Kamala Harris Family Tree | Race vs Ethnicity

[@PradigyMusicman]

Many slave owners raped their slaves and had mixed offspring who were also enslaved. Being a descendant does not mean a welcomed part of the family.

[@ernisupriani9270]

But they also a case when slave owner marry his slave but not free the slave because it more save for his family to stay as a slave in era when human especially African still part as human commodities and properties. By free the family that slave owner have, there are possibilities for his family to be enslave by others.

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

@@ernisupriani9270 Cases where they married were few and far between I suspect. That was illegal in many places and times.

[@ernisupriani9270]

@@jeffmacdonald9863 there maybe a few but there are a cases like that. I never said there are many case like that, i said there are a case like that. When we talk about slavery to America we often think about the Atlantic Slave Network but that Network is not the only network since there also Pacific Slave Network when people from Pacific and the Indies (India, Indochina, Indonesia) brought to work in plantation in America continent like the African. And there also Indian Ocean slave network like when people from India or Indonesia brought by the colonizer to be sold as slave in the European Africa colony (Cape Malay in Cape town South Africa is the example). And there are a case of the Indonesian slave married with they slave master in era of Dutch colonial rule and many of the descendant today living in Netherlands

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

That wasn't the point of those pointing it out trying to take her down. Their point was, was that she has called for reparations and such from white people, some of whom are descended from slave owners., when she is a descendant of them herself.

[@yogatonga7529]

Sweet home Alabama

[@anishapoorwakispotta7754]

Lmao people pretending slavery didnt existed in jamaica

[@alexatameron8898]

@Melisa Sprague Yep Libtards are too stupid to understand that slavery and prejudice happened all over the world and white people had nothing to do with that. It goes against their narrative. They need to pick up a world history book.

[@usmcMike05]

Forever Falcon except there were black slave owners in America that had black and white slaves and indentured servants. Also, black slaves were sold to white Europeans by blacks; their own people.

[@leiahdavis1908]

Kimmminem West Both US and the Caribbean were apart of the trans Atlantic slave trade. They traded slaves back and forth between the Americas

[@Nick-ce6lt]

@@foreverfalcon8117 almost all slavery historically was based on taking them from foreign lands e.g. spartans/helots, arabs/africans, scandanavians/anglos. Generally the only time it isn't like that is when tribes are too primative to travel to obtain slaves and just raid the nearest village e.g. germanic tribes, african tribes. Nothing to do with how evil you think white people are.

[@despaahana]

Slavery existed in every civilization before history began to be recorded. Be proud that America was one of the first countries to abolish it. There are some countries in Africa who hadn't abolished it until the 90s! Also those African slaves that ended up in America were a lot luckier than those owned by Islamic slavers. They castrated all male slaves and made females their concubines. That is why you don't find a large African former slave population in Islamic countries.

[@sulaimaanahmad]

i'm decended from fairly recent immigrants, i'm of nigerian paternity and ghanaian maternity with some taureg ancestry. i agree...knowing exactly where your family originally came from makes a huge difference in your sense of self. 🇳🇬 🇬🇭

[@CarlaD.-rl5ry]

Americo-Diasporans (Blacks) have been here for eleven generations. Like most other white Americans. Our "sense of self" is KNOWING that we're from America and that's just fine.

[@sulaimaanahmad]

@@CarlaD.-rl5ry so... you're never wondered exactly where on the african continent your family came?! 🤔

[@CarlaD.-rl5ry]

Nope not at all! No more than "British-Americans" who've been here just as long do not honor the Queen nor wonder where in England their family is from. We are not the 1st, only, or last new ethnic group to be created out of pop. dispersion, war, changes in national borders, etc. and over time those connections are lost anyway. Who knows, in 1.000 years Africa could belong to China and the entire demographic gone from Black to yellow! It's happened before. See: America.@@sulaimaanahmad

[@bjuny6481]

@@sulaimaanahmad Hey, how hard is it to make a genealogy tree of African descendants? Is that not hard due to the lack of written sources? I always wonder this

[@sulaimaanahmad]

@@bjuny6481 it depends, some people of african decent have an easier time at this than others, my course is a lot smoother than others, other people will have more difficulty. it depends. 🤔

[@fabiangroom3228]

It saddens me when generalization of races are just freely spoken and accepted in certain parts. I'm from South Africa and there are eleven official languages and even more ethnic groups just in that country alone. This topic is so complicated yet many have no idea. This video is such a good lesson for many of us.

[@lucabrasi8420]

Race isn't even scientifically applicable.

[@EvelynElaineSmith]

If anyone has two parents who have both earned a Ph. D from University of California, Berkeley, that person definitely has an upper-middle to upper class background. Thus, when looking at Kamala Harris' background, it's also important to take into consideration class as well as race differences that the Democratic Party has historically emphasized. Accordingly, Ms. Harris may not have "white privilege", but she certainly had the upper-middle to upper-class privilege.

[@Joker-yw9hl]

Yep class is the real divider. Race is just low hanging fruit

[@Ephesians5-14]

So much privilege that she was able to keep numerous black men incarcerated on misdemeanor drug charges quite unfairly.

[@clipbrown3471]

A upper class black person will be exposed to more racism b/c it puts them in direct contact with racist whites. A white co worker nearly lost his mind when he learned I made more money than him. A white neighbor went to prison after he tried to run me down with his car when I was 5, playing with my cousin on my family's property. My brother holds an MBA and had to sell his house last year after white neighbors started following him on his morning jog demanding him to prove he lived in the neighborhood. My sister is a famous TV Reporter who has to do her job with armed bodyguards after she was harassed by a white nationalist holding a rifle while calling her the NWORD. Class doesn't protect you from racism, it causes the opposite.

[@gratefuldead3750]

@@clipbrown3471 Harris is from a brahmin Tamil family

[@fkoff5150]

@@clipbrown3471 LMAO YOU MEAN THEY USE VICTIM-HOOD TO GET WHAT THEY WANT AND USE OTHERS REAL STRUGGLES TO PUSH PAST THEM AND ACHIEVE WHAT THEY WANT...THEY ARE NOT BLACK OR POOR BUT WANT THE VICTIMHOOD THAT GOES WITH THOSE OUTDATED 1970 STRUGGLES...I.E. OBAMA, STEPH CURRY, LABRON JAMES!! HELL I COULD GO ON FOR DAYS LOL. IF THE A JEW LIKE ME CRIED AS MUCH AS THESE "RICH WHITE" PPL THAT HAVE THE TINEST DROP OF MELANIN IN THEIR DNA, THEN IM BLACK AF!!!

[@fomalhauto]

Africa has thousands of ethnic groups and that includes over 250 in Nigeria therefore, the world has thousands of ethnic groups

[@cheryldias4269]

Raymond Nolan Scott They were also colonized by the British French and Portuguese

[@melissaanthony2028]

Cheryl Dias don’t forget the German

[@cheryldias4269]

Raymond Nolan Scott African Slaves were brought to the Middle East by the Arab conquerors. Then when the Arabs started the trade with India and conquered Northern India “the Mughal dynasty “ by Tipu Sultan and others who invaded deeper into S India. Many intermarried local Indians and in the case of Pakistan the Balochi and Makranis who occupied were Africans who settled there. They too married locals. The following generations were now part of the 2 countries and are not identified on ethnic origins. They self identify as either Pakistani or Indian depending upon their place of residence. Power play divides people into groups but humans world over that they all are Homo sapiens. Only in America!

[@kfelix2934]

True the facts are they are over 2800 ethnic groups in Africa. And something like 2k plus languages native to Africa. It funny when we come to some other place on the globe, we all forget this and it's been striped from us. We are one the biggest diaspora ( by race ) , but we have lost our roots & knowledge of our culture.

[@kfelix2934]

@pepe0801 thanks, I corrected that but way over 2000 ethnic groups and if you count the sub-groups probably even more .

[@CowetaCreek]

Race and ethnicity versus lineage? Claiming someone else's lineage to further ones ambition is a problem.

[@asweetmshell]

Thank you!

[@aharmzway]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@northernkingdomprincess7384]

Esau did that to us

[@vilena5308]

This comment section really proves that race is a social construct. Apparently it doesn't matter how she sees and identifies herself, everyone made their own decision in which box she should belong.

[@tojogornottojog1100]

Is it? So why can we determine race by bones alone?

[@vilena5308]

@@tojogornottojog1100 List resources and context.

[@tojogornottojog1100]

@@vilena5308 😂 you serious? Go see your medical record... Check the first field there, even before your name.... What does it say? Race right? 😂😂😂😂😂 Ever wondered why?! Again... We can literally determine an hominidae race by bone structure alone... So tell the audience how is race a social construct? 🤔 List resources and context

[@vilena5308]

@@tojogornottojog1100 Very serious but apparently you are a blatherer. Bye.

