5 Lies About African American Genealogy and Family History Research

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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2024

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  • @Njoofene
    @Njoofene Před 4 lety +25

    Very interesting. Thanks for posting this. I'm African from the Senegambia region (i.e. Senegal & Gambia). I have been trying to trace the descendants of Anta Magigene Njie who was captured and taken to the new world in the later part of the 18th century during the Kingdoms of Kajoor and Jolof wars. Her father was the half paternal brother of my direct ancestor - they were both sons of the King of Jolof. That period also coincided with the dynastic strugges in Jolof at the time between the royal House of Lat Samba (mine and Anta's ancestor) and the House of Guirane. I've been documenting our family history and genealogy for 25 years and my late uncle has been doing it since the 1940s. I took over from him as guardian of our family history prior to his death. He died age 87. I am aware that Anta had descendants in the new world and she is referred to as Anna Kinsley down there. I am looking to trace her African-American descendants so that I can document them in our family history. We do not have that branch of the family, but we knew of Anta.

    • @isiomaamma9869
      @isiomaamma9869 Před 4 lety +4

      I hope you find the descendants of that person because when they were taken they change the names of our ancestors , they could be in the Caribbean or South America to you may never know !!

    • @williamdevonish4266
      @williamdevonish4266 Před 3 lety +13

      Your the first African who I've seen searching for their ancestors here in the new world or America.. wow.. respect

    • @williamdevonish4266
      @williamdevonish4266 Před 3 lety +3

      @@LemonDropYum many blacks was brought or came from Spain and Portugal way back. To Americas

    • @williamdevonish4266
      @williamdevonish4266 Před 3 lety

      @@LemonDropYum I have done my dna thru African Ancestry dna.. my u6a dna maternal is trace to Spain and Portugal on my maternal small percentages also this traces go thru nw Africa and north Africa and Ethiopia found in three or four tribes... so either my maternal mothers is either white or black born in Spain... way back.. they say u6a dna goes back 15000 years.. Spain was once controlled by Moors and black Jews but they was forced to leave or became enslaved in Spain by new religious powers of European white rulers..

    • @beberodriguez2358
      @beberodriguez2358 Před 3 lety

      @@williamdevonish4266 absolutely amazing .... I'm sure being of Royalty ✨ that is the motivating factor.... I wondered how many are looking for the subjects of the Kingdoms that were trafficked.... WE the descandants need restoration.

  • @misshelloareyouthere
    @misshelloareyouthere Před 3 lety +16

    HOLD UP WAIT A MINUTE! 1. Some experts on record has said genealogy DNA test results are not scientific is 2. Who is Native American is in the eye of the beholder. . There are $5 dollar Indians, Native American and American Aborigines. A genealogy test mostly using 5 dollar Indian and or Native American DNA sample not American Aborigines. So black people need to find out if he or she is descendants of American aborigines and find their tribe in America.

    • @rosasmith9835
      @rosasmith9835 Před 3 lety +7

      Have you ever heard about those people that have low self-esteems,
      they possibly have drug problems or issues, and possible mother/father issues and mental illness, issues, or problems, some have all of them; that are ashamed and hate who they are so they lie and try to claim another identity ?

    • @Saint_Louis_
      @Saint_Louis_ Před 3 lety +3

      1828 Webster Dictionary definition of American?

    • @misshelloareyouthere
      @misshelloareyouthere Před 3 lety +3

      Rosa, Question at hand, a Native American is in the eye of the beholder ( $5 Indian, black cooper American Aborigines, Native Indian mix with Spain/Latin America ).? Ancestry Native American genealogy DNA excluded American Aborigines DNA but includes $ 5 dollars Indian & Indian from Mexico Central America . My post is not dealing with drugs , mental illness , self hate identity and father/ mother issue .

    • @beforeyourimmigrants8471
      @beforeyourimmigrants8471 Před 3 lety +2

      The $5 Indians are the basis for all of this DNA testing.

    • @SJones-kk5lg
      @SJones-kk5lg Před 3 lety +1

      @@beforeyourimmigrants8471 But the $5 Indian DNA should come up as European.

  • @ShesAbsurd
    @ShesAbsurd Před 5 lety +37

    I went back to 1805 and I was shook!!!

    • @NubianP6
      @NubianP6 Před 5 lety +8

      I am currently at 1807, and hoping to go back even further. 😊

    • @jamiewilliamsCEO-NETSTAR-ELITE
      @jamiewilliamsCEO-NETSTAR-ELITE Před 5 lety +10

      One branch i went back to 1750ish my 8 th times Great grand mother is cacausin from, England and another ancestor so called black man he amd and his father born in Ireland they died in Louisiana

    • @christophermayfield6
      @christophermayfield6 Před 4 lety +5

      How did you get that far back

    • @zagazow6398
      @zagazow6398 Před 4 lety +6

      One of my ancestors was a white lady married to a black man and they had land and some mo shi like 1820

    • @christophermayfield6
      @christophermayfield6 Před 4 lety +2

      How did you get bacc that far?

  • @Peachcreekmedia
    @Peachcreekmedia Před 3 lety +6

    My family has been here since 1666 and received bounty for fighting in the American Revolution.

    • @BRKS627
      @BRKS627 Před 2 lety

      Wow they were here before the revolution war.

  • @BlacIsrael
    @BlacIsrael Před 2 lety +4

    I found my family’s information in two museums one in Washington DC and the other in Richmond Virginia. We were traced all the way to 1735 where we came from Senegal 🇸🇳. Stunned isn’t even the beginning of my emotions

  • @wannellalawson4001
    @wannellalawson4001 Před 2 lety +5

    You are right about Blacks served in military before World War1. My dad was in world war1. He mentioned some of his relatives had served in war before world war1

  • @reginaann7792
    @reginaann7792 Před 5 lety +18

    They also fought in the revolutionary war. Check out Kings Mountian battle ground in SC

    • @veronicaharris8541
      @veronicaharris8541 Před 4 měsíci

      Wasn't Crispus Atticus considered a Revolutionary War hero?

  • @TW-uj6tn
    @TW-uj6tn Před 6 lety +11

    roadblock frustrating. need direct link to search

  • @mattell56
    @mattell56 Před 4 lety +9

    Thanks for this information. The day will come when the DNA and the records will come together and African-Americans will have clear and known lines into Africa.

    • @smoke-ja386
      @smoke-ja386 Před 4 lety +7

      Matt Ellsworth : African American is a social construct and misnomer. It’s a clear line to the Atlantic Ocean for there is no such thing as a continent named ‘Africa-America’.. and so.. the suggestion that all who look akin to or have a DNA marker similar to people whom are from the common day continent call Africa is an assumption that it has monopoly on dark skinned people. DNA test of this kind is for entertainment purposes only... they all say so themselves..

    • @freedom_is_gold6747
      @freedom_is_gold6747 Před 2 lety +3

      i actually saw a video here online of an african-american brother that traced back his 5th generation cousin who was a senegalese brother! and they still look alike actually.

