I adore Cheyney McKnight! Not Your Momma's History is such a valuable resource to help people learn the truths that have been buried, lost, and hidden from common knowledge and main stream education. McKnight is a FANTASTIC HISTORIAN! Her work is important! This work is important! The TRUTH IS IMPORTANT!!!
@@Ryanlexz You seem to care quite a bit, you pasted this comment under every other comment. Takes a lot of dedication...seems like you care the most. Thanks for the support little buddy. 👍🏾
Very true, American history is biased. I would like to see not only black history, but Asian history, Hispanic history, and immigration all history mentioned more in the United States. Edit: okay for gods sake stop arguing, what I’m trying to say is, every part of history should be mentioned in the United States in school and public educational facilities alike. It shouldn’t be biased. STOP ARGUING
I think this is just a small solution for a much bigger problem. It should not be her responsibility to open people’s eyes about the reality of history. This kind of thing should be taught in school!!! America should really revisit its history program
@Susanna Nardelli I agree the history racism needs to be taught in school. Years ago when I was in third or fourth grade we took a field trip to phillipsburg manor. I might be wrong but I don’t remember much about the history of slavery being taught to us.
I had to learn about the real history of the US via outside reading. On that note, here are just some of the great books about the real America everyone should read: "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by Richard Rothstein "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States" by Erika Lee "El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America" by Carrie Gibson "The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American" by Andrew L Seidel "Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic" by Matthew Stewart "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism" by Edward E Baptist "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History" by Kurt Andersen "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" by Richard Hofstadter
As a white North American, I’m always thrilled to see the truth exposed in our history - whether it’s the abuse of first nations, the terrible history of black slavery and systemic discrimination or abuses abroad (eg Vietnam) - keep shining that light - youre amazing!!
@@organizedchaos4559 Well so far, we have all been formally taught our history/'truth' by descendants of those that came here killed and/or marginalized native Americans and brought over shiploads of people to make them rich - it is good to hear a take on that same period from those that are descendants of those that were ripped from their homes and used, abused and slaughtered to make them rich....I'm guessing their 'truth' will be a bit different
I'm really glad she explained her outfit and connected it to being able to snap you out of the false narrative because it literally did for me at the beginning of the video and I didn't even realise it.
@Abcr Rgh HISTORY CAN AND SHOULD NEVER BE ERASED. Past and Present History and the atrocities committed by the White Race on Black, Hispanics and American Indians should be taught in schools….
@Charlotte Miller EVERYTHING SHOULD BE MENTIONED. Nothing should be left out. Right from the start. The journey from AFRICA TO AMERICA 🇺🇸. That is what history is all about…..
For 246 years my ancestors were growing your food, making your clothes, raising your children, making your milk, growing your crops. This country would be nothing without my ancestors.
False. All your ancestors did was provide some "cheap" labor. Every pertinent aspect as it pertains to civilization was already developed and present within the formally european people. Not to mention only a small fraction of white people utilized any slave labor. If what you did was that important, Africa would have already developed into something relevant before any european influence. Also, growing food is literally the same as growing crops. Good job repeating the exact same thing. They certainly didnt need you growing their crops though. That claim is comical.
@@burningpipe2627 Cheap labor? You mean free labor, because none were paid. If these "formerly Europeans" were already adept and self sustaining, what was the need for slave labor? And Africa is a large continent, and not the $hithole others are claiming it to be. If that were the case, why are China, France and the U.S. over there right now trying to drain her of her natural resources? Even the Moors had to teach them that bathing ONCE a year was not a good thing,
@@melaniebonnet7091 that's interesting bc I dont have captions "on" through Google. often when its transcribed through some software we see more than one error. this was pretty spot on... no glaring errors like you see with a talk to text program. those glaring errors are laughable. this one, given the accuracy and how its synced with the video.... ehh seems to be part of the actual editing of the video. but sure you say software. either way, it's wrong and it's not laughable
@@jusletursoulglobaby I'm just learning how RU-vid does captions as I watch videos in other languages as well as looked into process behind the scenes when you load a video. I suspect NOW This either doesn't have staff to verify that the transcription is correct OR this is the tech industry not having a fix for how it's AI interprets what it hears when accents, slang & foreign languages are all in play. I doubt very seriously that getting the name wrong was intentional so I personally feel no offense. Maybe when we demand that Tech have us in the room when AI is programmed, things like this will change.
I discovered her work through the historical dress side of youtube. I am so glad that she is reaching a wider audience to be able to bring the history of slavery a louder voice in historical education!
