this clip is so powerful! i show it in my course, "ancestral veneration 101." it's so important that Black Christians understand that our ancestors did not simply take on a docile faith...they syncretized their radical, liberative traditions and we can, too!
@@stellaraze3794 not only is it true but it’s a fact. shouting/praise breaking comes from the ring shout which is a hoodoo ritual. “shout” is a Arabic word that was likely coined by our senegambian ancestors. the concept of shuffling in a circle counter-clockwise comes from kongo spirituality,, some churches even still do that to this day. all that speaking in tongues, drumming, laying on hands, *catching the Spirit* etc was shit we was doing in hoodoo rituals &various African spiritualities before that. shit even the prayer circle likely comes from the dikenga (kongo cross) since yt christians dont do that shit,, & even if some of em do now they didnt before we started doing it. everything abt the way we praise the Lord was passed down from the lineage of African traditional religions.
@@HHWC100 a religion that the slaves created/practiced that's a mixture of African religions and some Christianity. It was mostly assimilated into Christianity especially after slavery, but the traditions from the religion are still part of African American culture now so most black people practice it without realizing. Like eating black eyed peas on New Years, jumping the broom at weddings etc.
Hoodoo is a land, Hoodoo is a people, Hoodoo is religion, Hoodoo is medicine for healing, it is also medicine for war and protection. Hoodoo is a way of life that is practiced for staying in alignment with the law and order of nature, which is the same as staying in alignment with all of the Hoodoo Spirits. Hoodoo is a full & complete Spiritual System of the Akan people in North America. It was not just born out of the conditions of slavery it was only adjusted to the new place we found ourselves in. ❤️
I LOOOOVE this documentary b/c it teaches the history of the African/African American religion of where it derived from!!! It is soo important to teach this to OUR people and the young generation; especially the young generation! Many people do not know that the Holy Ghost is derived from the Ring Shout which is why many African Americans have this today! I would loove to know where this video is from! Thank you very much for posting this; will put this on my Facebook status for Black History!
you hit it on the head for me. its something abt the Holy Ghost power that really opens the eyes of a believer. You just get it. You understand the Old Testament map, the purpose of Christ- but the HOLY GHOST is the keeper. That's how it works in my family. My ancestors had the power of the Holy Ghost
Aj PoliMusic I would love to see the entire video. I find it rather refreshing that information has been presented that gives us a glimpse of where our modern day "praise break" derived from
I agree in part with one commentary that said this is "misleading." I would subscribe it as a superficial observation into ring shouting but not African American religion. Interesting enough, there is not one mention of Traditional African Religion (Spirituality) in the video. I don't find this surprising. Too often do we give christianity the glory for inherently African spiritual concepts and ideas. "Shouting" for example is cyclical act that is predicated on multiple parts. Drumming, singing, dancing, hymning as a formula to elevate a higher more keen consciousness. It is African, unequivocally. It is American wholeheartedly. Yet most times it isn't given proper context. Perhaps there is still much work to be done in unveiling the secrets of those sacred Hush Harbors and Backwood Bogs. A thorough and extensive analysis of African Americans outside Christianity would do us great justice.
OMG! I've been looking for that 'So Sweet' song for years & found it completely fortuitously the very night I'd given up hope! There must be a a God somewhere! Thank God for CZcams! =D
OMG!!! this has never been any clearer. give them something to keep them docile. keep them thinking one thing while we do another... life adaptation. do what you gotta do with what you have to do it. omg.... there was no bond. they latched onto an idea. this is insane. this has never been more clear. "things are gonna change, we just have to go through this".... and you don't think they knew slaves would think that? omg. smh. this is so sad. #hook #line #andsinker
I did not agree read it again. However I agree with what u said but Im sayin u have to have knowledge of self too. Believe it or not that jesus shit is holding us back also b/c we place everything on jesus and never do the work for ourselves and hold ourselves accountable. Re legion plays a part. They have given up the fight b/c we believe jesus will do everything for us and become stagnant, some ignorant and lazy. In a sense they are subliminally praising the pastor ne way. Under a spell/gospel
Under no circumstances did I ever imply that the civil war was about white desire to help black people. I never ever mentioned the civil war so I really don't know what you are talking about.
This is the Ancestral Religion of Hoodoo "Syncretized." We knew EXACTLY what we were doing the whole time because we brought this tradition with us across the waters. Hoodoo wasn't new to us, we just had to figure out HOW to practice it in a new environment. Without HOODOO, and our other African Ancestral Religions, that are EQUALLY MPORTANT, we wouldn't have survived as well as we did. 🙏🏽 Hoodoo People or (Ndu) are THE Akan people in North America. Obeah are the Akan people in Jamaica, Winti are the Akan people in Suriname, so on and so forth.
