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  • @WODEMAYA
    @WODEMAYA  Před 5 lety +81

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    • @mzdestinee9667
      @mzdestinee9667 Před 5 lety +3

      You are more than welcome to visit the United States of America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • @djanclubtv9519
      @djanclubtv9519 Před 5 lety

      Now I can see it

    • @michaelm.c.hampton1157
      @michaelm.c.hampton1157 Před 5 lety +2

      @@blackkirbyopinion3355 the majority of Eumelanated beings in the Americas don't like the term "African Americans" Because not all of us originated in Africa. In fact the Eumelanated people in the Americas are the most ancient beings on earth. All hueman ife did *not* start in Africa, you've been taught a lie.

    • @michaelm.c.hampton1157
      @michaelm.c.hampton1157 Před 5 lety

      Halito *Wode Maya* I am Aniyuwiya and Ogeechee by blood not African Yakoke

    • @michaelm.c.hampton1157
      @michaelm.c.hampton1157 Před 5 lety

      @Keemo Imani dude can you prove all Eumelanated beings come from Africa? I'll wait!😐

  • @Ronaldo-rt7hl
    @Ronaldo-rt7hl Před 5 lety +588

    It offends me when Africans try to say we don't have a country or culture or anything to connect with. We have our own culture and we literally built this country. We are very much our own group and proud of our heritage, culture, and history.

    • @garlandowls1134
      @garlandowls1134 Před 5 lety +115

      True! Africans have a hard time grasping this. I'd noticed that Africans don't do this to Black people in Latin America or the Caribbean who are also descendants of slaves.

    • @silvercole9291
      @silvercole9291 Před 5 lety +89

      👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I use to get offended, but I know it's out of jealousy they want to replace us just keep Educating yourself and don't take no shit, because every chance they get they will insult you !!

    • @silvercole9291
      @silvercole9291 Před 5 lety +14

      @@garlandowls1134 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @Ronaldo-rt7hl
      @Ronaldo-rt7hl Před 5 lety +19

      I also think now more than ever we as a people need band together and decide on a label that is just for us. We live in an age where people want to know where they “really” come from. They take one dna take and decide that they are something different do you see Caribbeans and Hispanics doing this? No! But this is a product of white society telling we’re other or less American than them even though we built this country.

    • @Mzcheif92
      @Mzcheif92 Před 5 lety +58

      @@silvercole9291 Yes its like they resent us because we're American, which is something we can't help. This country is all we know because our families have been here for so long, literally since the founding of this country.

  • @ghamnilote3682
    @ghamnilote3682 Před 5 lety +116

    I personally feel like Africans think we African Americans have no cultural heritage. But we basically played a big ass role in making what America is today

    • @sancigodwin9393
      @sancigodwin9393 Před 4 lety +4

      Since you played a big role to make America what it is,then fit in fight for your rights of belonging.

    • @sancigodwin9393
      @sancigodwin9393 Před 4 lety

      @Lorenzo Williams Jr. I have studied black American history since they where sailed to the Americas.After villages raided one another and sold prisoners of tribal wars as slaves.I also understand the labour of blacks making USA what it is today.But let's be factual AA while never be seen as part of US no matter what in the eyes of white supremacist,as long as you crossed the ocean the story ends here..Africa for all blacks across the globe it's the only land God gave blacks to live with they kind.I wish AA travelled alot and learnt about the continent on the ground.

    • @Usthereout
      @Usthereout Před 3 lety +2

      Sanci Godwin you do know colonizers sailed here too right?

    • @adiroots
      @adiroots Před 3 lety +10

      I don't agree with the first part of your statement but the second part, yes. There would be no America; economically or culturally without African- Americans. The blood of enslaved Africans made this country prosperous. A lot of the images that the USA export or that is embraced across the world like music, culture etc is mostly African American contributions.

    • @sancigodwin9393
      @sancigodwin9393 Před 3 lety

      @@Usthereout read Deuteronomy chapter 28 understand and come back here.

  • @garlandowls1134
    @garlandowls1134 Před 5 lety +202

    95% of slaves were taken to South America, Central America and the Caribbean yet Black Americans are always the target of the "you don't know where you're from" jokes.

    • @multibillionaire6821
      @multibillionaire6821 Před 5 lety +2

      Garland Owls11 west Africa

    • @elevatedgoddess3917
      @elevatedgoddess3917 Před 5 lety +20

      Exactly

    • @suedecomponent8931
      @suedecomponent8931 Před 5 lety +22

      @Jarard Jones We're culturally from the US. That's where our culture was born. Everything before that is the culture of long gone ancestors who had to adapt in the new world because the culture back in Africa were willing to fight and sell each other off to Europeans over tribalism. That way of thinking didn't work for us in the US. I'm not shitting on Africans or their culture, but we know where we're from and we know our culture and it's time for us to take control of it again.

    • @michaelclayton3114
      @michaelclayton3114 Před 5 lety

      For people like that , they have this thing called "The Pine Box ". Here in America .

    • @garlandowls1134
      @garlandowls1134 Před 5 lety +21

      @Crowdfund77 I know but it seem like Africans come at Black Americans more than West Indians though.

  • @risingsun5999
    @risingsun5999 Před 5 lety +130

    Black Americans have the best culture got everyone in the world mimicking our styles

    • @gotcha9934
      @gotcha9934 Před 5 lety +2

      cold-hearted Tuff lmao where did you got that shit?

    • @risingsun5999
      @risingsun5999 Před 5 lety +10

      @@gotcha9934 the proof is there

    • @gotcha9934
      @gotcha9934 Před 5 lety +7

      @@risingsun5999 where I'm from when you are told you act like a nigga it's an insult. It basically means you're a fucking looser. No one really wants you in is house

    • @gotcha9934
      @gotcha9934 Před 5 lety +2

      Candace candace I don’t like black not because they are black but because of you lifestyle it’s my right. But I don’t wish your death or the worse. I just don’t want you guys in our lives by experience.

    • @laconnaissance6273
      @laconnaissance6273 Před 4 lety

      cold-hearted Tuff lol

  • @LilliLamour
    @LilliLamour Před 5 lety +455

    I wish I could be in these conversations because these conversations lack substance of the African American perspective. It also stereotypes us and helps to perpetuate ignorance about us.

    • @alwaysalanna329
      @alwaysalanna329 Před 5 lety +25

      Lilli L'amour I agree 💯 I think they fear the daunting truth of where it all stems from.

    • @blessedhf
      @blessedhf Před 5 lety +22

      You actually could have this conversation! If you wanted to.....gather up a mixed group of Blacks and Africans and tape it! Look forward to hearing and seeing your perspective about this issue.

    • @LilliLamour
      @LilliLamour Před 5 lety +34

      Oracle4 Christ I've actually have had this conversation with Africans and African Americans. I'm referring to these conversation with the yotubers who promote these videos, but thank you for your feedback.

    • @frederickwhite9634
      @frederickwhite9634 Před 5 lety +4

      I'd love to be apart of a video of that nature!!

    • @LilliLamour
      @LilliLamour Před 5 lety +5

      Frederick White hit me up on my Facebook. I'd like to make it happen

  • @justicehuman-rights7025
    @justicehuman-rights7025 Před 5 lety +279

    We love you African Americans. The voice of Africa from The Gambia (West Africa).

    • @whatsgood8452
      @whatsgood8452 Před 5 lety +29

      Justice human-rights I’m AA AND I LOVE YOU TO AFRICAN UNITY

    • @noaidjones7216
      @noaidjones7216 Před 5 lety +6

      Thank you

    • @CocoaKissesSC
      @CocoaKissesSC Před 5 lety +12

      I LOVE YOU TOO! 🤗🤗🤗

    • @padussia
      @padussia Před 5 lety +7

      Justice human-rights We love you too. My husband was from Kenya!!! I'm very proud of that!!!

    • @reginafrink2269
      @reginafrink2269 Před 5 lety +4

      I love you too💖African-American from Ohio

  • @Ronaldo-rt7hl
    @Ronaldo-rt7hl Před 5 lety +161

    As a black American we don't hate Africans or African immigrants but we have our own culture and history that we created on our own we're our own people/group. This is true for every group in the diaspora (Afro-latinos, Afro Caribbeans) but for some reason African Americans are the only ones that get called out for this no one calls the black people from Jamaica, Brazil, or the Dominican Republic African they call them by their nationality. I don't see the problem.

    • @eric123426
      @eric123426 Před 5 lety +23

      Because it was designed that way, the same way they created borders in Africa, they divided us by nationality.
      We are all the same people, just scattered, the only difference between an African America and a Jamaican, or a Afro-Brazilian, Afro Cuban, whatever...
      Is a boat stop
      Because they knew that, United we stand, but divided we fall... so they separated us. Called us by different names, so that we wouldn’t see each other as brothers, but a different people, all the while, suffering the same oppression.

    • @Ronaldo-rt7hl
      @Ronaldo-rt7hl Před 5 lety +8

      Eugene Sanou what are you talking about we don’t need approval from outsiders to validate what we are. We are black Americans descendants from slaves and we celebrate our African heritage but that doesn’t make us African. White Americans don’t get offended because white is already celebrated. Hispanics don’t get offended because they which they were more white than they already are. The Dominicans/PR that celebrate their European dna are the ones with the inferiority complex not us.

    • @Ronaldo-rt7hl
      @Ronaldo-rt7hl Před 5 lety +1

      Brother Tracy Stone FACTS!!!

    • @Ronaldo-rt7hl
      @Ronaldo-rt7hl Před 5 lety +5

      Yahwo I view the rest of the diaspora and the rest of the descendants of slavery in the Americas as my brothers and sisters because of our similar history and because of the boat stop logic. However we don’t share that same connection with Africans. Also, although I view the afro-diaspora as my brothers I would never say that we’re the same because we have a different culture.

    • @Ronaldo-rt7hl
      @Ronaldo-rt7hl Před 5 lety

      Eugene Sanou lol whatever I know what ethnicity is I’m taking a race and ethnicity course right now yes I do know how to read thanks for noticing. Also, I’ve learned that whenever you ask someone a question or to explain and they deflect with insults it’s usually because they don’t truly know what they’re talking about but are simply regurgitating information that was forced fed to them.