@Blueebi I like your rambling, but what you are describing is 100% a government's responsibility towards human rights and specifically child rights. Now, not every government on earth recognises these basic human rights, however, according to Wikipedia, "Nations that have ratified this convention or have acceded to it are bound by international law. When a state has signed the treaty but not ratified it, it is not yet bound by the treaty's provisions but is already obliged to not act contrary to its purpose"
“I felt betrayed by him.” Good way to put it, when we find out that people we respect are different in ways we didn’t expect. It’s not easy to always act as an equal, but it starts with our culture. The acceptance on our healthy differences will bring us together in the end. We still are acting like our ancestors did, just in new ways, so let’s not disappoint further generations in the same way.
@@Ryanlexz cares about what bro? It seems like you’re trying to laugh at what I said for the purpose to put me down for trying to be kind to people for being human rather than taking advantage of others for their differences. Bro, are you saying you’re trying to stay ignorant to your actions cuz it makes you feel better? If so, then I hope you realize how much you hurt others sometime. Say we all share two coins between the whole world, if you took the other one you’d be rich, but only because you’re making someone else poor. So who had sovereignty over the coins?
@@Ryanlexz bugger off man, you’re not addressing anything I’m talking about while using vague statements not only make a point but put someone down for addressing an important issue. It’s not about our beliefs, it’s about each person’s actions. Try to better yourself when you do wrong. That’s all I can promote. Other than that, please leave me alone. If you aren’t trying to accept that inequality hurts others in order to get more than another group, then bugger off.
NYMH needs ALL the subs. She has a way of teaching without sugarcoating the context, of being both brutally honest while educating without comforting or soothing white guilt (as THAT'S NOT HER JOB.) If you're a white person that wants to learn more about racial bias, check her out. Also, I'd highly recommend Harvard's implicit bias quiz that calculates social bias on many issues with science. It's eye opening
@Jack toale as a german let me tell you one thing: if your ancestors have profited from atrocities you are profiting from atrocities. The mere fact that you are here when others never had a chance to have a family, had to bury their family, never were able or allowed to bury their family means you have and are profiting.
@@sisuguillam5109 absolutely 💯right. most Americans live in denial of their past dark history and they hate to acknowledge what happened in the past to make the future better.
@@sisuguillam5109 Some of my family died in the camps. I would never knock on your door for a handout even if your great grandfather had personally pushed the button to kill them. You people are insane if you think it's okay to ask reparations to the children of criminals.
I truly enjoyed this short piece. She seems like a wonderful person…very intelligent. I appreciate her honesty, & her sharing her goals on how educating the public about enslaved peoples in the correct way is vital to their understanding. I’d love to see her in person.
In any event, I think we can all agree that Ms. McKnight is doing a VERY fine job at enriching our learning of history in this country -- both the good parts, & the bad parts. :-) And I highly recommend her channel! ^_^
So she's more qualified than the museum curators and archivists who've spent their lives studying history objectively? I'm confused by what she's doing and being recognized for.
4:06 -- person doing the subtitles has never seen or read Roots, I see. She's saying "Kizzy" not "Kinsey" ffs. It's the name of Kunta Kinte's daughter, not some suburban middle schooler. Come on.
I'm a ADOS women who grew up eating that very dish. We are 7 generation New Englanders. My dad loved game meats and lamb. Harlem,New Amsterdam all refer back to where immigrants in the Hudson Valley came from. You are becoming a national treasure!
I subscribed to her channel just a couple months ago. I am so happy she's getting the attention she deserves. She truly does a wonderful job. Love her.
When I see her, I see Africa where her ancestors most likely came from. Idk what anyone else see but that is what I see. I like to refer to Black as African American. Everyone has ancestral roots even if they no longer speak the language or know the culture. I am happy she is doing what she loves and not out there screaming, demanding justice. She is setting a great example!!
I think the one of the things in history that has bothered me the most, I even said this to my grandmother as a child, is that West Indies people/Africans had been working in our nation for generations... working so hard. Doing mighty work keeping our nation prosperous and even when the "slaves" were freed- their now employers no longer a master, would not offer them HONEST FAIR PAY to just stay on a clock and be employees, no matter how hard they worked all that time. Would not pay them what they would pay their average white employees. Then would be so brutal out of sheer anger that they could not keep them in bondage. They'd rather see them destroyed than pay them what they HAD BEEN so deserving of. The Emancipation Proclamation made it clear, as did the Bible- Even in giving them freedom they are to be blessed by the Earthly Master (employer). Deut 15:13-14
Agreed, it was horrible, I remember the stories my mother used to tell me about how my great grandmother lived, she worked so hard since she was a child, at nine she was cooking whole meals for her master(that's what she was called) and her family and taking care of the house, she was not paid even though slavery had technically been outlawed, I guess the woman figured she didn't need to pay a child for doing dangerous stuff. But we have some great recipes to remember my great grandmother by.
