Why Black Folks LOVE Rice

[@angelabobotildon8092]

I was introduced to "THE EMPORER'S FORBIDDEN BLACK RICE" about 2006. I purchased a bag at Whole Foods Market, Edgewater, N.J. USA.Uncooked the rice is black. Cooked purple hues, fragrant nutty tasty flavors. I used my last at my churches WATCH NIGHT/KWANZAA celebration. I baked a Sea Bass, stuffed with black rice & veggies.

[@Djsertraline]

That sea bass dish sounds good! Is sea bass a good alternative to catfish?

[@TheONEandONLYCandyLove]

❤wow that sounds soooo good

[@Mindyzzzzz]

Sounds absolutely yummy

[@patriciaarps5815]

​@@Djsertraline I believe so 😊

[@angelofwinterspresent]

Wild rice?

[@DiamondInTheRoughA1]

We know that enslaved were secured from specific areas of the Sene-Gambia area of West Africa specifically because of their knowledge of rice cultivation. Scholars have also published research on rice cultivation in those same areas. The mixing of rice with beans provides a dietary sustainable meal. Rice made S Carolina the richest colony in the early US

[@carrington2949]

Yes. I hate that people do not know that slaves were sought out for their skill sets as well.

[@roseleejohnson2449]

So do I. It made it easier for racists for to abuse Africans

[@whymillie]

I am so happy you mentioned this. A lot of people do not know the importance of mixing beans and rice. Fibre and protein meal.

[@roseamberzine5846]

People were also stolen from Madagascar and Southern Africa. South Asians were also enslaved here and their descendats were later categorized as Mulatto.

[@whymillie]

@roseamberzine5846 enslaved? Who told you that story?

[@1SK.]

We can never give enough credit,gratitude,thank You’s,appreciation,respect,honor, glory to our Royal Ancestors,ever. All the work they put in for us today. I’m in Saint Louis,Missouri and still this dish served annually…. Thank You for the gift of truth.

[@mussiedebrezion8198]

Much glory to black people 🙌🏿

[@Poshgardenherbs]

Edible black mushrooms to make Diri djondjon so fire 🔥 🤤🤤 Haitian black rice 🌾

[@baddestjoanna-michellesmit5578]

❤ the best 😊

[@PatriciaIvory-m3z]

Soooo glad 2 hear more info about our glorious culture. Asante sana ! 👍🏻🫶🏻🙏🏿👊🏾🌟

[@sumyungsumwise4520]

Asunde bamba idk how to spell it but i answer the call peace pon de journey

[@TeresaWoodruff-vw9tk]

Wow I never knew about black rice until I saw a bag in a Halal poultry market in Brooklyn,Ny last week 😊😊

[@southernladybrown5092]

💜💜💜💜💜 black rice must cook longer + Black beans 💜💜💜💜💜💜 Great History video

[@debbiemarquis3231]

We grow a variety of "black" rice in Trinidad ..it is called hill rice..it do not grow in water..it is believed to come with former enslaved ppl that fought with the British in the US..and they were sent here wh3n they were freed..

[@lizabetx483]

Moruga Hill Rice

[@vetgirl71]

Thanks for sharing this brilliant piece of our history.

[@patriciacokes9356]

Yes, my sister my grandfather planted that rice, and you are right it is called hill rice or creole rice.

[@deianncunningham9935]

It's my first time hearing about this and am a trini

[@patriciacokes9356]

@@deianncunningham9935 Cunningham I am assuming you are from the north, you need to come and explore and meet your kinfolks in this part of the island, learn about our history and you can eat some creole rice with coconut milk and pigeon peas.

[@msmeya5]

My hometown has a Rice Festival each April in honor of the most lucrative crop in SC. Great cooks from our country bring out their best rice dishes for patrons of the festival. There is even a historical component to the festival. Charleston, SC, formerly known as Charlestown, was one of the richest cities in the world during the Colonial and Antebellum periods. My Gullah Geechee ancestors did their thang under the grueling conditions of slavery & removal of a lot of their cultures from the West African coast. Black rice is now the only rice that I will eat. It takes a bit longer, but the nutty flavor is worth it. Don't forget to wash your rice, ppl!!

[@bargorham7656]

Why did you not show the picture of the black rice?

[@emmettpinkston236]

Thanks!

[@Romiedahomie415]

1st video I watched of urs very educational and shining a light on our history earned you a subscriber

[@lovice43]

Wonderful video and informative 👏🏽 We are a beautiful culture ❤️ MANY BLESSINGS 🎯 🙌🏾 🙏🏾

[@polly8844]

I used to buy black rice in the Chinese market 20 years ago in Boston, ma

[@xenocampanoli815]

Thank you. I am really interested in plants, and my wife and I study them as amateurs together. I'll watch this again with her.

