The Guatemala they don't want you to see 

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Thank you for creating this video. I'm so sorry to learn he passed away. May he rest in peace.

Some humans were eating each eating, other. Found out it was Belgian. Now come and save me.

The British said stay with us or you will speak Spanish or worse French.

It all went crazy? They ran out of Doughnuts and pizza. Fucking major.

I agree. Imagine they met just by chance, unplanned.!!

Absolutely! I just happened to click on this, and kind of expected something different from what is actually shown in this clip. I am so thankful to see this video. If the way these gentlemen met in the street is as was portrayed, I love the serendipity of their connection. Thank you so much to Philip Flores and TJ Huizar. This is wonderful!

He's a young man- not a kid.

Ikr. He is so good at listening, and learning! I like how, when the guy asked him. What did he know about the language! He said he didn't know a lot, but was trying to find someone like him to teach him! Very smart, and respectful young man.

Absolutely !! the young kid giving us free education we never saw in our history textbooks

It's a shame that you haven't returned in 14 years; missing out on the roots of the essence of your family line.

And you are happily telling us all of this, right?

Perhaps time to pay a visit there? It would be cool to be able to record the language and have it transcribed so that people can learn Garifuna. Perhaps the locals there or someone with money could do a podcast of some sort

thats amazing!

The same happend to me 2012. One of the most amazing moments during my time in Guatemala. Good that I read the part about Livingston in the lonley planet AFTER I visited the town (claiming it a no go area). Thanks for sharing!

That’s so cool.I’ve never even heard of Garifuna people (he kind of looks and sounds Jamaican to me) and my boyfriend is from Guatemala and probably doesn’t know about these people either.

You see and they say bad things about the people without getting to know how they really are . People in Guatemala are poor but if they se you looking for a place to sleep or eat they welcome you to their home , and yes in any country their are bad people look in the USA politicians we have them too scary but yes to all the people that have learned to appreciate immigrants thank you family 👪

@@mariaaldama2824 I’m dating an immigrant. I wish I could get his mom and dad here too , but he crossed illegally himself.

I'm not garifuna but was born in the mainland(Tegucigalpa), I hope more garifunas make the move or invest back home and not allow Roa to be overran by foreigners who don't respect the native way of life and people.

Your energy spent fighting your enemy which is mutual The Jew

I would love to support, I'm Jamaican plus Native American and I have a Mayan friend from Guatemala. I will visit soon. Keep up the good work.♥

@@msbronzegoddess3166 you want to go together? im headed that way? done with the usa

@@TheOwlHead Let's go lol

Sounds Amazing🤗

imagine if he had a way to eat and type at the same time, too bad he is so poor

@@jimsippi1419 he is living so he is eating......old world old culture doesn't write the history down they speak it.....what does poor have to do with typing....

@@NinaBaby210 I wouldn't have written that if I'd never seen the opposite. I have, in fact, seen interviews where the one who's supposed to be seeking the information talks too much, interjects, is being too pushy, etc. They don't always "let," or give the person they're interviewing a chance to explain things thoroughly. I was simply complementing the young man in this video for conducting a respectful ethnography, why are you mad? Lol

Very true the movement starts 👌 🙌 💪 👏 👍 and here we go

He said that he went to school in #Belize . That's why he speaks English (even with a Belizean accent too).

an educated presentation

Sadly supposedly as of a couple of weeks ago, he has passed away

Very true. I googled him, I hope he's making money for sharing the story of his land.

What does this young kid have, that he could possibly give to a guy like Philip Flores? The man doesn’t need a thing, he is abundantly rich

He does not want anything. He just wants peace.

@@capoislamort100 a lot. RU-vid payssss

Mayans have lived in Mesoamerica for 10 thousand years. The Garifuna first came to Roatan (part of the Kingdom Of Guatemala back then) in the 1700s. The Spaniards came to Mesoamerica in the 1500s. The Kekchí and Itzá Maya that still live in the Yucatan, Peten, Coban and Izabal are the locals and everyone else is very much a New Comer or visitor.

@@marplato2558 correct.

@@marplato2558 their indigenous to these lands . Tbeir arawake indians

​@@marplato2558 Livingston is like Jamaica ,or another caribean countries , simply and beautiful ! I wish visit Livingston one Day! Greetings from Brasil

Livingstone is an English word

Yes I agree the elder looks jamaican.