    • @BRKS627
      @BRKS627 Před 2 lety

      Lol it's a lie

    • @BRKS627
      @BRKS627 Před 2 lety

      @@smoke-ja386 well said

    • @BRKS627
      @BRKS627 Před 2 lety

      @@freedom_is_gold6747 ok troll with the lies

  • @Ghanaquankel2776
    @Ghanaquankel2776 Před 3 lety +5

    So I'm reading the comments below and see that people are tracing their ancestors as far as back to 1820 and so on. I notice that these are the actual years that our ancestors were actually born and the state they were actually born in. I have traced grandparents that were born in 1818, 1838, 1842 and so on.

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před 2 lety +1

      And that counts!!!

    • @freedom_is_gold6747
      @freedom_is_gold6747 Před 2 lety +1

      @@whoisnickasmith btw sista i got to ask you! is their any webpage or so where one can trace the names of slaves etc and from what country they came from?

    • @SylviaLoveJones
      @SylviaLoveJones Před 2 lety

      I'm with you! All melanated people are not descendants of Africa.✌🏿✌🏿🤎🤎🏹🏹

  • @Deco_2k
    @Deco_2k Před 5 lety +12

    Buffalo soldiers were a black unite in the US Military

  • @breezelb50
    @breezelb50 Před 4 lety +10

    My family has 11 generations, but i'm trying to find out what tribe. i'm the six great granddaughter and i'm trying to find out what tribe was she from in Madagascar.

    • @rorororororo9775
      @rorororororo9775 Před 3 lety

      Penguins

    • @FBAYACOB
      @FBAYACOB Před 3 lety

      ASK KING JULIEN😅☹️😅

    • @freedom_is_gold6747
      @freedom_is_gold6747 Před 2 lety

      madagascar were american slaves taken from their? or are you from another country?

    • @breezelb50
      @breezelb50 Před 2 lety

      @@freedom_is_gold6747 I'm from Chicago. I'm the six generation of Sara Kilgore was taken from Madagasca. I would love to know, what part of Madagascar she's from.

    • @freedom_is_gold6747
      @freedom_is_gold6747 Před 2 lety

      @@breezelb50 i ain't heard of no african american from madagascar, any llinks concerning that part? i'm interestesd

  • @mac2brown
    @mac2brown Před 3 lety +6

    My family wasn't enslaved. My family owned land.

  • @soojoe
    @soojoe Před 3 lety +12

    This awesome content! One thing people never mention in history books is African Americans lived freely in the USA before 1619. And had numerous settlements of FREE people. Unfortunately books want to create a inferior mindset in African Americans. There has been claims that the actual size of enslavement was sensationalized. You can check Maryland, Virginia and Georgia records to see.

    • @savannahpurter7949
      @savannahpurter7949 Před rokem +3

      We were always here in America. That’s why we need to stop calling ourselves African American. That classification does not describe us.

  • @EisirvanaIusaasetamenYi
    @EisirvanaIusaasetamenYi Před 2 lety +3

    This video is a lot of tettering between our revisionists and landing right on the revisionism that became our supposed history.

  • @apgeneticgenealogylover6601

    1:09 Can't discuss AA genealogy myths without the "my grandmother had light skin and long hair (or "high cheek bones and straight black hair" as Skip Gates puts it) so we're part NDN" claim

    • @apgeneticgenealogylover6601
      @apgeneticgenealogylover6601 Před 7 lety +3

      +willie417 Some people have theorized over the last several years that the reason why most AA's get very small results (less than 2%) of NA/Asian is because of artifacts of the algorithms due to inadequate African reference sampling. I think this is probably what's going on though I don't think this is true in all cases.
      Could be wrong and these results could be legitimate NA/Asian ancestry, but at the same time over the years no one from the companies has every come out and given an official answer for this, other than the time way back in 2009 when 23andme came out about their "Native American Ancestry Finder"
      ( a tool of their "Ancestry Painting" which was a forerunner to "Ancestry Composition") and said " Unfortunately, partly due to inadequate sampling of Africa’s genetic diversity, this method cannot yet establish Native American ancestry for African Americans."
      blog.23andme.com/news/new-23andme-lab-searches-genome-for-native-american-ancestry/
      But 23andme still has never said that the issue has been totally fixed when they changed to "Ancestry Composition." I hadn't done 23andme back then (didn't do until 2013), but I was looking at it back in early 2010 and remember when everybody AA was getting "4% 5% 7% (like Emmitt Smith on NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are") or 8% Asian" on "Ancestry Painting," then the majority of folks shrank to 1% and under when "Ancestry Composition" came out.
      If an AA has a NA/Asian percentage of less than 2%, then I might consider it true NA/Asian ancestry if they either have parent or grandparent with a higher percentage, or if they have a haplogroup or a relative with one (I believe only something like 2% of AA's have a NA haplogroup) that they know are descended through the same ancestor (say a cousin on dad's side or their dad).
      If more African reference populations and samples finally are added to the ethnicity programs, and most AA's still receive the tiny results, then I'd feel more comfortable in saying that these are legitimate NA/Asian ancestry from way way way back, like maybe a NA slave from the 1600's in New York or some place (Like Valerie Jarrett on "Finding Your Roots" who had a genealogically proven NA ancestor from Illinois in the late 1600's, but even her percentage was around 3% NA instead of around just 1% or under).
      My maternal granddad does get around 1% NA on most tests (not counting DDC's Ancestry BY DNA and African Ancestry's myDNAmix) and third party analyses but not all. Tribecode (which I understand has already crashed and will discontinue) assigned none. He did get around 1% NA ("Central American" and "Amazonian") on his myheritageDNA sample before the update but after the update when they added the increased confidence level, the "0.95 Beta," the NA (and "Middle Eastern") was taken away and he got a straight European/African result. So I'd like to see how these would look when more companies like 23andme and Ancestry.com finally update but I don't think that will be anytime soon since it's been so many years since they've last updated. It's nice to see myheritage because they have had the biggest update in years now and much better than Family Tree DNA's myOrigins two months ago that was pretty underwhelming.

    • @landarow5152
      @landarow5152 Před 7 lety +7

      many that show South Asian DNA are actually from the Island of Madagascar. I've found that one of my Paternal Great grandmothers was the daughter of a king on the Island of Madagascar. I read a slave narrative that mentioned her and how she'd get angry if called African and would declare her Malagasy heritage. Her father, from the story owed an African king and for payment the African King sold him into slavery. I've not yet found proof of this.. but surely gave me fuel to research.

    • @cbenji07
      @cbenji07 Před 6 lety +6

      @@apgeneticgenealogylover6601 or maybe they just classify asian as native american even though Africans were in America long before the slave trade or even the Bering Strait crossing of Asians.

    • @mercade1349
      @mercade1349 Před 4 lety +5

      @John Kimber Fool how u can bring blk people from Africa when there were thousands of Socalled African Americans living in the Americans b4 slavery

    • @BRKS627
      @BRKS627 Před 2 lety

      @@mercade1349 true

  • @christopherholcombe3794
    @christopherholcombe3794 Před 4 lety +12

    I really appreciate your logical honesty. Great information!

