If anyone thinks their pain is greater, they have not learned from it. I lived through apartheid South Afrika, segregated, and still fearful of white police coming in in the middle of the night, breaking doors in search of guns that our brother could potentially be hiding. It is that pain that has taught me empathy, understanding even to some of the African Americans who think lowly of Afrika. It is that pain that makes me understand the pain Afrikan Americans have as they watch people who look like them come in and be seen as different than them, it’s the same pain we Afrikans feel as we watch the life of opulence Afrikan Americans live as shown to us by the media, the media which selectively hide the pain and of Afrikan Americans but specifically choose to share the contrast between the violence and opulence. We need to remember one thing, when family is beefing, no one wins! Whiteness will gladly keep us all at loggerheads, because united blacks are a danger to all systems that have kept a black person at the bottom of the food chain. Melanin and being the children of the soil is our point of departure and we need to work from them and find our way back to each other. It’s all love from me.
Respect to Black Americans, Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Carribeans. As an African (Kenyan), just thought I would remind you that our people wee colonized, massacred in masses (Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Congo DRC and more), our resources stolen, White supremacy brought down on us in our own backyard and a lot more. There are Black people in India, Pakistan, Iran and the middle East who were captured from the East African coast too. It's a bloody past for all of us people of color. And, we hate and are suspicious of each other. yea.
Maniac50AE You would be welcome in Africa. Here in Africa things are a bit different. Most old people may not favor the association of their kids with Black Americans and their culture. The bad stereotypes portrayed by Hollywood of Black Americans is how most Africans who have never met one perceive them. As for the youth who use the internet more, they get access to more knowledge and generally perceive Black Americans cool and likable. And the African population is mostly youth, so, more people would welcome you than those who wouldn't. Communication is the Issue. There are millions of Black Americans who have never been to Africa and Africans who have never been to the USA. Africans know more about Arabs and Europeans than they know about US Blacks, who also know too little about Africans.
Adgegbe50 I understand your context. I write from the perspective of an African Born and Raised in Africa with basic knowledge of the USA mostly sourced from mainstream media. In-fact, I suspect that, you, having been raised in the USA would have an equally hard task getting along with other Africans in Africa.
As an african american I think all black people should come together, rather, you're african american, jamaican, nigerian,haitian,ghanian,kenyan,bahamian,ethiopian,trinidadian,or afro latinos. We all need to come together as one race and not ethnicities, united we stand,divided we fall.
+Cmack34 mill lolzzzz boy you need to go study marcus garvey : "who would trade an island for a continent?" Africa makes the world go round. serious. you should go look if up.
I think we have hurt our African brothers and sisters with name calling and in return they hurt us with name calling and distancing themselves from us when they come to America which have made most of us afraid to visit or move back to Africa two wrongs can't make a right something has to change we have good and bad everywhere but together we can over come it.
Ngm Mngw I doubt African Americans would have been colonized. They could colonize Africans because you love white people and you’d rather see a white man succeed over a blk man !
Is no African looking down on African American in my heart they are our brothers and sisters im from west Africa in country of ivory coast from malinke people we need to love each other in this country called America I'm praying our union some day soon
Some African Americans treat black immigrants very badly because of their accents, foods and clothes. Then blame all their issues on black immigrants. It's tiring.
I commend these people for starting the conversation. Having immigrated here (at the age of 9) with my family from Tanzania, I certainly agree that the African perspective of White Supremacy has not been as damaging and crippling as the American perspective of White Supremacy. And by American, I mean from Afro-Americans all the way to down to the Afro-Brazilians. This conversation needs to be had if we are all going to heal as a people and come together AS IT SHOULD BE. Divided we fall.
I LOVE THE FACT THAT MY PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP IN AMERICA AND "MAMA" AFRICA, ITS A BEAUTIFUL THING.. BUT A MAJOR TOPIC I THINK NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED AMONGST US IS HOW CAN WE UNITE AS ONE, GET OVER OUR DIFFERENCES FOR A GREATER CAUSE... TO POLITICALLY, AND ECONOMICALLY, TAKE BACK OUR HOMELAND.... WHAT CAN THE US AFRICAN DO TO HELP THE NATIVE AFRICAN DO TO CONTRIBUTE TO DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA... AND MAJING IT A PEACEFUL AND SAFE PLACE TO LIVE AND MAKING SURE NOTHING LIKE THE SLAVE TRADE EVER HAPPENS AGAIN.... THESE ARE THE THINGS I THINK WE ALL SHOULD COME TOGETHER AND FOCUS ON... BECAUSE DWELLING ON THE PAST WILL ONLY HINDER OUR FUTURE PROGRESS.... GOD BLESS AFRICA!!!
