How some African women are bringing back tattoo traditions erased by colonization
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- This video explores African women's connection to tattooing and scarification, looking at how that connection was lost as a result of colonization. We follow Jessica Horn and Laurence Sessou on their mission to reverse centuries of colonialism, the erasure of traditional tattoo practices and the impact this has had on women's relationship with their bodies. This story is part of As Equals, CNN's ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. #CNN #News
This is absolutely lovely!! I wish this was longer in length.
So Biden is finally going to the southern border and CNN talks about African tattoos? LOL!
CNN, the Clown News Network 😂
Y'all are clearly Racist!
There isn't just one person working at any news network. They are capable of doing both. This isn't NEWS it's just a story for you to choose to watch, or not on YT...
CNN and all news channels are talking about a whole lot of current events that you are completely ignorant of, since you spend your time absorbing lies and propaganda instead of actual information.
Beautiful reporting, that is between Black American month and women's celebration. Love it!
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This is why you lost millions of viewers
ONE of the reasons they lost millions and millions and millions fo vewiers.
You don't find this history interesting?
Losing viewers like you is good riddance.
“Barack Obama is the first mainstream African American who is bright, articulate, and clean.” - Joe Biden
50% african ...
Why everything that they said or done have to bring some form of victim mentality in it?
@@user-hc7dd2rl5dcolonialism has been dead for 200 hundred years! Get over it
@@user-hc7dd2rl5dcolonialism died 200 years ago
Simple : After BLM your skin color better be dark enough to ask questions like that. They find power in victim mentality because woke culture facilitates that power, and there is a whole lot of influence to be had in that.
So if a Black person makes reference to colonialism in regards to something , that means that as white person you are not allowed to question that something , kind of how you are not allowed to question Islam or the Quran. So your critique is not only unwelcomed , you can be sure that it would be matched with you getting ousted, so you better know your place as they say.
@c7dd2rl5d Africa is decolonized. FYI before colonization most of the continent of Africa were still living in the stone age. Fast forward to today and slavery still exists in Africa. 2000 years ago Rome and most Roman cities had better sewers, better sanitation, and more clean drinking water than most African cities today. Read up on what's happening to Albinos in Tanzania. Seems like decolonizing is working out wonderfully. 😂😂👌👌
@@user-hc7dd2rl5dwrong because the UK benefited from Anglo-Saxon and Roman colonisation
To each their own. But it would seem irrational to have women whose family are generational born Americans to do this.
An "african" tatoo should get the she beast a free ticket back to africa.
Perhaps it's not about rationality?... perhaps it's emotional?... an emotional response to a multitude of historical 'wrongs' and of reclaiming their heritage?... personally i think the women involved looked stunningly beautiful (and, generally, i'm not a fan of tattoos)
@@MacMacPherson There was only one historical wrong and that was that those people were not brought back to Africa ...
Why? Do you think it's 'irrational' for white Americans to study, cherish, and revive the cultures of their European ancestors? Do you think English and German traditions are properly 'American' while African traditions are not? The more you look, the more you find African roots in many of America's most beloved traditions.
@@Hinterfrageyou guys are ridiculous. Africans sold africans into slavery. Im a ni ga and i know how ridiculous this media outlet is. It tries to persuade with false narrative to make you think a certain way. In actuality, the point is actually totally missed
This is a truly beautiful documentary and what an amazing honouring of these long traditions! Also a relief in a moment when we have so much despair and violence around us to remember that beauty and community and stories are also a part of our survival. This is the culture work our African continent needs.
Those are definitely not AMERICAN women...
These women have class and grace.
Why is this even news. Who cares.
YOU DO OBVIOUSLY FOOL SINCE YOU'RE HERE HUH 😏😏😏😅😂🤣
@@SNOOPYSNOOP1A
Exactly 💯💯💯💯
Great "Human interest" story besides the same old political bs....
Just because you do not care does not mean others do not as well.
This may come as a surprise but the world does not revolve around only thing that you like .
Yeah people found out about staph infections but yall do you
With these nasty she beastes a staph infection is the least of their worries. LOL
gorgeous!! i just don’t have the pain tolerance for my hands to be tattooed!😢
Do they all wear wigs?
“They”?
@@makeracistsafraidagain They as in Black woman!
WEAVES!
@@makeracistsafraidagainPretending to not understand people just makes you look highly unintelligent.
And WHITE Men Ben Wearing Wigs & Tupees Since The Beginning Of Time..............
This is why CNN is failing.
Could you be more specific ?
Facts they love pandering for black votes
@@ndalivallaud8979 It's just virtue signaling. It's pathetic.
Because they are reporting on things other than politics ?
They will not need to reach a $787.5 million settlement in a defamation lawsuit on this story.