  • @GearsinMotionGraphics
    @GearsinMotionGraphics Před 6 lety +6

    A intelligence bottle line on a complex nature of DUALITY. Thank u!

  • @sweetcheeks89
    @sweetcheeks89 Před 3 lety +2

    I never heard the lie about marriage but I do remember reading about not acknowledging marriages that were not christian condoned marriages. I dont know if that had anything to do with slaves reasons to convert to Christianity. I know native americans were forced to change their religions, practices and names but I could see slaves being in a foreign land and choosing to change religion based on what was around them. Christianity would have been more easier to follow because of the access to teachings,etc. Kinda would feel like you didn't really have a choice in a way if worshipping ur religion and only this other had a set place and tools to do so.

  • @jackmaverick5481
    @jackmaverick5481 Před 7 lety +9

    Don't forget about the 17 slave ships that brought Black Malagasy from the Island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean to Tidewater Virginia and New York and those Blacks that were smuggled out of Madagascar and brought to Texas and other States in the Americas.

    • @landarow5152
      @landarow5152 Před 7 lety +4

      and the DNA for this region may come up as Southeast Asian

    • @Jamnonit
      @Jamnonit Před 6 lety +1

      Tell me more. My 3rd great aunt married a man whose parents came from Madagascar.

    • @Monaedeezy
      @Monaedeezy Před 6 lety +1

      How did you come across this information?

    • @Jamnonit
      @Jamnonit Před 6 lety

      Monaedeezy Monawdeezy, is that question for me?

    • @Monaedeezy
      @Monaedeezy Před 6 lety

      Jamnonit no the commenter above.

  • @BRKS627
    @BRKS627 Před 2 lety +4

    No disrespect to the lady in the video when you do ancestry tree research it doesn't have so call black people who came from Africa. The ancestrydna test is a joke 60 minutes show exposed it.

    • @brandonmoss7976
      @brandonmoss7976 Před 2 lety

      Exactly there's quite a few problems with what she said but I'll only address what you said with ancestry.
      It can show you your paternal paternal paternal paternal......
      Or your maternal maternal maternal maternal.....
      But they can't show you your paternal maternal paternal maternal or any combination down your mother's mother's mother or your father's father's father so in essence you are missing an obscene amount of your genetic information.
      And problem number two is black people were here before anybody else is a matter of fact white settlers French Portuguese Spaniards Dutch etc they all do illustrations of what they look like. And they are known as Aboriginal Americans that's the reason why you never see many black faces when you Google native Americans because they hit us under a different name. But many of the Floridians the Louisiana mount builders, in The Californians were black. Just look at the illustrations the whites did of the first people they saw here it literally explains it All 🤗 and again the key word is *Aboriginal Americans* which by the way was used before it was applied to the native people of Australia.

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před 2 lety +4

      You're wrong. It can and does it every day.

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před 2 lety +3

      Not true. Autosomal DNA - which is what Ancestry provides - testing tests for both sides of your family, not direct lines. If you want direct lines, you need to do gender based DNA testing for your mitochondrial ancestors or your Y DNA ancestors. Only certain companies offer that.

    • @daphneytennard3267
      @daphneytennard3267 Před rokem

      So true...because we are Native American Indians (Negro) Facts before Walter Plecker Paper Genocide: Since the beginning of the African slave trade in America many Native persons, unfortunately, to the detriment of Native Heritage, were being listed as Black, Mulatto, Negro or just lumped together as “Colored” which did not allow for a distinction between Indigenous and Africans on paper.

      In the slavery days being listed as negro was done to our Native people in order for white slave owners to keep an ample supply of enslaved Africans. Many blood Natives have lost a God-given blood Heritage due to slavery in Southern states in which approximately 50,000 or more full-blood Native American Indian men, women, and children alike, were forced by white slave owners to take part in slavery.
      With that travesty of race reclassification starting from the first census ever taken in America, Native American Indians were falsely listed on all census records as (Negro), Mustee, Black, Mulatto, or Colored, and sometimes even White.

  • @hotbreakers94569
    @hotbreakers94569 Před 6 lety +4

    I’m HOLLERING!!! Your shirt 👕 is the SHIT 😆

  • @BootTribe504
    @BootTribe504 Před rokem

    Lady my family are real black Indians in South Louisiana and we had no contact with the so called "native americans", I don't know about you but my ancestors have always told us that we are NOT AFRICANS, and that has been orally passed down in our family..

  • @progressaggressivewillpowe7407

    The siminoles the yammsee the virgina tribes nottaway where the history of us getting off ships in social studies

    • @kudjoeadkins-battle2502
      @kudjoeadkins-battle2502 Před 6 lety

      africa my aunt America my mother what Virginia tribes.

    • @qb_balloons
      @qb_balloons Před 6 lety +1

      We was all down here in Mississippi too bruh. Choctaw, Chickasaw, Blackfoot.

    • @knowledgeallah4638
      @knowledgeallah4638 Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah I don’t know no damn history, the Seminoles are not native, Seminoles group of black people that mixed with some native Americans but mostly were black they were like maroons of Jamaica. Try again

    • @emmanuelervin5035
      @emmanuelervin5035 Před 2 lety

      @@knowledgeallah4638 No they were not.

  • @paweltrawicki2200
    @paweltrawicki2200 Před 4 lety +1

    You have it together,so i am beyond the 1870 census to a Ned Travis going back to 1810 in South Hampton
    Virginia.You have my attention,simply you know what you are speaking about.Have a good day.

  • @JamisonJohnson-bn9mi
    @JamisonJohnson-bn9mi Před 10 měsíci

    Im biracial
    57% European 43% African
    My dad is african american and my mom is white

  • @KingDye
    @KingDye Před 2 lety +1

    Some of this correct but Miss leading , for example Indian nations , yes they had slaves/POW but but these nation were mainly and rootly black Americans not From Africa … there was also other Indian nations that settled to the Americas those are the Asian looking Indians that turnt on the black original one to help the white Europeans. They are the ones the push to be the face of native Indians which they really aren’t. Most blacks blood comes from America. Which is the home of the Real Egypt and Gods close people to him. That’s why all of the Americas north to south felled and had to fall until it’s time for us to rise again. we are the oldest people in the world we aren’t from Africa . The seed of the world comes from us .

  • @Ghanaquankel2776
    @Ghanaquankel2776 Před 3 lety +3

    At 1:33
    Most African Americans don't wanna hear that part. 😃

  • @honeyb2917
    @honeyb2917 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you Beautiful for the much needed clarifications it is greatly appreciated ❤

  • @alexn.2901
    @alexn.2901 Před 5 lety +12

    4:27 People actually believe this? I'm not even American and I know it ain't true.

    • @vatolocosforever803
      @vatolocosforever803 Před 5 lety +1

      Explain your theory

    • @williemccloud9176
      @williemccloud9176 Před 4 lety +1

      Alex N. How? Can u go into detail

    • @omartistry
      @omartistry Před 4 lety +1

      I learn about buffalo soldiers before any black soldier.

