SHOCKING: Wayans Family Origins! 

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HLG: You’re Malagasy. You’re Indonesian. Keenan: You tellin’ me I’m Chinese?!

I mean you can see it.

Madagascar was historically settled by austronesians, similar to people from Indonesia and the Philippines. The locals are a mix between bantu africans and austronesian populations so his results make total sense.

Madagascar is in Africa though, it's just of the coast of East Africa. It's the same as Zanzibar being off the coast of Tanzania

This is wrong. We Malagasy ARE African and we are proud of our roots. Keenan is EXACTLY what Malagasy people look like. I have tons of family that look like him. A mix of Black and Asian. He’s as African as you can get.

Leave it to Keenan to find the humor in the results LOL

Bro they family silly as hell 😂😂 he said I’m a black man and I’m Chinese lmao

Keenan still looks so young wow 😮

Having been to Madagascar not too long ago, The Wayans would fit right in.

😂 That mofo is witty as hell. “I’m black. I’m a Chinese man too.”

Look at the eyes tho!!! 1:11

He needs a beautiful Banyon Tree planted in his yard near the Evening Tea House. 😆

Madagascar is in Africa!! Gates doesn’t know this?

This is his paternal side

These damn misleading titles. 😒 Of course he is predominantly African/Black. This only talks about his deep paternal ancestry.

I mean it’s obvious every Wayans has slanted eyes

Even his name was more familiar within balinese, wayan is about title in balinese

Madagascar is in Africa genious!!

between 1670 and 1698, an unknown number of Malagasy slaves were dispatched to New York, and between 1716 and 1721, around 1,500 Malagasy captives were shipped to Virginia and sold there.

thats crazy because he does look like he would fit in Madagascar, he certainly has the look more than his siblings

Madagascar is Africa 😂

No reparations for you🤣🤣🤣🤣.

Madagascar is Africa

I come from madagascar i ve heard this story that the last queen of madagascar and their surrounding in that time was shiped to America some in France to sell as a slaves after France started to colonize madagascar and when they came to America they forced to marry a black slave from Africa to have kids together cause that time they were not allowed to marry other races mostly white so they have to breed with African like them even though they are indonesian but come from madagascar which is in Africa.

The Asiatic Blackman ⭐🌙

Keenan is very handsome in this video!!! 🥰😘

The title is meant to trigger people. Wayans' family origins obviously includes African - just not originally on his father's side. Still fascinating! I grew up loving "In Living Color" and loved the inclusion of Asians in their skits and now I know why! 🤣

As malaysian now wonder u can sense something different yet similar to us in south east.. i mean malaysian indonesian singaporean brunei we kind hve the same feature even not 100% but we can relate it.. so no wonder i felt somethinf different bout wayans family.. come on! They all hot af!

The professor tried to make it sound like Keenan was completely Asian.

This is a croc....all of our people are AFRICAN

Well that is only a percentage of his DNA. Doesn't mean that he and his family aren't black and that most of their origins aren't from Africa. We haven't even seen his dna breakdown.

These comments are very ignorant

❤❤❤❤Keenan. I can see it. Especially in Damon

Title is pretty misleading as they do have African heritage

That’s why they’re actually funny

Wow

Madagascar is an Africa.

Is Africa

Madagascar has a mix of Sub-saharan African and South East Asian people.

he looks asian, though. where's the news? he looks devastated, though.

I have African and Asian ancestry also from an area called maritime which I've never heard of in my life and the Philippines but he has no African continent ancestry that's crazy who new 😮

Madagascar is Africa.😩

You know wayan is a very common name for a Balinese

Black people were in Asia thousands of years ago! Thats historical facts! The Chinese just did a study!

Do they not teach Geography in America? Madagascar is in Africa!!! 🤦🏾‍♂️

Se·mit·ic /səˈmidik/ Learn to pronounce adjective 1. 1. 
relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family. 2. 
relating to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.

Madagascar is in Africa …..

If someone told me my paternal line wasn't African or European I would be thinking wai5 is it native American. Wonder how rare it is for an African American to have a Y chromosome that leads to native Americans.I'm sure some native American men married African slaves or African women who were in thier tribe.

Malagasy people are the original Blasians. Madagascar is a Blasian island.

The Wayans are Austronesian?!

What is the crazy thing that people are learning is people quick to say they are African. But have not been nowhere but in American. It’s full of mixing pot. Stop being quick to say where your roots are from. God wanted that way so when everyone is fighting about roots. You will not really know what root to celebrate it’s just conformation that God made us all. The love is mutual he love not one more then the other. Learn to love unconditionally to everyone, and you are free mentally let loose your chains of ignorance and grow freely…..

The problem is Gates's knowledge is not deep enough to understand Blacks in SE Asia. the late Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Rutgers University History Professor, and the late Dr. Runoko Rashidi wrote a book entitled African Presence in Early Asia, it would explain this easily.

Indonesian are black in fact they every annual Independence Day they celebrate their half Sudanese ancestors. Via the Papua people documented ancestry but also only 0.1% can be tested there is no other testing that can test ALL of your DNA that’s why the DNA kits say for entertainment purpose only on the back of them when you buy them 60minuted already exposed these. Companies

u can tell hes dissapointed lmao

Even if the Wayans paternal origins are Asian, it’s still pinpointed in Madagascar 🇲🇬 and they’re still African in spirit just like Muhammad Ali.