Those ancestral religions are still alive today in many parts of west Africa. And go look at their lives. Many are still chopping and killing each other.
but u said they were in support of us and you said that it was important to know that. Im just saying I personally dont think that is important for us to know. Its more important to know y they were. The real story behind the history
No I did not say "they" I said "many". If you choose to forget people who risked much to stand in support of you in a time when people wouldn't even spit on a black person if they were on fire, that's your ingratitude, not mine.
I dont think thats important to remember at all. We have to do for ourselves when it comes down to it. U should research y lincoln freed the slaves and y they were so called fighting for our freedom b/c most of them didnt give a shit about us.
This is a little misleading........I found some interesting information. Many of the blacks who departed from Africa, left from "the saint louis port" and "Goree island". This area was once the Ancient Kingdom of Ghana, which was ruled by the Za Dynasty and they were Jewish kings. They later converted to Islam. The Ring shout is a derivative of a dance done by the Fulbe of Southern Mauritania. The Saint Louis port is right next to the area known as Futa Toro. They worship like this, not because they accepted the message of White Christianity but they WERE and ARE in fact, Israel.
Mizz Hadassa I see the academia.edu article I'm gathering is your source for the claim about the Za Dynasty being Jewish. However, it's odd to me that it is the ONLY article that seems to advance this claim. I'm wondering why all of the African and African Diasporic scholars have not cited this. (Despite the real suppression of truth, there are PLENTY of pro-African scholars who could co-sign this and I've found nothing yet.) I'm aware of the African presence in the lands of the Bible's Old Testament, including the fact that Jesus himself was an African Jew. But even if we give credence to the Ethiopian tribe that asserts that the Arc of the Covenant rests with them, the masses of Africans who were transported during the Middle Passage were from West Africa--not North or East--and were not practicing Judaism, certainly not in the 16th-19th centuries when they were traded. The ring shout emerges from sub-Saharan (black) African spiritual cultural traditions practiced by enslaved Africans in the US South (most prominently in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia) and Jamaica, West Indies. Scholars and the McIntosh County (Georgia) Ring Shouters themselves have verified the history. Can you provide (other) verification for your claims? By the way, there is a scholar who puts forth a theory that the ring shout originates with enslaved Africans who had been Muslim on the continent and that the counterclockwise movement was taken from rituals involving kaaba. However, since dance is banned in all of the Muslim cultures I know, I'm gathering that this, too, is a fusion of indigenous African spirituality with yet another Abrahamic religion.
Doesn't matter where we come from, what our background is, or our history. The ground at the foot of the cross is level ground, and there is room for all of us to come to Jesus.
![McIntosh County Shouters - 'Spirituals and Shout Songs' [Behind The Scenes Documentary]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fUdBru-7s7w/mqdefault.jpg)
Her Gullah accent sounds a lot like the way we speak in the Caribbean. I closed my eyes and listened to her again, she sounds like one of my aunts.
Yes Gullah is very in touch with their African roots like Caribbeans.
this clip is so powerful! i show it in my course, "ancestral veneration 101." it's so important that Black Christians understand that our ancestors did not simply take on a docile faith...they syncretized their radical, liberative traditions and we can, too!
Christianity didnt give us the “feeling”...we brought the feeling to christianity from hoodoo n African traditional religions
Interesting point I would just add hoodoo was not a pre colonial west African religious belief system it has its origin in North America
We are the spirit of our ancestors. You see these practices in Africa and the Caribbean. It has always been our way to worship.
@@BibleMagick8TV big facts
not true
@@stellaraze3794 not only is it true but it’s a fact. shouting/praise breaking comes from the ring shout which is a hoodoo ritual. “shout” is a Arabic word that was likely coined by our senegambian ancestors. the concept of shuffling in a circle counter-clockwise comes from kongo spirituality,, some churches even still do that to this day. all that speaking in tongues, drumming, laying on hands, *catching the Spirit* etc was shit we was doing in hoodoo rituals &various African spiritualities before that. shit even the prayer circle likely comes from the dikenga (kongo cross) since yt christians dont do that shit,, & even if some of em do now they didnt before we started doing it. everything abt the way we praise the Lord was passed down from the lineage of African traditional religions.
We still ring shout today in my church
Hi! You should record it to document living/culture. If you record please send to me.
@@janetlsackey ok sure how would I send it
@@janetlsackey just look up a praise break
The same at my church.
