America's First Museum Dedicated to Telling the Story of Slavery | The New Yorker 

Omg.

The PTSD is still in our blood ... bc I want to weep after reading this.

Ppl really be like it was so long ago like wtf

@@GabriellaGabrielle omg

I don't really to give your comment a "like" because what happened to your family is disgusting. Your whole history pivots on slavery. I wish there was a way to find your great great great grandmother's ethnic name. At the very least, her true name should be known and given. The right thing to do is reparations.

And then call themselves Christians, go to church on Sunday

Alex Agykum The Methodist, Presbyterian etc even kept slaves and hired them out. It was beyond belief and most Christians just say Christians ended slavery.

Satan people will always do you WRONG

@@alexadjekum1543 false prophets Satan people

Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy; but now they call it DEMOCRACY !!!

Ruby G if you’re truly sorry the best way to show it is to stand up and respectfully walk other whites through the same mental perspective you have come to have. I am grateful that you have this perspective and that you acknowledge history the way it should’ve been but if you’re truly sorry, pls put the effort to fight against other close minded perspective and/or ignorance and get them to understand the truth and how to deal with it as well. I’m sure many whites deny the truth cause they don’t know how to deal with the reality of how cruel their ancestors where. If doing this is to much to ask then pls don’t insult us by expressing grief while sitting back and doing nothing to end this ones and for all.

Lidia Yucon now you’re insulting me. You don’t know nothing about me and no right to make the comments you did about what I do or do not do. I don’t stand for ignorance and racism any time any where, i did not go into detail as to how I go to enforce this but like I said, I’m aware of what’s happened and what’s still happening. I will stand for equality always and have done so living my life the way I have. Pls be respectful and mindful when making comments about how truly sorry I am.

You got some light in you. Sorry you're ashamed of your ancestors 😞

@@RedRubyG see Ruby....doesnt matter what you say. They won't accept it. They will use every opportunity to make whites feel bad. You can't win.

@@kattalady8114 who is THEY?, use a singular approach

Racism works both ways...

@@kimgibson2368 totally agree and either way, I don't like it. Don't like racist black people too. The world is to large and colorful for us to be racist.

Exactly decades later it's still a racism issue. Truth be told that want us to forget there evil history forgive and forget I know better and I don't.

How can we forgive and forget when we are STILL being oppressed? If another country attacked the United States, this country would be quick to retaliate and no one would be saying the United States should forgive and forget. People of color are the only people that are told to forgive and forget

Blacks are the true racists

Thank you for that information.

Thankyou for that information, but it's not a competition

Thank you for this morning information

Lorraine Johnson Coleman where is it?

River Road African American Museum 406 Charles Street Donaldsonville, LA 70346 225.474.5553 africanamericanmuseum.org/

Awh but we do. It's all in how you see it. Enslaved or slaves. That is not our story. That's our tragedy Rise Up mighty people we have no clue of who we really are and the power that we possess. It's our job to go back and visit our our past., before our life was disrupted and interrupted by strange people who didn't look like us, but bare an image of what we are according to the wealth they have acquired by robbery and thievery.

They say pull yourself by your own boot straps but news flash, Amos 8:9 will set the record straight and Planet X is really coming for payback.

This was deep💯

Glammed By Leilo Who is they? Most whites in the USA’s past didn’t own slaves. This is not the history of most white Americans.

​@@IslenoGutierrez True... And what about the Asians? they were slaves too forced to build the rail roads? find a black person carrying about that please.. what about the jews in Egypt? white people were slaves too, vikings didn't care about color. This is why this hypocritical

Well Chet, all I can say in response to your statements is Black people were never viewed as humans. And guess what, many whites still think Black people as "less than human!" Some give their pets more humane respect than they would ever give s Black person.

Greed? No hate, jealousy!

​@@oldschooloc2110 unless you're me and hates every human and wishing for the nukes to cleans this earth

@@oldschooloc2110 which is foolish, no one really created anything new. Most the inventors are black that’s why it’s foolish

The evil system of White supremacy!

That's the spirit !

BROOOOOO

YAAS! I came to know parts of history that were not often included or written in the books but because of my histroy professor, he shed light to a lot of important things. I wish I had known earlier! So you're doing great by teaching the young ones a part of a great big truth outside the shackles of the curriculum.

💯👏🏽✊🏽

As a future teacher, I whole-heartedly support this! I have had plans to do the EXACT same thing. The truth needs to be shared; even the ugly parts that are hard to learn. P.S. I wish schools removed Columbus Day out of the curriculum lol!!!!

