What on Earth Happened to the Moors?

What on Earth happened to the Moors, and who were they exactly? In the United States and Europe, the connotation of the term "Moor" has evolved extensively over time, to the point where in most Western depictions they are portrayed exclusively as people of dark-skinned Sub-Saharan African descent, but is this actually accurate to the history and region from which they originated?
This is a contentious subject due to the historic tensions throughout the Mediterranean between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but in today's video we are going to be looking at the actual Maurs or Moors of North Africa, and what happened to them after their conquest of Iberia, Sicily and other parts of Southern Europe, as well as taking a look at some other groups that have adopted the term "Moor" over the years. Thanks for watching!
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[@vtron9832]

We still don’t know, we need Moor information.

[@calska140]

Boo

[@tiganupaleru1880]

I think you really like eternal damnation in hell boi

[@Bocbo]

That hurts man... Really really hurts.

[@franav7652]

I liked the joke don't listen to the others

[@pyrrhocorax]

Ba dum tss

[@rockyoussef]

I am a berber, and i was shocked to learn that there is a large group of black people in the usa that claim that all moors were black, which is as the video put it weird because they just removed a large portion of history and just accredited to themselves. tell me about cultural appropriation lol.

[@kivloli8385]

@inbred autist Moors mean black

[@nejolo9563]

Yosef I’m Native American mixed with African ancestry and I am shocked that white people claim these lands to be theirs. they also claim Egypt and try to deny the historical advancements of non white people. I’m just kidding I’m not shocked. Although a group of black people claiming moorish ancestry or claim Native American civilizations is off putting when you look at the dominant white culture playing these games and attempting to isolate Blacks and Native Americans then you can understand why this is happening.

[@lordenvincar]

@@kivloli8385 moors were maghreb muslims stop lying

[@OhSanjiBoi]

@inbred autist These movement makes sense if acknowledge slavery and pretty much forbade from learning of history in Africa in the US. Keep in mind I'm not saying that we are exclusively all of these people. You need to keep that in mind.

[@EdenHazard-ni1cq]

List of some moors that were black: Yaqub al mansur Abu al hassan Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif Ibn al-yasamin Abu Bakr ibn Umar (not to mention that he was the cousin of Yusuf ibn yashfin whom was decribed as brown) Ziryab (disputed) Estevanico (Mustafa Zemmouri)

[@rdwwdr3520]

Thank you for the well balanced and frank history! It's a big deal with the Amazigh people right now that their history is being appropriated. One topic you failed to include was the eventual rise of the Barbary Corsairs/Pirates, many of whom were Moorish descendants.

[@MK-oz2lf]

the moors were not black they were berber and Carthage. It is a spit in the eye of the peoples of Morocco, Tunisia Algeria and other non black African countries who came from the moors. Black people complain about whites appropriating their culture when now they are doing it to the berbers and Mediterranean people of North Africa. What's next, black people are going to steal Chinese culture and claim it was black people that built the great wall of China. You want to see a Moor, meet a Berber Algerian.

[@hollynonya6991]

Yes and it's disgusting

[@coleslaw1196]

Well now, wouldn’t you want to steal another peoples cultural heritage and history too if your actual one were this kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4LNlpZthdSbndE ?

[@vietwilcots9883]

It’s a long story read from much older texts at KZbin who tell who they are and who the descendants are from that branch of Moors: Hidden Hebrews read by Benyah Israel Some other scholars tell, after the 70AD migration from the Holy land into West Africa -Centuries later there was a split and many of them converted to Islam. They joined forces doing many things and helped spread Islam to many areas. They ended up destroying their own Songhai Kingdom and some of their people in Mali 🇲🇱 Others scattered further West Africa and down along Niger River to other areas of Africa. Crates of 100k books📚 were dug up approx. in 2010.

[@melissasplitt158]

Anyone who has beta thalassemia is Moors descendants.

[@steins2496]

Fun Fact: When Spaniards came to Philippines during 1600s they also called the Muslims living there as "Moro". It's name remain till this day.

[@hello7646]

It's still used in spain (not much btw) to refer to arabs, muslims and sometimes gypsys

[@aymanouadi8071]

@@hello7646 arabs? U mean north africans? North Africans are not arabs

[@thebig3864]

@@aymanouadi8071 Moors were Arabs they ruled north Africa too

[@aymanouadi8071]

@@thebig3864 arabs were only minority. They were the higher rank. most fighters and warriors were black and light skinned berbers

[@thebig3864]

@@aymanouadi8071 No this fake Afro-American theory is wrong Even north Africans are not black they have same colors of Arabs maybe they are more fairly than Arabs Sorry it's not your history

[@R0binH00dOfDaGhett0]

It doesn't get any moor complicated than that lol : )

[@pietrakhazaeli5428]

😆

[@taeevans3360]

Lmaoooooooooooooooooooo this is hella funny!

[@Inhaleinhell]

Yew stuuuuhped. Lol.

[@R0binH00dOfDaGhett0]

@ 😭😭😭FU B*tch

[@arabbols1092]

The Moors are Amarig Moroccans destroyed by this name before the date in the book of the Greek historian Starbon

[@kanedaandiolini6542]

For Christs sake SOMEONE BUILD A TIME MACHINE ALREADY!

[@kiswahiliworldwide]

LOL. The only way to get to the bottom of things. LOL

[@edstar83]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/envco6N8j9x7b6M

[@samyrandome425]

With the Moors they were North West African Muslims eh whatever nothing crazy as a North African myself i don't see what all the fuss is about What truly would be fascinating is going back to like the Paleolithic or some shit. Or too see Mankind's first interactions with other Human species (Neanderthals and Denisovans and stuff).

[@calcaleb7041]

@Lel E how are you going to bring a guy from a fairy tale 😂

[@nate1151]

Shit I wouldn't be surprised if they already had one or Are almost done with it

[@hihello-yv2tt]

Most if not all moors were North Africans and many original North Africans prior to arab mixture were black as far as the strongest evidence shows

[@mirbalochkhan6380]

Where? Libyians were shown as pale skin most of north Africans were white skin people not blacks

[@hihello-yv2tt]

@@mirbalochkhan6380 most of North Africans aren’t white. You can see a clear difference between white Europeans and North Africans. There doesn’t seem to be evidence that Libyans were portrayed as light skinned unless you are referring to the fake remake of a art found in one of the tombs in ancient Egypt. The Libyans seem to have had African like features and it makes sense.

[@dablaccseaproductions5279]

@@mirbalochkhan6380look up the black mummy in Libya. You’re wrong!

[@user-fq7pd3qs8x]

This issue is not disputed and is not sensitive at all. The Moors are the inhabitants of North Africa and they are Berbers and Arabized Berbers.

[@jordangreen7886]

In Spanish there is the surname “Matamoros” which literally means Moor killer

[@digitalarchive4826]

@Jano van Pelt Edgy.

[@sydneyrica1802]

I always thought that was a weird name especially since people with Spanish ancestry can have moorish heritage and still be called Matamoros.

[@oiausdlkasuldhflaksjdhoiausydo]

Jordan Green Saint Sebastian. It’s the patron saint of Spain. Spaniards really really dislike moors for obvious reasons.

[@oiausdlkasuldhflaksjdhoiausydo]

Sydney R here’s the interesting part. Most Spaniards have zero admixture but we have been told we had it since the sixties. But of course, now that we have genetic testing we are realising nobody mixed for 800 years.

[@albertolopezrolo6899]

@@oiausdlkasuldhflaksjdhoiausydo Recently I've read on severeal sites, that the percentage of moors genetic share of spaniards is around 10%.

[@rudyrob]

I learnt from my great grandmother that her ancestors were from what is now the middle east during the time of the Phoenicians and they settled in the eastern part of Spain. They practiced the Hebrew religion and lived in Spain for hundreds of years before the Islamic moors invaded the area. When the Spanish chased out the Islamic Moors most of her people were also chased out. Her immediate family ended up in Jamaica after working as navigators for the Spanish and on arrival in Jamaica they fled and settled in the hills. From there, they trained the run away slaves is gorilla warfare and this was the foundation set for the Jamaican Maroons. She lived to 96 and was a revered medicine woman. who it is said was never sick. A few thousand years of history passed down by oral tradition.

[@ericesoteric4047]

Rudy Robinson history is so complex. God bless your grandmothers spirit for keeping the memory of her ancestors alive and thanks for sharing.

[@jeremiahmfanga2319]

thats a great story man

[@shaneekaminniefield6129]

I am familiar with these historical accounts through research. You have an amazing lineage. God bless you!!! A lot of those Spanish, Hebrew Middle Easterners ran into West Africa too. There were Jewish towns and one Jewish ruler in West Africa. It is noted on old maps of the continent. If you close your eyes and throw a stick at Africans in Africa, 60% of the time you will have hit a Middle Eastern black African Hebrew. They were dark skinned back then as they are now( in Africa) and they hid very well in Africa. Even baby Jesus was taken to Africa to hide. Lol! Other nations can't tell us apart. Lol!

[@Sheikh_RA]

Real Talk!!!

[@creativeyardpostsign2083]

Sorry to tell you my brother, but the Hebrew of Spain are in actuality the Hebrew from North Africa and FYI their are 3 Holly Sites for the Hebrew People which is One in Iraq, One in Jerusalem and the third is in Morocco. When the Vandals criminals were acting as pirates in that part (North Africa & South of Europe) of the World and they were defeated in North (Morocco) Africa, there were no Hebrew in South Europe; The Hebrew migrated to AL-Andalus with the Muslims who again defeated the Vandals in North Africa, and the inhabitants of South Europe requested the Muslims in North Africa to liberate them from the Criminal Vandals. When The Amzizgh General Tarik Ibn Ziad agreed to liberate the inhabitant of South (Spain-Alandalus) Europe Landed, and made his speech after burning the ships, in his speech he spoke of the "Enemy" meaning the Vandals...... The Muslims did not invade the Area, your grandma history lucks some history roots especially the Sephardic who are the Descendants of Prophet Joseph and his brother Bin Yamin...; When the Hebrews were ordained to leave after Solomon Temple, the 12 Hebrew Tribes scattered to Asia & the descendant of Joseph and Benjamin to North Africa-Ethiopia-Morocco of which Sephardic are pure descendants of Josep and BinJamin. I read lots of Zionist history books who state lots of falls and untrue claims against Muslims/Islam, however; As real descendant of AL-ANDALUS and Shorfa of North Africa including Hebrew (Prince & Princess) Shorfa, real history was passed on to me personally about my Islamic Hebrew Roots, and if you like to familiar yourself about a part of Hebrew-Muslims-Shorfa, do some research about "MOULAY ABDESSALAAM BIN MCHICH" and there are few videos on KZbin where you can see Hebrew Rabbi and Hebrew people celebrating "Soultan Jabal" his annual celebration. Also the Sephardic and the Muslims were not chase out, they were forced into the Ottoman Empire Ships and ships of the Criminals of British Empire, Church of Rome and Church of England and they criminals scatter them all over the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire way before any Spanish expedition to America and Asia. Last but not least, I do agree with you about history passed down by oral tradition, and I am a Descendant of that History Learning Tradition and that why I always say, One Day the Descendants of AL-ANDALUS will rule the World again by their beautiful intelligent DNA.