It the age of information, it's so encouraging to be able to learn more about my gullah heritage
It was Hoodoo. let's never forget that.
say that!
What is hoodoo?
#hoodooheritagemonth
It was spirit, hoodoo majik believes in the all mighty god just worshipped it differently.
@@HHWC100 a religion that the slaves created/practiced that's a mixture of African religions and some Christianity. It was mostly assimilated into Christianity especially after slavery, but the traditions from the religion are still part of African American culture now so most black people practice it without realizing. Like eating black eyed peas on New Years, jumping the broom at weddings etc.
Hoodoo is a land, Hoodoo is a people, Hoodoo is religion, Hoodoo is medicine for healing, it is also medicine for war and protection. Hoodoo is a way of life that is practiced for staying in alignment with the law and order of nature, which is the same as staying in alignment with all of the Hoodoo Spirits. Hoodoo is a full & complete Spiritual System of the Akan people in North America. It was not just born out of the conditions of slavery it was only adjusted to the new place we found ourselves in. ❤️
the ways we continually find it ways to our bodies deeply connect to our liberation. Profound reminder
beautifully interesting. thank you for the upload ;)
i've been tracking down my Gullah roots for years now and thanks to the age of information it is getting so much easier.
Are your roots from South Carolina?
I LOOOOVE this documentary b/c it teaches the history of the African/African American religion of where it derived from!!! It is soo important to teach this to OUR people and the young generation; especially the young generation! Many people do not know that the Holy Ghost is derived from the Ring Shout which is why many African Americans have this today! I would loove to know where this video is from! Thank you very much for posting this; will put this on my Facebook status for Black History!
Ring shout came from the Fulanis who were Muslim.
you hit it on the head for me. its something abt the Holy Ghost power that really opens the eyes of a believer. You just get it. You understand the Old Testament map, the purpose of Christ- but the HOLY GHOST is the keeper. That's how it works in my family. My ancestors had the power of the Holy Ghost
Aj PoliMusic I would love to see the entire video. I find it rather refreshing that information has been presented that gives us a glimpse of where our modern day "praise break" derived from
The holy Ghost is not a part of hoodoo. That is literally from ACTS
I Thank you Sweet Abba!!!
*SIGH* Black people go through so much...
But we still rise.
I love my people.
U do the work as our forefathers did and worked together in unity working as he did he live as an example for us.
my, my, my is all I can say. AMEN
informative, thank you.
I agree in part with one commentary that said this is "misleading." I would subscribe it as a superficial observation into ring shouting but not African American religion. Interesting enough, there is not one mention of Traditional African Religion (Spirituality) in the video. I don't find this surprising. Too often do we give christianity the glory for inherently African spiritual concepts and ideas. "Shouting" for example is cyclical act that is predicated on multiple parts. Drumming, singing, dancing, hymning as a formula to elevate a higher more keen consciousness. It is African, unequivocally. It is American wholeheartedly. Yet most times it isn't given proper context. Perhaps there is still much work to be done in unveiling the secrets of those sacred Hush Harbors and Backwood Bogs. A thorough and extensive analysis of African Americans outside Christianity would do us great justice.
yep! Katrina Hazzard-Donald breaks this down perfectly in her landmark text Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
@@bcom11 Absolutely. Great book! Take care!
This clip doesnt mention none christian tradition, but its probably in a different part of the documentary.
Ase’
OMG! I've been looking for that 'So Sweet' song for years & found it completely fortuitously the very night I'd given up hope! There must be a a God somewhere! Thank God for CZcams! =D
I'm glad no one has "thumbs down" this video.
This aged pretty well with youtube removing the dislike count. =D
Amen
Who is the narrator?? It sounds like Lorraine Toussaint who voices Shadow Weaver in She-Ra
whats the song at 6:30 ?
What program does this video excerpt come from? Can I purchase the entire video somewhere?
I think it's called This by Faith, it may have been on PBS..
What movie is this from?
OMG!!! this has never been any clearer. give them something to keep them docile. keep them thinking one thing while we do another... life adaptation. do what you gotta do with what you have to do it. omg.... there was no bond. they latched onto an idea. this is insane. this has never been more clear. "things are gonna change, we just have to go through this".... and you don't think they knew slaves would think that? omg. smh. this is so sad. #hook #line #andsinker
I LOVE The Gullah.
Wake up Yasharahla the book you water down holds the key!
when does he shout?
it hurts me to see that people like me went through this, although i am african it still hurts me.
does anyone have any citation info on this video?
Sterling Stuckey in his book, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory & the Foundations of Black America (1987, ISBN 0195042654)
can someone tell me what documentary this comes from?
