A Vanishing History: Gullah Geechee Nation

[@mpr92482]

Young people, 30 and younger, if your family have land in these areas, keep this land in your family when your elders pass!!! Don't sell!!! If they want to change the land, you do it yourself, but keep it in your family. Do not sell!!!

[@ELZZEYE]

Say it louder!!! My grandparents and great grands worked to hard for what they have for us to just give it away. People do ya research and get your papers in order

[@queenofbuttercream]

It's amazing how hard it is to convince family of this. I live in Beaufort county, SC, both St Helena and Hilton Head Island, and so many people will sell the land.... My brother in law was recently buried in one of these graveyards in Sea pines... Surrounded by resorts

[@ezelleducation]

My parents would take me and my sister to visit these islands in SC back in the 80's. I'm not a Geechee, but watching this video got by blood boiling. I'm from Alabama and I know what it's like for family to either sell their land or not take any interest in getting their paper work, deeds,etc, in order.

[@angellee9307]

Mel Ross Make sure you remember this one. 🥰

[@lexlajodienda926]

Tru3Talk Tru3Story Word iz Bound...💯💪👌👍👊✌🙌🙏✊ You Gotta Fight The Power My People's...Don't sleep on These White Folkz & Get Brain Washing Your self Tru3Talk Tru3Story...Shit No Joke out here...If this land belong too your family & It was passed on too you & your Family...Than Keep it within ya family....Never sell The Land...These White Folkz Will Do What Ever it's takes Too Get There's....No Matter what Even if their Packets are Deep & Full of Money...Don't sell Your Land that was passed on too you an generation too passed it on too...Don't Do it Folkz...Or ya will be Bloody Done for Good....Don't make a mistake that can ruin your life...Word Is Bound Tru3Talk Tru3Story..Gotta keep it Real 💯💪💯👌👍👊🙏✊✌

[@minniemouse6058]

I don't understand why the developers don't go mess with the Amish property

[@The9Minds]

You know exactly why. They stick together in ways we do not.

[@minniemouse6058]

@@The9Minds thats exactly true

[@JDTHEONEANDONLYORIGINAL]

But what can be done to help them?

[@itfeltsoreal]

Because Amish communities are far from big cities. And most importantly aren't on islands or waterfront areas.

[@The9Minds]

@@JDTHEONEANDONLYORIGINAL start by asking the people what they need assistance with. There are some community organizations out there dedicated to the preservation of the land and culture of our people. Most of us have ancestors who were in South Carolina at some point, so we have a vested interest in what happens there too. These are still our people

[@hilhil2101]

Outrageous. A whole culture lost for...golf. Capitalism, end stage.

[@F.R.A.N.K.I.E]

Same thing is happening in the Caribbean and our leaders are helping these hotel owners to do it!

[@dhare07]

@@F.R.A.N.K.I.E all about profit. Let them be destroyed with their oppressive masters

[@jebsmoak925]

For fkn real golf is not worth a ounce or a single family land or life lost!!!

[@edoardoeusepi774]

‘This is America’

[@rorymosley9356]

Because cultural destruction is totally unique to capitalism

[@OddWoz]

Seeing those graves behind the resorts is a disgusting sight. Shameful. I remember watching Gullah Gullah island when I was a kid and learning just a bit about their culture through that. They absolutely have every right to keep their land and to do whatever they can to maintain a community conducive to their values and traditions. Those sea islands I’m sure could be very lucrative for investors, but I’d rather them be devoted to cultural investment rather than vulture capitalism.

[@donjohnston6420]

yeah what kind of rich person with options would by a condo with that in their backyard?

[@SharonH65]

They don’t care not an ounce of respect, they just want the land. Don’t Sell

[@CapricornRunner]

Absolutely disgusting vulture capitalism

[@WestIndianAK]

Right??? I mean, Jesus-why would you want to live with a cemetery in your backyard anyway?!? *SMDH*

[@PreacherLevi]

I was born on St Simmons Island, it was a very close community. Hardly no whites accept me my family , we still had a plantation there. When I left there were alot of tourist leaving trash getting drunk ect . Recently heard that most of the sea islands are federally protected. I hope St Simmons is back to where it was when I was born not when I left. Thanks to the geechee for constantly trying to get it federally protected. Most of the cemetery I've seen there were well kept and always facing east.

[@jessicaberry87]

Calling this gentrification is an understatement. These people have been on this land for hundreds of years. That's beyond gentrification. This video almost made me cry.

[@DrDoom-wo8hb]

They need to be honest and call it what it is: white supremacist violence (economic). And they used a Black koon with an ironic name (Adolph) to assist them. I could imagine him snitching out Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey and others on the plantation in another time and place, the damn bootlick. #reparationsnow

[@billyumbraskey8135]

but why didnt they just build a golf course instead? then they could have kept the land AND made generation wealth from it!!

[@janetprice85]

It's legal robbery. I'm from the coastal south originally. Dvelopers went in and bamboozeled the descendents of slaves out of their land for a pittance to make big bucks for places like Hilton Head, etc.

[@wkyt9324]

​@@billyumbraskey8135golf courses are tacky things that YT trash people do. Way better uses of land like Farming, manufacturing, etc or even just nature preserve is better than a golf course.

[@RJ-mh3ox]

@@billyumbraskey8135tell me how smooth your brain is without telling me 😂

[@mikDubb]

At some point hurricanes will destroy all the resorts there. The wraith of the Gullah ancestors be felt.

[@teenatchie1313]

Say that

[@jaesthoughts1369]

Facts

[@KEESHWASH]

You better know it!

[@jjrod33]

Lol They have Insurance they'll just rebuild again so it's pointless

[@dhare07]

I send out the same cry family. Tear that shit down.

[@kimmiek3]

"Forced off the land" that sounds so familiar once again history repeating itself in America.

[@theostrogon9172]

Yeah I noticed it it’s kinda a similar thing to rez’s

[@MADNEWYORKER914]

It's going on all over Amerikkka!!! Gentrification is everywhere.

[@uncleshreddedwheat6180]

These are my people. I will join them to save our ancestral lands.

[@sweetonyxakararegem692]

@@uncleshreddedwheat6180 It will be hard they want to turn that land into tourist sites to make that money! America makes everything about money.

[@uncleshreddedwheat6180]

@@sweetonyxakararegem692 they need to sell it to a family member for $1 and turn around and sell it back to them individually for a $1

[@hotmessjess3390]

The graves in the condo complex hurt me to my heart. What a resilient, colorful, special culture. We need to preserve this living treasure at all costs.

[@santoniobrown8562]

I totally agree...I'm from North Charleston S.C. AND WATCHING THIS GIVE ME MIXED EMOTIONS..IVE BEEN AWAY FOR YEARS OFF AND ON...IVE REALIZED HOW SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT WE ARE AS GEECHIE GULLAH PEOPLE..WE'RE NOT JUST FROM WEST AFRICA BUT ALSO FROM NORTH AMERICA AS WELL...ABORIGINALS

[@santoniobrown8562]

I've went back 2 years ago and they've stolen and pushed my peoples off their rich lands..SMH...As we call them COLONIZERS...THEY'VE DOING THIS FOR CENTURIES...THEY MUST BE STOPPED ✋

[@82566]

Same no reverence given let's just build and forget culture, forget lives past just money money money

[@clchawaii09]

Yes that was horrible to see that.

[@vincentjrubinoiv7581]

Yeah that was awful to see that very disrespectful to build on that sacred land like that

[@TheVincygyal]

Around 14:30 the man in the white shirt and white cap said: Can you imagine 20 acres of native indian reserve where wall street is today? My answer to that is Yes! Wall street would simply be somewhere else. Why do the privileged think that they have a God given right to unsettle people to build golf courses? What happened to the native indians hundreds of years ago still still wrong today. What happened to African slaves was wrong and the legacies live on today. We cannot dismiss any of these occurrences by simply saying that it happened hundreds of years ago. This will be the second time that the Gullah people are being displaced. The history plays an important role in framing objective criteria for future actions. We cannot simply dismiss it.