Like in southern states Indians would mixed w blacks but most Indians died of desease unlike blacks who were immune to old world desease, another thing would all intermarriage like the Spanish who developed mestizos , i mex American am mestizo , just like most Guatemala’ people , the brits were the most racist ,

He said he was not Jamaican. He would no better than us.

Just like in st vincent it was arawak and caribe , the caribe look like native american ppl .but in the early 1902 when the second volcano hit most was killed, matter of fact they where the first on the island. the french chase them to the hills so they can live near the sea shore.so i know a little about the garifouna they where a strong hold in s.v.g

Most natives on the islands died out, but there was some that mixed with africans in jamaica. I saw something recently about a mixed jamaican actually he had like20% native blood which is interesting. Not super high but still a considerable amount to have at this point in history.

Me too

Me too Amen

These are the people to pray for

Exactly, that's why we try so hard to keep our culture alive. It doesn't matter which, your culture is yours and you should keep it alive always. Cause there will always be those who want to silence it. 🔇🐝

You people need to get something straight here , we African in Africa are not short of people we have billion strong black in the continental Africa.

@@anonymousboi949 I'm Chahta/Aniyunwiya. Juan Miguel, you are our mixed up cousins to the south. That's why your land is called Mexico now because of the mixing. Be careful pointing fingers, more will point back at you. We have more in common than not. We have extensive records in the form of a book for my Clan. I know exactly who I am, and it's not as you describe. My people are not from Africa.

I was just saying...how when he spoke the language said rastafari...I'm like huh wait..

rastas lol Christianized blacks...still colonized like the brother in this video saying Africans are different from him...his genes are classified as African.

Our people are waking up. I love it

Remember the lost tribe of God where did they go , it is these people who speak Gariganu.

Poverty is a relative judgement. You are maybe meaning material wealth. Spiritual poverty is a bitch!

@Don Logan i help whoever i want . I dont care who they r.

@King BullyRock True, Leaf Erickson did come to the America around 1000 A D but that has nothing to do with anyone else coming to the Americas. Many people had beaten Christopher Columbus to the Americas. In fact Christopher Columbus never set foot on the mainland of the Americas. You said that everything I said was garbage, could you be more specific? Please share your knowledge so I can know more. Thanks.

For real bro.i am from Ghana and i lived in Lagos before.Ebuti Meta,oyinbo and Yaba.

They all came from the motherland. Don't get twisted.

...interesting

Sometimes they shy away from being traced and considered Africans due to the cultural conditioning and differences.

@@mfun503 he said they did not descend from African slaves who were brought to the Caribbean. His ancestors were there before the slave trade started, according to him.

@@mfun503 I was thinking the same. He is of African Descent one way or another. They survived, and that is awesome!

@@mfun503 it's not that they are not African in origin but they came before the slave trade. It is mentioned in another video on the Garifuna history that Africans made expeditions to the West, long before Columbus. So they were already in the islands. That's what I think he is referring to.

What you fail to realize is that blacks are found native everywhere. Just because someone is black does not mean they are of African descent. Even white people come from more than one place. All my black ancestors are in America. If I was of African descent, relatives would show up in Africa, but they don't. This man clearly said his people did not come from Africa.

@@Ric9hardify THANK YOU💯💯💯💯💯💯

@@anonymousboi949 it’s not about liking or disliking. It’s about facts that have been hidden and covered up. Not matter what evidence I show, it will never be enough. You see, the burden of proof is on you not me. I have 30 books on my bookshelf that shed light on what I have said. I have even done 4DNA tests. From those tests, I have ancestry all over the world except for Aboriginal Australia, Black Africa and India. But propagandist and brainwashed people can’t accept this fact. The problem they have is the African part only. Why are you so interested in what I am anyway? I’m not telling you who you are.

Very true. Its the young lad's luck coz he himself is a good and genuine person.

Thats the way God works

I've been to Livingston, chances are it wasn't a chance encounter. It's a very small place & word travels fast there.

That’s how people are in Guatemala, they’re very poor but very, very hospitable.

Please how good is this black man that does not know that he is an African

So does Brooklyn

Where in the bronx is garifunas

Yasss 👏🏽, all of my fellow Hebrews! Shalom to all of you!!

@@MissNyPeachJerseyAppleBottom As a longtime and present resident of the Bronx and one whose friends with the black Garifuna people you will find them in areas near Crotona Park and 174 Street,Prospect,West Farms,Intervale,Hunts Point,Longwood,Jackson,Melrose and 149 St and 3 Av.

@@MissNyPeachJerseyAppleBottom i use to see them playing drums and socializing at Bill Rainey Park across from Kelly street and intervale

🤣🤣🤣• everything is coming out..

