Akala on The UK Being Responsible for Slavery in America

[@liquidsolidus1]

Wow you guys got Akala on here, finally some actual knowledge gonna get dropped

[@LegCreator]

I thought akala was good but he's on vlad tv so he's become desperate

[@liquidsolidus1]

And you're basing that on what exactly?

[@LegCreator]

+Zain Chawdry Because look at most the people on vlad tv , then look at akala he's too knowlegable for vladtv so clearly somethings gone wrong

[@CarynDPrescott]

Akala is great but Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, has been on Vlad's show too. She's one of many black Americans who can drop lots of knowledge as well 😊

[@makehumanitygreatagain8128]

Fam, chill yeh. Knowledge soon come, innit?

[@wr2899]

I'm a white guy living in a white area with mostly white friends + me and my mates have been listening to Akala for years now since we were about 15. He's definitely changed my mindset in a positive and educated way that will stay with me forever. What a man👏

[@victorthomas4477]

What year was slavery abolished by the parliament in the U.K?

[@SAPHYTYRA]

@Niki Mitchell one day you will too. You just dont know any better yet but I do want to warn you about the worst pain you'll never be able to imagine. Repent.

[@htinereppa]

@Niki Mitchell open mindedness, empathy, and understanding are not synonymous with self-hatred. Dont continue being an idiot

[@DS-xp4jb]

Just what mindset did you acquire? Why did it have to be positive?

[@GameFreak7744]

@@victorthomas4477 Technically? I think 2009. Though it was never really something that was legal in the UK, as was reiterated several times by court rulings in the 1700s. There was never a legal category for 'slave' or any legal doctrine that allowed a person to own another person.

[@hostiletoes1145]

"Knowledge is power"....im learning too much from dis Don

[@redleader6186]

Youd learn even more if you read a book

[@brianacevedo2036]

W

[@IWTBF]

The use of knowledge is power

[@IWTBF]

Shame majority of the population read shit like the sun and daily star

[@chiefwiggem325]

Funnily enough, knowledge of history is probably one of the most useless kinds of knowledge there is.

[@gunnyo50]

Akala is like the British version of immortal technique, rappers with intellectual knowledge. So knowledgeable and intellectual when it comes subjects like slavery and racism.

[@dahirkarshe5150]

Exactly my thoughts

[@MB-lz8vm]

Check lowkey as well if you dont know him

[@12MRJERSEY]

@David Junior...Lowkey, Technique, and Akala are all familiar with each. And they're all dope.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

👀

[@MVP_MAGAZINE]

No akala...is akala! If you don't know his history that's cool,but don't compare him to IT akala turned down a lot to be who he is now,because his sister is huge he had the pressure to make certain music but he resisted...check him out

[@RuthIessVillain]

Vlad, you better drop the full interview at some point for this one

[@hungry4grime]

Trust, hope he don't take long. Respect to vlad tho. Hope to see more of the U.K on this channel. Knowledge is power

[@ProductOfAnEmpire]

+Jay the grime kid Yeah, but a certain kind... I don't want one of dem UK bruddas that's gonna embarrass us.

[@hungry4grime]

Product of an Empire ® haha true. Fuk man like dappy

[@tawandatawanda8388]

+Jay the grime kid big up dappy

[@hungry4grime]

pablo wezengeza Yh big up dappy, he did a lot for the uk scene and he still is a talented gezza to this day. But man is corny fam. He can't be representing the uk

[@Jayskizx]

AKALA >>> LORD JAMAR ALL FUCKING DAY

[@geemula3652]

akala actually comes with facts

[@k2datrack]

That comparison is actually an insult to Akala

[@geemula3652]

k2datrack precisely

[@ProductOfAnEmpire]

of course... Akala talks in 'facts'... shit that you can Google discover for yourself... Asiento, Harlem Renaissance, Inner City London compared to Outter City Paris...

[@k2datrack]

Product of an Empire ® No. This gentleman here is not your average rapper. He's also a journalist. He's written books and given talks in universities around the UK including a talk he gave last month at the International Slave Museum, Liverpool which i personally attended. So googling is not just the source of his knowledge

[@LaVarTrayVell]

AKALA is THE BEST I SWEAR!!

[@tec_savage601]

My nigga la var keep up the vids fam do bugzy Malone moving

[@Scoobay]

Badman

[@ProductOfAnEmpire]

Yoooo.... Big Up La Var.

[@Jay-qy6jr]

who the fuck is this nigga

[@Humanity12345]

i love your channel brah

[@RBMontanaRGV]

Racism is definitely more subtle in the UK and it's very unlikely that you will experience racism on the street or in day to day life in England. Only if you try to get a job at a major company or encounter the police will you start to see how racist British people are...

[@luigi9064]

subtle racism > agressive racism

[@CarynDPrescott]

What about the EDL? Are they still around? I learned about them through Pamela Geller, a NY based zionist nutjob. There was a big shit storm here 5 years ago because of this retarded rumor about plans for a mosque to be built on the ruins of the WTC, aka Ground Zero. Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician was a major player in speaking out against it. I believe he was banned from speaking in the UK. He was friends with the directors who were killed for making films about Muslims who violate and murder their women. He's also how I learned about Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Kola Boof. When Geller ramped up her No Ground Zero Mosque campaign it included linking up with Wilders and the EDL. Watching videos of their rallies disturbed me. I remember reading personal accounts of blacks and Asians in the UK who experienced racism in the 50s and 60s and how it got worse in the 70s and 80s with the Keep Britain White types who caused riots in Southall and during Notting Hill Carnival. Actually I remember now that I first saw Akala in a video where he debated that Tommy who was an EDL leader on a political program. The EDL, WDL & SDL even used blacks and Asians to further their cause by insisting that they weren't racist. They also claimed that they only hated extreme radical Muslims, the moderate ones were okay. The anti GZ mosque campaign fell apart when it was pointed out that the mosque/community center was already in existence 2 BLOCKS AWAY from the WTC. Also, Pamela had bigger fish to fry. She decided to sue the MTA in order to plaster anti Muslim and Palestine propaganda posters in as many subway and commuter train stations that money could buy. Hopefully, you guys can get rid of types like her and EDL, and both of our countries poc can be better off.