Great discussion, I noticed this channel haven't been active for a long time, I hope there will be more future content. I believe these types of important conversations between the native African and diasporians will help us to heal from past trauma, and brokenness.
This discussion was organized with a discussion guide covering education, economics and stress related to racism. Unfortunately didn't have enough time to include religion. Thanks for watching.
I like the makeup of this panel Nigeria Jamaica United States Cameroon and Togo very different aspects of African Diaspora but all of them fit and they're sharing their experiences this is an effective panel and an effective discussion
Africans immigrants in USA are basically foreigners. You black American as the local is supposed to welcome the foreigner. If Africans are distancing themselves from you , it means they’re not welcomed by you. Black Americans are the ones to quickly tell Africans to go back to Africa and make fun of Africa and the culture. You do all that and on top of that cry victim. Go to Africa and see how welcoming the locals are and compare that to black Americans
The way we discuss slavery stories makes Africans feel like the people taken away for free labor are not the Human Resources of Africans ,they are equally the African Economy so to speak..They are our own Brothers ,Sisters,Father,Mother’s and children too. Between the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. At the same time, African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination. By the early twentieth century, however, much of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, had been colonized by European powers. The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution. The imperatives of capitalist industrialization-including the demand for assured sources of raw materials, the search for guaranteed markets and profitable investment outlets-spurred the European scramble and the partition and eventual conquest of Africa. Thus the primary motivation for European intrusion was economic. There are libraries to study this things .Slavery damage African Americans,just as Colonialism damages the Africa continent..
Africans sold off there our tribal people!!! & Africans also sold off rival tribes & Europeans towards the end of the slave trade kidnapped Africans it all happened.. but what’s true is that none of the slave trade would of happened with out the cooperation of the African tribes!! Just watch a documentary on Netflix about the creation of Nigeria it’s really good!! & it explains
I think topics such as this go beyond the hight of general discrimination towards "black people" and, of course, intra-discrimination. To inner-stand or understand that the only channel through which the black race can, once again, in human history, can make this world a better place for living (which, of course, is our sole responsibility) is by working steadfastly towards being ONE again & reestablish our consciousness on the face of earth! Meanwhile this video is a positive contribution.
So you all know nothing or forgot about African born Amado Diallo who was shot 40 in the back by NY police officers when he went into his pocket to get his wallet to show them his ID
Thank you for all the comments. I have yet to produce another discussion. This time it will include religion and international diaspora connections (immersion programs for African Americans and economic initiatives to build isolated markets for rural continental Africans etc). On another note looking at some of the opinions expressed here reminds me how much of a muscle the brain is. You can not allow pain and fear to form your ideas for you, they should be tools to grow and be courageous. As far as white supremacy, there is no such thing. For those of us anchored in who we and our Ancestors are, this sort of gibberish doesn't even move a tail feather. To care would be as if to seek the acceptance of the same degenerative dysfunction that in vain tried to destroy us. Unfortunately, for them history has spoken and the mother will always know her children accordingly.
+Cmack34 mill what you are saying is flawed. Africans and African-Americans share the same ancestors so you cannot not blame present day Africans for what our ancestors did hundred of years ago.
Idongesit Okon Pick a so called Africans American and see we all not hate Africans and study our history beyond the white educational school system! I don’t know why it’s a topic of Africans vs African Americans and I’m tired of it! Why are we are you guys main focus! We need to focus on positivity not negativity!
The fact that you had to wait until they speak so you can be able to identify through the accents proves that we are one and the same. Like if you are to find these people just sitted together quiet, you wouldn't be able to tell who is from Togo, America, the Caribbean and so forth..🤔We are one and the same regardless of dialects and accents.
Is their anyway the panel can discuss which African countries and cities have the biggest African American communities that settle there overtime? I want to move to somewhere in Africa but have no clue where to start.
