#3 - (removed by RU-vid Copyright) After Emancipation, Freedman did not leave the South to stay behind with Loved Ones. Free Negroes in the South had living relatives and ancestors who had toiled land in the South for a century or more. This made moving to the North a tough proposition when you had loved ones in the region, whether you were free or not. Rather than relocating and settling in the North, former enslaved persons remained in slave states because they considered the South their home. It was where they were born. Where their parents were born. And where their families and loved ones resided. Many married and maintained strong, family ties with deep roots in the community and church in the South. African Americans then and now, have developed attachments to their family & friends in the South… and because of these strong family ties, moving up north or out west is simply not an option.
So your unfamiliar with the terrorism that took place all over the south from the thousands of lynchings to the hundreds if not thousands of massacres that were the true cause of the co called great “migration?”
NC born and raised in country Halifax county, we still have land in our family for over 100yrs til this day. Love who I am and the family that I've part of my roots 🙂
The only time it is necessary to use the world "black" to distinguish a Nation of people is when referring to Natives of Africa (born on the continent of) because there "are" caucasoid (white) Native Africans. Say "Negro" or "Negress", the term the American southern slave owners used to distinguish between a Negro female and male, and you automatically "know" that my skin is a dark "comely" brown, Biblical description of our Father, Ahayah, the LORD of hosts, TMH GOD of Israel's "chosen" family (Amos 3:2; 2 Esdras 6:56) "bloodline" of the house of Jacob/Israel (Genesis 32:22-32), descendants of Noah, Shem, the progenitor of the Negro people (Zondervans Bible Dictionary) Abraham, and Isaac, that my hair is wooly, and that my eyes are brown. An "original" hu(e)man being.
Black Excellence - Around time marker 12:20 you said the only state outside of the south that attracted a sizable migration of Black College Graduates was Maryland. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maryland is a southern state as well as a border state straddling the north and the south. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and 3 other states to the West, South and East. It is below the Mason-Dixon line. Just food for conversation. And this is a great video. Thank you for highlighting our people in a good way. Peace
As a blk male who's from and on the west coast (Bay Area California), I remember visiting and staying in Atlanta back in 98'. It was the first place where I didn't feel black but just a person. There's something to be said about being amongst the majority!
I am from Portland, Oregon and my first time visiting Atlanta last August I too just felt like a human and it felt lovely to look at each angle to see ones that look just as I do✊🏾❤️✊🏾
@@banko1808 Go back home to get pushed around by Mexicans and Asians. Every time I watch a Cali hood vlog you guys get asked the question 'How is the relationshipo with blacks and Mexicans"...
I am a native Californian. As is my father. To our knowledge we didn’t have relatives down south. No Big mama. No family reunions. I always felt slighted. Fast forward to 2015, we moved to Houston, Texas. Now my grand daughter is a Texan, as will be the rest of my family. We love it here and have no desire to return to California.
Game Changer! You should be very happy about the future of your grandchildren and descendants having established roots in the South. Texas and the Southeast is becoming Black Mecca and our progression will become exponential there in the next 25 years.
@@BlackExcellist You guys deleted my comment. I support you guys but, I think you didn't agree with my comment about Texas. My name is Frederick A. Delk, the visionary behind the Black American Homeland. I published a book Black Paper- African American Homeland in 2012. I called on Black Americans to take Super Majority Population & Political Control of a Region of States. If you are advocating for Texas, I support you. We don't know which Southern States to become Super Majority Black first.
Until we do our own census and stop trusting the people we don't trust. We won't know our true number. I'm 53 and in elementary, junior high , a d high school we were told we were 13 and 14 percent of the population. So we still at the same number. Interesting. It's not logical. When I look at my family for an example it's 20x more of use, so many kids and babies I don't even know them all. And I only had ,2 uncles, 1 grandmother and 1 auntie and 1 great aunt and 1 great uncle go home the TMH. My wife family own a whole 2 towns Mississippi and Louisiana . I come to Georgia and my family that has my father's last name own a whole town also. In the Midwest it's a lot of so called blacks just like the southern states and on the east and west coast. They have us bottle necked into certain areas to control us better if we pop off. That was the intention of the project. Kings Alfred plan
I'm sure some can relate. I'm from the south (ATL) but I love traveling and exploring. I feel the most at peace when I'm on the west coast. It just seems like a more chill vibe. However, I keep moving back home after a year or two away because I miss seeing my black people everywhere. And most importantly the culture. I've yet to find a western state that has the black culture I'm looking for.
We have such a large population in Atlanta that we have some political power - certainly at the local level but also a bit at the state level. I moved to Atlanta from NE Ohio, after undergrad. Black people essentially have no power in my hometown, and black people with college degrees have been fleeing the area for decades. Unfortunately, that has made life even worse for the black folks who have remained there, as black people have even less of a voice and they're negatively stereotyped even more. It's very sad, and I still have a lot of family throughout Ohio. But I couldn't try to raise kids there, knowing what I and a lot of other black people went through as a child. Metro Atlanta has a lot of issues, too (particularly poor public education, unless you spend a lot of money to live in an affluent area). But we haven't had nearly as many issues with racial discrimination. But like the video said, that's in a major metro area. I wouldn't live in any of the smaller metro areas in Georgia, let alone in a rural area. We get stares like we're aliens, when we go to cabins in North Georgia.