  • @alwaysalanna329
    @alwaysalanna329 Před 5 lety +248

    What a one sided sob story 😑😒 Atleast interview a black American to defend what’s true. 💯

    • @ChariotManGaming85
      @ChariotManGaming85 Před 5 lety +14

      Facts sis!

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Před 5 lety +14

      lol I'm yet to upload a video I shot with them

    • @Loverlovelife
      @Loverlovelife Před 5 lety +9

      Always Alanna hey that really bother me a one way conversation where is an African American in this conversation....because a lot of Africans don’t know are history

    • @cheights13
      @cheights13 Před 5 lety

      Now go directly to her go fund me page

    • @myafreeton1694
      @myafreeton1694 Před 5 lety +2

      @YoRUba TheGem everything doesn't have to be an argument...Sometimes it's good to just hear the views /perspective of others.

  • @jzc3rd
    @jzc3rd Před 5 lety +90

    Wode Maya:::Keep in mind you have a country in Africa(Ghana) were you have over 5 thousand African-Americans who have chosen to live there...You can always talk to them, and maybe bring both groups together for discussion.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Před 5 lety +12

      I have a video like that!Will upload it later

    • @danielle7781
      @danielle7781 Před 5 lety +3

      Also you have the African american association in Ghana which is a hub in assisting AA in repatriating back to Ghana

    • @ashleydee3872
      @ashleydee3872 Před 5 lety

      Queen Mercy yes I love them!

  • @AJENKINS1920
    @AJENKINS1920 Před 5 lety +357

    As AFRICAN AMERICAN.....white America has kept us separate because they don't want us to come together

    • @liveinwisdom3610
      @liveinwisdom3610 Před 5 lety +13

      Na what has kept us separate is culture,you are not African stop it.You are American be proud.

    • @Tekhelet75
      @Tekhelet75 Před 5 lety +4

      AJENKINS1920 I want to call Africans in USA, African! But was told it’s rude and told me to call you all blacks! I think calling someone black is rude.

    • @bubadiallo6376
      @bubadiallo6376 Před 5 lety +8

      Why always blaming white look yourself no one should tell you who you're what pass is pass

    • @edgarolet3169
      @edgarolet3169 Před 5 lety +16

      u can't call white on everything, we need to take responsibility too

    • @bubadiallo6376
      @bubadiallo6376 Před 5 lety +9

      @@edgarolet3169 100%

  • @garlandowls1134
    @garlandowls1134 Před 5 lety +183

    Black Americans identifying as Black Americans and NOT Africans doesn't necessarily mean that they hate or deny their African roots.

    • @jasminepearls1047
      @jasminepearls1047 Před 5 lety +35

      Jamaicans can call themselves Jamaican all day though.

    • @garlandowls1134
      @garlandowls1134 Před 5 lety +29

      @@jasminepearls1047 Right! Same with Haitians, Dominicans, Brazilians, Bahamians, Bajans, Trins, Panamians, etc..,

    • @ravinj8625
      @ravinj8625 Před 5 lety +41

      We get a lot of hate just because we are American. Americans in general get alot of hate.

    • @garlandowls1134
      @garlandowls1134 Před 5 lety +6

      @@ravinj8625 Exactly!

    • @mr.scrooge.8821
      @mr.scrooge.8821 Před 5 lety +21

      Exactly.. You don't hear Haitians calling themselves African.

  • @mwadiyakin-malebo4135
    @mwadiyakin-malebo4135 Před 5 lety +43

    I have been to Central Africa ( Congo) 4 times. I want you know that African Americans we have culture. It is in our DNA check our music, dance, movement, art, food etc.
    One of the thing I notice about Continental Africans they do not comprehend our struggle.Currently, all the freedom they enjoy when they come to the Americas our ancestors had to fight for it.
    Next talk have people from America so there is a better perspective.

    • @eliasnestor9482
      @eliasnestor9482 Před 3 lety +2

      🤣😂🤣🤣stop lying you're a Congolese muluba your name is from kasaï.

  • @chadtep7571
    @chadtep7571 Před 5 lety +272

    This conversation is stereotyping Africans Americans. Many of us are not ignorant and are deeply in love with our African heritage.

    • @tammyjohnson4414
      @tammyjohnson4414 Před 5 lety +17

      Exactly

    • @bobbyfatitv1787
      @bobbyfatitv1787 Před 5 lety +12

      Chad Tep thank you bro !!!

    • @bitcoinmaster3634
      @bitcoinmaster3634 Před 5 lety +19

      @@fastingislife3766 The word "many" says that he doesn't know all African Americans. But it signifies over 50% but not 100%. Since watching Wode Maya, I have this urge to visit Africa starting with Ghana.

    • @adisabambakunta4966
      @adisabambakunta4966 Před 5 lety +1

      It's the vibe I'm getting from the jump.

    • @mkay3751
      @mkay3751 Před 5 lety +9

      I love and care about africans that love n care about me. Hell, my ancestors came from the continent. I have family there. I just don't know who. I do know one of my great great great grandmothers mention to my mother that she was Angolan.

  • @BmoreMommi
    @BmoreMommi Před 5 lety +188

    I once told a Ghanian colleague that I was African. He told me, "You are not African." If I'm not African, what am I? He couldn't provide an answer. I assume a "Black American." My DNA is comprised of 90% African DNA. I feel that gives me the right to distinguish myself as an African. I have had the pleasure of traveling to Africa and hope to return soon. I have met Africans that view African Americans with the same stereotypes used by other non-black people. The Africans that I've met treated me different when they saw none of those stereotypes applied to me. I just hope that we can come together and stop this nonsense that keeps us seperated.

    • @evanking0588
      @evanking0588 Před 5 lety +20

      You are African Queen don't ever let anybody take that away from you

    • @evanking0588
      @evanking0588 Před 5 lety +11

      @SBLACKW C me neither Queen I know I'm African at heart

    • @TheKofinyarko
      @TheKofinyarko Před 5 lety +9

      @Blacks vs Everybody Naaa, That's a one-off, very rear that an African would say that.

    • @XxxclusiveReviews
      @XxxclusiveReviews Před 5 lety +9

      Funny... fuck him and those who dont think so... Once again we suffer seriously and we are African all day long weather I'm 50 percent or 60 percent african.. ancestors straight from the mother land... I will welcome my self to African soil.. that's my soil......bet

    • @kejekdkdje5542
      @kejekdkdje5542 Před 5 lety +6

      My brother am african from gambia but forget about this people they don,t know that is why it is not who told african you are not african.majority of you come from big tribes in africa. They have to give freedoom lands to you because your ancestory share is there.black is id is africa

  • @bluesneakers
    @bluesneakers Před 5 lety +270

    Why are AAs always on other folks minds? 🤦🏾‍♀️

    • @bluesneakers
      @bluesneakers Před 5 lety +58

      I’m not going to say that they ain’t shit but I do sense animosity towards us for being more visible than they are. I find it interesting we are called uncultured and lost when many do not know anything about our history in America, and only know us by what they see on tv. They are quick to say we learn about Africans from tv, but it is the same for them as well.

    • @jesse8716
      @jesse8716 Před 5 lety +7

      @Michelle A the same america that mistreats you? Aren't most black Americans in poverty?

    • @CoTheboxer
      @CoTheboxer Před 5 lety +26

      @@jesse8716 no most african Americans aren't living in poverty check your stats

    • @KGorgeous2528
      @KGorgeous2528 Před 5 lety +18

      Were god chosen people. No nation like us lol

    • @mzmissy9591
      @mzmissy9591 Před 5 lety +5

      I think it just it's curiosity . I know a few Africans to me they are nice. But I'm nice so I usually get along with everyone, however my Nigerian associates think blks don't take what they feel is advantage of the so called freedom they feel we have .they don't understand most blks don't feel like they gonna Schuck and jive to get what they worked for.. where as in my opinion Nigerians r more open to playing the game and don't mind marrying whites

  • @jasminepearls1047
    @jasminepearls1047 Před 5 lety +96

    We know our American culture. Stop saying we dont know our culture. We have been in the U.S. since 1619

    • @silvercole9291
      @silvercole9291 Před 5 lety +15

      They are bat shit crazy smh jealousy is all it is .... if I knew I was better I wouldn't spend time trying to explain how smh

    • @jasminepearls1047
      @jasminepearls1047 Před 5 lety +24

      @@silvercole9291 Ring shout is culture, AA quilts is culture, fried okra is culture, Sunday dinners is culture, Family Reunions and barbeques are culture, line dances are culture, sweet 16 parties are culture, praise dances are culture, soul singing is our culture, Harlem Renassiance paintings and books are culture, jazz and blues and rap and spoken word are our culture heck even Kwanzaa lol. The black happy birthday song is culture. Langston Hughes A Raisin In The Sun poem is our heritage. Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman poem. People act like we just sat here from the early 1600s until now just chillin and doing nothing.

    • @jasminepearls1047
      @jasminepearls1047 Před 5 lety +11

      After slavery in the late 1800s and early 1900s black people built whole black towns in Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma aka Black Wallstreet which was the most sucessful town. Then there was the black town Wilmington, North Carolina that had it's own newspaper. And there was also Weeksville in Brooklyn, New York.

    • @jasminepearls1047
      @jasminepearls1047 Před 5 lety +14

      Louisiana second line parades are black culture. Gumbo is black culture. Voodoo is black Louisiana culture. Louisiana even has a parade when people die. The Gullah Geechee on James Island ring a bell when people die. They eat red rice and fish which comes from Senegal others say its a form of jollof rice in Nigeria or Ghana. The Gullah dry their shrimp to add more flavor to soup. Blacks in the south used to dry high john the conqueror and put it in their pockets for luck or love spells. Muddy Waters sang about this (he called it johnny conquero and his mojo). Is this not a culture? Louisiana also does the Easter Rock dance around the table in church. Kumbayah song, is a Gullah Geechee (black Americans on the Sea Islands of the U.S. coastal Georgia, south carolina, florida) song that means Come by here. They used words like "bobo" meaning "boy" and "kraka di teeth" meaning "talk" and "day clean" which means "sun down" and comes from a translation in Ga.

