The UNTOLD Story of Black Barbecue  

I’m black and I absolutely love barbecue & soul food. However, Mexican food is also a favorite. I always joke and say that I believe I was Mexican in one of my past lives!! 🤦🏾‍♀️💕💕 It just makes sense!! 🤣

the first people to be called negritos were the Indigenous Americans, they were the slaves those first 300 years before any other person was brought to the Americas as slaves. Native Americans were the only people on earth that knew how to grow Maize, Chilis, Rubber, and Sugar back then. so the first "blacks" were the natives.

Nothing wrong with that. I enjoy Mexican cuisine particularly (Tex Mex), my goodness!

@krono5el That is a bold faced lie. Black Spanish and Portuguese Jews were it's well documented and they were the first slaves of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade sent to San Toma, and Cape Verde Islands off of West Africa in 1452 50 years before Columbus. Documented. That's why he brought a Black Jewish slave as his interpreter on his maiden voyage.

I love tacos

Yea those slavery days are over. Chicken is grown in a laboratory along with the seedless Watermelon 🍉

Watermelon 🍉 literally kept us alive back then it’s full of so antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals!

Fried chicken was the luxury food of house slaves that they were allowed to eat . Watermelon was planted by overseers direction between rows of cotton to prevent slaves from running off to a well or bucket to drink water ... They pointed with a whip at the watermelon and said "There is your water!" All primitive Hunter gatherers small pen herders cooked over open fire and spices keep meat longer in tropical heat....

​@@melaninsupergurl-vu4uvThank You. School that fool. Over hear claiming Black, but spewing the white folk version.

That's right Watermelon Proud and Fried Chicken all the way to the BRICS.

Sometimes. It depends on the family a person has. Drama family or loving family. I personally don’t do gatherings.

@@Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth Nobody ask for all that drama in your opinion.

@@Yah-Izoa-Hakabothif you have drama in your family, can I take your spot at the next BBQ ? I promise to pay attention and report back to you what happened at the BBQ as well as update you on old beefs. 😅

Great way to learn about your family, especially when drunk uncle lives up to his name and that holy roller starts invoking Jesus. It only gets better when the family Ho shows up and starts the whispers going and them cousins hook up down in the basement. 😲😆 Now that’s a family BBQ.

Drama??!! That’s 99 percent of all the fun and nostalgia and mystic of the whole thing!!!! Hahahaha 😂

THATS DOPE👍 DEEP ROOTS

Coopers?

@@rwilson40 Bob Melton

Rocky Mount, huh? Some alleged relatives of mine have a serious BBQ joint in NC: Grady’s.

Bull pure cubed and sold for dirt bull!!!

Man I have the exact same situation. Trying not to tear up. Lol The Best Times

Play a song…flip it 😂😂😂🔥🏃🏾‍♂️…enjoyed your comment on the real side..great memories and still grilling for the next generation

NO good barbecue is silent. It is to be celebrated!

I miss those days ❤

Yeah 90s babies 90s bbq was fire fire😭🔥 We need to carry the tradition same way our ancestors did that's only wau❤🎉

My bad forgot the baked beans and the cornbread plus all the desserts

​@@clarascott5264yummy for my tummy!

Yes!! Me too!!✊🏾

💯💯💯💯

White guy here giving you a fist-bump!

@@JM-wu8bh Lol! Thanks my guy!! 👊🏿

Until the Cops pull you over. 😂. Jkjk.

On it❤

Ikr? Vinegar??? Plum?

I'm sure it kept our folks regular too! 😂

Me too

South Carolina is the home of bbq. Mississippi my ass

Texas fool

@@pardymo9554 NC & SC BBQ all day whole hog, yall got some nice brisket and pretty sausage in Texas though ill admit.

Louisiana we got that STRANGE meat on the pit you ever had pig FEET or coon MEAT ? Cuz it ain't bad

I’m from SC too! BBQ is in the blood.