Georgia is also a state where 3 white men hunted down and killed a young black man and were not charged or arrested until the video (which one of them recorded) got out and there was national outrage. It's also a state where a black high school student was found dead inside of a rolled up wrestling mat at the high school, and it was designated as an accident. And black folks are mistreated by law enforcement throughout the state (including in metro Atlanta). Maybe I'm prejudiced after growing up in the North, but I didn't fear going into rural Ohio like I fear going into rural Georgia (and basically all of Alabama and Mississippi).
The west coast will never have a black culture I believe because they didn’t experience segregation so they never had to really depend on one another. I was born in Mississippi under Jim Crow, and I lived in black neighborhoods in Gary Indiana, and Norfolk, VA. I remember when we first came out here in the late 60’s. I was shocked that there was no major segregated areas primarily because there was a lot of military out here and everybody seemed to live together and get along. Then I would say the late 70’s early 80’s gangs started being more prevalent and it put a halt to the cultural things we were starting to have. Los Angeles was the closest city to being like the south but as I said the gangs kind of made that change.
Very much I am Trinidad .my home city in America is Miami FL. I went to the military and I and stay in that military town .but I lift n went to live in Oregon .that was the first time ever . beautiful state but racist people seam to live and celebrate their racism up thier .you have to talk like them act like them .like cadence Owens .no disrespect to her but if you don't overally be nice to white people and be like build that wall .or have a white girl friend or a white friend you screwed
I’m from the South. I’m a proud Southern. The South has strong powerful African descent energy. The South is changing fast as Black people are rising in wealth and changing landscape of living.
I’m from Cleveland Ohio and just moved to Atlanta Ga. I love it here despite the traffic and crime and there is a lot of money to be made here. Now when I travel I’m like where are all my people?? . I love how easily I can find black doctors, therapist, real estate agents, lawyers . Black owned bars and restaurants is nothing like out west or north is really a sunken place for blk people .
I’m from Cleveland also. I’ve been traveling to Atlanta since I was a kid (before it blew up to be what it is now). There is nothing like Atl And as soon as my daughter graduates high school I’m out The increase in violence that Atlanta is starting to have bothers me 🤔 I’m happy you’re loving your new home
I'm from Cleveland too and we have tons of Black doctors and businesses there. Not sure what part you are from. I use to live in Atlanta and not only was the traffic bad but the food is terrible and there's not much to do unless you like nightlife. Most people from Cleveland move west if they moved out or to Columbus. The few people I know who moved to Atlanta moved back to Cleveland in about 5-7 years. Good luck to you. I hope it works out.
@@samsam-ko3fp Exactly. I'm from Cleveland and I can't believe she really said Atlanta had more Black owned restaurants and its easier to find Black doctors and therapists. Cleveland is home of the best hospitals in the world. All of my doctors are Black and we have tons of Black doctors and businesses. We have more Black businesses than Atlanta. Only 6.6% of the businesses in Atlanta are Black owned. Like...what part of Cleveland did you come from?
We were already there ,,, Only a small % of captured slaves from west Africa actually came to what is now the U.S .....The slave ship thing did happen but not at the level that we've been taught ..
@@rickyevelynsheppard5994 what you said, most can’t accept…they will tell you that you hate yourself cause you deny your African roots, lol…nah, i just love my truth which is rooted in these lands…much respect
I remember visiting Washington D.C. when I was 18 and I remember people constantly telling me that black people will be moving back to the south. I am now 43 fully understand.
Born and raised in Los Angeles...we always came to Central Texas for family reunions on both sides...granmas house, big mama and a madea..my other friends didn't have what I had...now I live in Central texas...I thank the south for having family traditions that are just not popular in California
You can get to know with your ancestors culture. By learning it and by learning your ancestors language the geechie gullah creole the native mother tongue of black Americans
They been killing us since we got here and we was forced to be here. Some of my people didn’t choose slavery they rebelled and was killed. However I owe my life to the ones who lived suffered however still reproduced. I thank them all😘🥰
They have all of us believing that lie we were brought here.. we were already here we are the indigenous people of this America Land.. some Africans (black) were brought from Africa but the majority of us Brown people (black) were already here.. the transatlantic slave journey is a lie... RU-vid Dane Calloway and learn the real truth... then share our TRUE history with all of Your biological family and social media family 🖤✊🏽❤️
Not true SKYieye... the African moved to America 200,000 years before the European invaded... the slave story out of Africa is mostly wrong. We were already here. The African is the Native American. African history is 300,000 years old and European history is 7,000 years old. Research Prof. Smalls, Dr. Henry Clarke, Dr. Cress Welsing.... etc...
