Out of all of the wild things I’ve heard people tell me in my life, this has definitely fallen to the level of the most primitive. I’ll share my experience with this theory. I definitely drop a few things to make you think.
As a Congolese myself..., I thank you for your content. You look simultaneously: Nigerian, Congolese, Cameroonian and Gabonese!!! I have subscribed to your channel. We have lost family members to the slave trade. So happy to see that our people understand that Africa belongs to them as much as it belongs to us.... WELCOME HOME, Brother!!!!
My opinion. People who attempt to distance themselves from being from Africa still suffer from some of the perceptions and misconceptions regarding Africa that were forced on us. It's a form of self hatred and shame. Again...my opinion.
Steve Harvey felt in Ghana what you felt in Nigeria. Everywhere he went in Ghana, he felt he had seen all his family members eveeywhere he went- Brothers, Sisters, Mom, Aunties, Uncles, etc.
What's the difference in Nigerians and Ghanaians physical trait?? Some tribes in Ghana like Ashanti ( Hausa speaking) originated from Nigeria 🇳🇬 Or just eliminating Nigeria anytime it's mentioned?
@@gregory5261 what matters is family 👪 totem. This will lead to your clan and lineage always. Blood line what runs 🏃♂️ in your veins goes all the way to the routes. 100%
One of the multitude of issues that keep a beautiful people divided. Khalid Abdul Muhammad peace a blessings be upon him, during a speech provided the #1 solution and way to unity.
African Americans are not African, but Native Americans LoL They are happy with that I'm sure, Americans is associated with Whites, Native American is associated with the original inhabitants of America. and African Americans are associated with well I leave it at that.
@Woken-N-Blessed Blacks can't agree on anything & R confused. They all say they R different ppls, like Hebrew, Egyptians, N.A.'s, Asian, Jew, Israelites, 12 tribes of Israel, Ethiopian, but DNA prove that Blacks R west coast African of Nigerian, Igboo, Congo, Fulani & other African nations but they deny they R Africans, when they look just like Africans of Africa.🤣🤣and DNA proves A.A.'s R Nigerian, Igboo, Congo, Fulani Africans.🤣🤣
Well, I did take the African ancestry dna test as well as the Ancestry admixture dna test and the majority of my dna is smack dab in west Africa, a little in East Africa as well percentages in Europe. I’m proud of my African Ancestry. Those people that say that crap are demented to me. In fact while I was waiting for the results from my African Ancestry test, I had a conversation with an African man from Mali, I believe but anyway every time he see me he would how much I looked like someone he knew in Mali, he was astonished, long story short I told him I was waiting for my dna test results to let me which tribe I share dna with, so he responded and said that he was almost 💯% sure I shared ancestry with the Fulani, I got my results back and boom Fulani along with two more ethnic tribes. He was absolutely correct.
Fulani are Hamites....l think they are in control of the government in Nigeria... Nigerians don't like them... Hamites are the ones who captured and sold us to the Arabs and Europeans!
@@pete2814 I know that. Well somehow they got captured too. That’s why I don’t like telling people that the Fulani are one of my dna matches, especially an African born on the continent.
@@amandaeguale1641 Amanda I stated in my comment that I took the African Ancestry test, matter of fact I took the African Ancestry test before I took test from Ancestry. My country of origin is Cameroon, I match with the Fulani, Hausa and Tikar in Cameroon and I also match with the Bubi from Equaritoral Guinea.
Too many cults on social media in recent years,so it’s not surprising to see them attempt to spin such lame alternative facts,but they are so easy to debunk without even trying.Good video in laying out the important points that puts an end to the insanity and whacky conspiracy theories out there. Take care brother Jay.
Let the people who don’t believe they have roots from Africa go about their business and leave us African Diasporans alone. We don’t need to talk to each other since we’re on opposite trajectories.
One of them used to troll on this channel but got ignored so he left.He and his buddies like to troll on so many other Pan African platforms on topics that have nothing to do with them or their cult.Some people are sad.
@@justdoit.86yearsago They actually have their own RU-vid channels and they show their faces.I could easily start my own movement as Shona Zimbabwean and start claiming that Shonas are not African,as they came from Israel and moved to Zimbabwe to form the Empire🙈Then start building a following and make lots of money,but I am not that crazy to head that path,I know my Origins very well,it has nothing to do with Israel 🇮🇱 and I thank God for that. 👍🏿
There's a old saying " Don't let the crook , describe the crime , because they will deny their guilt . So , what ever you learned from Europeans , throw it in the garbage can because its nothing but trash , you never heard nor seen the Truth . If a people can't treat you right , what make you think that they will teach you right . Never hip the lame to the game , because the game will never be the same . Powerful people, never teaches powerless people , how to take power away from them ! So again , it stand to reason that powerful people never ever teaches powerless people , the real Truth .
Truth that is why my people need to stop believing the white man's story that we come from Africa or are african. The africans need to stop participating in the lie as well. Do you really think we can not look at you and tell we are different people.
I’m African and I think those who wants to identify as what they chose is fine. The only thing is let’s love every Melanated person around the globe. That’s the other way we could succeed as Melanated people. Don’t be ashamed to love Melanated people.
My sister did our mother’s African ancestry. Maternally we trace back to the Tikar tribe of Cameron which migrated from the Kongo. We are a Bantu peoples! I am proud of that! I am striving to repatriate my family back to the continent. Bantu in the house!