Black Americans treats us Africans different like we are another race . Like we not" black" n by how they say that it's like they're degrading our ethnicity n nationality. I'M O.G SOUTH AFRICAN however I have a slight British n American accents. N therefore black Americans says that I speak white .. coming to a jump of it. As an African I see black Americans as white ppl under a black skin. No disrespect. But that's how as Africans we see black Americans.. we see em different from ourselves too. I BLAME IT ON THE MEDIA DOE .
There can be no solidarity between the diaspora without a mutual respect & reconciliation. If Pan-Africanism is serious its first order of business is the reconciliation of the diaspora; to make amends to the sons & daughters it cast off in the countries of their births. As AA we have suffered greatly under a white supremacist society & government. Psychological trauma that still effects us to this very day.
Hi edagdwg thanks for sharing as a born Americans as black no matter we're you grow up we are black person. As law treating each other I'm better than you we all are gods greation of us all intergreating color is the main reason we fight each other because blacks marry other people to feel better I'm not like you sad Linda j ☮️❤️ ❤️💯 💯
I was confused by the first speaker, the lady in the pink shirt, when she said she identified as African-American...I’m assuming she meant she considers herself a part of the Black American (descendant of American chattel slavery) ethnic group....I don’t like that our lineage is not something you can take off and put on, either your are a descendant of American chattel slavery or you’re not.
Africa is a huge and second largest continent in the world. Different countries went through different experiences during the colonial days. The panel from Africa is not well represented. In Southern African countries, people including children were hanged under a tree just like the other American 🇺🇸 gentlemen has described. People who were resisting their lands to be occupied and taken from them were beheaded and their heads were sent to UK and European museums as war trophies and proof that they were actually dead. In Southern African countries we all know about white supremacy, apartheid and so on because we grew up with it. and that’s why we were so much connected with black Americans because of sharing the same history of slavery and went through the same experiences. We grew up adoring Black Americans. Loving their music etc. It really surprised me that there’s so much hatred amongst one people. Really sad 😞
Most of you people in the comments( if not all) are too far in the box....come outside the box. this whole era of an awakening of a particular people is divinely inspired whatever imperfections you see on hear will be divinely corrected....all praise to the most high
Why do people of africa and those of african decent constantly struggle within every generation with the whole, "I'm more superior the you" mentality, and if you look at black peoples in general around the world as a whole, we are and have always been in the same boat in the eyes of the "non-black" world as "sub-human," and or backwards when it comes to cultures,physicalities,etc! Our (generalization) problems are SPIRITUAL in nature, and can be traced all the way back to scene in the Bible between Noah and his three sons, and the curse that fell upon the so-called progenitor of all "black" peoples, Ham! GOD bless us all!!!
its stupidity and ignorance. Usually the ones that have been hurt by African Americans. Such as being called an African booty scratcher are the ones who try to insult and distance themselves from African Americans. I have been tempted to hate African Americans by African Americans themselves who were extraordinarily mean to me. But heck, that doesn't change fact? Just because an African American is mean to an African doesn't change the fact that they are related. So I roll with it. I accept black people as my bros and sisters and Look to a better future for ALL OF US.
Joy Ocean good question but its got nothing to do with this page the issues are centred around americans not Africans and the way American blacks RESENT the AFRICAN and other foreign black presence in their country . its obvious from the way the discussion was headed that confrontation was going to be the outcome if you followed the path that Jamaican woman was headed, belittling the struggles of Africans and clearly she has NO INTEREST in them is what is getting my back up . I wont give you the time of day if you are going to start with that crap . is it a COMPETITION ?
Why do some African Americans think that slavery was worse than whatever oppression continental Africans endured? My African American brothers/sisters, it wasn't. Continental Africans had their own share of the white man's bs. Some of you guys need to read about King Leopold the second of Belgium and the people of Congo, the Germans and the Namibians, not to talk about apartheid South Africa. No matter where the black man lived, be it America or Africa, the treatment was the same.
I enjoyed the videos and I think this will be an excellent ideal and Iam really interesting in learning more about the life in Africa as a black American...and I totally disagrees with all of the negative stereotypes of black Americans cultures because we're are not all the same people we are different kinds of people with different types of mind framesets.meaning we all don't think alike are living our life's the same here.I myself is a black American and I really hate it here and iam a very intelligent hard working woman and Im In school. and always been very independent I have been thinking strongly about packing up my family and I moving to africa but I don't really have a clue of what mylife would be like if I did that.here in America is allot of hatred and killings of the black American culture and no justice and civil rights.I will highly appreciated if someone That's their in Africa could please do a video on this topics?(black Americans new life in Africa all of what to expect as a new residential there) thank you!