The truth is that they have been killing & kidnapping us and stealing our land ever since they came over here. We were already here way before them. This is our land and they stole most of our land on the east coast with the "Indian removal act" by Andrew Jackson. Then they stole most of the Midwest land with the "Louisiana purchase". Then out west they stole our lands from a complete genocide. That's why they called it the "wild west" once they arrived to terrorize our cities on the West Coast. We ended up in the south east fighting back because we were driven down there for our survival from the gullah wars & the Seminole wars & the French & Indian wars. They tried to enslave & genocide our race but they couldn't do it and we finally freed ourselves in the civil war.
@@QueenBees456 Virginian here. My parents moved here from Mississippi b/c of the military. Hampton Roads and Richmond have a sizeable African American population. Newport News, Hampton, Portsmouth and Norfolk are all 40% to 50% black.
@@yvonneplant9434 post slavery was what I was referencing… most people migrated away from their trauma spaces. When I think of Virginia I think of the Appalachians and Caucasians wall to wall.
Well done. I'm in California. My sister moved to Alabama years ago. Frankly, I was shocked when she relocated. However, it appears that the family, including my niece & nephew are now totally adjusted and comfortable there. 🧑🎓👍😎
@@jaiyabyrd4177 Why are y’all so shocked we’ve had the biggest population outnumbering the rest of the regions combined and the culture has always been down south and will continue to be. There are so many black towns, cities and counties in this region. We really need to be trying to base ourselves in other states like the Pacific NW or other western states. We should have community everywhere in America not just the South or East coast.
I am from the South but have lived in the North and oversees during my time in the military, but I returned to the South. The weather and cost of living accompanied with the warmth of the people was always a draw for my family and me. The North had even gotten too cold for my husband who is from further North he prefers the weather down South now that we are in our 50's.
Heat rises right, so think about this, the south is not down, it is up. The North is down and the reason I say this is because, the North gets all of the snow. The South does not.
Well Said I LOVE IT I AM SO PROUD OF OUR MELENATED FAMILIES LIVING OUR TRUE SELFS LETS KEEP MAKING OUR ANCESTORS HAPPY AND PROUD BIG UPS TO US ALL THAT ARE LIVING OUR BEST LIVES
I love the statistical breakdowns and the information used to explain them. This video was refreshing and gives off a sense of hope. Great job our people rock!
Having been one of the first twelve students to “break the ice” to go to the White School for integration sake in the 8th grade- I was so thrilled to transfer to the great predominantly Black School 🏫 in the middle of my sophomore year. I developed serious stomach issues because of stress in the”integrated school” that persisted throughout my life. I can tell you - it was miserable & tormented by White students and teachers alike.In the 8th grade- a Caucasian teacher wanted to know why I was upset in getting a B plus instead of an A in that particular class. Keeping in mind - this was a subjective final grade from this teacher - all other subjects my grades were straight A’s. I remember- the White Teacher who was the wife of a White Minister was the only staff person or teacher kind to me. Also, participating in marches during the “Blood Done Signed my Name” Era really helped me to stand up for myself as a professional in a basically Caucasian Professional Atmosphere throughout the years as well as the support and role model of my Parents and have been able to pass my experience to my children and grandchildren.
I was born and raised in Detroit. My people are originally from Bessemer and Columbus Alabama and they came to Detroit Michigan during the great migration in the early 1940s where my mom was born. I relocated to Huntsville Alabama in 2012 for work and I’ve been down here ever since. I’ve been trying to get my mom now in her 70’s to relocate back to Alabama but she still hesitant.
My mother was born and raised in the south as well and is reluctant to move back because of past memories. I am contemplating a move back there from the southwest.
Huntsville Al is growing but the white people are very racist and the black people are white with black skin. Not alot of black love just swirling. It just depends on what you like. I hate Huntsville, Al!
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿..a lot of us never left and when we migrated, we had influence wherever we went...black Southerners played a big part of the overall black culture..thats why when you go to certain places, u see or hear the term "Southern Style" or "Southern Flavor".. we all wasn't the stereotypical "slow, backwards, dumb, yassuh boss" type people..we were and still ARE an intelligent, resilient, loving and conscious people!!
I moved from Boston Massachusetts to Texas. Massachusetts is a quietly racist place where things are don't for other communities than ours. I absolutely love Texas and i believe Americans of African descent could flourish in the south. I wish we would look to remove the term "black" from us as a ppl. America will never give reparations to "black" thats a color not a race. I could be wrong but ive read the Native Americans, the Japanese, the Jewish all received rep.