[@janethefriend-awakened33]

the privileged/white/colonizers/settlers are very arrogant. all things are fine unless or until it happens to them.

[@godson8571]

Isis Gonsalves he’s a trump supporter ,uncle tom at his finest

[@sharronking]

Right...

[@sweed6054]

Jane the Friend - Awakened you're obviously not very "woke" it has happened do Caucasians numerous times throughout history. African tribes enslaved their captives via Warfare and sold them to European merchants. Africans owned black slaves long before any Caucasian. This is just history repeating itself one black man selling out the group out of greed. And some point you have to take accountability for your actions instead of just expecting handouts because of your ethnicity. Identity politics are racist your ideology is dying. #walkaway with the rest.

[@Sporkonafork1]

A true racist

[@Lemons19902010]

Seeing the graves in the backyards of the expensive condos make me sad and angry. You'd think that, like Native American lands, these lands would also be protected.

[@Those.who.stay.silent.consent]

I just cannot wrap my mind around how your inner voice, the voice of reason, the soul we all have unless sick mentally, can allow you to sleep at night knowing this. I'm Egyptian, and to me it is ludicrous. The DEAD teach you about life and preservation of historical tombs is essential for the future direction of a nation. it is not rocket science all civilizations know this concept but the "great" Amerikkka.

[@maeveriden8887]

Egyptian__ __Queen Consumerism requires the forgetting of history- buy the NEWEST, it's the best! You MUST have this year's iPhone, last year's just won't do! So what if what you have works perfectly well, you should have NEWER, you should buy more and more and keep filling up those landfills! Most schools here have terrible history programs. I come from a family that always read books, so I have some appreciation of history, but very little of my knowledge comes from my schooling. Out of curiosity, what is the education system like where you're from?

[@maeveriden8887]

Native American ancestral land is also being encroached upon- I had a friend of First Nations descent who went out to protest the pipeline in North Dakota with tribes people out there. She was out there in a tent in the middle of the North Dakota winter, and some of the experiences she had were very difficult, but she talked about how the community come together to support each other, and how beautiful that was... They still lost. Oh, and how did the pipeline end up being built through sacred land? People in the nearby urban centers didn't want the pipeline in their backyards.....

[@aliciawilliams3762]

Maeve Riden yes. And the company made an point to explain that the technology was advanced and a leak, a break in the pipeline was nearly impossible... but, as it turns out unfortunately there was indeed a break of the pipeline.

[@Mrsqtfactory]

It feels like someone's trying to erase history, doesn't it? Cowards.

[@emilynelson6502]

This is so sad. This land should be preserved.

[@Thorntonian]

+Timefliesbye How is it about slavery? It's a unique culture being destroyed for luxury resorts. So what if they haven't "done anything" with the land, it's still theirs.

[@emilynelson6502]

+Timefliesbye because it's a dying culture that should be preserved.

[@delvesdg]

+Timefliesbye "What have they been doing with it for the past 100 years?" What? Living on the land isn't enough? If it is theirs, then it is their right to do whatever they want with it.

[@KnolltopFarms]

+Emily Nelson It's true...and yet you have to wonder what Native America tribes were forced off of that land in order for there to be plantations that got abandoned in the 1st place? I'm not saying the development is the right thing to do, far from it. I'm just curious about what tribes lost that ancestral land to the slave-owning plantation jerks? I doubt any of the indigenous peoples who were marched to Oklahoma on the "Trail of Tears" are still alive and able to reclaim the land, but it is an interesting link in the long road of injustices paved by the "Get out of the way or get run over" technique that back-stabbing developer was so proud to accredit... History is one of my favorite subjects, and I hope for future generations the Gullah culture will be preserved, especially since many of their traditions are bound to be ways of living that we will soon be returning to if all of man's gadgetry fails and folks realize they cannot eat the cell phones.

[@gaCREEKsweetheart]

+Knolltop Farms Actually, not all of the indigenous native people went out west. My ancestors and others stood their ground, stayed behind and fought the invading SOBs. Many of these descendants still live in these southeastern areas today.

[@Evaa.Sweetz]

This is so heartbreaking. I can’t believe a brother from New York with roots down here (I stay in SC) is just selling out his own people. The Gullah Geechee must keep their traditions and culture for the future generations..💔

[@MPnAZ]

His name is ADOLPH 😒😒😩😒😒

[@sarahgivens7182]

Believe it

[@100navat]

Coon

[@supme7558]

Such a strange way of fighting changes..

[@DrDoom-wo8hb]

Yeah, his vision of "progressive" is white gentrifiers/colonizers enriching his pockets. A true Benedict Arnold of this people.

[@boohdahbless]

I live in this area of Georgia and South Carolina and the Geechie nation and traditions runs deep. People need to be mindful and respectful of ones dwellings so that we may all live in harmony.

[@consciouswave6097]

I pray the ancestors are protecting the land of the people. Ase'

[@simplymelonge01]

Let's Talk, Conscious Ase'

[@tayhereford5177]

Ase

[@kazinamimi]

@Conscious Wave: Why is what's happening NOW in the air space WE are now breathing, the responsibility of our ANCESTORS to CORRECT and make right? Our Ancestors PROVIDED and preserved this land! It is OUR RESPONSIBILITY! WE, the descendents are the ones to maintain, continue to preserve and to HONOR what has been passed on to us by living on the lands we have in the way GOD has intended!!! "Developing" land in the manner that caucasians would do it, only leaves a path of destruction and environmental upheaval... starting with the first BULL(s**t) Dozer. We can look to our ancestors for strength and guidance, but if we keep "bowing-the-knee" (NOT like Kapperneck) like this "real estate BREAKER", we can only come to our Ancestors hanging our heads in SHAME!!!

[@kpandfam8971]

Oh yes! The "hurricanes" that are always happening here! Look up the meaning of hurricane: feminine African spirit travelling from west coast of Africa to East coast of America!

[@uptowngeorgiaave900]

Ase

[@Lshwn123]

I'm a proud Gullah Geeche and many of the folks in this documentary is my peoples, even my Mother!

[@1kirkwoodhott]

My Great Grandmother is Gullah Geeche she live in Georgia she’s 92year old I been studying her ancestry cause the last one of her bloodline

[@serenityskinbyk]

I’m Gullah Geechie too haven been trying to locate family. I also did a dna family tree search a lot of results of family in SC

[@WinNeverLosee]

Same here. Born and raised in Charleston

[@niecymichelle1]

My family are Gullah Geechee! But I don't know anything about them. They are still in Georgia and South Carolina.

[@sisterhoodsistersforever7854]

This makes me so angry but I pray my ANCESTORS Kraft on the greedy selfish individuals who has bullied these people

[@IamShawanaO]

To be a native of Hilton Head this makes my blood boil. The land I grew up on was sold right under my dad in 06 or 07. It’s sucks not being able to take my child to see the land I grew up on. My dad is longer alive but I try to visit home as often as I can. Sucks that everyone is selling their land or getting land sold from underneath them. I just hope no more of my family sell. Being able to come home and visit just gives me a sense of tranquility and ease my mind. Definitely will be be going more often.

[@Komeshokakunanwene]

What does your name mean? It has a meaning in my language. I am African in Africa, typing from my village.

[@celesteadeanes4478]

​@@Komeshokakunanwene extreme exile

[@yoboygamer-g7q]

Beaufort?

[@sngtfrk1661]

Yes, my family sold our land also, its sad

[@Moneyg73]

Having land is important. I would never sell land that has been in my family for generations.

[@teenatchie1313]

Say that

[@jf3715]

Until the government forces you

[@divineempress8539]

Most of those people are poor. They have raised the taxes on the land so high that they can’t pay them hence why they are forced to sell. I know. My family is apart of it.

[@kountrikuztoms3438]

Never

[@Moneyg73]

@@tantris2876 why?

[@graphixspot]

That developer should be ashamed of himself.