[@Bongani-ft2nj]

Very informative brother

[@mamabear52]

We ate a lot of rice growing up, but there was no triple rinsing it like the Asian people, it did however resemble the taste of Japanese type rice I’ve had. What I recall my mom doing was bringing rice to a rolling boil, pore it into a strainer to remove the starchy water, run cold water over the rice in the strainer, then return the rice to the pan to cook. She may have still picked over the raw rice, like we do for loose beans for foreign things like rocks or other debris yeah, I go back that far😊

[@murph9159]

I remember my Lil GrandMa doing that too. 🙏🏾🤜🏾🤛🏾

[@LarryDWilmore79]

Here in Louisiana my Guama used to cook us Black rice and Red beans as well as Gullah and Creole red rice dishes. Also since the early 1400s the French and Africans travelled to and from America teaching the Native Americans how to cultivate rice and run the rice mills hence our new world born language Kouri Vini (to come..to go) now aka Louisiana Creole.

[@sd247]

Hi my GULLAH GEECHEE. GULLAH GEECHEE FUR OONUH OR GULLAH GEECHEE FOR YOU.

[@sunnydaysatl]

Loving this

[@coppergoddess555]

Black Wild rice is indigenous to the Amarukas

[@Investigator86]

Thank you!

[@randalljohnson5594]

I want some black rice but it is not in the stores . Maybe I have to find it in the health food stores .

[@RocBush]

Or immigrant markets. They have different jelly's etc. Ask them how they prepare.

[@RocBush]

Over an hour I guess. I don't care for the chewy-ness. I can't seem to get it past eldente.

[@msmeya5]

Try an Asian market if you have one near you.

[@randalljohnson5594]

@ thanks

[@TheONEandONLYCandyLove]

I also have some purple rice

[@Halonablack]

So you’re not really talking about black color rice, but the history of black people who grew and continue to grow rice. I think a lot of people missed that in the comments. 🤷‍♀️ Beautiful history. Thank you.

[@brianvesta]

Also made more confusing with the fact that there is an actual black rice from China known as the Emperor's Rice....

[@andiralosh2173]

Keeping rice grains in Black hair to preserve food/farming tradition, feels like a powerful image of resistance and survival

[@yvettel4553]

💚black rice

[@cjroberts7022]

So slaves were captured but allowed to go back to their village and bring okra and also rice. Got it!

[@sd247]

It could of been around the time when Africans knew about neighboring Slave raids and always kept supplies on their body, just in case they got captured. To this day, Caribbeans and the Gullah Geechee still follow the Ancient African customs to this day. I'm GULLAH GEECHEE.

[@ShiftKey_per]

Dats amazing and crazy. I want to encounter this azap!

[@illuminationed]

Each of these people was an individual with disrupted dreams and decimated destiny

[@emmapeel8163]

war & decimated communities ongoing since mankind stood up. it's truly depressing that today it's STILL an aspect of human civilization.

[@illuminationed]

​@@emmapeel8163avenge?

[@bonitahobbs2374]

THANK YOU!!! I KNEW A WHOLE LOT BUT NOT THIS !!!!

[@kittybear9693]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@Mythoughtonpoliticaltopics]

I just learn something.

[@warrenfeaster297]

How did this so called Africa slave know they would need rice and to hide it in their hair? If Africans were the only slaves being brought here, where did this other gene of rice cone from? Timeline is off.❤

[@brianvesta]

The rice seeds were carried as provisions on slave ships....

[@barrychilds109]

Great Education about our Food Heritage 💯💯💯💯💯👏🏿💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@lindapeele3752]

The person on the Uncle Brn's Rice box was the actir Napoleon Whiting who pkayed the butker Silas on the tv shoe The Big Valley .

[@CodyCole80]

I never heard of black rice.

[@bluetinsel7099]

It’s great, but has to be prepared correctly.

[@whymillie]

In West Arica, its called Ofada rice. We dont have anything called Black rice. Or even called it African rice. Rice was never the main food in West Africa as it wasn't the easiest grain to grow. Hence only certain slave ships would have brought it over. Based on the area, the ship was picked up. The name of food in West Africa is connected to the city and village where it was grown. Our mothers were rarely on the farm. That was our fathers and brothers. Our mothers were in the markets selling the produce and looking after their babies.

[@IDidNotAsk4ThisHandle]

Okay, but so-called blackWomen whose ancestors were enslaved in this U.S. of America never had that luxury to look after their babies neither could they sell nothing in their own markets….U.S. slaves worked from sun up to sun down #Point_Blank_Period

[@principtounenmondesir]

Man west Africa is over 200 tribes stop speaking in generalization man

[@jojoko64]

Stop criticizing and just fill in the gaps.