[@drumsbass8417]

the EDL has always been seen as a joke here. Its pretty much ignorant meatheads who populate it. theyre usually jobless. No one takes them seriously.

[@CarynDPrescott]

+Drums & Bass Ah. I read that Tommy guy was exposed as a fraud. He was using an alias and was accused of being a bad father and abusive husband. Definitely a criminal in my eyes. He came off like a Pied Piper type in those videos and newspaper interviews.

[@CarynDPrescott]

+Drums & Bass Do you like the BDL (Bass Defense League) ? Big Narstie is hilarious :D

[@mikeltruss9695]

You need to do a much bigger interview with Akala, this barely scratches the surface of this mans knowledge. Good look for getting hold of Akala

[@ivanduvok]

He probably did a 1 or 2 hour interview, after he releases these in segments, he will release the full things, this is to draw traffic

[@ivanduvok]

***** Here goes the troll..half white and more intelligent? LOL!

[@corneliussmith4907]

ivanduvok yes. barack obama. colin powell. condonleza rice. muhammad ali. malcolm x. akala here and many many more. white ancestry. proof right there.

[@ivanduvok]

***** Perhaps they are intelligent cos they have black in them?

[@corneliussmith4907]

ivanduvok then why are all black countries 3rd world countries? why did zimbabwue collapse and become one of the poorest nations in the world. formally it was rhoadesia before they left it to the blacks and look at it now. then look at south africa. even the king of zulus said south africa was better under apartheid. desmond tutu said things were safer. more people have been killed since apartheid then during it. unemployment has gone right up. electricity is only available for a few hours per day. they have the highest murder rate. more whites have been killed in south africa then blacks were killed under apartheid. look at africa when whites had it, it was doing much better. FACT. africa hasn't had civilsation for thousand of years. the arabs documented this and confirmed it. even gandhi said it ffs. every black majority country is failing. brazil, cuba, puerto rico, domincan republic. canadian blacks, british blacks. same everywhere. iq scores that took culture into account proves that race and iq is apparent. brain sizes between races is apparent. physical diferences are apparent. the greatest scientists have been white. fact. the greatest writers, inventors, philsophers have been white. akala even knows this but he doesn't admit it. that's why he makes a point of promoting black literature. that's why every interview he bigs up his sucessful black friends. he knows this subconsiously. prove me wrong.

[@dianafrater9081]

Akala is educated and articulate. Everytime I listen to him it's an education. I was fortunate to meet him and take a photo with him in Jamaica Ochi.

[@oops541]

His mother is Wyte Scottish and his father's side is Blk-Jamaican. He is racist toward Wyte people.

[@mrjkimj]

Akala is incredibly knowledgeable. I just found him today and can’t believe that I have never heard of him before.

[@simonmonk7266]

The whole world dealed in slavery. It was an international commodity. As fowl as it is.

[@itilosi9929]

foul*

[@ITzDaveXD]

The word 'Slave' comes from the number of Slavic (eastern European and Russian) people taken as slaves. The slave trade was only done more efficiently by European countries going to America over the other countries purely from their advancement in technology.

[@boostjunkie2320]

@askella A Read comment above it's for you

[@LaCheleWallace]

Oooh, I could just listen to Akala talk all day..... I love knowing more about the U.K. dynamic. Excellent interview, fellas.

[@ikeman9784]

@Julien Lefebvre Yea but Vlad don't like black intellectual interviews he'd rather bring on Lil Boosie as a caricature smh

[@272eg]

It`s so strange seeing people being lauded for representing history wrongly. Brittain was the first major country in the world to ban slavery. The first. Not the last. When it banned slavery, it sent ships and soldiers all around the African continent to stop it. They sent British soldiers into African nations to stop african slavery done by africans with African slaves. They fought Arab slavers in the Indian ocean. Nations like the Azhanti in what we now call Mali sent their emissaries to London and Paris to protest the banning of slavery. At Tufts in Boston, I met a guy who was born a slave according to the laws of his country. I would say he is about 52-53 right now. He was born in Mauretania, who banned slavery in 1980. 150 years after Brittain.

[@kcstylezzz]

France banned slavery in 1792 after the Haitian revolution albeit tried to reinstate it with Napoleon. However Britain was not the first country to abolish slavery. I think the point that akala is making is that just because UK may be one of the first to ban slavery doesn't reduce their complicity in slavery. Over 12 million slaves were transported and cities like Liverpool and Bristol amassed huge amounts of wealth from human trafficking

[@bugzyhardrada3168]

But the Brits at the time themselves were largely and for the most part forced into indentured servitude, poor house, work house, working similar squalor conditions, little to no rights and extremely meagre pay... We all suffered back then regardless of colour or whatever, the name of the game was abundant misery and injustices for all. England bans slavery yet wastes no time in abusing the Irish. It was never about race, it was always about conditioning the masses. Race was just a religiously sanctioned tool of oppression and coercion.