    • @alexn.2901
      @alexn.2901 Před 4 lety +1

      @@williemccloud9176 That there were no Black soldiers in the military........

    • @alexn.2901
      @alexn.2901 Před 4 lety

      @spaceghost DUGGA I was talking about the lie. I guess wrong timing.

  • @koolkatgriff2239
    @koolkatgriff2239 Před 3 lety +2

    why keep saying african ?

  • @EisirvanaIusaasetamenYi
    @EisirvanaIusaasetamenYi Před 2 lety +1

    The Indians practice indenture. So, when finished working for them you really became part of the family and received full rights and married a daughter. That was not the same as chattel slavery.

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před 2 lety +1

      That's not true for all Nations. Please reference the Five Tribes and their practice of chattel slavery.
      Signed, a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation

    • @EisirvanaIusaasetamenYi
      @EisirvanaIusaasetamenYi Před 2 lety

      @@whoisnickasmith I would love to slap the shit out of a clown.

    • @daphneytennard3267
      @daphneytennard3267 Před rokem

      Right!

  • @jl2284123
    @jl2284123 Před 3 lety +1

    i found 2 slaves so far on my ancestory tree i gone back to 1800 and one to 1700

  • @mikebrown-mh9wy
    @mikebrown-mh9wy Před 3 lety

    Seatak Colony fought in every single American war since the British

  • @sglant
    @sglant Před 6 lety +4

    I really appreciate this video. Great commentary!

  • @KarM908
    @KarM908 Před 5 lety +1

    After a DNA test we find African American in the blood line . I am searching in Vain for the clues. I am related to Smith +Tarver , in deep south in 1840's aside vague census is there any other records to get clues to race ?

    • @NubianP6
      @NubianP6 Před 5 lety

      Are you saying that you found *African* DNA in your bloodline? Are you a member of Ancestry.com, because I’ve been able to find a lot of useful information with a full-access membership.

    • @KarM908
      @KarM908 Před 5 lety

      @@NubianP6 Yes. and I understand . Thank you for your reply and wonderful idea .

    • @daphneytennard3267
      @daphneytennard3267 Před rokem +1

      Facts before Walter Plecker Paper Genocide: Since the beginning of the African slave trade in America many Native persons, unfortunately, to the detriment of Native Heritage, were being listed as Black, Mulatto, Negro or just lumped together as “Colored” which did not allow for a distinction between Indigenous and Africans on paper.

      In the slavery days being listed as negro was done to our Native people in order for white slave owners to keep an ample supply of enslaved Africans. Many blood Natives have lost a God-given blood Heritage due to slavery in Southern states in which approximately 50,000 or more full-blood Native American Indian men, women, and children alike, were forced by white slave owners to take part in slavery.
      With that travesty of race reclassification starting from the first census ever taken in America, Native American Indians were falsely listed on all census records as (Negro), Mustee, Black, Mulatto, or Colored, and sometimes even White.
      You would do better doing your genealogy...DNA is for entertainment PURPOSRS ONLY!

    • @KarM908
      @KarM908 Před rokem

      @@daphneytennard3267 within 3 years,of this video,I agree that the Ancestry DNA, web page, to be more and more, off base. Although, having a sense of where one's origins comes from as in people or belonging to a "family" is important in the aspect of relating to how the ancestors environment and life was. For me personally, that aspect is important, in relating to ones self and perhaps changes a view, for many as to appreciate other cultures, in the present frame of time.

  • @AuntieSasha1
    @AuntieSasha1 Před 5 lety +3

    man+man,woman+woman,woman+man who jumped the broom? are you saying gay and lesbian married back then? if not, respectfully can you please explain the reason for that comment?

    • @licialish.
      @licialish. Před 4 lety

      She may be saying that in regards to todays wedding... just a thought.

    • @daphneytennard3267
      @daphneytennard3267 Před rokem

      She is so off with our history

  • @itsci
    @itsci Před rokem

    It’s hard to pull any information from dna..all I know is I’m 43% Nigerian down south in Louisiana so I’m want to learn more about my lineage

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před rokem

      Have you tried looking at your DNA matches? While admixture percentages can tell us some the DNA matching is where it's at!

    • @savannahpurter7949
      @savannahpurter7949 Před rokem

      Tracing your family tree is more accurate than doing those Fake DNA test. They love saying Black Americans are Nigerian. But Black Americans have been around longer than the country of Nigeria.

  • @theresacolton644
    @theresacolton644 Před 7 lety +6

    That's my issue. My father said his mother was Native. I met a lady recently who said she knew the family and they still had tepees on the land. I can't find them on the census prior to 1910. So I don't know what to think. We are from Louisiana but I don't know how if this is so they would have been separated out from their tribe. I'm still thinking it's likely unfounded oral history but I don't know. Taking the test next month.

    • @theresacolton644
      @theresacolton644 Před 7 lety

      Honestly I'm not sure. I can't find anything beyond my father's mother and he was raised by his aunt. They are from Red River Parish which is considered Allen, Powhatton and I guess going towards Coushatta.

    • @theresacolton644
      @theresacolton644 Před 7 lety

      Nicka Sewell-Smith My father was born 1910 and that's the start of their record. I was told they moved into town for electricity. I have no clue if those oral histories are reliable. So that means his mother and her siblings would be I guess born around 1880's to 1890's from the ages listed in that record 1910 record.

    • @aaronmiller6494
      @aaronmiller6494 Před 7 lety

      Theresa Colton

    • @aaronmiller6494
      @aaronmiller6494 Před 7 lety +1

      I'm Blackfoot mother and grandmother told me. My father don't know he is Brooks

    • @jazzyindigenousswag6430
      @jazzyindigenousswag6430 Před 6 lety +2

      Nicka Sewell-Smith good day do you have any info on the Ouachita parish. In Louisiana... Is where alot of my family is from

  • @SharonLaMotte
    @SharonLaMotte Před 3 lety

    how can i find usnr wwii black soldier?

  • @fabulousfarrahinsouthafrica

    I have native American last name and had native American grandparents I'm done with this back and forth we are aa very diverse groups

  • @renee5506
    @renee5506 Před 7 měsíci

    Thanks for sharing

  • @montedogfish2626
    @montedogfish2626 Před 6 měsíci

    The first lie is the term (African American)

  • @dei-wan-grey3888
    @dei-wan-grey3888 Před 5 lety +1

    A very interesting Video

  • @SaHayes-it2uw
    @SaHayes-it2uw Před 3 lety

    What's the intro song 🎵.