[@johnnydtw3509]

You are beautiful 😘

[@patmansa2827]

His name is Adolph I can’t say I’m too surprised

[@Beautybizz28]

bet his wife is white

[@SeamlesslyAwkwerd]

I despise that guy 9:10 selling his ancestors land, he is literally killing his ancestries culture.

[@eitkoml]

He doesn't want to be poor and live in a trailer park for his entire life, he wants to do better.

[@Yeah_eatsht]

Greed greed how about preserve your history...

[@contactkeithstack]

Chris Fodor are you saying culture does not equal land? That is not true.

[@SeamlesslyAwkwerd]

If there is not base or land to develop that culture, nothing is preserved

[@marcell5055]

Tan Tastic he is a fool

[@KoolagetheTeacher]

Kwame brought me back to refresh my mind on the history. The origin of Mamas cooking.

[@ChrisSmith-hw8ow]

Lol thought i was the only one

[@QQx-sp5mg]

You messing with a geechee N***a!!

[@blacksource2101]

#👩🏽‍🍳 😎🤙🏾

[@terrenceGRN89]

I'd be lying if I said he wasnt the reason I'm here rightow lolol

[@funallday1480]

Damn dog me to

[@inspiredbynatureinspiredby5586]

The guy at 9:10 is very unwise but thinks he is smart because he drives an old, use-to-be expensive car. He is an absolute disgrace! You never sell your Land, ever!!!!!

[@melanniagamer]

Exactly what I said stupid fool after finding out that was his ppl and land he ran over to sell them out for an OLD OLD UGLY AS car

[@mffki]

He's all about the money.... He's actually displacing families

[@miapia7229]

Jackie Diaz he's an obedient black Pet. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@mffki]

Sad, but very True

[@tankbuster72]

P.o.s.

[@washdsgn]

Gulla Gulla Island! Who remembers this 90's children's sitcom

[@MemoGrafix]

Ooo Ooo Ooo I do. I used to watch it with My Children when they were toddlers.

[@yououttaknow7646]

wash dsgn Meeeee

[@yououttaknow7646]

Welcome to Gulla Gulla Island

[@kcrandall1992]

Yes I came to the comments just to see if anyone else made the connection!

[@lusciouzlippz2306]

wash dsgn come and lets play together in the bright sunny weather lets go up to gullah gullah island

[@teacakeakaj]

I stand for the Gullah/Geechie community.

[@feur2884]

You need to pay obama jackson Sharpton to go and make a scene call everyone racists blah blah blah

[@supme7558]

Have a seat i guess ...tribalism istoxic

[@jshauntah]

My mother is from Walterboro sc and now I've found that my grandmother and her mother are descendants from here and all buried in colleton I will be supporting in every way possible.

[@saiynpower3]

I see you, sis... I, too, am from Walterboro - proud descendant.

[@donnalane1921]

I'm another Walterboro girl!

[@saiynpower3]

@@donnalane1921 It's a pleasure to me you, Ms. Lane.

[@rashawdasalley2394]

Wow who would know that Walterbro would be on the map 🎉🎉🎉

[@MysticgrannyMc_96]

This should be on a Historical context of not being developed. Protected by the government. That's why Black families don't make it. We just don't stick together. This happened in my family over 75 years ago. Somebody in the family would rather get rich by selling off their own culture instead of passing it down to the family. That is not self preservation by destroying your legacy. This is truly sad how some capitalize on other's ignorance.

[@jonhbell5333]

Minister Martha McMurrian yea we pretty ignorant thats the mis education of the negroe!! only God can help us that happened in our family sabateur family Judas betrayers !!!!

[@ridingtheroad185]

It happens in every culture. Many Farming families all over have this happen. A Farm handed down generations and then someone decides they don't want to farm, but they sure want the money others worked for years to develop. We lost 100 acres so George Washington could have a view across the Potomac river. It's a park most don't even know is there, while we look at McMansions on the VA side and VA gets great taxes from.

[@lacemitchell9895]

Jonh Bell And there another nigga goes with “God.” Please give that dumb shit up. Nigga he’s not real!

[@aaroncohoon5603]

Same thing happened in my family a few years back , it’s sickening how our family unity has almost disappeared

[@centerfold8]

Minister Martha McMurrian Martin Luther King’s own sons tried to sell his artifacts but his daughter stopped them

[@ghostbear200123]

There will never be justice on stolen land.🙏🏾

[@Bruh63636]

@@pkmelody3 lol same

[@daybreak1239]

All land is stolen,literally everywhere piece of land in the world has been "stolen" at some point.

[@hughhoward5247]

@@daybreak1239 by who whites? Theres no history of non blacks stealing land! 👀👀

[@zacharymaddox3345]

Hugh Howard Mongols? Ottomans? Japanese? Chinese? Saying only white people stole land is stupid, there have been plenty of other empires in history doing the same thing.

[@jjrod33]

ghostbear200123 but that land used to belong to the native Americans in the area... so the Gullahs stole land from the Carolina tribes

[@niecymichelle1]

I wish I could punched that guy right in his smug face!! You should be ashamed of yourself! My grandfather was from Georgia and was a Geechee.

[@cristinasanders6464]

I got your back! Lets go

[@trakenamccray1020]

I never new what the term Geechee meant but my Dad is from South Carolina and I was called a Geechee as a child

[@NeneNaturally]

I feel like Kwame Brown pushed this up in the algorithm

[@QQx-sp5mg]

I came here to find a kwame comment!!

[@Sigmanovar]

@@QQx-sp5mg me too

[@damarcusmomm05]

I agree 👍🏿

[@benniecampbell7309]

This guy from N.Y. is a sellout, a disgrace to his grandmother!!!😡

[@Nonofyobusiness]

Always some punk Northerner

[@jasoncardwell8535]

@@Nonofyobusiness always!! They tend to look down on us Southerners.

[@no_peace]

he sucks

[@themoregrouprichmond]

His gma wish his moma would have aborted him.

[@MADNEWYORKER914]

@@Nonofyobusiness GTFOH!!! A LOT OF BLACK SOUTHERNERS ARE QUICK TO SELLOUT.

[@fredt5584]

He has the spirit of a white man. May the ancestors never let him rest

[@maybachrob9475]

He has the spirit of a business man white or black it’s not a color thing......many black men have done that this man is uncultured and doesn’t respect where he or his Ancestors came from

[@gavingorby4744]

lmao thats even more racist than anything done in this video

[@NubianOne]

Not one wink. Ase!

[@prettyboyterianoabioye4833]

@@maybachrob9475 we are not black and y’all ain’t white we came from the African continent where Israel is and y’all came from the Roman’s and Greeks in Europe, y’all are Europeans not white Americans

[@sunburnedshirts3724]

@@prettyboyterianoabioye4833 really comparing the ethnicity and culture of israel to that of continental africa?

[@javajive01]

This happening in Atlanta in the old Black neighborhoods. The young people are selling their grandparent's homes for what they think is good money. So sad.

[@monroehatcher3844]

Still happening now.

[@nmoomoo]

Kassandra Robinson I don't think it's always bad intentions. It's most likely they need money. I mean we don't always have generational wealth that can be passed down to us.

[@monroehatcher3844]

@@nmoomoo Some decide to sale, but many are actually pushed out too! I do see your point though. It's definitely a 2 sided coin. In the case of Adolfe Brown down there in Hilton Head ... He needs to be fed to the Alligators, he's a traitor.

[@jatashiejohnson8468]

Yup, in Atlanta, they're putting up half million dollar homes. Right, now in 2021

[@ckd0680]

I'm Atl born & raised & this is true still in 2022

[@thecalmwayhome8483]

I had the privilege of living and working in beautiful Charleston South Carolina and i got to spend time in some of these timeless areas. The low country is so peaceful and yet full of history both painful and inspiring. I hope the Gee Chee community can somehow come together and keep their land. Part of me will always stay in the low country. It’s sheer beauty is irreplaceable.🌱

[@supme7558]

Its a dumpster of racists homophobes black and white sadly id never go to any of these hick states

[@Tritone]

I found out I was part Gullah Geechee. One of my great-grandfathers was from the South Carolina sea Islands. It's a damn shame what's happening to their culture.