[@sarak4418]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@wesk7346]

Thank you for the detailed breakdown. Also, similar case applies to the native Taíno people in the Caribbean. According to a recent study, there's zero paternal lineage, i.e. Taíno males were killed and the women raped by the explorers, so modern Taíno people like in Puerto Rico only have maternal lineage.

[@mrXOwarrior]

Wes K I thought some still lived in northern South America. No?

[@aztekempire]

🇵🇷 dont have shit from the natives tainos They wouldn't even consider indigenous

[@sophiawilson8696]

@@aztekempire who told you that? The Taino were the first people on the Caribbean right?. So that make them the indigenous people or native. I suggest you watch the video of Tanio people.

[@aztekempire]

@@sophiawilson8696 🇵🇷 dont have nothing of indigenous taino ppl They mix with black and white Theres no such a thing as indigenous puertoricans As indigenous ppl from mexico peru o Ecuador

[@elreytriton]

@@aztekempire says the fake aztec lol

[@juliansherborne7255]

She's American with immigrant parents from two other countries

[@capt.whippersnapper5496]

She is another NWO product like Obama and his entire family. She was raised in Canada and and both her parents are not natural citizen which makes her a anchor baby and not suppose to be able to hold presidency. The fact that her lineage contains slave owners and she comes up against white people whom have never owned any slaves shows she is a hypocrite.

[@tiyahisrael]

@@capt.whippersnapper5496 add to the gumbo pot..She’s married to a white man😂🤣

[@poog5293]

@@capt.whippersnapper5496 Ted Cruz was born in Canada and his father was born in Cuba.

[@omegayeet6183]

@@poog5293 yup he was raised in Texas too

[@lawrencepascasio2076]

@@capt.whippersnapper5496 She was born in Oakland, not in Canada unlike Ted cruz

[@MiloTheCrotonian]

I see her as mixed. Still the second "colored" VP. The first goes to Hoovers VP, Charles Curtis.

[@Mr_Nikolaev]

But she'll be the first black one.

[@MiloTheCrotonian]

@@Mr_Nikolaev Also the first Indian and woman

[@mizrahimsephardi5214]

@@Mr_Nikolaev LOL, is that supposed to be an achievement? really

[@skylarblue]

What do you mean by coloured? Is white not a colour as well?

[@MiloTheCrotonian]

@@skylarblue Americans use this word a whole lot, POC for example refers to non white people. I'm not sorry if you felt excluded from my statement, you attacked something that is not worth attacking.

[@sharmainehill1272]

@aUsefulcharts You did an EXCELLENT job at breaking down "race" and "ethnicity". I've been trying to get people to look up the words race, and ethnicity for a few months now so that they can see pretty much, exactly what you described. Thank you so much.😊👍

[@idontgiveafaboutyou]

Yeah, clearly race and ethnicity aren’t the same thing. For example, you can be of the white race but be of Slavic or Anglo-Saxon ethnicity

[@Free_Snooki]

If India is a continent like Africa, would it too make more sense to call ppl from Africa not African & instead by the country they came from?

[@prayonkreutz2398]

Very Good Point, although after a couple hundred years... We're all mutts now!!

[@dragondescendant1]

India is not a continent, India is part of Asia continent.

[@dragondescendant1]

@Muslimcel India is in Asia continent. Period.

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

When dealing with people who are themselves from Africa, yes. When dealing with the descendants of African slaves in the Americas, not really. Their exact origins are rarely known and often mixed anyways. To be honest it's much the same for European immigrants to America. The first generation or two are often specified by country, but past that it blurs into generic European American, or as we usually call it "white" or just "American". The same isn't said of African Americans, because this country has historically been too racist to accept black people are really American and to a lesser extent still is so.

[@Free_Snooki]

@@prayonkreutz2398 You're right. Idk anyone who isn't multiracial. Especially Americans.

[@brandonhyatt7752]

She has more than one White Ancestor. Not every mixed race baby in the past was a product of rape. That is a false presumption. She had Scottish, North Irish and Irish Ancestors. Kamala’s Paternal grandmother Iris Finegan was the daughter of Patrick Finegan (Irish) married to Mary Watson (Jamaican) NOT a RAPE case Kamala’s Paternal 2nd Great Grandfather Hamilton Brown (North Irish) he was married to Mary Melvina (Jamaican) NOT a RAPE Case - yes he was a Plantation owner and slave owner Kamala’s 2nd Great Grandmother Was Elizabeth Brown (Scottish) she was married to James Henry Harris (Jamaican) NOT a RAPE case This video falsely delivers her fathers ancestry.

[@andrewbell2786]

Elizabeth Brown, pioneer for the BBC movement!

[@toyintoy]

Also note Jamaican and Irish are not race, so say A white irish person or white Jamaican or black jamaican

[@toyintoy]

Also note Jamaican and Irish are not race, so say A white irish person or black irish person or white Jamaican or black jamaican. I get your point tho👏🏾

[@emellopez3865]

And someone speaks the true!!! Lets just hope people listen

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

Do you have a source for any of that? I haven't seen anything more definitive than Donald Harris' claim his grand-mother Chrishy Brown was descended from Hamilton Brown. Snopes says there's a Mary Melvina who was the daughter of Hamilton Brown (the slave owner) and an unnamed woman, who later married a different Hamilton Brown, but no verified link between her and Chrishy Brown

[@shrutiraj5893]

Her ancestors is belong from different country but after all she got Indian name 'Kamla'. Her sister also 'Maya' and Her niece Meena. All are Indian name.

[@universeofopulence]

...yes one side of her ancestors r african decsent and her mother's parents that is her maternal grandparents r Indian citizens who live/d in Tamil nadu..

[@shrutiraj5893]

@@universeofopulence yeah!Jamacian-Indian-American..

[@keinedaten1640]

And? My name is latin, but I dont consider myself as being an old roman :-D

[@shrutiraj5893]

@Joe smith who do worship christnity?

[@sophiaimafidon6469]

I love your KZbin page I learn so much thank-you ❤

[@loonthroughtheether271]

As a mixed race/ethnicity person, you hit the nail on the head!

[@martinlohstroh]

"Worng" half white and half black people identify as black because of black privilege.

[@meanmadblackman4654]

Still don't feel like being blind to race, which as you said, is an unscientific social construct often defined by racism itself, is a bad idea. Maybe it's just because I'm African born and know my roots somewhat. But there is a such thing as being hyper focused on race, and I don't think that's the solution.

[@RenegadeShepard69]

Yup. After all if we let race be defined racism for any longer it's not really going to change. My opinion is people saying things like in this that "unfortunately they're still seen as different the 'society' " are subconsciously supporting the racist caste system of their society. It's not that the opposite of being focused on race or making things a "race thing" is to be "color-blind" but is to acknowledge that in reality skin color is not what's holding people back the most, more than race,, it's not the white wall of white supremacy is the green wall of impoverished non whites in America. Kamala, Obama, etc. Are a dime in a dozen, because of their families' affluence. The richer the person the less stigmatized they get. And that is why I think that acknowledging race as "unfortunately still a thing nowadays" in the slightest is embracing and agreeing with white supremacist lunatics who have way too much power in the minds of the American people. The way Race works in the USA is a racist concept which the public views as a counter to white supremacy but is actually working in support of it. Just like with the bipartisan elections, the USA always manages to keep the status quo under control.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

Yeah, I think the left is really pinning to this white privilege thing and trying to bring black people up. Imo we should ignore race, and just fix the problems effecting them, like poverty, drugs, homicide, fatherless households. But fix them nationwide. Why specialise reform just for the needy that are POC...

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

It is certainly different in different countries, but here in the US, it's very easy for white people to be blind to race, but mostly what it does is shield us from seeing all the ways that our society isn't blind to race

[@ASLUHLUHCE]

@@Oscar-vv6dn Yeah the obsession with race/gender is completely and utterly regressive.

[@no_se_nada_de_nada]

well the fact that you "feel like" it's proof that race is in fact, a social construct.

[@ArtemusPrime]

Thank you sir! You did an amazing job on this video! New subscriber here! 🙂

[@DanielCaliz]

I’m from Puerto Rico but as a Puerto Rican we usually say I am the combination of three races (Taino Indian, Spaniard and African). In essence that is true but not entirely. It turns out that after taking a DNA test, my racial pedigree is much more complex. According to DNA test I have an ancestry from: Portugal 🇵🇹 24% Spain 🇪🇸 23% Indigenous Boriken/Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 (Taíno Indian) 16% Cameron, Congo, Wester African, etc. 12% European Jewish 7% Nigeria 5% Norther African 5% Senegal 4% Mali 2% Aegean Islands 1% France 1% In summary and using an expression that we usually use in Borinquen (Puerto Rico): "he/she who does not have 'dinga' has 'mandinga'". Basically what it means is "he/she who does not have this has that" (geographically speaking it would be: "he/she who does not have from one place has it from that other place"). Have a wonderful day and GBU !

