kidnappings and their abandonments of the many kidnapped Africans families. This forgotten and evil act stole the inheritance of the many Diaspora Africans Slaves and should be restored

[@SkhumbuzoMathabela-wq8ug]

That gesture the unspoken word that sound like whistling when talking to someone is not only used in western Africa it is used all over Africa by us black Africans I'm from south Africa we use it more often to cancel what someone is telling you

[@ms.t4322]

We are Black Americans not Africans

[@paulgabbidon8350]

​@@ms.t4322you are not American you came here from Africa 😂

[@SkhumbuzoMathabela-wq8ug]

@@ms.t4322 Continue denying your roots but the police and Karen's will remind you Our identity is much stronger than nationality

[@ernestinebernoudy6915]

...you need ah Black, African-American,... All Day. LOOONNGGG... O.k. ?

[@christset]

We use oona in Nigeria when speaking Pidgin english. example - unna still dey here? meaning ya'll still here?

[@Mujahid-k6t]

Hear in the Caribbean in Belize we be like unu still di ya meaning y'all still hear lol

[@Mujahid-k6t]

Hear in Belize we call it creole it's a combination of broken English and African

[@christset]

@@Mujahid-k6t same as us Nigerian we call it broken or pidgin English

[@juzme2060]

AP2TMH¡!🤲🏾👑 Thank you 4 GREAT INFO ND INSIGHT¡!❣

[@jcdhalia1241]

A barbadian can place themselves right in the gullah community. The speech pattern is similar!

[@amehka5416]

Do you realize people from the same tribes got dropped off in the US and Caribbeans.

[@mizzobjectiveone3819]

@@amehka5416 Same tribes have nothing to do with it. People who had been in the Barbados were brought to South Carolina to grow Indigo, when the Pinckney family moved to South Carolina. The original poster is right, a bajan would fit right in.

[@shjakes]

45:42 As children growing up in Trinidad & Tobago, watching adults "cut-eye" (especially those in authority)...or "steupsing" (sucking one's teeth) at them would guarantee you a sound "cut-arse" back in the day. T'was only when I met Nigerians in London that I realized these were very West African habits.

[@ebrw8016]

Same for us who grew up in the deep south

[@beverleypollard2561]

Please takeoff the white Jesus shirt, my brother!

[@ernestinebernoudy6915]

...MOST-DEFINATELY,...😖😩😵. 👀 REMOVE. That. CURSED T. SHIRT, With. White- WANNABE, JESUS,, on his chest, LORD...Have Mercy...PLEASE...

[@nikrich3729]

It's a typical depiction of Cesare Borgia and was used as propaganda. Y'all have been seeing this propaganda picture for hundreds of years and still either think it is "white Jesus" or get angered and triggered because it is a "white Jesus" 🤦‍♀️ On a deeper level, we're commanded not to make any graven images or the likeness of anything that is in heaven. The last I checked, our Savior Messiah ascended and sits at the right hand of the Father, so a "black Jesus" picture is not the way to go as well. Btw....his T-shirt also has the words "Original Gangsta" written under the picture. Think objectively, research, and do better.

[@tojwilliams]

Read the inscription along the bottom of his shirt. It says, "Original Gangster". Truer words were never spoken!

[@winstynglyn6893]

I was thinking the same thing it is irritating

[@theresaobrien3909]

What is the origin of the “Shango Dance

[@DetroitIfa]

Shango (Sango) is an Orisa and ancestor of the Yoruba people of Oyo in Nigeria

[@brok3y]

They not laughing at our speech anymore.... Jamaicans retain the Akan language...we call it Patwa there and the whole world is fascinated with it. It's the closest you'll get back to the Akan language. Unless you go back to Africa and find the Akan people.

[@willieduffie4967]

✊

[@Angela-pi6zc]

When I hear Africans reference the slave industry, my heart swells with love and saddness because it implies that they grieve the absense of us, the kidnapped and enslaved.

[@rembertseaward351]

After 400 years we are not the same people. Africans and Caribbeans have their own country allow Black Americans to have our Country the USA

[@SEEKButYOUCantHIDE]

That’s right Foundational Black American, don’t have a relative in Africa, never been there, and most FBAS don’t look like Africans because we are our own nation.

[@jerrymiller8509]

They fought and died for their independence. Nobody gave the Islanders nothing either

[@BRKS627]

Well said 351

[@tiffineemoore2878]

As guyanese of african desecandant we are still african we never lost our culture unlike some of u lost by the slave master

[@winstynglyn6893]

Yes but America belongs to everyone and that’s where there confusion lies because you are being pushed to the bottom of everything unfortunately, whereas in Africa and the Caribbean they can claim these countries for themselves.

[@obeomahbey7534]

We were not Christians here until after 1492.

[@DetroitIfa]

Many Africans from the Kingdom of the Kongo have been Christian since the 1300s. Many were brought to the America's. The Stono Rebellion is also called the Kongo Uprising.

[@OloRishaCreole504]

@@DetroitIfa all these comments im reading..make me cover my face lol

[@grahammuriuki8805]

That is not true, history shows that Christianity first spread to North East Africa before it took root in Western Europe. It was a different Christianity than that of Europe because of the African culture.

[@BRKS627]

​@@DetroitIfaNo where's the proof I from the white man

[@brotherkareem181]

That man lying blues do not come from africa. All American music come from the Black Americans experience & no were else.