[@paulrandall6780]

Essentially, you have the right to say my culture. You are your ancestors....they made it possible for you to exist.

[@SaraJean85]

Your culture bro

[@paulrandall6780]

Dyrell Willis Look up Igbo Landing....Gullah is not accustomed to all melanated people. I knew nothing about the perservation of African customs in Mississippi.

[@alexzaviermaleck9588]

You mean "your" culture?

[@tripcode1722]

It's your culture too!

[@InIversal]

Gullah is not just on the Sea Islands. Gullah is in Pineville, St Stephen, Moncks Corner, and all over Berkley County SC. MY grandma has a huge plot of land, in Pineville, that a lot of my family live on. My last name is Gadsden. We are as Gullah as they come.

[@TommyStrategic]

To hear scholars tell it, it's an island phenomenon. That's why the focus is always on the islands in most videos.

[@InIversal]

My friend, some plantations were on the islands...some were on the mainland. Still the same people. My last name runs all through those islands. I can tell you this, every time I spent the summer, with my grandma, in Pineville I came back to Jersey with a Gullah accent.

[@TommyStrategic]

Ford Fairlane I was agreeing. I'm right up the road from Beaufort, in Hampton County, and I have had to explain to people in a classroom setting that the language and culture is very much present on the mainland. Scholars have created a narrative of the isolated Gullah population to explain why it still exists, and this is why video after video, and book after book about our culture focuses on the islands.You know, like I know, that ain' nothin dead 'bout this culture yah, and resorts on Hilton Head ain' ga stop nobody from cooking hoppin' john in Queens. ;-)

[@shawnpreston1639]

You just name all the hot spots I use to run through in high school. I was born in Charleston (MUSC) but raised outside of St Stephens in the middle of nowhere. Small town life isn't for me. But, I'll do whatever I can to help these people.

[@queenvofluvmorton6024]

You right. We gotta keep our roots going strong for generations to come!!

[@esther94tm]

This reminds me a lot of what's happening with the Native Hawaiians and their land.

[@csnow20131]

esther talabi look at how that volcano erupted

[@candygirl657]

Hawaiians were done way worst. They didn't have a voice. Queen Liliokalani was jailed in her own palace because she refused to give in to the white man.

[@kuinabajamana9603]

The Hawaiians don't own their land anymore. Seems the Japanese own a lot of the land, and the Hawaiians are doing housekeeping, and low-paying jobs just to survive. Bottom line is people with money end up pushing people out of their lands; For what? So that they can develop, develop, and develop. They want to put 500 condos where a few people live on a few acres. For that mighty green dollar.

[@glennhalljr7746]

esther talabi nah boo God taking they land

[@ESSBrew]

Their King sold a lot of it!

[@wild2peaceful]

My grandmother was Gullah Geeche and black foot Indian... I pray the people that have cheated any of the Gullah Geeche people out of their land, never prosper and never rest... My all the money the greedy developers have made off of that land be a curse to them and their family ...🕷

[@spaceymane]

mine was gullah geechee black foot from sapelo island 🎉❤ ntmu

[@dixiecup6668]

This makes me so sad, I grew up loving Gullah Gullah island on tv. As a kid I got to meet a Gullah family by chance at a restaurant in Georgia and I was so tickled it was like meeting celebrities for me.

[@kazinamimi]

Wow, Ms "DIXIE" Cup, well bless your little pea-pickin' heart. You'll probably be pleased to know that your wonderful "encounter" with "Gullah Gullah Island" may have had some Black people on the screen and gave you a "peek" into some caucasian's INTERPRETATION of what Gullah culture was "all" about. But, as for the proceed$ and royaltie$ that continue to be generated any time the program is aired, NOT ONE ZINK-COPPER CENT goes to any of the Gullah community! It's just another perpetuation of euro EXPLOITATION of indigenous cultures of the Americas.

[@Moneyg73]

That was my show too.

[@kazinamimi]

@Choin Dung - The only things I "hate on" are cultural exploitation, the objectification of human beings and the perpetuation of unnecessary "blissful ignorance" in ADULTS. If the shoe fits...

[@miapia7229]

Choin Dung you roach

[@PochamaRex]

Ima Walker you are aware that Gullah people starred in and had a hand in the creation of the show? They specifically did it to share aspects of the culture while making an educational program for kids. I agree that exploitation does happen and is a problem, but don’t throw down people and shows that actively tried to combat that lack of positive representation

[@user-rb4gq2rx8n]

Thanks for this ❤️ The last time I was in SC; it broke my hurt to see all the trees cut down. I told my grandmother “y’all are going to have a BAD STORM” shortly after I left it happened. You can’t disrespect our ancestors to make profit. One day I hope to move back to SC.

[@zariarobinson4851]

Me too

[@catalinareyna2942]

Going home isn't the same anymore ...I try to go back at least once a year, because all my family is still in SC but its not the same 🥺....everyone from big cities is moving to the South because it cheaper and sometimes I barely recognize it, dont look the same

[@SKiLLsSoLoN]

@@catalinareyna2942 Yeah, it's also happening in NC.

[@peppermint4425]

It’s even worse now. Not only are people affected but the wild life also. It’s a shame what they’re doing.

[@boyo2640]

This is just horrible. Remember, the colonizers never knew the where the villages in Afrika was located, it was brothers like him who lead them to the villages to enslaved our people. History is repeating itself.

[@MakemeupMentor]

Woooow the disrespect calling it a plantation with the graves there I bet they will find a way to “accidentally” dig up the graves

[@stevengreen9536]

They wont have to do it " accidentally." Those pale devils will simply use their wealth and influence to get the city and local authorities to remove the remains and the cemetery for them.Since so many communities have already been pushed out their probably are not enough local gulah left to really oppose them. :(

[@octaviamcburrows5086]

So true smh

[@danwilliams5399]

Its really complicated. The fact is thats what the communities are named and what we called them. I grew up on Ladies Island and Pollywana and every community was and in many cases still identified as plantations even though slavery was eradicated our my neck of the woods at the beginning of the Civil War . Its our identity , its where we're from. Just like we were taught not to speak Gullah, because it was considered backwards and ignorant, it too was complicated. Our parents and grandparent knew slavery and wanted us to escape the stereotypes applied to our culture. But the reality many of us found out that we can have both, our heritage and the outside world, but it took a generation to realize it. So myself and many of my generation are proud of and relish in Gullah, the language and the plantations , all of it! It just needs to be viewed in context. Its history , our lives and we shouldn't allow any of what remains to become invisible!

[@justdeleone9994]

I live in phillip I should take pictures for you to see how disturbing it actually is out here with those kind of things ...i live next to atleast 6 things names "....." plantation

[@tgrjhit7203]

Black Cherry my family won’t let them take our land

[@spicycrabbae9352]

i love hearing Gullah talk. Makes me feel connected to my ancestors and my heritage.

[@cantrockthis]

Why isn't this land protected by the US government? It should be designated as an area of preservation of historic sites???????

[@AEarls1015]

Amie H Yes it should!

[@sweetjane7375]

Agree

[@kilgore280]

Jilla Guillah yes you right they protect the Indians why not the Guillah

[@hellothere3587]

Kevin Kilgore Did you not see them pushing indians off their reservations for oil?

[@countgreg95]

It is. www.gullahgeecheecorridor.org/ Please research before agreeing

[@lilchief1117]

This is very sad for me because this is the culture of my father's ancestors, slowly being destroyed.

[@thegigadykid1]

Elijah Wright its what people do

[@AEarls1015]

It's sick dude. I love these people and it's just getting washed away and overlooked.

[@larrisew6868]

Elijah Wright my great grandmother was a geechee

[@prettycaramel9237]

My grandmother told me our people on her mothers side are geechee people. I must go see this place.

[@fireangel4me2know56]

My great grandmotger is Gullah but relocated to Alabama. I happened on this video by chance. I had no idea this was going on. Truly sad.