[@spiritofeli]

That is very interesting, I was taught that the original moors were a darks skinned people. In school I learned many Natives of Europe (and others) hold or held "Black Face Parades" to honor the moors (especially in spain). They all paint their faces in black paint, put curly wigs on, and wore clothes like the 3 musketeers. You would think it is offensive but it is not. They are giving Honor to the Old rulers of Europe. The Moors clothing styles, life style, etc evolved drastically by the time they were removed from Spain, and many did not have a nomadic resemblance and dressed more European and lived in European structures, because they were responsible for bringing those thing to Europe and advancing their culture. Idk that what I learned in school, but I am open to all theories of history.

[@sinarenesapartmentstead1802]

I was taught the same Thank you for this comment

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

The original Moors and later Moors weren't black. They came from Arab Empires and genetically are very similar to Berbers. Were there some black Moors? Yes, mainly due to the slave trade. Furthermore the dark ages is a myth. The Moors didn't advance European culture, for it was developing tons each and every century ever since Charlemagne. Byzantium alone was far ahead of all its neighbors before the fourth crusade

[@spiritofeli]

@@ManiacMayhem7256 well maybe you should see the pictures of them in spain. Because it is the reason they held the blackface Parades. I think that people forget they were not a nomadic people by then. This is why William Shakespeare used the word "moorish" to describe black people. Growing up it was common knowledge and it was taught in schools, but now for some reason social media is pushing the ladder. I say let Arabian people be moors because the black ones still have tons of evidence they ruled Spain with sculptures, paintings, etc. Can't beat physical evidence.

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

@@spiritofeli I've seen the original contemporary depoctions, they're Berber, North African, not Sub Saharan. They weren't depicted as black until after the trans Atlantic slave trade and colonialism began. By the time of Shakespear the Moors had been gone for hundreds of years. What you're doing is like taking 1800s Orientalists (the 1800s being the main time Moors we're portrayed as black to make them an other) at face value. The origins of the Moors too is Umayyad, not Sub Saharan. There were some black Moors mainly due to the slave trade. Only in America will you get a tiny group claiming that Chinese, Babylonians, Hebrews, Persians, Native Americans, Egyptians were black. And if you disagree they'll try to hurt or kill you. There is physical evidence. It's called genetics, and genetics of Moors shares the closest affinity with Morrocans and Berbers

[@spiritofeli]

@@ManiacMayhem7256 the berber people were obviously had Jewish influence as you can tell from alot of there culture, clothes l, hair styles etc. But human migration is a huge factor when determining what people originated from what place. Nowadays human migration has been completely left out of the equation. People do not stay in the same areas for 1000 years

[@KB-nz6bv]

Black American here 👋🏽 my DNA results came out: 25% Nigerian , 24% Cameroon/Congo/Western Bantu, 21% Mali , 17% England/Northwestern Europe, 3% Scotland, 3% Benin and Togo, 3% Senegal, 2% Wales, and 2% Portugal Most of us have anywhere from 8-25% European admixture because we’ve been in America hanging with the white folks for 400 years 😂. The rest of our DNA is mainly West/Central African. Some of us may have a little Native American blood But all in all we have NO CONNECTION TO THE MOORS. And most of us know this! It’s only the crazy Hotep Fake Israelite groups that try to claim that we do lol. But most of us don’t care to and know we aren’t related.

[@hamzaalmdghri8741]

There is manipulation of DNA analysis for ideological reasons

[@soso-ry5if]

Thank you

[@NationalismDjazair]

@@hamzaalmdghri8741 🤣 Bro you are not a moor, stop stealing my history.

[@NationalismDjazair]

Thank u brother for telling the truth, from a north african ( a real one) 👍🏼

[@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533]

Common sense at last!

[@eraselife7654]

Im a Sahrawi from Southern-Morocco. My people are closest related to Tuaregs (One of the Blackest Berber tribes you can find.)We also have almost the same culture as Tuaregs, such as religion, food , language, clothes(the famous blue veils),..ect. I'll tell you why people like Tuaregs would never agree with the theory of all Moors being black, just like any black North-African in Morocco or Algeria wouldnt. Because to say that all the Moors were black, is to downplay the harsh reality of the Arab/Berber slave trade, and to pretend like that never happened, while in fact it was the biggest slave trade in history, together with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Its like saying Black Americans never experienced slavery because they are the original Americans, which is absurd. Black North-Africans are very consious about their history in slavery, and in cities like Essaouria they even have entire festivals every year that praises Black North-African culture, their history in slavery and their sub-Saharan roots. These people are very very proud about their culture and history. I know, because as a Sahrawi i have black admixture as well that comes from a past in Slavery. My grand-father even wrote a book about this topic. Just Google 'Gnawa culture' or 'Haratin culture' if you want to learn more about the topic.

[@TwistedOnyx369]

Great comment! Very informative. Thanks.

[@lightarrow1684]

Thank you, it seems to be a beautiful culture.

[@youssefabdelmegeid1097]

Not all black tuareg people are originally slaves as the trans saharan slave trade wasnt based on rasicm as the trans Atlantic trade was it was based more on religious discrimination where if u were non Muslim and an enemy you would be enslaved doesn't matter whether you were black white or asian

[@carloslinares4352]

The Glitch bullshit Europeans and sub Saharan blacks were enslaved way more than Arabs or Berbers. They definitely dehumanized other races during that slave trade too.

[@joshistyping]

I never knew that North Africans had Sub-Saharan Africans traded as slaves in significant numbers. I don't know a ton about the history of that region so it's fascinating to have this context to explain some of the black North African presence.

[@Pawlakov1]

I report an error! 6:43 the island in the red circle is NOT Malta.

[@dildry9317]

Exactly that Island is Pantelleria

[@seethrough_treeshrew]

Right you are, sir

[@aborigineone2377]

We are still here we just been replaced with false white skinned so called moors, WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE TYPE IN MORIAAN, THAN CLICK ON IMAGES...Whenever a white person is telling you, your history is lying or giving half-truth and inserting himself into it, so don't believe most of what this white man is saying.

[@loraxvindaloo1169]

@@aborigineone2377 racist

[@deutschland-2001]

Some African Americans really believe that they are Moors and somehow "civilized" and "ruled" the European continent, although there is no historical confirmation that Moors occupied more than just Spain and Portugal. Like they've never heard of Greeks, Roman Empire, Macedonia, Etruria, Vinca Neolithic culture, Minoans, Basque etc. And why was West Africa still living in Stone Age before Arabs and Western Europeans came there?

[@h.w.barlow6693]

They're not very smart in general and lack historical knowledge and insight.

[@BatmanRules]

West Africans were melting iron a few centuries before Europeans 🤦when the Arabs entered West Africa, they were awe-struck by the Wagadu empire's power and wealth! Western history is a farce, please awaken yourself from its ignorance.

[@Doris-wd3is]

The Greeks studied in kemet, of what you white people call Egypt, the white man never built a pyramid, if so why would you go to hot Africa to build when you could have built in Europe , present day Arabs are not the original Egyptians, not related at all to ancient Egypt

[@eljay4k]

"Subsaharan Africans" were the earliest known group to enter the Iron age according to multiple archeological finds across West / Central Africa. In fact, they're believed to be the only known group to have skipped the Copper/ Bronze age and went straight from Stoneworking to Ironworking somewhere between 3000 - 500 BC. All evidence currently points to this being an independent discovery.

[@IbrahimStanikzai]

Berbers were moors.Moors are north African not sub Saharan African . Nobody is denying black soliders but they are slaves not moors .stealing history should not be allowed .Blacks are clever through this moorish history they wanted to say that they ruled over iberia and sicily on white people and then extented it to whole Europe which is not accurate complete lying .Moors are north Africans not blacks .

[@cjjohnson2509]

There African black ppl fk wrong with you ppl . God is black Jesus is black the first ppl on this 🌍 was black

[@krb4343]

😂😂😂

[@simplythebest286]

the moors are the people of the kingdom of morocco , they are not black ( they were never black ) , they are berbers !! the kingdom of morocco was called mauretania ( with an (e)) longtime ago , this is why its inhabitants were called (maures) or ( moors) == maure like maur(e)tania. now , modern day maur(i)tania in the south of morocco was created and named like that by french colonial administrator xavier copolani == they have nothing to do with the maures(inhabitants of maur(e)tania , moder day morocco. and nobody knows why he decided to call it mauritania since the original name was ( the land of chinguit).

[@jopribashan8587]

I am North African.. the oldest berbere tribe in morrocco are 'tuareg and 'masmuda.. these are not european people..

[@stayfocused4324]

@Izaak Williams Arab caliphates are who conquered , blacks were slave soldiers , the trans sharran slave trade started in 641 , they put blks in their slave army and invaded spain in 711 ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpWwhX-PicqGaK8

[@jessj7516]

@@jopribashan8587 Tuaregs arent the oldest Berber tribe. They were however amongst the biggest enslavers of Blacks in Africa (even today)....

[@stayfocused4324]

@Izaak Williams orginal Berbers weren't blk , stop stealing history

[@simplythebest286]

@Izaak Williams a lie repeated 1000 times is a 1000 time repated lie , it does not magically become reality . you still don't understand that there are people on earth who are neither black nor white. the real issue is why you never claim any civilization in sub saharian africa ( where 100% of the people are black and NOBODY in the world would dispute that , nobody)??? you want to feel pround about something but stealing other people's culture won't make you feel better!! india and china are both asian countries and neighbors but they are seperated by the himalaya mountains and they both look VERY different ( of course you will never hear chinese saying : we are the real asians , indians are blablablabla because they don't have an inferiority complex. on the other side , some people need to feed their inferiority complex by playing the victim /opressed card so your theory falls into this place : so basically everyone was black in the world and somehow you got oppressed and lost all the power , right??!!! well , in sub saharian africa ( that was called ethiopia for a very long time since africa meant only north africa for a very long time) , people had enough time to create their own civilization since they are isolated from the rest of africa ( north africa) by a natural barrier / border that is very difficult to cross : the SAHARA DESERT and this is why all the invadors including greeks , romans , ottomans .... never colonized sub saharian africa but only north africa. so sub saharian africans had enought time to build their own civilization ( if they managed to do so ) way before the arrival of european colons !!!