Hi, more ppl are are doing just what you're contemplating..There's a sister from New York whose You Tube video I enjoyed, titled "African American in Africa" and another one hers " VILLAGE LIFE PART 1". This young graduate's life story like many others will inspire you to make that leap. I personally took four brothers and a sister to visit Ghana and since then, they've never been the same. They are more with ideas of what to do in life than before the trip. My other friend who hailed from Alabama and mentored me and I worked for in real estate and construction, will be going again to start a big poultry farming next year. My dear, you have been exposed to the best education and it's time to take that exposure to a fertile land where your education and new way of thinking is needed. The next frontier is Africa and not Mars. If you need more info, write me at kofisulla@yahoo.com and I'll be more than happy to link you up and you may not have to live in a hotel.
Agboka D5K PEACE AND BLESSINGS SISTER.....I DEFINITELY WILL LIKE TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION.. IM SERIOUSLY THINKING ABOUT TRAVELING TO GHANA MYSELF SOMETIME THIS YEAR...
My opinion is blacks need to be Nice Nice that's missing from ya culture .here what ya need success. ....to others u show love be Nice Be Amaible...absorb this motto ..( with Great power comes great responsibility.)..:.always be nice to other races groups ....never be menacing .never ...always befriend ..others .that's key for global equality........
this is a sensitive topic. when you talk about blacks, that should give unity but when you hear about African American bullying and insulting Africans then am lost. who is going to unite black people?
Did that black guy said he was of Spanish on Indian background, damn he mix why is he apart of it, yea I see is skin color a lot of people out there that are mix but just because they skin is black they are accepted on when you have a black person clearly as too black parents but genetically looks different probably because there parents have a little white blood in them, they come out brown skin with smaller gestures yet they close to a 100 percent Africans lol they are denied, problem with black people they dont know who the true black people are on that have ties with the land smh
1st of all black Americans are mixed people my mother is Irish and Cherokee Indian and my father's black side of h*** does that make me African please man we're not African Americans we are black Americans
We are neither africans nor african Americans look up the origin of both names they are of Europeans a Roman GENERAL leo scipio Africanus and A ITALIAN EXPLORER Amerigo vespucci we are israelites Negroes are shemetic not Hametic zondervan bible dictionary concerning Ham Ham the youngest son of Noah born probably 96yrs before the flood and one of the eighth person to live through the flood he became the progenitor of all the dark nations BUT NOT THE NEGROES But The EGYPTIANS LYBIANS and Caananites we are israelites Deuteronomy 28-68 read the curses of the covenant this is how you identify the true children of israel
I don't consider myself as African. I am an American. I don't need Africa for my self Identity and to know who I am as a person. I know who I am as an American. I don't need Africa or Africans to know who I am.
I am African America and I want to refer to myself as African but people would look at me weird. I don't understand why people want to call themselves black.
We were tought that we were black , dirty, and ugly. At a point we accepted being black, but also beautiful, and powerful and proud. I could have never identify with Africa, having never been there or knowing where I could have come from. I remember being embarrassed when a teacher made an example of me to prove, that I didn't know where I came from.
if i see your picture i can guess where in Africa you come from, or you can visit africanancenstory.com and take the DNA test to really know where you come from
For those of us that are “black” we struggle with identifying withAfricans because most of us are really native Americans . Indigenous to the Americas not Africa.
because of the tropical weather there and also most African American are kind of mixed. however there are many African American who are as dark as Africans
Yahdiah Yahdiam you don't have to be that rude to her. i agree with you that the question is kind of "stupid", but she may not be aware of that. so instead of being rude. the best thing to do is just to inform her.
Being dark doesn't make you more African. Sorry, Hun, you're of African descent. There are dark and light Africans and African Americans. We're cut from the exact same cloth, boo. It's also sad that you make it seem that being dark is a bad thing, very sad kind of mentality. I will pray for your kind.
Africans and African Americans are not the same. African Americans are Mixed race and are 20-30% European whereas Africans are 0% European. African Americans are essentially dark skinned Europeans.