[@trianad2110]

I'm a Proud Geechee💯❤️😊🙏

[@MizCLynne]

My daddy is from Augusta, GA, but his mom was gullah geechee from south Carolina. so proud

[@thedarkonequeen8449]

I'm Geechee also. I'm from Savannah on one side and Florida the other side.

[@deandrerey5434]

My granny grandmother was geechee. From south Carolina

[@thedarkonequeen8449]

Florida, Savannah, South Carolina is Gullah Geechee. All the low country. Long as I have been breathing my family always made sure we knew our history.

[@shonuffyouknow1365]

Charleston South Carolina!!!!!!

[@WinNeverLosee]

As somebody who was born and raised in Charleston SC this made me happy seeing this video pop up

[@A.RCosby]

My grandparents were geechie’s from Augusta. They moved to Florida where our family is now, but our accents are so different from other Floridians. People ask me all the time if I’m from the islands. I love my heritage ❤️

[@goonn337]

what city u from

[@A.RCosby]

@@goonn337 fort Myers

[@naquaishacoward4034]

My great grandparents moved from the Carolina to Florida and this is 3 generations ago. How do I find out more about if my grandparents where her geechie??? Or ares ?

[@juicifer3299]

@@naquaishacoward4034 do a dna test i just found out that im geechee

[@Abstract.Noir414]

Why is that a big deal, gullah/geechees are african american, @@naquaishacoward4034

[@aprylspage5852]

Buying their land for pennies on the dollar then selling for 800k/acreage

[@itfeltsoreal]

You're right. But sadly, greed is universal. It doesn't care about color or heritage. But it's a shame because a lost lasting community that defied the odds, it's being lost because of greed.

[@frankwilson726]

@@bnj0828Greed has no color. You need to watch it again, that's your black brother doing the evil deed this time.

[@teahgurl]

A robbery!!!

[@hughhoward5247]

@@frankwilson726 he not black at heart, he white at heart. Whites have traveled and killed many on EVERY continent including their own. This isn't hate but 100% facts!

[@deepthought7393]

@@itfeltsoreal white people will tell the truth and lie about themselves being involved in the same sentence.

[@Donny.C.wlWilliams]

I feel no empathy for the blk land developer for aiding and supporting a system that would gentrify his own🤦🏿‍♂️

[@davenalford6956]

Fun fact: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is from the Gullah extraction. He did not learn to speak English until he was 7 years old. And up until he became a Monsanto lawyer in the '60s and early '70s he was really involved in the black power movement..... And look at him now, amazing !!!

[@yonanolesaligugi]

9:32, the Lenape people never lived in tipis. That is a stereotype. Also, most Ndn people will tell you that losing and selling land to colonizers, even for the sake of "progress" is extremely harmful to Ndn bodies, language and culture. The same can definitely be said for black bodies, language and culture, especially Creole cultures such as the Gullah people. The loss of land for Lenape people and subsequent forced removal to Oklahoma was genocidal and did not in anyway benefit the Lenape people. Myths like these are harmful and it is sad that is being used as justification for the displacement of Gullah families.

[@dovrose5155]

People don't care about lives and culture. It's about the almighty dollar.

[@1sav110]

@Koolade Porter Found another lost soul. Y'all are original to African continent, African. Ik yall like denying your African roots which is really sad and a disgrace to your ancestors. Stay out of native american business bc you aren't one (unless you mixed or were adopted in). The nerve of these frauds

[@apache3481]

Mr Crumbley Dane Callaway is all I gotta say. There are no blacks just indigenous people.

[@Revellius21]

Who remembers Gullah Gullah Island on nickolodeon? Was such a good kids show.

[@ladydede88]

Arhok21 woooow never thought about it

[@ezelleducation]

Benya Benya!

[@tripcode1722]

I watched it religiously as a child. I'll never forget going shopping at Bi-Lo with my mom and running into the matriarch of their family. My mom never saw the show, but I recognized the lady immediately and got really excited, like "Mom! It's the lady from Gullah Gullah Island!!!" and my mom was just like "...who?!?!?!" Lmao.

[@appetite4chic878]

Omg I loved Gullah Gullah island as a child. Didn’t even put it together until this comment 🥰🥰🥰

[@adominique7667]

Yup

[@JourneytoJazmine]

There's always a turncoat willing to sell us out. Smh

[@MrTonyLegrand]

They couldn't have done to us what they did without help from the inside.

[@alneshiasaint-hubert1595]

@@MrTonyLegrand 5000 percent correct!!!!

[@TheKelvinDogg]

13:00 He plays an instrument quite similar to Berimbau. Berimbau is an afrobrazilian instrument used to guide Capoeira fight.

[@pagingdrbitchcraft]

That makes sense! Most of the Africans sent to the south were from Central/West/Central-West Africa. They rebelled so much, they stopped sending them to the States and started sending them to South America and the Caribbean. A lot of Afro-Americans from the south and Afro-Latinos will get *Cameroon, Congo, West Bantu* first on a dna test because essentially the only difference between us is a boat ride.

[@princesscherry-top5989]

It be your own people smh 🤦🏾‍♀️. They should curse the land when the Developers get it.

[@Mostwantedrecord]

EXACTLY

[@toddel321]

I would start by cursing the people buying the land and people selling it.

[@MercyAlwyz23]

Yup! Just like our African brothers sold us! Some of us never learn!

[@KeithsTVHD1]

Lol

[@terrianwilliams2624]

MercyAlwyz23 🤦🏾‍♂️ stop believing that story bruh.

[@masterlawrencegene2048]

WoW! His Grandmother must be rolling in her grave....how can you honestly, with a straight face and imply that, what happened to the Native Tribes was "OK", and "Inevitable ".....and that The Geeche people are backwards and living in the past. ..is reprehensible. That is why we as a people need to communicate with one another, and teach,.... Just because they look like you, doesn't mean they think like you. And further more....how can you steal the land, that your great-great Grandparents was forced to work, eventually BOUGHT, and is buried on, for $....he needs to be driven off Geeche land...."By Any Means Necessary! "

[@janetmabuza4363]

black skin white mindset

[@tone360dialect4]

And couldn't even admit the he and his grandmother are Geeche. Lowlife "she was a midwife on the island" His uppity ass. We losing our culture to golf courses, fighting against aborigines saying we didn't come from Africa. Welll this is more proof.

[@mswant2knowitall]

The European TOOK the land Native Americans lived. I haven't heard not one of them say they were paid. Let a lone a fair price. Now, the European are trying to find a loop hole to take the Greater land. Now ain't that a trip?

[@mswant2knowitall]

When the first piece of property was "sold", they should have changed the legal terms of the ownership. Instead of each person owing their portion of the land, they all should own 100%. That way no one can buy the land from any one person.

[@jessicathompson236]

Joann Byrd , Grandma had a saying. They (the oppressors) are empty. Even when they take everything they still won't be satisfied. Greed is a disease, unfortunately now it's yet another one to infiltrate people of color too. There is only one way to fix greed....

[@louie115]

i'm hispanic and dont like where this is going. They need to do everything possible to keep their land and culture. isn't there something they can do to change those laws so they won't lose their land?

[@louie115]

@Tong Po they did but I didn't.

[@louie115]

I'm Hispanic

[@louie115]

@Tong Po I'm still Hispanic

[@louie115]

@Tong Po you're Hispanic too

[@louie115]

@Tong Po yes you are. everyone is.

[@gurvaizerobinson1005]

Not a Vanishing History! But A Awakening NATION!

[@ConsciousFBA]

A lesson in racism and how economic enslavement works.

[@michellelove34]

They don't want to give us reparations, but on top of that they want to take the land that you do have! I agree with the brother heading the meeting. It's time to start calling on the ancestors and using the spiritual powers and curses on anybody that steps in their path trying to steal what belongs to them. We don't realize the powers we possess...

[@frankwilson726]

Always with the race card, even when it is a black man that is playing the devil. The guilty color here is GREEN.

