BEING BLACK IN ALASKA - MY EXPERIENCES | ANCHORAGE ALASKA 

"You're so well spoken." is such a back-handed microaggression, I can't stand when people use it.

I truly appreciate your content. My family and I will be relocating to Anchorage and I wanted to get a feel for the area from others. Thanks for taking the time to share.

I was waiting for this video.

OMG.... SHE IS SOO' BEAUTIFUL ❤️🤎🤎❤️- She looks like, Thelma, from Good Times 🤎🤎🤎

I’m black , born and raised here , But I do want to move and leave !! Love how you explained your perspective, I agree with you !

as a person of Color yes Alaska can be a difficult place to live even if you are from Alaska Butt on the Whole Alaska is more friendly than other states and i have been in every state

I love this! I’m thinking about teaching in Alaska but I need to be in a modern city with amenities, heat and water. I heard teachers make good salaries in Anchorage. Are you able to fly to other states frequently? Like for example, if I want to travel back to South Carolina, would I have issues booking flights during the holidays?

Thank you for sharing your memories and how Alaska is now. I always enjoy your videos.

I hate that it's true, but thank you for representing our people in such a positive manner. I'm more referring to the very real possibility of your video being a viewer's first introduction to our culture with none of the stereotypes that seem to make it even more difficult to cease the opportunity of closing the "gap" between us... Your delivery was great! I feel confident saying that if a person was on the fence about visiting or moving to Alaska and somehow stumbled upon your video, you probably helped them breathe and look forward to going! Nice work! Beutiful inside and out 😏 "You go gurl"

I like your response to people who tell you that you speak well. Good to know that there are so many black owned businesses there.

Nicely handled. I think most of us who came of age during and after MLK and the '60's have risen to his vision of judging people by the content of our character, not by the color of our skin.

growing up in a very small community i became friends with a black teen my age my parents ( parents old school born in 1925,27 ) and friends were so angry with me but we treated each other with respect and had fun, until his parents moved away.

Today I randomly wondered if our people were in Alaska and found this gem. Thank you !

I was stationed in Delta Junction Alaska at Ft Greeley back in 1988. I almost stayed there and often think of maybe, possibly going back.

Nice video. what music is in the background sounds great. i love that -o you are so articulate as well-nicely done

Enjoy all your videos. Alaska seems like a reasonable safe place to live. Always know your surroundings. I acquired my LTC license. Not looking to ever have to use a weapon. But like the old saying goes, it's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. God bless.

It’s funny you talk about smiling at everyone yet many are not receptive. My mother is from Alabama so I was taught to speak and smile at everyone. The northern State where I live now is exactly as you stated in the video. Many black people will look at you sideways for speaking. I find it sad and odd.

Yes, you can pledge. Contact a Delta there and ask how to join the graduate chapter there if you are still interested.

Oh I so appreciate this wonderful video.

Thanks for this! Very informative! Applying to an Alaskan based job soon, so I was very curious about this topic. Thanks!

Hey, I just starting watching your videos and this is the first one I came across. Great video with very well made points. Given what you've mentioned about Anchorage, have you met fellow Black Alaskans who come from other African immigrant and also Afro-diasporic ethnicities or nationalities such as Jamaicans, Black Canadians (especially Black Nova Scotians, Louisiana Creoles, Nigerians, Afro-Guyanese, etc ) on addition to African Americans? Also, have you ever explored any of the Alaskan Native cultures such as Tlingit, Athabaskan, etc. ?

I just so happened on this video. I'd like to thank you for sharing informative information. I am a single African American (female). I'm in the process of moving to Alaska. It has been a dream of mine forever. Thank you so very much.

When I lived in Alaska,back in the 90 s,it was hard to get employment,up there,,in order to make money,I went out on fishing boats,plus I was in the Airforce guard up there,,it was hard,but I retired,,,

Thank you for posting !!!! I applied for a job in Alaska and I’m a black woman so this was informative;)

Alaska sounds so interesting. I feel it's calling me...Thanks for the video. Very informative. Watts, CA.

I'm thinking about moving to Anchorage, Alaska next year. I would like to learn so much more before I make my big move. Is it hard to get to know people there ?

This was so well done and helpful! Thank you so much.

"Go back to Africa" lmao I know it can be VERY very scary on 1 hand but considering your probably about the 10th generation here and 98% of black people in America have generations of family that never even visited Africa !!

I live in a van and am on my way to alaska, hoping to just visit the place, camp and nmaybe get a small job while im there. Glad I ran across this video.

Hello QUEEN I'm New to YOUR platform Thank YOU for the information ❤

Great video, very informative. Girl, I can’t wait to use your response the next time a nonblack person tells me how well I speak. You’re right, it is not a compliment. Keep the videos coming.

Still watching your videos in 2024

Hello. This is my first time watching your channel. I am glad to know that there is a strong black community in Anchorage. I am a Delta, if you decide to think about it joining, contact the graduate chapter. They may decide to do membership intake activities. Thanks for a great informative video. I will watch more of your channel.