[@binder946]

White slave owners / over lords impregnated Indian black women that's why there is always white male some where in most blacks brown people of South America

[@ellebelle4094]

Yes, always more complex. Yours is one of the most interesting I've seen. Best to have many family members test their DNA. One of the DNA sites used to let you know about some nationality (I think that is a good word) you most likely have because so many close DNA matches have that nationality registering. DNA is capricious. My full sister and I have different DNA profiles. She has 10% French, and I have 2%. Let's pretend we both have 4%. That doesn't mean we have the same 4%. Ancestry can separate DNA by maternal and paternal lines now. I have 2 more nationalities registering on mother's side than she does. I have more Jewish than she does. She has more eastern European than I do. And so forth. There is Native American in the mixes. But a family member not showing Native in their DNA test has several skeletal characteristics specific to Native and they LOOK Native and are always taken as such. What we need is lots more sampling of every population, and more people getting their DNA tested and shared. I don't believe that any of this really makes a difference in one's life--culture does--but it is just so much fun!

[@MadMaxMFP-dc6kw]

Can't hide Jamaican records bro, great granddaughter of a former slave owner

[@Vgudorf]

@Dirt Law502 How stultifyingly ignorant of history can you be to blame the descendants of raped slaves because a “former slave owner” was a paternal ancestor? Or perhaps you’re just a troll who refuses to acknowledge that literally OWNING another human being in the same way you might own livestock gives you absolute control over even the very breath in that person’s body, so it goes without saying you are also free to exploit them sexually in any way you see fit. “Benefited from slavery” you say? Seriously? Obviously, your “pure whiteness” has done nothing whatsoever towards endowing you with critical thinking skills. What’s sad is, you’re probably too stupid to feel embarrassed.

[@aerialhorizonrc7827]

You should never punish a person because their grandfather was evil which they have no control or involvement and let alone was born during that era.

[@dlg1776]

Vgudorf They were married. This guy just made up the rape comment

[@keekeeramsey1387]

You just described the majority of black people. Almost every Black person has a great great or greatest grandfather slave owner as an ancestor.

[@SimonDoer]

"She's considered a hypocrite, because her ancestor was a slave owner." And my great-grandfather was in the NSDAP. That doesn't mean that I am a Nazi.

[@Chowder12345able]

Legit that made me confused. Someone maybe 5 generations ago owned slaves, and that makes her a hypocrite? How many leaps does it take to come to that conclusion?

[@independentcomicsfan2867]

@@Chowder12345able it's hypocritical because she wants decendents of slaveowners to pay descendants of slaves for mistreatment.

[@nicko5945]

Matt Becker exactly, I’m surprised this wasn’t brought up in the video. It was completely ignored.

[@independentcomicsfan2867]

@@nicko5945 because he is a bit biased about it which I understand because it is hard not to b when talking about figure everyone has opinions on but yah it would be nice if the families of conservatives and liberals were both covered fairly

[@nicko5945]

Matt Becker So true. It’s too bad really but not unexpected, like you said.

[@arkadandfortuna1582]

Thank you for the post, one of the more insightful topics on Race/Ethnicity I’ve seen (and Kamala)

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

I've got to say, I just keep coming back to this to read the recent comments because there's so much wild insanity energy here. Always some weird new theory about race or about her parents or about how US citizenship works.

[@joshuataylor3550]

AKA racism

[@TheBardoftheAmericanRedoubt]

This video has some good information. I disagree with some. But the most significant error is saying she is "Black American." You spend large parts of the video saying how she is Jamaican, and Indian. Where do you show she has any connection with the long term black population of America? You show no evidence of this, as non-exist. At best you can say she is of mixed Caribbean Black heritage. She does not share the same "language, culture, history of America's "foundational Blacks."

[@moonie1825]

You don't have to have any connections to african american slavery to be a "black" american. The same way you don't have to be a descendant of the british to be a white america.

[@TheHCGTube]

Well said. "Mixed carribean" would define her much better.

[@TheBardoftheAmericanRedoubt]

@@moonie1825 Um yes, but everyone who is white is not German. And Germans are not English. Both re white. Nor is everyone who is "black" or more accurately of the African diaspora or African "African-American". I like to put America first and say American of African descent. All are African or the African diaspora. Kamala is the daughter of an African-Caribbean man, and an Indian woman. And her African-Caribbean father was kicked out of their home at the age of 5, and she was raised solely by her Indian immigrant mother. She does not share the history of Americans of African descent i.e. "Black." For example slavery (there are differences between southern and Caribbean), language, there are differences between the English spoken in America and the Caribbean. There are major differences in our Apartheid (Jim Crow). Even simple things like African-American food is uniquely American history. To share the same ethnicity, you share the same culture and history. She does not. Kamala is not "African-American."

[@moonie1825]

@@TheBardoftheAmericanRedoubt except children of germans that immigrate to america don't call themselves ethnic germans(because they aren't). In america you do not have to share the same genetic history to be considererd apart of the ethnic group you mainly have to look like you are apart of the ethnic group and to some extent reflect as much in the general understanding of their current culture. If you wany to argue that kamala harris isn't african american because she wasn't culturally raised as a black person typically would of in america then the same could be said about plenty of african americans that could trace their lineage back to slavery. Also i don't know why you are highlighting the differences between caribbeans and african americans. Kamala isn't from the caribbean her father is. So highlighting this difference does not apply for her. Thats like me looking at 2 white americans one that can trace their ancestry to russia and another to england and then saying the one with russian ancestry isn't really american white. It's just not how it's done in america.

[@tedcarter8074]

@@TheBardoftheAmericanRedoubt Very well put and so true

[@ssboooy4153]

Kamala spent a good portion of her life in Canada, for any proud Canadians watching. Her mom did cancer research in Quebec, where Kamala and her sister then went to school.

[@a-bd1216]

Many Jamaican ancestors were slave owners from Europe they prowled the slave Barracks at night or exploited domesticated slaves and had illegitimate children with them. Secondly, many poor European laborers from Ireland, Scotland, and Germany who were not slave owners had consensual relations with free blacks after slavery was abolished. You forgot to say first black American of Jamaican descent to hold this office. I have a first cousin with the same surname Harris and his paternal roots are also close to Brown's Town St.Ann and he is also a very light-skinned black person. Also in Jamaica, it is a very frequent thing to see a person of African descent who is also mixed with Indian/Asian due to a large number of indentured East Indian and Chinese laborers that arrived in the 1840s and onwards.

[@jeffreyalanjustice]

In other words, whatever the race or ethnicity, never trust a lawyer.

[@hunnerdayEDT]

Lol

[@Xunxunism]

Isn't she a prosecutor? kind of different from a lawyer.

[@hunnerdayEDT]

@@Xunxunism a prosecuter is a lawyer

[@tammywines8557]

@@Xunxunism Hmm ? A prosecutor is simply a lawyer who had to run in an election or can be appointed by a mayor . Read up on the Mayor Willie Brown. That is good reading.

[@scythal]

@jattatheart111 What's wrong with them?

[@andrewguzman2964]

Can you do the Joe Biden family tree?

[@Deathmastertx]

There's some pretty sad stuff there. His first wife and his first daughter were killed in a car crash and his first son died of brain cancer in 2015.

[@Nicole-rj4xz]

The505Guys He perseveres through greed

[@canman5060]

@@Deathmastertx Maybe this is why he is not focusing most of the time.

[@neinzukorruption9321]

would be a good idea - as even he himself does not remember any more.

[@inmate666]

He was the last and has shaking tree syndrome .

[@samuelkatz1124]

I'd love it if you covered the family history of Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister. He's got some skeletons in his closet to say the absolute least.

[@user-nc5yc9es6j]

has he collected his ancestors skeletons in his closet? weird.

[@ayush.kumar.13907]

relatives in imperial japanese administration?

[@12345678900987659101]

Kishi is a huge skeleton. Astounding how many war criminals were pardoned by the US occupation authorities in Japan.

[@just_radical]

@@ayush.kumar.13907 His maternal grandfather ran Manchukuo during the 1930s. Raped women, employed the Yakuza to break unions, enforce slave labor, and run drugs. Probably worthy of being a Class A War Criminal like Tojo, he was instead pardoned by the US and handpicked to lead the postwar government.

[@samuelkatz1124]

@@user-nc5yc9es6j Abe's mother's father was a prime minister of Japan named Nobosuke Kishi. He committed a lot of war crimes, including mass murder of civilians and using prisoners as slaves in world war 2. Somehow he was completely pardoned by the Americans after the war ended, and served for 12 years as prime minister little over a decade after his crimes.

[@AG-nv8ij]

Do u know how better the world would be if most people knew this

[@ronaldsave7091]

if the skin is black it's black if white, white, brown or fair colour. Even my father is white if my colour is black then it's black or vise versa. 😁

[@AG-nv8ij]

@Christine Mills 🥱 🥱 🥱 someone needs some copium 😂

[@Am0ha]

@@ronaldsave7091 wat type trying to say

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

L

[@kaydengene2430]

@@ronaldsave7091 damn you Esau Buddy

[@MrHavoc313]

ok now do my family tree lol

[@MortyMortyMorty]

3:15, what is this map? Any sources? Why is Hungary and Romania in the slavic group? So many questions about this map. Please send an original link.