    • @davidlee8311
      @davidlee8311 Před 5 lety

      Sarissa Vaughn chillin doin nothin and smoking weed 😊

  • @Bee-pg1fv
    @Bee-pg1fv Před 5 lety +176

    I’ve never heard an adult use the phrase African Booty Scratcher. As a matter of fact I haven’t heard that term since the 80’s. 🙄🙄🙄
    EDIT--- I don't know where the term originated from, however, I think it was a movie. As a kid, we (African Americans) called each other that as a joke. As a child you really don't know what things like that really mean. Like I said I haven't heard that phrase in years. I have kids and I've never heard them use it. I just wish people were more careful about what information they are putting out.
    By the way I'm a proud African American who hopes to someday visit the Motherland!

    • @moneysnappin
      @moneysnappin Před 5 lety +21

      Exactly, that was in a movie and little kids are going to thing that term is funny because it has the word "booty" in it. African Americans called each other that as well. That's not a word among us that we use to talk down on africans as they believe.

    • @tammyjohnson4414
      @tammyjohnson4414 Před 5 lety +4

      Right?

    • @jasminepearls1047
      @jasminepearls1047 Před 5 lety +22

      Exactly I have never even heard someone call an African a booty scratcher. Black american don't all grow up around Africans.

    • @jasminepearls1047
      @jasminepearls1047 Před 5 lety +30

      @@moneysnappin People are really holding on to being called a booty scratcher in 5 th grade like come on.

    • @alfonsom8286
      @alfonsom8286 Před 5 lety +11

      Yeah you could tell from the very jump that she was full of shit and does not like black Americans.
      She wants to sound educated but the fact is she's really just a white person in black skin, what I mean is she talks all the same bullshit stereotypes that they do, basically doing the work for the white man sewing seeds of dissention.
      To be real with you, I go in (DEEP) on any of these mother fuckers that come here talking nonsense about my people.
      Our ancestors built this country into the most powerful nation in all the world. Their sacrifices in most cases will never be told. As An American descendant of slaves who grew up in the South I Carry a deep pride and respect for the sacrifices of my ancestors.
      Black American culture is all over the world, we have changed the game For all other None white people.
      The irony is, the girl talking negativity about us is probly getting piped down by a white boy....typical.

  • @ftw7813
    @ftw7813 Před 5 lety +106

    African booty scratcher lol. Im 32 years old and havent heard that one since 1st grade lmao.

    • @yorubianx
      @yorubianx Před 5 lety

      Who told the first grader? Smh !

    • @user-ek3qc6zz8k
      @user-ek3qc6zz8k Před 5 lety +12

      yorubianx That shit was on the movie boys in the hood that came out in 1991

    • @LilliLamour
      @LilliLamour Před 5 lety +24

      What they don’t get is we were called that as well.

    • @ketaakin33
      @ketaakin33 Před 5 lety +8

      Exactly! Nobody says that she pulled that out her ass that's an old elementary joke from the 80's gurl bye

    • @sabrinanbelle
      @sabrinanbelle Před 5 lety +10

      Right! That bs came from a movie. It died decades ago.

  • @kasseen
    @kasseen Před 5 lety +12

    I never once heard any american ever utter the words "African booty scratcher" but i've heard hundreds of Africans call black americans all kinds of Akatas!

  • @aliao1134
    @aliao1134 Před 5 lety +101

    My observation is that some Africans seem to generalize Black Americans because they have a shallow sense of the BA experience & understanding of the history. There are many discussions just as this one & it makes me cringe because of the prejudices and stereotyping.
    Some Africans think that because they watch BET or come across a few ignorant ppl or have been called an "afro boot scratcher" in the 4th grade that they have an excuse to form a bias or resentment against an entire group of BAs. Thats an issue within itself.
    The truth to me at least is that Africans do not need to understand or analyze the Black American because they have their own issues to deal with. Honestly, I do feel like the way some Africans talk about BAs is condescending and from a place arrogance. I rarely see BAs having generalizing discussions about Africans like this. I only really see Africans making videos on this subject. Interesting.
    My hubby is Nigerian & we joke all the time about our cultural differences. I have love for everybody. We may not be brothers and sisters, but we definitely cousins.

    • @tommyaintgotnojob
      @tommyaintgotnojob Před 5 lety +11

      I agree. West Africans can be arrogant as hell for no reason. They love to brag about how well they are doing in America or the UK but when you bring up the failure and ineptitude of their home country, they have nothing to say. Most African countries cannot even keep their electricity on for 24 hours straight.

    • @Love25648
      @Love25648 Před 5 lety

      Alia O African Americans generalize us alof what are you saying

    • @ernestotchere2715
      @ernestotchere2715 Před 5 lety +9

      Get the fuck out of here!!! The moment you step in America and open your mouth..... it is these ignorant African Americans that will point out your 'accent' and use that to ascertain your intelligence. We get more more respect from whites than African Americans. Why will I associate myself with these dummies!
      If your an African and goes to High school in the US, you'll see the stereotype from African Americans.
      We like our arrogance and its built up on resentments we get from African Americans.

    • @jesse8716
      @jesse8716 Před 5 lety +6

      @@ernestotchere2715 they are full of shit, watched a CZcams video where some guys from this channel called All Def digital tried African (Nigerian) food, the amount of disrespect they had was disgusting, spitting out food eating the food the wrong way even Making comments like "they don't have forks in the motherland" that is how most black Americans act toward Africans, then when Africans in the us avoid them it's "Africans are arrogant"

    • @ernestotchere2715
      @ernestotchere2715 Před 5 lety +8

      @@jesse8716 I live in Atlanta, Georgia. I've been here for over decade. I can tell you first hand how disrespectful they are towards Africans and when you give them the same attitude, they hit you with that bullshit: 'Africans don't like us'. Ask Jamaicans or Haitians or any other non African American, they'll tell you the exact same thing! It's even worse if you attend school with them. Their level of ignorance is beyond redemption. I could care less about them.

  • @hafsafossie7074
    @hafsafossie7074 Před 5 lety +37

    I’m African American and I’m proud of our African history. We came from kings and queens before slavery

    • @umeshkmr645
      @umeshkmr645 Před 2 lety

      If it wasnt for the people's greed it would be like Europe or America maybe better
      I am indian so I do know how it feels that when people do forget about the long heritage and their amazing culture

  • @evanking0588
    @evanking0588 Před 5 lety +146

    I am a African-American man I am African born in the United States that's what I say because my ancestors were enslaved and brought over here from Africa but Africa is my ancestors home land so I am African no matter what. As a African-American I am proud of my African roots and I took a DNA test I have cameroonian in me so my ancestors might have came from Cameroon

    • @fjellyo3261
      @fjellyo3261 Před 5 lety +15

      Well but the question is why are the white Americans almost never referred to as European Americans? They aren't native there either.

    • @evanking0588
      @evanking0588 Před 5 lety +8

      @@fjellyo3261 I met a white man that has a European necklace so he knows that he has European heritage and you have to understand America tries to brainwash us to get rid of our original Heritage and make sure that are only Heritage is American and we all know that is not true

    • @fjellyo3261
      @fjellyo3261 Před 5 lety +3

      @@evanking0588 wow you once met a white guy...with a necklace. And wtf is a european necklace? I am german and have no idea wtf you are talking about.

    • @evanking0588
      @evanking0588 Před 5 lety +5

      @@fjellyo3261 and you have no right to tell me who the hell I am and the necklace was of Scandinavian heritage so obviously the guy was proud to be Scandinavian and you know you're German so why are you even upset that I'm trying to get back with my heritage you're just a hater and a troll

    • @fjellyo3261
      @fjellyo3261 Před 5 lety +2

      @@evanking0588 I just meant that I am a German citizen that's all. I don't give a shit were I come from. I am home there where nice people are around me. We all live on the same world, we are all from the same place. And in the end all humans come from east Africa.

  • @1911funtime
    @1911funtime Před 5 lety +24

    Who is this lady speaking for us African Americans we know we are African

  • @creeksideyella
    @creeksideyella Před 5 lety +63

    I hate one sided conversations. yall don't never say that bout Caribbeans or afro Latinos. I think because we the trendsetters of America. we make America hot because we produce the most. but yall say we ain't got no culture.

  • @RDale-
    @RDale- Před 5 lety +26

    I'm ADOS you can thank my people for your benefits

    • @laughingemoji5445
      @laughingemoji5445 Před 5 lety +3

      What benefit ?

    • @mediagoon6910
      @mediagoon6910 Před 5 lety +13

      @@laughingemoji5445 For simply being about to step foot in America, gain citizenship and education. Without our fight in the civil rights era your people wouldn't be able to step a foot in this country so before you talk trash about African Americans learn the history of this Country and what we went thru after slavery.

    • @laughingemoji5445
      @laughingemoji5445 Před 5 lety +1

      @@mediagoon6910 i never been to America but what u said its true

  • @sondrad8163
    @sondrad8163 Před 5 lety +18

    I have never heard any of my African-American friends ever call Africans names.
    Agree there is a separation between Africans and African-Americans because we ARE different. We have different experiences and cultures, we need to respect that and move on.

    • @diouranke
      @diouranke Před 4 lety +1

      Im glad you didn't, but it happens AA can be very ignorant and condescending n cold too and say negative things about Africans

    • @jb3058
      @jb3058 Před 2 lety +1

      It definitely happens, my school is majority AA including me so when I was there I was usually called a “African booty scratcher”

  • @tooswee
    @tooswee Před 5 lety +30

    How in the hell are you going to have foreigners speaking on what African Americans think and feel?
    African Americans know the name of Africa isn't Africa. Africa is name after a socalled white man. Put a brother in that mix.