What was it like?

yes I visited this plantation 3 years ago. it was overall yet powerful

Heyy 🇨🇲

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So go father back to Israelites all of these western nations in African are new set up by European governments

I’m dying to go to Ghana!

Same here and I also feel that we should not be charged, not even for our ancestry report

"Stamp Paid" .... Beloved ...Toni Morrison (Nobel Laureate)

While I agree that would be really hard to enforce. You would have to legally define what is and isn't black and im sure many people would fall to the wayside. I think it should be free for everyone honestly.

@@SchoolRumble4ever22 I don't have to define it on job applications or when the vendors charge me more because Im a black woman. Or when I apply for capital for my business, they only ask. So the same should apply. It didn't have to be defined when they had "white only and blacks to the back"

LilCaramel who will pay for all the buildings and the upkeep ....it’s good that it exists and remains ...

Indeed Aira!✊🏿

And they don’t want to know either..

True!

Yes, you are right. It is not taught in school. If the parents don't know they also cannot teach their children. I am German, have been here about 35 years. My children grew up here, went to school here and none of this was taught properly. I had to piece all my knowledge together myself by researching, reading, etc.

They have been brainwashed to be easier to control😟

And only 10% of African slaves were sent to America!!! Guess this makes 100% 😑

It wasn't THEN and it isn't NOW !!!

@ 👄Really?!! You're in that much denial?!!!

...and because it is contrary to the high minded self-mythologizing that is the bedrock of American history and culture.

Rene Curry Many of them are. I went to court today and I was so proud of myself for asking her to stand up to injustices. I asked her to please not to turn a blind eye! I asked her if she believed all Leo and authority figures are fair. She said no.

It’s not history because it still exist.

To see one of them…to tell their story and bring them back to life.- Dr. Ibrahima Seck

Thank you. I wanted to say the same thing.

True some white southerner are smarter. I have a cousin that truely believes only northern troops committed terrible crimes during the civil war. I have tried to enlighten him to no avail. Now he doesn't talk to me. No loss.

@@mermaidwe2743 - im sorry to hear that. Its a shame he made it where it had to come to that

It's sad that some white ppl get mad when the tour guides tell the horrific truth about slavery

@@HandsofGlory1 what's worse is hiding the fact you were sold into slavery by your own people and of you weren't sold you were put to death. But let's not talk about that. Let's not talk about the freedoms you have now. Let's not talk about the opportunity you have because more often than not it's wasted, why? The culture

Hi🤗🤗 I have a few questions Is there a cost? Do you have make an appt? It is in Atlanta right ? Who was your guide? Me and my girls are looking to do something like this, I think it's something THAT's is needed right now😩😩who knows I might find some kin folk on that list🙂

I visited it 2018, very powerful!

@@tiffanyfoy1039 it's in Louisiana right outside of New Orleans...Google Whitney Plantation for more information. Very educational for your children,for us all.

Thank you for sharing. Going to read that book you’ve suggestee

You can go. Keep in touch with me as I do tours to New Orleans. You can hit me back here or email me to connect at famlisoul@gmail.com. My name is Torrence Brannon-Reese ( Torrè).

Keep in touch, I conduct New Orleans tours, famlisoul@gmail.com, Torrè Brannon-Reese is my name.

Ikr!!

Passionate One I was there in 2017. It broke my heart.

How is it systemic racism, we had a half black president, we have black governors,mayors , city council members, police officers, black business owners, are you freakin kidding me!!!! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nicohana exactly!

"...There Are None So Blind, As Those That Will Not See..." Some questions don't change who you are... they reveal who you are.

Countries with Antidiscrimination and Equal Opportunity laws cannot be "systematically racist". Your statement is an oxymoron and logical fallacy.

There would be no racism if people would stop talking about it and take responsibility for their own lives and stop blaming the white man for their own failures in life!!!

Read "Rural Museums--Southern Romance" by Maya Angelou

@@dreamcatcher5538 thank you. I'll go check that out.

Winterscreations81 r u single ?

@@Beetwate305 no I'm not single.

@@Beetwate305 your name is killing me 😂😂 it threw me off for a minute.

Beauty is pain....its sad to hear the truth about how the past really was

biracial or lighter afro?

yes and black women were raped in the 20th century and told no one if a white msn raped them because they knew nobody cared.

They dislike because they don't want to acknowledge what happened. They'd rather bury it and pretend it never happened.

The Germans just "forgot" to do the same with the African holocaust that they promoted in Namibia...

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Gideon Amedu if you are black, you gotta sort of uneducated to publicly make a comment like that

Mystery Everlasting how lmao he’s glad he wasn’t born back then and you should be too black or white

It was white supremacy white Christian supremacy.