Love your swahili name. I'm a bantu from Kenya. Kenya has atleast 50% bantus. And we run the show back home. Im in Dallas. You will love it back in East Africa.🏌🏾
Bantu ppl wasnt even brought to america 🤣😂😂🤣😂 so your whole fake ancestry test falls apart right there … ya needa stop wit this african nonsense we are black indians and always been
Just because many of us weren't born on the African continent, it does not mean that's not who we are. The West African DNA is still in us. We have to re-learn who we really, we have been disconnected from Africa
So glad my people know they are not african this is nonsense. Most Native Americans, if living in Britain today, would be regarded as being "black," especially if their ancestry were not known. "Negro" was also used in a general way in the North American colonies. Some examples illustrate the use of "negro" and "black" as applied to people of American ancestry. In 1619 some twenty "negroes" were brought to Virginia. At least eleven have names of Spanish or probably Spanish character. Later they were joined by "negroes" and "mulattoes" with names such as Antonio (several) and John Pedro. In 1670 the population of the Virginia colony was said to be 40,000 including 2,000 "black slaves." Evidence indicates that there could not have been that many Africans there and also that there were a great many American slaves or servants. Thus the total of "blacks" must have included a good many Americans. In 1698 three fugitive "negroes" were reported in North Carolina, of whom one was an American. 12 Similarly, a list of"N egroes" imported into Virginia, 1 710-1718, by sea includes at least sixty-nine "Indians," mostly from the Carolinas. Likewise, lists of "N egroes" brought into New York from 1 715 to 1736 include many slaves of probable (or stated) American ancestry from Campeche, Jamaica, Honduras, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Young was anxious to prove that the so-called "Black" Caribs were not true aborigines but were in fact "N egro colonists, Free Negroes, or Negro usurpers." This was important to him because he wanted to show they had no bonafide land-rights or aboriginal title.
@@kennedychibesakunda1498bro it’s not the entire continent it was only west and central Africa that is the problem with you African Americans you guys think the whole continent is related to you just because we have the same skin color.First of all slavery was not all overs Africa for one the only reason why it occurred in central and west Africa is because they wanted to take your ancestors to the new world which now called the “west”.its funny because you African Americans think that everyone in the continent is related to you just because we have the same skin color NORTH AND EAST AFRICANS ARE DEFINITELY NOT RELATED TO ANY OF YALL😂
We keep falling for our oppressors trick, i am 100% sure they are the ones sponsoring this through our black people. I think we as a black people should put more focus on our betrayed first
@@jaybanks2709 Maybe because they were going through the exact same thing as us, called colonisation? Which shows more prove and evidence that we are one people! Exactly like us they were not in control of their resources and the land.
A lot of us are lost. Trust me 200 years from now when we are all gone I would not be surprised if some descendants of Africans who are voluntarily leaving the continent now will also be claiming they have nothing to do with Africa. Lots of Africans go overseas and actually take pride in not speaking our African local languages any more. This whole conversation is deep but I have to agree it all stems from slavery and colonization and how some of us try as hard as possible to run away from anything African. Contrast that with the Boers who try so hard to put a narrative out there that they have equal claim to South Africa as the indigenous people so they can feel comfortable retaining land and all sorts of economic levers.
@@luckymotlatla8956 yes and unfortunately the Boers justify their rights to land in South Africa by claiming that the land was empty when they landed in 1652 despite scientific evidence to the contrary.
This isn't exactly correct. In Africa, there's this perception that the West is a haven. At first, yes, some might feel that but after living next to white people long enough, that perception quickly changes when the reality starts dawning. I met a lot of fellow Africans in Europe am yet to meet one that intends on dying here. The plan is, as per usual, get an education/money and build back in Africa and return. To expand on this, we've seen studies of black people's wellbeing and mental health deteriorating the closer they live to white people. Stress related diseases go up tenfold for black people. Both for Africans moving 'abroad' and black people leaving the 'hood' to live in the supposedly better white 'affluent' communities. In conclusion, your story is incomplete because it doesn't tell the whole truth, and yes, I'm African born and bred.
@@quietatse It is not a story just reality, and my own theory based on extrapolation of what I see and experience. I live in the US so I can speak more of the US. You tell me people don't want to die in Europe. Wishing not to die and actually dying there is two different things. Another thing since I was speaking of children of African diaspora. You have to realize an immigrant born on the continent of Africa will have more love or grow to appreciate Africa more due to having experienced both. The kids born in the diaspora do not have that frame of reference and will tend to thing it is just what it is kind of like how Americans who have never travelled abroad will always think the US is the best place to live. Are you suggesting the majority of kids born in Europe to African immigrants are dying to go back to Africa. I dont believe you if thats your premise. I have seen plenty kids born to African immigrants who want nothing to do with their parents native languages. So how exactly, will they go back when they shun their own languages. You are more optimistic than I am. And do not forget a lot of African immigrants that are crossing through the sea will probably never be financially stable to afford to relocate back. I have seen documentaries of fellow Africans picking tomatoes and other fruit in Europe living in squalor and getting a pittance. I agree with you that the stress levels are huge in the West. But if people do not save the financial resources needed to go back they never will. I will leave you with this story. Recently there were 2 victims of an accident that died in Zimbabwe my home country. They were Zimbabweans who live in the UK and on vacation visiting relatives. The bodies were repatriated back to the United Kingdom because that is where most of the loved ones were and that is what their family decided.
We are from the life living gene pool of Africa, let the lost ones continue to polish their ignorance..they prefer to stand in a dark room to see themselves in a mirror, we Africans have enough intelligence to turn the lights on. ✍🏿
So glad my people know they are not african this is nonsense. Most Native Americans, if living in Britain today, would be regarded as being "black," especially if their ancestry were not known. "Negro" was also used in a general way in the North American colonies. Some examples illustrate the use of "negro" and "black" as applied to people of American ancestry. In 1619 some twenty "negroes" were brought to Virginia. At least eleven have names of Spanish or probably Spanish character. Later they were joined by "negroes" and "mulattoes" with names such as Antonio (several) and John Pedro. In 1670 the population of the Virginia colony was said to be 40,000 including 2,000 "black slaves." Evidence indicates that there could not have been that many Africans there and also that there were a great many American slaves or servants. Thus the total of "blacks" must have included a good many Americans. In 1698 three fugitive "negroes" were reported in North Carolina, of whom one was an American. 12 Similarly, a list of"N egroes" imported into Virginia, 1 710-1718, by sea includes at least sixty-nine "Indians," mostly from the Carolinas. Likewise, lists of "N egroes" brought into New York from 1 715 to 1736 include many slaves of probable (or stated) American ancestry from Campeche, Jamaica, Honduras, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Young was anxious to prove that the so-called "Black" Caribs were not true aborigines but were in fact "N egro colonists, Free Negroes, or Negro usurpers." This was important to him because he wanted to show they had no bonafide land-rights or aboriginal title.