[@MortyMortyMorty]

Also 4:08 what is that map? And that 3rd skull? 😂

[@lopyboy_brg280]

Hi, do you consider to translate these posters in other languages ? I really love them but I would be more likely to buy them of they were in my native language (it's french for me haha) and I can also help to the translation :) Have a Nice Day in these hard time. Anaël

[@annettemarie9716]

All I got from this video is that we should drop the one drop rule and make a category for mixed people

[@Hypertropes]

This was amazing. Thank you!

[@ms3173]

America has a warped view on race, anybody can be considered “black” even if they don’t have any African ancestry.

[@timschaible5555]

I'm german and Swedish but I consider myself black

[@knoxknoxx1496]

Its funny black is not and identity .. His_story is a lie... Go figure

[@ct5951]

That part!

[@aztekempire]

According to ancestry im 8'-9% european I want to indetify myself as one why not ?

[@Biobele]

That's not true does Kamala not have African ancestry? Does Obama not have African ancestry?

[@puneeths8205]

Could you do the Family Tree of Abraham Lincoln

[@nb5437]

Yes!!! Bill Cosby, George Clooney, and Tom Hanks can all be found there.

[@barbaraleverette4894]

Puneeth Sreerama a study of his Ancestry DNA, would be even better! That would answer if he was mixed black. So some legends claim .

[@holylandfan3275]

The first poem I learned. Nancy Hanks If Nancy Hanks Came back as a ghost, Seeking news Of what she loved most, She’d ask first “Where’s my son? What’s happened to Abe? What’s he done?” “Poor little Abe, Left all alone Except for Tom, Who’s a rolling stone; He was only nine The year I died. I remember still How hard he cried.” “Scraping along In a little shack, With hardly a shirt To cover his back, And a prairie wind To blow him down, Or pinching times If he went to town.” “You wouldn’t know About my son? Did he grow tall? Did he have fun? Did he learn to read? Did he get to town? Do you know his name? Did he get on?”

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

That'd be very interesting!

[@tarugozaka-moko6968]

Can you do the family tree for Ombligato Mugros..?

[@LadyAlchemyy]

I didn't know her mother is Indian, but then again her name is of Indian origin.👌Kamala is Indian, Tamil is Indian, much love to Kamala.

[@danielmedina2078]

She black cuz it's more politically valuable than saying she is south asian.

[@supreme_zeeyus]

Exactly, it’s really not complicated. Obama is literally half white but says he’s black

[@shubhamsingh-nl4fu]

How is she east asian? India is in south asia!

[@matthewadams9025]

@@shubhamsingh-nl4fu she's east Indian

[@shubhamsingh-nl4fu]

@@matthewadams9025 How is she east Indian ? Tamil Nadu is in south India!

[@matthewadams9025]

@@shubhamsingh-nl4fu ur last name is "Singh" and that's an Indian name so you know your stuff lol

[@lilianflynn198]

Why is America emphasising race and ethnicity in the 21st Century !!

[@timothywise9731]

People think that they can gain power by calling someone else a racist

[@Narrow-Pather]

Because political power, institutions, laws, and hateful bigotry continue to focus on it today with the same mindset and evils of the 1600's.

[@ceciliadavies1705]

IKR!

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

Because racism is this country's original sin and it's still a powerful force. Pretending it isn't just lets it continue to fester.

[@001islandprincess]

Lilian Flynn The answer is simple: America was built on the worldview race as a means to ease the conscience of the Western European enslavers.

[@watdog2012]

Great video. She shouldn't be referred to as an african american. Shes jamacan american or tamil/Indian american. African American should be reserved as an ethnic category for those whose ancestors were enslaved in this country.

[@daphnesmith1686]

Your heritage is where your father is from not mother.

[@zackgalante4899]

Love this video new subscriber and I’m about to watch all your videos.. unbiased and to the truth i love it ..

[@hilal_younus]

Fox be like : *Kamala has ancestors that are slave holders* Me : *Imagine counting rapists as “Ancestors” , and no, don’t try to pretend Jamaica didn’t have slavery*

[@hunnerdayEDT]

Nobody disputes the existence of slavery in the Americas. That’s how all the Africans and poor Europeans got here.

[@hilal_younus]

@Alexis Castillo facts..

[@blambrax]

The entire continent of the Americas had slaves.

[@buddhastl7120]

Regardless of your bold font, your ancestors are your ancestors regardless of the good or bad things they did. Stay mad, tho.

[@blambrax]

@@buddhastl7120 I checked to see if my comment was in bold font, and it was not.. Phew!! lol

[@mr.sentimentvalidator9968]

Harris did date former San Francisco Mayor and State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown for a period of time between 1994 to 1995. In his capacity as speaker, Brown appointed her to two political posts - first to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, and then to the Medical Assistance Commission.

[@collinssportstalk7504]

Hey, UsefulCharts I have a couple ideas for videos, so hope you like them. 1. Bulgaria 2. Early Spanish Monarchs/monarchs before Garcia I. 3. Rus’ Monarchs before Ivan the Terrible 4. Seleucid Dynasty 5. Mayan or Gran Columbian Monarchy These are some ideas you could use if you want! Keep up the good work, I can’t wait for more videos!

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

The Rurik dynasty would be very interesting!

[@I_love_mbs]

She’s not “African American” rather, more like Jamaican and Indian.

[@kametwodaabe471]

@ΛΕΡΘΕΞΑΝΑΞ ΣΕΣΕΓΓΕΝΒΑΡΦΑΡΑΓΓΗΣ yes, but she is black

[@GieCampbel-ug9jl]

She is not Christian, that is used just to get the votes. She is more Hindu since she is influenced more by her mother rather than her father whom she resents since he does not agree with her stand on abortion, gay marriage, and illegal immigrations without proper legal documents.

[@hunnerdayEDT]

Um, the islands in the Caribbean, i.e. Jamaica, is considered part of North America. So, she is Afro-American/Indian. The USA isn't the only country in the Americas.

[@creating1_c1999]

@@hunnerdayEDT thank you. I am glad that I read your post, because you saved me time.

[@I_love_mbs]

“African American” is a category created by the US government to oppress people. Kamala Harris never experienced what “African Americans” go through even-though she is black.

[@lisaadrienne9852]

Parts of the West Indies, she’s considered “Dougla” or “Cooli”

[@stevies6251]

Lisa Adrienne her father and his parents are Indo Aryan

[@raleighbeersingh1501]

Just what is your point. ?????🤔😡😡

[@lisaadrienne9852]

@@raleighbeersingh1501 relax its not that crucial... You would be surprised what little N.Americans don’t know... You stuck on something ?😒 Nothing derogatory with what I said👍🏽

[@tyieshathomas7257]

Thank you!!!

[@tyieshathomas7257]

@Shawn. Scorpion9481 I have Guyanese/Asian family and friends neighbors all “West Indian blacks” refer to them as cooli’s or Dougla

[@cathleenhunzeker6210]

well today she on CNN had a glowing review of how Hindi Americans support her so i asked the three guys and their wives from three different areas of India what they thought of her. one wanted her dead, one to send her to Jamaica 'where she belongs', two said she was not hindi at all and the others despise her as a marxist embarrassment not at all what i expected

[@PHlophe]

cathleen hunziker . they showed their racism that;s all

[@user-ll6pr5cw1f]

The hindi ethnicity is only recently 70 years of construct , literally there is no hindi ethnicity there in india 😂 indian officials include several languages as dialect of hindi that does not mean all are mutually understand

[@mannybudhu3905]

Thats because....Indians and Blacks have opposite culture...one is violent the other passive....one believe in family the other does not...one is upwardly mobile the other the opposite. 85% of Jamaican kids are born out of wedlock.

[@glink7398]

Can you do one of Obama's family tree That would be really interesting

[@markramlucken8502]

G link Obamas ancestry begins in Kenya, he comes from a Muslim ancestors. That is why he gave every Muslim refugee that came to America to them he gave health insurance. Free while u got to pay if u want health insurance. Also he invited the terrorist group called the brother hood of man a wing of Hamas to the white house for tea. He was funding the Palestians people with billions of dollars. But this money was given to Hamas to buy arms, n rocket launches to attack Israel.

[@edendvatri]

Obama is related to every American president it’s all in the bloodline it has nothing to do with him being black, he just happened to be a good candidate since black was the new trend. American presidents are chosen by bloodline. They are all descendants of some European king. There is enough of information if you find the time and do some research

[@patricechavez4992]

Obama married a man big Mike, that tells us Much. Two men have NEVER produced children together, fake daughter's too. Lies, lies, more Lies! Everyday I learn how We have ALL been duped.

[@maximaldinotrap]

@@edendvatri If you mean Charlemagne then congrats, pretty much anyone of European descent is descended from him.