Anyone still spreading that old slaveship from Africa narrative is ignorant or an agent. The truth is that this is our land & they have been killing & kidnapping us and stealing our land ever since they came over here in the 1500-1600s. We were already here way before them. This is our land and they stole most of our land on the east coast with the "Indian removal act" by Andrew Jackson. Then they stole most of the Midwest land with the "Louisiana purchase". Then out west they stole our lands from a complete genocide. That's why they called it the "wild west" once they arrived to terrorize our cities on the West Coast. We ended up the majority in the south east fighting back because we were driven down there for our collective survival from the gullah wars & the Seminole wars & the French & Indian wars. They tried to enslave & genocide our race but they couldn't do it and we finally freed ourselves in the civil war. They are still mad about losing the civil war to us & since then they have been using the United snakes govt to wage a secret war against us using the police & interracial dating & mating agenda. So wake tf up & don't fall of the okey doke play.
It would be so beneficial if we could recognize that our greatest mechanism of our oppression is our dependency on another group of people for our survival. Our freedom does not, nor will not come from how much of our oppressor's money we accumulate. If we base our success or failure on the success or failure of HIS money, then that means we must use all of our effort to keeping white supremacy strong in order for his dollar to maintain value. Nothing against money, it's just that it's not the goal. Freedom is the goal, always has been. The only way to be free and whole men & women, is for us to produce our essential needs by our own efforts. There is no other solution.
@@karaghanascythianslayer3822 BW are buying land in high numbers and are farming. Historically, THOUSANDS OF ACRES of land was taken from Black people. Many of them were deleted and their land taken. Furthermore, the Black Indigenous ppl of the Americas had their land taken and were enslaved. So, who truly owns the land?
@@karaghanascythianslayer3822 sounds like You're on to something. What would You say is the most important key to the collective effect of comfort and opulence for our community?
@@nikkirose4124 - Things are on track to get pretty bad in Houston from Climate Change. And Republicans are almost certainly going to continue to attack the voting rights of black folks in Houston (especially with a partisan, right wing SCOTUS that is unlikely to stop them).
As a native Houstonian of 51 years I enjoyed this video. I see so many celebrities have moved here within the past few years such as 50 Cent and You Tubers as well. More people and unfortunately so much crime comes with an overpopulated city.
I had a friend from Houston say she felt the crime rate went up when the people came after Hurricane Katrina, is that so? I've never been to Houston though, I would love to visit.
I like the Deep South. I live in Mississippi which many people from the chicane seem to have a deep connection with Mississippi. It a lot land , greenery , blue skies , and the only thing that will get irritating is the humidity for me here.
@@williamsmith3331 There is a lot of black land that has been left behind and subject to loss. Biden’s USDA & HUD have put together plans to help with Black Land Loss or Rural Development.
Born and raised in Ohio, but my parents and their family were from Arkansas then I moved from Ohio to Alabama for 6 years then on to Georgia I’ll never move back north
Hi, why won’t you move back north? I’m in Atlanta & I have some family & friends wanting to move there. And I would love to share some info with them. I’m hearing this a lot, but nobody is say why.
I'm a Black global citizen now living life as an expat, but as someone who has generations of one side of family rooted in the north, and having lived through de-segregation and social integration of the 1970s, I can attest to the institutional racism that exists in the region but would hardly characterize my life there as having been restricted or downtrodden in any way. If anything, up north we learned how to hustle, maneuver, overcome, and surpass. That said, the other side of my family has southern roots, and I always enjoyed visiting the south. The pace of life is much slower and doesn't have the frenetic harriedness that is woven into a northern metropolitan living. Regarding Florida, by the way, I've lived there before-beginning with university, then using my language skills to work for an international media related company (which eventually led to my expatriation overseas). The truth is that Florida is hardly Black (American)-friendly. Between the cultural-identity-confused Cuban, community and other right wing conservatives who run it, they hate us with a passion- and if you are not Afro- Caribbean or of Afro-latino ethnicity, they will do their damndest to freeze you out roles of civic roles of note. I've witnessed it firsthand with friends who came from northern metropolises twice as qualified as the bozos who were in decision making positions, and couldn't make an inch of headway, being told flat out it was because they didn't speak Spanish or because they "don't understand the terrain".
Your take on Florida is true. The confused Cubans who want to be Anglo so bad they blindly follow the republiKKKan agenda that doesn’t care about them either. The Hispanics, Caribbeans, & now the large SE Asian communities immigrating to Florida all think they’re. Better than the blacks who live there. Also, it doesn’t help that the black communities all over the state a fractured and most of the BM do not like the BW treating them as if they are a pariah. Much like California.
Yeah, it isn’t an either or in terms of moving to the South over stay in the North/out West. There are still quite a few black people doing fine to very well outside of the South, even in lesser known areas. So, we have to be careful to make it a “move South and your life will automatically be better”.
@@ckh937610 I agree with your statement. Although the south is filled with beautiful places, it can be a very difficult place (lower wages, overt racism, bad public schools, and riddled with high crime areas). Last time I was in Atlanta, I felt unsafe.
I live in the Midwest and the south has been calling me! My family originally migrated from north Carolina to Oklahoma. Me and my partner has been thinking about relocating soon.