This far by faith on PBS
Yung Meza God
🌸🍯🐝🇺🇸
I did not agree read it again. However I agree with what u said but Im sayin u have to have knowledge of self too. Believe it or not that jesus shit is holding us back also b/c we place everything on jesus and never do the work for ourselves and hold ourselves accountable. Re legion plays a part. They have given up the fight b/c we believe jesus will do everything for us and become stagnant, some ignorant and lazy. In a sense they are subliminally praising the pastor ne way. Under a spell/gospel
Under no circumstances did I ever imply that the civil war was about white desire to help black people. I never ever mentioned the civil war so I really don't know what you are talking about.
This is the Ancestral Religion of Hoodoo "Syncretized." We knew EXACTLY what we were doing the whole time because we brought this tradition with us across the waters. Hoodoo wasn't new to us, we just had to figure out HOW to practice it in a new environment. Without HOODOO, and our other African Ancestral Religions, that are EQUALLY MPORTANT, we wouldn't have survived as well as we did. 🙏🏽 Hoodoo People or (Ndu) are THE Akan people in North America. Obeah are the Akan people in Jamaica, Winti are the Akan people in Suriname, so on and so forth.
Those ancestral religions are still alive today in many parts of west Africa. And go look at their lives. Many are still chopping and killing each other.
All those tribes you’ve mentioned are African
but u said they were in support of us and you said that it was important to know that. Im just saying I personally dont think that is important for us to know. Its more important to know y they were. The real story behind the history
Who's story is real?
No I did not say "they" I said "many". If you choose to forget people who risked much to stand in support of you in a time when people wouldn't even spit on a black person if they were on fire, that's your ingratitude, not mine.
god what a disturbing period of history
I agree, 2020 is awful.
I dont think thats important to remember at all. We have to do for ourselves when it comes down to it. U should research y lincoln freed the slaves and y they were so called fighting for our freedom b/c most of them didnt give a shit about us.
This is a little misleading........I found some interesting information. Many of the blacks who departed from Africa, left from "the saint louis port" and "Goree island". This area was once the Ancient Kingdom of Ghana, which was ruled by the Za Dynasty and they were Jewish kings. They later converted to Islam. The Ring shout is a derivative of a dance done by the Fulbe of Southern Mauritania. The Saint Louis port is right next to the area known as Futa Toro. They worship like this, not because they accepted the message of White Christianity but they WERE and ARE in fact, Israel.
i gave this video the side eye from beginning to end...
Mizz Hadassa well... it was on PBS... y'all really think they would do us justice?
Many left from Nigeria and other West African countries as well.
Mizz Hadassa I see the academia.edu article I'm gathering is your source for the claim about the Za Dynasty being Jewish. However, it's odd to me that it is the ONLY article that seems to advance this claim. I'm wondering why all of the African and African Diasporic scholars have not cited this. (Despite the real suppression of truth, there are PLENTY of pro-African scholars who could co-sign this and I've found nothing yet.)
I'm aware of the African presence in the lands of the Bible's Old Testament, including the fact that Jesus himself was an African Jew. But even if we give credence to the Ethiopian tribe that asserts that the Arc of the Covenant rests with them, the masses of Africans who were transported during the Middle Passage were from West Africa--not North or East--and were not practicing Judaism, certainly not in the 16th-19th centuries when they were traded.
The ring shout emerges from sub-Saharan (black) African spiritual cultural traditions practiced by enslaved Africans in the US South (most prominently in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia) and Jamaica, West Indies. Scholars and the McIntosh County (Georgia) Ring Shouters themselves have verified the history. Can you provide (other) verification for your claims?
By the way, there is a scholar who puts forth a theory that the ring shout originates with enslaved Africans who had been Muslim on the continent and that the counterclockwise movement was taken from rituals involving kaaba. However, since dance is banned in all of the Muslim cultures I know, I'm gathering that this, too, is a fusion of indigenous African spirituality with yet another Abrahamic religion.
@@kristenwilliams8858 He is making this suff futa toro were muslim. The Senegambia region is Muslim. Fulanis and Hausas are Muslim.
Voodun Lite
Doesn't matter where we come from, what our background is, or our history. The ground at the foot of the cross is level ground, and there is room for all of us to come to Jesus.
You missed the whole point of the video
Sad
This is blasphemous…
How though?
We are no longer being killed for being Indian. You are safe to reclaim your American Indian identity now.
Those aren’t Africans but they’re indians
Yeah get real
This is fact
@@Actualgoddess Nope it's pseudohistory. Afrocentricism strikes again