Michael Blackson on Akon Saying Africans Don't Think About Slavery Like Black Americans (Part 17) 

Wow really

​@@ronniephilpot1682??? U seriously didn't know this???? They were selling the slaves in the first place😂😂😂😂. They give zero damns

That’s cause most blk Americans are weak minded and looking for excuses to justify their stupid behaviors.

i did hear that once many many many years ago. There was an African woman that didn't know slavery ocurred in America. It was interesting.

Because the real pain of slavery doesn't reside there it's here

Erasing history is a great way of controlling the masses.

Yea it’s good to learn and know, but don’t forget to move forward

​@dynamitedingo7720 move forward wtf are you talking about 😅 This history is here forever and as long as blacks are at the bottom of the economic ownership market structure in america. We will always use slavery as a legitimate explanation of why our financial condition exist. There is no plans for reparation, land or any financial institution to help us rebuild black wall street to remove ourselves from the oppression of European oppressors. We will always speak on how selfish, hateful and evil our history was and continues until we see real revolution. If you know anything truly aboy black america then you know we will never move forward without the big 3 requests (ownership, segregation and reparations). MLK amd Booker T thought intergration was a good idea 😂😂😂😂.

Those are great points, I am glad you shared. In school, they give us a kind of “whitewashed “ version of slavery. In the last several decades I came across a lot of those things independently. The lynching barbecues, “breeding “ farms, using innocent black babies as bate for wild animals,even using our skin to make things like shoes etc. I also needed to read things like They Came Before Columbus, African Presence in Early Europe-and many others.

@@catrailalexander4021 I haven’t heard of some of these things. I’m going to read these two books that you mentioned. Hopefully they’re available. Do you suggest any other books?

@@asiahobson6119 There are so many…The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality Hardcover by Cheikh Anta Diop African Presence in Early Asia by Ivan Van Sertima & Rashidi Runoko I’d recommend just about any book written by these two authors. Some may be expensive to buy online but the should be available at your local main library. I live in Japan so it is more difficult to come by, luckily I read them before. Also, you may be interested in books by Dr. Claud Anderson

A descendants African slave not American slaves.

Harriet Tubman is a figment of the government imagination Nat Turner is also. Dane Callaway I’m just here to make you think. Make me a cup🏹🏹🤔

Come back home. Lol. Why they sell them off in the 1st place

​@@WmikewtonytoneBecause those same people were from 500 years ago , not the same people showing blacks love genius lol You wouldn't even be able to understand your own family from 500 years ago lol

If I was an American going to Africa. I’d be pissed like look what ya ancestors did to my ancestors @@analyticalmindset

@mikesiegel6884 what ethnicity are you because you have a Jewish last name and you obviously need a history lesson and I can teach you

No I don’t I lived in Africa 8 years. Black ppl raided other black tribes. Killed and graced every1. And those who they didn’t kill they sold to Asian and middle eastern ppl the=most. And a very small number 2 white ppl. And 2 this day. The only race of ppl who don’t have slaves is white ppl. Facts. @@Ugofitness711

Thanks bro

Why shouldn't Africans feel privileged. We have our economy to fight for. This whole thing of wanting to dress , act and speak like Americans is a huge cancer. Look at the GDPs of African countries and ask yourself why these are still benefiting people who colonised Africa. Our govt corrupt as they can be only gets taxes from those companies and that's if there is any DTA . The focus of Africans shouldn't be on what black Americans are doing but on them getting 100% of their commodities back. Who killed Gaddafi and Patrice Lumumba and Why were they killed? Even this commedian knows if Americans had to choose between him and an American born comedian he's not getting the job. African economy first. Then you can copy USA's social life.

lol except african americans do not see it that way, they see themselves as black and you as african. they claim africans do not like them,yet come up with terms like “african boot scratcher” , they will sit here and tell you how you appropriate their culture and will make tik toks making fun of the way you eat, the way you speak and your cultural practices. sometimes you have to learn to stop loving someone who wont love you back🤷🏾🤷🏾

like there are literally groups of african americans who present as phenotypic african as possible, like kwadjo down the street, and they will tell you nah nah they are either a) indian b) hebrew c)moor etc all because they would be anything else than linked to africa, you can’t teach that level of self hate.