Black Panther why do you even call yourself black panther black panther was made as a African hero you're just a house nigga that don't know what you're talkin about shut the fuck up
If anyone thinks their pain is greater, they have not learned from it. I lived through apartheid South Afrika, segregated, and still fearful of white police coming in in the middle of the night, breaking doors in search of guns that our brother could potentially be hiding. It is that pain that has taught me empathy, understanding even to some of the African Americans who think lowly of Afrika. It is that pain that makes me understand the pain Afrikan Americans have as they watch people who look like them come in and be seen as different than them, it’s the same pain we Afrikans feel as we watch the life of opulence Afrikan Americans live as shown to us by the media, the media which selectively hide the pain and of Afrikan Americans but specifically choose to share the contrast between the violence and opulence. We need to remember one thing, when family is beefing, no one wins! Whiteness will gladly keep us all at loggerheads, because united blacks are a danger to all systems that have kept a black person at the bottom of the food chain. Melanin and being the children of the soil is our point of departure and we need to work from them and find our way back to each other. It’s all love from me.
If anyone thinks their pain is greater, they have not learned from it. I lived through apartheid South Afrika, segregated, and still fearful of white police coming in in the middle of the night, breaking doors in search of guns that our brother could potentially be hiding. It is that pain that has taught me empathy, understanding even to some of the African Americans who think lowly of Afrika. It is that pain that makes me understand the pain Afrikan Americans have as they watch people who look like them come in and be seen as different than them, it’s the same pain we Afrikans feel as we watch the life of opulence Afrikan Americans live as shown to us by the media, the media which selectively hide the pain and of Afrikan Americans but specifically choose to share the contrast between the violence and opulence. We need to remember one thing, when family is beefing, no one wins!
Whiteness will gladly keep us all at loggerheads, because united blacks are a danger to all systems that have kept a black person at the bottom of the food chain. Melanin and being the children of the soil is our point of departure and we need to work from them and find our way back to each other. It’s all love from me.
I'm an African Antarctican and I would like to salute all my African brothers and sisters.
AFRICAN ANTARCTICAN? WAOUH!! SALUTE BRO. SO WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
😂😂😂😂😂
you are probably more genetically related to White Europeans.
True
@@studmalexy you missed the joke. Smh.
Respect to Black Americans, Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Carribeans. As an African (Kenyan), just thought I would remind you that our people wee colonized, massacred in masses (Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Congo DRC and more), our resources stolen, White supremacy brought down on us in our own backyard and a lot more. There are Black people in India, Pakistan, Iran and the middle East who were captured from the East African coast too. It's a bloody past for all of us people of color. And, we hate and are suspicious of each other. yea.
Nairobi, Kenya
Maniac50AE You would be welcome in Africa. Here in Africa things are a bit different. Most old people may not favor the association of their kids with Black Americans and their culture. The bad stereotypes portrayed by Hollywood of Black Americans is how most Africans who have never met one perceive them. As for the youth who use the internet more, they get access to more knowledge and generally perceive Black Americans cool and likable. And the African population is mostly youth, so, more people would welcome you than those who wouldn't. Communication is the Issue. There are millions of Black Americans who have never been to Africa and Africans who have never been to the USA. Africans know more about Arabs and Europeans than they know about US Blacks, who also know too little about Africans.
+Antonio Achi lol no
Why ?
Adgegbe50 I understand your context. I write from the perspective of an African Born and Raised in Africa with basic knowledge of the USA mostly sourced from mainstream media. In-fact, I suspect that, you, having been raised in the USA would have an equally hard task getting along with other Africans in Africa.
As an african american I think all black people should come together, rather, you're african american, jamaican, nigerian,haitian,ghanian,kenyan,bahamian,ethiopian,trinidadian,or afro latinos. We all need to come together as one race and not ethnicities, united we stand,divided we fall.
Ashé
+Cmack34 mill lolzzzz boy you need to go study marcus garvey : "who would trade an island for a continent?" Africa makes the world go round. serious. you should go look if up.
What are you talking about? we all came from Africa whites,Chinese, Indians,everybody. The first human were in Africa please do some research smh.
Deon Jacobs And it's sad because you think that actually matters. Read your comment and analyze the irony.
Deon Jacobs I said the something
I think we have hurt our African brothers and sisters with name calling and in return they hurt us with name calling and distancing themselves from us when they come to America which have made most of us afraid to visit or move back to Africa two wrongs can't make a right something has to change we have good and bad everywhere but together we can over come it.