[@Tysand]

It’s weird when there is so much art, a lot even by Europeans depicting the moors as black but when speaking on the subject white people never say that and claim that they were of Arab/some south Asian descent. I’ve seen statues , flags, and plays about black moors but they don’t come up in any of these videos or history lessons. Same with Egypt. I’m not getting into their skin debate, but even when there are stories of Egypt interacting with kingdoms south to them it seems like those perspectives are cut short. Being very interested in history it seems to me that people are content in leaving holes in history even at the risk of contradicting themselves as long as they can place who they want on pedestals. P.s. Some of you guys are really letting your racism and low self esteem show in these comments

[@kocoloks]

History when told from another perspective is given in points of when the truth is there leave it out. I have no doubt that the Balkins exist but like you’ve stated there’s too many paintings and other documents that indicate other wise. I found this to be “one sided” like “Blacks can only come from slaves” sided history.

[@Tysand]

thomas anderson Your comment doesn’t really answer any of the questions I presented in mine. Take another read.

[@kocoloks]

thomas anderson because Europeans have to classify a group in order to cause confusion. Like the one drop rule, if you have one drop then your classified as... there were “dark moors” if you will and they made major contributions to society.

[@inanemouttki6]

SARCASM -are europeans black ? a european is someone who came from the continent of europe. if we ask a european he would say no, BUT if we ask a native american ... some of them might say yes , i mean look at black people in the americas , they speak french english and spanish , and are christian just like the europeans, so that makes all blacks in south america the carabeans and north america , EUROPEANS ... -are the moors black ? a moor ''a mauri'' is a man from the kingdom of mauritania , that was a christian nation then became muslim. if we ask a north african he would say no , BUT if we ask a european ,some of them might say yes , i mean look at those blacks in andalusia , they spoke arabic , and were muslim , just like moroccans algerians and tunisians, so that makes those blacks , MOORS SHORT ANSWER blacks in the americas are not european blacks in iberia are not north african they are subsaharan africans , brouht from sub saharan africa , to those places by muslim north africans and christian european , mmmmm because they were good at making beer , yeah ...

[@marselluswallace6]

They were brownish/black. Similar to that of Moroccan decent

[@abdel.20oum82]

I’m Moroccan my both parents are and I did an ancestry dna test just for fun I got 98% north african ( native indigenous of the Maghreb ) 👑❤️❤️❤️

[@abdel.20oum82]

@Salam Hamif we’re neither white nor black we re caucasoid race but not white most of us are Olive and in snowy region and the mountains regions there’s blond people with colored eyes and In deserted regions there’s some dark people but not blacks and FYI the Kingdom of Mauretania was nowadays Morocco not nowadays Mauritania 🇲🇷 🙂

[@ynsysf6126]

@Umbuko DaJuko not that big nd not that harsh.. sahara desert is incomparable with any other natural barriers in the world.. the natural barrier separing tibet from east china where u can find water nd hundreds of lankes nd rivers is livable (check google maps)... unlike the gigantic sahara desert (9 million km²) from morocco to egypt, nd with the large of about 3000 km from north to equatorial zone.. which is specified by very hot temperatures in the day (40°c in average) nd so cold temperatures at night ( it usually can reach -10°C), with the total absence of rivers, lakes or any source of water (except some really rare oasis which don't represent even 0,0001% of the surface).. nd this all around the year... this harsh circumstances minimized a lot the human contact between the north africans nd sub saharians for thousands years.. so u can't bring nonsense fairy stories with any historical testimonials, or any genetic, civilizational, cultural, logical proofs.. then start blaming a whole ethnic group for no reason 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

@@abdel.20oum82 there are and were black moors what are saying?

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

@@abdel.20oum82 and u do know morrocan empire eventually stretched to west africa

[@Sofian375]

"98%" I ve not seen anyone from Morocco with such results. Either you never took that test or you were embarrassed by what you found.

[@-3696]

I dont like how black people try to claim everything. I mean can you even name a SINGLE black Emir or king in Andalusia? Many Black soldiers were brought by Arabs to Iberia because its next to Iberia, just like how the Arabs used Persians in Centeral Asia. Its not complicated its just that you people need to stop taking their stupid claims seriously, Moors were Arabs and Berbers, but even calling them just Arabs is correct.

[@YA-kr4fr]

im sick of it for real haha

[@YA-kr4fr]

their sources are pictures on google image

[@-3696]

@@YA-kr4fr Even the images are fake.

[@user-jk3ox8em5l]

In the future they are going to claim that samurais were black too😂😂

[@Shu577]

@Luiz Nunes it is awesome that they still know their culture and ancestors. I also heard they hate being called black. Which I completely understand.

[@AdonisBorn1]

Honestly I don't like the way you are politicizing the geography of Africa by labeling sub saharan Africans as black and Northern Africans as white (implicitly). Why can't the diversity of Africa be accepted just as the diversity of Europe is accepted. Furthermore, I agree the Moors were not all dark skinned Africans but the way you are downplaying their blackness is very disappointing . I think you should be informed that there are plenty of dark skinned Africans from Algeria, Morocco, and most definitely Mauritania. Moreover, Moors were from Mali, Niger, & Mauritania which cover subsaharan regions so the medieval artwork that portrays these Moors with so called "sub saharan features" is not exaggerated but consistent with history. For dark skinned Moors being portrayed there are also depictions of lighter skinned Moors.

[@negativeskull2622]

AJ2018, he's deliberately doing that and for good reasons too! All of this talk about North Africa always being static is just another attempt to dominate history. You would think that they would present a heterogeneous place like North Africa what it is, heterogeneous! But you be wrong. All of his screenshots of Coastal North Africans is nothing more than him and his sheep of an audience pandering to lies that they deliberately want to believe! His low quality video was meant to be what it is amateurish and low quality.

[@YurrahAlHadi]

And guess where the majority of African Americans in America trace their lineage bk to??? My family already knew a lot of our lineage, but my sister took a dna test any way. She came out with 88% West Africa with the countries Ivory Coast, Senegalese, Cameroom, Mali, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, hell pretty much all the west African nations. Asian from the Persian/Iran region, Polynesian, Europe countries, and Native American.

[@simplythebest286]

but north africans and sub saharian african are different people who share the same continent just like the indians and chinese == facts. north africa is separated from subsaharian africa by the sahara desert and china is seperated from india by the himalayas mountain == same continent , different people == as simple as that !!!

[@AdonisBorn1]

​@@simplythebest286 You just don't realize that topography isn't all scientific it's also political.

[@negativeskull2622]

Yeah, but here the thing though. Sub Saharan Africans are distinguished from other Sub Saharan Africans, so never mind North Africans. Hell, North Africans can distinguish from each other, so your point really doesn't mean much. Africa isn't Eurasia, there's no areas on the African continent where fairer skin can naturally occur, its climate is humid, dry, and tropical. Also, just like the Himalayas, the Saharan desert like any terrain did not stop movements across the continent. I mean your same logic can apply to the Mediterranean Sea, where it acted as a barrier for people who didn't have vessels. People knew how to navigate the Saharan desert, despite it circumstances as a desert. The camel was a good vehicle for navigating such a wasteland, where to the point it acted like a highway for global commerce. Just ask the Berbers. They roamed the Sahara before its desertification and continue to do so to this day. They seem to use the desert just finely.

[@AnoFlour]

I always laugh when African Americans say “We conquered y’all, we wuz kangz” when talking about the Moors.

[@stayfocused4324]

They were conquered themselves. ... the arab slave trade started in 641 . They put blks in their slave army and invaded Spain in 711. All the rulers and leaders of the moors were Arab and berbers , blks didn't run anything

[@Jihadhamlett]

@@stayfocused4324 alot of Africans converted to islam before the arab conquest that would be muslims from ghana Mauritania and Morocco. Those were the soldiers that went to spain and to sacked it. Free african leaders. So yea that had a big part in civilizing europeans

[@stayfocused4324]

@@Jihadhamlett A Moor born in Muslim Spain Muhammad Al-Idrisi, writing in his Kitab Rujar, took note of the Zanji's ( blks) “furrowed feet, stinking sweat” and “lack of knowledge and defective minds ''

[@stayfocused4324]

@@Jihadhamlett blk man debunks blk moor civilization claim .. This video shows a list of notable moors , anti black literature from moors and Moorish architecture compared to blks .. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpWwhX-PicqGaK8rchitecture

[@simplythebest286]

african americans claim every culture out there except their own == sub saharian africa == where 100% of people are black !!!

[@youssefkenzeddine5515]

It's only sensitive for certain americans who wanna claim a sense of identity of some cool historical fact🤣

[@bln3615]

Basically, the historical, cultural, geographic and demographic hub of the Moorish heritage = Morocco

[@marioformosa4259]

Which makes you wonder why the so-called Moorish Golden Age took place in Spain where the people were overwhelmingly Spanish

[@bln3615]

@@marioformosa4259 It has been more than 5 centuries that the Moorish culture became allogeneic there and its geographical scope was before that already reduced to a part of the south. The Spanish identity was partly built on the rejection of this culture. No other country than Morocco has such a strong link with Moorish history.

[@robesterd8132]

@@marioformosa4259 Because they were invaded.

[@anteversus8471]

Never

[@mahdimehdi445]

@@ilel lol kid al andalus is part of christian spain

[@1293ST]

You could say there is Moor than meets the eye about the Moors.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Let's just give thanks to Masaman for Moor videos.

[@ladyzioness]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@calska140]

B o o

[@pyrrhocorax]

Ba dum tss

[@brandonvistan7444]

That's one Moor joke that didn't need to be made.

[@kingKOOLIE]

But there should be some sort of accountability with facts. Show your sources

[@chrislorentz2911]

Dear Masaman, You are a true gentleman and a scholar! I've been watching tons of your high quality content for years now and really miss your valuable insight into the ethnic, cultural and genetical background for multiple different tribes. You've not uploaded a video for a very long time now thus, I truly hope you get back into content creation once again sir in order to provide these magnificent videos to the peoples of the world. May God bless you!

[@TNTkiwi]

Hi Masaman, I'm southern Portugese and I got dark hair and brown eyes. My father has Northern-African traits like afro hair and fair skin so I'm here to see where all this could possibly come from. My question is, what's your educational background? Did you study anthropology?

[@vietwilcots9883]

Exactly, He needs to dig deeper into older historical texts of what was hidden and stick to a timeline when speaking. Even, the tribe of Juda (documented) on a Portuguese map.was exiled. to West Africa during the Spanish Inquisition. My mom even has Tunis within her DNA 🧬. His response speaks to after the exile and needs to stick to a timeline. It’s been documented.

[@LuCa8_]

There could just be some over lapping traits for your father. But I think to confirm for sure you should take a dna test amigão

[@johnp760]

The Portuguese today are a mix of various peoples, Celt-Iberians, Romans, Germanics, Moors and a few others, Portuguese DNA has some North African input.