@@hugh7547sometimes we all need education. The act of overlooking someone’s inability to comprehend or conceive the truth doesn’t mean truth is lost. Let love lead. With time all wounds be healed. The future is Key to all Black people everywhere’s sustainability.

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These guys are the bottom of the barrel intellectually because most West African high schools teach the slave trade; importantly both Liberia and Sierra Leoneon history is immersed in teaching the Slave Trade. Liberia was founded by Freed Slaves from the United States. In Ghana most people know about the slave coastal castles including El Mina.

Im not even black but I agree with you. I come from an Italian family and neighborhood in NY. We killed each other more than others. I see blacks doing the same today. Praying for you guys 💯

That is stupid! Move on! Move in from that taught …

Ikr! Look at ALL the white nations of people that stick together, even though they are in the minority on the planet.

Agreed! That also means being honest w eachother...no reason for ppl to get upset at Akon for being honest

Bot lol

no one has ever said this in the history of Michael blacksons existence 😂 😆

Plus he bit off a cd

From Philly

Had the honor of speaking to him about a project a few weeks ago. He really is a great guy.

These ignorant (white) people want to pretend you’re having a victim mindset for wanting to talk about these things. Knowing it and realizing why social constructs and societies are the way they are today is very powerful. People especially in America expect black people to operate on the same level as whites. In the late 50s many black people were pushed outside of a full bus if there was a white person trying to get in. Heavy racism and open hate on black is not ages ago as people want to make it seem

I dint sell anyone to America that's history anyway I don't know u know about Africa either so who cares

Nobody is making anyone forget about slavery. Every single culture on earth has participated in slavery. That's how part of an economy worked. More whites were enslaved by Africans throughout the centuries. Slavics were the number 1 enslaved group, enslaved by whites and blacks and Asians. Slavery is not unique to the west. In fact, the west is who ended slavery as an institution worldwide. And no I'm not white.

Because history shapes the present @@billjames1216

@@billjames1216 Africans selling enemy tribes isn’t a big deal, that’s like a guy from oblock snitching on the oops , Africa isn’t one big happy family there’s thousands of tribes with different languages, even if we’re all African we’re different

But the problem is we hook line and sinker embrace the divisivenes. We only have ourselves to blame. I have seen more stuff on social media from black people promoting division between the two groups than promoting unity.

That part!

There is no division.. Africa is a continent with many many people.. some people you like and some people you will not like.. that's really it.

You people always look for sympathy, want to always be the victim. Meanwhile if they ask you one question about neo-colonialism or any other African issue your head will be empty.

😄😄😄@@kelvincyprian1237

you rock with him is that why you people are attacking him in every recent interviews on youtube comment

@@kelvincyprian1237thank you!!! Black Americans always playing victim 🤣🤣🤣🤣

So do Africans not view colonization as a form of slavery?

It’s not just the us. Slaves where taking everywhere.

It was a big portion of their history too. The reason why the European's could gain a foothold into Africa and colonize it was because they had taken away millions of males. This allowed then entree to go deeper into the continent and conquer it. Africa to this day is still dealing with the consequences of colonization. Look at all the coups that are happening in west Africa. They are still trying to dislodge the French colonialist from the continent.

Africans don’t think about it yet there getting re conquered by the Chinese

Slavery is ALWAYS “that big of a deal!” Jews all over the world would never say Auschwitz and the holocaust weren’t a major part of their history.

Yes, Mike is real and genuine. There's a warmth when he speaks.

@antoinejunior3353 vlad dumb azz said africans can trace the history back 100s of years. Lol we can actually trace our people, we are very well documented most can easily go back to the 1700s. Lol blacks are welcome and he say w are th same people. We definitely not no damn african

Thank You

Yes but Slavery was taught .. Also in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.. so Akon is not knowledgeable when it comes to African Secondary Education.