[@ConsciousFBA]

@@frankwilson726 there are proxy racists among us. How else do you explain an all black territory now being occupied by mostly whites? Remember whose faces are printed on that green. Many black people will sell their own children for the sake of white economic development.

[@daybreak1239]

@Michelle love liberia was your people's reparations.A whole country granted to blacks in 1823,to do with whatever you all wished,but the blacks refused to go,presumably because they didn't want to leave the relative comforts of the US.Puzzling,really.

[@ghostdna8155]

@@daybreak1239 liberia was a colonial owned by porugal spain and france it wasn't given this is another lie. when some people who may or may not have even been from there went to liberia there was already a civil war going on and france and spain were fighting each other. you really think they would give negros land in africa lol okay they were racists so at the end of the day it's our job to look up real events.

[@dblocknyc]

This is happening everywhere, especially cities. I grew up in Harlem and it was probably 95% Black/Latins & 5% whites when i grew up late 80's & 90's and they did the same. Had only white one person in my elementary school. They came in a brought property, raised the rents to ridiculous amounts that the people who been there since forever cant afford.

[@turksandwich7538]

+dblocknyc happens everywhere.

[@BooneeCake]

Gentrification is alive and well

[@KevintheBooth]

+dblocknyc As a Canuck, I must ask: Was it bad to have people of that particular 'race'? Increases in rent are bad, but is it that the did so intentionally or that it's a byproduct of the racism? Gentrification is raceless imho... I see it here in Canada all the time and it impacts all races in proportion to the poverty rates associated... I'm sure there are a few who gained through intentional manipulation of markets, but it seems that you should want to have a proportional amount of all peoples in all areas and thus average the costs of living. It's that the costs of living were disproportional in the first place. Localized depressions suck.

[@cantrockthis]

Harlem turning into the new uptown for white people who were once afraid to go up there. Now it's chic to go to trendy restaurants and jazz spots.

[@Salmoninyourrice]

It's called gentrification. Research the topic. White people make a profit off of places where minorities and POC reside which displace poor people for lavish living. For white people.

[@kamikea1]

Its sad how we sell our own for greed! And its even more sad, when the reporter can have a sense of pride, admiration, and understanding that a descendant cant even have for what his grandmother went through to even acquire the land, that he inherited and nows sells and develops for a community that looks at him just as they looked at his ancestor. Like a slave to do THIER bidding!!! Smh!!! 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@nojman12]

Yeah that man is a fool

[@ogookpala]

“Can you imagine teepees on Wall Street?” What a f€£~£ idiot! So, one genocidal gentrification begets another is what he’s saying.

[@UmmJannah5]

@@ogookpala He's a DISGRACE! u can see in his face he doesn't give a damn! His tone in the way he said "we've gone to college n work for fortune 500 companies now" he does not n CANNOT relate to or even empathize with his own people nor does he care to!😒

[@percywilliams394]

@@ogookpala they work for fortune 500 companies , so they shouldn't need to sell the property. He just cold

[@andrinabroussard1972]

yep ........... he's a slimeball!! Absolutely no respect!

[@simplybluntdesigns]

Just did my genealogy and my maternal side is Gullah Geechee... I learn something new everyday! Thanks for posting. Peace to the ancestors.

[@GrahamNickerson]

There are Gullah in Nova Scotia who came to Canada after the American Revolution.

[@MwtcultureisSHE]

John Dean there’s a movie about it called “The Book of Negroes”.

[@GrahamNickerson]

@@MwtcultureisSHE That is a good start. The problem with that movie is they mix up the timeline and the arrival of the Blacks from the south. The riot is also a misrepresentation, but I see it as a good start of a discussion whose time is long coming.

[@GrahamNickerson]

@lil min The Canada of the 80s and 90's didn't reflect people who look like me. Those bigots you mention are alive and well. The people who changed likely had their perspectives changed by your so called problematic justice warriors.

[@sovietchampagne]

@lil min canada's origins are as a white supremacist state lol what are you talking about ??? there was never a canada "fairly free from racism", the whole thing could not possibly exist if it were not for racism

[@tlesueur24]

I didn't last in Charleston, SC for more than 7 mo. ... And this is the reason why. It made me sick to my stomach to drive an hour every day to Edisto Island and see so many impoverished black people and unkept homes along the way.. just to get to Edisto Beach and see golf courses and million dollar EMPTY homes.... They even treat the black people there like slaves and give low wages with long hours. My pay as a contract coordinator for Wyndham wasn't bad but my conscience wouldn't allow me to stay there. Glad I came back to Florida. Lol.

[@applejackzo]

I don't blame you. I just moved to Charleston & learning all of this is upsetting.

[@kushmoort]

My Family is from Edisto Island

[@whipcracker27]

It's called education, that's what brings prosperous people, so your mad cause those people chose to live in squaller?

[@Mostwantedrecord]

@@whipcracker27 what ARE YOU SAYING?

[@melinternets8368]

As an African I am so proud of these ppl, I gotta go and support em heck its out duty to do so. We can be tourists to our own

[@psyourauntie]

Roxanna Freebush Thank YOU

[@bre970]

Thank You 😊 for support ❤️

[@nana8135]

Thank you

[@andysah7637]

I'm not afraid of westerners, always be weary of the very One who looks like you:the significant black man who predates on his own

[@aviennemuhammad]

Geechee Kunda?!?!? In The Gambia a "Kunda" is a tribal area. If you are Fulani, you live in "Fulah Kunda"....the Mandinka live in "Manding Kunda".....I keep telling people a lot of our culture survived that boat ride!!!

[@ClassyGyal]

*Those* boat rides

[@boodogg2539]

Black wives, your ancestors didn't come over here on know boat from Africa your and everybody elses peoples was already here. This Africa stuff got to stop. If your born here, you are American and we always been here from day one. Slavery wasn't like we were told, we was indentured servants. They wasn't selling our kids, we were share croppers who was getting paid little to nothing and that's what the civil war was about, they promised or made an agreement and didn't stick to it. The slaves films are a bunch of false lies,exaggerated like pulp fiction. We are free people WHO was SCREWED OVER by them

[@blujai8607]

@@boodogg2539 What? That doesn't make sense. The middle passage happened. That's factual. Plantation owners in fact decided why pay or make well to indentured servants per a contractual agreement for 5 to 10 yrs when they can ravish, steal, and herd our ancestors like cattle. Those are the facts. The historical documents still exist today. We still are considered less than sir. Our foundations have been destroyed and displaced. Just Americans...I think not.

[@boodogg2539]

@@blujai8607 all im going to say is it didn't happen, im not fussing no more,there's plenty of proof everywhere alot of people know its all a lie. Subscribe to dane calloway, ask any body it's all a bunch of false shit beleive me or not that's up to you . 2019 and you still believe what the white man told u. We living in a time of info, it's true stay sleep your whole life. You FUNNY because you BEEN brainwashed its not your fault, but it is your fault and a damn shame that you don't know, its embarrassing to not know my brother. Dane calloway subscribe to him on you tube then holler back at me. We were shsrecroppers to indentured sevsnts, to prisoners of war on our on LAND. We were the Indians, that's the twist to all this shit, its all been told in reverse. Good luck

[@krekre2328]

Boo Dogg Agreed. Preach💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾✊🏾We were already here. What boat ride? They’re doing everything they can to disassociate us from turtle island “America” so when talks of reparations come about land wouldn’t be included. They don’t want you to know this is your shit🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

[@thelifeofjoi]

🤦🏾‍♀️ it be your own people

[@everydaydre1185]

Hes just a tool.