  • @RealJeremias
    @RealJeremias Před 3 lety +7

    I do believe a lot of African Americans have Indigenous Ancestry. Some of us been here and weren’t slaves. Most of these documents were changed in the 1800s during the radical reconstruction. A lot of African Americans were farmers by the millions. Europeans didn’t really begin. Migrating by the millions till the 1800s it’s in their only hidden history if you look. I have all the compiled evidence. People just need to do their genealogy

    • @dewaynekemp379
      @dewaynekemp379 Před 3 lety

      What’s more that yk about our people? I’m interested

    • @RealJeremias
      @RealJeremias Před 3 lety +1

      @@dewaynekemp379 I post a lot on the Instagram on @jeremiahdream
      You could probably go through my page for hours and find new information

    • @emmanuelervin5035
      @emmanuelervin5035 Před 2 lety

      @Mitistouchyamama Black American and Coloured American are not the same. The guy who you replied to is Coloured American, a guy like Westly Snipes is African American. You are correct.

    • @emmanuelervin5035
      @emmanuelervin5035 Před 2 lety

      Bro you clearly got something in your DNA, if what you say is true, they arent the same as those indigenous blacks that used to live in the Americas genetically.

    • @KingKentravis37
      @KingKentravis37 Před rokem

      We are original to the earth it’s not just in America…We are a original people to everywhere…We don’t have Native blood in us…Everybody has our blood in them…We existed before all these names you hear about

  • @IeremiasMoore-El
    @IeremiasMoore-El Před 3 lety +3

    Over 80% of Africas food crops are native to America ......The oldest pyramids found which are still being dug up are in south america, there is indication and evidence that people were here way longer than history is leading on .....and considering a certain "race" or couple of "races" were not created according to science before most of these land marks.....my minds is telling me that we "copper-colored" people were here before slavery ...thriving more than we are now collectively....Most of us aren't African-Americans I have a friend who was born in Nigeria and is now a citizen who is an African-American, and when you get that dna test remember that the reason its mostly from northwest africa and america is because copper-colored people ...mostly the islamic&sephardic, and some non catholic christians were denationalized and chased out of Europa ..spoain, portugal,ireland,scottland,etc during the reconstruction period about 1492 which is the same year the "new world" was discovered which is really the old world and the moriscos were already here...in the Americas (hints the treaty that was here before the british) and into northwest africa and america where there are still moorish berber nations and influence....all the masques in europe are now cathedrals but the statues are still in some countries like sweden and spain....they even have words that begin with al- in portugal from the exiled mariscos. We are truly autochthonous, atleast I am and my ascendants which are serphardic with hebrew names and traditions or Catholics...........My genealogy goes past 1500 on my fathers line and came from derives, Ó Mórdha of ireland and my grandmother goes to the Clevelands of york and ive found the actual baptism records from the abbys, places and buildings that they build and are still standing ...most were judges, writers, or in politics from what it seems with royal and noble titles and im willing to bet its the same for alot of our ancestors.....The native americans are a mixed haplo and though born here (native) the asiatic blacks were in America predating the tribes we know as native today.....Dna says northwest africa....genealogy says we conquered europe and the seas so bad they had to kick us out, paint over the pictures, steal our names and make us think thier are "white"surnames and that we came from africa which .......i just leave that alone :) cheers

  • @epixdevo3180
    @epixdevo3180 Před rokem

    I’m 98% African

  • @winddragonmma
    @winddragonmma Před 5 lety +7

    Lol they were not called African Americans in the 1800s. Study reclassification.

    • @NubianP6
      @NubianP6 Před 5 lety +5

      She never said they (we) were, and I am almost 100% certain that she’s aware that the term “African American” is a more contemporary label. 🤦🏽‍♀️

    • @julianblack3390
      @julianblack3390 Před 4 lety +4

      Thank you!!!!! I wish they would stop using that term from Messy Jessy Jackson 1988.

    • @knowledgeallah4638
      @knowledgeallah4638 Před 4 lety +1

      The system never alluded that they were called such. What’s your point you don’t like being black you don’t want to be associated with the continent presently known as Africa. Just be real and stop acting goofy,

    • @001islandprincess
      @001islandprincess Před 4 lety +1

      Knowledge Allah Actually, as Fanon stated: black and white came into existence at the moment of imperial conquest. Neither exists without the other. Black is a status created by the people who classify themselves as white. There existed no black people over 500 years ago.

    • @knowledgeallah4638
      @knowledgeallah4638 Před 4 lety +1

      001islandprincess 001islandprincess I don’t take the words of Fanon As the Bible, especially from someone who talked black but slept white. Furthermore what he was referring to was the deification of skin color in which to European tried to Deify his skin at the expense of demoralizing and Thingifying African people. His comments are purely opinion on this subject and not historical in base; Fanon was a sociologist Not a historical scholar. And again do you have a good reasoning and logical skills? Your post comment has nothing to do with the original context of the person I responded to nor does it have anything to do with the video. Read and comprehend, use good listening skills. I would recommend hooked on phonics but they’re out of business

  • @Kandiiassahri
    @Kandiiassahri Před 3 lety

    Good information

  • @c.w.6059
    @c.w.6059 Před 2 lety

    New subscriber.

  • @chiefchosen8126
    @chiefchosen8126 Před 2 lety +2

    We are not from Africa we are from AMERICA WE ARE AMARU

  • @Bey11ktb
    @Bey11ktb Před 3 lety

    Why are we using their language and terms that confused us?? No one owned slaves, they may have been enslaved but they weren’t slaves. That term derived from Slavs or the Slavic people.

  • @fetengineer9151
    @fetengineer9151 Před 3 lety +2

    Okay okay okay... please stop and let's be real about this... this video doesn't apply to all African Americans because IMO we have two very different distinct black groups.
    Group A: any black person who can trace (and name) your family ancestry back before 1800 and will probably have Indentured servants or several Free People of Color in your family history. These people are typically from the East Coast [original 13 colonial areas] with migration to TN, KY, OH, Pennsylvania or even further west.
    Group B: Can not find any ancestry before 1865 because of being enslaved for several generations and emancipated in 1865. Typically these people are originally from the deep Southern areas and migration North after 1870.
    Although both groups were treated like dogs just know their is a huge difference... So which group do you belong too? My family is Group A.

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před 3 lety +4

      Or, people can be part of both groups you write about and others that you may not have knowledge of. There are plenty of people who can trace their ancestry well before 1865 who have roots in the deep south and no ties to any of the locations you note in Group A. Stick around my channel and you'll learn more about this.

  • @sglant
    @sglant Před 6 lety +10

    Big Secret: Many of our relatives have created the story of having Native America ancestry to explain why "Grandma" has light skin and straight hair. The truth is, she looked that way because she was the result of slave rape. Our ancestors told this narrative to cover over the stigma of such a common practice. In my own family, this is quite evident too. When my nephew questioned my grandfather about our "Irish Mix", here was my grandpa's response: "Boy...We Don't talk about those things". Obviously, this was a very painful subject for him, who by the way looked like an "old white man" as he approached old age. Just my two cents.

    • @johnsmithjohn1314
      @johnsmithjohn1314 Před 6 lety +7

      sglant
      Giovanni da varrazzano
      Arnaldus montanis america
      Having light skin doesn't equal being native. American aboriginals were dark. You watch to much television.