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 Před 5 lety +4

      Actually the word africa comes from the ancient words Afruika and ifriqiya which where names Egyptians nubians and ancient Tunisian called africa

    • @laughingemoji5445
      @laughingemoji5445 Před 5 lety

      @@tooswee Africa was already called africa long before scipio

    • @tooswee
      @tooswee Před 5 lety +1

      @@laughingemoji5445 I guess it was colonized before the white man arrived there also. You guys hate AA so much that you can't receive any truth from us.
      These people are doing the same thing they did when entering the Motherland before which were acknowledge the Hamites people didn't exist or were salvages running around wild. And now colonizing Africa all over again with an fraction of what they are taken out of there.

    • @tooswee
      @tooswee Před 5 lety +1

      @C S who are you talking to if it me please don't be an internet bully and meet me in person. I will never dog out my people nor African people period.

    • @laughingemoji5445
      @laughingemoji5445 Před 5 lety

      @@tooswee ya it was colonized by black people long before there was any white people and what do u mean salvages running around naked ?

  • @HOBBYMONEY
    @HOBBYMONEY Před 5 lety +20

    I LOVE THAT THEY ALL LOVE THEIR NATURAL HAIR!

  • @pcantan08ify
    @pcantan08ify Před 5 lety +28

    I don’t want to be known as a color it’s elementary. Do we call Koreans yellow, Hispanics orange, or Indians brown/olive 🙄🙄🙄 Europeans found it easy to label something they had no education of and label it as a color.

    • @Dumauch
      @Dumauch Před 5 lety

      Depends on the country

    • @Dumauch
      @Dumauch Před 5 lety

      @@GREATBLACKSHARK Read what was said and read my reply again.

    • @perfectbeat
      @perfectbeat Před 5 lety

      Lol, good point. Hispanics orange. 😋
      Many AAs don't realize that. Words and names do matter.

    • @nkelly5560
      @nkelly5560 Před 5 lety +1

      Exactly. Your american period. The only one who can say they are moreamerican are american indians

    • @nkelly5560
      @nkelly5560 Před 5 lety

      @@mentalandfloss2550 werent ethiopians the only non colonialised

  • @thsikezierkojo4991
    @thsikezierkojo4991 Před 5 lety +29

    i think one of the problem some african american believe african did sold their ancestors or did not come to their rescue and they were abandoned to the most cruel suffering things a human being can experience.there is this feeling that africa did not look out for them like a mother abandon her child,they feel betray by africans.they sold us out or they did not care enough about us to come and save us from this suffering so they are some mistrust there.i think 90% of african american love and want to know about africa

    • @thebridge5483
      @thebridge5483 Před 5 lety +11

      You nailed it, but once you look deeper you’ll know why our people couldn’t come for us they were colonized same as slavery so we were all in bondage

    • @Sav.Age.
      @Sav.Age. Před 5 lety +2

      Whatever be the case, they had no option truly speaking cos the colonizers came already with a determined mind and force so whether Africans sold Africans because of money or power, the others who tried to stop it were killed anyway so yh.. Some did bad, others who were trying to do good got killed.

    • @Cam0933
      @Cam0933 Před 5 lety +8

      No, they sold us for smoked fish and guns. Its documented if you actually look at the history. I could see if everyone died fighting white colonizers but that's not what happened tribes and kingdoms participated in capturing Africans to give to Europeans because they wanted money and other things. Then West Africans specifically Nigerians have the audacity to call us Akatas when they are the reason we are in America. How do you call someone a stray cat (since that's the definition that yall think is less offensive, we will never know the real definition) when you had a hand in shipping us across the ocean.

    • @fruitsarelife148
      @fruitsarelife148 Před 5 lety +1

      That has nothing to do with african americans personally.
      African men just don't give a f about their nation.
      There are slaves in Libya now, who comes to their rescue?
      Right nobody.
      Why, cause the black politicians are corrupt, they don't care, they don't defend anybody, they are selfish.
      That's why Africans come to the white mans land .
      Nick cannon just proved that you guys are Africans. He explained the black male leadership psychology.
      Blacks have no leadership.
      They have patriarchy but no men.

    • @thsikezierkojo4991
      @thsikezierkojo4991 Před 5 lety

      @alanbev give me one name?

  • @alfonsom8286
    @alfonsom8286 Před 5 lety +19

    The tall lady was very condescending and had very little positive to say about American decendents of slaves.
    The problem she has is within herself not someone else.
    In contrast, the other young lady said exactly what our challenges are. She stated that we have not learned about each other, the fact is no Africans in the Diaspora know of each other's history. African Americans don't know the history of Afro Brazilians, Afro Brazilians don't know the history of Jamaicans, Jamaicans don't know the history of ugandans, Ethiopians don't know the history of African latinos in Mexico...etc.
    We need to start a movement to encourage travel to learn of each other's history and see things with our own eyes , that will be a monumental influence in changing our perception of each other.

  • @bthunder9292
    @bthunder9292 Před 5 lety +30

    I wanna apologize to our People akrozz the water. I love you and I am You

  • @whutha
    @whutha Před 5 lety +50

    Stop referring to ADOS (American Descendant Of Slaves) as AKATA's.

    • @thulasmash2195
      @thulasmash2195 Před 4 lety +6

      Stop calling yourselves Niggas too. You cant accept a derogatory term and be offended by another.

    • @JayPeaa
      @JayPeaa Před 3 lety

      stop calling yourself a slave 🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @whutha
      @whutha Před 3 lety

      @@susansue6531 Phuqq that, context is King, and which the context I saw the word use towards #ADOS was in a separatist, derogatory, degrading elitist way towards us. I'm not having it, no ma'am.

    • @whutha
      @whutha Před 3 lety

      @@susansue6531 Akátá is a word believed to be derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria in West Africa Africa. The term is used among Nigerians and other West Africans in the United States to refer to African Americans, similar to the term oyinbo used for whites. The word Akata means Panther in Yoruba language.

    • @stephenogbuabia2293
      @stephenogbuabia2293 Před 3 lety

      @@whutha Akata is not even derogatory as I have read a lot of people say. And moreover, not even all Nigerians will know what the word, Akata means, if you are not resident in Lagos and you are not Yoruba, chances are you may not have heard that word.

  • @AJENKINS1920
    @AJENKINS1920 Před 5 lety +9

    As African American...more n more of African Americans are moving out of American and moving to Ghana....over 25000,00 AFRICAN Americans are living in Ghana

    • @satura4113
      @satura4113 Před 5 lety

      that's some dumb shit, why on earth would you leave your OWN land to go and live in foreign one?

    • @alfredbaxter1061
      @alfredbaxter1061 Před 5 lety

      @@satura4113 because america is racist and they don't treat us right and trying built connect to the mother land

    • @satura4113
      @satura4113 Před 5 lety +1

      @@alfredbaxter1061 your motherland is America and not Africa. You are in your own land and you are colonised and they lied to you and told you came from Africa. Fight for you land and don't run because the foreigners are going over there to replace you.

    • @alfredbaxter1061
      @alfredbaxter1061 Před 5 lety

      @@satura4113 America is are land but are ancestors came from there we need connect with africa reason why other countries doing it Africa have resources and other countries taking there resources like China Europe american.

    • @alfredbaxter1061
      @alfredbaxter1061 Před 5 lety

      @@satura4113 yeah America is colonize so is africa they are too

  • @smudgedontjudge2444
    @smudgedontjudge2444 Před 4 lety +11

    We are one I was born in America but I’m still a proud African and am still learning my roots❤️❤️❤️

    • @shaylanewlife
      @shaylanewlife Před 2 lety +1

      And your beautiful too 😍

    • @Isinforblood
      @Isinforblood Před rokem

      Not all black Americans unless ur unmixed 💀💀

  • @passionova0868
    @passionova0868 Před 5 lety +12

    I received my African name when I visit Ghana 2018 August MaMi Ama Adorkor Kosiwah
    I visit Cape Coast nd Elmina Castle where I learned so much history nd very emotional for me being there I felt the spirits of my Ancestors 💕
    Just that moment nd that strong spiritual feeling I knew I was a AFRICAN😘 my ancestors akaawaba me home
    I will Return back 2019 December for Christmas in Ghana 🙆😍
    I will do my DNA ANCESTRY before I return back
    I LOVE THE MOTHERLAND 💜 #MyRoots 💛

  • @Dantor1990
    @Dantor1990 Před 5 lety +15

    I don't understand the part where African Americans do not want to hear, they are Africans.For example, on an employment application in the ethnicity part , it says African American.

  • @donovanevans3478
    @donovanevans3478 Před 5 lety +7

    As A African American I'm glad that my African cousins from the continent are having this type of dialogue so that both sides can learn from each other and Heal all the pain,and trauma that both sides suffered from the past.❤🌎🌍

  • @geestreet
    @geestreet Před 5 lety +7

    I love this video. As a AA I feel this type of dialogue creates more opportunities for African and AA to be united. Let’s talk and let’s create unity.

  • @AButterflyinChrist
    @AButterflyinChrist Před 5 lety +8

    The reason why I don’t want to just be called African is because I wasn’t born in Africa and because my ancestors have done a lot in America to gain their freedom, to gain their rights, to keep their dignity, to fight for their family and generations to come. This country was built off of the backs of my Ancestors (literally). I have absolutely no problem claiming African American. But I can’t just call myself African. I am a DOS! And I am proud of t!
    And See but I don’t know about this because a lot of Africans come over here (America) despising African Americans, they don’t like us (I’ve been told by African friends) but all smiles and giggles for the white man and his family. I’ve seen this plenty of times so Wode Amaya Talk about this too please.

    • @AButterflyinChrist
      @AButterflyinChrist Před 5 lety +1

      Neo Kaidu No that’s your friends! I’ve personally seen Africans being rude to African Americans and being much nicer and more pleasant to the white man. Y’all treat them with more respect than African Americans, for some reason. Y’all come over here being rude to us and looking down on us and then having the nerve to talk trash! Don’t tell me it’s not true because I have African friends and they tell me truth about what their parents say about black people, they believe the stereotype and are brainwashed. It’s pretty clear but you can’t see it because you’re not in our shoes.