[@AfricanMaverick]

Afro hair is a sub-saharan trait

[@Dragoncam13]

It's a possibility in the case of your dad it either came from the berber tribes or even from the Portuguese slave trade (you might have some cabo verdean or Angolan ancestors in the mix)

[@andrewblasphomis3411]

Your analysis is bullshit. You are assuming that Europeans portrayed moors as Sub Saharan Africans to “distance themselves” from moors. There is no written source from that era in Europe which suggest that this is the case. Europeans were very clear on what they themselves, in person saw. That’s why in all the portraits, flags, crests and descriptions of moors in European literature and artworks, from that era, depict moors as Sub Saharan African. These depictions and descriptions of moors were not just made in one specific European country. It was made in England, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, just the name a few, which clearly shows that people in those respective countries were all clearly depicting and describing what they saw in person. You can just assume the reason why Europeans depicted moors the way they did due to the simple fact that you can not read minds. Even more so if those people existed hundreds of years ago. So your assumption of why Europeans described and depicted moors, the way they did is invalid.

[@eraselife7654]

The Moors never came into England, Germany, The Netherlands...etc. And European Christians werent allowed into Islamic Moorish land (Spain), because they would have been killed on sight because of their religion. Europeans only saw Moorish soldiers from a very far distance who patrolled the Moorish borders. It is a well known fact that a lot of Moorish soldiers were sub-Saharan slaves, so its only logical that Europeans described them as "Black", while in fact the vast majority of them simply werent....

[@sacbeme]

​@@eraselife7654 OooOooOOh so Charlamgne never fought any Moors in his reign over his Gaulic Kingdom. Good to know! I guess all these images created about the years long wars never existed. twitter.com/medievalpoc/status/1099774201169350663/photo/2 www.flickr.com/photos/medievalpoc/11805628373 Why do you idiots say such dumb things with no backing just... you know... how you think it was. Prove to me that everyone in the Moor military were *_slaves_*, news flash silly pants, they weren't.

[@diegofiorenzani9546]

The island in the circle isn't Malta, it's Pantelleria

[@HitGardenStudio]

Hahahah this Masaman is becomming a joke

[@HitGardenStudio]

@@myutubechannel_nr1 Jerk off idiot, youre to stupid for this coversation

[@Mayyouknow]

@@myutubechannel_nr1 xD True!!! :P xD

[@dajjukunrama5695]

Ok Al Re-day that’s enough Reddit for you

[@Nicods]

By the way Pantelleria dialect, Pantesco, is a kind of link between Sicilian and Maltese, let's say while Maltese sounds basically like an Arab dialect heavily influenced by Sicilian and Italian, Pantesco sounds like a Sicilian dialect heavily influenced by Arab and Italian. I'm not sure if Pantesco and Maltese are mutually intelligible, I'm quite sure a Maltese speaker can easily understand it since the almost all understand or speak italian, but I think a Pantesco speaker need a long exposure to understand Maltese. No way a Sicilian speaker can understand Maltese.

[@andrewsullivan3874]

Mason, this video is fuckin' awesome. It paints a picture of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious culture that evolved and spread to all inhabited continents over the ages. It not only informed me about my own heritage, it also informed my understanding of multiple countries. It should also be noted that people have lived in Morocco for over 300 thousand years. Thanks for covering this.

[@YouTube_Enjoyerlol]

8:30 Black Americans claim to be descendants of North African Moors who conquered and ruled Iberia, as well as descendants of Nubian pharaohs and warriors in Northwest Africa. The truth is, the vast majority of their ancestors actually come from the West Sub-Sahara African tribes who were defeated by the larger regional tribes from areas around modern day Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Congo and Angola, then sold or traded to Sephardic, Arab and European buyers. But if you look at their depictions of their ancestors, they are covered in gold and jewelry, looking majestic and powerful, reigning over vast empires, pyramids, great temples and structures rivaling Rome itself!

[@cadguy262]

All ancient Africans used the current land bridge out of Africa. Note the country nearest that land bridge is Kemet. It proves once again that Kemet is the land of the Blacks and when that land was repeatedly invaded these blacks returned to there ancestral lands as far away from the troubled land bridge.

[@rusthomas8710]

where there were Songhai and Ghana

[@cadguy262]

@Solur oh mr Wallace ... KMT means District of the Blacks, the hieroglyph when read from right to left starts with hieroglyph O49, a disc with diagonal cross roads meaning District, (I think that is where we get the term X marks the spot) not O16 meaning land or O17 meaning soil/earth. Furthermore the hieroglyph ends with skin of Siebek the alligator. District of the Blacks makes more sense when most of KMT venerated Gods are black animals, birds and insects. Ie Wadjet the cobra,khepri the scarab bettle and Anubis the Jackel just to mention a few. I could go and on but you know what I mean. But most importantly the people and their venerated Gods share the same color. Furthermore KMT (Kemet) the nation existence is from 3200 BC to 332BC Egypt became a country only 332BC. I strongly suggest you stop stealing KMT history. Peace

[@cadguy262]

@Solur DNA data are not reliable and is subjective to producing a desired result for whoever is paying for the data. Furthermore Some of the most often quoted historians are Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and Herodotus.Herodotus states in a few passages that the Egyptians were black/dark. According to most translations, Herodotus states that a Greek oracle was known to be from Egypt because she was "black", that the natives of the Nile region are "black with heat", and that Egyptians were "black skinned with woolly hair".Lucian observes an Egyptian boy and notices that he is not merely black, but has thick lips. Diodorus Siculus mentioned that the Aethiopians considered the Egyptians a colony. Appollodorus, a Greek, calls Egypt the country of the black footed ones. Aeschylus, a Greek poet, wrote that Egyptian seamen had "black limbs."Greeks sometimes referred to Egyptians as Aethiopians. Gaston Maspero states that "by the almost unanimous testimony of ancient [Greek] historians, they [ancient Egyptians] belonged to the African race, which settled in Ethiopia".

[@claudiamarianidamato9499]

Long live the Mediterranean !!! North Africa Italia Sicilia Sardegna Cyprus Greece Spain Morocco Egypt Tunisia turkey . VI AMOO

[@arabbols1092]

The Moors are Amarig Moroccans destroyed by this name before the date in the book of the Greek historian Starbon

[@arabbols1092]

Man Antom The Moors are Amarig Moroccans destroyed by this name before the date in the book of the Greek historian Starbon

[@arabbols1092]

Le Soigneur Des Agneaux The Moors are Amarig Moroccans destroyed by this name before the date in the book of the Greek historian Starbon

[@carleindegasoline8704]

@Le Soigneur Des Agneaux bro your nickname... vous etes un vétérinaire? c'est le nom plus génial que j'aie jamais rencontré...

[@aubreyjames8795]

Scary.

[@Mr_Valentin.]

The word "Moor" is just a word what Europeans in the middle ages called North africans,it's not an ethnicity or a culture, it's it and that's it

[@donaldlyons180]

Валентин Valentin stop Moor we’re black which is why during the 1800’s They called the Thomas “The Moore” Molineaux who was a black boxer

[@edenromanov]

3:20

[@IN10SEGAMING]

@@donaldlyons180 pls stop you're making us look bad

[@FoufouBe]

@@donaldlyons180 lol, i'm north african and i can assure you that most of them were not. So stop stealing our history. Yest few were blacks but that doesn't mean that all were blacks lol

[@kivloli8385]

@@FoufouBe liar

[@UpNxtMedia]

Good try. The moors were black

[@BC-kc6em]

No we are not

[@hamzaalmdghri8741]

The Moors are a very old name mentioned by the Phoenicians and the Romans, and they amazigh zenta semi-nomads in the grassy steppes, the people of tents, horses, war, fighting, courage, bravery, chivalry, pride, hunting and freedom In northeastern Morocco, southeastern Morocco and the Middle Atlas, they founded the ancient kingdom of Mauritania . There is a manipulation of the results of the DNA for ideological reasons to support racial mixing and the mixing of other pure races to have a tie with the Europeans and Americans. Therefore, you find DNA experiments differ from one company to another and find Kind of weird and funny results

[@elvenleaf5589]

They are my ancestors my grandmother from Zenata

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

Believe me we in USA don't need anymore pirates so please take the racial 💩somewhere else I mean really it's getting so f in old so so old. all shades of BEAUTIFUL Rock

[@topps19891]

The "WE WUZ KINGZ" folks aren't gonna like this one!!🙈

[@selendriamuganogo7077]

Temi Oni you should read this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Sardinia Also this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maure

[@lannelbishop3668]

The fact that so many Portuguese DNA test show west African heritage tells you the majority of Moors were Black Africans. The way that formerly dominate european country like Germany , Italy , Portugal , ext. treat Black soccer players and taunt them let us know they recognize their former masters. They have little or no hate for Berber , Arab or Turkish players but they sure do hate the Black ones. Masaman you need to learn the true origin or the moor. Berber Blood would have wash out of the Portuguese by now. Not too blonds come from Portugal. Watch those DNA ancestry test by Portuguese , they always have west African roots.

[@dereklanmbarn6607]

Lannel Bishop wrong. Many Iberians have North African DNA not west African. Larp harder

[@XavierbTM1221]

nor the WE WUZ ARYANZ and their paranoic WHYTE GENOCIDE bullshit

[@DaGreatHokaga]

Imagine starting off a video with Roman empires about African groups when there were previous empires there. That not a good start

[@meanbeats]

Hes playing the music from the scene in True Romance when dennis hopper tells the sicilians they're moors

[@jeffreybickerton2110]

I noticed that too... The white folk in the comments there are so Triggered on that video 🤣😂

[@80thiconoclast]

Lol! Thanks for that priceless observation. It's good to know Mason has a sense of humor.

[@PNOTYForever]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOO

[@reginab722]

Except we are not. Im italian with a little greek. Less than one percent african.

[@meanbeats]

@@reginab722 in the movie dennis hopper knew he was gonna die so he said that to piss them off

[@blackdreamhunk3413]

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Moors, as early as the Middle Ages and as late as the seventeenth century were,“commonly supposed to be black or very swarthy, and the word often used for Negro.” James E. Brunson and Runoko Rashidi, authors of The Moors of Antiquity wrote,“There is considerable difficulty in determining the ethnicity of the early Moors through terminology alone.” There are several terms that have been used to identify the Moors. Arabic texts, for example, rarely used the word Moor and instead applied the term Berber (a word thought by some to be pejorative) to the early non-Arab peoples of Northwest Africa.

[@eleanorrose6122]

It's funny how there is a tribe of black people indigenous to Morocco.....I am happy scientists were heartbroken when they discovered that the kings who ruled in Egypt were not white skinned.

[@youssafemonster]

@@eleanorrose6122 We know who they are because their DNA is all over Europe and it's not Sub Saharan, it's Mahgreb.