[@Elevhant]

@@bugzyhardrada3168 i understand what youre saying but i don’t think you understand the gravity of the trans atlantic slave trade. The people suffered much worse than “meager pay” and “no housing” it was a genocide in disguise. Read histoical accounts of slavery. Theres a book called the delectable n**gro that lists 100s of ways to butcher and eat black people. This was not standard European slavery, where people or enemies were taken at random. This was a calculated effort to take a specific race of people and subject them to deplorable situations.

[@Elevhant]

They should be congratulated and praised for stopping a problem they started?the transatlantic slave trade started in the mid 1400s and britain ended its involvement in the early to mid 1800s. Thats almost half a millennium of suffering for millions of people. Resigning early from it doesnt excuse their actions.The affects of slavery can be felt till this day and it will probably be felt for 100s of years to come. I feel like youre smart enough to realize youre more or less defending a very indefensible thing by taking away Britain’s accountability (ignoring all of its history in favor of the end of the story)

[@itcheebeard]

@@kcstylezzz homie, William the conquerer banned the slave trade in England in 1066

[@ritchuk]

Slavery has been illegal in England since 1066. This is what happens when well-known people spout such utter nonsense with so much confidence; people accept it as truth, and them, an authority.

[@joshuaalexis327]

Lies it was officially abolished in 1833

[@ritchuk]

@@joshuaalexis327 That act abolished slavery in the British Empire. Read what what I wrote.

[@Elevhant]

@@ritchuk That isnt what you wrote. Regardless of where you read the year 1066 i assume you’re fully aware that slavery was still an integral part of British society up till a few hundred years ago. Regardless of their sons actions to clean up their fathers mess, it took the better part of a millennium to do so. Lets say it was formally abolished in 1066 like you state. It took the empire 700-800 years to enforce the law. Stop thinking about yourself and your relationship to your country. Think about the people that suffered. Why are you defending an empire.

[@ritchuk]

@@Elevhant Nothing you have written addresses anything that I wrote. Your last three sentences are just pathetic. Stop thinking about myself? My relationship to my country? Defending an empire? All these are fatuous assumptions. Slavery wasn't formally abolished in 1066. I think you need to collect your thoughts and then come back.

[@James-st9uu]

Slavery in England was ended by law in 1102. It was not legal to have any slave in England and therefore Britain after the union act. This is irrelevant of skin colour. Portugal was the first european nation to take Slaves to the Americas in the 15th century. The British abolishment movement by the British public caused the Slavery abolition act in 1833. The west African Squadron was created by the British government in 1808 and rewards were given to each slave that was freed. The cost to the UK tax payer as a percentage of government budget in todays terms would be £133 billion. The success in of the west african squadron had liberating slaves was celebrated by the British public and the works if the west african Squadron was lauded by the British press. 2,000 sailors died in the west african Squadron. Just a few facts Akala missed.

[@thatbloke8790]

1101 (doomsday book) didn't end slavery it made you pay an equal fine to the crown for "enslaving", therefore people was enslaved elsewhere and used those slaves in England after that, now think 1776 Wilberforce case, which didn't end slavery in Britain, 1807/08 Slave trade act was abroad only!. It was legal to own "slaves" in England (and in empire nations) till 1833 Abolition act, which only really went into place in 1838. Britain didn't pay anything to the slaves, it was the slave-owners they paid, and the Captains of the West African Squadron for every slave freed, paid till 2015 so if you paid taxes in Britain up to April 2015 you literally put money into the pockets of slave owning families UK and abroad. (Think the Royal African Company - Bristol). British ships was the only ships used by the French, Spanish (colonies included "Portugal/most of south America") and America, in fact Britain was the leading slavers for 150 years and in 18th Century regained that "Great" title by being the leading nation to ship slaves to America. Now how does Britain have such a clean record of slavery? Well unlike the rest of the world the status of "Slave" never existed in Britain, people was simply sold, tortured, beaten and worked to death of their own free will because technically you could be "owned by a family" but not a slave to a family in England. (Think Serfdom) Wouldn't want to only mention all the good stuff now would we, that'd be disingenuous. (Edit) Just so you can find these thing for your self to look up, Prof Christoper L. Brown Columbia University, Prof Diana Paton University of Edinburgh, Prof Olivette Otele University of Bristol and Prof David Olusoga, all historians and any of their books and talks on the subject are eye openers.

[@eldictator1]

Britain doesn’t have a clean record of slavery.. it does have instances where they enforced laws and prevented historical slavery and oppression most notably our presence in Nigeria, where centuries of exploitation of Yoruba and Igbo wax stopped..Today they are the two dominant successful tribes

[@323Hitman]

RIP Tamir Rice. I heard he would've graduated this year, 2020.

[@itypethetruthnobshere8975]

Shouldnt had been playing with a realistic gun and pointing it at people

[@2sik_UK]

Tbf toy guns can look extremely realistic, quite honestly its a terrible idea too take out toy guns and point them at people in a country where guns are prevalent

[@323Hitman]

2sik to be fair? A child was murdered by a grown man. The problem with the states is anyone that tries I defend senseless murder like yourself. If it was your family you’d still be crying but since it’s some black kid it’s “to be fair” yea iight.

[@itypethetruthnobshere8975]

Sean Carter McLean my family would be smart enough not to play with a realistic looking gun and pointing it at strangers

[@323Hitman]

Supreme Bape I played with toy guns just like the white kid in a Christmas story. It has nothing to do with intelligence of the boy but the ignorance of the white caller and the ignorance of the grown white police officer.