Who cares
Happy Black History Month
Yet You're Here 🤡😂
If you’re not here to say something positive or show love, why are you here in the first place. Go do something other than degrade or belittle someone or something.
Colonization wouldn’t erase tattoo traditions.
Exactly, look at Hawaii. Great example, this is just horseshit division from CNN as usually. Point fingers and make people hate others....
Yes, colonization was not able to bring progress in every area ...
I am so delighted & relieved to find this video. I desire what’s referred to as a “moko kauae” or chin tattoo in Māori culture. But, I wanted my own ancestor’s markings and didn’t want to risk false accusations of cultural appropriation. Seeing this video, I feel warmth and a sense of belonging. Thank you for sharing.
How about teaching their kids to behave
Our 3 youngest white kids don't behave and have disciplinary problems at school. And our oldest two white kids are both serving time in prison...one rape and the other for murder.
@@dorado0359 Congratulations you be so proud, great job of parenting
Hawaii was colonized...and didn't get rid of tattoos??
Same for New Zealand. This story sounds made up to make it sound like the women are being "revolutionary" by getting a tramp stamp.
CNN - a new low 😂
CNN is arguably the most racist news network on planet earth
In April 2023, Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787.5 million settlement in a defamation lawsuit.
Oh CNN...
In 2023 an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes. A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. 1:37
What a beautiful stat to know. Sad though. But Africa is a continent, home to 1 billion people, 54 countries, over 2,500 languages with a rich history. But colonialism, neo-colonialism, slavery. The continent just had the last 60 years to get itself together, a feat that took the US, over 400 yrs and counting to achieve.
Breathe, a story on tattoo will not kill you, if you watch and not catastrophise
@@ramonagh According to UN data, 165 million children worldwide are too small for their age, or stunted, due to chronic malnutrition. Three quarters of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In sub-Saharan Africa, 40% of children are affected; in South Asia, 39%.
3.2 million children under the age of 5 die each year in sub-Saharan Africa - that's about half of the world's deaths in this age group.
Worldwide, nearly every second death in children under the age of five is due to malnutrition.
"tatoos are digusting but so are the people who have them ..all criminal types" LOL
Not I.
This looks like a dei advertisement. 😂😂😂
As a trans black man I'm glad I can use the race card like Fanny
As a liar, you're not good.
@@RichardQuaidthey/them is speaking their truth bigot
@@RichardQuaid
Being trans will soon be against the law if Republicans have their way.. so keep it on the down low.
Congratulations on your transition. 🎉❤
Stop the race baiting please. Tell us about Joe Biden's racist history if you want to get serious about Black History
Tattoos are not a good thing. Bible says don't do it
What scripture ?
thank you for this feature.
Tattoos do not make you beautiful😂😂😂
Neither does a judgmental, arbitrary, cruel, bigoted attitude.
Always something about race 😂
Congratulations to you. I am French, of Berber origin from Morocco. In Berber culture, women traditionally used to tattoo different parts of their bodies, a tradition that unfortunately is no longer perpetuated due, among other reasons, to religion. Some women even go as far as to have their tattoos removed, an entire aspect of this culture that is disappearing.
Amazigh tattoos are both superstition and an old trick to make young women more sellable to men in the past, like branding cows or camels. Thank God, it is something of the past! Stop hiding behind "culture" to promote something that is false and self-defeating.
Why are Tattoos forbidden by religion ? even if there is blood letting , it isn't self harm if someone else makes the tattoo for you.
@@phantomapprentice6749 It is forbidden in ALL monotheistic religions because you not deface God's creation.
@@farid7838 LOL Most raginig she beasts only believe in the God of crack cocaine and missing teeth.
Spare us this as its not worthy
Neither Are You 😂😂😂😂
Number of tattoos healing medical conditions in recorded history - 0
Black Lives MAGA
Sorry, I only made it to a little more than 3 minutes in on this clip….and goodness knows I’ll have a sleepless night contemplating the subject. 🤪
I’m black and I’m voting for Trump
Cant wait to see the lip disks and scarring patterns.
Me too!
Wow. Just wow. 😂😂😂
Where's the coverage on the us soldier that set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington dc??
Nothing says impulse control issues and damaged goods like a woman covered in tattoos.
Well said.
Thank You all Black voters who helped us defeat the establishment in South Carolina. We will not forget your vote once again . Grassy yaz. Dukasherrn. Djakuyu.
You know what they say. If she tattoos she $
Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has said that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of a blood clot.
“I may disappoint you, but as far as we know, he indeed died as a result of a blood clot. And this has been more or less confirmed,” Budanov told journalists on the sidelines at the “Ukraine. Year of 2024” forum on Sunday.