[@polyverse1]

You failed to mention Kamala mom is of Brahmin caste which is the highest social caste in India.

[@senorjp21]

"How society chooses to define them" is a difficult point because in this context society means "the aggregate of individual behavior" rather than formal rules from e.g. regulation, law, etc. So I would argue what you actually mean is a sort of average of how individuals respond to individuals who have specific physical traits. On one hand it's a small distinction, but on the other hand it's a huge distinction because it's relatively simple to change laws democratically, and enforcing rules about private interactions between individuals is something that can't or shouldn't be the purview of the State. I really like your videos. Thanks!

[@JJoy-bk8yr]

I've been seeing/hearing the term "Blasian" a lot lately, usually referring to someone who has one parent who is primarily of sub-Subharan African descent, and the other parent of primarily Asian descent.

[@ernisupriani9270]

In Asia like my country Indonesia, if you are a children of mix marriage of African and Asian especially Indonesian we called them Blasian (Black Asian). If you are children of mix Marriage of European and Indonesian we called them Indos (Indonesian-European)

[@fyurileblanc7206]

hmm- so you totally ignored her father's line? it is most interesting. and i have it. it is not at all what you assume since Chrishy was born to Mary Mulvaney Brown and Hamilton Brown. they were married btw. not at all unusual in Jamaica. maybe you need to do more research? Christiana, who they called Chrishy, was not illegitimate at all it seems. she was the daughter of Hamilton's second wife. they married -- yeah you heard that right- married- after his first wife Isabella died. so no, she wasn't a product of rape. she was a product of marriage. since both of his grandmothers, including Miss Iris Fenigan Christie were black- most likely Creole- then it seems his great grandfather had chosen a black woman as a wife the second time around. i don't know if his first two sons were white, but both his daughters were black. oh and another thing, Hamilton was Mary's second husband. she was married to a Brown before him, which is why her name is listed as Brown before she married him. i don't know what her maiden name was- it never showed up on anything I researched. but i am sure someone somewhere will find it.

[@olafusleftutoobe8964]

Thanks. Much closer to what I recall coming across. I know many issue oriented people, especially from California, who had much disdain for her actions as Attorney General. It was around the time word was out she was selected early 2016 by the big Dem donors, as not to run as Hillary's VP, but rather to be the next in line. My friends and co-workers were quick to squawk about her claims with respect to race. I did look at some articles by her father, around the time he publicly said something negative about her public statements. I was merely casually interested at the time. It was an easy find then.

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

Sources for any of that? It doesn't really make sense though. The timeline is too short. The slave owner Hamilton Brown was obviously from the early 1800s, before slavery was abolished in Jamaica. He apparently died in 1843. He can't really have been Miss Chrishy's father, since she died in the early 60s, according to Donald Harris. There need to be at least one more generation - quite possibly more. According to Snopes, there was a second Hamilton Brown involved, who may be who you were looking at. They suggest that the Mary Melvina Brown who married that Hamilton Brown was the daughter of the slave owner Hamilton Brown. Still no direct link to Christiana though. The slave rape would have been a generation or two before Christiana, since it would have needed to be in the slavery days, which ended in Jamaica in the 1830s. Regardless of any of that and regardless of any documented ancestry, it's practically impossible to be Jamaican and black (or mixed) without having slaves in your ancestry - unless it's from known very recent African immigrants. The original African population was brought there as slaves and there was little voluntary immigration from Africa after that.

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

@TheDotaGuyN'LetsNotForgetCS GO Even granting that, which isn't entirely clear, that "free black woman" either had been a slave or was the descendant of slaves, since that's what Africans were brought to Jamaica for.

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

@TheDotaGuyN'LetsNotForgetCS GO Since she was free when she married a white man, her slavery heritage no longer counts?

[@swhite8621]

@@jeffmacdonald9863 You didn't have to marry a plantation owner to get his last name then, once he owns you, you get the last name and they give you a random first name

[@Red-in-Green]

On that one old race chart, can someone tell me what the LIVING HELL that third skull was?

[@maximaldinotrap]

No fucking clue but if I were to wager a guess? Some sort of primate perhaps?

[@anastasiarose4482]

I love your channel keep up the good work 👏

[@peterwalters1718]

If you are of mixed race you are not identified as the race of the "least privileged group" you are identified as part of the minority group in a given context. My children are half European (Dutch) and half Indian (Gujarati). In their sports teams, where the majority were European, they were referred to as Indian, at their Gujarati language classes at the local Hindu Temple, where all other pupils were of full Gujarati Ancestry, they were referred to as White. In both cases this was not done in any negative way. This was just a way for them to be quickly identified and was, at worst, a subject of interest and curiosity on the part of the other children they were interacting with

[@3bydacreekside]

Thank you for your wise words and outlook.

[@cgormantx]

I totally agree. The designation of "race" if you have different ones represented by your parents, ends up being what you look most like, and what's socially acceptable at the time.

[@barbaraleverette4894]

Peter Walters well explained, I agree.

[@anndeecosita3586]

The narrator said he was talking about the general attitude in the US. I get the feeling you don’t live in the US because it’s uncommon for someone who isn’t and/or doesn’t look full European to be called white. I have friends from South America who are considered white in their countries but not in the US.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

Very true. People are also often just referred to as what they look too. I don't know why people identify as one or the other, and not both.

[@tyroniussupapookiemcleroy1403]

ADOS/Black Americans or American descendants of slavery have a history in the USA that goes like this.. 250 years of chattel slavery, followed by 100 years of Jim Crow laws and wealth stealing practices the have left this PARTICULAR ETHNIC group wealthless. This PARTICULAR group has also dealt with redlining, black codes, debt peonage and countless lynchings and massacres. This PARTICULAR ETHNIC group worked for 250 years for free as slaves unable to gain wealth, read or write. Then after that for another 100 years this PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP had laws written SPECIFICALLY to keep them from gaining wealth, accessing benefits like the GI Bill, the Homestead Act which provided millions of acres of free land to US citizens, proper schools, neighborhoods, jobs etc. which has led to the massive racial wealth gap. Kamala Harris, while having the DNA of an African, she is not of this PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP. Her mother is a Brahmin Indian professional. She was a high earning woman from a top caste lineage. Brahmin Indians are basically the white people of India. Her father is part Jamaican from a slave trader lineage opposite that of ADOS and was also a high earning professional. Her life and family has not had the same set backs as those who are descendants of American Chattel slavery. It doesn't mean she is a bad person. It simply means she is not some miracle success story as she would be if she were ADOS. She is 1/4 "black" and born in America to affluent parents, but she is not ADOS/black American. Kamala has had anti ADOS policies her entire career. She is against reparations for ADOS. She has made a career locking up ADOS/Black Americans. She is not ADOS. She has always been considered Indian American but since ADOS/Black Americans are politically uneducated and vote mostly based on race, she is being advertised as Black American to garner the black vote. Calling her African American is misleading. She has a drop of African blood but as I mentioned there is much more to being African American/ADOS than blood

[@Blakely901]

Appreciate this comment. Do you have any links or articles though on where she made a cerebral of “locking up” black Americans as you stated?

[@jackson12802]

Blakely if you search KZbin you can find interviews of people she kept incarcerated past their time. One guy she actually blocked his attempt to submit his DNA to prove he was innocent. Oh and the bomb Tulsi dropped on her during a debate... I’m surprised she accepted the nomination. But I honestly don’t think she has done the things she’s done out of hatred or malice. I think she was apathetic to black people a t the were a casualty to her political career advancement.

[@ceciliadavies1705]

Wow, very enlightening....

[@tyroniussupapookiemcleroy1403]

@not gonna I said the white people of India. Meaning they occupy the highest caste position in their respective country

[@niterockerone]

I want as many African Americans in the Obama's Tax Bracket as possible ,not locked up in crazy insult to God Private for Profit Prisons.The confederate right is dead wrong...

[@arnez844]

I damn sure did hit the subscribe button.

[@MsCorrier]

Thank you! Great stuff!

[@dawnpicota9115]

would love it if you did the tree of the Howard and the Boelyn family tree

[@kimberlybates6261]

I got them in my family tree. They go way back to the first Anglo saxon kings of England. However I don't agree with how they used their daughters to gain more wealth and power.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

@@kimberlybates6261 Well, everybody did back then.

[@donkeyxote7729]

So are you A)African American, B)Indian American or C)African Indian ? Kamla : YES

[@TheHCGTube]

😂😂😂

[@cheryldias4269]

DONKEY XOTE Therefore these categories are BS we are all Americans if we are citizens of this country. To quote Hillary “at this point what difference does it make”?

[@ceciliadavies1705]

@donkey kote...a true political animal, imho. Go figure!

[@gottgaame]

Abhinav Banerjee because Taino Indians came from africa they also live in the carribean. When u come to the United States u are african American period

[@vineetasjourney8017]

Why did you skip talking about her dad parents?