Yes but didnt mention his maternal lineage

Madagascar is i africa no?

Keenan’s paternal line is Asian Period. With a small % Madagascar which probably came from migration. More Black people need to do their DNA tests, and compile their family tree and stories. I’d bet many would be as surprised as Keenan was.

Well he’s basically black without actually being black, cuz the Madagascar and Papua New Guinea peoples are very similar to Africans

Bros Indonesian 😂

The Wayans are from the original Asians

You can see the characteristics in most of their family members. That's amazing

He's Afrikan, smdh

I can see it

His not Chinese is Malay...

wayan = balinese 😂

Every one of us black Americans/ Caribbean /Canadians have unique mixed blood of the world. No others like us........except in South America.

Asiatic

The conondrum for me is after his ancestors have been enslaved and brought from Madagascar to the united states how it his dna is never intertwined with any from the African continent. Something is amiss.

PHOENICIANS ALL

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He’s an Asiatic Brown man

The Black Man is God. All came from The Black Man.

That’s Aborigine Indigenous Peoples

I always thought they ware more handsome than the average African American man. Can definitely see the asian in their eyes and nose paired with melanin 😍

Not all black people are African. My wife is Papua New Guinean. She’s black

Not being funny but afte thousands of years he aint asian.

The original Asians are black African people do your research also the san people in Africa has Chinese looking eyes also there just showing one side of his family dna show the other side as well these types of shows only show you what they Want to show you instead of showing the whole breakdown of his dna because trust me weather you was here in the usa before slavery or weather you came here as slaves or you migrated here you still all going to have African dna in your genes people are trying so hard to look over that so it doesn't matter how you got to the usa your dna is going to have some African in it matter of fact it's going to have a whole lot of African in it people need to quit trying to deny the African side in there dna because it doesn't matter what you people think if your black your originally from Africa it's just that simple weather you believe it or not also these other black people you see around the world like papa new guinea or the pacific Islanders and the Australians that are originals they all are originally from Africa there people migrated out of Africa 50 to 70 thousand years ago now they not classified as Africans but there people originally came from Africa so black people all over the world are related some how weather you believe or like it or not look people it all started in Africa and black people been on this earth before any other race period black Africans migrated to all seven continents thats why you see black people on every continent it's not because of slavery either some of you people act like it's bad to be from Africa all act like y'all are ashamed of Africa when in all reality them are. are people if it wasn't for Africans migrating all over the world and of course a little bit of slavery we would still be in Africa then you people wouldn't be able to deny Africa then.

Africans migrated to south east asia and populated with asians. Asians mixed with black and white and then those people migrated to Native America as Native Americans. So ofc his roots are still in Africa.

South east asia is not chinese. 😅

The funny thing is, he LOOKS Asian. Jamie Fox might be from the same tribe! Let’s face it America, we are all a collage of ethnicities! Maybe we are just what we are…AMERICANS!❤

Madagascar is Africa

I have Malagasy DNA and ended up with South Asian blood as well. It's only 2% though

The title is wrong. His family cale to Madagaskar from Indonesia, so obviously they then did mix with African people.

He's like y'all a lie lol😂

All Malagasy people have mixed African and Asian ancestry. The Malagasy ethnicity describes people of the island who display mixed African, Indonesian, and Arab ancestry, so it's not very specific, and not all researchers like using that term.

Damn. The Wayans were Austronesian.

This title is misleading as Madagascar is in African and the inhabitants are part austronesian and part Bantu. Not to mention this is only his parental dna.

They could wander off into southern Thailand and nobody would notice them, except for their height…

Correction for a common misconception to Westerners: Chinese are East Asians. Not Southeast Asia. Southeast Asians are Austronesian-Polynesian ppl and probably have more genetic similarities with the Indigenous ppl of Hawaii than the Mongoloids (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Mongolia) Yes, we do have many ethnic Chinese here in Southeast Asia, but they're all product of recent immigration during the 19th century brought in by the ruling European colonizers at the time as labours. Prior to that, they're merely just visiting traders and merchants. Later in the 20th century, they became naturalized citizens of their respective newly independent Southeast Asian country (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, etc). But definitely NOT Indigenous to the lands like their fellow compatriots of Austronesian race/ethnics (Malay, Bugis, Javanese, Iban, Kadazan-Dusun, Orang Asli, etc)

Madagascar is not in China your not Chinese 😂😂

Americans think indonesian means chinese

At least 1 of my enslaved ancestors was from there. A total of 1-2% of the enslaved population were from Madagascar.

This is a example that all people with melanin skin color ain't black or african

Half of my dna also starts from Madagascar. So Keenan and I are tribe brothers. 😂😂😂😂

You can see it slightly in the eyes

This is really funny. I am of Indonesian and Dutch ancestry (known as Dutch Indo to people familiar with the history of the Dutch East Indies). In my twenties, many people said I resembled Keenan Ivory Wayans, which I thought was funny, but I did see it. Now I know why and it makes sense. Not quite Chinese (although there is Chinese-Indonesian in my lineage), as Mr. Wayans states, but Southeast Asian for sure. Mr. Gates is correct as research shows that Indonesians initially sailed to Madagascar 1500 to 2000 years ago. Not all Asians are Chinese as is often expressed by non-Asians, but I get the humor that KIW is conveying.

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I'm sorry his haplogroup is one thing but his admixture is quite another amd I'd like to see if he has any traceable admixture