Our family in Virginia did NOT arrive here on slave ships from Africa! We were already here pre-Columbus and pre-Mongolian Indians. We are still here in Virginia…. The First Indigenous Black American Families of Virginia.
Let's be clear about something upward Mobility means nothing unless you own the company because they can pull the plug and your job is gone just like that whenever they want to real power comes from self-sufficiency in owning businesses if we're talking about economics
nobody owns anything except the one who determines what your dollar is worth…at the end of the day a successful business requires customers…customers have choices, therefore, you still work for somebody unless you print your own money
@@carolynjohnson5540 i’m not in disagreement…either way, it’s still their choice to do business with you or not do business with you regardless if products or services are good…also, the customer is the one who determines if one’s products or services are good or bad…that being said, the customer is the boss no matter how anyone looks at it, lol…much respect
Both of y'all don't understand what I'm saying number one I'm well aware that it's your choice to buy from or who you want to buy from but if you're looking at building black power we have to make an effort to shop at black businesses that's how power is built that's what the Chinese that's what the Jews that's what the Mexicans and the Italians do in order to survive the money has to bounce several times the difference between Atlanta and over places is black people will actually shop at black owned businesses
@@carolynjohnson5540 Carolyn I don't know if you're black but I've seen so many black businesses that had great customer service but black people would not support them and if what you were saying was a hundred percent true which unfortunately it's not then please explain to me why black people deal with Arabs Chinese people and Koreans that disrespect them on a consistent basis do you understand that I've watched black people for decades tolerate other people disrespect them but won't go to a black-owned business to save their souls so it's not quite that simple I really wish it was
I am a second generation Chicagoan but my maternal grandparents were from AL and my paternal grandparents were from MS. I currently reside in TX but am considering moving to AL.
For those who don't know or understand that we are the seed of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob who are suffering the curses of Deuteronomy 28:15-68 it's important for you to know that Christianity is a part of the curses Deuteronomy 28:64 it was beaten into us, however we had to suffer for the disobedience of our forefathers and it's important to know here are scriptures of repentance.. Deuteronomy 30:1-7 Leviticus 26:40-45 For those who are seeking truth may Yah lead with understanding and wisdom.....
No no you are purely wrong for that one you do not justify our injustices racism and the Bible did justify slavery by the way this is why I became a black atheist because you are making the worst for our people never use the Bible for that reason this is why we will never have unity
SHALOM GREAT WORDS OF TRUTH. OUR PEOPLE PARISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. JUDAH WAS TOLD TO WAKE UP ISRAEL, AND HAS. BUT ISRAEL WANT TO STAY SO CALLED BLACK, AFRICAN AMERICAN. BYWORD,PROVERBS. HEBREW ISRAELITES WE ARE IN THE ENDTIMES OF YAH DESTRUCTION OF BABALYON/AMERICA!!!!
Everytime I move out Louisiana, I'm happy at first but always came back now it's my forever. It gets boring especially from all the rain, but LA is my soul and Puerto Rico is my heart!
I can attest to the "same ole racism different location". I moved from Houston to Chicago two years ago to do my masters degree. I aint never been so openly stared at in my life! Through my studies I learned that most chocolate folk are intentionally redlined to one part of the city. And that part of the city is the part where Chicago gets its reputation for poverty and crime. Chicago is said to have "the story of two Chicagos". Chicago 1 = Beautiful architecture, rich lifestyle, and affluent people. Chicago 2 = The Chicago you hear about in movies and in the news. I happen to live in Chicago 1, and like I said... i ain't never been stared at so hard in my life. You know that stare like "there goes the neighborhood", yea that stare. I said I may as well go back to the South! Chicago is said to have had a "Great Black Exodus". With high educated and high earning Black people leaving Chicago. I think I recall a couple years ago the Mayer begging Black people to come back to Chicago. Chicago has a strong history of structural and institutional racism. So even if you make it out of the hoods of Chicago with education or entrepreneurship, no one wants to hire you or let you live in their yite communities. So Black people leave due to lack of opportunity to better their lives. And guess what I'm finna do after I just (glory to God) graduated with BOTH my MBA and MPH last weekend? Finish the last couple months on my lease (enjoy the relatively mild summer compared to Houston), and God willing leave this here Chicago for the ATL . Like why spend all this energy and money to come up only to be looked at sideways because I can afford to live in the neighborhoods yites mostly live in (by design). OOh ya'll would prefer me in the southwest area (and will do everything you can from not employing me to charging me stupid high on rent to push me down there) Nah im good✌.
Yet it was a black man who discovered Chicago till corrupted white people moved in (included in politics). That's when we should reminded them there goes the neighborhood which they started!!
We are Global Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯 Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿
@Michael Smith the Original man is God. Study Creation not religion. The person above is correct. And she's not being disrespectful. That's the problem w/us we let other ppl teach us about us & so therefore we don't know us. Pick up the right books & relearn our history not theirs. This is why everything is being rewritten 2day because they LIED!!!! Not only 2 us, 2 the whole world.