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 Před 5 lety +1

      @D.E. Booker Africans contributed more to the world than any other humans sit down boy and fuck the USA africans owes yall nothing your country and its allies lives of African resources they owe the continent over trillions of dollars and its not Africans fault that black Americans don't do shit in school and born on welfare u guys complained about africans doing better than yall yet instead of working yall listen to rap music smoke steal killed other people does black on black crimes remind you anything ?

    • @AButterflyinChrist
      @AButterflyinChrist Před 5 lety +3

      Neo Kaidu You are proving that point that Africans are racist toward African Americans, thank you! And what you need to do is tell your Africans, since they are so great, to stay in their country and fight to make sure that Asians don’t take over. Asians are taking over Africa and y’all dumbasses are licking their asses while they do it 😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾 you idiots let Asians come to your land and build their military base on it! Africans think they are doing it to help them but they are to take over Africa. My question is if Africa is so great why are y’all running over here?

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 Před 5 lety

      @@AButterflyinChrist lol africans don't want to live in Africa ? Where's your evidence for your bullshit theres more whites in africa than theres Africans in the USA and Europe combined And there's barely 2 million africans in USA compared to the 1.2 billion africans in Africa trust me the majority of africans don't want to live the continent so your already lying and Asian taking over the continent ? For once stop believing everything your media tells u and also u guys are the most racists people i ever met when i was living in the usa yall where so racists to me and my friends all because we were africans, jaimacans, and Haitians not once did the Mexicans whites and Asians ever said any racist shit to us they didn't cared that we where different and as for your comment on africans Americans being stronger than any other group of black people lol thats wrong Central African Bantus and Massai warriors are the strongest i would love to see an african American taking on a herd of lions leopards and crocodiles and survive and i love how u guys think whenever a foregein black succede in the USA was because the struggle of african Americans that is sometimes true and sometimes wrong Africans succeed everywhere in the world especially Europe so do tell me do they own their achievement to black Americans there too ?and how about when black folks succede in Brazil China Australia the middle East Japan New Zealand and every other countries. Thats not the USA was it because the struggle black Americans that cause all of this ? And also theres barely few Asians in my country u guys probally think Africa is country lmao liers will be liers

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 Před 5 lety

      @D.E. Booker me and my family feed ourselfs we have 4 gardens full of fruits grains and all other vegetables and 1 small farm with 44 chickens 2 goats 5 cows and not everbody in Africa is hungry dude and Africa accomplish and gift to the world is music science arts written languages mathematics astronomy Medicines the foundation of civilizations migrations architectures and many more we are the alpha and the omegas we are the birth giver of the human race no other human accomplish beats this

  • @celestinananaama6884
    @celestinananaama6884 Před 5 lety +20

    U are doing a great job ...u are such a hard worker African-American one great people❤

    • @evanking0588
      @evanking0588 Před 5 lety +2

      Thank you for the compliment as a African-American I appreciate that African people are wonderful and rich people we need to come together and unite I love my African brothers and sisters

    • @celestinananaama6884
      @celestinananaama6884 Před 5 lety +2

      Yh true

    • @silvercole9291
      @silvercole9291 Před 5 lety +1

      😎😎😎👏👏👏👍👍👍

  • @Ga090774
    @Ga090774 Před 5 lety +35

    I am kind of offended by this video. You have a panel talking about African American, Black Americans, Afro Americans. Non of you are any of those. So let me educate my African Kings and Queens...........First off African booty Scratcher was a kid dis from back in the 80s. No one says that anymore. I was shocked you even brought that up.

    • @000lowkey
      @000lowkey Před 5 lety +2

      Sanchez Clark wooowwww me too!!! I ain’t hear that since elementary & I’m 44! Nobody say that anymore.

    • @ricardoholloway3494
      @ricardoholloway3494 Před 5 lety

      Yes african Americans should be represented so they set the record straight esp if the african /african Americans are conscious

    • @ricardoholloway3494
      @ricardoholloway3494 Před 5 lety +1

      Tribalism is dangerous

    • @d.k.overton5531
      @d.k.overton5531 Před 5 lety

      RONNIE, THIS MADE MY DAY, RONNIE NIGGA YOU STUPID!!!!!!!!LOL, LMBAO, HAHAHAHAHAAAA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHA

    • @sunnyedaize1262
      @sunnyedaize1262 Před 5 lety +1

      It hasn't died. My 2nd grader just told me she heard a brown boy say it to another brown boy at school last week. The only place he could've gotten that from is home.
      I've also spoken with Africans who were subject to that insult and still hold some resentment from it, the implications and how they couldn't understand why other kids who descended from Africans were using it against them when they were expecting acceptance.

  • @NatHenrickClarke
    @NatHenrickClarke Před 5 lety +12

    based on what they're saying, they shouldnt get mad about the term ADOS

    • @laughingemoji5445
      @laughingemoji5445 Před 5 lety

      This are continental africans they don't know anything called Ados

  • @tammyjohnson4414
    @tammyjohnson4414 Před 5 lety +51

    Hmm I don't know about this one. It seems to me that Africans are so quick to jump down our throat for wanting to be called African American/Black. Is it wrong for me being proud of where I come from as much as so be it to you? I'm from America and same as many generations of my family(as to how I got here is another story) and so that makes me an African American. Me wanting to be labeled as an African American has nothing to do with Africa and the stereotypes and that there of. It has everything to do with where I'm from and where I was born. So stop telling us how/what we feel about it when you don't know anything. I won't blame society because at the end of the day you can have a robotic mind or a mind of your own to find the truth. To be honest I have many African friends but there is also a lot of them here who look their nose down on us and are very very rude.

    • @hasanicarter5543
      @hasanicarter5543 Před 5 lety +4

      Tammy Johnson hey 👋🏿
      I’m a Genealogist (Family History Tree Maker):
      If you have taken an AncestryDNA (www.AncestryDNA.com) test, you may also be able to find your biological, genetically “Blood” related living Africa-born Family Members.
      This is a guide to finding possible African DNA matches... on Ancestry.com/DNA. I wrote this some time ago, and posted it to FB.
      If you are Afro-Caribbean, African American, Afro-Latina/o, or Afro-European, and have taken an AncestryDNA test via Ancestry.com...
      In this post I outline three strategies for searching for Africa-born relatives, among your “DNA matches”, on AncestryDNA (www.AncestryDNA.com; www.Ancestry.com/DNA)
      You know what’s really neat...?
      There is also a current movement, within the African American community/continental African community, of taking DNA test, such as www.AncestryDNA.com / www.23andme.com, in an effort to find out not only “how much African” is in us...
      But for Continental Africans to find family members, who were taken from their families via the TransAtlantic Slave Trades, who are today, their biological Relatives (albeit 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th cousins); and vice versa for those in the “multigenerational” African Diaspora...to find their biological Africa-born Relatives...from the Families, across the African continent, their Ancestors were taken from.
      1) One way to find many of your African matches, if you or your parents, grandparents...or other AncestryDNA tested relatives, is:
      tracingafricanroots.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/how-to-find-those-elusive-african-dna-matches-on-ancestry-com/
      As a result, many families from across cultures and continents are reintegrating each other, into their lives/families...etc. trips are being made, back home in Africa, amongst the African Americans who can... to visit their Africa-born family( in cities and villages), from Senegal to Mozambique. Many are taking traditional African names, in naming ceremonies, across not only Africa...but across the United States, in ceremonies that often have Continental African dignitaries, Chiefs, and other forms of royalty, from the community of the Naming...presiding over the ceremonies. All while members of each respective African community represented...celebrate the “coming home” of sorts. It really is a beautiful thing to watch, in the moment.
      One such organization that does this, every year... is a Nigerian organization called ‘Council of Igbo States in America’ “www.cisandiigbo.com” in partnership with ‘dnaTestedAfricans’ “www.dnaTestedAfricans.org”
      2) A second strategy is to type into the search box, different African countries, seeing who pops up, and looking at their DNA compositions, to see the likelihood of them being born on the continent.
      3) Another strategy to see if you have any Africa-born cousins, would be to figure out how many pages of DNA matches you have, then work your way backward, going through each DNA match individually, looking for African sounding, Portuguese, or Spanish names... looking at the DNA composition ( All African DNA; African DNA +Iberian; African DNA+ Middle Eastern DNA and/or + Iberian. It’s Its from Madagascar, look for Southeastern Bantu DNA +Southeast Asian... etc)

    • @Blakberi73
      @Blakberi73 Před 5 lety +7

      Tammy Johnson thank you. African born vs African diasporan will not change the injustices we all face from White supremacy. Get to know each other and be open minded when it comes to Africans and African Americans.

    • @StudioArtFX
      @StudioArtFX Před 5 lety

      @@hasanicarter5543 This sounds pretty interesting, though I am not entirely sure I believe in all this stuff.

    • @hasanicarter5543
      @hasanicarter5543 Před 5 lety +1

      StudioArtFX
      Lol skepticism is healthy.
      I would like to add though, as a testament to the power of these autosomal test...
      last year we finally found my Mom’s oldest sister, whom my Grandmother gave up for adoption, in 1942 (raped by her uncle), to a white family, who moved her from Ohio to NY. All thanks to these DNA test.

    • @StudioArtFX
      @StudioArtFX Před 5 lety +1

      @@hasanicarter5543 This aspect of DNA I know and understand. If you have enough information, for example, a father and a son, you can find other long lost brothers who came from that same father. That's matching.
      Finding where someone's ancestors came from 500, or more, years ago, though is completely impossible, as DNA has no relation to geography.

  • @secoyaallen
    @secoyaallen Před 5 lety +13

    I'm not African-American.... I'm an African born in America! #PanAfrican

  • @nanaesio.nyarkoh2858
    @nanaesio.nyarkoh2858 Před 5 lety +13

    Love the natural hair!

  • @garlandowls1134
    @garlandowls1134 Před 5 lety +13

    I only heard "African booty scratcher" twice, one during my junior year in high school and the other from the movie Boyz in tha Hood."

    • @SlugSage
      @SlugSage Před 5 lety

      And what the hell does it even mean? Lol

    • @FatimaahConteh
      @FatimaahConteh Před 3 lety

      Oh really? I was called "african booty scratcher" and "kunta" throughout elementary and junior high. Was not a good experience, grew up in D.C.