[@vergespierre4271]

We are not african nor ever been. Has nothing to do with african at all,smh all conjecture

[@principtounenmondesir]

@@vergespierre4271 your name sounds Haitian as he'll bro

[@alicetheegreet]

I wish this video didn't have this background music it had in the beginning.

[@joseph9531]

I believe that Haitians eat black rice.

[@genevieveangelique9608]

You’re referring to “Diri Djon Djon” which is only black because it is cooked in water that was steeped with mushroom that colors the water black.

[@joseph9531]

@genevieveangelique9608 👍

[@Ubothered]

It turns black from a 🍄 that's actually black. Boy that thing be hitting the spot! 😋😋😋😋

[@RogerDuly]

Haitians make Black Rice!

[@tammygay4263]

Type in what foods & plants are indigenous to tha America's. Wild Rice is on there meaning it was here fo it was there

[@JassminaVellucci]

I am not from the United States. In my culture, we do eat a lot of rice, especially rice and beans. My black mother she, does not eat rice, I asked her why. She does not like it.

[@JassminaVellucci]

I dish I sometimes have made is black rice and mushrooms. Black rice takes longer, as a chewy nut taste.

[@carolyngilbert4843]

Im talking about the black rice and peas 🫛

[@Nowandlater-b8x]

Black rice at kroger

[@cauliflowerpower41]

Smart guy.... but sounds like you're just reading textbooks. Please bring this to life for this generation. They really need to learn this but I feel its commentary is so disconnected from common conversation. And I'm NOT saying speak with ebonics but it lacks today's narration connection.

[@babysis6.059]

They need to learn how to read with comprehension, there is nothing wrong with his delivery of this information

[@PisceanIntuition]

Why is he talking like that? And where are the pictures 🤔🤔🤔

[@pierrechapman]

He needs to go BACK TO NEW ORLEANS 👀🤫🙏🏾👍🏾✊🏾💪🏾💯👏🏾🫵🏾

[@MzBLACKFOX13]

🎧✨✨✨🖤🪶🔥🔥🔥

[@dellswade9952]

1 🎤👍🏿

[@benniefreeman9451]

My Family legacy 🖤✊🏿🙏🏿

[@allwayzbizee7633]

Ah no stick that American rice leave African rice please.

[@brianvesta]

African rice is not black in colour.....I don't dislike this persons videos but he has a tendency to stretch the truth and romanticize.....

[@michaelle8384]

Lie lie lie lie lie no black rice you can make it turn black but come out black that a lie some rice come out yellow

[@RogerDuly]

Isn’t rice Asian?

[@bluetinsel7099]

Black Rice is American.

[@vergespierre4271]

We are not african nor ever been. Has nothing to do with african at all,smh

[@Linkx16]

Lmao dummy

[@truthersprotectingtruth490]

Have you ever heard that African means son of Ephraim. Kan - can Afri - Efr - Afr - Ephr. Stop repeating what someone else says, learn to listen and meditate before repeating.

[@twood8444]

I can respect your understanding and position that you are not African but please don’t generalize and speak for all of us. Some of us are descendants of enslaved African people and know that we are, so please extend the same level of respect and acknowledgement.

[@demetriuscooks9871]

I'm saying you is right

[@happyinscarolina]

According to 23andMe, my genetic makeup is 85% Sub-Saharan African. So how do you explain that if Black Americans are not African?

[@omeemo7003]

Stop telling that lying ass Atlantic African trade story😂😂😂

[@vward4871]

Exactly. They have to mention it in every video.

[@MrStCyrX]

@@vward4871Because it happened! What’s wrong with you people.

[@MrStCyrX]

What sounds worse, you allowing invaders to not only defeat you but then enslave you and several generations of your people or you were kidnapped and taken to another continent and forced to build their nation. You black Indian people are goofy and dangerous.

[@vward4871]

@@MrStCyrX It never happened. You have been lied to so that Yt people can exist so you can be oppressed by the evil black African rulers of the world, who hide behind them and make them the face of power, when they have none. This is the truth.

[@ZDHTJ]

Don’t watch

[@andrethethinker3498]

What!!! What senseless history confusion. 😲😲😲

[@lf1496]

When you have no culture you hate on people who do. Maybe you would prefer to watch videos about the history of mayo and poor hygiene 🙄 another obsessed troll😂😂

[@DwayneABryan]

Langley has entered the comments.

[@mochalattemiss]

Tell us why, since you know.

[@vetgirl71]

🤡

[@slimpickens01]

​@@DwayneABryanwould that be the same people who argue that we don't live rent free in their head?

[@murph9159]

I just purchased some last year off Amazon. I haven't mastered cooking it yet. It's different. We blacks have lost and aren't familiar with a lot of history from our intelligent and wise black ancestors