@@kiram1854 At nine years old, children can be of help to their parents at the parents need, but nine years old, cooking whole meals and cleaning house, NO thats too young. And then to not get compensated? No. Don't get me wrong, I was raised by my grandmother, successfully, and she raised me that if we successfully baby sit kids, He'll give us babies of our own. If we appreciate our Daddy, He'll bless us with a great husband. Do great work and works in your job, He will bless us with promotion. Tend a room, we'll be blessed with a house and if we take care of our bike, He'll bless us with a car. She explained, in the beginning- our room is our garden of Eden Eventually a House- God created us to tend our Eden. It is our responsibility. School is our job and so forth and so on. The more we express appreciation for what we have, the more He blesses us. I was raised to be a good student a helper, a wife, a career driven mother and a grandmother a homeowner, a car owner and a blessing to others and I have no regrets about it. I can HONESTLY say I've been successful at everyone of them. Im grateful to God for that woman and everything SHE blessed my life with. May God rest her soul.
@@ronk2307 Actual TRUTH? It doesnt....but people do not READ all the way through, for when they do, they will find Christianity is not supposed to even exist. Its not the will of God. True Believers see how the Lord intended it, and make noone a slave, false worship such as Christianity treats people as slaves. LEARN THE TRUTH!! It sets everyone free. It definitely opens your eyes to false worship, such as what you are stating. Every slave owner or kindom, in the Bible, that had slaves, were not believers in God but instead idolotry. TRUTH!
This is exactly what we need. We, as Americans do not need to ignore the suffering. We don't need to pretend "it was just the time". It needs to be known the suffering. And im so happy to have learned about "not your mommas history" and am going to look into it more.
Man this is one of the best things to do so that people can better grasp history almost like a first hand experience. I know of museums that perform reenactments of historical events. Also, there is no point in getting angry or hiding history from others. It happened and we need to know the full story in order to learn from it. That is how I feel
I had to learn about the real history of the US via outside reading. On that note, here are just some of the great books about the real America everyone should read: "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by Richard Rothstein "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States" by Erika Lee "El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America" by Carrie Gibson "The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American" by Andrew L Seidel "Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic" by Matthew Stewart "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism" by Edward E Baptist "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History" by Kurt Andersen "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" by Richard Hofstadter
Thank you for this!! I appreciate you taking the time to provide some education and further reading or listening material if you prefer audio books like me. Take care 🖤
This woman is brilliant. Thank you for featuring her and her work. Canadian historic sites have so much to catch up on to further this conversation. In the majority of sites, we don't even know if the slaves were living in the house or in the barn. We traded in Afro-American, Afro-Canadian, Afro-Caribbean and Aboriginal slaves. I had to wait until third year university until I learned about any of it. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Black people were not the only slaves. Every race has been slaves at one point and yes that means white people too. Stop being closed minded and only attacking white people because guess what look up history because black people have had slaves too. One of them was overthrowing Italy, killed the men and raped the women and now those children are called Sicilian. Can’t remember if it was all of Italy or part but it happed so what about them? Are we going to condemn them for what their ancestors did in the past? What about the trade slave that the white and black people did? Are we going to condemn the people who come from those ancestors who actually traded people they didn’t want to people they knew would treat them even worse? What about the white people here who were called maids and butlers but treat horrible just like slaves. What about the people from Egypt who had slaves in ancient times. Are we going condemn those people now for what their ancestors did? In reality everyone should be condemn because there’s too many race that have had slaves and treated the other race horribly. This is why Jesus came to save those who sin. We all have sinned and each sin is just as bad as another in Gods eyes. I am white and I am not racist. I was taught by my mom who’s a Christian that everyone is equal no matter what they look like. Stop talking for white people saying we are racist or have more power. Cause if I had power as a white person I would be living in a much nicer place than I am now. Also my son with a rare genetics would have the best therapist money could buy instead of being denied by Medicaide because he hasn’t made any progress in a long time. Also I wouldn’t have to worry about paying for his medicine for seizures. I’m not superior so stop saying I am. I’m just like everyone else in this world who tries to work hard to earn a living.