    • @cbenji07
      @cbenji07 Před 6 lety +8

      Original native Americans were black

    • @adjanic
      @adjanic Před 6 lety +5

      You need to watch some Dane Calloway.

    • @qb_balloons
      @qb_balloons Před 6 lety +2

      Damn Europeans where on the seas for months no woman in site they touched down and raped everything. Plus the Irish where brung as slaves not us the Scottish, British and slavic nation from coast of Africa. Only 5% of our people seen servitude.

    • @Congomany
      @Congomany Před 5 lety

      Exactly

  • @mikedavis3386
    @mikedavis3386 Před 4 lety

    Nicka smith are your parents from carribean?

  • @kenmartin4572
    @kenmartin4572 Před 3 lety +2

    Most all so-called black people in America did not ever come from Africa what are the indigenous people of America

  • @Brookintellect
    @Brookintellect Před 4 lety +1

    I heard jumping the broom was a myth. I haven’t looked into it that deeply

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před 3 lety +1

      Well I did it and witnessed others who have, so it looks like we may have set our own tradition up. Either way, I'll take it.

  • @jeancollins9548
    @jeancollins9548 Před 7 lety +1

    I took my dna test from Hertiage. I got an error 1st then results. I am worried that is not accurate. Should I retake my dna test.

    • @ahmayaedwards8712
      @ahmayaedwards8712 Před 7 lety +7

      jean collins research the accuracy of DNA tests for genealogy. You shouldn't waste your money.

    • @ahabahshiloh
      @ahabahshiloh Před 6 lety +7

      None of them are accurate. You're better off researching your genealogy. DNA testing can only show you less than 1% of your DNA and even that 1% is inaccurate. It's a waste of time and money.

    • @qb_balloons
      @qb_balloons Před 6 lety +3

      You think they are going to tell you who you are but we as a people get mad when we are labeled inferior. Follow the paper work not spit work. DAMN

    • @SylviaLoveJones
      @SylviaLoveJones Před 2 lety

      Stop sending them people your DNA. They could use it for other purposes. Paper trail genealogy is 🔑🔑

  • @chiefchosen8126
    @chiefchosen8126 Před 2 lety +1

    We are the American Indians and there was no slaves in my family we owned our own lands on al census we you lying to my people a y'all go to ancestry and get your documentation !!!!!

    • @SylviaLoveJones
      @SylviaLoveJones Před 2 lety +1

      🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎 I love you for this!!! Our people is still being mislead. But let them be from Africa and take themselves off the land. After all every body else is foreigners and stole our land.

    • @emmanuelervin5035
      @emmanuelervin5035 Před 2 lety

      @@SylviaLoveJones We were never from America and have no relation to Native American people, and you light skinned people are not even black, ya'll are mixed race thats why ya'll look the way ya do.

    • @WIXNGFRMLUVOKC
      @WIXNGFRMLUVOKC Před rokem

      @@emmanuelervin5035 facts that’s why even some mixed ppl claim to be Indian 😂

  • @niahann
    @niahann Před 2 lety

    I’m just now realizing that only black pple jump the broom 😅

  • @fabulousfarrahinsouthafrica

    Girl what's your DNA

    • @daphneytennard3267
      @daphneytennard3267 Před rokem

      DNA for entertainment PURPOSES ONLY...do your genealogy...You're Native American Indian (Negro's)
      Facts before Walter Plecker Paper Genocide: Since the beginning of the African slave trade in America many Native persons, unfortunately, to the detriment of Native Heritage, were being listed as Black, Mulatto, Negro or just lumped together as “Colored” which did not allow for a distinction between Indigenous and Africans on paper.

      In the slavery days being listed as negro was done to our Native people in order for white slave owners to keep an ample supply of enslaved Africans. Many blood Natives have lost a God-given blood Heritage due to slavery in Southern states in which approximately 50,000 or more full-blood Native American Indian men, women, and children alike, were forced by white slave owners to take part in slavery.
      With that travesty of race reclassification starting from the first census ever taken in America, Native American Indians were falsely listed on all census records as (Negro), Mustee, Black, Mulatto, or Colored, and sometimes even White.

  • @johnoulds3003
    @johnoulds3003 Před 5 lety +7

    I'm still trying to find out how we became AFRICAN AMERICAN. So what's next? SMH

    • @toyopoweel7889
      @toyopoweel7889 Před 5 lety +4

      Jesse Jackson in 85

    • @yohananlove7528
      @yohananlove7528 Před 5 lety +2

      Jesse Jackson started that term we are not African Americans those are continents. What Nation of people did you come from?

    • @NubianP6
      @NubianP6 Před 5 lety +2

      I think you all are missing the point of his comment. He’s not questioning ancestral roots and origins, more so the evolution of self and externally-imposed *labels* for Black people here in America, which is evident even over the past 60 years or so. Debates about the use of the term AA are not at all new, and many Black people refrain from using the term for their own personal reasons.

    • @daphneytennard3267
      @daphneytennard3267 Před rokem

      Facts before Walter Plecker Paper Genocide: Since the beginning of the African slave trade in America many Native persons, unfortunately, to the detriment of Native Heritage, were being listed as Black, Mulatto, Negro or just lumped together as “Colored” which did not allow for a distinction between Indigenous and Africans on paper.

      In the slavery days being listed as negro was done to our Native people in order for white slave owners to keep an ample supply of enslaved Africans. Many blood Natives have lost a God-given blood Heritage due to slavery in Southern states in which approximately 50,000 or more full-blood Native American Indian men, women, and children alike, were forced by white slave owners to take part in slavery.
      With that travesty of race reclassification starting from the first census ever taken in America, Native American Indians were falsely listed on all census records as (Negro), Mustee, Black, Mulatto, or Colored, and sometimes even White.
      This was an intentional reclassification which was passed down from generation to generation to the present, even presently entered on many Native American Indians vital records as in birth certificates and social security data.
      Walter Plecker of Virginia’s Vital Records began a paper genocide trend that quickly spread throughout the 50 states and continues to this day.
      We became African when they brought them him and put them in the field with Native American Indians(Negro's)

  • @lonneljohnston7087
    @lonneljohnston7087 Před 3 lety

    thgey didnt have same sex marriage wasnt legal

  • @cynthiaclark8707
    @cynthiaclark8707 Před 6 lety

    Great video and information.

  • @pzman5603
    @pzman5603 Před 5 lety +7

    Family was buying family from the European and African Americans are Indians keep studying...there is no ships

    • @laustin2832
      @laustin2832 Před 5 lety

      @DUGGA 666 paper genocide is what happened. Those that they couldn't kill were marked on paper as negro so everyone would think they were African, or mulatto so it would seem they were African/European mixed . Midwives were threatened to write "negro" when certain babies were born. They burned and hid records. They created terms such as "Freedman" to trick us. When they control everything they can create whatever narrative they want. Now they're trying to say red-haired, blue-eyed Europeans were here before anyone else.