[@itcheebeard]

It's been in my lifetime that we brits stopped paying the debts owed for ending the slave trade. If you're British and have paid ANY taxes before 2015, you directly helped fund the abolition of slavery. The empire literally ENDED due to the debts incurred fighting the nazis in WW2 and the slave trade world wide. I'll never feel any guilt, only pride in being born in the nation that did the most to end it.

[@spaceoriented]

There were slaves before any Europeans decided to buy slaves, slavery didn't start with the Europeans it was mostly Arab to black

[@CJ-fs1zr]

Lmao THOSE debts are too the estate of former slave traders 🤣. If britain was really moral they would’ve just ended slavery without paying lots of money too former slave traders as competition in fact they wouldn’t have facilitated slavery too an extreme they did LMAO

[@itcheebeard]

@CJ-fs1zr lol ok, chief. Every country in HISTORY practised slavery but one. England. Not only that, but we were the first to actually do something about ending it in other countries. But idiots say, "waaah wasn't done to my 21st century standard, so it doesn't count" 🙄

[@CJ-fs1zr]

@@itcheebeard chattel slavery was unique in its evil. You guys like too compare ottoman Islamic slavery which is far more humane compared too chattel slavery. Ottoman Empire has been so much more progressive, in Islamic “slavery” you have too be released if the master treats you wrong like physical abuse and it’s not done by lineage and it’s not race based. You guys think you guys are only one who ended slavery 🤣 Slavery never existed in Korea and China And definitely was not wide scale in other parts of the world What you will call slavery in other parts of the world will not be called slavery in the west the standards of what is considered slavery is much different

[@shadowyxz]

At last an articulate Black Man speaking with knowledge on Black British experience it's so rare.

[@oops541]

He's mixed. his mother is Wyte Scottish, and his father's side is Blk Jamaican.

[@kameralkutie5594]

@@oops541thank you ☝️

[@trippmundo]

I spent 3 years in the U.K and i loved it , i felt less racial tension there than in the states ... long as you respect your self and present yourself with class you will be fine there.

[@marcwareham9351]

Tripp mundo that’s nice to hear. The UKs not a racist county. Most of the examples he gives are from many many years ago.

[@michaelakata4404]

@kane benjamite thank you UK is racist

[@jacob2438]

jnicemint Who the fuck is they? You are gonna find racists everywhere bro. Dont judge an entire nation of people off a few dickheads actions

[@D4n1t0o]

@jnicemint You live in the world you self-actualise.

[@D4n1t0o]

@jnicemint Incorrect again, my friend. I just don't live in your world, the one you create with your mind and your outlook. Erect yourself. Don't keep tripping yourself up. God bless.

[@HectorQuien]

I'll be honest and admit I've never heard of this guy or his music for that matter but based on his last two interviews, you best believe I'm gonna check it out and support his music and movement. We need more people like this. Respect and salute to Akala!

[@oops541]

His mother is Wyte Scottish and his father's side is Blk-Jamaican. He is racist toward Wyte people. He is annoying as hell!!!

[@thicky]

as an american living in the uk. i have to say that americans as a whole are not very inteligent on matters of global history. particularly on the subject of slavery. and blacks being in europe. with the exception of a few educators such as ivan van sertimer , cornel west or dr joy de gruy to name a few. but on the everyday walk in the street american they are clueless. i still have dumb americans asking me if there are blacks in france and germany. then agai the ignorance also exists in europe as well concerning black americans.

[@icilmaa]

Yes you are right. When I first moved to London from my birth place in England other blacks were surprised that we existed outside of London. Then when in America there were a few AAs who were finding it hard to detect my accent though it's clearly English. I always remember back in the 90's the Black French thinking I was American just because they had never come across a Black person from England. So we all have our part to play in the ignorance.

[@thicky]

says who. how else would our looks be so dierse and beautiful if it was not intended to happen

[@wedgeed8770]

Wrong Akala it was only the air in England was to pure for a slave not the UK and a precident in law was set if a slaves feet were to touch English soil he was free

[@thelastmotel]

Actually, it's blacks in Africa who were responsible for slavery even being possible... Blacks captured and sold other blacks to the arab slave traders, who then sold them to whoever wanted to buy them. There are also loads of middle class blacks in the UK. Myself, for example. Nice home, parents with really good jobs, good education.

[@iLLestTv]

"They say its the White Man I should fear, but its my own kind doing all the killing here" - The Greatest

[@buddylove3724]

Eminem ?

[@buddylove3724]

+Greg NYT lol i was joking

[@mikewatts1657]

Will Smith said the cuz

[@amenophisiv6904]

Real shit thats why he wasn't scared of "the white man" and tried his best to help niggaz out, tho he got caught up in his own shit.

[@TheDreExperience]

The uk black man is completely different to the us black man, black men in UK get treated somewhat like humans amongst whites

[@58demarcus]

Hell yeah

[@coyle7789]

Have u ever been to America or do u just believe the every black victimization narrative u hear?