[@vineetasjourney8017]

@Blank Mane exactly. I’m Indian and I can see she’s mainly Indian just by her appearance. I hate it when people aren’t proud/transparent about their heritage. Xx

[@ArunShankartheRealOne]

2:53 Interestingly "Shyama" in "Shyamala Gopalan" means "dark" or "black" or "dark blue" in Sanskrit, it was how Lord "Krishna" one of the most important deities of Hindu Pantheon is described. I guess in that regard, she can identify herself as black.

[@blambrax]

Arun you are correct. The people from the south are darker skinned, which is why they are discriminated by the light skinned Indians of the North.

[@nisargdhamecha8476]

@@blambrax firstly, South Indians aren't discriminated just coz they are dark. As mentioned in the video, India is almost a continent in itself. Someone from Tamil Nadu has totally different culture and ways of life than someone from Assam or Gujarat or Punjab. So, discrimination is bound to occur in such clashes of opposing Cultures. Even North Indians are discriminated against in South. Secondly, there's literally no reason for is to Discriminate Tamilians based on their color. Coz, even many of us are quite black. We are just a mixed race.

[@shubhamsingh-nl4fu]

@@blambrax I dont think you have even spend a weekend in north India to hold such a view. And FYI the people who are really discriminated in North are actually North easterners followed by Biharis and Bengalis and that's not bcos of their skin colour ! Wherever there will be people there will be a discrimination too so dont assume by default that's bcos of colour. I am sure Sinhalese look alike to Tamilians but still there is discrimination right?

[@gypsygirl9]

@@shubhamsingh-nl4fu this whole "race" discrimination is a U.S. thing and they gear it toward black people. It is absurd. As you noted, true discrimination is more than skin color. I've been to India a couple times and the people I knew there explained that in India they have a cast system that openly discriminates or "labels" based on where in the continent you come from and what your ancestors do for a living. Is this accurate @shubham singh ? And..here in the U.S. there is real "discrimination" against disabled people ( mentally and physically disabled), old people, fat people, uneducated people..the list goes on. But having worked in HR for a decade or so, I can honestly say that due to most companies fearing lawsuits, will literally NOT fire a poor performer if they are black. That is legit discrimination..fear based. One company needed to reduce staff by 10% which came down like 30 positions. They let the slackers that were black slide and cut whites instead. A few of the whites cut really were underperforming, but not all of them that got cut were. So because of fear..black slackers got to stay..underperforming and all.

[@shubhamsingh-nl4fu]

@@gypsygirl9 US politics is now more and more resembling Indian politics which is rather disheartening! As you know in India after Independence about 20% of all govt jobs & collage seats were reserved(aka Affirmative action) for people of low caste for 10 yrs so to help them reach mainstream. But after 10 yrs as you may suspect ,politicians keep extending the limit and it has been now over 7 decades and it is still on going. And so people realising that res. is going to stay , now every caste and clan wants to be backward(same as everyone in US wants to be black) so as to get reservation due to this from initial 20%, res. is now reached to 50% in Federal jobs and Univ and about 60-70% in state jobs! And now some parties are campaigning to enforce the same res. on private companies too. And if you want to get an idea of what kind of people are now considered backward/oppressed!! just search "Farmers protest Delhi" the caste which is leading the protest (Jats) are considered backward(from 1999-) and enjoy 27% reservation.

[@superadrenalinex]

How did you know about Kamala will be chosen for VP, 4 days ago?

[@rsing3325]

I just hope Kamala Harris will settle down and act like a vp. She has the tendency to go off the rail. I don't care if she is not black enough just work hard to defeat Trump.

[@DarrenRockwell]

She was being considered for vp for quite a while.... most people speculated that she would be.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

Because she was a woman, which he promised. She's a person of colour, which could help him win the black vote (which he needs to consolidate after his recent blunders). And she was a presidential nominee with experience and name recognition. She was the frontrunner, and expected choice.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

@Adam Alperstein Irish/Pakistani. Dont know why that matters though. He clearly alienated alot of black people after his "you ain't black" and "black kids are just as capable as smart kids.. NO.. white kids" and he risks many joining the never Biden movement. Just makes sense from a strategy standpoint to choose a POC, especially "black" but I hear that her calling herself black may be controversial though, I haven't read into it though.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

@Adam Alperstein Don't try to marginalise people who don't come from your community, lest you be racist. I can analyse any race's issues, likelihood to vote, and who for. Race doesn't matter...

[@OOnti-dz4jd]

Kamala was chosen for the color of her skin and the content of her character.

[@amonduul2154]

She was chosen because with her multiethnic background she could pick all minorities, esp. Carreb, asian afro american

[@j.w.2391]

Harris chooses to be "Black" when she wants to be, when it is convenient and useful to her Political Ambitions.

[@aglaesaitschenko2349]

If race is a social construct, then why do we have anti-racism and anti-discrimination laws? Are we saying you cannot discriminate against the race a person identifies with? And if that is a case, then what exactly are people "identifying with" if race itself does not actually exist?

[@noncreativeguy7284]

Social constructs exist, they just aren’t bound to science, and are instead bound to how people are viewed by society. They are “constructed” via social standards, rather than physical divisions. As similarly stated in the video, but I’ll expand upon, someone from Morocco and someone from Botswana are from very far away parts of Africa with different histories and cultures that took over the region. As such, their DNA might be as different as two people from France and Turkey. However, in the eyes of society, the Moroccan and Botswanan would likely both just be considered “black”, while the Frenchman would be “white” and the Turk would be “brown”. There’s no scientific reasoning for this, because in actuality they are all very distinct from each other, but, society doesn’t always follow science. This goes further into people identifying more with race or ethnicity. Those four people would be ethnically Moroccan, Botswanan, French, or Turkish, but might identify more with their race that society views them as. The society they live in might not significantly care about the difference between a Moroccan and Botswanan, but would care about the difference between a Frenchman and a Turk. So, the Moroccan and Botswanan might identify more with race and identify as broadly “black” or “African”. This also becomes more distinct if people are “mixed”, since ethnically they are an equal blend of two ethnicities, but may look more as one socially constructed race, and choose to identify as that.

[@aglaesaitschenko2349]

@@noncreativeguy7284 Ridiculous. By that argument, everyone on earth needs external validation. All of society must now monitor all the social constructs that could possibly exist or even imagine to exist and immediately police and stop that to prevent any kind of inequality at all. Nah. I'll take freedom over an entire society policing everyone around them. What an unhappy place to be. i believe Chairman Mao tried to fix that by making everyone wear the exact same suit of clothing, eliminating all art and beauty, making everyone equally miserable. BTW, it is an incorrect assumption to think that people would think people from Botswana and people from Morocco would be called Black. Actually, dark skinned Africans are referred to as Black, usually, while dark skinned people with generally caucasian features are called Middle Eastern or Indian, not Black, regardless of their country of origin. Why? Because when you're describing someone, you're not being so specific to identify their exact place of origin. You're just giving a basic description of what they look like and most people know the difference between dark skinned people with African origins and dark skinned people from other parts of the world. Egyptians and Moroccans, while being from the continent of Africa, resemble Middle Easterners more than Africans--as far as descriptions go. When you're describing a blonde individual, nobody says Norwegian or Swedish. They just say blonde. Social Construct is a made up term to divide people. If a

[@illspeak2398]

So she is not African American ?

[@reshmakannan1901]

of course not she is half Jamaican but Jamaicans are not African Americans.

[@RaymondHng]

@@reshmakannan1901 92.1% of Jamaicans are of African ancestry. Under Spanish rule in the 16th century, the Spanish imported slaves from Africa to the island.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

@@RaymondHng He means that African-Americans are Africans who have long roots in America. It's not defined, so obviously he classifies it as the USA, and not the Americas in general. No one is saying the Jamaicans aren't black, or that Jamaica isn't in the Americas.

[@RaymondHng]

@@Oscar-vv6dn _Jamaican_ is a nationality, not an ethnicity. To say that she's "half Jamaican" is attempting to claim that she is a half Jamaican national which is incorrect.

[@nel9380]

Thank you for bringing up mixed race people and our challenges of identifying with a single race!

[@Gentejode]

But that’s only in the United States, in Latin America mix people are only mix

[@omnibus4157]

I'm a mixed USian, too, and when I've traveled outside of the US, I'm not treated like I am here. Except in Australia, where people thought I was a mixed Indigenous Australian, and wow, a lot of them don't seem to like Indigenous folks. Imagine their surprise when I spoke-and my Fargo-like Upper Midwestern tones came out.

[@TR-bk1ts]

Just listen to Morgan Freeman

[@thefutureisnowoldman7653]

@@omnibus4157 *American

[@amonduul2154]

@Bengal is Great She is euro african and mostly indian

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

EXCELLENT, just AWESOME. Most - if not all - KZbinrs who dedicate their channels to some anthropological content, have no idea or formal academic reference when interchanging freely race and ethniticy. Your text is GRAND, looking for "any" scholarly peer reviewed article, biology, medical, social, historical, archeological anthropology will not mention "race" beyond the social construct.