@Kristie C oh noooo! Not sainted Native Americans too?

I know

The people back then are responsible. Why would you be ashamed of what you didn’t do? We have no control of what other people do.

Because there are a vast majority of whites who still praise their ancestors and pretend they did nothing wrong. And by not learning the history and understanding their mistakes, THEY would be bound to repeat as well. No one is blaming whites today for what happen to our ancestors. We WILL blame whites today for not trying to fix what their ancestors set upon us. That's all blacks want. Change. PERMANENT change for the better.

@ BJ Kroft - If you are ashamed, then do something about it.

@@southernman5839 The Caucasoids passivity to their ancestors' evil wrongdoings of the past, today, and plans for the future speaks volumes. You all have done very little and don't have no intensions to do anything because you all like gray supremacy because everything benefits you all only. You all ARE responsible for all of this and negative karmic energy is brewing for you all to marinate in. You all time for suffering is coming multiplied. Your little empire is going to fall. It is long overdue.

@@KimberlyPurpoz What do you recommend I do?

Thank you...

mike askme They did sell their own.

@@marthapalmer9667 those who sold enslaved people to Europeans did no sell their own, no more than whites committed genocide against other whites, ie the Holocaust. African is not a country never has been, it is continent with multiple nations inside it with multiple ethnic groups. For you to say this, you mind as well say that all Europeans are responsible for slavery, because they all shared the same skin color . This includes Russia and the Slavic nations, are they just as responsible for enslaving people?

If the slave masters didn't come with their trickery, lies and manipulation to Afrika none of this would of happened. They only sold their own cause they were lied to. Still the whites have a responsibility and the biggest role to play when it comes to slavery and you can never try turn this around on black people. If you're white you know very well what your ancestors were doing. Just like today's world people sell their soul willingly in the name of freedom, fortune and fame. Anyone who lies and controls another man is the devil and it runs deep in white peoples blood, the need and erg to control it's sickening and it's happening till date.

@@marthapalmer9667 what no answer Martha?

Yes the children is whom i reach best! Hard to get to the parents

The problem is that racist adults are teaching racism to their children on a daily basis. That's one reason racism continues in this world.

Here in the states, when they talk about slavery it’s very watered down. They don’t teach about the extent of it and only talk about how it came to be, but not how it was. Even now I still learn a lot about the extent of slavery and how rooted racism is even in today’s society. I do research on my watching videos or reading. It’s sad to finally realize this. It’s shameful to not teach the complete history and show it as IT IS.

Let go off the past , huh ,did you tell Jewish people to let go off their past , huh

@@prettygirl_me4699 No, of course, they didn't.

juan hoshkaboo that’s not ur business or ur concern. She has every right to feel what she does for her ancestors and her self. if other parts concern u in this day an age go do something about it instead of acting tough on RU-vid.

To juan, I don't have to play the victim, even though my portion of the human race is still victimized on a daily basis by racists. Since you don't have the guts to use your real name, you apparently use your cleverly thought up monicker to hide behind with your racism. The next time you think you have something to say, make sure you know what you're talking about. You call yourself a man. Be one. I'm sure you teach that garbage to kids, if you have any. What a legacy to leave them. I'm sure your klandaddies are proud of you.

how about the trutb Dont you know? African kings and Chiefs didnt build any prisons or mental hospitals. Instead the kings and Chiefs traded their criminals and undesirables people into the slave market. And if these afrocans were turned down by the slave traders than those africans were but to death in the annual crematories. So in a summary Africa's kings and Chiefs had made america their prison system

Was thinking the same thing.

I'll check it out

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Even the brothers with heart disease that died during an encounter with police for having fentanyl in their system causing their death due to heart failure ? Who ( video shows ) was claiming they can't breath long before they laid him down ?

Me too!

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I wish I could go. I would love to see what it was like.

Pineapple Sunkist yes so true , still not free now 2019

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Felicia Thomas you beter worry about right now white people would love to own slaves and beat you to death believe that

Felicia Thomas false black people just need to know their history and rights then everything else will come into place.

I think the movie was filmed there

It was filmed there

That's because it is that house in the movie. The field was edited a bit though to hid the cells in the background.

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Thats a lie .Slave holders didnt wantvthem to read the bible because later on they used it against the slave owners to fight for their freedom

@@debbie7490 True. Nat Turner was reading the Bible.

so true - the word VICTIM is reality!!

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Of course you can't understand you were born in a different era but no doubt you'd be a racist in those times

Beaute Creole yup