[@9MindNews101]

I noticed you didn’t speak of 1621 the moorish word being substituted for Indian. Basically the American Indians of 1492 were simply Moorish People. Those moorish people have been denationalized and reclassified as negro which is synonymous with moor or blackamoor (Misnomered) the word moor is synonymous to negro etymological sense. Moor also meant westerner. As the etymology explains the timeline of the word moor was Latin for black then later used in Islam as the word black meant Pale. This is important and you may have to look into this

[@user-mc8ow8me9o]

Natives of america were are and will not be moors or black

[@9MindNews101]

@@user-mc8ow8me9o the thing I love about the age of information is that we all have small super computers in our pockets called smart phones with great internet access to hidden or lost information coming directly from its source 😂 this is just one small confirmation……In 1621 the word "Indian" was substituted for "Moorish;".. Notes: Variants of the term “Moor” have been used by many Europeans since ancient times as a general description for dark skinned indigenous peoples as well as Africans.

[@9MindNews101]

@@user-mc8ow8me9o in its public information buddy I encourage you to look into yourself and don’t take my word for it. Because the term moor was used in mid evil times and prior to being used for Islam

[@dtwgunna5252]

The dude who did this video doesn’t know what he’s talking about at al😂

[@lif3andthings763]

There isn’t some magical line that separates “bantu” looking people which isn’t even a ethnic group but a language group. Countries like Mali and Chad have black people which are all in the Saharan desert. Im not taking either side but all I am saying is that it is highly unlikely that Black people did not live in North Africa freely. Just look at the Tuareg they are pretty dark.

[@robertcherry7190]

It is absolutely ridiculous.

[@haleffect9011]

The thing is, with the exception of Lybia, there aren't many black people in north africa even now, we can expect that in the past, travel was even more restrictive, so there would have been even less.

[@robertcherry7190]

@@haleffect9011 - travel may have been less efficient or even less convenient. It wasn't impossible.

[@robertcherry7190]

@@haleffect9011 By the logic it appears you are attempting to apply, the people living in Vermont today have always lived there.

[@haleffect9011]

@@robertcherry7190 there is a difference between camel (manly available to Tuaregs) and the occasional boat, and our entire infrastructure of roads, railroads, and planes capable of hauling entire populations. The united states is a bit of a special case, two genocides, massive ethnic displacements of several european populations, incentives for many, many births. Together it caused a massive decrease in local populations, a massive increase in european populations, and a complete ethnic shift not even comparable to mid and south America. I don't think north africa went through any of that trauma. It has been more or shown that even though cultural shifts have occurred, the ethnic composition of Morroco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt have been more or less even for the last 1000-1500 years. (It may have been slightly different during Roman times with more intra Mediterranean mixture, and in egypt, more contact with pre-Ethiopia (Nubia I believe)

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

moors? as sub-saharan blacks? moors are more associated with muslims in general. thats why the spaniards eventually called the muslim inhabitants of southern philippines in mindanao as moro

[@soraya.e5482]

I met this Berber guy who hated being associated with Muslims

[@YurrahAlHadi]

Islam isn't only an Arab religion. Many people across the world were Muslims back then.

[@kenttheboomer721]

@@soraya.e5482 The Berber have a rich history of Christianity, even Judaism. But most Berber are muslim since the 7th century muslim conquest. You sure you don't mean he hate being associated with Arabs? Berber is an ethnicity, not a religion.

[@soraya.e5482]

Georgia Hunter both he wasn’t Muslim or Arab he was in America and everyone assumed he was Arab he felt out of place because he didn’t know Arabic and there isn’t a solid Berber Algerian community in America. He just started dislike how everyone assumed he was a Muslim Arab.

[@darklord7069]

kiv Loli I just like that you only respond with links from an Afrocentrist from quora. Masaman already addressed why moors were depicted as black

[@miguelpereira934]

Fun fact: In Portugal any fan from a club from below the Mondego River is considered a Moor. Even if you're born above it, you're a fan of X club it's only right to call you a Moor.

[@Nuevomexicano]

portugal is boring russian spain

[@aubamebludclaatyang1278]

Mandingo river?

[@miguelpereira934]

@@aubamebludclaatyang1278 idk the name in english but its mondego

[@renegadescorpio68]

To Be truthful im very humbled by who i am now I knew i was a black arab but to find out who was the arabs was a mind blower

[@ghassencsetwow]

@@renegadescorpio68 you are not you are west afriacn you have nothig to do with moors or north africans

[@RR-ri4vn]

Blacks actually think they were moors 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@user-pz2dy7wc9c]

They still exist in Maghreb

[@middleeastarmenia407]

Hey Georgia, hows the climate up there? 😁

[@seethrough_treeshrew]

Squiggle squiggle

[@user-pz2dy7wc9c]

@@middleeastarmenia407 Hey Armenia, it's beautiful here. How's it in Armenia? :)

[@riannahdino324]

Maghreb in my language means Sunset, night time

[@riannahdino324]

@Antoine Shelby Thanks for telling me.🥰

[@MrWillcapone]

But wait, there's moor !!!

[@calska140]

B O O

[@pyrrhocorax]

Ba dum tss

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

Hahaha...good one!!!

[@cattycorner8]

Thank heavens! True origins and specific definitions of just who are the Moors have always confused me. How did you get to be so incredibly well versed in history?

[@tonyvision4137]

The Moors are black men from all of North Africa. The word Moor literally means black in multiple European languages.. Just simply go read the first Webster dictionary before all the false narratives appeared.. After defeating the Moors in 1492 the Europeans began doing everything in their power to wipe away Moorish history & identity.. You can study the many black sculptures/statues still standing in Europe til this day, or enslaved Moorish Princes like Abdul Rahman Sori story. There's endless documentation they attempted to hide but it's researchable.. They try to pretend these Caucasian descendants are the original ppl of that land same way they do with Egypt. They stole North Africa from the original ppl bcuz it is rich in resources, history & culture. This is the truth bias reporters like this guy wont report. Fake DNA test aren't scientific or respected by geneticists..

[@cattycorner8]

@@tonyvision4137 Were the Carthaginians Black? There are so-called black-a-moor statuettes that have been objects d'art for 500 years, and those are def Black.

[@cattycorner8]

@@tonyvision4137 Thanks for taking the time to reply!

[@selimel4698]

@@cattycorner8 please don't listen to him the only black people known to the roman were east africans, north african were not described as black, the sahara desert was a natural barrier that separated the rest of africa with the mediterranean civillisations

[@funandfun-xy4ez]

Moors are caucasian berbers, easy peasy. Black west african have not history, so they steal others achievement

[@darkenergy.]

The term Sub Saharan African became popular during the 1980's around the time Black people start discovering the history of North Africa..

[@lenjon7478]

We will never really know, but in the Netherlands on the centuries old buildings the moors are pictured as really black humans and not brown.

[@lenjon7478]

Shane Ashby I have watched a lot of videos concerning this same topic, always almost the same with a little deviation and I did read the comments on the video . I do not need to see the entire video any more to know what the video is suggesting. The same discussion over and over again trying to steal the history of the black man and I do realize that due to mixing there were Moors of brown colors, but In Europe (way before the changing of the African history began around 1800 by a German professor in an effort to dismiss the African achievements and enhance the European achievements) the Moors were pictured on the old pictures and statues (that were not destroyed when destroying the African history and enhancing the European history ) were described and pictured as blacks with African features. I grew up in West Europe and as a child I learned about the black Moors and lately other folks claim to be the Moors; maybe one day earth will give us his memories about this, but till then I will stick with the old story’s.

[@madizo9056]

Well as an Algerian, I can say we still exist. Lol

[@joaoribeiro5938]

The andalusian and the jews from Portugal came to Northeast Brazil ( my region) after the reconquista

[@madizo9056]

@Ezio Auditore why would you say that dude

[@lastword8783]

@@madizo9056 because hes a hateful asshole lol why else?

[@user-jz2tw8fg2s]

Thank you! Please brother come tell these Blacks in the USA they want to claim everyones history. They say they are the descendants of the moors just because the are both from Africa. What a joke

[@atlaspegasus1509]

@@user-jz2tw8fg2s actually people from morroco suffer with the same problems with algeria

[@blackdreamhunk3413]

why did you remove my internet source about blackface in Moorish Festvails?

[@andygainzwonderfuladventur3671]

Moors were African black as hell and the Europeans called all blacks moors

[@ouailouail4605]

Info about DNA is incorrect. Me and many Northern-Morroccans who i know have an average of 75% North-African and 20% Iberian and some itlalian or other.

[@ArtificiallyConcious]

Same here. 74.2% North African, 25% Iberian and 0.8% Italian.

[@aleaessa5291]

Exactly my great grandmother was very dark skinned and her sisters too, they would be considered as black today so I don't know how he came up with that info

[@gilanolahssini]

from my moroccan side my dna is North African Amazigh Italian Iberian Arabic West african

[@ayoub6.377]

models page Moroccan sahara* give me source of what you said ! If you wont it means you’re algerian 😂😂😂

[@gilanolahssini]

@@ayoub6.377 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

[@surivislion7482]

Out all the Moorish kings that I have studied, every last one of them had a black parent or just straight black.

[@urbanwarrior3470]

which Moorish kings have you studied...?

[@surivislion7482]

@@urbanwarrior3470 Yukab Al Mansur, Yusuf Tachiffin, the 4 Moorish kings of aragon, Alessandro De Medici.....They were kings and they were either black or part black.

[@urbanwarrior3470]

@@surivislion7482 what you mean the 4 Moorish kings of Aragon...? There were no Moorish kings in Aragon. You're probably talking about the Almoravids, whose empire stretched south to the Sahel and whose people would have included dark skinned people. It doesn't mean that all of them would have been dark skinned. Colourwise it's a spectrum. The closer to the north of geographic Africa you go, the lighter the skin colour.

[@creativeyardpostsign2083]

@@surivislion7482 I am a Moor and I am neither Black or White and to make sure you are not going to tell me I am not a King, I am sharing with you: FYI I am a descendant of the so called Royalty or Rulers of AL-ANDALUS and the Rulers of Morocco Prior to the present rulers of Morocco the Alaouites.

[@surivislion7482]

@Lola Torrez With all due respect, I have seen that Wikipedia site over and over again. Keep in mind that early berbers were black. As for the umayyads? Well they did have Moorish (black) people among them. Moors were not the only muslims in Europe, you know?

[@sabcam2000]

Before the Arab invasion north Africans were black. Before roman/Greek invasion of Egypt it was also black.

[@Alexander_NS_Wolf]

See? This is the kind of comment referred to in the video as disingenuous.

[@blackdreamhunk3413]

have you ever heard of the tapestry called Moors and wild men? Can you please explain the images found in that tapestry?