    • @eggshell99
      @eggshell99 Před 3 lety

      You shouldn’t generalize people for something done in grade school, middle school.

    • @FatimaahConteh
      @FatimaahConteh Před 3 lety

      @@eggshell99 never generalized just stated my experience growing up in my neighborhood. I hv friends from all different backgrounds

  • @MarkusInTheMixNow
    @MarkusInTheMixNow Před 5 lety +14

    Honestly, i don't think there is much difference between Afrikans and Afrikan Americans because white people are just as present THERE as they are HERE, if not physically, then they are IMPLICATED in everything else, from economic structure (Capitalism) to religion (Christianity). Even the clothing styles of many Afrikans is western, with some exceptions (the women seem to embrace Afrikan styles MORE than the men).

    • @gotcha9934
      @gotcha9934 Před 5 lety

      Wrong. The white man has nothing to do with it. The culture has everything to do with it

    • @MarkusInTheMixNow
      @MarkusInTheMixNow Před 5 lety

      @@gotcha9934 PEOPLE create culture, and they are impacted by OTHER PEOPLE, and this impact can be seen in their cultural ways and habits. Capitalism, for example, is NOT an Afrikan economic system but a European one, yet its global existence shows us how white people are implicated in our economic lives. But you seem to be convinced that i'm wrong, which means you can't be persuaded, even with facts. But i do appreciate your comment. I'll give you the last word if you like. If not that's kool too. Peace.

  • @ahmedosman2549
    @ahmedosman2549 Před 5 lety +38

    am so glad to be the first to comment tonight
    From somali horn of african east africa
    ❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹proud to be AFRICAN

    • @leonardorjioffor6683
      @leonardorjioffor6683 Před 5 lety

      Thanks bro....

    • @oppongkwasi4912
      @oppongkwasi4912 Před 5 lety +1

      Woria wafianta

    • @vladdracula9903
      @vladdracula9903 Před 5 lety

      @@oppongkwasi4912 😂 😂 👏

    • @fjellyo3261
      @fjellyo3261 Před 5 lety +3

      Why are you proud of something you can't choose? Nothing I am proud of. It just happened.

    • @ritaasante8514
      @ritaasante8514 Před 5 lety +1

      Keep on updating us the different between African American still some people don't understand Nice video keep it up brok Aya Mayaaaa

  • @ms.powell5901
    @ms.powell5901 Před 5 lety +15

    Why would he interview non "Black Americans" about who we are? This is some real dump mess🤬

    •  Před 5 lety +7

      These panels always do this. They have Africans speaking on behalf of Black Americans. One sided .

  • @frytime_media2311
    @frytime_media2311 Před 5 lety +3

    Great conversation!! I wish there was at least one African American to share their experience in the cypher but still this was fun to watch and learn

  • @AJENKINS1920
    @AJENKINS1920 Před 5 lety +17

    It would be nice for you to interview African Americans living in Ghana

    • @tashapearl4553
      @tashapearl4553 Před 5 lety +1

      Check out his interview with fellow youtuber Nativeborn...I'm subscribed there also. Nativeborn is African American and he lives in Ghana with his family.

    • @nbkhafula8381
      @nbkhafula8381 Před 5 lety

      Fjelloy 32! Should different shades of Brown and different shades of Pink! That's the closest I get. I might be colour blind, but Man you are on cue! Big up to you

    • @k.5425
      @k.5425 Před 5 lety

      He has. NativeBorne. They have a channel

  • @peggyroyster3759
    @peggyroyster3759 Před 5 lety +19

    In my opinion Africans born people can not explain the ways or thinking of African Americans our history and struggle are totally different. As an African American women don't get it twisted some of us like myself is very well educated about the African Continent and have travel outside of America. Here in America we have Blacks University and Black professors. In my opinion it is the African people who know little about African Americans ways or the hidden history of what part the Africans play in the slave trade. In the end we are all Black people born and raised in different part of the world.

    • @Opinion_Box82
      @Opinion_Box82 Před 3 lety +2

      African Americans are not the only group of people with struggles....

    • @isobangman8728
      @isobangman8728 Před 2 lety

      @@Opinion_Box82 But yet y’all are on our case. Why not make a video black people from South America or the UK why are we always the hot topic?

    • @soumilyarlagadda9764
      @soumilyarlagadda9764 Před 2 lety

      @@isobangman8728 they dont fucking complain rven though they go through much more than you

    • @isobangman8728
      @isobangman8728 Před 2 lety

      @@soumilyarlagadda9764 you don’t know what we go through

    • @shaylanewlife
      @shaylanewlife Před 2 lety +1

      @@Opinion_Box82 Exactly 💯

  • @jeanermilus2125
    @jeanermilus2125 Před 5 lety +16

    Haiti is the only country in america who kept africain héritage.

    • @thekalamerchant
      @thekalamerchant Před 5 lety

      Not Brazil?

    • @liveinwisdom3610
      @liveinwisdom3610 Před 5 lety +1

      Not true..maybe it's the closest,but they language and names have French ties.

    • @jeanermilus2125
      @jeanermilus2125 Před 5 lety

      Yes. Is true have been to Haiti?

    • @williebrown4266
      @williebrown4266 Před 5 lety

      And it shows.

    • @traceyholland9882
      @traceyholland9882 Před 5 lety

      Not completely true, they still French, but many Afro-latinos have kept a lot of their culture, the people of San Basilio de Plalenque in Columbia, have been isolated for 400 years, and have matained their African culture and their own language.

  • @DoubleMM70
    @DoubleMM70 Před 5 lety +5

    The tall women has a lot of knowledge. I want her to know even though we were slaves no matter our plight we made big strides (African Americans). As slaves and as freemen we built America. Imagine what we could do on the continent we came from.

  • @stelfranckk2678
    @stelfranckk2678 Před 5 lety +17

    Who loves África you are well come! Who don't Stay Away Is so simple.

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 Před 5 lety +1

      @brwnish eyes lol what payback ? What harm did africans ever do to u ?

    • @Jjj-qe9ph
      @Jjj-qe9ph Před 5 lety +1

      brwnish eyes don't even respond. Knew he was white when he said "cunt"😂 that's like the highest insult for them, and that literally means nothing to us🙄😂 disregard the colonizer. 😂😂

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 Před 5 lety

      @@Jjj-qe9ph plenty black british used the word cunt its like the B word over there in the UK

  • @huslleonjuid2981
    @huslleonjuid2981 Před 5 lety +3

    Much Love Mr.Wode Maya

  • @myafreeton1694
    @myafreeton1694 Před 5 lety +8

    Wasn't it an "African-American" who popularized the ethnonym, African American???

  • @bethonetwo
    @bethonetwo Před 5 lety +5

    I prefer to be called Black American.

  • @AkosuaFire
    @AkosuaFire Před 5 lety +8

    When people ask me , I say im African born in america. I dont like being called African American. I also like being called Black. Without the “american” part....

    • @michaelclayton3114
      @michaelclayton3114 Před 5 lety +2

      I feel the same .

    • @Feeglio
      @Feeglio Před 5 lety +1

      you are a aghanian by name 😍😍😍

    • @QueenMaatNegonYah
      @QueenMaatNegonYah Před 5 lety +1

      I feel the same way sistar. And to make it even more authentic I use the spelling of Afrakan that way to signify the "Ra" and "Ka" evoking the power of the ancestors. Ra=sun Ka=elevated. I love being Afrakan all day!

  • @ZachVanHarrisJR
    @ZachVanHarrisJR Před 5 lety +7

    *if you are African, and someone calls you African American or Black American, does that offend you?* 🤔

    • @Opinion_Box82
      @Opinion_Box82 Před 3 lety

      Yes ...because black Americans don't like to be called African too...

    • @locojazz5770
      @locojazz5770 Před 3 lety +1

      Nah. It’ll be a privilege to be called African without anyone belittling or dismissing my truth.

    • @ZachVanHarrisJR
      @ZachVanHarrisJR Před 3 lety +1

      @@Opinion_Box82 speaking in general or is this a monolithic statement from Black Americans presented at United Nations or something?

    • @ZachVanHarrisJR
      @ZachVanHarrisJR Před 3 lety +1

      @@locojazz5770 peace and one love family ✌🏾❤️ 👑

  • @jerkin2200
    @jerkin2200 Před 5 lety +2

    I'm black American. I go by that term not to disrespect Africans.. I've never been there but my culture life family generations have been on US soil. My citizenship is in USA. MY connection to africa IS through lineage LOOONNG time ago. That's it that's all. BLACK AMERICAN. respect that!

  • @Mooshnick
    @Mooshnick Před 5 lety

    This was a good start with the conversation bro. WE may have to connect on my podcast show to really get deep into perspectives of all that was mentioned. I am planning to visit. I wished I had known about the movement happening in September of 2018, I would have taken my money at the time and set for a visit...and by now moving to Africa. All in good time and Gods time. Thank you again for this ...looking forward to hearing more perspectives. One thing I will say is that the education system and motion picture industry has done a real job on not informing the masses but if you're as open and curious as I have been over the years...Knowledge of self ...and Knowledge of ancestors comes from within...one just need to believe this...and no one can tell you any different. Peace & Love.

  • @taxpayer9546
    @taxpayer9546 Před 5 lety +21

    AA women here w/ unfortunate yet true experience in "African" braid shops. The exclusion towards me was honestly no different than that from I got in Asian nail salon.

    • @taxpayer9546
      @taxpayer9546 Před 5 lety +4

      Khiaa Nolan, thank you very much. I only made attempt to support community but now braid my own hair and trim my own nails.

    • @michaelclayton3114
      @michaelclayton3114 Před 5 lety +1

      Then the hateful people who own the braid shop # 1 if they hate like that they won't do a good job . # 2 they can just do like they do in Japan - post a blue or red sticker outside the building or establishment - I have been in Japan and have seen it .# 3 If they are that cold , no way in hell I would go back in there . You only came to get braids it's not like your'e the Reverend Jim Jones or somebody .