Well it was more than colonization it was muitalation, buck breaking especially in the West Indies, castration, babies burned in mother's bellies, lynchings rampant AFTER slavery, burned and flooded economic centers, etc,,,,.. the point is Africans are too damn nonchalant about it. I will acknoelegd the Hutu/Tutsi conflict alll day that was caused by Belgians putting that schism between those tribes form the beginning and also Apartheid whcihwas similar to Jim Crow or even the British hand in the Biafra Civil war... so stop and take ownership that yall simply mostly dont care...

who was teaching you about colonization in Nigeria?

@@tobimarho which school did you go to? I was taught in my school about slavery and colonization. Even through films like Battle of Musanga or so. I can't really remember the Name but maybe in your time all that topic has been scratched out of curriculum

To a degree I wouldn’t say so much Africans…blacks can have some understanding with them there is none with Africans

@russianwheelchairbandit8005 they are two different people. FBA don't care to learn about africa. This is our land. We looked out for africans, but we are not family nor blood

No lol just Africans who talk shit about AA’s while on food stamps holding up the line

@@mikejones-wn1sw”we” ain’t no we you didn’t do nothing

@@mikejones-wn1swyou’re all on Native American land fuck outta here clown

It’s a little more complicated than that. I would suggest you look up lectures by John Henrik Clarke. He goes into detail about the Civil Wars we had which resulted in some of us being sold into slavery while others were absorbed into the tribes. When you are looking for answers about our history, don’t do it through the lens of our colonizers.

do not drag the 53 others country onto your failing education system. I did learn it in my country

@ivy29 it wasnt a case of Kings. Ordinary people also participated. The fact of the matter is that many of those screaming that they were sold are descended from people who sold others too. Very often once an empire that was on top and selling enemies was toppled 5 -10 years after their prime, those they were selling would sell them in retaliation

You know how white people get uncomfortable talking about slavery? Yeah it's kinda like that.

To be fair. Those selling slaves didnt know the extent of the brutality of what people were being sold into. So i don’t blame them for participating. At the end of the day it wasnt Africans that set up and enforced the slave trade through military might, it was the Europeans.

That is exactly what I’m saying. I’m from Zambia, we learn about slavery but we are still dealing with colonialism till this day.

yeah but we aren't out here blaming slavery on every white person we see...

​@@rawwmagumula6155neither is anyone in America. Just because racist white people say that, doesn't mean black people actually do that.

They dont take it serious because they were the ones selling the slaves to Europeans. I mean it was the Europeans who tried to stop it and Africans got pissed, so most likely thats why

@rawwmagumula6155 Brotha, where did this weird azz white supremacist talking point come from? You do realize that this is something they ALWAYS say. When we call them out and hold them accountable? It's a deflection tactic. Nobody actually sits around blaming everything on them lol. Kneegriws like you are puppets and bow down to your colonizers. Folks with your mindset are the reason why a lot of black countries are 3rd world. They put people with your mindset in charge of countries. They love using Candace owens types to do their dirty work. Lol you living in a 3rd world country(because of the white man). Sitting up here, down talking your fellow black men/women. Making it look like we are a bunch of cry babies making things up. Got the nerve to wave your finger at us. When you barely have electricity and clean water. While a handful of colonizers are living like Kings off of your resources 😆 🤣. Buck dancers, cowards, and white man worshipers like you. Are the reason why they are able to do it smh. Ain't it weird how we are outnumbered 10 to one and it's the reverse in your homeland? But somehow, we managed to build a better life for ourselves and make history. While you are living like we were during slavery now. Yeah, I think yall need to start holding the devils accountable and fight them like us. Maybe you need to start blaming the devil instead of acting like he doesn't exist 🤔

Yea its all white man, we didn't give you free education, living and health care ... When you going back? You can blame the Chinese next.

Btw your own people sold your ass to the Europeans .. got nothing to do with guns.

Whats the brainwash?

He is right

Facts. Different struggles but the same enemy in all. They don’t want a real connection between us all

Thank You very much! Saying Africans don't know about slavery is completely nonsense! I know about slavery from school, books and from home. I'm not just obsessed with it coz we face other issues like Colonial effect, ethnic and religious issue, corruption etc

Thank you very much!! I was very perplexed as well. Cos I grew up in Ghana until later on in life I came here but I can assure you we definitely were taught slavery in school, especially social studies.