[@OloRishaCreole504]

Im sorry to burst your bubble,im from Louisiana and blues did start from west africa and its big in Morocco..we just modernized it to a different newer form..as each generation does with music when you listen to the basics

[@brotherkareem181]

@@OloRishaCreole504 Stop lying

[@OloRishaCreole504]

@@brotherkareem181 with a name like that, you should have the intellect to know better bro lol..like really?

[@tiziay]

That is inaccurate. Do a deeper dive and research more thoroughly

[@BRKS627]

True Kareem 181 African music is way different than ours don't sound the same

[@ShowemRight]

When it comes to our people that endured captivity in the diaspora or colonialism in Africa, our full names were our first name given by our parents, followed by son of or daughter of ( bin, or bat) then it would end in either of our parents first name. For example, Yeshua bin Miriam or Yeshua bin Yosef, or Solomon bin David, etc. Yeshua bin Miriam we know now as JESUS SON OF MARY.

[@obeomahbey7534]

Alex Haley plagiarized the character Kunta Kinte from the novel, the African by Harold Corlander. Haley had to pay him over a half a million dollars .

[@amehka5416]

Nobody cares.

[@focused4841]

You obsessed with black people white boy. All your recent comments speaking on black people. Get a life

[@BRKS627]

​@@amehka5416someone lying on you. You would care

[@ashonlewis9353]

Ok so?

[@BROK3N.876]

🌍❤💛💚🔥

[@theresaobrien3909]

Patois, broken French in Grenada

[@Ikena276]

Krio is similar to the Gullah language

[@Boomslang1]

That's from Sierra Leone right?

[@Ikena276]

Yes

[@donaldjeffery9338]

Green couch show: my gggreat grandfather was from the Republic of the Congo Scipio Smyly( Smiley). born 1770 lived to be 123 years old. Nancy Smiley Dewalt 3x great grandmother.

[@Kltary]

I hear it in new Orleans, too, a little . He who gives to men not deserving gets laughed at to boot!

[@terryflowers7837]

We are not the same.

[@MA-yh2ko]

Not the white Jesus t shirt😮😮

[@theresaobrien3909]

Stupa in Grenada, sucking the teeth, meaning displeasure or whatever. The English taught us to use body language is rude

[@ruqayyahcurtis7504]

Many Europeans use body language: Italians, Greeks, French, etc.

[@ashakamaat]

the first Africans taken out was in the 13th century when Portugal sent 600 orphans to one of the islands of Africa. These weer the black Jews. This began taking of Africans to Brazil and the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade.....when Europeans saw how the Arabs conducted slave trains out of Africa they too wanted their share.

[@marjorielemons2577]

#ReparationsNow

[@christset]

Kilonshele in yoruba means what's up. Soo wapa means u alright?

[@Paul-g4g9m]

The most affected from those days were the Africans undiably

[@kingstonrebel]

So what is to happen to all present day survivals of African families who participated in the "slave trade"...???... "THE CURSE OF SLAVERY"...!!!😮😮😮 Some say... "Ebola" Tinubu of Nigeria stems from such a family .. !!!! 😮

[@mychoice2319]

I can believe that!

[@barbaradavis7200]

There is a law of generational curses 😮

[@brotherkareem181]

Stop lying

[@Broham-z9u]

8 minutes something is going on with that t-shirt..

[@amehka5416]

Never heard anyone singing the blues from any African country.

[@thedoingwell]

Oooh yes, look up Kinka by the Ewes from Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Fo from Nigeria including some Senegalese rhythm, Malian rhymes. A lot of these were brought mostly from west Africa by the enslaved. It brings tears to my eyes when l hear Grandma sings.

[@BRKS627]

​@@thedoingwellstop the 🧢 some of you west Africans be scamming your butts off.

[@theresaobrien3909]

Watching crossed eyed angry or displeasure

[@hadashashulamite8380]

Why in God’s green Earth is the tour guide wearing that abominable tee shirt? I almost not want to watch this video, we need to pray for that young man, and our people overall.

[@carlweeks7928]

Why does this dude have a shirt on of White Jesus... WTH...?

[@Bg-cr2vx]

I’m struggling to get through this documentary because of the t shirt

[@VerlenaJohnson]

Understand we are isreal

[@brotherkareem181]

That's a made up fake story 😂

[@tonyjohnson4362]

Israel what ,why the prime minister of Israel is saying that Africa is a land of darkness that Africa need to be wipe out of the world.

[@mychoice2319]

​@@brotherkareem181 It's not made up! It's true!

[@Paul-g4g9m]

icans songs sing by Africans

[@silvabakx6396]

"Oona", in geechee, & "unuh" in jamaican patois, means "you all/yall". Real old school geechee def has more caribbean flavor than american. Great documentary!

[@mistyred403]

Geechee has its own flavor. From the Black Americans

[@silvabakx6396]

@mistyred403 didnt say it didnt. i'm just talking about how it sounds. merely an observation from someone who has traveled extensively throughout the world, & knows what he's talking about

[@williebennett4024]

Blues come from Africa??

[@user-tx6iy1kl4x]

Blues come from Mississippi

[@Black_unity597]

@willie No music not anything modern and by modern I mean from the 1900s and beyond comes from Africa all music genres were created in America by Black African Americans. Idk why people keep trying to steal Black American culture………… please explain?

[@brotherkareem181]

Stop trying to steal our culture.

[@allyb4298]

No

[@thedoingwell]

Yes, it originated from west Africa brought by the enslaved

[@barbaradavis7200]

Curses for the folks

[@admah29]

Young brtha never wear a t-shirt of your oppressor on you. You are teaching yourself subconsciously that the European is your god.