[@traviswall1982]

Race: human Ethnicity: politician

[@pamelagayle8854]

Kamala Harris is South Asian and Jamaican. Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris raised her daughters to identify as Black and embrace their Indian heritage. That does not mean one race is favored over the other. It means society assigns race the way people look on the outside.

[@neerajanaghosh4464]

I absolutely agree.

[@SamAronow]

Bold move, UsefulCharts. Let's see if it pays off.

[@stauber44]

It will, she was just made VP candidate.

[@SamAronow]

Well played, sir. Well played.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

@@stauber44 everybody expected that.

[@elizabethblane201]

Pays off? How?

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

@@elizabethblane201 The video could get a lot of traction as she was at the time of release a favourite for the running mate pick, and she's kind of controversial.

[@SDO84]

Thank You for the video

[@tammieknuth6020]

My phone has never charged faster than it does now!! Brother frustrated. Thank you

[@alkhymy]

Imagine the mental gymnastics required for someone to recognise the subtle genetic differences between neighboring, marginal ethnic groups - separated by a hill and probably a few hundred years of history - yet who can wilfully deny the existence of any genetic difference between geographic groupings of said ethnicities - separated by oceans, massive deserts and the literal millenia of human history necessary to find a common ancestor - genetic differences so distinct and obvious that one can easily discern them visually - no DNA test even required.

[@LifeWithParole]

That last part explains your flaw. Race in the modern day is shallow and unscientific. After all, you even laid out the fact that ethnicity is more nuanced and basically serves the same purpose as race. So why not just use that? The problem with race is that it is too fluid and broad to be a scientific categorization. Rather it serves as a social categorization; thus race is real but not scientific and is a social construct. In addition, the meaning of races change over time as it has been used to include some Jews and Middle Eastern peoples when they would definitely be seen as a different race in Ancient Rome or Greece. Race also changes based on cultures as well. For example, up until pretty recently in human history (about a hundred years back) native "Han" Chinese still considered Manchus to be an "other" even though from a Western perspective they were practically the same. And that's the thing some countries don't even use race because it's so arbitrary to call yourself Asian in a country like Malaysia or White in a country like Germany.

[@midnattsol1805]

@@LifeWithParole There is no scientific consensus regarding race.

[@elenagarcia8967]

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[@unfetteredparacosmian]

Race is still a continuum, and not something that can be divided into discrete categories, since any line you draw is to some degree arbitrary

[@midnattsol1805]

@@unfetteredparacosmian Wrong. Computers can easily distinguish races at a rate of 99%

[@unintentionallydramatic]

Oh boy this is going to go places.

[@drswag0076]

well it's close to a female U.S president.

[@Nicole-rj4xz]

Drswag 007 lol Keep dreaming 😂

[@unintentionallydramatic]

@@Nicole-rj4xz ...wut.

[@drswag0076]

@@Nicole-rj4xz one does not simply dream of a future event in history.

[@tracyi9152]

South Indians are not just Caucasian they have Asian and African dna too.

[@caraxes_noodleboi]

South Indians have No African or Persian Ancestry. Majority of South Asian DNA comes from Indus Valley people, with a small portion from Steppe Pastoralists aka Aryans and another small portion from Ancient Hunter Gatherers. This is the basic genetic makeup of ALL North and South Indians except for Bengalis and Adivasis (Tribal people like Munda and Santhali speakers), who have another genetic component descended from Austroasiatic language speaking people from South East Asia. Now there is obvious variation in the proportions. North Indians have more Steppe Pastoralist DNA compared to South Indians. Also there is variation among castes. Brahmins having a higher Steppe Pastoralist DNA than other castes.

[@tracyi9152]

@King Kong Exactly Indian is not a race. Its similar to hispanics just a mix of peoples.

[@tracyi9152]

Just do a Google search for African Indians they DO exist. You can see pics of them on the internet. Just research.

[@CheckItOutHOODREVIEWS]

Love how you broke down race my dude.💯👍🏾

[@tribalism_is_toxic1989]

STORY OF THE LITTLE INNER CITY BLACK GIRL WHO RODE ON BIDENS BUS. Mom is Indian (Middle - eastern) with a PHD from Stanford. Dad is British - Jamaican PHD from Berkley... aww such a victim. 😪

[@spyronos]

I feel like this could have been edited a little tighter. Spacing the ethnicity part out with examples on the tree, instead of the 4 minute odd block that made it seem you were never getting around to the actual tree. Seems more like a rant than a lecture as it is. I'd probably try and intermingle the two goals here a little more, one seems like a tangent of the other, more than a combined example.

[@turtleshell9935]

spyronos is that your opinion mate ....... Well keep it , you can always watch something else ..... Just go away

[@spyronos]

@@turtleshell9935 lol I just think he could have presented it better. It's a structure question, not a content thing. Calm yo self

[@deleriousdinosaur3205]

This is crazy. This is the first time I've ever heard that race is a social construct

[@damo5701]

@UsefulCharts so do you consider yourself British, Irish or German? I'm not sure which is the most looked down on which according to your logic is the group you should identify with.

[@organicfarm5524]

Except "British" is not considered an ethnicity.

[@darcygraystock4325]

Love these! Can the next video be about a certain mafia/mob family? Genovese etc? Be so interesting x

[@curtisthomas2670]

Trumps!

[@robertaguilar2124]

Why do u want 2 glorify criminals? That's what's wrong with younger people in this country!

[@preoximerias7366]

Could you say that Black and White could be their own ethnicities? In the sense that Black people in the United States have ethnic ancestry from West Africa and Europe. So this combination, combined with the unique culture found in the United States, could make the argument that Black is its own ethnicity. The same could be said for Whites too as Whites in the United States are pretty much just a mixture of different European ethnic groups. You wouldn’t call an ethnic Frenchman White because chances are they would be 100% French and not a mixture of different European ethnic groups.

[@piercegodbay5398]

The problem there is that you're using language and location to define GENETICS! Ethnicity is a people living and breeding in one place for generations, but generally only IMPLIED that they're weren't other people there they mixed with or others who entered their community, or members who left and came back with children from another ethnic group! Too many variables and a geneticist would be hard pressed to recognize these on a test! Negroid, Caucazoid and a mix between the two is Mongoloid. Keep it simple and there will be less tribalism

[@APGifts]

@Preoximerias It seems to me that you may be confusing "Race" with "Ethnicity". *The fact of the matter is that ...* *(1) Kamala Harris is NOT a member of* *the unique 'Ethnic' group known by* *the term of "African-American"* (as she is NOT _"a descendant of the_ _black-survivors of the system of_ _slavery on the continental U.S."_ ). *(2) Kamala Harris is also NOT* a member *of the generic 'Race' group known by* EITHER *the term of "Black American"* (which would be _"the black people now in)_ _the U.S. whose families arrived_ to the U.S. _AFTER_ the _slavery_ system _was abolished"_ ) *OR even* the term of *'Black'* (which would be _"a black person from any nation on earth"_ ). [AND ... this, of course, means that ... despite the media's purposeful-misleading of the national and global public on the topic ... THE two TERMS of ... "Black" ... and ... "African-American" ... ARE NOT SYNONYMS ... AND .. the ARE REFERRING TO TWO entirely DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE. As ... while the "African-Americans" are seen as being 'Racially' Black people ... most of the Black people in the world (including those in the U.S.) ... are NOT of the 'Ethnicity' called "African-American".] *Thus ... the truth of the matter is that ...* *(A) Kamala Harris is NOT* and can NEVER be a member of the unique 'Ethnic' group known by the term of *"African-American" ... due to* issues of both *'historical-timing and geography'.* *(B) Kamala Harris is also NOT* and can NEVER be a member of the generic 'Race' group known by EITHER the terms of *'Black American' or* of *'Black'* ... *despite her* efforts to take the *RACIST action of REVIVING and INVOKING the* long-dead (since the 1967 SCOTUS ruling in the 'Loving' case) and very anti-black and *Racist 'One-Drop Rule' .* *But ... with Harris' long-history of exploiting the black* *people* in any way that she can / could _(ex. charging_ _them for non-crimes; holding them in prison beyond_ _their sentencing for cheap labor ... i.e. making them_ _into wage-'slaves' ... refusing to allow them to get set_ _free when evidence proved they were not the offender,_ _etc.)_ ... *for the advancement of her own* political and professional *career ... it serves as no-surprise to see* *that she is* more than *willing to* try to *revive and* *invoke what some have called *the most oddly* *Racist practice* that has *ever* existed ... which is ... the practice of *The Racist 'One-Drop Rule'.* ((( Note: The Racist 'One-Drop Rule' was never an actual 'law' but many 'laws' in various regions of the U.S. and the world were based on the practice of it and on it's false-claim that ' Black-blood ' is _"a filthy-taint and worthless-contaminant". _ *In 1967 the SCOTUS banned* the social and legal usage of *the 'One-Drop Rule' ... due to it being based on* pure *racism and* also *lacking in any scientific proof. * *Yet ... Kamala Harris ... arrived to the U.S. from Canada* multiple decades ago ... *with both a willingness to* try to *destroy countless minority-families* and lives ... *and* ... an equal-determination to try to *build an entire career* *off of ... the resurrection, invocation and application of* one of the most racist and shameless ... and also banned since 1967 ... social practices ... ever recorded in the history of the United States or world history .. which is called *'The Racist One-Drop Rule'.* *Shame ... shame ... shame .... on her.* ))) .