I am an international traveler and lived in Europe and visited Alaska when my childhood friend was stationed in Anchorage with the Air Force. I am anticipating moving to Alaska and I am a retried Special Education Teacher. I enjoyed your video,

I'm born and raised in Anchorage Alaska I'm in Florida now nothing's like home though I'll be visiting Alaska February

Always wanted to visit Anchorage.. good to see its still good friendly people scattered across the world. This day in time it seems to be going out the window so to speak especially in the south. Another city black people might definitely sleep on is Albuquerque,NM. I enjoyed my time there.

Seattle is definitely like that with the black relations. Its a cliquish community for sure. But it just depends on where you feel called to be. I think it just works out sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. In my case it doesn't work out.

Hi! Do you know if there are any Sisterlock Consultants in the area?

My brother married an Alaskan native and they have 4 kids.

Moving to Alaska in January but I’m shy and don’t make friends easy because of this issue do you have any suggestions for someone like me

IMO it depends on how you speak to someone and interact, my son's martial arts Master is Black and he has taught my son so much that he still lives by today

Very nice to hear your personal story. I wish you didn't have to experience the hatred. The fact that people who didn't create you spend their time hating on you bcuz of your color. It's really an indication of low intelligence becuz they can't change a thing about you.

Gosh hearing you talk about all this makes me want to move back home. I'm torn. Maybe I could just be a snowbird or whatever they call em. Thanks for the memories.

Is there a brothers and sisters of Alaska group on fb?

You always keep it real stay beautiful ❤️❤️

I’m so excited! Thinking about moving back to Alaska.

Just the video I needed to find before my love there ❤️

I didn't know there were black women this beautiful and classy in Alaska.

My brother lives in Anchorage Alaska by way of Louisiana

we are literally everywhere. we are still the most populated group of people here in the US. it’s just doesn’t seem as if because of the status quo.

Thank you so much. Very informative.

I lived in Fairbanks for a while having moved from Hawaii. I was shiny and new so they were nosey at first but then the true we’re better than you attitude came out fierce. I hated it. I actually quit my job just to get rehired in another state because they would not let me transfer out. It was like the natives hated them so they took it out on us.

So I am older and looking to move there to be closer to my son but I think you know have me torn. Will I get a job or will I fit in? Thanks for the video ❤

Do you know anything about Wasilla? We’re a little concerned about how they are in regards to race and politics. We’ve only ever lived in blue states and feel it may be a bit of a culture shock if we decide to move there. Thanks for the video!

Great video! Thanks for the information. I agree Black people have to expand our horizons. BTW I think all sororities have grad chapters.

🥶Alaska?! Too cold and I wouldn’t be able to adapt to the sunset and sunrise time. 😀Btw. When the sunrises late, does the stores and schools open late or regular/normal time?

This was a very inspiring and informative video. I loved Alaska and cant wait to visit again. I probably may have stayed a bit longer if I knee more black people there😂 Also Im a Zeta, there are graduate chapters you can join the organizations aren't just for undergrads. You wiuld just have to see if there are any local graduate chapters in Alaska.

I grew up in NEBRASKA!! Same thing!!!

Much Gratitude. Ps I lived in Anchorage back in 1997.

Do you have any insight into the black and native communities?

Are most of the black people in Alaska African American/Black American or are they mostly African immigrants and Caribbean immigrants?

I work in Healthcare and im coming October for a month might extend if I like it thanks for sharing

Thanks for this video. I’m white and my husband is not. We want to move out of California because we are sick of it here, and I want a diverse place so we can both feel comfortable. Definitely considering Anchorage; I’m just worried about the cost of living. The housing can’t possibly be worse than California 😆

This is a great share that I believe many people will find helpful!

Depending on your GPA when you finished college you can still join a D9 sorority as a graduate member

I miss the vibe of the 80's and 90's, just sayin.. Anyhoo thank you for sharing your insight and experience on this topic!

How much is rent and are there alot of jobs or is it necessary to come with the mentality of creating one