Susan Jackson Preach this is on point thank you for this
They sold out ancestors for 400 years ok the 2 are not the same
Ngm Mngw
I doubt African Americans would have been colonized. They could colonize Africans because you love white people and you’d rather see a white man succeed over a blk man !
Is no African looking down on African American in my heart they are our brothers and sisters im from west Africa in country of ivory coast from malinke people we need to love each other in this country called America I'm praying our union some day soon
@spanish rampage some African Americans are living in West Africa.
Spanish flying shit out of your mouth.
I'm in favor of the African diaspora coming together and rising!
Sheri Townsend
And you will find resistance! Why align with traitors?
rising?
EvilEddy You must be the enemy
Thank you for posting this! The discussion was on point.
Some African Americans treat black immigrants very badly because of their accents, foods and clothes. Then blame all their issues on black immigrants. It's tiring.
I don’t I love Africans I love the food clothes and accent they have my favorite African dish to eat is cassava leaf
I commend these people for starting the conversation. Having immigrated here (at the age of 9) with my family from Tanzania, I certainly agree that the African perspective of White Supremacy has not been as damaging and crippling as the American perspective of White Supremacy. And by American, I mean from Afro-Americans all the way to down to the Afro-Brazilians. This conversation needs to be had if we are all going to heal as a people and come together AS IT SHOULD BE. Divided we fall.
U're right ma brother well come back Tanzania as u know we loving ppl .
Una ongea Swahili fluently?
I LOVE THE FACT THAT MY PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP IN AMERICA AND "MAMA" AFRICA, ITS A BEAUTIFUL THING.. BUT A MAJOR TOPIC I THINK NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED AMONGST US IS HOW CAN WE UNITE AS ONE, GET OVER OUR DIFFERENCES FOR A GREATER CAUSE... TO POLITICALLY, AND ECONOMICALLY, TAKE BACK OUR HOMELAND.... WHAT CAN THE US AFRICAN DO TO HELP THE NATIVE AFRICAN DO TO CONTRIBUTE TO DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA... AND MAJING IT A PEACEFUL AND SAFE PLACE TO LIVE AND MAKING SURE NOTHING LIKE THE SLAVE TRADE EVER HAPPENS AGAIN.... THESE ARE THE THINGS I THINK WE ALL SHOULD COME TOGETHER AND FOCUS ON... BECAUSE DWELLING ON THE PAST WILL ONLY HINDER OUR FUTURE PROGRESS.... GOD BLESS AFRICA!!!
no one is born full of hate. Hatred is taught and learned
History of white people proves otherwise.
why do African AMericans hate America and hate white people?
Mr Hole dumb ass comment. Wtf do u think why we dont like america and white ppl. ALL U GOT TO DO IS LOOK BACK ON HISTORY AND SEE WHY WE DONT.
@@studmalexy That's really a stupid question.
@@GhostCell47 its true..why do blacks hate white people?
Great discussion, I noticed this channel haven't been active for a long time, I hope there will be more future content.
I believe these types of important conversations between the native African and diasporians will help us to heal from past trauma, and brokenness.
This discussion was organized with a discussion guide covering education, economics and stress related to racism. Unfortunately didn't have enough time to include religion. Thanks for watching.
We need to find ways to coexist properly by finding ways to deal with our culture clashes and help each other too
Africa has no beef change your topics to Africa diaspora and Africa America... am in Kenya and I speak for my ppl in Kenya we have no beef with AA
EUNICE KAVENGI Africans worldwide don't care really.
True! we have no beef with anyone.
We are not African why has Africa never came to claim us We are aboriginals you play this as if you all don't know we are not African
@@thinkinoutloudd5511 What exactly do you mean by "claim us"
I’m from Mali and feel the same
GREAT VIDEO!! Post More! This is so inspiring
I like the makeup of this panel Nigeria Jamaica United States Cameroon and Togo very different aspects of African Diaspora but all of them fit and they're sharing their experiences this is an effective panel and an effective discussion
Interesting topic!
i think you should expand it, it could a good platform... we are interested , good job
As a black man in America I faced more prejudice, racism & disrespect from black people those from Africa to be exact
Africans immigrants in USA are basically foreigners. You black American as the local is supposed to welcome the foreigner. If Africans are distancing themselves from you , it means they’re not welcomed by you. Black Americans are the ones to quickly tell Africans to go back to Africa and make fun of Africa and the culture. You do all that and on top of that cry victim. Go to Africa and see how welcoming the locals are and compare that to black Americans
This is one of the best discussions I've witnessed thanks allot for the upload!!!