[@TheDreExperience]

+jason dixo we don't have completely all black areas and all white areas in The Uk like you do in the US, that there would look odd to me as a man from the uk, huge culture shock

[@TheDreExperience]

+Anonymous 0987 in America if your black and you go to a white suburbial area and have no business in that area, you can be arrested on the spot, this is how they keep blacks with blacks and whites with whites, its to you integrating and keep Racism high, u heard the akala, his black friend hadn't seen a white person till the ages of 10, that's crazy to me but again this is America were talking about

[@Blacktolite]

Dude the only time we see black people on tv in uk, is when soccer or oylmpics are on lolol at least in the USA you got black people on tv and you grew up with that only person we had was Trevor Mcdonalds and Lenny Henry

[@tpt2977]

Big up Akala too much knowledge! One of the best lyricists in the world!

[@mrjinks5641]

He forgets to mention slavery was more a African and Asian thing and that the UK ended slavery throughout the world. Wonder why 🤔

[@ozzyhaye]

That's like saying..."I went to a guy's house...stabbed him and left him for dead...but I put his kids through school

[@mrjinks5641]

@@ozzyhaye no it’s actually not like that at all. It’s about telling the full story and not painting a picture of a dog and telling everyone it’s a cat. Slavery has been in every part of human society on every continent. And was thriving in Africa a thousand years before Europeans got there and the Arabs where amongst the worse for it and continued it in some countries up until the 1960s . And as far as I know the British put a stop to it across the world but I’m guessing that children in school won’t learn that. It’s about narrative nothing more.

[@mrjinks5641]

@Makoto I’m more than aware of where the word slave derives from and that slavery in one form or another was widely practiced throughout Europe yet slavery was rife for thousands of years in Africa and the Middle East long before the Europeans ever reached its shores .

[@AnthonyDavidsound]

And not to mention the colonialism in Africa that also benefitted the UK maybe more so than America. Actually way more.

[@bb198]

Interestingly, the UK gained many of those colonies from winning European wars, then they went ahead and abolished slavery in conquered territories in 1804.

[@pettypendagrass]

I'm not familiar with this dude's work as an artist but I must say that his knowledge and his ability to deliver it in an interview is enlightening. I'm looking forward to more clips from this interview and I need to google his work.

[@pettypendagrass]

I actually watched Parts 1,2 & 3 already. Dope!

[@thatsthat2612]

He just tells it how it is, he's amazing

[@LDNballer]

always excited to hear this guy speak. learn something new every time.

[@HappyPawsUK]

Great Britain ended slavery worldwide ,africa still practiced slavery

[@squirrelofdoom3830]

Slavery was a fact of human existence on every continent throughout the entirety of human history. Until The British Empire decided it was a moral wrong. The first legislation to ban slavery was in 1804 leading to the formal abolition of slavery in The Empire by 1833. I'm tired of the lack of balance on this. Britain did what all humans have done, but then we decided to do something different. It was our sailors fighting and dying to free slaves. Our money spent freeing them and hunting slave ships. The Royal Navy saved hundreds of thousands of slaves. Had the Americans not rebelled in 1776, the problem of slavery there would have been much smaller and ended far sooner and Jim Crow would never have been allowed.

[@Christinairis_]

No, Britain did what would benefit them first and foremost, that's the only reason a small percentage of slaves were given freedom. What's left out of the narrative was that Britain abolished the slave trade, very shortly after the Haitian Revolution and creation of the Haitian Republic. Not a coincidence. Throughout their Caribbean colonies slaves were constantly rebelling as well. In particular, there were some rebellions that massively impacted the decision to Barbados in 1816, British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1823 and finally Jamaica in 1831-183. Jamaica having a rebellion of an estimated 60,000 enslaved people. The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 was passed. Slaves were "freed" officially in 1834, but most were forced to ensure an "apprenticeship" for another 4 years. When that didn't work, they looked to India(China & Madeira) by manipulating, tricking and sometimes kidnapping people into indentured servitude in the Caribbean. The work & treatment was brutal and inhumane, similar to slavery. So let't not pretend the Britsh had any moral high ground here. Jim Crow may not have arrose, but the US would still have issues with racism today, because the last time I checked, the UK is still considered pretty damn racist.

[@squirrelofdoom3830]

@@Christinairis_ Britain spent 40% of its GDP on freeing slaves in the Empire. The fact it wasn't done perfectly changes nothing. Britain led the way in the global abolition of slavery. Fact.

[@bb198]

@@Christinairis_ if Britain did not spend money, time and blood to end the slave trade from Africa, we may still have that same slave trade today.

[@PianoDreams]

Britain abolished slavery. If it were not for the British, the slave trade would be alive and thriving. You're welcome Akala.

[@SheMC1998]

barbados was the first British full fledged slave society

[@afrocentricalbion]

I learrned only yesterday that it became the template for other West Indian colonies.

[@SheMC1998]

@@afrocentricalbion yeah it did. It was the testing ground. The british also had an advantage that there are no hills our ancestors could've escaped to, only caves

[@db-kf7zn]

Every single time I see and open a new Akala video I automatically hit the like button even before he speaks! I just know that the video will always be very informative and inspiring :) Big up Akala!!!

[@emmanuelmoses7249]

It's sad that people don't know shit about black history aside from basic knowledge.

[@Gootothesecond]

It's not "sad," it's planned.

[@emmanuelmoses7249]

+Gootothesecond Ya think so?

[@Gootothesecond]

Emmanuel Moses Information is easily controlled. I'm willing to bet that, when you look up something, it's on the internet by using Google. The first thing that comes up is probably Wikipedia. Think about it, why do they promote Dr. King as opposed to El Hajj Malik Shabazz(Malcolm X) or The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey? It's because Dr. King's ideology of integration even when blacks weren't prepared for it keeps us controlled whereas Shabazz's Black Nationalism and Garvey's Pan-Africanism gave us control over our own destiny. They don't want us to have the latters' information because it would change our mindset. Instead of wanting to be a part of a society that goes out of its way to show us that we're not welcome, we could be creating our own society like other races have done, what other nations have done.