Thank You. We didn't get Barbecue from no damn Taino Indians. That's why we were doing it completely different. Why don't they Barbecue the way we do in Puerto Rico then.

@@lroyjetsonson5060 Exactly, %100

@@lroyjetsonson5060Yea, based on the old depictions they were definitely different

Any links?

@@lroyjetsonson5060 two different processes. We were more so smoking verus flame cooking the meat in Africa. As a result, when they came across the Taino technique, it was familiar but the concept of fire cooking the meat over grates was new. So they took the idea of grates, then incorporated pit smoking/cooking techniques from home to create what we know now to be BBQ. It is important to acknowledge inspiration. I agree, they did not get BBQ technique from Tainos but used Taino tools to optimize the African process.

@michaelvoisine7075 Amen!! Michael 100% agree with your comment.

Black on black homicide is 50 percent of all murder in America. Blacks are 13 percent of America and kill black men at half of all murders? Yes you blacks are changing America?

The word barbeque came from the Spanish word barbecoa. That being said is the first race to bring barbeque to America. Spainards were here before white or black and spainards brought all cattle, sheep,goats, hogs, pigs and chickens to America they even brought watermelon seeds? So if you bring all those animals from Spain to America don't you think they knew how to barbecoa = barbecue? The first cowboys were also the spainards teaching to Mexicans how to ride. Mexican DNA is 50 percent spainard and 50 percent American native indian. Mexican and indians perfected The pit barbequing in the 1500s.

@@richardmontonio1486 Richard don't get it twisted. My black Americans enslaved ancestors created barbecue way before being kidnapped and brought to America for servitude to white plantation owners. You don't understand black American history or American history. So don't make assumptions about saying the Spaniards did this and did that before black enslaved people came to America. You know nothing about my black American history and culture. My black Americans enslaved ancestors build america. We build the white house, we black man invented the stop light his name was Garrett Morgan. Heavy weight prize boxer Jack Johnson invented the wrench, George Washington Carver was a chemist who invented 365 products using a peanut. The list of black Americans invention go on and on. Before you claiming what the Spaniards go your local library and read your Americans inventors. You find that all those are invented by black Americans not white Americans or Spaniards. Do your research.

And banana leaf adddd great flavor and aromatics to the food

It's called a earth oven..... The Australian aborigines also did that

@@Lupo32 Right. Aboriginies used it across the globe. South America too.

We still do it, at least my family does.

Native Americans did both from all the Americas, they love slow roasted meats to make sure they are fully cooked, none of this raw steak nasty bullshit the europeans like.

yeah but no africans ever came to the Americas those first 300 years of slavery in the Americas so that's impossible.

I WAS THINKING THAT. i FELT LIKE HE SKIPPED A STEP IN NARRORATING THAT LOL

@@elleo1776 he didn’t skip it. He mentioned that the meat smoking methods from West Africa were merged with Amerindian style barbecue. Meat smoking and barbecuing are very similar techniques so it makes sense that people conflate the two but they are still different and unique. Same with open flame cooking/grilling, many people also categorize it as barbecuing but it is actually a different technique.

Yup..and blueberries..and...

I'm also going to try this recipe

Wow! Your uncle was a GOAT of BBQ!

Hey we're just a little behind but we're willing learners

bet he never thanked the Indigenous Americans either, shout out to Galverino and Hatuey.

Africans have been Barbecuing for centuries before Europeans, so no, he doesn't know history. We lived hundreds of miles from the Caribbean, and Tainos were almost exterminated hiding in the mountains of their islands, so they didn't teach Barbecue to the people in the 13 Colonies. Plus the average slave in the Caribbean only lived on average 5 years. That's why Caribbean culture is so Africanized to this day. If they were dying so fast, how did all the population of New Slaves get taught by the Tainos who were hiding in the mountains🤔

