Don Lemon Meets His Enslaved Ancestors
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- In this clip, Don Lemon is brought to tears upon meeting his enslaved ancestors.
#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS. In the April 20th episode, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines how journalists Gretchen Carlson and Don Lemon were able to overcome biases in their careers, drawing parallels to relatives who met profound challenges of their own.
There are people in this country who don't want this history to be taught because it will make their children "feel bad". I wonder if they ever consider how the people "feel" who KNOW their ancestors went through this trauma. Their work helped make this the richest country in the history of the planet, and yet some people don't want to acknowledge their contributions and their PAIN, because it will "hurt Their FEELINGS"!!!
It should hurt their feelings. Not out of guilt, but from empathy. It's only when you can empathize with someone else that you can see them as you see yourself. That's why people don't want it taught. They don't want us to see each other as human. It's easier to hate and be at odds with those you don't understand or empathize with. If we don't know each other's stories, then we will believe whatever they tell us. Which are usually things - true or false - to further their agenda.
The WHOLE history is what you mean.
Americans remain uneducated on where the term Slave originated and which peoples were first enslaved and by whom.
Imagine being descendants of African kings who sold millions of their own people to be slaves in other countries. I’d imagine you have no idea this happened.
@@goatlandia8457 Imagine if modern people of the Americas stopped revising our history based on the construct of race. I mean what does that matter when European slave holders (Native ones as well) in the Americas had sex with enslaved women, maintained their offspring in an enslaved status, and sold them in markets in the Americas?
Amen
1:08 when he realised his family were "valued" at $1800 shit got real. His anger and tears are so appropriate 😭
I know this is so sad! Pfff how could they even put a price on human beings! They were so heartless!!!
It's like a trillion dollars in today's economy
He sold himself for far more.
People forget to redo currency for today
$1800 is worth around $43000 so they valued quite high.
This has a profound impact on you. When I found my second great grandfather listed by name as a slave on a census register it hit me like a brick. It’s something to be said seeing it with your own eyes.
I cried like a baby
Veronica makes an excellent point. I can't imagine the pain and despair Africans felt when they were shipped across the Atlantic, having to endure that entire transport, never to see their family members again. Hurt feelings? Please!
It's so emotionally to hear about Don Lemon's ancestors. It's amazing how the people of the past are still a part of us.
Of course, we carry their DNA so of course they live within us
So very moving. Such important knowledge.
I am as stunned as Don . How human beings can be treated as
property still baffles me . Why didn't someone end this madness sooner ?
Believe it or not slavery still exists
@@llittle139 their value on that ledger was $1800.00, that is over $60,000. in todays dollar, (ckeck it out), they were a VALUABLE asset- wrong as it was, they weren't always beaten like it is portrayed,
@@superrdrdrdrd dude what? 60,000 for a human life is fucking pitiful. and regardless of whether or not they were beaten, the sole fact remains that they were SLAVES. they were literally considered 3/5 of a human at the time and even then that was only because the pieces of shit who owned them wanted more political power.
Not for trade, I mean portrayed
@@superrdrdrdrd Are you saying that IF a slave wasn't beaten, then they were happy? They were OBJECTS...not humans. Most slaves were beaten, if the owner wasn't happy, for little things. So, stop justifying slavery. How would you feel if races were reversed, and you were owned by a black owner? You'd be singing a different tune. You obviously, don't value all races. You need to learn empathy, sympathy and compassion. Grow a heart..
I understand the tears. I have been working on my own family’s genealogy.
This made me cry 😢
"That's their worth?"
Ugh! 💔
One of the very best and fascinating PBS programs, I am wondering about my roots...
I can understand how difficult this would be to hear.
Dr. Gates, you MUST do my cousin Roger next: I’m white. He’s black. Old family legend had it that his great-great grandfather John married a slave woman, Elizabeth, maiden name unknown ...but...we don’t know. She’s listed as “mulatto” in South Carolina census records, but...we can find no marriage records in any Charleston, SC records. Elizabeth was black, John was white, it was in the 1840s...so...maybe they weren’t ABLE to be married due to their races? John died young of TB, we don’t know his birth date or place, but...we DO know about his brother Sully, MY great-Great grandfather. Roger and I have been in regular touch, and his name is actor and director Roger Guenveur Smith, who has starred in Spike Lee films. Roger is dying to know more about HIS genealogy, so you ought to contact him! His great-great grandparents are a huge mystery to us BOTH! 😲
How can you put a price tag on human beings????
we do it everyday even working for an hourly rate is putting a price on your life the average person in the US earns around a million dollars in their lifetime
Why is this show so hard to find? I love it but I wish it was somewhere else other than Amazon prime.
It’s on PBS and also the PBS app.
@@crabbyoldman1022 I could have sworn I checked PBS app. Thanks, I found it😊
@@Nocomment1 it’s my favorite show and I wouldn’t want anyone to miss out on it. You’re welcome.
You can also purchase the shows through CZcams
@@crabbyoldman1022 I couldn’t find it for free on PBS. All I found is a charge to watch PBS shows
Don Lemon puts humanity in to history for all
I think about this daily. I have my families records. It's motivation to keep going, to survive an alien terrorist invasion we had to have been superior in spirit. This was just a moment, not the beginning and not the last. Blessings to his ancestors!
More tears😭😭😭😭😭😭
💔
I'm crying
An entire family was valued at $1800. Wow!!! 😥
$59,640.59 today
It’s breathtaking in a bad way….
@LaylaBAE ♡ it means that only the wealthy could have slaves. you obviously need to do some simple research.