What a foreign relations disaster the Potato administration is
Just pathetic
Blood clots are easily caused by many violent actions, just as the bruises all over his body, and even if that is the official cause of death, your extrapolation into foreign relations by our administration, the most experienced, skilled, and effective at foreign relations we've had in decades, shows your absurd delusions and ignorance of political reality in America. Look in the mirror when you say 'pathetic'. Educated patriots are not fooled by your MAGA and Ruzzian nonsense. Plus, you show your bot agenda by interjecting this where it is totally irrelevant. Pathetic indeed.
Tattoos, just another idiotic way to treat your skin (your biggest organ) like the walls of public bathrooms.
Such a beautiful information,no wonder you guys are doing great,
Oh wait......
What a horrible title to this video.
Don't let trump see them
Congratulations on rediscovering ritual self mutilation. Well done.
Beautiful ❤.
I think this is cool. Nothing wrong with Retraditionalization
I got a Trump tattoo by an authentic African. Put me on the news!!! I'm Awesome!!
As asian here, want to research what those tatoo mean first. Tatoo is not aesthetic in asia and africa, those are very interlink with the old faith and shamanism. Becareful if you want the tatoos of old symbols. Several people died in indonesia because they recklessly immitated old dayak tatoo without knowing the meaning
So make African human trafficking tattoos standard? As much as I'm pro-tattoos , there's also a dark chapter of history surrounding tattoos that isn't all gone sadly. "Woke" people like to act as though Africa is some ideal but there are terrible things happening there and its messed up on such a fundamental social level that people don't even know where to begin fixing all of that..
U sound like a white person
People who use 'woke' as an insult demonstrate their ignorance and lack of empathy or ethical integrity. You are unaware of cultural reclamation. I am proud to be a witch, a slut, a patriotic progressive American, and heavily tattooed. I would much rather be awake than asleep, dead, or callously insensitive. Also I saw no trafficking tattoos in the video, so your point is bogus to begin with.
Beautiful! Many tanhks my Sisters ❤
Simply Gorgeous 😍 💖
How beautiful 😍 ❤ ♥
My gawd, the pursuit of forced bitterness from the past by Democrats is disgusting. Just to let you know, nobody's alive today that you can blame for 200 years ago. Get over yourselves.
White Supremacist... you're a joke.
If you think that Black Americans are going to stop talking about the American History of our slave ancestors and our 400 years of history in the United States...you can forget it.😂
Are they gonna start selling slaves again too?
CNN on top of the important issues... Colonizers and black women tatoos.
The jokes write themselves.
If for whites not burning, whipping and marking them, Black would have no idea how beautiful skin art can be. They should be thanking Whites for the idea
Normally I don't like tattoos but these are nice. Decades ago I met a new immigrant to Canada and he had symmetrical facial scarring as body art and it looked good on him. These tattoos are more beautiful than someone getting a Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck tattoo like a lady I had a one and only date with because of her silly judgement.
Tattoos are ugly. On everyone!
I Agree 💯 %
AND SO ARE YOU 😂
Later on in life, "Grandma is that a butterfly on your back"...LOL
Beautiful ❤
Slow news day? No anti Trump stories to run with ?
A lot of victimization in this!
I’m a registered democrat and I’m also Mexican American and in 2024 elections I will vote for TRUMP!
That's because you need to have your head examined.
Since these people want to return to their roots, I am assuming that these ladies live in Africa? Otherwise it makes very little sense...
The title says african women so .......
Nobody ever told them not to cut themselves up.
That's not true :" Tattoos are classified as dirty things, which is prohibited in Islam." and "Leviticus 19:28 Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves." so there are religions that forbid tattoos depending how you choose to interpret the text .
The original Leviticus text reads : וּכְתֹ֣בֶת קַֽעֲקַ֔ע לֹ֥א תִתְּנ֖וּ בָּכֶ֑ם where כְתֹ֣בֶת means "writing" so maybe as a Jew I choose to interpret it that only cheesy tattoo writings are forbidden and Tattoo images are fine for me to wear.
Emos ☕
@@phantomapprentice6749because the whites are known for islam lmao
Disgusting
I have the same thing but born symbolic father!
I got the bumblebee blessing!
How beautiful!
what nonsense. I was in Africa - the tattoo culture has not gone away, traditional African culture is still there.
From tattoos and costumes to fairy tales and folk songs.
They have their own culture, they don’t need Amazon and Netflix to film black people in film adaptations of European fairy tales.
They are still normal people.
Um bro , You are way out of line , If we don't get black Geralt in The Witcher 5 ,there would be riots. Need more opportunities for African-American actors, just cause we can't popularize our own fantasy genre doesn't mean we don't get to take over other's.