@@lroyjetsonson5060While i dont doubt that there is Taíno influence on modern day bbqn, America is undoubtably responsible for it… Clearly they werent the only group in the Americas to cook that way. The southern method wasn’t the same as the method of the Taino’s, and neither were the the ingredients used in the tradition so it had to have come from other cultures as well. “barbe-a-queue” “babbake”

@jerzydevoos5413 I highly doubt it. Because most of all, the so-called descendants who come here. Haven't seen of our techniques until they come here. That's the beauty of the internet, we can explore vlogs, docs, and RU-vid videos of people who encounter new cultures for the first time. Another thing is that they also have ancestry DNA test videos and breakdowns now, so I know for a fact that MOST OF THESE PEOPLE CLAIMING TIANO ANCESTRY have little to no Tiano ancestry and their AFRICAN ANCESTRY is what is giving them the little melinated tinge to their mostly European ancestry. So you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduct that their AFRICAN ANCESTRY is most responsible for their similar cooking and Grilling techniques. Giving their affinity for Beans and Rice all the time. Even paella comes from the Moors from Senegal, Rice isn't indigenous to Europe and isn't present in any other European classical dishes. Think about it 🤔

​@@lroyjetsonson5060Moors were not sub saharan, real Moors neutered their sub saharan slaves (and the few that survived the process) were used as guards for real Moors hareems.

@@lroyjetsonson5060I saw one on YT and it was animal but it had flies all over it yuck so yall can keep that over that

Yes sirr 💯〽️🔟👌🏾

Agreed! Memphis ♥️ is my home. Grew up with barrel grills smoking under the tree rain, hail, sleet or snow. I moved away after high school and still keep the tradition where I've lived since and whenever I return home to Memphis and visit.

Memphian eh? Sounds like you're from another planet.

Lmao what 😂😂😂 I'm a genealogist and can tell you we are not from Africa. Did you do a papertrail on your family or only what the europeans teach you in school? None of my family tree goes back there.

@@alaskanwhiskeyI’m interested in mapping out my family tree, what advice can you give me? Where should I begin, as far what sites/books/resources are most reliable. Thank you in advance.

The Taino arrived in the carribean first then the Europeans , then the Europeans brought west Africans after most the natives died off, stop revising history

@@shanceeaton9508Africans were with the first Europeans namely the Spanish and Portuguese. Not to mention he meant Africans were in the Caribbean before they were anywhere else in the Americas.

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 no the fuck we weren’t , you niggas will find one slave out of 10 expeditions and be like we was there first. The help doesn’t get to take credit.

The truth is "Black" people were here already, the lies is we all came from Africa from slavery Notice that the Natives were Chickasaw which have tons of black descendants. We are only told out Africans side to prevent us from having a connection to the land. Remember, after slavery they wanted us to get out of the country. So, they made up the whole African story. it's true, but not as big as they make it sound cause most slaves went tot he Caribbean, and latin America, only around 300,000 came here The rest were here already, but slavery ,and natives selling us out, forced both Africans, and Native blacks to unite under Negro or African. The trick worked until now cause we know this country is built on our backs, and we lay our claim, then we need reparations. If we just focus on our African side NOTHING but dreams will happen cause we are a new people

All the people you just mentioned are indigenous. So called blacks are the only people who are indigenous and also alot of so called black people were in these lands way before the invaders came and way before slavery started

This does help out that narrative 🤔

​@jerzydevoos5413 Not African. Delineation is a thing.

💯

Verse?

​​@@johnsondoeboy2772How about you RU-vid West African Jews, Igbo Jews, or Lemba Jews and you'll see a white Small Hats sitting down with the elders admitting that they are the original BLOOD LINE HEBREWS on Camera 😂😂😂

@@johnsondoeboy2772 the Leviticus 2: 7 is basically about the Hebrew frying Chicken, but they would also "semantically " Barbeque Beef for the Levites to include in the offering to the most high!

@@petecole6729 I see the verse about the frying. Where is the verse about the bbqing of beef?

Exactly they can't comprehend correctly smh