Cameroon speak both french and english just like canada, i guess they were part of Nigeria before, but the british gave it to french colony .
The way we discuss slavery stories makes Africans feel like the people taken away for free labor are not the Human Resources of Africans ,they are equally the African Economy so to speak..They are our own Brothers ,Sisters,Father,Mother’s and children too. Between the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. At the same time, African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination. By the early twentieth century, however, much of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, had been colonized by European powers.
The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution. The imperatives of capitalist industrialization-including the demand for assured sources of raw materials, the search for guaranteed markets and profitable investment outlets-spurred the European scramble and the partition and eventual conquest of Africa. Thus the primary motivation for European intrusion was economic.
There are libraries to study this things .Slavery damage African Americans,just as Colonialism damages the Africa continent..
Africans sold off there our tribal people!!! & Africans also sold off rival tribes & Europeans towards the end of the slave trade kidnapped Africans it all happened.. but what’s true is that none of the slave trade would of happened with out the cooperation of the African tribes!! Just watch a documentary on Netflix about the creation of Nigeria it’s really good!! & it explains
Interesting..I like
I love that wow wow.we can't wait to see our growing to love and respect each other.I wish we can start the same in Europe
The shame of Africa is attributed to a large extent wrongfully to every "black" person. It's time you unite to restore pride to the continent.
BEST DISCUSSION EVERRRRR
See you all at PanAfest 2019 GHANA!!!!
A very intelligent and thoughtful discussion by all participants. Bravo.
I think topics such as this go beyond the hight of general discrimination towards "black people" and, of course, intra-discrimination. To inner-stand or understand that the only channel through which the black race can, once again, in human history, can make this world a better place for living (which, of course, is our sole responsibility) is by working steadfastly towards being ONE again & reestablish our consciousness on the face of earth! Meanwhile this video is a positive contribution.
The family, Hotep!
So you all know nothing or forgot about African born Amado Diallo who was shot 40 in the back by NY police officers when he went into his pocket to get his wallet to show them his ID
Thank you for all the comments. I have yet to produce another discussion. This time it will include religion and international diaspora connections (immersion programs for African Americans and economic initiatives to build isolated markets for rural continental Africans etc). On another note looking at some of the opinions expressed here reminds me how much of a muscle the brain is. You can not allow pain and fear to form your ideas for you, they should be tools to grow and be courageous. As far as white supremacy, there is no such thing. For those of us anchored in who we and our Ancestors are, this sort of gibberish doesn't even move a tail feather. To care would be as if to seek the acceptance of the same degenerative dysfunction that in vain tried to destroy us. Unfortunately, for them history has spoken and the mother will always know her children accordingly.
+Cmack34 mill Africans have attitudes .
+Souleyefilms I just discovered your channel and I am quite impressed. Great work.
+C HUSTLE We all have attitudes unfortunately.
+Souleyefilms Are you one of these "let's all move back to Africa" black people?
+Cmack34 mill what you are saying is flawed. Africans and African-Americans share the same ancestors so you cannot not blame present day Africans for what our ancestors did hundred of years ago.
Too much talk, if you want to know Africa, pick a country in African and Go..... Am just tired of talking
Idongesit Okon Pick a so called Africans American and see we all not hate Africans and study our history beyond the white educational school system! I don’t know why it’s a topic of Africans vs African Americans and I’m tired of it! Why are we are you guys main focus! We need to focus on positivity not negativity!
Yes like that's going to change anything hahaha
yes sister you r right any place and Africa country just get your flight go visit first because a new or school staff clean pleople mind
The fact that you had to wait until they speak so you can be able to identify through the accents proves that we are one and the same. Like if you are to find these people just sitted together quiet, you wouldn't be able to tell who is from Togo, America, the Caribbean and so forth..🤔We are one and the same regardless of dialects and accents.
Is their anyway the panel can discuss which African countries and cities have the biggest African American communities that settle there overtime? I want to move to somewhere in Africa but have no clue where to start.
if you are black my dear no one will even know you are not born there. we learn alot from AA folks we love them
Kerena Only come to Ghana and settled
Kerena we got almost 0% of AA here, we got a lot of white folk here in Nigeria tho....yeah we love us some white folks here in Africa
you are likely going to be Nigerian,
Ghana has a large A.A population!!!