As a white man, there is nothing more soothing and comforting than an older black Southern woman calling me baby, sugar, honey or sweetiepie..i love my Southern Black Folks.
Yep sounds like my sweet grandmother (RIP ❤️) she called EVERYONE "honey, or Puddin' lol.. me, my sister, her nephews, neighbors, friends, strangers, the dog, cat, etc.... she would feed everyone if she could! 💕 oh I miss her so much... she passed in April at 95 yrs old. I live in Raleigh North Carolina, moved here for a good job 3 yrs ago , I really like it here ❤️. Mid size southern city but mixed with both city vibes & suburban life. Great place to find opportunities for so many different professionals.
I'm also a California native and I definitely felt slighted for not being able to experience black excellence and HBCU's. Make no mistake we had our culture but I didn't really feel the sense of pride and we'll being until I moved to Texas and visited places like Atlanta and Alabama. Even going to the bayou classics and kappa beach parties back in the days. So much more for us here.
Unfortunately that is due to #ados #fba black folks as a majority being _” off-code”_ and refusing to adhere to a solely _”black-first/B1”_ agenda. Far too many black peoples are extremely hard-headed and stubborn and keep following other nonsensical agendas such as the feminism, Transhumanism, and liberalism agendas, which in the long-run harms #ados and #fba black folks. We need to get on-code with a black-first/B1 agenda soon and definitely before 2030, or else it’s pretty much over for 🇺🇸USA black folks🤔
I mean we were dropped off the boat to the south east so inevitable that most of us live in the circle. But I love the south for so many reasons. I was born in the North but family is from the South, and love going back to visit. I may just move back one day. 😊 Great video, thanks for all this info.
This is good but as we still face one challenge we get no reparations in this country and white supremacy is still bearing fruit against us so we need our own!
Black folks need to get on-code with #ados #fba agenda. We keep following all these other agendas such as feminism, Transhumanism, and liberalism and keep being worse off as a collective for it. Time to change that situation, now or never👊🏾✊🏾💯
We were there before slavery. We are from that region. The Aboriginals of the MISSISSIPPIAN PEOPLE (Look it up). The Mississippian was that whole region of the south. Mississippian mound builders that ate greens and gumbo, wore gold teeth and sung songs for long periods of time at the funerals for the dead. Very good at ball games, and remember their ancestors through rhymes and songs. Who do you think they are talking about???🤔 that’s what the European explorers wrote about the people they found here.
@@saddiqhafeez Right! Because both of my Grand Parents came from Mississippi on my Mom side. I can tell that my Grandad was an Aboriginal Black because his facial features were slightly different and real strong compared to my Grandma's, now my Grandma, I'm not too sure about because she past when I was little, but she just looked like a regular beautiful Black woman. My Mom was also born in Mississippi and my Dad was born in Michigan, and I was born in Michigan too, but now some of my Family and I moved to Mishawaka, Indiana.
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 That isn't true, only a small amout of enslaved Blacks came to the U.S, the majority went to the Caribbean, Brazil, South America and Central America.
@@SELFCAREMODEL I been there, it's small places like Buckhead is definitely nice. But people glorify it especially black entertainers like rappers and singers. What I seen was just ok, I got a chance to ride the transit system it was OK. It's still considered the South, it's not what people make it out to be.
@@javionriley8739 I never said it was a competition, but you do have southern Maryland, when most people especially black people talk about visiting the South they are not talking about Maryland, it's usually Atlanta Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina.
I am born and raised in Austin Texas. My grandpa said we were not slaves, we always been here and we still have our own land and property in a small town right outside austin
I enjoyed this video, and would like to add something. There are thousands of successful blue collar workers who are retiring from the industrialized North and migrating South. I am the product of a Mississippi father and Arkansas mother who is looking to reconnect with the south. Not every successful person moving is a college educated professional. It is great to see the black diversity.
Great segment! The only problem I see is is politically. Do we really want all of our political power concentrated in the south east? Even flyover states with small populations get 2 US senators. It makes me think of gerrymandering which is kind of dangerous considering the current political climate. I know it’s not the same as gerrymandering because relocating down south is choice.🤔
Yes we should concentrate all our power in the south, because the south for most of 🇺🇸Amerikkka’s history was extremely brutal to #ados #fba black people. So it makes perfect sense to choke out the poison ☠️ at its root. The real problem as I see it is that far too modern black folks are _”off-code”_ and keep following all these other nonsensical agendas such as feminism, liberalism and Transhumanism, but refuse to get on-code with #ados #fba agenda. That is what is messing up multigenerational 🇺🇸USA black folks right now😕
We already have no political power. We have no party. The open racist Right hates us and the closet racist liberals are telling us they have no respect for us everyday. Might as well concentrate and do for ourselves as a unit.
Look at NY so many black people yet so much racism!! This is why 250,000 of them moved to the south every year. Some moved to black countries. Throw in California too, things are so bad there for black people too. Look who runs both California and NY now.