[@Boiblu1914]

The saddest thing is this: Black Americans are the richest people of African descent and third most populous people of African descent in the world (behind Nigeria and Brazil). We could protect this land if we so choose, but collectively we choose not to. We just comment about how mad we are at the state of affairs while the bulldozers keep plowing. If we wanted to we could easily preserve the remaining islands/properties, but we've been conditioned to only think for self; moreover, if someone in the group thinks differently, there is no cultural common denominator that allows us to transcend differences and we stay fragmented. Whites in America - as disparate as the various sub-groups are - have a common denominator: the economy. No disagreement disrupts that denominator, regardless of the intra-white culture wars or political disputes. The means we have to protect our lands is crowd funding; Al Gore was correct in saying the internet would allow for millions of people to escape poverty; we just haven't cultivated its full power as of yet. We could crowd-fund these efforts tomorrow if we just trusted in ourselves. Everyone force Black banking institutions to allow for special long-term development loans to be taken out to, pool in the resources in collectives, and then develop the land in our own image; one that pays homage to our original homelands. As much as they have preserved their cultural identity, they are still heavily Anglicized to the point where unless they're speaking Gullah, they look and live like many Black folks throughout the South. We could change that by simply learning more about ourselves and then marrying that knowledge to the good aspects of Western/America culture we so choose to keep. I would also love to see delegations from West African nations - specifically Senegal/Gambia, Ghana, and Sierra Leone - coming into the fray; buying large tracts of land. This is their people after all. Deaf ears and eyes, though... *shrugs*

[@rahimdina8910]

This isn’t true, there are well to do African nations

[@Boiblu1914]

Rahim Dina Go ahead and name one Black majority nation that is richer in the entire African-American community. And I am also talking about GDP per capita and purchasing power parity, because there’s plenty of oil producing countries in Africa that technically Had more money than the black community here, but that oil money isn’t benefiting the people in those countries.

[@shawnkay5462]

Zaviay Taylor Nigeria is pretty developed or Lagos from what ive seen.

[@Boiblu1914]

Sunny Kay Lagos is a city in a nation, and a city where a significant amount of the business done there leaves that city as soon as a transaction is done. Wealth is nowhere near evenly distributed there.

[@ertfgghhhh]

I agree. Do u have ig or website?

[@RPostVideos]

I was singing the Gullah-Gullah Island theme song the other day and now I'm getting all kinds of Gullah-Geechee recommendations in KZbin and my Google news feed. Pretty sure the Google gods are listening to me because I've not actually looked up anything related until this recommendation popped up!🤨😳😂❤️

[@twistedfrannie9311]

If you don't live on the land you shouldn't have any rights to it. That would solve alot of the problems as for the city slicker relatives selling the land out from under the people whom live there.

[@ImehSmith]

EXACTLY 100% AMEN ‼️‼️

[@Baptb11717]

Twisted Frannie thank you. Same thing happen to my family in Haiti... “family members” sold acres and acres of our land which is now a resort

[@abukarosman1859]

Then you should've two houses one for rental also.

[@seandotcom3321]

how do we help them preserve their land and culture??

[@IamChristina_B]

Fishyboii money talks

[@moeticjustuce]

there needs to me more educated individuals in that community... educated in aspects of law, finance, & economics..they can't depend on that one law agency.. & yes, we as Americans should help.. it starts with making this video go viral/national, and making sure more educated individuals are physically active in this issue.

[@dantemiller7193]

This is so true.

[@pnw3605]

learn the language, food, music, all the culture and it will live on forever. Aztecs have been renamed, "illegal immigrants" but we will never change, mexico will forever be Mexiko!

[@dontworryaboutit8213]

moetic justice they are the Americans webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/american

[@brothermanbrotherman]

If his family is running fortune 500 companies, what does he need with this land that he's never lived on?

[@Kloco78]

BrotherMan BrotherMan his brain is white washed

[@lisasmith8007]

Greed.

[@candycane1686]

Working for a fortune 500 doesn't mean you run it, dumbass. My mom works for a fortune 500 and only makes 12 an hour.

[@candycane1686]

Longhair Dontcare 9:03 “WORK”

[@candycane1686]

Longhair Dontcare his family is nothing more than bottom feeders just like himself. You think he’s extremely wealthy? He’s not. He’s trying to make a. Dime off his own people.

[@lynnpatterson-cameron4903]

You guys are some strong people don’t sell your land .. im one of you too my grandma Sarah Blue - Patterson always told me stories about me being Geechee n my great grand parents the Blue family is from South Carolina please preserve your family history.. I can remember my grandmother‘s brother Grady blue he was a dentist there… I can’t remember them all but hopefully one day we have a reunion and I can come down there and meet everybody thank you so much for sharing the story it made me cry but also made me proud to see such beautiful people that may be my family too❤❤

[@TheRenaissanceAmazon]

The show “Queen Sugar” deals with this big time!

[@kiho847]

@ Louisiana

[@ciaraprice980]

Yessss

[@ayalibra8053]

My grandmother was in born St. Helenas Island to Joseph Simmons and Amanda Rivers. She moved to Philly when she was a young woman. She also sent money to keep our land which is still throbbing and beautiful kept. My mother retired five years ago. She now lives on the land. I plan on following suit some time this year. I feel so connected every time I visit. Eye honor and love my Ancestors

[@asouthernwriter]

This is a wonderful culture, wonderful people. So sad to see what's happening. These are the types of things that need to before served. It's a part of not only the history of Blacks in America, but America in general. Many of my friends in Louisiana say that similar things are happening with the Cajun culture. However, I do think that Louisiana does a better job at protecting its cultures.

[@susiebear3316]

hey girlie good to see you on this video I so love learning about this my family comes from nowhere near this area however I did have a really close friend and her mother was from this area not the gullah gechee but Louisiana

[@asouthernwriter]

Susie bear - I've been learning about this culture on and off, and I knew this was going on. A few publications touched on it, but I'm glad that VICE decided to do this. Yes, I'm all about preservation. Since this is a part of Southern culture, I am more eager to want to learn more and get the word out about what's happening. I've been sharing this video around. I hope they do one next on Appalachia and what's going on in the Bayous in Louisiana. In the video, the people stated that word of mouth and the "outside" is basically what has been helping them. It's really sad what's happening. Not only for them, but to the county as well. They are buying up land everywhere and kicking people off.

[@NICKANGEL867]

I'm from New Orleans and I definitely agree that the culture is more heavily preserved here. At the same time, gentrification is still happenning, and it seems that no matter where you go in America, it is a factor. I must go and visit this amazing gem of a culture before it is lost forever.

[@lalakuma9]

I don't like the idea of selling out, but at this point the only way to fight money is with more money. Maybe they can try to promote their culture with tourism and use the money to buy land or at least justify the preservation of their culture because it can be monetized. Even though cultural tourism can be sort of messed up, at least that's one way they can empower themselves. For example, I think more people care about the Cajun culture because a lot of outsiders want to experience the culture and love the food. I never heard about this island's culture until I stumbled upon this video.

[@Aboriginal_American_Hebrew]

Joyce J / ASouthernWriter truly my lovely sister truly!

[@s.p.5213]

Sis' figure is poppin!! See what living off the land away from the processed mess we eat does for ya?

[@meghanm5592]

He would have made one hell of a slave. SMH what a slime ball.

[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

YES

[@ehatten73]

Stephen from Jhango is more like it, that was sad to witness.

[@4tressfortified]

He is a modern day slave sent by the maser! Someone programmed him to do what he is doing to put a black face on the problem. He lacks the intelligence to see 5 years down the road, let alone think about the next generation! El Stupido!

[@Mostwantedrecord]

He only could have survived in the house.. Too weak to work outside.

[@dukkiboi]

Real

[@ritajohnson2214]

Just half of my culture....born and rasied in Charleston sc...still live here to this day and we love this Place

[@livefree1111]

Hey Fam 👋🏿 From the Chuck too. We have to preserve our culture by all means.

[@thehand1358]

That Realty broker is a sell-out

[@LifeBetweenTheDash]

My god he has no solution? Sick that he doesn't know how to create a together solution.

[@Moonewitch]

He is proud to be one, from the looks of it. But ge knows damn well that he's wrong. It's all in his eyes.

[@royaldigitalmedia]

That's exactly what he is. He is where the term comes from.

[@blkmamba40]

A complete sellout!

[@MartieceFranklin]

When I was younger, I remember my auntie speaking about the geechee tribe. I am glad I found this video. I have questions. Love you from Oklahoma. Thanks for sharing.