[@emmanuelmoses7249]

Gootothesecond Same reason we have schools for a guy like Booker T Washington, which of whom was loved by white people for obvious reasons. They do pick & choose certain things to teach us..but the information is still available. If a black person wants to learn about their history, they easily can..hell I'm taking a college course for African American studies. Most people probably don't even care enough to eduacate themselves about the history.

[@Gootothesecond]

Emmanuel Moses Now you're talking about conditioning. The info may be available if one presses hard enough but most of us don't have the mindset. Even so, you still have to consider the source. I'm less apt to believe what's in a textbook developed by white supremacy even if it says African American Studies.

[@BH-rx3ue]

its nice that you forgot about britains abolishment of slavery. you forgot the vast vast vast expense it cost us to abolish slavery. you forgot that it literally took us till 2014 to pay off the debt for us to abolish slavery. you forgot that we used our influence and power to force other european countries to stop slavery. you forgot we used 1/6th of our navy, the largest and most powerful in the world at that time just to patrol the west coast of africa to stop slavery. you forgot that britain was unique in the fact that slavery had long been forbidden and you forgot that if you judge any culture at any point in history with todays morals then you will find them lacking.

[@jerom1986]

Stop teasing us show the whole interview!!!! Akala 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿👌🏿

[@corneliussmith4907]

no doubt you would want to. akala is another race baiter who wants to make money out of the race industry. he exagerates and flat out lies and i'm incredolous idiots like you lap it up. he failed to make it mainstream and went absent for a few years and now he's come back as a blacktavist. 'da whyt man'. check out the other interview with vlad where he states that 'sus laws' caused black gangs in the u.k. what a load of bullshit. absent fathers cause poverty just like in the u.s. more poverty= less money. hip hop= materialistic= people commit crime to get 'fresh'. hiphop= violent, sexualises girls, materialistic. black people create their own problems lmao.

[@MichaelCouture87]

Anyone who watches VLAD but considers it race baiting to have Akala on is absolutely a culturally-appropriating racist. Unsubscribe and jump out of a window if all you come on here for is to see black people hating eachother and glorifying ignorance. I'm proud of VLAD for upping his game by giving Akala a platform.

[@corneliussmith4907]

DAMAK refute or rebutt anything i say. ad homeniums don't make my argument or statements invalid.

[@corneliussmith4907]

Michael Couture didn't subscribe. akala is a race baiter. his career revolves on racism. you made a sweeping statement with no inclination or knowledge of akala.

[@MichaelCouture87]

Actually, I do have knowledge of Akala - hence why I found the interview worth watching. And whether you're subscribed, or you simply just like to type in Akala every now and then to troll, you're absolutely parasitic to this page to come on here, uninformed, and make a dumb ass statement about Akala being a 'race baiter'. I'm sure anyone who talks about race/racism is a race baiter to you, yet here you are, absolutely trolling people over race. You of all people need to be watching more of Akala's videos.

[@MikeeBuildsCode]

I'm raising my kids in the UK

[@SuperSouthchick]

pls don't we got way too many people. Go to Sweden I here they are a very welcoming nation

[@k2datrack]

^^^ Someone voted leave

[@tyrusbrooks3979]

+k2datrack 😁

[@richierich874]

Too many? Nah fuck that Britain invaded 90% of the globe fuck that we staying here

[@SuperSouthchick]

over population hun, where u going to sleep? we just don't have the room to accommodate no-one else.....its not racist or any thing just we FULL.

[@richierich874]

He makes very much sense

[@TabsT-vy5jy]

Vlad should reupload this as a flashback

[@cableman011]

So I'm guessing most of you skipped your high school World History class since this is all new info to you.

[@computergeekabot]

in the UK they dont teach world history just world war 1 and 2

[@cableman011]

***** This still doesn't excuse people for praising this guy for knowing a wee bit more than a 10th grader.

[@libertycaps666]

of course they dont teach all the fucked up things they did in the past

[@computergeekabot]

im 17yrs old in my final year of secondary school and in the UK they dont teach us anything about american history, and barely about our own, schools here just teach ww1 and ww2 in history class lol

[@cableman011]

+Craic Fiend Are you from the US? The slave trade and other world event of that nature aren't shied away from here. Some teachers even give out extra credit if you saw 12 Years a Slave or Selma in theatres and some showed it in class.

[@Ricky-wc6zx]

Fact African slave traders were selling slaves all over world think you find there wasn't just one place focused on slaves

[@zzirSnipzz1]

In 1807, with the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, the slave trade became illegal; and 21 years later almost all Black men, women and children held in bondage in the British empire were granted their freedom.