The last chattel slave freed in America was freed in the 1940's and Black folks being enslaved through sharecropping was going on well into the 1960's. There were Black folks that wasn't even told about the civil rights movement because white sharecroppers didn't want them to know they had rights.

Jaja of Opobo and Oba of Benin and Aro Confederacy all fought against colonialism not slavery. Enslavement was much earlier than their respective banishment.

I learnt about this stuff in Primary school, the colonisation, the missionaries, the jihad in the north, Queen Amina, Jaja of Opobo. Yes, they weren't paying attention in class 😄

Proud of wbat ya'll did to him, keep fighting back these arabs

​@@SWOTHDRA"these arabs" it was a BLACK ARAB. You dont know shit about Africa or Middle East so stfu american pos. You cant find Africa on the map, you racist loser. If you was in power youd enslave everyone.

That’s right in French country in Africa we do learned about slavery in school

Wow! I need to look this situation up.

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Vlad is a MARK 😭

Tell me where Vlad lied tho

😂😂That was... _SOMETHING._

There's alot gyoingyon😂

My parents from Djibouti 🇩🇯 those countries don’t have conflicts like other regions! Even though Ethiopia 🇪🇹 is having conflicts in the rural areas!

Yes

lol ofcourse you won't face it. depending on what part of Africa, most of the whites say in the west are expatriates and work at embassies or are ambassadors and arent seen every day nor participate in the country's politics. now South Africa is something different since there's a large mix of races (blacks n whites). what replaces racism is ethnic rivalries. which depending on the country can be very deadly.....Rwanda, Congo, Liberia for example. hell, Sudan Somalia and many others

Agree

So racism won’t stop until you’re fully segregated?

Off course not. It called tribalism when Africans can't stand each other

You wouldn’t face racism in Africa, a more accurate term is tribalism/ethnocentrism.

Spot on. As an African I agree

Exactly

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Never trust Vlad

Idk the fact that he made a point to say no one had they hands clean.. was triggering and false .. cuz the slaves themselves had no part in their own imprisonment 😢

​@@dantepayne8658my grandad randomly says he misses his slave family 😂 like wtf this guy is completely oblivious

What year were u in class 4

Yeah. Baiters like nariq tasheed

man you better PREACH!! Watch these brainwashed fools come for your comment 🤦🏿‍♂️🤣😂🤣

Nice.

I stamp it

Exactly

Yes, he really is!

Me too, Also I feel like most people don’t know he moved to America at a young age so he’s the perfect person to have this conversation with. He doesn’t really express it he has the best of both worlds like Hannah Montana haha, but for real I would love to have that & I’ll be representing both, but I understand why you wouldn’t.

"Donations. Donations. We're my Donations?"😂😅😂

Ohh the Dr Umar reference was a straight up burn😂😂😂 the difference is Michael is not living off the donations

Lol absolutely!!! I need king consciousness to stop begging lol

Africans wept for their stolen ones till the tears dried up. Every one taken was somebody's Father, Mother, Brother ,Sister. They came from families and kingdoms.

Lol how many bombs Obama and biden dropped in Africa

most of us if not all have gotten over colonialism tho lol

You can't get over something that is embedded in you brother you speak they language enjoy they foods etc etc

@@Codkillshot730 i speak multiple languages including mine and enjoy my own food, travel more man

​@@Hedgingmastermind How can you when Caucasian people stay In Africa, stealing resources. Look at the 🇨🇩 Congo right now. Yeah I think 🤔 diffently.

You coworker was dumb and ignorant…AA are the reason her arse was allowed to roam free in the US

She wouldn’t be able to say that to you if we didn’t fight for their right to be in America she would be in a 3rd world war zone in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere

Well that person didn’t lie

@@Lilhunna509when did you fight? What year?

@@queenofnyc5584you a customer

Akon is very dimwitted both Sierra Leonean and Liberian history is immersed in teaching the Slave Trade. For instance, Sierra Leonian history include Slavery because many of the leaders of Sierra Leone from the 1800's until now were Creole people(freed Slaves from the Carribean); conversely, Liberia was founded by Freed Slaves from the United States. In Ghana most people know about the slave coastal castles including El Mina. So Akon is probably just Ignorant about West Africa since he was born and grew up in the US.