And more seriously , there seems to be an ongoing African-American identity crisis where they are part of western culture but their roots are not in western culture so they look to change the roots of western culture. In that respect maybe adapting things from African culture where they do have roots is a good idea and maybe Black artists can get inspired by African folklore rather than try to reinvent European folklore. I know that for me if something is good I'll watch it , I don't give a shit if the protagonist looks like me or childish nonsense like that.
❤️🔥☦️❤️🔥Truly beautiful ❤️🔥
Leviticus 19:28, "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord." Tatooing was something that our people adopted while in captivity in Egypt... that's why the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob commanded them coming out of Egypt to not print marks upon them; basically to not do as the heathen had done.
Nice knowledge ty
But you don't have a video up of the young man who felt so deeply about the pain of Palestinians the he stood outside the Israeli embassy and went up in flames. Last words, "Free Palestine! Free Palestine!"
If people know about them to bring them back, they can't have been erased, can they? I know logic isn't women's strong point, but there's a limit
She was talking about certain people who were not apart of the culture who would record information and would leave out certain things about the culture that they didn't like. That doesn't mean that the information is lost forever. There were other people inside the culture still passing it down and keeping the traditions alive.
@@GO-GO_SO-SO you're describing what the women in this segment are doing to Polynesian culture. It is a verified fact that there is no such thing as original African tattooing. This is like when Africa tried to claim cleopatra recently, completely absurd.
We all no about tribal bands.the aboriginal people here in AMERICA have better tats.we ain't got to go back there to see the truth😅
With Real World News, The World vs 45 and Facism.
You push this story?
Stop, just stop.
More historical falsehoods...this is like when they tried to claim Cleopatra but now they're going after Polynesian culture.
They look nice
Tattoos never went anywhere, woman wearing tattoos is nothing special!!! Nothing woman do is new or special, they have been around since the beginning of man and have done everything already, lots.
Not my cup of tea…I’m not into tattoos nor into women who do as a partner/wife…just gross from my perspective/belief…it’s cool if you want that for yourselves ladies….but there isn’t a need for them personally no matter what the justification….
😂😂😂
Alot of chicks could use FACE tattoos..... Start with Madonna
0:28 I don't get it, is it for beauty or is it a *tattoo?* Make up your mind. I almost agree with the colonists.
As for why I _don't_ agree, 2:06 thanks for covering yourself in warning labels.
CNN will defend the kingdom of Ashanti slavery next lmao
Bringing back? It never left! ☻
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This has nothing to do with Africa's history with tattoos but everything to do with what's trending, what's the in thing and of course making money. Of course different African cultures have their own history with tattoos but non is what this video talks about, this is all about what's trending and "let's" hitch our wagon on it. It's dreadlocks all over again!
日本が償いをしない。戦うべきだ。皇帝
Pls do Roscoe elementary las Angeles
Great Human Interest story....kudos to CNN.....keep'em coming....
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Why you dont talk about Aaron bushnell ?
Filzee sreggin just marking themselves in zero shame ...... bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 😅
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I bet they like the western technology though! Medical, automobile, computers, roads, hot running water, solid homes, safety, time keeping, microwave, fridge...etc but you'll never see them saying such thing.
You are crazy to think technology only advanced in the west
Everyone played a role in the advancement of technology
@@Michelle-ol7io what like? The discovery of fire?
@@NoHope-WhatSoEver lemme Educate you
refrigerator
JOHN STANDARD
Striking wall clock
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Automatic elevator door ALEXANDER MILES
Automatic gear shift
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Whaling harpoon
LEWIS TEMPLE
Hot comb /pomade
SARAH WALKER
Lubrication cup on trains
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Hypophyscope
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Far ultraviolet camera
GEORGE CARRUTHERS
Blood and pulse monitor device
MICHAEL CROSLIN
Spectrometer
ELMER IMES
Sonic transducer
JOHN KING
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PERCYJULIAN
Leprosy treatment injection
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Fire escape ladder
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Blood bank
CHARLES DREW
Ice cream scoop
ALFRED CRALLE
Gas mask and traffic signal
GARRETT MORGAN
Home camera security system
MARY VAN BROWN
Steam engine for ships
BENJAMIN BOARDLEY
@@NoHope-WhatSoEver gas mask and traffic signal
GARRETT MORGAN
Home camera security system
MARY VAN BROWN
Steam engine for ships
BENJAMIN BOARDLEY
Ice cream scoop
ALFRED CRALLE
X-ray spectrometer
GEORGE ALCORN
Blood banks
CHARLES DREW
Leprosy treatment injection
ALICE BALL
Street sweeper
CHARLES BROOKS
Airship
CHARLES F PAGE
@@NoHope-WhatSoEver the only thing your ancestors made as a home is an igloo
The first architect is a black man in Egypt IMHOTEP
The founders of modern day buildings are the moors
Putin must be held accountable for this horrific situation
Trumputin
I do enjoy diversity.
Wgaf