[@markkuuss]

I am from Tunisia and I can trace my ancestors family back then when they were in Andalusia. They were expelled in the 17th century and settled in Tunisia. They are called the "Morisco" or Morisques in French. Their descendants still exist today. The rulers of Tunis at that time welcomed them, as they were "Elite" in many fields like agriculture, art, architecture and many of them were intellectuals, poets and theologians, etc. They established in the north of Tunisia in a city called Bizert. There are so many things to share about these people.maybe I will have my own youtube channel dedicated to that..

[@markkuuss]

@Billy Enzen I can tell you're triggered haha funny to see "Billy".

[@saraqostahterra4548]

@@markkuuss As well in Morocco in Tetouan, Chefchouen, Fes, Tanger, Rabat(Sale), and a few other places. But Tetouan and Chefchouen being the major ones.

[@jhonmikeal2625]

The moors are moroccans , some of them settled in what now is tunisia and algeria , these were moroccan provinces.

[@markkuuss]

@@jhonmikeal2625 We're not talking about the Moors here. It's about a specific ethnic group called the Moriscos. There is a difference. If you go to Wikipedia, there is a dedicated page for each. The Moriscos are originally Moors, true..but they developed a new Identity later in Spain. They are closely related though. Many went back to Morocco, but some went to Tunisia/Algeria/France/Turkey who were not part of the Moroccan ruling dynasty but part of the Ottoman Empire.

[@jhonmikeal2625]

@@markkuuss yes we have a lot of Mrisco in morocco , they are in the Fez region and most of their ancesters are moroccan

[@thelink3066]

Moors were black. Check out the official portrait of George Washington, it shows a moorish boy in his background. Moorish as defined by Americans at that time being black.

[@Threezi04]

Exactly, as defined by Americans 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Do you really think George Washington (or any American for that matter) was there when the Moors ruled Iberia?

[@thelink3066]

@@Threezi04 the moors lived on after Iberia. What do you think they died fool.

[@thelink3066]

@@Threezi04 just google it and learn from a "Black American"

[@Threezi04]

@@thelink3066 Lmao I don't need to learn from a 'Black American', why don't you learn from a North African, an actual descendent of the Moors.

[@Threezi04]

@ZicoPookyBoo Mate you are pulling this bullshit from so far up your arse that it is drenched in saliva.

[@liamsh6978]

berberes are not arabs

[@coe3408]

The word "moreno" in Portuguese comes from the word moor, and is used for someone with bronzed skin, or white with black hair, but not to refer to to black people.

[@coe3408]

Moreno: "It is said of, or who has black hair and slightly dark skin; brown. [Brazil] Ironic or euphemistic designation given to blacks and mulattos".

[@truthseeker2038]

Source please 🙏😭

[@aroundtheworld2813]

@@truthseeker2038 give it up we arnt related our culture and identity are worlds apart

[@truthseeker2038]

@@aroundtheworld2813 what the hell are you talking about weirdo? I just want a source that's all. I don't do none credible sources. Needs to be valid, if it is then no problem. People don't buy scholastic books anymore they use the internet which you really can't use in university unless. Edu, or a gov. Just saying.

[@user-hy4xz1qt9h]

@@truthseeker2038 They lie and their counterpart upvote regardless of it's validity. just because they are insecure

[@sacbeme]

Imagine someone in one thousand years saying "Americans weren't white". It's like yea.. well but no. That's how silly it is denying that Moors weren't "black", but it's easy to do that when your cultural perspective has been so 'arynized' you can watch a movie about Troy an ancient Greek city where the lead has sandy blonde hair and blue eyes and no one bats an eye when there wasn't a single blond person living in the Ancient Mediterranean. So you mean to tell me that all the paintings of Moors as *"Sub Saharan"* is an effort to other an out group? 3:44 * citation needed buddy. So all the imagery from: The flag of Sardinia The coat of Avenches The coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI Aragonese Armorial of Gaspar de Torres Agolant and his Moors attack a castle - Grandes Chroniques de France f. 167r. Were all just re imagined, imagined, real time re-artistry even though they were geographically closer to Africa and existed in the same time period but got it wrong, wElL gEE tHAnkS MiStErr smdh. Mauritania is literally sub the Sahara, this distinction that's made among anthropologists is a modern invention that didn't exist prior to the 17th century. Please stop with the genetics bullsh*t, that's not what race is. There are plenty blacks you meet on a daily basis that are genetically more non African than African but to you, they're black. If someone from Mauritania or 12th Century Morocco were breaking into your car you'd call the cops and say "there's a black man breaking in my car". You mean to tell me this fly ass 18th century nuhga ain't "sub saharan": artpaintingartist.org/portrait-of-an-arab-by-horace-vernet _"All the Moorish soldiers were dressed with silk and black wool that had been forcibly acquired... their black faces were like pitch and the most handsome of them was like [black as] a cooking pan"_ *- Alfonso X (1252-84)* Chejne, _Muslim Spain_ 126

[@tommydahill437]

The Sahara's golden, silky sand is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Nice photo for an ending.

[@michaelrichardson3834]

Not when your dying of thirst.

[@chocoloco5392]

Its crazy to think that my roots are there

[@blackdreamhunk3413]

Have you read othello, Song of Roland, merchant Venice? Candid by Voltaire? they all claim moors were black please do explain 🤔?

[@ColKlink-pk9yx]

Interesting video. Thank you for your time in putting the video together. Loved your commentary. Thank you from 🇦🇺 Keep up the work mate, people are still 'thinking', even 3 years later 👍

[@SuckaZeb]

"in average most idigenous North Africans are in the range of 10 to 30% Sub Saharan and 70 to 90% Western Eurasian" Western Eurasian bro???? INDIGENOUS North Africans are Amazigh (Berber) who come from NORTH AFRICA. How does what you said make any sense my guy? The vast majority of the Maghreb either do not or have very little West Asian blood. The Arabs never replaced or even came close to as being populous as the indigenous native Berbers. I'm disappointed in the amount of mistakes you made in this video. It's a serious subject especially to us North Africans.

[@vtron9832]

S brother, when he says west Eurasian he means the peoples that migrated from Arabia and the levant into North Africa who then mixed with the indigenous population to give rise to the modern Berber, chadic, Coptic, Cushitic, and Omotic peoples.

[@biotorex8999]

@@jasonmuniz3539 You think we are Near Eastern invaders?

[@jasonmuniz3539]

@@biotorex8999 it depends; 1. Who do you mean by "we" 2. I said "colonize" not "invade" Huge difference

[@biotorex8999]

@@jasonmuniz3539 Berbers

[@biotorex8999]

@@jasonmuniz3539 Where do you think the Berbers are originally from?

[@nicklocascio9326]

I’m Italian American, especially Sicilian. I took a DNA test and I’m mostly Italian and Greek with a little bit of Spanish and Northern European. I’m only 17% Western Asian and North African and 1% Sub-Saharan African

[@lobsterbalelegesse9919]

Old expression, Africa begins at Rome/Naples. There are different dark people some may count as SSA the other MENA.

[@jeremyarroyo360]

You speak español

[@user-me5qw8pr3p]

I'm moroccan and 7% Italian.

[@salsspar2132]

you use 23 and me

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

@@lobsterbalelegesse9919 Just for using the term MENA you are cringe af. It has no context when dealing with international world history such as this..

[@NoExcuses_FckExcuses]

We’re here and never went anywhere Moor 🇲🇦

[@jjbentley9]

They was Muslims Arabs Berbers from them being called dark by lighter skin European people from that now you got modern blacks aka Western Africans thinking there the moors and egyptains lol.

[@richrich9321]

funny enough many moors do have west african(nigerian) dna

[@jjbentley9]

@@richrich9321 from years of being in Africa of course but that term was for Muslims Arabs berber which wasn't black western African modern black people get it confused hearing a term means dark or black thinking it means them when we know they called olive skin people that first.

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

"They have more in common than they might think." > More in common > Moor in common I couldn't resist.

[@ultraphitaro4834]

Moorica.

[@camerontaylor7471]

It’s called ‘DOUBLE SPEAK’ it’s a faculty of linguistics that is encrypted in the English language and the ALPHABETS that form the SPELLING of the WARDS(WORDS)... because ENGLISH is the new world language for the NEW WORLD ORDER... and the double speak is how the OCCULTS are able to operate on a subliminal unconscious level... right in plane sight of the whole world, while everyone has no clue they are being lied to and tricked and manipulated... everyone within the elite circles knows about double speak, it’s in every single lyric of every single song and poem and book within the English language... when Marc Zuckerberg and Donald trump and the queen Elizabeth make their fancy speeches and statements they are all using it, as a weapon of control and manipulation over mankind... even you, yourself use double speak, but we all have not been given the full disclosure to understand exactly the insidious agenda we are being used for... once you fully comprehend double speak and the occult black magic used within the spelling, hearing others talk is a completely different experience, I often don’t know if I should cry at the horror and profanity CUMMING OUT OF PEEP-HOLES MOUTHS or if I should LUAGH at the occultist wicked sense of humor... and don’t even get me started with anything that has the letter ‘L’ or words like ALL, or LOVE, or ALIVE, or white Christian Islam phobic cops or army soldiers who use the statement “I’m protecting the LAW” ... because last time I checked that was the name of the god of ISLAM... 🕋👨🏻‍🎓🎓🌴🇦🇪🗽☪️🌙💵

[@TheVinceLyons]

Oh you cheeky bugger

[@nmagain24]

Boo doom. Tisss

[@darcysmith2820]

So many hoteps in denial in the comment section lmao

[@laurendilaurentis6467]

how so?

[@dablaccseaproductions5279]

Nah the video just ass

[@atx-insider9055]

So the original Europeans depicted the Moors as black ppl, but you come up w/ excuses about how they weren't black. THE COPE IS REAL BUDDY😂. Next you'll tell me ppl from the middle east traveled to a different continent to build the pyramids?

[@unangeroux9419]

these afrocentrists make me laugh... Moors or Moroccans are not black and if you don't believe it just go there and see by yourself

[@omitolaayooluwaoluwagbemig6330]

SOME Moors were black

[@cariocabassa]

If the majority of Moors were Blacks, well the Iberians would look like African-Americans, Afro-Brasileiros and Afro-Latinos...guess what they don't...they rather look (some of em') like North Africans/Semites at times...Mediterraneans not Black Afro descents...

[@stonedecatur6602]

You can breed out traits in three generations

[@cariocabassa]

@@stonedecatur6602 what do you mean?

[@stonedecatur6602]

@@cariocabassa There were many Black people in Mexico but many were breed into the population leaving about 5% of their DNA in each person.

[@cariocabassa]

@@stonedecatur6602 no it's different in Mexico, since the Afro-Mexican community is still there...and visible...they are somehow Garifúnas ( Mixed Sub-Saharan African/ Natives-Mestizos ) It definitely shows on their features phenotype... Southern Europeans tend to look like MENA ( Middle-Eastern/North African ) aka Mediterraneans which they obviously are...