Jay ! As a Nigerian, I have to respect your courage and audacity!! Really and Truly, blood is thicker than water! It’s not just you alone, a great number of African Americans look a great deal like Nigerians! The face, the skin tone, the walking gait , the body builds and much more! I myself can’t understand why any African American would think they were indigenous native Americans! The reason the enslaved Black population was cowered through slavery in America, was because they were DISPLACED from their homeland in Africa! That was why colonisation was a different ballgame, because the whites were on our turf , this time around! We were able to confront them with our culture and traditions, alongside imbibing their education as weapons! Throughout the entire period of the ghastly so called slave trade, there were multiple slave revolts all across North and South America and the Caribbean ! For the majority of slave holders, it was a constant worry! But sadly, the revolting slaves, even when they escaped slavery, couldn’t ever return back to Africa! So those who claim kinship to native America do themselves ( and all Black people) a huge disservice! How can you be usurped and enslaved by foreign white invaders in your “own country”? They sell themselves short as a really inferior race by claiming to be indigenous to America! Like I say, blood is thicker than water!!
Question is those who claim they aren't or have no African roots.. Should they get reparation? We know descendants of slave should be the one getting reparations and we know slaves were Africans. This means indigenous black Americans should not claim reparations because they were not slaves. Is there any sources out here that indigenous people were enslaved for labor?
Most slaves who went to Trinidad during the days of slavery where from the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria and Yoruba religion Orisha was secretly practice during slavery and is widely practice today all over Trinidad. Check RU-vid video "Feast at Ojubo Orisa Omolu 2020" and also check one of Trinidad best Orisha male singers Keron Keith RU-vid Video "Baba Ogun Clear Our Pathway". During the Atlantic Slave Trade slaves went to all over the Americas South America,Central America , North America and Caribbean. If Trinidad, Cuba and Brazil could secretly maintain Yoruba religion and culture African Americans could have maintain this religion and culture if it was not outlawed because many Yorubas went to USA during slavery
@@davidcomma1930 Yes you are right David, except for one thing!! The Nigerians and other Africans didn’t “went” to Trinidad or anywhere else in the so called new world 🌎! They were kidnapped, abducted, sold into slavery and transported to the Americas! Just saying! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬.
I feel Blacks born in the African diaspora that say that are in denial of self and it’s a form of self hate. I did a DNA test and I am 94% African of which 52% of my DNA is Nigerian. Proud to only be 4% European and 2% Mesoamerican. Plus my Nigerian roots have been proven as I have connected with actual cousins born in Nigeria. I truly believe in the phrase “Know Thyself”. My ethnicity is important for me. So I can pass that forward to my future generations. I’m NdiIgbo and proud!
@@jonez2020 I understand your anger. You need to understand what caused our misfortune. Your slavery and those left behind were colonised. So none of us had it easy. All I will say to address all that anger of mine too who was and still colonised economically whic affects every other area of my life. Is that we should humble ourselves and submit ourselves to the hand of The Almighty. ONLY THEN WILL WE BE ABLE TO RISE AND FIGHT OUR ENEMIES AND DEFEAT THEM. Note!!!! WE WILL NOT HUMBLE OURSELVES ACCORDING TO "COLONIAL/ SLAVE MASTER" DICTATORSHIP THROUGH Christianity (which is psychological slavery/Rome), NO. BUT ACCORDING TO HOW OUR ANCESTORS HUMBLED THEMSELVES IN HOW THEY WALKED WITH THE MOST HIGH. Mercy be upon you!!!! LOVE❤❤❤
As a Nigerian I respect your intelligence,with well over 200 + languages being spoken in Nigeria , says a lot about the possibility of that country posing as a cradle to a whole lots of misplaced entities take it or leave it.
The name Nigeria came from the River Niger. Niger area was mixed to form Nigeria. It might also interest you to know that Niger means Black . It also means Africa. Literally speaking, Nigeria means an area inhabited by blacks or Africans.
@Rotimi Kayode were you not named after a white colonizers wife? Now somehow you are named after a river....starting to think africans are not really grounded in their own history nor identity.
I did my DNA test from African Ancestry and my Family are from Ghana 🇬🇭 and Bantu Cameroon 🇨🇲 I so very Proud of my AFRICAN ANCESTRY. I WILL BE LEAVING AMERICA FOR GOOD VERY SOON...ASE' ALAAFIA 💘 MODUPE
It's a no brainer , a lot of AAs look very West African especially around SW, SS and SE Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin and Ghana. Just all across West Africa really. However if the specific 'tribe' or region is required then a DNA test may help. The whole FBA ADos situation is just hilarious.🤣🤣🤣 It's a retrograde step. Africa is rising and all races are there doing things..
Great job Jay. I've been watching your videos for about a month now but only just subscribed today halfway into this video. It is heartbreaking that in 2022, a good majority of people are still so blinded to the truth. Just proves that mental enslavement is actually much stronger and worse than its physical cousin. As the late Bob Marley sang, emancipation from that mindset can/will ONLY come from ourselves. No one's going to do it for us. The American system that we live in is set up to keep us that way - from knowing and embracing who we truly are. Sad that neo-coloniasm is very much alive and well and doesn't look like it's going anywhere anytime soon. I truly respect and honor your audacity. Keep doing what you do and my hope is that it will some day, hopefully sooner than later [definitely] make real Maximum Impact in the end.
@@jaycameronofficial I am a Nigerian living in the US and after over 20 years, I am so ready to move back home. Will definitely be doing my tour of the rest of the continent with your company when I’m ready; hopefully by year’s end. The Movement Is On and it’s Real!