The guy in the video has very little knowledge and you call it the truth! wow!

Ayse

@@gregkramer5588 lions only gossip usually about rap.

Ya mon

Beautiful and clean, 👍😁

they are lucky he got out with his life. notice his subtle hands and arm movements. The kid knew he was in danger.

My thoughts exactly. True hospitality. Changed his walk to talk about his culture.

Very limited transportation there!

Clearly , I did not see the whole video. I chose to add a reply rather than erase my comment Roxane Herbert, Iike what you said about how he changed walk to talk. I happily stand corrected.

Glad he doesn't. Enough of Indiginous peoples cultures have been appropriated!

@@coyoteprophet9734 but imagine if he did, now not only would i know more but youngin growing up can also be aware of all the different shapes n sizes black folk come in. that home can be found almost everywhere, he would not only be able to continue to feed his family and future family it could preserve the culture and will have a positive effect on others. appropriation isn’t bad .. it’s how you go about what you do and who and what it’s used for. let’s focus on the good , love

excuse me, correction appropriation isn’t the word we should be using

@@tamarwright5985 Maybe the right word is THIEVERY...point blanke BOLD FACE ROBBERT.

I am Garifuna, my family is from the village of Punta Gorda on the island of Roatan. It is the first Garifuna community in Central America. On my RU-vid Channel I have several videos talking about our culture. I am the Director of the Garifuna Cultural Center in Roatan. My life mission is to educate my people about who we are.

Yes in Exploitation for sure...

This has happened in almost every single south and central American countries...they pretend the afro population does not exist when they have added a lot to the culture i.e art, music, dance, food etc

Está muy sucio ese lugar

The existence of the garifuna and the different etnias would be something you would learn in elementary school, although not in much depth, I must agree, but most people are aware if they had the chance to attend elementary school. It's corruption in general that has lead to the deterioration of education in the country, with the declaration of peace in 1996 there was an educational reform that aimed to preserve the native languages by making the educational plan bilingual, in order to promote intercultural exchange, however in the capital, i.e. private schools which end up making the trend of what education ends up like even in public schools (which are in most cases, underfunded and full of corruption in every level, not just the top.), and took it as a globalising task, meaning most people learn, english, german or french as a second language. There is also the aggravating fact that there are no widespread studies or formal instructional books on even the most widely used languages, like kaqchiquel or k'iche. Much less textbooks in those languages.

They were slaves brought there they try to replace the indigenous people of Guatemala. Sorry but true

@@lioctober ...who tried to replace the indigenous people of Guatemala?

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Are them in Panama, what's garifuna?

@@rubengonzalez750 Nope you’d have to add slavery and exile not the same not even close because the Maya would be in Africa by choice and we know that’s a whole different story

@@rubengonzalez750 the Garifuna was always there and the Mayans you see today are not the original.

@@rubengonzalez750 wrong

Amen to that. Whilst watching this, I was struck by how much this looks like a professional documentary, not just a video uploaded to RU-vid. Then looking up the young man, I find out that he is indeed a filmmaker. What an inspiration to young people he is.

Word up I was saying the same things in my taught🤔🤔🤔

@@josephfigueira813 bet those tiktok kids know how to spell thought

Of course 100% Mayan That’s our land … this is not África 😂

He's going around complaining, but blacks don't do nothing in the us you never see a black owner

That's by design. The so-called 'black' race is scattered across the four corners of the earth. Shalawam

@@lindaward3156 cause they rocked you to sleep 😴

🙄smh

@@dystopia4947 bam 💥

@@lindaward3156 much love and respect firstly I can’t do that on this platform way to to complex you can email me

U can kill a man. But the truth will always prevail. Thats why its important to have a open mind and question history

So true

All PRAISES to YAHUAH for that

Yessssss.

Tell them Amariyah. Wisdom.

Sure right very nice 👍

you haven't heard much then

@@bobdimarzio3972you surely make it look like she's heard better than you.

You have an advantage when you have something you know to be true, be completely discredited by mainstream consensus. It causes you to be more skeptical and develop more refined discernment.

imagine if he had 5 bucks

That's because they have no culture of their own, they are not a original people and they know that.

@@michaelgallien4477 you have to be the native people to have culture? And people liked your comment lol read a book from time to time and if it hurts your brain take a break and try again smh

All countries are founded on blood.

That's because they have no culture so they want to destroy everyone else's

sad but True. 😔