[@xChaiima]

PERIODT. 😅

[@ROMESKIable]

Ok black people, the credibility, integrity, and authenticity of this video is hopefully dependent upon you not traveling to Europe and seeing every depiction of a MOOR being a black African. Not only in Spain, where the Moors were for 800 years, but all over Europe. I've seen them! I've also traveled to many European countries and learned that many of them had black Monarchs during the "Dark Ages". That term had a duel meaning! But hey, don't take my word for it, Google it!

[@stayfocused4324]

fake news ... the arab caliphites are who conquered , blks were slave soliders kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpWwhX-PicqGaK8

[@jessj7516]

I live in Europe and what you're saying is complete bullshit. Everyone in Europe knows that the Moors were Moroccans and Algerians. Its not rocket science...

[@tommyjohnson6410]

@@jessj7516 stop telling lies

[@jessj7516]

@@tommyjohnson6410 Im not telling lies.

[@dmitri970]

According to Google,moor was a name used for North African muslims and muslim Europeans,so muslims in general. Nero was used for black people. Although there were black moors also who came from sub Saharan Africa ,but they were minority.

[@troyelam8978]

So let me just be clear, Mauritania is in Africa, the Moors were considered by the very Europeans they conquered to be black, they are portrayed as black in drawings and paintings, and from what I understand the Spanish word for dark, moreno, derived from the word Moor, yet somehow only a small percentage of the Moors in Europe were black?? And the best you could come up with is the Europeans describe Moors as black as a metaphor? You sir are an example of all the white racist “historians” in the past, whitewashing history, cherry picking all the portions of history you consider to be glorious and attaching them to Europe, or at the very least detaching them from Africa. Thanks to the Internet, more and more people are starting to wake up from these lies. Which is why some historical movies are starting to flop at the box office, because people are so tired of seeing Swedes portrayed as Moses or the pharaohs. By the way, black Americans calling themselves Moors are in no way trying to destroy the history of the “actual” Moorish people. African Americans are quite aware there were other races in north Africa besides sub-Saharan Africans. However, your attempt to portray Northern Africa as a European and South West Asian population; with Tyrone and two of his cousins being the only blacks there, is falling on deaf ears! African Americans waking up and understanding their history and realizing some of their ancestry might have come from the Moors is in no way denigrating the history of the Moors. In fact, it’s celebrating it!

[@tommyjohnson6410]

Thank you so much

[@anis8879]

The last moorish populations in Iberia fled to Algeria where they joined the navy and took to the seas, what Europeans call 'Barbary Pirates' were mostly moorish privateers working for the King of Algiers.

[@fillfinish7302]

dude those are the moriscos ,the moors are mauri tribe that lived in north west africa way before islam

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Neh, the were turkish.

[@anis8879]

@@gostavoadolfos2023 Common misunderstanding. At the time converting to islam was called 'going turk' , a lot of privateers were Europeans and those who came from the neighboring Ottoman empire were most of the time Albanian / Greek rarely ethnic turks.The crew however would mostly consist of the feeling moors and berbers native to Algeria. The Turkish implication is heavily exaggerated du to the religious ties between Algiers and the Ottomans.

[@anis8879]

@Soundwave 47 It basically boils down to that. The 'slaves' would sometimes go through some kind of labor camp (most of times consisting of rebuilding the walls of the city or serving the Sultan in his palace) but i can confidently say that 95% of them went back home, 5% of them would rather stay in Algeria or had died under the conditions they lived in) . What's also notable is that, even though they were so called 'slaves', quite a few of them would access the title of general for a local prince or even Sultan. The most notable ones are Ali Bitchin and Dey Chabane. Both highly regarded as some of the greatest rulers of the country. You don't see this happening in the Atlantic slave trade.

[@anis8879]

@@mazingmorocco9810 'Algiers never had a king' Tell that to Diego De Haedo, Captive at Algiers in 1578. His book 'History of the Kings of Algiers' seriously puts into jeopardy your whole statement. 2nd of all, NONE of the deys were 'chosen in slave markets' a few were kidnapped during Algerian raids on the shores of Spain and Italy or captured directly from military or trading ships. Mauritania was a Roman provi - you know what, just watch the video. He literally already explained it dimwitt.

[@contemposuits1983]

I've always thought that the term Moors was derived from Moroccan.

[@ahmedst205]

because they are , you can google almoravid and almohad dynasties , you will find out that they are dynasties of Morocco.

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Motoccan is derived from Marrakesh, the capital used to go from Fez to Marrakech and vice versa, in one century it's called Sultanate of Fez and the next is called Sultanate of Marrakech, Marrakech can be translated to land of God. However locals use Maghreb to call the country which means the western land in contrast with the Islamic East.

[@anis8879]

@@ahmedst205 Those two dynasties have NO ethnic ties whatsoever to morocco.Stop spreading misinformation. They are not OF morocco, they just happened to settle (at some point ) in a region nowadays called morocco which is different than what you're implying.

[@ahmedst205]

@@anis8879both of them comes from atlas mountains , please shut your mouth up , you pathetic.

[@anis8879]

@@mazingmorocco9810 You're trying too hard to distort reality. Those guys ounded mouvements , not dynasties there's a difference. They never ruled these empires, they never commanded any organised political entity, they were just spiritual leaders. Not founders of dynasties. AbdelMu'min was certainly not a moroccan. He was born near Tlemcen in 1094, at that time the city belonged to the Hammadid Sultanate and still belongs to Algerians today.

[@hamzaalmdghri8741]

Moor or amoor A word from the amazigh language It means the locals or the indigenous people In the land of the ancestors the first who mentioned it by the Phoenicians and the Romans. They mean the semi-nomadic Berbers in the north of Morocco and they are still present today in the north-east of Morocco in the Rif region.

[@sasukeuchiha4814]

They aren’t the original moors lol

[@aymen8226]

@@sasukeuchiha4814 no such thing as original moor, there's one culture that can claim the moroccan heritage, and it's the amazigh culture, and they're not black

[@horusba2620]

@@aymen8226 nonsense. Amaziq identity was created by French. Ibn khaldun is a berber, he never call himself amaziq.

[@aymen8226]

@@horusba2620 i was talking about black sub-saharans or black americans that claimed moroccan identity, not moroccan ppl in general i know that morocco is very diverse and that not only berbers live here, and i'm very proud of that but you're wrong that word has been reported to be used by berber people since the 15th-16th century so it appeared probably before the 15th century among berbers (that's reported by léon l'africain u can search for it :p) but yes i agree with you that word wasn't that popular until the berber awakening, but berbers did have names that united them all such as lybians, mazices, moors (nothing to do with black people btw) or numidians... i just use that word because that's what we're referred to, today but i could use more ancient terms like i just listed, the meaning wouldn't change idk if ur moroccan or not but i suggest you to learn about the very old history of the berbers that is unfortunately, not taught in our institutions today which is something very sad :/ , i'm berber by myself, i know my history and the presence of my people since antiquity and even before that. so i know what i'm talking about btw i'm not hostile to "moorish" black people in america i find it good that they talk about a heritage that their admire and defend their values as black people, but i don't like seeing my history black washed and all the figures that i'm way more linked to than them, being painted as blacks, or arab, or even worse seeing the very old presence of my people in north africa being completely washed, and that they see us as colonizers when in fact we struggle for recognition in the place that we occupied and lived in for hundreds of years i hope u understand me! sorry for creating any trouble with my reply

[@horusba2620]

@@aymen8226 can all the amaziq people claim moorish heritage?

[@bongdonkey]

Alot of Toureg people are Black. Yet every picture you show of them is of Brown Toureg? Why?

[@ricardoguanipa8275]

Afrocentrics: "The Moors invented the concept of carrying water on a bucket" DAZ RITE!!!

[@kivloli8385]

Bantus carry the E1b1a haplogroup and Berber carry the E1b1b.

[@cocopus]

@@kivloli8385 uh huh go on

[@virginiansupremacy]

Nobody is doing that here

[@ricardoguanipa8275]

@The Nova renaissance the best is that The "Black Moors" not only reach The Americas but Settle it, and they use the Olmec Heads as evidence because "The s head has Fat Lips"

[@nerdlarge4691]

@Ooki Cooki The Germanics who conquered most of Western Europe after the Western Roman Empire collapsed and initiated the Dark Ages didn't practice regular bathing because they came from cold climates and thought it caused illness. The Moors reintroduced the classical custom of regular hot baths to Western Europe.The ideas for aircraft didn't really take off until the Renaissance Period which was coincidentally heavily influenced by Moorish Universities in Spain. Don't mock history that you apparently know little about.

[@AnalLoverNDestroyer]

Fun fact:People of North Africa used to be considered Hamites and not Semites.

[@williamduffy1227]

Maybe we should call them Shamites, or shamwows.

[@lionelroland2250]

They are Hamites

[@lionelroland2250]

@@ilyaas_1 that's not true about two billion How many subscribe too your way of thinking? What is your hypothesis?

[@blackdreamhunk3413]

why was my link removed when I wanted to show blackface at a Moorish festival? the youtube video called Moors VS Christians I Es Firó Port de Sóller I abcMallorca

[@ulexite-tv]

I am most interested in the mixed Moors and Sephardic Jews of Sicily, as my "Sicilian" DNA shows links to Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, including Sephardic Jewish and Amazigh. In your photos of the Amazighs i saw a young man who was a close phenotype match to my father, and also resembled less closely his mother, my self, and my grandson. Since i rarely see people who resemble me, this was a pleasant surprise. My father's mother;s family came from a town called Calatafimi in Sicily. Their surname was Giangrasso, and i have found that this surname also exists in Algeria.

[@esti-od1mz]

I'm a little curious, how did you find your surname in Algeria? It clearly has latin roots... Literally no sicilian surname is similar to the ones used in NorthAfrica. Sounds a bit odd to me

[@slimaneismailli8732]

I am North African. One day, I was waiting for an electrician. When he rang the doorbell and I opened it, I went 5 seconds without saying a word. The person in front of me was my Sicilian friend Guissepe who lives in France. The same lightly curly brown hair, hazel eyes, the same plus size, same face, absolutely everything. Only one difference, however, he had a mole on his right cheek, and it was only then that I understood that he was his perfect double. Sicily was once Phoenician and the Sicilian language still uses words which are North African Arabic. I think the genetic links come from those times

[@slimaneismailli8732]

@@esti-od1mz And the Sicilian language, it uses North African words though, so why not. Even in the Spanish language he has words that are North African, even places or names of towns and villages, but it is not like Sicilian which is able to understand certain words in a sentence. In the video, he also explains that in the island of Malta, they speak quite well the same language as North Africa, the difference is that they do not write it with the same alphabet.