@@jaycameronofficial Culturally speaking we are a unique ethnic population as Foundational Black Americans. "The slave code made possible a race of half-breed Indians, and half-breed Negroes"-James Hugo Johnston Jr.(1876-1962) professor of history, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Vice President of Virginia State University. The reclassified Negroes were not used as the "american Indian" genetic marker. It's not the science, it's the INITIAL LABELING that is inaccurate. If you were 31/32nd aboriginal American and alleged to be 1/32nd African then you were classed as African/Negro/Mulatto/Colored etc. My question to you is "WHAT WERE THEY CALLED BEFORE THEY GOT RECLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO ONE DROP RULES?"..
Thank you a thousand times. You're talking about Dane, and you said it...let's go on the reservation and see how you're received...then go to Africa.. CASE CLOSED. You got a new sub from Detroit, and looking forward to moving to either Rwanda, Tanzania, or Ghana (but Ghana is getting too crowded) but I'll take a look see. Have you been to Rwanda yet?
@@declokazadi4264 They’re not tribes and they don't hate each other. Please inform yourself before spreading misinformation. Yes, there is animosity, stemming from a complicated history- but they're working on it and have been for the last 20+ years.
I have read that the slave ships were actually cargo ships which they were using for other shipping as well ,if they think they are not from Africa they should do the DNA it would tell them where they are from even if they were there before Columbus came , ibet you they would get lots of Mali DNA ,cause there is a reason for this
@@immaculate2197 I have read it was Mali area some of them could be Mansa Musa and his brother offspring because it was during their time that they made trips to the Americas
Thank you for your generosity here brother, I’m not sure I would be so patient with this matter😡. The only reason Blacks (Otherwise known as Africans🤣) or Nig@&s as they like to refer themselves in the US say ‘I’m not from Africa’, is because they are racist (believe in white supremacy) and see Africa as primitive. Dr John Henrick Clarke. Ivan Van Certima. Dr Ben and many more dedicated scholars have addressed this issue with facts, dates, times and places. Which means that those who still speak with the white mans tongue, are ignorant and not worth listening to. We have the same issue with some of our people in Jamaica 🇯🇲. These false notions of not being African or being part of the African family are what we get when the slave owners also own the school and set the curriculum. Africa for Africans home and abroad. Jah live ✊🏾
So glad my people know they are not african this is nonsense. Most Native Americans, if living in Britain today, would be regarded as being "black," especially if their ancestry were not known. "Negro" was also used in a general way in the North American colonies. Some examples illustrate the use of "negro" and "black" as applied to people of American ancestry. In 1619 some twenty "negroes" were brought to Virginia. At least eleven have names of Spanish or probably Spanish character. Later they were joined by "negroes" and "mulattoes" with names such as Antonio (several) and John Pedro. In 1670 the population of the Virginia colony was said to be 40,000 including 2,000 "black slaves." Evidence indicates that there could not have been that many Africans there and also that there were a great many American slaves or servants. Thus the total of "blacks" must have included a good many Americans. In 1698 three fugitive "negroes" were reported in North Carolina, of whom one was an American. 12 Similarly, a list of"N egroes" imported into Virginia, 1 710-1718, by sea includes at least sixty-nine "Indians," mostly from the Carolinas. Likewise, lists of "N egroes" brought into New York from 1 715 to 1736 include many slaves of probable (or stated) American ancestry from Campeche, Jamaica, Honduras, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Young was anxious to prove that the so-called "Black" Caribs were not true aborigines but were in fact "N egro colonists, Free Negroes, or Negro usurpers." This was important to him because he wanted to show they had no bonafide land-rights or aboriginal title.
That whole community is a level of self hate that just boggles the mind. Btw I’m 100% Nigerian 😂😂😂 DNA said 99.6%(Igbo) and the other .04 was African hunter gatherer.
So glad my people know they are not african this is nonsense. Most Native Americans, if living in Britain today, would be regarded as being "black," especially if their ancestry were not known. "Negro" was also used in a general way in the North American colonies. Some examples illustrate the use of "negro" and "black" as applied to people of American ancestry. In 1619 some twenty "negroes" were brought to Virginia. At least eleven have names of Spanish or probably Spanish character. Later they were joined by "negroes" and "mulattoes" with names such as Antonio (several) and John Pedro. In 1670 the population of the Virginia colony was said to be 40,000 including 2,000 "black slaves." Evidence indicates that there could not have been that many Africans there and also that there were a great many American slaves or servants. Thus the total of "blacks" must have included a good many Americans. In 1698 three fugitive "negroes" were reported in North Carolina, of whom one was an American. 12 Similarly, a list of"N egroes" imported into Virginia, 1 710-1718, by sea includes at least sixty-nine "Indians," mostly from the Carolinas. Likewise, lists of "N egroes" brought into New York from 1 715 to 1736 include many slaves of probable (or stated) American ancestry from Campeche, Jamaica, Honduras, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Young was anxious to prove that the so-called "Black" Caribs were not true aborigines but were in fact "N egro colonists, Free Negroes, or Negro usurpers." This was important to him because he wanted to show they had no bonafide land-rights or aboriginal title.
@@dueldab2117 If I were a african like you I would be crying. Or if my ancestors were african lol. TMH has been good to me and my people. That is why your funky asses keep coming over here. I know the only history you know is the history of your people. You are not my people, never have been never will be. You should be ashamed trying to solicite my people to go to that 3rd world continent. Better beat your feet on that dirt road and hunt a hyena
Jay proud to have you back home. And we are proud to be Africans . Some African Americans can decide to be Asians, but who cares? When you know who you are you become complete. Describe yourself in whatever race you want , we Africans don’t give a hook Tell them
Great Video bro. I agree with you just from doing my own research for the last 13 years. I also believe there is much more to it as well. There is great wakening taking place today around the world, a great awakening to who we are. I’m planning to take a trip to Nigerian within the next year and looking forward to it.