@@keithmccrary325 who cares only the wealthy only owns slaves still dehumanizing and sick that's why I doesn't do a ancestors background it's pointless especially (black Americans) of course it reveals our enslaved ancestors but i rather do Geneology before European invasion like how they really lived what language they spoke besides this united states was built on my ancestors backs blood,sweat and tears and the wealth came from free labor but my ancestors did wonders things around the world as well I learn something new everyday.
@@keithmccrary325 There are cars worth more than that. Putting monetary value on humans is absurd to begin with, but valuing a whole family less than a vehicle is obscene.
People have a right to know about their ancestors and the history of their families. History needs to be taught in a humane way thats shows its relevancy to everyone.
This is amazing but it pisses me off. My people treated like property and sold for chump change
- $1,800 in 1700 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $134,668.98 today
Love you Don 😘❤
That's where I came from......$1800 ... That hits hard
im not saying it makes it any better or anything and they dont give a year in this clip but that was probably equivalent to over 100k in todays money
It may not be so easy but people most go on with their lives go forward don't go back
1,800.? ☹️
Please do Joseph and Katherine Jackson! Such an incredible American family!
Know how many people can't find a past? Good or bad?
I was adopted at birth in the 80s and when the adoption agency went out of business, they burnt all of the records. I have found two first cousins on 23 and me, but they were both adopted as well. These people must’ve been throwing babies around, like nothing.
You know I always thought that African Americans since you living the American dream you never care about where you come from, but listen to ancestry I change my mind, you want to know. From South Africa 👍🇿🇦
Were getting shot by the police for no reasons other than the color of skin. You Africans think were living the American Dream. Its been a nightmare for 400 years.
@@sheltonmackey6449 No, Shelton. I'm South African and I know better. I have AA friends. This person may be really young, so is falling for the propaganda, Hollywood and hip versions of what it means to be AA, can't speak for them. But trust me, Africans for DAMN sure don't think that...
Even here in South Africa racism still exists mostly in work places especially in farm workers, and it is sad because this are our parent who are being killed, I feel that racism will never end.😔
This is why Africans and African Americans can’t see eye to eye y’all don’t know shit about us over here and don’t try to know and judge us for what we’re estranged from
Horrible.
$1,800 then is like a million today! You have to be proud of who you have become! Even today there is a silent slavery in Saudi Arabia and the some rich Arab countries, but we don't hear about them! It's a shame!
Check out dons discussion with Morgan freeman
They don't wanna teach this because it will show not all was slaves
$1800 was a lot.of money back then.
My family never had $1800 dollars.
We were to poor.
Just working the farm to feed themselves.
We were serfs coming to america for a better life.
We ALL have come a long way . All those worked had have done well in america
God Bless ALL of us.
Wonder if he reacts the same way to the other half of his family tree
I'M VIRTUE SIGNALING AS HARD AS I CAAAAAN!!!! haha
How do you virtue signal?
@@stikupartist3698 idk
It's not working. If you don't really care about these subjects then just stay out of the conversation. This means a lot to a Lot of people, and we don't need people like You here. In fact, why were you here in the first place? Are you a Racist?
They wasn't like you they were smart Righteous people God loveing people
Who do you mean?
He sold himself for a much higher price.
So did he use a time machine or what?
What do you mean?
African chiefs sold Don’s people though, keeping the money, Africa should pay black Americans reparations 😅. And those fake tears 😮😂
I know it’s a tough concept for people to understand, but slavery is not slavery is not slavery. American slavery in the south, was absolutely brutal, and was in effect genocidal. If you go look at the way, slaves were treated in Africa, or ancient Rome or ancient Greece, you will see that it is not all alike. The tribes that were selling other tribal members certainly didn’t expect them to be treated the way they were.
Gtreat; now he can get reparations from the Chiefs in Africa who saw his ancestors as a cash crop!!!!
And the slavecatchers and slave owners didn't make a DIME for 400 years? I guess the "Chiefs of Africa" PAID for the ships the English, Dutch, Portugese, French, Spaniards, etc. sailed to Africa in, coerced them to take these people off our hands and subject them to centuries of subjugation and torture? No, white people need to get over that LIE. Most historians say that the vast majority of slaves were captured in battles, or Kidnapped. The very few that were purchased from "Chiefs" were already prisoners and were sold as punishment.
Fake,, tears.LOL
Were any of your relatives ever slaves, considered property and had a cash value on them; or were any of your ancestors ever murdered; or were any of your relatives ever raped; or were any of your relatives ever whipped until they bled for not producing enough work, or for minor "infractions"; or were any of your relatives ever kidnapped and taken from their homeland; or were any of your relatives ever snatched away from their children or their parents never to see them again; were any of your relatives ever made forcibly to work from sun up to sun down with NO pay; were any of your relatives ever in a situation where they woke up Every single day, with NO hope of Ever being free; were any of your relatives ever lynched for crimes they didn't commit,; have any of your relatives ever faced the terror of nightriders who torched their home with their whole family in it, and/or their business out of pure hatred, and get away with it almost 100% of the time?? Wouldn't you shed a few tears, if not for your relatives, but for the realization that Only by the Grace of God was I not born in that era, And we are Still going through it now because of people like YOU, who don't understand, because apparently they have NO feelings whatsoever for their Own families and their ancestors.
True
How do you know?
Hope CNN goes down the Toilet.
I didn't know gays also have emotions
I've always found gay people to be very emotional, mainly because of THE WAY THEY ARE TREATED. Think about that.
This show is literally about the systemic cruelty that humans did to each other, and common humanity we all have. And you still find a way to be hateful. How disappointing.
Don't worry, white people didn't know that black people had emotions back in the 1800's. I think your ancestors are calling you.
@@oneplumpboi5317 Are u trying to compare gays to human beings?
@@jamesmuhoozi5812 Weird; I remember quite a few laws where they were considered "animals" and "property" but not humans.
His people would of off'd themselves if they knew he'd be a battyfish