    • @brunomiles314
      @brunomiles314 Před 5 lety

      DUGGA 666 you know that foreign black try to fall under the black Americans card because they know there days are numbered those booty scratching mfas and to feel the wrath

    • @chosenpeople5881
      @chosenpeople5881 Před 4 lety

      here we go

  • @kaskieseven2944
    @kaskieseven2944 Před 2 lety

    Most of African Americans came from Central African nations which is Angola and DRC Congo,

    • @emmanuelervin5035
      @emmanuelervin5035 Před 2 lety +1

      Not according to recent study. Most African Americans are closely related to Nigerians than any other group in Africa, mostly Igbo, Yoruba or Fulani. Then Congo is sacond after West Africa. We are essentially West Central African Americans.

    • @joyuyoke4999
      @joyuyoke4999 Před 2 lety +1

      You are wrong on this one.most enslaved people from central Africa (Congo and Angola) were taken to Brazil and Portugal.

    • @WIXNGFRMLUVOKC
      @WIXNGFRMLUVOKC Před rokem +1

      @@joyuyoke4999 or those 20 African Angola’s that got slaved in Virginia 1619

  • @Long-Bow
    @Long-Bow Před 3 lety +3

    The question is , why cant the majority of so called "African Americans " find any Africans in there ancestry? I think its because we aint African and never came from Africa so why do we still call ourselves African Americans?

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před 3 lety +2

      I have found more than one. I'm also Cherokee. So there goes that.

    • @Long-Bow
      @Long-Bow Před 3 lety +2

      @@whoisnickasmith Nice, believe me sis you are one in thousands that found any African ancestry. Shout to you for being true to you heritage, because i havent found any African ancestry. Peace and love sis.

    • @Long-Bow
      @Long-Bow Před 3 lety +4

      @Umbuko DaJuko you are right, we are not all the same. Most Americans will never find African ancestors because most of us dont have any. Notice i said most not all.

    • @TSPOWELL89
      @TSPOWELL89 Před 3 lety

      Because Who TF knows who their exact ancestors were 20 generations ago. SMH Black folks 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • @Long-Bow
      @Long-Bow Před 3 lety +3

      @@TSPOWELL89 some people do know about 7 generations back even 4 will put you in like 1800 you can see if you came of a boat or are original American.

  • @emmastoner2379
    @emmastoner2379 Před 6 lety

    Great video!

  • @aquilaclark814
    @aquilaclark814 Před 5 lety +2

    Thanks for exposing these lies...keep up the good work..I love your videos...i just found your channel....couple nights ago...subscibed..immediately!!!! ..

    • @rhondameer6258
      @rhondameer6258 Před 5 lety +2

      Look up aboriginal indigenous people this is are land some of the so call African Americans we are a stranger in are own land which is turtle island what they so call the United states of America. The European try to destroy are identity and are history well as are culture.the reason why the so call African Americans don't no about slavery is because some of are ancestors is aborigines and native Americans. Never had to experience it and some have I'm black as fuck my mother and her mother which are Cherokee and my father is black so I know history of cherokees as well because they had slaves too.and another reason people is confused is because they took some native Americans into slavery too.where all the boats at since y'all documents and proof of everything else even dinosaurs bones and before also call jesus time in Museums.the masters themselves would had drawn in the water died because at that time they went off the wind and when the boats came it was in south America. We. Been here malcolm x said it and Martin Luther king we are stranger in are own land. They want us to stay sleep and the other so call African Americans are the real Hebrews and Jews out the bible there ancestors are African decent and Egyptians Lower Egypt God curse the. They are my brothers and sisters they are the choosing one's I have documents proof and facts love knowledge and wisdom.people like her they will pay to keep the lie living and going but trust me is thousands of us who are woke to the truth why the rest are brainwashed she just sif it herself we was not call African Americans Intel a certain year stop fucking letting people labels us like a peice of food something now don't get me wrong we are aboriginal to this land ok peace

    • @leviticus1103
      @leviticus1103 Před 4 lety +1

      @@rhondameer6258 our history is lost and taken from us somewhat destroyed but if we just look it's still there in our dance. How athletic we are. The way we dress besides that sagging crap not going include that lol. The way we wear a hair is here is just a link to our ancestor been server the soul to call Asian the connection that we still have.

    • @christinadillard638
      @christinadillard638 Před 3 lety +2

      @@rhondameer6258 Oh yeah I forgot that when Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas, he wrote in his journal he described the Indigenous people as having "Afro-Puffs" . Lmao. Get out of here.

  • @chiefchosen8126
    @chiefchosen8126 Před 2 lety +1

    They was not African American stop it Reverend Jesse Jackson

    • @daphneytennard3267
      @daphneytennard3267 Před rokem

      Most do not know he was the person who coin the term AA...race reclassification starting from the first census ever taken in America, Native American Indians were falsely listed on all census records as (Negro), Mustee, Black, Mulatto, or Colored, and sometimes even White.

  • @nubianprince2420
    @nubianprince2420 Před rokem

    Ignorance and lies

  • @immasoxfanbaby
    @immasoxfanbaby Před 3 lety +2

    U dont look like an African American sister. Look n the mirror

  • @txbassheadtv
    @txbassheadtv Před 4 lety +2

    The title African American was created in 1988. The so called African American was known as the Indian and re-identified as Negro, colored Afro American and black. Our people were captured POW's in the Americas. A very small number of Africans were brought here maybe around 90,000 are so. They were enslaving our people here in the Americas and taking them to Africa that's how they established Liberia in 1822. Yes the native American also enslaved people but those people were the indigenous people of the America's. Our people were of many tribal nations here on this land, they stripped you of your tribal nations and stole your identity. Native Americans migrated here from Siberia they aren't indigenous to the America's you are.

    • @gullahjack4887
      @gullahjack4887 Před 4 lety

      Yahweh bless you. Keep educating our people.

    • @knowledgeallah4638
      @knowledgeallah4638 Před 4 lety +1

      This is made up shit, black people were not classified as no damn Indians. Stop lying! Black people Are not Native Americans! Stop with this revisionist pseudo-history. Black people or persons of African descent traveled to the continent known as North America thousands upon thousands of years and had left by the time of the so-called transatlantic slave trade. There is not a shred of proof to prove anything that you’re saying.

    • @txbassheadtv
      @txbassheadtv Před 4 lety

      @@knowledgeallah4638 Also I never said African Americans were native Americans...lol.

    • @emmanuelervin5035
      @emmanuelervin5035 Před 2 lety

      We never came from America.

    • @emmanuelervin5035
      @emmanuelervin5035 Před 2 lety

      @@txbassheadtv Your still wrong. We are not Native American or Aboriginal (A term used only by Aboriginal Austrialians) We are of WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICAN HERITAGE!!!