Brotha Jay you took the words right out of my mouth Fam! Thanks for this much needed info! And I haven’t been to Africa yet but when I look at Nigeria… I see so many of us there. Also it’s funny that we are the only Africans in the Diaspora that cling so hard to this indigenous bit. As if we’re so much different or superior than Africans in the Caribbean’s, Central America, and South America.
thats the whole reason why. really indian is a southern white euphemism for mulattos and quadroons. so fools saying they're proud indians don't know what they're really saying. its all connected to the whore-balls that white men had with african women and mainly with the mixed offspring of the grape of said women. offspring that has been raised to serve and desire white men. this sort of thing continues in some southern black families and bdsm circles. the layman wouldn't know though.
When I was in Ghana they didn’t think I was from The States until I started to talk. I had several people call me Fulani when I was in Ghana as well. Literally walk up to me at the mall. Didn’t say hi…it was “You are a Fulani.” Aye just don’t call me a B@tch 😆
Yep! In Ghana the kept telling me i'm from the north. My friend from the Caribbean didnt have his green card and the Ghanaian authorities thought he was a Ghanaian with a fraudulent Caribbean passport, he almost missed his flight.🤣😂
Thanks Jay. I have always been perplexed when I hear some of the arguments from some people that you talked about when I can look at some of them and use their physical attributes to estimate the part of West Africa their ancestors must have come from. Self hatred is the highest form of indoctrination
You are spot on, all of these alternative origins theories are more confusing than someone who wakes up suddenly in a place that they didn't fall asleep in. What's more, they gather up their so called, "proven", evidence and try to organize it in a book or a video, I am exhausted trying to keep up with these, 'we are the original, this and that people", people. reminds me of a quote another youtuber made, (Keana Marie), Just be black and be proud to be black, they don't claim you so why you claimin' them".
As a South African. I've had a fair share of personal interaction with black Americans in South Africa. Everything from our spirit to spirit, soul to soul and just the perspective about our pain, our struggle, our resolve and our mission, we just became one. I have brothers and sisters from way back at University of the Witwatersrand. We were so connected and that I liked. We had basket ball stars visiting Wits because of our strong Basket ball community and I was a report for the sports section for our campus radio, VOW FM. It was crazy that those high profile guys were so easy to talk to, access and everything. So in as much as our brothers and sisters were sold into that world but the Africa in them is still with them. I mean we have so much mutual respect and life exchange with them. For us South Africans, US Black folks were very close to us. They gave us hope to watch and see. We in the South don't play. You fuck with us, we will fight you to hell and back. We don't run away from out country to be bruden to other people's counties. We fight anyone and everyone. American blacks are African in ways that are very spiritual and at soul level. I get emotional in this topic and I'm in the office and I'm crying. When you guys come to Africa and you join with us, I literally can see the mother whose young son and daughter was snatched for the slave ship. The father and uncles whose people were stolen and couldn't protect them. When you come back you complete the puzzle. We've never been complete as a people without you. Africa bled then, bleed now and return sons of the soil and daughters of the soil. Take the spoils abd treasures in the land of captivity and come back home..
How is this still a thing? No we not African at lest most of us of, only 388,000 Africans made it to North America during the slave trade and they didn’t come all at once so who were all these other black people here? 1828 Webster definition of American
Culturally speaking we are a unique ethnic population as Foundational Black Americans. "The slave code made possible a race of half-breed Indians, and half-breed Negroes"-James Hugo Johnston Jr.(1876-1962) professor of history, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Vice President of Virginia State University. The reclassified Negroes were not used as the "american Indian" genetic marker. It's not the science, it's the INITIAL LABELING that is inaccurate. If you were 31/32nd aboriginal American and alleged to be 1/32nd African then you were classed as African/Negro/Mulatto/Colored etc. My question to you is "WHAT WERE THEY CALLED BEFORE THEY GOT RECLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO ONE DROP RULES?"...... ......
I truly enjoyed this positive informative video. I have decided to take the dna test but not sure which one would give me the information down to the tribe. I've been told I look Ethiopean and have been adopted by the Fula tribe in Gambia last year so I am truly curious to trace from whence I came. Thank you so much.
I notice that there's a focus on "who am I?", when a more useful focus is "what am I?. A VERY limiting question is already answered by the question, a more needed answer is what, not who.
"Give a dog a bad name ..." Beloved Africa has been the most denigrated throughout history - the people, their food, knowledge, intellect etc. The only way the continent could be raped was to denigrate it and the biggest number was done on its people - native and the diaspora. Natives hate the continent and want to flee from it to the lands of the colonizers, and the diaspora look upon it as a sick continent filled only with poverty and disease. The work people like you are doing is changing the narrative. It is comparable to the work of the founding fathers who liberated the continent. Well, each to his own. Mother Africa exists in all it's majesty. Love your mama or hate her, she is still majestic.
Excellent video. I too have been to Africa and it's obvious to me and to the continental Africans that I AM an African descendant. I AM proud of my ancestry and my African ancestry in particular. ✊🏿
So glad my people know they are not african this is nonsense. Most Native Americans, if living in Britain today, would be regarded as being "black," especially if their ancestry were not known. "Negro" was also used in a general way in the North American colonies. Some examples illustrate the use of "negro" and "black" as applied to people of American ancestry. In 1619 some twenty "negroes" were brought to Virginia. At least eleven have names of Spanish or probably Spanish character. Later they were joined by "negroes" and "mulattoes" with names such as Antonio (several) and John Pedro. In 1670 the population of the Virginia colony was said to be 40,000 including 2,000 "black slaves." Evidence indicates that there could not have been that many Africans there and also that there were a great many American slaves or servants. Thus the total of "blacks" must have included a good many Americans. In 1698 three fugitive "negroes" were reported in North Carolina, of whom one was an American. 12 Similarly, a list of"N egroes" imported into Virginia, 1 710-1718, by sea includes at least sixty-nine "Indians," mostly from the Carolinas. Likewise, lists of "N egroes" brought into New York from 1 715 to 1736 include many slaves of probable (or stated) American ancestry from Campeche, Jamaica, Honduras, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Young was anxious to prove that the so-called "Black" Caribs were not true aborigines but were in fact "N egro colonists, Free Negroes, or Negro usurpers." This was important to him because he wanted to show they had no bonafide land-rights or aboriginal title.