My grandparents (my mother's parents). Are from Yazoo City, Mississippi, my mother was born in Jackson. My grandparents migrated to Los Angeles in 1950. I was born and raised in California but I now live in Arkansas. I actually like the South. I've been considering Texas, Georgia & Florida (Miami), however, for right now I'm here. My daddy's side of the family is from Red River, Louisiana - Coushatta.
I’m from yazoo county Mississippi in between yazoo city and Jackson all my family and my wife’s families are in Mississippi my grandmother on my dads side who’s 92 is part Choctaw ….my moms side her family is from the Vicksburg area
Lol, everyone wants to move to Atlanta or Texas (DFW) but Nashville, Memphis, Jackson,Ms and Little Rock is on the rise. Next 10 years watch out. Living in Jonesboro now
I remember a video you did on better opportunities for blacks and you listed Miami Florida as no.9. I still to this day say you were wrong and don't understand why black Americans are even moving that far. I'm from Miami, born and raised. And Everytime I met a black moving there I simply asked them, what did you do that for. I don't know what makes you think that blacks are gonna get a fair shot in a city where speaking Spanish is the cities way of things and the blacks are dead last there. The state itself still has a lot of small towns where racism still exist. The governor is a small piece of what that state truly is. But, as I've learned, no matter how much you try to give advice to my black people, we still do the opposite. So, in that case, you can move their at your own risk.
Yeah Black excel list does have a habit of conflating information. Now my only explanation for them putting Miami on the list is due to its metropolitan area. Black ppl in Broward County are faring much better than those in Dade County. And instead of saying the metro area they just said Miami. 🤷🏿♂️
The truth is that all of this is our land & they have been killing & kidnapping us and stealing our land ever since they came over here. We were already here way before them. This is our land and they stole most of our land on the east coast with the "Indian removal act" by Andrew Jackson. Then they stole most of the Midwest land with the "Louisiana purchase". Then out west they stole our lands from a complete genocide. That's why they called it the "wild west" once they arrived to terrorize our cities on the West Coast. We ended up in the south east fighting back because we were driven down there for our survival from the gullah wars & the Seminole wars & the French & Indian wars. They tried to enslave & genocide our race but they couldn't do it and we finally freed ourselves in the civil war.
Even during the East Coast vs West Coast beef da South was always tight with the West Coast cause y’all always showed us luv so u already know what it iz. 💯
The city centers and metropolitan are usually where the large bulk of the progress takes place. That’s why if you look at the electoral maps of southern states like Georgia you will see that the major cities and the adjacent counties have a vastly different voting habit than the rest of Georgia that isn’t close to a major metropolitan city. The only problem as I see it is that #ados #fba black folks are overwhelmingly _”off-code”_ which hurts us as a collective badly. So much so, that black folks are very inefficient and ineffective of taking advantage of our huge numbers in the major cities and using the numbers to forcefully enforce a _”black first/B1”_ agenda. That has to change and before 2030, before we get completely overtaken by the other immigrant groups and by the anti-black first people.
Everybody wanna move to Atlanta (it's the poplar choice) and Texas (DFW) but Nashville, Memphis,Jackson Ms and Little Rock is on the rise. Memphis is in middle,to the west is Texas (DFW) 6hrs away and to the east is Atlanta 6hrs away. Some city is gonna receive the overlap of the two and it's a good chance it's Memphis. Nashville already booming like Charlotte from the Atlanta spillover so which in turn cities like Little Rock and Jackson Ms grow. The Mid-South is STILL AN UNTAPPED REGION IN THE SOUTH. Crime is everywhere but the Mid-South is still cheap. Next 5 to 10 years watch out for this region.
Facts I’m from Little Rock and it’s growing there and they have a lot of good things coming to the city, more jobs newer housing development and more construction everywhere everytime I visit, I might move back in a few years. Far as Memphis they could be the next Atlanta if they got they crime under control and build up their downtown as well as placing more attractions and having a diverse job market, they have plans tho. Nashville on the come up and Jackson could be as well but MS state government is trash.
Myself and my family relocated to ATL from Mississippi. I do not regret the move one bit. Georgia has much better pay and is full of progressive POC. Although as of late the cost of living has risen significantly.
@@majorprotx3363 i guess it will depend on what part of Texas. I moved from Wisconsin to Dallas Tx 10 years ago and it isn’t what I thought it would be. Cost of living has skyrocketed. And I’m experiencing some of the Mae issues I had in Wisconsin. Being a POC it’s been a struggle to move up in corporate America. Being a black woman is also a challenge. Dating hasn’t been easy here. Just some of my thoughts.
It’s funny cause my roots are Gechee Gullah , with most of my family coming from NC SC GA and Virginia. I have lived in the South for all of my adult life though born in NJ . Now I live in Houston ,where I have been for many years . Many in my family are all coming South from NJ and NY .