  • @roswelarea51
    @roswelarea51 Před 4 lety +2

    No beloved,, the first lie is that we are African Americans,, dodge the high jack,, much respect to your research,, but we have to get pass these lies

    • @roswelarea51
      @roswelarea51 Před 3 lety

      Exactly,, I read what you linked in,, great work,, Exactly the BS I was referring to,, with all due respect my beautiful and natural sistah,,Olmecs or who we refer to as the rubber people, inventors of the rubber shoe we call tennis shoes now, creators of these Mounds in Pyramids in America,,, were on these lands before they knew about an African presents,, What im saying here,, is in agreement to our people hovered across all lands before any other culture had,, what they are not mentioning,, is that the so call blacks here,, were already here,, like literally all ready here before a a so call African came here,, They spent the years coming out of the 1500's with this plan to convince us that human life started in south Africa,, yet they can't tell you the first human to be birthed, crafted, or expiremented on and brought into being,, Are its just a bunch of consciousness just laying in SA waiting for flesh to come to be or that ghostly God was so wise in his huge creation of this rock we call earth and decided we should start in SA,, im gonna need someone to dodge the highjack,, New York post truth is worth a melted candy bar,, the notion that all this info we get from white people validates our true history,, how can people who cam thousands of years later tell you everything about someone who was here wayyyyy before you, And we came here by totally different ways. First people born with the dna of Extraterrestrials meaning this planet rock was once called terresa, so what the f is a African or American,, others coming by way of man,, last time I checked the facts,, Afraditis was a white female who was to be head of that land and the people during the greeks rule,, they still have real coins to prove so, as well as her true existence,, So do my African brothers and sistahs know who they really are,, that was Kush, Nubia and Kem,, now their African and we're African Americans,, yet no one can explain to me how all the land masses were as one but now we call this continent that, or this place a state or this a Nation and that's a city. And still as one land mass and animals of all sorts, we never named ourselves after a place,, thats white people ish, Last but not least, AfroAmerica is telling me I'm a hairstyle and a place renamed after a place call Amexem which was another name before that,,more research is needed, let me know when you need me on the panel,, much love

    • @roswelarea51
      @roswelarea51 Před 3 lety

      Listen to what your saying,, why have no fossils been found, have you all done research on what fossils truly are,, have you done your research on bone decay,, do you overstand bones will not exist thousands of years after death,, if hogs can digest an entire body in one setting, than explain bones surviving for thousands of years,,

  • @immasoxfanbaby
    @immasoxfanbaby Před 3 lety +2

    U are delusional facts. We are the original native American aboriginals

  • @smoke-ja386
    @smoke-ja386 Před 4 lety +3

    I appreciate the effort to dispel some conception of the so-called African American... but that term African American didn’t exist in records back in the 1870 or beyond. The social construct suggest we are all ADOS... not soo.. and nor does that suggest that one is Native American... which is not the original ppl here before history records.. Ive traced my fam back to 1300’, that put me in the America before Europeans came as we know it recoded after 1492.. but not all Europeans were palefaces as we were taught.. just as grater % of the African American are not of African decant either.. that too is another lie we were taught. Don’t let black and white fool you into thinking it’s color.. it’s status...before you were called AA, your ppl were called Negros, and before that your ppl were called Colored and before that.. Indian... our ppl we enslaved and slaves as taught in a school book or Roots, or Hollywood movie... further more DNA don’t tell you anything of substance when it comes to Genealogy..you don’t learn what your ppl was doing here from a spit test.. you only learn what you are told by ppl who control that data.. you blood traits just might be in Nigeria cause your kin was taking from here to there.. think about that, better yet research it !

    • @leviticus1103
      @leviticus1103 Před 4 lety +1

      Thank you thank you thank you. She didn't go far enough but you did and I appreciate that

    • @knowledgeallah4638
      @knowledgeallah4638 Před 4 lety +2

      Smoke-ja Xi Man I stop the fuck lying. How do you treat your ancestry to America in the 1300s what records were kept?

    • @smoke-ja386
      @smoke-ja386 Před 4 lety +1

      Knowledge Allah : I’ve got no reasons to lie... what do I gain? See what you don’t understand is there’s others who have records we don’t often see..such as recorded dates and people who were traced to elders in national achieves.. For example.. Chief Powhatan of the Powhatan confederacy existed.. he had children.. they married, they offspring married and so forth and so on... the Pilgrims, Paleface Native Americans and Mormon got this shit.. but you won’t know it until you search for it.. and stop taking the other man’s word that YOU are a African! and should you be? then be it all.. much respect to that....Chief Powhatan was the father of Pocahontas.. the Powhatans were at war before her kidnapping and after.. that was in the 1600’s homie... did you ever stop to think about how the Europeans know so much since 1492? Moors knew of the American Indian before that.. and who are Moors...those who were at war just before Columbus brought his filth this way.. cause the Moors lost they rule of 400-700 yrs over Spain.. so tell me...how does the Europeans know that and have recorded it in the history books?? The dates keep advancing back in time and in some cases approximation...Frankly all that matters to me..is historians have recorded the battles with between the Muskogee (Creek) American Indians before 1776.. that puts my linage before the establishment of these United Snakes.. and I know my 7th grade grandmother who was recorded in America as a Muskogee Indian of the Wind Clan !! Between Creek and Powhatan there Mohawk, Chickasaw, and others.. in my bloodline.. see some else has been keeping records too and I follow the bread crumbs and verify... So don’t hate the playa.. hate the game and find out who you really is!! If your ppl came over in a bows of a sail boat.. be sure to fine out the name of the boat, who was the captain, where’s the manifest records and where they stole your ancestors from in West Africa.. what’s the tribe name.?? What was your ancestors name ? What language did they speak ?! I’ve yet to see anyone cough that up!

    • @smoke-ja386
      @smoke-ja386 Před 4 lety +1

      Knowledge Allah: let me give you some advice.. before you assume I’m lying agin.. ask your oldest living realities if you from Indians or Africans... if they say Indian or African... then open up a free account for Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.com.. start with you, ur parents and keep pushing back in time.. on both sides.. perhaps you will be as fortunate as I and someone has already done a great deal of the work for you...past mid 1800’s... Open your mind and don’t take my word or anyone else’s for that fact.. It’s up to you to find your truth..However if you do this, some things you will learn will not be pleasant and make you angry... take ur emotions out of it.. and understand a lot has been told to us in reverse or not at all..the worst of this to know you been lied to perhaps all your life about who you are really..Don’t assume you are from anywhere..a damn DNA test ain’t gonna give you a paper trail..but genealogy will.

  • @marcusadamu1164
    @marcusadamu1164 Před 5 lety +3

    Not mine all my family was born here, my 7th grandmother was born in 1790 in South Carolina.
    DNA test is only for the living not died people, so you saying they dug up died peoples to get there DNA...lol and yes some slaves did mary Natives...

  • @terranceharris3090
    @terranceharris3090 Před 4 lety +2

    Look up dane calloway

  • @terranceharris3090
    @terranceharris3090 Před 4 lety +2

    Do your research queen

    • @whoisnickasmith
      @whoisnickasmith  Před 4 lety +7

      I'm a professional genealogist. I've been in the game for more than 20 years. I have. :)

    • @emmanuelervin5035
      @emmanuelervin5035 Před 2 lety

      @@whoisnickasmith I read somewhere that African Americans are mostly of Nigerian heritage, have you heard about this?