Seriously this happened well over 100 years ago and you can’t tell me that Black people cannot rise from nothing and become something you see it every day so don’t say things like never tell my people to pick themselves up by their bootstraps
@@Bbmangood Dude do your homework this was not just once or twice ....we have been terrorised out of property and land ,with Seneca we were not given the market value ,the thirteen and fifteen amendment say it all !!!!
His resourcefulness perfectly illustrates the generational destruction of slavery. This man was free and was able to establish generational wealth and success.
The government knows who the children are n their children from this Williams tree. Williams is honorable name of power n resources connected to greatness n the blood line can not be stopped !
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my mom has an email address by that name [proud to be a williams] that she uses to communicate with our family about gatherings. I have to tell her about this post.
We are not African Americans. We are the aborigines the original people of this land. I am brown skinned not black. I am old enough to state how I really feel about the term "African American " why don't white Americans call themselves European Americans?! And this is not disrespectful to African born people, we are people of color. However we brown Americans don't look like them...we don't have the same genetics.
Have respect for your ancestors and go look up your history. Before Andrew Williams, many plots of land in what is now known as Manhattan New were owned by free black African slaves in the 1640s, who were some of the first slaves to land in New Amsterdam (former New York), from the South Western African country of Angola. Andrew Williams himself is a descendant of these people. Look up freed slave Paulo D'Angola. There are records from the oldest church ever built in New York, Dutch Reformed Church of these people being baptised and their children, as well as public records of the land they owned. Seneca village came +200 years after this.
Sometimes when people believe in themselves and create something for themselves, it is shut down. Success is only supposed to be for certain people. But, they can't shut everyone down. Everyone won't stop trying.
That is a hard one since these people are descendant of enslaved people in New York, and New York abolished slavery earlier than the seed south around 1825, I believe
It's safe for other communities to integrate in African American communities and we lose ourselves. Other people gatekeep by being discriminating. This makes me proud that this family kept their Names to be traced so we can know ourselves through them too. BATHO
He received money, just not what it was worth. This was a settlement with all races living with each other, going to church together, intermarrying. They falsified news articles to make them appear poor, dirty, and uneducated. While this likely happened disproportionally to minorities and the poor, it also happened to people with money. My family had many acres passed down the generations taken away by the government for a bombing range... they already took some previously from the family. Again, they paid, but not what it was worth. I've seen this happen in the city I'm living in to make room for expressways and to move people away from the airport. It's sad but unfortunately a symptom of population growth. I'm really glad to see that the Williams family resilience carried on.
This always happens to us, these devils are always taking something from us and want to claim it as theirs everything that these white people have they right robbed and murdered to get everything that they got, but there is a God and he will repay
Manhattan lower east side was like black wall street It's record now so many of our people lost there land ,and should be compensated for all of this and really all over the world .it's true
So unfair...Andrew worked hard & bought a home & was responsible with his money, only to get kicked out & end up clear across the country... I agree its important to know where you came from...but what if you can't find them...??
What would you liked to be called? I have friends that are Chinese. Never been to China. Born and raised in the USA. They are still Chinese, proud of it. Chinese Americans, not to be confused with Chinese people that are citizens of other countries. African-American. Direct decendents of people from the continent of Africa. Not to be confused with the Black people I know born in the UK. Or maybe from Haiti. Or the ones in my family from Panama.
@@adc2327 I'm black not african american. the whole human race is decented from the continent of africa though. but to call us african american and not call white people european american is like saying we're outsiders and don't belong here. it also dismisses the fact that some of my ancestors are native american(indigenous) . Im just as much american as any white person.
@@TheWoodland12 Of course you are American. Anyone born here is. Born here, work here, pay taxes here, serving the country in the military, totally American. I am an old azz. My father fought in WWII. He left the south after that. After putting his life on the line for his country, he still couldn't live where he wanted. Still couldn't sit where he wanted on public transportation. Many fighting abroad, then had to do it all over again at home. I don't mind either term, Black or African American. It's your prerogative to be addressed or be called in regards to racial identity the term of your choice. That is why I asked. So right about that whole human race thing! Lol!
american indian? you mean native americans. please once and for all let's not continue to let christopher columbus mistake continue on. my ancestors weren't indian nor american indian. they were native american aka indigenous people.
Deuteronomy 32:7 remember the days of old consider the years of many generation ask thy father and he will show thee ask thy Elder and they will show tell thee, you never supposed to forget what happened to you as Black people it just makes me sick to my core when I hear anybody say oh slavery was long ago you not supposed to never ever forget what these people done to us and continue to do God said it in the Scriptures ,911 was not that long ago and they never forget it, it celebrated every year along with the rest of their pagan holidays