The title is so wrong. She isn't 'rewriting' Black History in America, She is 'ADDING ' Black History to American History as it always should have been included.
NOPE, HISTORY IS HISTORY & you can’t change it, rewrite it, or tell it different! You can’t REMAKE the world to make it how you want it to be, no matter how hard you cry!!!
I experienced something similar to her George Washington story. I visited his property in Mt. Vernon, VA. Of course I knew he was a slave owner, but somehow learning Washington freed them upon his wife's death was soothing (or kept me in that fantasy realm the historian talked about later in this video, as the slave's liberation wasn't so clear cut. Google it.). Actually being onsite, where Washington kept his slaves was an entirely different matter. Seeing how they were housed/their living environment was disturbing. It is frightening to see (somewhat) firsthand what some people are willing to inflict on others for their own personal gain.
We did not have any issues learning about slavery and who caused it and what it lead to in America in NY but down south idk why they trying to make it seem like we volunteered to be slaves.
My first impression of her was like she was a monk or a doctor by the way she put her left arm like she was carrying a book of knowledge Also the place makes it more cool looks like she was a historian just by the river side
Ms McKnight has been an inspiration since I found her channel several months ago and I’m proud to see her getting to continue to share her important message. What a wonderful intelligent woman ❤️
Yeah let’s just forget and bypass that we Native Americans were here with a thriving culture of over 500 nations,each with our own languages and customs,well before any of the Europeans and their slaves,that were sold to the Europeans by their own African people…
Well if you think about it , all of the founding fathers and major influencers of the time either had slaves , endorsed slave labor , or was actively contributing to the continuation of slavery
She acts like black people were the only people ever enslaved. How often does she mention the Europeans that boarded ship free but were sold into servitude all but name slaver when they reached the Americas. I'll bet she never mentions the Black slave owners.
That’s not a part of American history and that was the vast minority. It also doesn’t take away anything from what black slaves went through in America.
"Make sure they're good!" It's all still just us, all of us, one nation... ? It feels like a no brainer. It hurts my soul when the idea gets written off as a fantasy or something only touted by extremists... It's not extreme. It's reality in our faces. It's okay if it makes us uncomfortable! It's uncomfortable! Time to make it right, now.
We have huge glaring problems in america rn and as a minority myself this just isnt it atm. Also shes describing a business .... businesses make a lot of money on the backs of lower and middle class . Congratulations
I agree, from what she is saying she is describing how a business operates; businesses being made by its workers. I do think she should work on more the 'slave' aspect of all the people she describes. Showing people how they once lived don't give much in terms of how slavery was a problem back then and she certainly isn't rewriting anything new.
@Ngawati marupohill Or rewriting it for the “anti-racist” narrative which is trending at the moment. Which is blacks/poc being superior to whites, which is the definition of……
Was suprized but loved to see the stamppot. Funny how she thought peppers would be added since that happens often now too in the Netherlands with people experimenting with the recipes
I absolutely loved when she listed all of the ways she can spend time with her deceased ancestors in the present day. It was absolutely beautiful, and also educational. She is so beautiful, and proud, and relatable, and I have so much respect for this strong amazing woman.
She spoke to the backsliding, and she's right. Everything has to change. We can't go back to being lulled into (as she rightly phrases it) the comfort of believing racism doesn't exist in America. We have a LOT more work to do still.
hey!! everyone is saying "we should learn that in history" guess what my WHOLE 8th and 7th grade classes back then did and im glad i did bc blacks had it hard back then :/
It would be nice to learn more about American history that is not taught in school. The only issue would be that there might be too much info. Asian American history, Hispanic American history, and African American history, has lots of information to talk about. If we could figure out what part of all these different part of American history to be taught that would be good. There are classes in college that teaches these specific subjects too but there still should be some that is taught before college.
The most important parts of all those histories should be taught in school because it is American history. And each of those groups should decide what are the most important parts they want to be taught.
I follow her channel and it's awesome to see her getting more attention, I see a lot of other historical reenactment/history channels get way more attention while focusing only on white american/white european history (As in, of the european or american history reenactors, their focus is purely on celtic/anglo/germanic/scandinavian etc rather than spanish/italian/greek/turkish etc history from the middle ages to now. Like after rome fell the historical reenactors only want to do north-north west-west european history)