African is a Greek name lol you people are really black grecians. We are not the same people. So glad my people know they are not african this is nonsense. Most Native Americans, if living in Britain today, would be regarded as being "black," especially if their ancestry were not known. "Negro" was also used in a general way in the North American colonies. Some examples illustrate the use of "negro" and "black" as applied to people of American ancestry. In 1619 some twenty "negroes" were brought to Virginia. At least eleven have names of Spanish or probably Spanish character. Later they were joined by "negroes" and "mulattoes" with names such as Antonio (several) and John Pedro. In 1670 the population of the Virginia colony was said to be 40,000 including 2,000 "black slaves." Evidence indicates that there could not have been that many Africans there and also that there were a great many American slaves or servants. Thus the total of "blacks" must have included a good many Americans. In 1698 three fugitive "negroes" were reported in North Carolina, of whom one was an American. 12 Similarly, a list of"N egroes" imported into Virginia, 1 710-1718, by sea includes at least sixty-nine "Indians," mostly from the Carolinas. Likewise, lists of "N egroes" brought into New York from 1 715 to 1736 include many slaves of probable (or stated) American ancestry from Campeche, Jamaica, Honduras, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Young was anxious to prove that the so-called "Black" Caribs were not true aborigines but were in fact "N egro colonists, Free Negroes, or Negro usurpers." This was important to him because he wanted to show they had no bonafide land-rights or aboriginal title.
What makes a black man? You can’t say skin complexion because our skin is brown. Other ethnic groups also has brown skin as well. So what makes a black man.?
Those groups have become more xenophobic than white bigots,they spew so much hate on their social media platforms you will think it’s a Mzungu speaking.
No we just know we are a unique ethnic group and understand the dangers of being lumped in as one as a way to continue the benign neglect policy against Foundational Black Americans. Claud Anderson said we need a detailed study on all of the ways immigration has hurt native black Americans (his term).
@@treyhampton7256 Meanwhile, all other immigrants who are equally thriving in corporate US are not your target. Magical, right? While you foam, almost all my 20 or so fellow kenyan friends here in the US are in management position , mainly in Tech for fortune 100 companies. And atleast 4 others who are in private business and can confirm they are multimillionaires. Terribly humble and incognito with the most boring cars and clothes you ever saw. 🏌🏾
@@thisandthat1523 This is what they hate. They hate to see other blacks thrive. What do you expect from people who kill each other over absolutely nothing. Dear blacks immigrants in the US work hard and stick to your aim don't let a lazy and uneducated fool dictate you.
@@thisandthat1523 Also in the World of sports in recent years,we seeing emergence of African athletes doing so well and starting to earn so much wealth ,many are not even based in Amerikkkka,yet those ADOS/FBA/MAGA/Hebrew Israelite losers get very jealous of African athletes or Caribbean athletes who are thriving.FBA cult are stuck in the 20th century where only Black Amerikkkkan athletes were successful,but times have changed,we seeing more emergence of black French athletes,or black German,New zealand or black Australian athletes,many are doing better than so called Native black Amerikkkan athletes,there is nothing special about that group,they are just stuck in the past as it feeds their bogus superiority complex.It’s why I don’t support Amerikkkkan sports myself nor do I care about their athletes as there is so many great African athletes to support these days,so I am done with those FBA losers aka MAGA with a tan.😒
I have documented my family back to 1611 in America. They are Accawmacke Aniyunwiya, tribal people of the Powhattan Confederacy of Virginia. Walter Plecker, a White nationalist from Virginia, committed paper genocide. In 1924 Plecker headed a national movement to redact and rewrite vital records, removing tribal names and race affiliations from birth and death records. People such as my great grandparents formerly listed ss Indian on birth and death records were forbidden to call themselve Indian. From 1924 and thereafter they were Colored, Negro, Black and now African American. My maternal great grandmother spoke in an indigenous Accawmacke Paleo Indian tongue, simular to Cherokee, native to the Eastern shore of Virginia. As a historian by current profession, I cannot deny that the slave trade existed. As a former nurse I seriously doubt that so many humans survived the journey in filthy conditions, being fed inadequate, non notorious food while being packed so closely that they breathed deadly/toxic carbon monoxide for months on end. Knowing how quickly dequibidous ulcers(bed sores) develop in fecal wastes and urine, it's difficult to believe so many survived. Those who survived, how were they healthy enough to be sold into slavery? I am not saying that all so called African Americans ain't African. Some of us definitely are descendants of Africa. After more than 20 years of assisting others with genealogy I also understand that all skin folk ain't kinfolk.
If you did your genealogy where did it state you were African? Which country did it say you were from? Or did it say you were colored and negro which are classification for Indians living off the reservation
Like you Jay, I experienced the connection to my people in Nigeria. The familiarity of my family in USA with people in Nigeria was powerful! I kept seeing people who reminded me of my family! It’s a powerful force to understand fully why and how I do the things the way I do. I’m a business owner because my people are very proficient in business ownerships.
Most of my life Africans & Arabs have stopped me and asked me where I was from told me I looked like the women in their counties ..some were West African some East african. I went to Tanzania last October and a number of people thought I was a local Tanzania until I spoke ..then I sometimes got the comment that my English was really good . I was in Bagamoyo in an arti shop the owner kept looking at me ..then said Mama you could live here and Immigration wouldn't bother you. Ive done Ancestry/23 & Me & African Ancestry and all those people were right i do hsve dna from across the continent Including dna from tribes in the areas I was in that people kept thinking I was local to .