You had it backwards 😆, it’s Gullah Geechee but I’m correcting you out of luv bro and not hostility. I’m from South Carolina where most of da geechees from but ya right tho. Most of our families from up north are startin to move back south. Dey probably missin dat shrimp n grits 😂
As the numbers grow, so can the political & economic power. The answer is in local governing & elected offices. Steve Bannon, the GQP and MAGA supporters have figured it, when will we?
The truth is that this is all our land & they have been killing & kidnapping us and stealing our land ever since they came over here. We were already here way before them. This is our land and they stole most of our land on the east coast with the "Indian removal act" by Andrew Jackson. Then they stole most of the Midwest land with the "Louisiana purchase". Then out west they stole our lands from a complete genocide. That's why they called it the "wild west" once they arrived to terrorize our cities on the West Coast. We ended up in the south east fighting back because we were driven down there for our survival from the gullah wars & the Seminole wars & the French & Indian wars. They tried to enslave & genocide our race but they couldn't do it and we finally freed ourselves in the civil war.
I’ve lived in the south my whole life….while I do like the black culture in my state, TN, the opportunities for black culture is slim. There are pros and cons to living in the south but as I get older it feels like the south isn’t for me anymore. I plan to move to a northern state within the next few years. 😊
I was born and raised in Sacramento California left to join the Air Force basic training in San Antonio Texas tech school in Biloxi Mississippi and then travel to different parts of the world came back to Austin Texas and never look back been here most of my life. I have traveled in the deep south and fell in love with it
Coming from a Brooklyn girl that has southern roots, I think its time to relocate to the south. NY is getting way too expensive and dangerous for me & my family. Its a whole new day and time. I want my children to be able to have a beautiful childhood and get good education.
That circle is called The South. And the circle is becoming larger because the South is cheaper. The other reason is that Caribbean people are moving there as well.
At about 3:16 the narrator is talking about the "Domestic Slave Trade". Something that many of us have never heard of. At that time between 1810 and 1865 at least a million persons were sold out of Virginia, and Maryland to the developing Gulf states because of "King Cotton".. Many of the current black residents of the Gulf region have ancestry in Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas.
I'm from SC by the way of GA. I been in LA since Feb 2022... Got my ticket for June 21, 2022. They are VERY ANTI BLACK. TOO MUCH DIVERSITY IN CALIFORNIA
very true, ....🔥🔥👍🔥also IT MORE COMPLICATED THAN that.[ they were doomed before they started ] they left Europe to get away from black rule. and landing on a continent filled with them. as well.💅🏾 AmeriIndians were also setting in the same position as whites in Europe: Seen as the "foreigner" "new comers". Not native. = America is living out Eurasia's Karma Now when you google: "Europeans, American natives, Chino/Chinese = you dont see BLACK" but Pluto (the karma judgement planet is returning in 2024) and natives will get back their ID and their land back. 👍🔥this included the South [ which was annexed to the 13 british colonies ] IN YOUR LIFE TIME: YOU WILL SEE THE SOUTH return to its orginal owner: just like Tulsa returned back to the Cherokee nation
@@antoniocunningham7026 Texas is south west just like the carolinas are south east. According to our governmnet Texas is a southern state, so are the carolinas.
Just like the gentleman mentioned below , it's nice not to be the only or one of the few black people around. My dad moved us from the south to up north for education and opportunities. I go back every now and then to visit relatives. But my goal is to move back. It's just a feeling of home for me. Plus winter is terrible.
I love the South. Great Grandma is a Alabama gal, Grandma was born in Detroit. Great granddad was a Georgia boy, so was my Granddad. My dad's lineage is from West Virginia. All sides at some point moved to Detroit and been here for 4 generations at least. I always wanted to live in the South. Either Texas, Georgia or Tennessee, even Alabama since im rooted there as well.
I always wondered this, I hate that circle but never understood why.! It's the culture of Blacks and Whites there for me. The mentality of slavery will never leave those areas.
Meanwhile you prolly live in one of those cities up north or out west owned by racist overly liberal whites and foreigners who don’t like y’all at all and isolate y’all to small sections.
The mentality of slavery is all over the 🇺🇸USA not just in the south. At least in the southeast 🇺🇸USA, black folks have the numbers. Our only flaw is that that we #ados #fba black folks are not _”on-code”_ with a *_B1_* agenda. We need a code as a collective. That is the best and only way to survive and thrive well into the future as a collective group of people👊🏾✊🏾💯
No, we fought to be free. Did you see the video the people in the north treated blacks similar to the way the south treated blacks. Our issue now is to treat each other better and to work together to improve our future. We much be more tolerant of one another, be kind and loving to one another. Being free is not enough!
A lot of blacks didn't leave the South..thats one of the reasons why those with Southern roots are migrating back: because a lot of us are already here!!
@@BlackExcellist we’ll to each it’s own, my late grandmother passed away 8 years ago.she was 99 and she said to me that they was fighting like hell to go north!