[@etherealhawk]

Even before then, William the Conqueror himself essentially outlawed slavery by imposing a huge fine on anyone trading them. During the Somerset legal case years before the abolition, the Chief Justice of the UK ruled that slavery was and had never been a status in the UK

[@o-wolf]

Yeh Britain "outlawed" slavery then carried out defacto slavery on African soil for centuries after.. how nice of them

[@zzirSnipzz1]

@@o-wolf You will find that people selling slaves were from Africa

[@2012supermusik]

If we're going to be completely honest, we have to state all the facts, im seeing a lot of comments comparing blacks in the U.K. To blacks in the US as if to say we're in competition. We are all one, we go through the same struggles as those in the US, the police force over here are pushing for weapons on the street, just as those do in America, if they did you'd see a rise in unlawful killings, we also do not have a carry a weapon like those in America, so our murder rate will differ. But on the other hand, America allows in you in a sense to make something of yourself. You can have street rappers etc and America push that to an extent over here you don't. I feel like blacks in America have a voice some sort of outlet. A no filter approach. When someone is killed you guys unite. From athletes and celebrities to the average person. We don't have those. We need to encourage each other globally to stay united and fight for what we believe in

[@SecretEyeSpot]

"dat boi akala, dat boi akala"

[@DavidBrown-jd2st]

Roll with him or get rolled over 💯

[@SecretEyeSpot]

+David Brown chuune

[@SecretEyeSpot]

{ Ace-Kid97 } I haven't heard anything from Akala since Sky had "Channel U"😂😂 Same with Kano

[@FELixNegus]

my two dogs was in he's video

[@Trademarqed]

I could listen to him talk all day

[@Elemental_Soul]

I respect this Brotha so much. He tells the truth unequivocally and so eloquently, without hatred. Just facts!!

[@NCVV2000]

Im going to ask Brian Rose of LRA to interview Akala too so other types can hear his views which are vital for a better human advancement - I love this man!

[@jaymacc93]

The people who dislike his interviews are part of the problem

[@uksoloz]

the fact he said that the uk helped the slave trade tell me he is a fucking idiot sorry look up what the uk has done to rid the world of it and youll also see that he was talking shit

[@pauloconnor5101]

@@uksoloz wasted breath mate people will believe what they want to believe selectively taking what they want from history and delivering their own narrative. On both sides of the coin. In fact both sides can be true right Britain had a big part to play in perpetuating slavery but equally as big a part to play in abolishing it worldwide.

[@uksoloz]

@@pauloconnor5101 i know haha . i may of had a drink and just watch how we did what we could to get rid of it and it just annoys me to see people take thing out of context

[@flynsmith4310]

an interview i never thought id see but im happy i did

[@MikeyBrown99]

People on here dissin Jamar when in actuality Jamar speaks from an African-American stand point and Akala speaks from a Caribbean-British stand point. 2 different countries, 2 different stories. I bet after Akala's entire interview if you put Jamar's interviews next to his you gonna see they have alot of similar points when it comes to black heritage.

[@godinchains]

This vid is the BEST! There should be more like this!

[@sadiki1980]

Dynamite's brother is on point!

[@lxchness]

"So Akala what do British rappers think about Slim Jesus?"....

[@Moham153]

Amazing guest! So much knowledge!

[@leoscarpoli1nonly]

His analysis is spot on

[@Hertog_von_Berkshire]

Please note "there's no black middle class" metamorphoses into "there's no black middle class neighbourhoods". He doesn't even understand his own rhetoric.

[@m.sordam2430]

This guy complety forgetting that the dutch been doing that and even had a monopoly in slavetrade

[@FuckdasketsHOPassass]

but he's talking about the British and American slave trade but lets be real here, most rich european nation had a hand in it

[@m.sordam2430]

+FuckdasketsHOPassass true : im not knockin dude, just adding to the facts

[@sebastianwilson8899]

He's describing the same struggle we have in the Netherlands as well with slavery and it's past involvement

[@MikeeBuildsCode]

so many things these film makers could be making movies about like these stories Akala is telling. instead of the normal slave movies that we keep getting pushed in our faces. so much black history that we aren't being told about

[@MrZBlackneffect]

Why would white Hollywood that's ran by white executives, and white entertainment houses want to continue to show movies about Black revolution where Black people overcame the oppression caused and enforced by white people? It's our job as Black people to create our own Hollywood to tell our narrative the way we want with NO white saviors in the story.

[@MagnaFire39]

Monster OG Monster OG maybe you shouldn’t rely on Hollywood for education and instead, either google it or go to a library

[@nilstwestergaup3165]

Slavery still exist in Africa, where it kinda started : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

[@MrMusicalgenius121]

Akala has dropped more knowledge in 20 mins than 99% of american artists drop in 3 albums lol #ukstandup

[@brandonrussell79]

Great interview...

[@Yikes575]

finally yo I been telling my peoples to look him up for a long time in the states maybe he'll get more shine now look up his freestyles too

[@SI-cd7xs]

I feel like there's way more prejudice towards pakistanis, muslims in general & polish ppl than afro caribbeans tbh.

[@kaebee1226]

More Akala vids please :)

[@Panthro-lo2lh]

waitin on the full interview

[@CKBREEZY7]

All this 7 mins 9 mins clips. Like the women ask me - where's the full ting???

[@proph2008]

lool poor ting!

[@deepblack2193]

You can create that middle class neigbourhoord, Asians in UK have done it, its all about education first and taking advantage of opportunity here in the west not relying on handouts

[@pocketoperatorjams98]

Yep I'm from Leicester and many of my Hindu friends have excelled in many different industries. They install strong family values and a hard work ethic from an early age. We help them celebrate Diwali every year and it's beautiful. It just a shame we are not allowed to be proud of out heritage and culture.

[@dance4life1208]

I love the way he says Renaissance

[@linkage645]

you looking fine

[@blackphillip63]

Word.

[@Teece007]

this nigga voice soothing lowkey

[@linkage645]

***** to much informatiion nigga

[@PrezPoet]

Properly?

[@LordLav]

Great to see you interview some UK artists especially Akala, who I think is one of the finest artist's and possibly academics the UK has.