[@esti-od1mz]

@@slimaneismailli8732 my friend, as a sicilian myself, I can say that I can easily spot a northafrican among sicilians; however, sometimes, you can find similarities. There is no "Northafrican" look: some northafrican may even be blond, even if is rare. That's because it was ruled by many different people over the century. Sicily had some history in common with Tunisia, not only because of the punics or the aghlabids, but also because of the roman empire and because the Norman kingdom of Sicily ruled Tunisia for years... however, most of this common history was annihilate when the remaing muslims were expelled from Sicily, making us a very Christian island. That's why it's false to say that Sicily has many similarities with MENA countries. The island was relatinazed during the norman rule. I've seen, even if very few, tunisian that could have passed for italians. Also, what do you mean saying "Northafrican words"? Sicilian doesn't have berber words: we only use 200 words from arabic, but they are mostly used in agricolture

[@esti-od1mz]

@@slimaneismailli8732 also, genetically we don't cluster with Northafricans: But let me say that I would like to visit, one day, Northafrica. A friend of mine told me that Marrakech is astonishingly crowded

[@kuroazrem5376]

The Imazighen (Berbers) still speak their languages, and "Moors" largely refers to the Imazighen because the Arabs were called Sarracens by the Europeans.Wierdly enough, the indigenous Muslims of the Philippines call themselves "Moros", which is Spanish for Moors, mainly because the Spaniards first called them that.

[@lannelbishop3668]

Kuro Azrem the Philippines were classified as negrito, meaning little negroes.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

Kuro Azrem Aaah! Thank you. I though as much.

[@lannelbishop3668]

They were Blacks in the Philippines long before the U.S base got there.

[@lannelbishop3668]

There many Black who been in the Far East for thousands of years.

[@kuroazrem5376]

@@lannelbishop3668 yes but they are VERY genetically distinct from the black African populations. Besides, the African population themselves are very distinct from one another in terms of genetics. This means there is no such thing as a "black race".

[@orlandovelastegui1391]

Moors were Black. I’m not Black but, moors means people of dark skin (Moreno)=Moor Stop lying 🤥 to people most people that were Moor were black.

[@ABk-dt8lk]

not all people dark skinned are black,are you saying that original australians are black people?stop telling bullshit and go read

[@clarenceeugene9692]

If they were Black why did the artists of the Umayyad Empire almost aways depict them with light skin? You don't know what you are talking about.

[@veegar9265]

sigh, .. . Here buddy kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJjcapaoibNkqac&feature=share kzbin.info/door/0rUGW01rnYEVYCF7RB7GKQ how about some TRUE BLACK African super civilization and culture?

[@ABk-dt8lk]

@@veegar9265 your source is a video with 1k views and edited with a nokia 3310?

[@kingmusa]

Wrong im a moore my mother is from Morocco and she was berber light skin with green eyes

[@cynthiadonahey9989]

I had some lessons where The Moors and the Jews went. Some Moorish and Jewish doctors were forced to convert (to some form of Catholicism) as their skills were needed. They were allowed to keep their families, who were savagely converted. Thefailures, teenage boys, eventually ended up in Mexico and some ended up in southern France. The rest of the group were sent to Mexico, allowed to keep their cooking equipment. Some went to Portugal, eventually moved on to Scandinavia. They brought assets with them and some intermarried with Nordics. Others moved to Brazil and the northern part of North America where they intermarried with Amerindians. There are supposedly remnants down to seacoastal Maine. The last group left on their own. The settled behind The Great Black Swamp, a geographical area, now part of Ohio and Indiana, centering in present day Toledo, Ohio. Shredded what was their practical adaption that spread to all the early markets. There is some literature in the museums here. They intermarried with Amerindians, some of whom had already had converted to Catholicism and were active in the fur trade with the Medicis and the French. There is some material on this n Toledo Ohio Museums. This group stayed aloof from the US government until the 1840s. The Muslims of that time had issues with the beliefs and practices of The Moors.

[@NitcheDekid]

Just …???

[@barbaracodner2504]

Nobody: George (Seinfeld): "It's the Moops!"

[@mango010]

George Constanza : You’re wrong! It’s the moops!

[@georgecostanza30]

Turns out i was wrong, i think...

[@mango010]

@@georgecostanza30 hahahahahahaha the man himself!

[@Nubian_Traveller]

Good video but what's with "They painted them black to distance them?" I would recommend you read their description by their historians such as Ibn Khalikan. You'll notice that a significant portion were Black Africans. Also read the description of Tarig Ibn Ziyad. You can start with Ibn Aljawzi's book on the Africans. If you read Arabic I can email you some books. PS: I have Arabic,Spanish,North African and West African ancestry. So there's no axe to grind.

[@HitGardenStudio]

Hear ya go, thnx Bro

[@stonedecatur6602]

@the virtuous man and?

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

@@stonedecatur6602 So the majority weren't black

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

Liar liar pants on fire. Most art at the time of the Moors depicts Moors are mostly light-skinned, and genetics confirm this. Afrocentrists be spinning another lie yet again, that terrible inferiority complex. There were some black Moors, mainly due to the slave trade

[@-01x]

Elaborate

[@ismael6365]

i think its hilarious how you spend half the video explaining how the moors arent black instead of actually telling us what happened to the moors.

[@taolomatseka5205]

Moors were black the word moor means black.

[@richrich9321]

so the prophet muhammed was black?

[@sharwama992]

@@richrich9321 mo

[@calm123]

@Nin10dofan8 Olive skin is not dark, Moor means dark skin like Dark Berbers and Africans

[@calm123]

@Nin10dofan8 Moors looked like the 1st guy on this video title, dark brown not olive

[@GeeeksOtaku2020]

Why don’t you ask the moors in America because it’s in the record books in America in the library of Congress and the foundation of America look up the treaty of peace and friendship

[@cariocabassa]

Correction when people say "Moors" in Europe, they refer to North Africans Berbers/Southwest Asians primarily not "Blacks"...

[@emyrdk5874]

blackdreamhunk2 Moors is an Eurocentric word to describe people of colours who can be Berber, Arab, Indian and Black lol, the definition changed through periods and designed several populations of many cultures seen as tanned, muslim or dark. The people who conquered Spain were the ancestors of actual Moroccan and west Algerians (who are light skinned since Antiquity), White people called them Moors because of their exotic look and tanned skin. Moor is a white word with no real meaning and no ethnical values, yes Moors are Black, yes Moors are Arab, yes Moors are Berbers, it’s not a scientific word.

[@Shu577]

@@emyrdk5874 When you think about it black is also an Eurocentric word.

[@emyrdk5874]

@@Shu577 I totally agree with you, it's just a social construct

[@TheEpicOfApollo]

The moors were black people🤷🏽‍♂️. Arabic started with the african people in that area. There was no middle east 10,000 yrs ago. Only africans living throughout that whole area .

[@picture-perfect]

It's difficult to know what to believe with so many cultures disassociating themselves from black people.

[@viceverser6985]

sigh .. . here kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4LNlpZthdSbndE , how about some TRUE BLACK African super-civilization and culture?

[@jackwhitfield4520]

Most hated pll for some reason is it because we were already in every country they discovered?

[@03e-210a]

what are "black people"?

[@Ideophagous]

@Masaman 4:30 "Morocco" may have a distant relationship with the word "Moor". Here's how: Moor comes from "Mauri" an inhabitant of the old Kingdom of Mauretania, which became the Roman provinces of Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis. Mauri itself has 3 possible etymologies: 1/ the Greek word "Mauros" (black, dark, not necessarily referring to skin color, since dark-skinned Africans were referred to as Aethiopos, Ethiopians), 2/ Phoenician "Mauharim" meaning "Western land" (incidentally the same meaning of the Arabic word for Morocco, i.e. "Maghreb"), 3/ the Amazigh word "amur" meaning "land". Now Morocco itself is a distortion of "Marrakech", a city which was the capital for many Moorish dynasties in Morocco. The name of "Marrakech" is definitely from Amazigh "amur n yakuch" = land of God. Thus, if the third etymology of Moor is the correct one, "Morocco" and "Moor" are actually related etymologically, though of course "Moor" is not directly derived from "Morocco" or vice versa.

[@JasonJacksonJames]

based on what proof ?

[@Ideophagous]

@@JasonJacksonJames Historical sources. Look up Maurusia/Maurusii in Strabo's Geography for example, from which the Latin Mauretania/Mauri is derived, and then contnued to be used until late antiquity to become "Moro" in Spanish in Medieval time, and "Moor" in English.

[@JasonJacksonJames]

@@Ideophagous based on what proof ?

[@jalaljalal2223]

@@Ideophagous agree with you bro this is the truth from many resources besides Morocco many times created empires ruled from cities in Morocco a big surface from Iberia in the North to Nigeria in the South and from Morocco to Libya

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Fascinating. This reminds me of that time I found a cousin to the name "Spain" and I found "to be a chicken" in Hebrew

[@KillerDoc42]

This is like saying Jesus was white! LOL

[@ElusiveCube]

Christianity WAS PROMOTED BY WHITE PEOPLE, biblical depiction of Creation of Adam by Michelangelo he have depicted God as a white man BECAUSE GOD HAVE MADE US IN TO HIS OWN IMAGE, and Jesus being the son of God hence become white. Jesus is definitely NOT NEGRO.

[@kylecoleman9645]

@@ElusiveCube of course he wasn't a negro because he wasn't under the United States Corporation but Jesus was definitely a Muslim who was crucified by the Roman Catholic Church for crossing the lines teaching Islam.

[@kylecoleman9645]

@@NiteDriv3r Jesus was a Muslim. Get your facts straight.

[@ElusiveCube]

@@kylecoleman9645 well you apparently do not know when Islam started and that was 700 AD , so Jesus could not have been a Muslim, Jesus was dead for 700 years when Islam come in to existence. Negrology is not science it is a wishful gibberish.

[@ElusiveCube]

@@kylecoleman9645 you need way way more historical knowledge Jesus was a Jew, Muslims have NOT EXISTED IN HIS LIFETIME, We love negrology as comedy not as historical knowledge. Please do not waste my time with NEGROLOGY.

[@spindoggytheexplorer2915]

This is a phenomenal video on the Moors. Thank you

[@blackdreamhunk3413]

ST Maurice was a moor. He was black. He was not a Muslim, nor was he a Berber, nor was he a part of any Moorish dynasty. But because he was black he was a moor. His name meant "like a moor." Wheres is your proof. Where are the documents describing what these people look like? Where are the documents stating these people were not black but arab. Where are the countless images of these white arabs you called berbers or amaizgh. Cause fact we have countless images and documents from multiple sources. If you can bring these to the table then maybe just maybe you will have a chance. Your word against the POPE HERALDRY that has been around longer then your last name