    • @michaelclayton3114
      @michaelclayton3114 Před 5 lety +3

      That would have definitely set me off .I wouldn't go back in there if I were you . I would find another location . You owe them nothing . You show up in good spirits only to have a black mf from over seas screw up your day . A bad attitude leads to less money .

    • @ussuperprints1821
      @ussuperprints1821 Před 5 lety

      Its not you personally..its what you represent. The things you think are ok .. Is not ok everywhere else . for example African Americans love homosexuals

    • @taxpayer9546
      @taxpayer9546 Před 5 lety

      US Superprints, you're out of bounds. Please don't speak as if you know me. Where did homosexuality ever come into this discussion?

  • @atum6
    @atum6 Před 3 lety +3

    Black Americans have a very rich culture. I’m tired of hearing that. We are a strong people. Leave black Americans alone. We live day to day just like every one else on this planet.

  • @eastafrika728
    @eastafrika728 Před 5 lety

    Nice video, good to see the building bridges initiative is moving strong.

  • @kimberleewilliams1209
    @kimberleewilliams1209 Před 5 lety +3

    I was born and live in the US🇺🇸 and I am a African American 😀 I am a descendent from Africa where all Blacks are from ☺️

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Před 5 lety

      lol

    • @cpewitte27
      @cpewitte27 Před 4 lety +1

      @@WODEMAYA Can you explain what is funny about her comment?

  • @dreislife693
    @dreislife693 Před 5 lety +35

    Being an African American 1 thing family from the continent will not understand is how we have no history and how that effected us. Everything was stripped from us we don't have a connection to anything and we're treated as undesirables by everyone. We as Americans have our culture differences with Africa by being raised as Americans but many of us love Africa and it hurts when africans come over and look at us as shit because of what they see on tv and im sure Africans feel the same. I have a few African friends and they tell me their parents tell them not to marry or bring an American girl home and vice versa. But I agree with the video having social media has really opened a lot of Americans eyes to the real Africa and not just what we saw on national geographic. Over the last 2 days I've watched about all your videos and love it I'm learning from them as well keep up the good work and I'll be hitting the continent some time late this year or early next year.

    • @dxelson
      @dxelson Před 5 lety +7

      Truth be told most African Americans are just as or even more ignorant than white Americans in issues about Africa lmao. They can barely name 10 countries in Africa, let alone understand it..

    • @brigetteervin2397
      @brigetteervin2397 Před 5 lety +2

      I can assure you that, Africans do not know anything about your pain until you see us and you start talking down to us. Thanks to God bcos of social media AA have seen that we live well and not sick and lacking food like we were portrayed years ago.

    • @whatsgood8452
      @whatsgood8452 Před 5 lety +2

      dxelson I understand what’s going on in Africa and I. can name more than10 countries and what they speak

    • @sexumsolo
      @sexumsolo Před 5 lety +3

      This is exactly what I'm saying while watching this video. I don't know who they are talking to but we don't have a problem with our brothers and sisters from the Mother Land but they seem to have an issue with us...

    • @whatsgood8452
      @whatsgood8452 Před 5 lety +1

      Jesse Ward yeah see all black Americans can’t speak on other black Americans they probably lived in a white neighborhood before they went to Ghania

  • @tootallmccall6040
    @tootallmccall6040 Před 5 lety +3

    I was born in South Carolina raised in NC and currently live in New York. I am not African American I classify as African. They can keep the American part because they dont even treat us as they should after building American off our ancestors backs for free. Im a proud, disconnected from the motherland African man.

  • @kevinsabio
    @kevinsabio Před 5 lety +1

    VERY informative, and a great discussion! They made a lot of good points. Respect to these sistas! :-)

  • @christopherbirot4878
    @christopherbirot4878 Před 3 lety +1

    Great conversation!!!African from Trinidad in the house ✊🏿

  • @BadaLogic
    @BadaLogic Před 5 lety +25

    Why are they talking about US? Live ya life. #ADOS #USFirst

  • @rohansimpson9605
    @rohansimpson9605 Před 5 lety +9

    Big up wuda myah one love from jamaica black ppl soon find them away home to moma Africa

  • @sheilamaxwell5303
    @sheilamaxwell5303 Před 5 lety +2

    I’m African American and a person who grew up in the 70’s. I can remember watching National Geographic and the news during this era and saw how Africa was introduced to Americans. It was very negative with stereotypes and what was taught in school as well as today was and is very limited. I have never traveled to Africa but have learned from reading and through my friends that are from different areas of the Continent . I’ve always had a strong connection with African people and have always felt welcomed. I do plan on visiting several areas where I have been given an open arm invitation from my friends in the future. I want to say thank you for the conversation on the subject. If you are African American and want no part being called African with the connection of being American then you are lost and do not understand the struggle of your ancestors or you are ashamed of them because they were sold into slavery. If you are in North America or Caribbean and Latin America and have melanin in your skin; your ancestors have a connection to Africa. Thank you and keep the conversation going.

  • @TRUEGOD78561
    @TRUEGOD78561 Před 5 lety

    Great conversation Wode. Open and honest dialog about Africans in the diaspora, and Africans on the continent. We need more conversations like this so we can get past the divide we have with one another, and move forward together.

  • @SincerePresence
    @SincerePresence Před 5 lety +3

    I LOVE that my family line is from Africa and am so happy stereotypes in the American diaspora is changing amongst our brothers and sisters. You would have to be dead inside to not feel connected. ✊🏾🖤

  • @aboriginalwarrior657
    @aboriginalwarrior657 Před 5 lety +4

    Most of us "African-Americans" been here only 300,000 came on slave ships about 85 to 90% been here

    • @laughingemoji5445
      @laughingemoji5445 Před 5 lety +1

      U sound stupid ever heard of populations growth ? Africa population during slavery in the 1600to1800s was 300 million now its 1.3 billion same could be said for Brazil during slavery the slave population was 5 million now its over 60 millions

    • @handykneegrow5123
      @handykneegrow5123 Před 5 lety

      Armed Ninja how can population grow when majority of the slaves were men and most women died before they got here? So out of 300k 100k died and most that died were women....we not african dumass

    • @diouranke
      @diouranke Před 3 lety

      Yes, most the others were sent to Latin America and the Caribbean islands, after awhile the number of Africans increased naturally in usa, so they didn't have to keep bringing in "bossal" (new Africans) Slavery in places like Brazil, Haiti etc. mortality rate was much higher

  • @jamescobb5709
    @jamescobb5709 Před 5 lety +1

    We love yall in the motherland.From San Antonio TX USA we'll see yall soon.

  • @walkinthewoods981
    @walkinthewoods981 Před 5 lety +19

    I love these conversations but I do wish an "African-American" woman was a part of this. I truly believe that most African-Americans love learning about Africa. There's no continent that I want to travel to more. Just being human, we remember negative experiences more. For example, I've had biracial or light skin black people tell me that I look African. They say it as an insult and are surprised when I say, Thank you!" In Namibia, some African girls were assumed that I wouldn't know as much as I know about different African countries. However, the majority of my experiences with African people have been positive. We have to start there, from the positive. There's no continent I want to experience more.

  • @MirikaCOfficially
    @MirikaCOfficially Před 5 lety +18

    Ohhhh, this conversation is so loaded that it would take hours and hours to complete.😂😂 The discussion gave me all types of emotions honestly, from happiness to sadness and then anger and then back to numb and all over again.
    Because I like the channel, I listened. Any other channel, I would have scrolled by the topic because it transcends anything that can be expressed in words. You just have to understand. We just have to understand. It’s difficult and yet easy on so many levels. It’s exhausting.
    I personally let it go because of how exhausting.😂 It’s pulling through past generations of madness that, like the young lady sitting next to you, Wode Maya, said.... the history and knowledge about AAs isn’t taught to Africans and African history we have always had to pull and dig for over here.
    Tho ppl hate to say it, but slavery broke soooo much. It’s exhausting on the heart and mind. Like I said, I let it go, not in a bad way but a freeing way. I accept who I am and where I was born and raised-period. I don’t need a “TIE” to somewhere anymore. All my life I literally tried to find something that I will NEVER find, and as soon as I accepted that it would never be found, I was at rest.
    Being African American has never been a diss to Africa, but an acceptance of where a kinfolk I will never know is from and at the same time an acceptance of the culture, abilities and things I love and know being an American with the kinfolk that I do know and love buried in this soil and those still living right here in the USA. We built this land. It’s mine. That’s how I feel. It’s not a sin to feel this way just like it isn’t a sin to say I also love Africa at the same time.
    I have all the dynamics in myself to make it possible... to literally love two lands and people at once, be angry at the injustices in two lands at once and feel like I have every right to do so, defend two lands at once. I am two lands at once. The problem comes in when ppl try and “ONLY” or “SOLELY” this thing down. It can’t be done.
    We are who we are. We don’t have to just be one thing because we aren’t. We can come and go to and from Africa, but home is home... and EVERY country has its racial issues, financial woes, ghettos and castles, crime and etc just like America.
    As far as not knowing “our culture” as black ppl, (something I have heard)I feel that’s bull. We do what we do here based on what we grew up doing... the same as anyone in Africa, Japan etc. To me it’s a slap in the face and disrespectful to say AAs don’t know their culture because it is saying “y’all need to change AGAIN” like something is wrong with us or something. I feel like Africans who grew up in Africa do what they do and that’s that. I do what I do having grown up in both Europe and America, and that’s that. Nothing is WRONG with either.
    I dunno😂😂 It’s just soooo freaking much until, I let it all go. I take INDIVIDUALS as they are and don’t lump ppl into one big mound.
    Hello, I’m me. We are the same but grew up vastly different. How are you? 😂😂 Let’s go have some fun. It’s an easier conversation.
    Good video, Wode Maya. My whole day is busted now. I can’t wait to hit the bed.

    • @BeautyInYOU583
      @BeautyInYOU583 Před 5 lety +2

      Well said sista. -California American here..