[@K1N6TR0Y]

I’ve always believed that the UK gave the first government / organizations their doctrine. There’s a reason that the US presidents bow to UK royalty.

[@introspect86]

I could listen to Akala talk all day

[@TheTyphoonx0]

nothing better than an educated black man

[@amonduul2154]

In Jamaica he is a british guy with tan, haha In Fact, he is scotish-jamaican

[@99ron30]

Well said by Akala, however he made the mistake of using the term "middle class" when talking to an American. In UK middle class means someone fairly wealthy, own there own usually semi detached house, maybe private school educated and usually university educated with a profession. "Working class" means people that are welfare dependent and live in social/state housing, state school educated work menial jobs such as fast food workers, cleaners or garbage men. Your still working class even if you do get a good profession and a nice house though, your accent, your fashion taste, your holiday destinations and even how many sugars you have in your tea will always identify you as working class. He is letting France, Portugal, Belgium and Spain off the hook abit saying that Britain got some contract to supply their respective colonies. Maybe that counted for some of theirs, but not the majority.

[@bb198]

True, the Portuguese transported some 4.5 million slaves from Africa to the Americas, almost more than all European countries combined, and they were doing it for much longer than the others. Also, let's not forget the Arabic slave trade, that went on for 1000 years in the east of Africa!

[@845H1R]

If ever Vlad needed to just put the whole interview up in one go . . . . .

[@jamzyabg8649]

Knowledge is power!!!

[@djdinero88]

Please continue to bring more educated, articulate people on dude, lol!

[@d.felixphoto2260]

Knowledge is power. Great interview

[@dadaddymak]

im not surprised about the u.k.. our streets in Australia are more like America. and we have a lot of lower class black neighborhood around the country. . the u.k doesn't like to shit in its own backyard. nothin against the people there. . its the system that was created there that pisses me off

[@TheNoobPube]

although i agree, australia doesnt really have a leg to stand on considering the atrocities against coloured people in even modern times

[@TommyTomTompkins]

I didn't know black people was in Australia...

[@theo865]

+neanam m the blacks there are mostly the aboriginals who the modern Australians forced out

[@TommyTomTompkins]

yeah I slick forgot about the aboriginal people...that is messed up they ran them people off their own land...

[@dadaddymak]

Im Aboriginal Australian. . We are still here

[@johnlowdon5809]

The rich and powerful weren't bothered who they exploited black or white .

[@angloirishcad]

Just come out and say it Akala...race relations in the UK are much, much better!

[@LawlTwins]

I typed out a whole mini para to explain this but yea ur right G, Races are mostly bless with eachother here. Especially in the working class areas.

[@lukio12]

Akala chats so much shit its unbelievable. How he was trying to amke out that thereare no purely black middle class neighbourhoods is a bad thing is stupid, the reason for that is cause over here we actually mix together. Like he said in any poor area theres plenty of white people too, in bristol where i live the worst areas are mainly white really

[@angloirishcad]

lukio12 He'd vomit before saying anything remotely positive about his home country

[@lukio12]

angloirishcad Yh see how he was talking about the UK as 'they' not 'us' even though he was born here and it is people from here are the reason that he is even remotely successful.

[@LawlTwins]

Ye thats a good point lukio. That is exactly why. We mix and then share the culture thats all.

[@skineyemin4276]

Actually, Portugal may have been the very first of the European imperial nations to embark on bringing captured African as slaves to Portugal, then, subsequently to Brazil.

[@TheAaronChand]

And than the Holland the Dutch empire

[@deftones2625]

Damn I'm gonna grow dreads work on my English accent and be this guys impersonator

[@JUST-UK-JAY]

there's enough dickheads already don't lie ... you'll do no such thing!

[@dru1894]

Are Americans ready for this level of knowledge?

[@ojorekhalfani-mrprovocativeBOE]

Knowledge is gain most effectively through Experience.. who is more experienced in the injustice of racism than Blacks in America?!?!

[@Parissolemn]

I remember when the UK singer Estelle said "I'm from West London.. it's like Harlem" in another vlad interview *thumbs up*

[@icilmaa]

West London like Harlem? mmm. If there's any comparison it'd be more like Brixton back in the day.

[@alibabababa8624]

vlad been putting in work recently big up.....akala spitting knowledge as usual..keep em coming

[@1murkeybadmayn]

lol he gassed me up when he joked the kkk in jamaica, but on a real he's right about the entertainment side, idris elba could not even land a regular tv role here in the uk even though everyone knew him in the US from the wire till luther... Reply

[@Mrgd4manny]

wow akala never seems to blow my mind away with how he articulates himself...keep up these videos vlad, he is a very intelligent black man

[@kaysha]

Knowledge

[@valiant971]

I've studied this extensively and this guy really know his stuff. Spot on!

[@rustyflowers1696]

This man is too smart for the average Vlad viewership. Plus blacks look at black British people with suspicion nowdays because of all the dumb xenophobia.

[@amenophisiv6904]

Only video I will watch again is Akalas once Vlad puts out the full interview.

[@TheMuzikall]

True Talk👏..there is no Black Upmarket Residential area...if you are a Black millionaire in U.K.. .you will end up in a Residential area where your neighbours will think you 've risen "Above Your Station" or your neighbours will see themselves as failures bcos you live on their street...some will even Sell up and Move out...

[@gigijbijbj]

More Akala vids ASAP

[@Muadexperience]

More Akala

[@brenrosehairstylesandcuts7502]

Very interesting interview.