@jenkroberts8973 I think Akon is trying too hard to appeal to his fellow Africans.

Akon is either a liar or on something. I have visited Senegal many times. Have you heard of "Maison des Esclaves"? It is a Slave Monument in the Dakar Senegal-- it includes the door of no return.. come on folks Akon is trolling. Slavery is taught in schools in Senegal

@@jenkroberts8973 100% A Con

I'm African...youre 56,start with a DNA test for God's sake. You're living in the age where it is 1000 times easier to know. I don't know why many of you dont do it. How can you live with not knowing??? Baffles me... I spent half my life in America but went back to find the village of my ancestors. Didn't like what I saw but my soul knows I checked that off,at least I know.

@@pazo321 Great, you took a DNA test and made some discoveries on your own and i can do the same thing but do you really think a DNA test can replace the conversations or stories that a great grandma or a great aunt or uncle can tell you about your ancestors, and where you came from, hell no.

@garypace7697 I did not take the test...I was born in Africa. You are concentrating on what is of little importance. I don't have all the stories either.

Yes buy none of the tribes kept records. So the information isn't available in countries that were 3rd world.

The professors have already done the research snd published it. It's sitting in your libraries ans universities.

You probably went to a low tier secondary school. Because good African high schools teach slavery and colonialism. So unfortunately, you did not get education from an average African HS or University and that is shocking.

@@jenkroberts8973 actually, I went to a private elementary and did the rest of my schooling in the USA.

@@NaturallyTek Which country and which school? You are being disingenuous. I taught history at HS and college level in West Africa. Did you take the West African exams(a standard High school entrance exam)? Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana all teach about slavery. You are funny guy. I will soon share a high school logic proof simple true/false three variable stuff, but it may take you months to solve instead of minutes, judging from your dearth of basic West Africa High School subject matter. You are certainly not West African private elementary school or high school material because especially the English speaking have much higher standards of learning including history than we have in the US.

Are you crazy or something? I did not go to high school or university in Africa. I only went to Elementary school in Togo and Benin Republic. I did my high school and university in the USA. Can you not comprehend that ?

@@NaturallyTek what was your private elementary school in Togo? I have a cousin who is Ewe she can tell me whether you are telling the truth. She has family in both Ghana and Togo.

Swedes weren't enslaves it was Swedes who enslaved and colonized Finland for +500 years.

Are speaking for all Africans or just Tanzania cause as an African we very much so care that’s why we look at those who marry colonizers funny

You mean America teaches you how to be a victim?

Liberia has an interesting history of Africans coming back to settle. They don't want you to forget their history.

I'm from Liberia and went to JJ Roberts and Lott Carey Baptist Mission school. WHERE DID THEY TEACH YOU ABOUT SLAVERY AT because we were never taught about slavery at all until we came to America.

@williefonte23 just because you didn't doesn't mean he didn't. Those descendants of slaves that returned often told their kids about them coming out of slavery and going back to where it all started

@kamargee9680 ....Did your stupid azz even COMPREHENDED WTF I SAID OR ASKED? I SPECIFICALLY asked WHAT SCHOOL! Not which relatives came back from America to tell him dumb az

You guys be on some pure nonsense. It's Africans that captured and sold your ancestors into slavery to Europeans for profit. Tell the truth and stop spreading lies. Slavery has always been in Africa. It's right there in the Bible (Egypt by example ).

The difference is after your countries were colonized, you remained the majority race there and the captors were "gone" for the most part. U.S. blacks have a constant reminder that we're the implants with no roots here because we are the minority. When you go to Africa all you see most places is beautiful brown faces except in places ppl sold land.. Until they remove the tariffs on your freedoms in Africa, you still aren't free. they charge you to use their currency and consider Africa a 3rd world country but that's because African money is given to the captors off top and that's something that needs to change. Peace and strength to Africa and all of its descendants

@@mrsbobbicisse Blame it all on the Europeans huh? What about when Africa was colonizing Europe? I'll wait...

Me too.He's speaking mad game in this interview.