    • @MirikaCOfficially
      @MirikaCOfficially Před 5 lety

      Ericalane B Okay now, sis! SouthEast Coast over here!❤️

    • @bobbyfatitv1787
      @bobbyfatitv1787 Před 5 lety +4

      MirikaCOfficially sister I’m african from the continent,, I do understand your point,, but believe me is gonna be ok ,, I have never been to America,, I live in Spain I have met a lot of african american over here but I get long with them ,,I don’t know where these things came from ,, I mean the tensions,, in my country in Guine Bissau when I was younger my English teacher was an african American brother,, he was loved back home ,, he was just one of us ,, to this day he still live there ,, married with local with 2 kids ,, I mean unity is coming. Blessings to you and your family.❤️❤️❤️!!!

    • @MirikaCOfficially
      @MirikaCOfficially Před 5 lety +3

      little flaver Earl ❤️Blessings right back at you, bruh. Much love to you and yours.

    • @hasanicarter5543
      @hasanicarter5543 Před 5 lety

      I’m a Genealogist (Family History Tree Maker):
      If you have taken an AncestryDNA (www.AncestryDNA.com) test, you may also be able to find your biological, genetically “Blood” related living Africa-born Family Members.
      This is a guide to finding possible African DNA matches... on Ancestry.com/DNA. I wrote this some time ago, and posted it to FB.
      If you are Afro-Caribbean, African American, Afro-Latina/o, or Afro-European, and have taken an AncestryDNA test via Ancestry.com...
      In this post I outline three strategies for searching for Africa-born relatives, among your “DNA matches”, on AncestryDNA (www.AncestryDNA.com; www.Ancestry.com/DNA)
      You know what’s really neat...?
      There is also a current movement, within the African American community/continental African community, of taking DNA test, such as www.AncestryDNA.com / www.23andme.com, in an effort to find out not only “how much African” is in us...
      But for Continental Africans to find family members, who were taken from their families via the TransAtlantic Slave Trades, who are today, their biological Relatives (albeit 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th cousins); and vice versa for those in the “multigenerational” African Diaspora...to find their biological Africa-born Relatives...from the Families, across the African continent, their Ancestors were taken from.
      1) One way to find many of your African matches, if you or your parents, grandparents...or other AncestryDNA tested relatives, is:
      tracingafricanroots.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/how-to-find-those-elusive-african-dna-matches-on-ancestry-com/
      As a result, many families from across cultures and continents are reintegrating each other, into their lives/families...etc. trips are being made, back home in Africa, amongst the African Americans who can... to visit their Africa-born family( in cities and villages), from Senegal to Mozambique. Many are taking traditional African names, in naming ceremonies, across not only Africa...but across the United States, in ceremonies that often have Continental African dignitaries, Chiefs, and other forms of royalty, from the community of the Naming...presiding over the ceremonies. All while members of each respective African community represented...celebrate the “coming home” of sorts. It really is a beautiful thing to watch, in the moment.
      One such organization that does this, every year... is a Nigerian organization called ‘Council of Igbo States in America’ “www.cisandiigbo.com” in partnership with ‘dnaTestedAfricans’ “www.dnaTestedAfricans.org”
      2) A second strategy is to type into the search box, different African countries, seeing who pops up, and looking at their DNA compositions, to see the likelihood of them being born on the continent.
      3) Another strategy to see if you have any Africa-born cousins, would be to figure out how many pages of DNA matches you have, then work your way backward, going through each DNA match individually, looking for African sounding, Portuguese, or Spanish names... looking at the DNA composition ( All African DNA; African DNA +Iberian; African DNA+ Middle Eastern DNA and/or + Iberian. It’s Its from Madagascar, look for Southeastern Bantu DNA +Southeast Asian... etc)

  • @oyahkahyahawadah2392
    @oyahkahyahawadah2392 Před 5 lety +3

    I'm not sorry for typing this but where not African Americans
    Nor descendants of Africans
    My people are in fact Israelites the true Israelites. We know who we are now.

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 Před 5 lety +1

      First yall are Egyptians Romans Aboriginals and Moors and now this ?

  • @mykeal1587
    @mykeal1587 Před 4 lety

    Simply an awesome topic... Keep up the great work... Love it...

  • @univgurl
    @univgurl Před 5 lety

    I’m only one minute in and my African Hearsay About Black Americans BINGO card is completely blacked out.

  • @streetscholar2276
    @streetscholar2276 Před 5 lety +15

    And this is why we created the ADOS tribe...u know lil to nothing about us

    • @gotcha9934
      @gotcha9934 Před 5 lety +1

      A tribe? 😂😂😂😂 it's just a word. Nobody create it's own tribe's

    • @streetscholar2276
      @streetscholar2276 Před 5 lety +4

      @@gotcha9934 all words are just words...let me see...is igbo a tribe and Nigeria the country? Is yuroba a tribe.....no maybe Hausa

    • @gotcha9934
      @gotcha9934 Před 5 lety

      @@streetscholar2276 clear your brain and try again

    • @streetscholar2276
      @streetscholar2276 Před 5 lety +5

      @@gotcha9934 you sound silly.. everything is a creation smh let me get back to my life carry on

    • @gotcha9934
      @gotcha9934 Před 5 lety

      young black dude this isn’t a tribe

  • @clarhck6
    @clarhck6 Před 5 lety +3

    The term African American was a word made up by Jesse Jackson.

  • @sandrabanks2532
    @sandrabanks2532 Před 5 lety

    THANKS, OWDE MAYA...WHAT AN EXCELLENT SESSION. ALL OF YOU WERE ON POINT. I WAS BORN & REARED IN THE USA & MY PARENTS FORTUNATELY HAVE ALWAYS TAUGHT US TO LOVE ALL OF OUR PEOPLE AND OFTEN, I'M SADDEN TO SEE US DISREGARD EACH OTHER, OUT OF IGNORANCE, AS THE OPPRESSORS HAVE TAUGHt US. WE HAVE A COMMON ENEMY AND NEED EACH OTHER. I LIVE IN THE HOUSTON, TX & I'M DELIBERATELY ON A MISSION OF MEDIATING THE UNION OF AFRICANS & DESCENDANTS OF THE ENSLAVED (DOE). I LOVE YOU ALL. YOU SIS, AUNTIE...HALLELUYAH!!!

  • @tracywalker244
    @tracywalker244 Před 5 lety

    Great Video I’m an AA and I’ve been to Ghana looking forward to visiting other countries in Africa, starting with Tanzania and then Senegal etc.

  • @passionova0868
    @passionova0868 Před 5 lety +13

    I'm proud of whom I am AFRICAN AMERICAN 💯💕
    that loves my AFRICAN FAMILY ooo we are all brothers and sisters
    we must UNITE 💞

    • @eugenemotes9921
      @eugenemotes9921 Před 5 lety

      How are you AFRICAN AMERICAN? We're you born there? Do you know any tribal languages? If not. You are not African American, or AFRICAN.

  • @jed_vc5010
    @jed_vc5010 Před 5 lety +3

    I think that over the years the media has portrayed Africa in a negative light so African-Americans do not want to associate themselves with Africa , that's why it is important that people learn about their history and their identity in doing so ... sometimes there is also a double consciousness

  • @vnation4443
    @vnation4443 Před 5 lety

    Weldone bro Maya I really look forward to the future day I'll meet you in person for us to seat in groups like this and talk about AFRICA etc again 👍👍👍

  • @patrickbangura6873
    @patrickbangura6873 Před 5 lety

    WODE MAYA, I feel the love you have for Africa. may the almighty god bless you for what you're doing brother ameen.

  • @PhenoMikal-Onion
    @PhenoMikal-Onion Před 5 lety +4

    I am not African American I’m of Tuscarora and Cherokee Native American. May have African ancestry considering Africa is the birthplace of humanity. I love Africans,food etc. I don’t have a direct connection to Africa!!🙏🏾♥️

    • @ussuperprints1821
      @ussuperprints1821 Před 5 lety

      So why are you commenting and who cares..walk off a cliff so we can all smile :).

    • @aliciamomat7963
      @aliciamomat7963 Před 3 lety

      Then this conversation doesn't concern you , you can research on native Americans ancestors 🤗

    • @PhenoMikal-Onion
      @PhenoMikal-Onion Před 3 lety

      @@aliciamomat7963 wtf are you talking about? It does concern me. We have been stripped of that part of our history, identity etc. what I’m saying is there’s no such thing as an African American. Maybe your headscarf wrapped around your head too tight.

  • @eiffeltower7503
    @eiffeltower7503 Před 5 lety +3

    Thanks for the internet, freedom of information, this has taken such a long time for this connection. It is so exciting. Black people, you have a special light or spirit, that brightens the atmosphere. It was great listening to you all.

  • @TheEtbetween
    @TheEtbetween Před 5 lety

    Thanks for these videos

  • @lynell3566
    @lynell3566 Před 5 lety

    What is Bridgets CZcams Channel name?

  • @myronbriggs1018
    @myronbriggs1018 Před 5 lety +6

    I have never heard in my entire life a black American refer to an African as a booty scratcher, or to Africans living in trees. When Africans who r members of tribal groups refer to themselves by their tribe, no one says that they r trying to separate. We r already separated by centuries, language and a vast ocean. But the Africans in this conversation I feel one with. I’ve met many like this in Africa. In the States however it seems black foreigners tend to have a deep burning hate for black survivors of American Slavery. That said between me and Maya there is very little space. He’s a thoughtful intelligent brother. Unfortunately he’s not representative of the bulk of blacks who have settled in the US recently from the continent and the West Indies.

    • @gotcha9934
      @gotcha9934 Před 5 lety

      Myron Briggs lmao

    • @ussuperprints1821
      @ussuperprints1821 Před 5 lety

      Its because your mentality is fucked up and you don't know it .. You support feminist and gays .. Africans are not going to line up behind that.

  • @ashleydee3872
    @ashleydee3872 Před 5 lety +3

    How can you ask a continental African about what it is to be an African American 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @ReallyGoodHipHop
    @ReallyGoodHipHop Před 5 lety

    Did aaboagye change her IG name? I can't find it

  • @Benyi-Shabah
    @Benyi-Shabah Před 5 lety +1

    Good job young brother.....you're making a difference.