My dear black sister Greetings in these difficult times. I am born german and my wife is Alaskan Native she is from the tribe of the Yupik It took her mother 3 years to trust, love, and physically embrace me...... The mother of my wife -when she was 5- had been literally kidnapped and incarcerated in faraway boarding schools like thousands of other native children..... and raped.......!! She was returned to her village at the age of 12!! It was she that taught me about Aleyaska as the Natives say....... She opened my eyes... She opened my eyes to Alaska and the world and what my people had been doing all over the planet......!! The Russians invaded Alaska and took whatever they liked from the Natives! This took place shortly after 1741, when a Russian expedition led by Danish navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Alaskan mainland. Amongst the information gained by this expedition was news of an unparallel fur!! The fur of the Alaskan sea otter.... even by Russian standards it was extraordinary in its properties and therefore extremely valuable!! Sponsored by the feuding, decadent, greedy European/Russian nobles, spurred by wealth through Alaskan sea otter fur military cosak units and fanatic Jesuits came across the Bering Strait exploited, rapped and killed! They were hated by the Natives!! To this day the word cosak is an insult!! Frequently killed and repelled actually in hardly known battles!! The cosak forced the Natives to hunt for the sea otter until they were exterminated..... at the time a winter fur of a sea otter was worth gold in Moskau and St Petersburg....... The cosak would shoot through belly-to-back lined-up natives if they refused to hunt or work for them..... unpaid of course!! The cosak and most Jesuits literally took off when the Otters were wiped out!! It's the old story..... the Europeans came and rapped the land and its people!! After that the Americans bought Alaska from the Russians in 1867 for a pittance without a word or dollar exchanged with Native Alaskans and ruled with an iron hand! Well into the 50 Natives were not to enter saloons, restaurants, washhouses, bathrooms..... all was whites-only!! JUST GOOGLE WHITES ONLY SIGN IN ALASKA Ironically the rape of Alaskan Native children in Alaska by priests/Jesuits returned........ through expelled priests from California Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oregon Grand Pass! Just google 2007 class-action suit Alaska raped native children catholic church When a large coal deposit was discovered in Sutton /Buffalo mine/ the Chickaloon people were driven off by the threat of artificial smallpox infection. It was planned to give them blankets saturated with the virus!! Luckily they were tipped off........... They packed up, disappeared like a shadow in the night, and walked over the mountains to the Kenai valley.... an alpinist feat unparalleled by people in similar mixed age groups. When the oil was discovered in Prudhoe bay the natives were tricked to sell the area cheap without knowing about the oil then the pipeline was built across Alaska, across native land without permission!! A crime reeking of white arrogance and disrespect!! Except for one man....Stewart Udall This congressman who had served in Arizona and worked closely with the Native Tribes there, imposed the Land Freeze Act in 1966 thereby stopping the local and federal government and oil magnates in their tracks!! This whole issue was prosecuted/negotiated and led to a complex settlement in Washington called the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. With all the billions if not trillions on the horizon the hill moved rather quickly.....lol All 12 Alaskan Native tribes received their territory and compensation for future oil revenue trillions, free medical care, and a corporate form with special financial privileges....soon to be exploited by war contractors that partnered purely on paper with the native corporations to receive preferential bidding/defense contracts for the wars in Irak, Afghanistan, Lybia, Syria and now Ukraine. The corporate form of the Alaskan tribes the Alaskan Native corporation became a money train for the us arms industry and contractors/generals and politicians and it also opened the door to basically turn native people into tenants on their own lands!! Sadly.... with the arrival of oil......or rather the oil industry and their kin...... somehow many Afro American businesses and black culture disappeared..... in the following decades Alaska became the state in the union with the highest rates of violence and rape......against women and children!! Native Alaskans are a minority in Alaska but almost a majority in jails!! Their socio-economic situation manipulated into poverty and bondage alcoholism drug abuse suicide crime murder violence is all one big mess destroying a culture and people that came across Beringia eons ago and then successfully populated North America, South America and Greenland The true first travelers of the northwest passage NOT BY CONQUEST BUT BY THE UNSTOPPABLE WILL TO EXPLORE AND LIVE FREE!! What is going on to this day is modern colonialism and racism at its worse....it is in plain sight but hidden!! As for amazing Afro Americans Ask who and how and under what duress the Alaskan HWY was built and who to this day got no credit for it!! Afro-American Soldiers from the south!!

Excellent video.

I’ve been wondering what it’s like outside of the military community. Thank you for sharing your perspective.

Good Video, no issues thus far. AK f/the win!

How is health care for African Americans in Alaska?

Black people make just 3 % of population here. 😐 It's tough out here for us.

Not going to say race wasn’t a factor, but most of the time when I’ve heard people say others are “so well spoken,” it’s because they are much younger than them and talked like an adult instead of talking like the popular lingo of younger generations. My wife is white and 7 years younger than me and I told her the same thing when I met her, it wasn’t a diss , I was just surprised by her age and the way she looked to seem so mature.

wow, this is a very video!!!! my husband and i might be moving there......he's asian / filipino and im black and was concerned about the lifestyle there and if its a place for black and asians

You can still pledge in a grad chapter

Iam thinking about taking my first travel assignment there and I was worried about this being attacked by a moose lol

Not trying to be stalkerish.I Would love to meet and hang out with you one day. Your aura is very beautiful.

I really enjoyed this video…

How do you like it there

You still in alaska

For some reason I used to want to go to university Alaska junea or apu

being lightskinned black im so ready to check out anchorage and enjoy a weeks vacation.

Loved your video. I did not like the background music. Music seemed unnecessary while you were speaking.

thinking about moving there after college, away from too many human beings

You're quite Beautiful. ❤️

I thought you could pledge after college??? Ask your local chapter to be sure :)

good show

is it safe to date a non black person ?

I grew up in Alaska but I want to move to a more progressive state. Alaska is a conservative shithole. I was born and raised up hand my grandparents moved up from Massachusetts.

so dame beautiful .

Why are y'all over there

We're Everywhere get out and travel more YOU'RE find out how much We're lie to also my niece was born like she said military in Germany and she still lived there she's born there her mom is African American BLACK her her Dad African American BLACK and they all live there and been living there for almost what 28 years or better

eRFQuake was here ?

I would think people would be kind and friendly because people aren't used to seeing black people. Of course a woman's experience will be different than a man's.

How is it in Alaska the racism