[@alondathomas293]

The Gullah folks need to hurry up and get that law concerning the sale of their lands changed so that it can't be taken from them, period.

[@Muscogulge79]

They can put it in a Trust

[@lujujj4157]

You didn't even grow up there . How you go there and sell them out .

[@DesignatedInternetAuntie]

They've been doing this to us for years..

[@VisionOfThePhoenix]

Exactly!

[@lique1195]

His grandmother would whoop his behind. That is their land.

[@teahgurl]

Yes. The sacrifice. Grandmother understood the importance of having land in the first place and it won’t for money!

[@teahgurl]

It was for independence

[@tiffanyscott376]

I’m happy this culture has been preserved. Even though this is not my heritage (as far as I know), I grew up with a woman in my church who was from SC & was Gullah/Geechee (I’m from NC). She was one of my grandmothers’ closest friends

[@killary_Banx]

Never sell your land!!! Dig into your history..you may own land. We own two family farms in Kentucky that was passed from family who had been enslaved on the same land. Verizon tried to take it, but we fought. Please do your research! A lot of our people stopped going through courts to protect themselves. They started keeping records in churches.

[@shereewalker9111]

Where in KY? I grew up and still live here. I work for Metro Louisville's HR & Office of Equity.

[@killary_Banx]

@@shereewalker9111 in Lexington sis

[@qetsiyah1766]

How did you discover you owned land?

[@aiynx3674]

#DEMFAKEASSPRINGLES

[@carolynolsen132]

If I could, I would buy up every inch of the gullah properties, and put some kind of legal hold on it, for 100 years, allowing the people and culture to stay and thrive. And prevent anyone's heirs shares from being parceled out. I would also buy up all the farmland and any other undeveloped land that I could, and just let it sit, remaining as farmland, or waterfronts, or forests or whatever.....

[@pmaii7707]

Carolyn Olsen keep dreaming

[@Mostwantedrecord]

LOVE HOW YOU THINK!

[@opaluni]

Me and you both hun. People can't let things just exist.

[@donelbenyisrael2316]

The government would just bomb it from the air.

[@latinaherbert8759]

@@donelbenyisrael2316 swear! they are demonic greedy thieves

[@madfran6]

The ancestors not gone let him live long. You can't take Blessed Sacred land

[@leandrepage2116]

Or he will live the longest in a miserable way

[@davidshouse2225]

My people are from Charleston,SC, our family acquired 42 acres through an ancestor who made meals to sell the men building up Charleston homes for a nickels or a dime. Now we own most of the land going down Hughes Rd, on John’s Island. I miss fishing the Ashley River with my pops early weekend mornings. Our land is owned the same way and have the family has been asked not to sell, my father almost took charge of the land from his Uncle. We charge a small property tax, years ago I heard to lease it from the family was $200/month to help with overall property tax, you can claim no more than 2 acres pers family. I loved going out there knowing everyone was family, we have a family cemetery and church on the property. And yes the builders are surrounding like vultures, because we also have lake access.

[@russcarr3406]

Keep the faith. 🙏🏿👍🏾💯

[@CoonGordon]

Adolphs' name is really fitting

[@chaziyahya1949]

When all my people are gone off the land, then The Most High will raise the waters and waves and move those others away.

[@thisgame2]

Actually not true

[@doodiewhompus6169]

@7:11- The real estate brokers name is Adolph ?! How apropos ! Then he uses the “teepees on Wall St” analogy, as if it’s proper way to explain his position... WTF ?! This man is a monster !!

[@ImehSmith]

IKR ‼️‼️🙄😠

[@hexiestmanintheworld]

Geechie stand up! Shout to Kwame Brown!

[@temsbaby2810]

And RIP Ahmaud Arbery Geechee brother.

[@Srvtnc]

here in brazil we have a similar group of people that had their ancestors enslaved, they're called Quilombolas, but instead of owning the land from their slavemasters they actually live where once was a Quilombo, a place where black slaves would gather and hide themselves to resist the enslavery, it's also a dying culture by the way :(

[@Twinklestar132]

same with the Maroons in Jamaica. I'm sick of all this!

[@razmatazzsi2293]

Matheus We're all one family in different parte of the world and it's happening to us all at the same time, because of the times we're in.

[@nana8135]

I'm so sorry

[@chrisbee8443]

This is so so sad. I’ve always wanted to start a Community like this for my children and generations to come. Seeing this completely breaks my heart. To see that just one person with no knowledge, ties or respect for the culture of the community can rip away the security of an entire community for financial gain is truly disheartening.

[@80antonc]

I believe one of the commenters is correct the should apply for historical status for their property.

[@Njoofene]

That Black developer is the problem. I'm not even American but i sense jealousy in him. The Gullah have managed to preserve their African culture and traditions for generations and have a very rich culture known in Africa, and are well loved and admired by Africans. The same way Africans love Haitians. The Black developer is jealous because he hasn't got a culture or sense of community. Instead, he has spent his entire life trying to imitate and impress white city boys (who still have their culture). Coming face to face with a group of Black Americans who have actually managed to preserve their culture must be killing him inside. The thing he tried to run away from all his life. With all the Black American millionaires, I find it shocking that none of them are interested in preserving their heritage. The preservation of Gullah lands and heritage is a preservation of Black American heritage whether they are Gullah or not. If I was a Gullah, I would advice them not to sell their lands. Failing that, the community should have a community saving like they used to and still do in Africa. Every month, each member should put some money into the savings for eventualities like this.

[@Nocturnal11Guy]

They were never Africans or from West-Africa. Many are from the Carribian islands.

[@Nocturnal11Guy]

Corn, okra, collard greens and cabbages are not grown in the continent of Africa!

[@kenyettaready]

similar to Hilton Head Island, SC and Tybee Island, GA. the blacks who owned it sold it for 99% less than what its worth today. they were cheated.

[@VICENews]

On the Sea Islands, the Gullah people are scrambling for solutions as their livelihood and culture vanish, one waterfront mansion at a time. Watch "Oil And Water: Louisiana's Coastal Crisis” - bit.ly/1LU8pz7

[@benisturning30]

It's sad but things change.

[@ImmortalAK]

+Ben A Yea, but what if you don't want it to change? What if you want to live in the same area the same way you have for generations? Then it is a problem. I own land on a river. I got it for a good price. When the price is driven up so high that lawyers look for loop holes to drive me out, I don't think I will be thinking "well, I guess things change". I will be thinking "Wait, I was here first. I payed for this. I own this. What the hell is happening?". I see you like to support transgender people, which is fine with me, but if the time came where society decided to drive out or kill transgenders, would you say "It's sad but times change"? If you say that is what has been happening throughout history and it is only because transgenders and their supporters stood up and tried to make a difference that allowed them to have more of a voice today then you should support these people standing up and saying they want this gentrification to stop.

[@benisturning30]

ImmortalAK What are you talking about? I do not support transgender people. Where did that even come from? You dont know me. Transgenderism does not exist.

[@autumnhomer9786]

Thank you Vice for bringing this issue to light. All of the Gullah people have brought their land and property so how is what these other companies doing legal? What right do these companies have to steal what isn't theirs? On a global scale I wonder how often this happens? When will people realise that you can't eat money? That money can not fix broken communities. This is not only a Gullah issue ...

[@ImmortalAK]

Ben A It is all over your channel. I looked at your profile and that is what I found.

[@elizabethfoster4297]

I'm from Charleston, SC. My dad's main caregiver/nanny is Gullah, her grandparents were slaves. Growing up my dad would take me and my sister over to her place whenever he did any home repairs. She had taught him to speak Gullah, so hearing my dad and her talking was fascinating. She continued her family traditions and even blessed me and my sisters, as well as my children when they came along. It's horrible to see such a beautiful culture being destroyed by other's greed.

[@Active_Sun_Particles]

All this land and culture should be preserved, Marquetta said it best in the first few minutes, insulated societies are always more happy and generous than any generic, wide spanning faux culture that is eventually imposed upon them.