Just want to mention that Africans in america can trace their DNA from Senegal in West Afrika down through the coast in Kongo and Angola and even a bit of DNA from East Afrika Kenya to Mozambique and even South Afrika and not just from Nigeria on west. Central Africa had a large concentration of it's people taken aboard slave ships as well. I definatly suggest visiting the continent even if you don't feel called to stay
So glad my people know they are not african this is nonsense. Most Native Americans, if living in Britain today, would be regarded as being "black," especially if their ancestry were not known. "Negro" was also used in a general way in the North American colonies. Some examples illustrate the use of "negro" and "black" as applied to people of American ancestry. In 1619 some twenty "negroes" were brought to Virginia. At least eleven have names of Spanish or probably Spanish character. Later they were joined by "negroes" and "mulattoes" with names such as Antonio (several) and John Pedro. In 1670 the population of the Virginia colony was said to be 40,000 including 2,000 "black slaves." Evidence indicates that there could not have been that many Africans there and also that there were a great many American slaves or servants. Thus the total of "blacks" must have included a good many Americans. In 1698 three fugitive "negroes" were reported in North Carolina, of whom one was an American. 12 Similarly, a list of"N egroes" imported into Virginia, 1 710-1718, by sea includes at least sixty-nine "Indians," mostly from the Carolinas. Likewise, lists of "N egroes" brought into New York from 1 715 to 1736 include many slaves of probable (or stated) American ancestry from Campeche, Jamaica, Honduras, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Young was anxious to prove that the so-called "Black" Caribs were not true aborigines but were in fact "N egro colonists, Free Negroes, or Negro usurpers." This was important to him because he wanted to show they had no bonafide land-rights or aboriginal title.
No they can’t African American can’t trace their Ancestry from East Africa your ancestry goes as far as west and central Africa you could even search it up it’s the first thing you see on google 😂😂😂
@@isaiahmwereru8833 1. Is easily verifiable through DNA tests. 2. Never said it's every Afrikan "American" that can trace their DNA to east Afrika but maybe up to 5%. 3. Also verifiable through physical remnants of euro slave trade on the eastern coast of Afrika at multiple ports (Bagamoyo, Mombasa, Zanzibar, etc.) 4. Other proof available. Even Google will tell you. Go research
@@Afro_Conservative_Strikes_Back bro those eastern slaves ports you are talking about was there for East African slave trade for the Arab countries and European colonizers had no control over those the costal areas because they were mainly controlled by Arabs and those slaves you are talking about did not go in countries to the west because they went to Arabs countries such as Iran,Yemen,Oman and even India but all that stopped when the British had arrived in our country
God said we were created from the Dust of the Earth. So we are Indigenous to Planet Earth 🌎. With the Elements and the Universe stick to this Phenomena and you need nothing else.
Nothing but the truth, I tell African Americans all the time they are African. But they always claim islands or say they Indian or something. I say no you look pure African to me. I be destroying them with knowledge and they are just brainwashed. I know I descend from Cameroon and Gabon. My homeland Africa and I’m proud to be Bantu!
You could see the documentary titled bigger than Africa on Netflix, that’s gonna expose you to the right answers to those numerous quest you got , I’m sure you’ll be glad you did and you’ll probably agree with me that Naija is the biblical Tower of Babel .
Yeah, I know we are Africans. My bro researched this. From my maternal side of the family. We are proud to know we are Akan! Our people are learning our truth, of who we are … where we are from. Asé
Kudos to you for your great job brother. “If you know who you are you don’t need any DNA test, sometimes your eyes will suffice. “ Sometimes black people are so happy when they find any other traces of non afrikan ancestry linked to them that immediately they tend to neglect their own afrikan physical appearance. I remember almost getting in a discussion with a sister from Jamaica in Germany who was mad that afrikans on the streets used the term sister anytime they see her. She reply that she is from Jamaica and had chinese and many other ancestry in her DNA. In respect to her white husband who is a great guy i decided not to inform her that she looked more like someone from Ghana or Nigeria than even me a born afrikan. Keep doing your great job. Salute from Guinea Bissau, west Afrika.
Brother Jay I have not done the DNA test yet. My daughter did and she has West Africa as a result. Nigerians here in the US told me I look like I'm from Igbo tribe. So I need to do that test soon. I want to take a trip to Africa as well.
Most AA's look Igbo. A lot of the enslaved were taken from Eastern Nigeria (Bight of Biafra/Igboland). Some famous examples of Igbo's are Nnamdi Asomugha (Kerry Washington's husband), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave), Osi Umenyiora (former NFL NY Giants) & Lemar Obika (Singer).
@@ckk974 true but these examples you have given are 'direct' ' from Nigeria or have Nigerian parents. The late American singer Paul Robeson was said to have Igbo ancestry. I read somewhere that 1 in 6 African Americans have Nigerian ancestry - this is a lot when you consider that people were taken along the African Coast from Senegal right down to Angola.
@@ckk974 and the London born singer/actress, Cynthia Erivo, is also Igbo. She played Harriet Tubman in the movie "Harriet". The American born actress Uzo Aduba is Igbo as well.
Exodus 11:7 “But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians (Africans) and Israel (African Americans).”
Exactly 💯%!! I didn't listen to the video bcuz the title alone was enough for me and reading these comments hv me boiling as well. Deception is on the rise big time! For the true Children of Israel, they better pray and ask for understanding because they just don't know what's about to happen to them down the road. Do they not know that Ham's children wanted all the male children dead during Pharaoh's(Egyptian(African) King) time which can be read in Exodus 1:8-22(KJV)). Peace & Grace💕
I will say it again until a black man and a black woman, realizes who they are, progress is far from us. Until African nations unite and work together, rather than compete or put each other down, we will never make progress. There is an African saying, can a child forget the breast he or she suckled (Mother). Can every black person forget that they suckled the breast of Mama Africa. Humanity began in Africa. We are lacking our identity, who are we? Why have they tried to hide our history and identity, turned us against each other, those are questions we must ask. Every African in the Diaspora and native land who are you?
@@paulinekisorio9098 I'm proud to call myself a black Zimbabwean with roots in Zimbabwe(Karanga tribe) and South Africa Shangaan tribe). Melanin or melanated is a Greek term.