[@JUSLOFI]

@@APGifts Ok Ben Sharpie Jr.

[@APGifts]

@@JUSLOFI Lol

[@romteb]

It's almost impossible to classify french people in a relative racial space, France was built by political will and power struggle over a vast land of VERY diverse ethnicities, Germanic, scandinavian, celtic, basque etc...and now since the sixties unfortunatly a lot of Africans with very different cultures, religion and historical backgrounds that is tearing this country, that was so hard to unify, apart, and there will be no political will to force integration by law and force like it happened in the past, this country is done for and will probably have fragmented in tens of different nations in less than 50 years

[@physics77guy]

well explained sir..... bravo

[@keeganz5328]

Father African, Mother Indian. Settled down in America. Simple!

[@vigneshyenaganti3764]

Afro-indo-american😂

[@tula__]

But black...

[@universeofopulence]

...blindian more like!

[@spooketh518]

You should also do a video about Andrew Yang or Tulsi Gabbard's family trees

[@prayonkreutz2398]

I disagree. People of mixed race tend to use the race that will benefit them the most depending on the situation. Same can be said of a person with dual citizenship. It's also interesting that So many politicians have relatives in the media.

[@gr125412]

Facts !

[@chantaln6843]

Thanks for the information

[@athiefinthenight6894]

Race describes physical attributes and is not a social construct. People who say _____ is a social construct are just built different.

[@useyournoodle100]

Thank you for this video. I am a Biology teacher and have to explain this concept all the time. In Biological studies nobody talks about race. Even in purely genetic terms we as humans have far more in common with each other that our ethnicities might suggest. Those DNA testing companies mostly lie to you when they tell you that they can pinpoint your ethnicity or where you or your ancestors came from. Some groups that have very distinctive genetic anomalies that have perpetuated in close knit communities can be pinpointed, but that is not very common. It is rather silly that people get so hide bound about determining a persons ethnicity when really all human kind is just a continuum of similar genetic traits, the rest is just environment.

[@j.r.arnolli7494]

👍🏽

[@jeffbrunswick5511]

The concept of race is simply a grouping term that is used to simplify discussions. We do this all the time, such as mountains or hills, countries or regions, languages and dialects. Is it really so complicated that you can't just explain it how it actually is?

[@ASLUHLUHCE]

@@jeffbrunswick5511 Human genome research indicates that race is not a meaningful genetic classification of humans.

[@TheKeefeStone]

Is harris "considers herself primarily black", why was she celebrated is "the first Indian congressperson"? This is why I am Human from Earth.

[@elainegoad2111]

One cannot deny an Indian mother and black Jamacian father = bi-racial but who cares? White people don't want their "race" tainted and people of "color" are happy to see that "people of color" are achieving highly respected positions in our society. BUT, I don't think they are happy about Dr. Ben Carson, Senator Tim Scot and that black Pizza Mogul who recently died and others who seem to work against the majority of "people of color".

[@TheKeefeStone]

@@elainegoad2111 you mean like every single politician ever? stop focusing on your skin & focus on your actual race, the Human Race. If aliens do exist, are you so naïve to think that they would consider a black man different from a white man? Or would we all be Earthlings?

[@TheKeefeStone]

@R L I'm from Earth & I identify with ALL Human cultures. Might even identify with Alien cultures too, if they exist & I ever encounter them. But honestly, there isn't a single culture on Earth that I do not feel some sort of kinship with. I'm sorry for you if you do not feel the same.

[@TheKeefeStone]

@R L So your complaint is that shitty people exist? I'm white, born & bred in Albuquerque New Mexico my entire life. I've been beaten for being white on the wrong side of town Multiple times throughout my life. Does that say anything about the culture I live in? NO, says theres shitty people in the world. Chinese are racist too, mexicans are racist, both cultures generally have a disdain for blacks. Koreans are incredibly racist, & treat bi-racial people as sub-par human. India is like the most Bigoted(better word) country on the planet. But lets only focus on the freest nation on the planet? Yes, there are shitty people in the world, perhaps always will be, idk. But you wanna make it less important for America than it already is? You say you agree with me but do you live it? You're arguing my point with me so I can only assume that while you Might consider yourself human, you might also entertain these divisionism ideas depending on who they come from. I am Human, always have been, always will be. I do not entertain ideas of division from anybody & I do not talk about how we "might be different". Life is big boy, of course we've lived different lives. & obviously, yes, we need systemic reform. Judicial reform. But I want that not because it doesnt affect me, an injury to one of us is an injury to us all. Start walking the talk.

[@APGifts]

Harris should is a Fraud ... as proven in how ... Skamala KAMELEON-Harris has quite literally CHANGED-RACES (for the sole purpose of her own personal and political advancement via the exploitation of a disenfranchised-group) -- AND -- is now shamelessly also LAYING CLAIM TO AN HISTORICAL-HERITAGE, EXPERIENCE AND LINEAGE ^^^^ THAT DOES NOT even remotely APPLY to her in ANY WAY, SHAPE, FORM OR MANNER. Everyone knows that NEITHER ONE of her (extremely rich-immigrant parents) have ANY connection WHATSOEVER to the specific-experience or group to which Harris is now (suddenly, out-of-nowhere) futilely-attempting to lay a spurious-claim and that her 'Jamaican' dad is NOT 'Black'. (( And ... this is all in spite of Harris's (very anti-black and racist) attempt to resurrect the long-dead (thanks to the 1967 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 'Loving vs. Virginia' case) 'racist One-Drop Rule'. The 'racist One-Drop Rule' makes the false, unscientific and extremely racist claim that ... "black blood is" nothing more than merely "subhuman-filth" and that it is so very "filthy and tainted" that ANY amount ... including a mere-drop ... will "contaminate all non-black lineage " .. and will also somehow eventually transform anyone with ANY amount of it in their lineage ... into becoming a "Black" person. )) [[[ ^^^^ i.e. KAMELEON ... Race-Faker ... Harris now FALSELY-claims (suddenly, out of nowhere) ... that she is one of _"the descendants of the_ _Black-survivors of the slavery-system that_ _once existed on the continental United States"_ (which is the TRUE DEFINITION of the unique ETHNIC group called "African-American" ... a definition that "applies to 'LESS-THAN 2-out-of-10' of the Black people that are currently living on the continental U.S." -- seeing that the U.S. took-in LESS THAN 6% of the Black-slaves taken from Africa). Harris's 'Jamaican' dad has LESS-THAN 25% Black racial - lineage ... and ... that means that ... Harris has LESS than 12% Black racial - lineage ... AND ... it should be remembered that NEITHER Harris NOR her 'Jamaican' dad's family were EVER forced to survive EITHER 'the Slavery system' OR 'the Segregation system' once used in the U.S. In other words ... NEITHER Harris ... who spent MOST of her childhood and teen years being raised in CANADA ... NOR either one of her rich-immigrant parents ... have ... even the SLIGHTEST Experiential-Understanding of ... of what it is like to have been an actual "Black" person in the U.S. -- at ANY point in it's history -- let alone of what it is like to be / have been "a descendant of those who survived EITHER the slavery OR the segregation systems the U.S once had. SKAMALA KAMELEON ... "Race-Faker" ... Harris ... IS A bigger FRAUD than Elizabeth Warren. ]]] .

[@dtshotme]

Why didn’t you include any information on Douglas Emhoff’s ancestry?

[@cassandramcknight2416]

Was Kamala Harris ever on the tv show "Finding Your Roots"?

[@murryclein6935]

How about Willie Brown?

[@sigalsmadar4547]

He's the only contributor of African dna to ms harris....

[@reined9103]

You should do bill gates family tree

[@Cocochantelle]

European, European and more European....

[@arcisvar4863]

There isn't much there, he didn't become big because his family like the trumps, Kennedys or Bushs he's just a rich genius

[@johanconradie2120]

wikipedia was scrubbed. years ago it gave bill gates grandfather as Aaron Israel Gatesch from Russia!!!~! he is seemingly? ashamed of his fine jewish roots!!!.... jeepers

[@arcisvar4863]

@@johanconradie2120 y would he even care its so not deep its just...ancestry

[@midnight-2021]

Probably trace it back to Lucifer.

[@martinsenoner8186]

Infact in german (my mother tongue) the term race isn't used any more for historical reasons

[@Nissy522drama]

I know a Jamaican friend who had dna done and she was about 15% Irish and welsh and the rest of her dna was 4 or more different African ethnicity’s