@@nikkitajones1 It's OK sister. Remember black ⚫ 🖤 has been used in bad ways like Devil 😈 is depicted black Black cake is 🎂 called Devil 😈 cake while white cake 🎂 is called angels 😇 cake Accident most frequently place is referred to as black spot Angels and christ has been depicted white does it mean we black ⚫ are Devil 😈
All humanity is from Africa proven facts like it or hate it and when the racists come anyone that's black they are going to ask are you are African or African American once they see a black man or woman will come for you. I understand that where one is born is citizen of that country depending on the country and to the brothers and sisters in the Americas I embrace you all as my extended families and you are all welcome to any country of the continent of Africa.
@@selemon1184 you are correct. The Europeans are from a different species called neanderthal. Black women have to take a shot in order to take a yt mans seed to full term since we are different species
@@tawvnmgmt7744 T-R-U-T-H IS OFTENTIMES STRANGER THAN FICTION: IF THEY CAN REPRODUCE AND CARRY TO TERM! SOMEBODY LIEING ABOUT T-H-E-I-R ANCESTRY!!! BECAUSE IT LOOKS W-H-I-T-E DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN ITS PURE 100% CAUCAVIAN
In 1998, I met some guy at Dekalb County auctions and I started speaking igbo to him. At a point, I said to him " what's wrong with you, men?" I was so surprised when he said he didn't understand anything I said as I had assumed all along he is Igbo. He could have been my cousin. If he visited my village no one would think he was not a native. Only his Accent was different.
My brother, we don't need any DNA test to prove who we are. An alligator will never give birth to a chicken. We are Africans, like it or not. Keep doing your work brother.
But a crocodile never interbreed with alligator biologically they're two different species. A rhogam shot is required for certain blood types to give birth. The mother's body see the baby as a Foreigner and kills the baby a alien
Is not that easy to do due to the blood types of the mother's body often miscarries those babies because of the different blood types. Most likely those were Native Americans as slave that was shipped to Africa. But you know yourself better than I do. This above all else know thyself.
@@tannithk.correa1331 Native Americans were not shipped to Afrika, there was no need for that (this is why people who say this; can't produce one document that even hinted to this), Europe yeah, but Afrika no.
@@ceacee2323 If would be nice if you guys who say this type of stuff would produce evidence of this. Native Americans have proven their stand in the Americas via DNA, but all we have is all talk from Afrikan Americans who really look crazy to people (including many Afrikan American) who has taken these tests. I'm just glad its starting to show up as noise coming from people who say this now.
@@MedjayCommander I'm going to let the people that think African be the African they think they are but African blood type original was type B blood type. I cannot say mixing of the blood types did not occur because my mother is blood type O and my blood type is AB negative which originated in Southeast Asia the bush people of South Africa is the forefather of all the Asian people. So yes I can tie myself back to Africa but I am also of this continents.
When Africans tell you that you’re not African, they aren’t referring to your ethnicity, they mean culturally. I am half Ghanaian but I grew up in the west and because of that, I get called white or not African all the time. It would be like Africans coming to America and trying to blend it culturally. No matter how hard hard we try, we’ll always be culturally “western” and no matter how hard they try, they’ll always be African or have African characteristics
"You're not African because you were born in Africa, but you are African because African was born in you" I think way too many Africans are raising their children overseas with little or no identity.
I think we should at least come to terms with the fact that not everyone has the same background, same culture, same DNA. So one persons truth can not possibly fit everyone else's narrative. From there you will navigate or steer your ship accordingly
“🎶You running and you running and you running away…you running and you running and you running away…you running and you running; but you can’t run away from yourself…”🎶🎵 Young Ancestor ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 Robert Nesta Marley ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 #StopRunning #EmbraceTheSelf
To be honest I mistook Jay for a Nigerian RU-vidr call Tayo Aina,that’s why I clicked it .They look alike ,they will pass for brother .pls anyone should check that guy out. I’m Nigerian and Jay looked like one no doubt..Even someone in Washington DC mistook me for his buddy ,he was stunned how much I look like his friend. One love to Black Americans ,I love y’all.
I agree with you totally 💯. I did my DNA. Hello I am 76% West African my people Nigerian and yes I have relatives that look like over. In fact I will be visiting Nigeria like always wanted to go . Next year. So thank you for your videos and truth. I think love that am African
So glad my people know they are not african this is nonsense. Most Native Americans, if living in Britain today, would be regarded as being "black," especially if their ancestry were not known. "Negro" was also used in a general way in the North American colonies. Some examples illustrate the use of "negro" and "black" as applied to people of American ancestry. In 1619 some twenty "negroes" were brought to Virginia. At least eleven have names of Spanish or probably Spanish character. Later they were joined by "negroes" and "mulattoes" with names such as Antonio (several) and John Pedro. In 1670 the population of the Virginia colony was said to be 40,000 including 2,000 "black slaves." Evidence indicates that there could not have been that many Africans there and also that there were a great many American slaves or servants. Thus the total of "blacks" must have included a good many Americans. In 1698 three fugitive "negroes" were reported in North Carolina, of whom one was an American. 12 Similarly, a list of"N egroes" imported into Virginia, 1 710-1718, by sea includes at least sixty-nine "Indians," mostly from the Carolinas. Likewise, lists of "N egroes" brought into New York from 1 715 to 1736 include many slaves of probable (or stated) American ancestry from Campeche, Jamaica, Honduras, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Young was anxious to prove that the so-called "Black" Caribs were not true aborigines but were in fact "N egro colonists, Free Negroes, or Negro usurpers." This was important to him because he wanted to show they had no bonafide land-rights or aboriginal title.
My gggrandmother whom I would think knows her father says in various censuses that her father was an African, born in Africa. She also says that her mother was Choctaw born in Indian territory. Four separate dna testing companies confirmed my African heritage (85%) and (2) of them confirmed 1 to 2% Native ancestry. I also have numerous African cousins that have never set foot in the USA (Some have.) that I am a dna match to as well as Afro Caribbean matches. I am overwhelmingly African.