Interesting!
I love her too! I have the privilege of working with her and I learn so much from her everyday. She is so knowledgeable and wise about racial issues.
Christopher Crump
Christopher Crump
Love this, we need more of this!
Black Americans treats us Africans different like we are another race . Like we not" black" n by how they say that it's like they're degrading our ethnicity n nationality. I'M O.G SOUTH AFRICAN however I have a slight British n American accents. N therefore black Americans says that I speak white .. coming to a jump of it. As an African I see black Americans as white ppl under a black skin. No disrespect. But that's how as Africans we see black Americans.. we see em different from ourselves too. I BLAME IT ON THE MEDIA DOE .
HaloedG Yes their are nubian people in Spain
There can be no solidarity between the diaspora without a mutual respect & reconciliation. If Pan-Africanism is serious its first order of business is the reconciliation of the diaspora; to make amends to the sons & daughters it cast off in the countries of their births. As AA we have suffered greatly under a white supremacist society & government. Psychological trauma that still effects us to this very day.
African Americans are proud full Africans are humbled
Soon as I heard SPNN I'm like are they in Minnesota The last lady confirmed
Hi edagdwg thanks for sharing as a born Americans as black no matter we're you grow up we are black person. As law treating each other I'm better than you we all are gods greation of us all intergreating color is the main reason we fight each other because blacks marry other people to feel better I'm not like you sad Linda j ☮️❤️ ❤️💯 💯
I was confused by the first speaker, the lady in the pink shirt, when she said she identified as African-American...I’m assuming she meant she considers herself a part of the Black American (descendant of American chattel slavery) ethnic group....I don’t like that our lineage is not something you can take off and put on, either your are a descendant of American chattel slavery or you’re not.
Africa is a huge and second largest continent in the world. Different countries went through different experiences during the colonial days. The panel from Africa is not well represented. In Southern African countries, people including children were hanged under a tree just like the other American 🇺🇸 gentlemen has described. People who were resisting their lands to be occupied and taken from them were beheaded and their heads were sent to UK and European museums as war trophies and proof that they were actually dead. In Southern African countries we all know about white supremacy, apartheid and so on because we grew up with it. and that’s why we were so much connected with black Americans because of sharing the same history of slavery and went through the same experiences. We grew up adoring Black Americans. Loving their music etc. It really surprised me that there’s so much hatred amongst one people. Really sad 😞
I really want us to come together. Think about how strong we will be and how we can dismantle white supremacy!
Most of you people in the comments( if not all) are too far in the box....come outside the box. this whole era of an awakening of a particular people is divinely inspired whatever imperfections you see on hear will be divinely corrected....all praise to the most high
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None of these people look black American by lineage. Maybe citizenship
Why do people of africa and those of african decent constantly struggle within every generation with the whole, "I'm more superior the you" mentality, and if you look at black peoples in general around the world as a whole, we are and have always been in the same boat in the eyes of the "non-black" world as "sub-human," and or backwards when it comes to cultures,physicalities,etc! Our (generalization) problems are SPIRITUAL in nature, and can be traced all the way back to scene in the Bible between Noah and his three sons, and the curse that fell upon the so-called progenitor of all "black" peoples, Ham! GOD bless us all!!!
its stupidity and ignorance. Usually the ones that have been hurt by African Americans. Such as being called an African booty scratcher are the ones who try to insult and distance themselves from African Americans. I have been tempted to hate African Americans by African Americans themselves who were extraordinarily mean to me. But heck, that doesn't change fact? Just because an African American is mean to an African doesn't change the fact that they are related. So I roll with it. I accept black people as my bros and sisters and Look to a better future for ALL OF US.
also please don't believe that ham nonsense. We don't know who ham is. Plus civilizations rise and fall.
Joy Ocean America got problems I don't like to deal with americans because they have issues that are annoying
oriolori89 lol. but they are still real issues. Ori taani lo gbe sori ti o fin pe ara e ni oriolori?
Joy Ocean good question but its got nothing to do with this page the issues are centred around americans not Africans and the way American blacks RESENT the AFRICAN and other foreign black presence in their country . its obvious from the way the discussion was headed that confrontation was going to be the outcome if you followed the path that Jamaican woman was headed, belittling the struggles of Africans and clearly she has NO INTEREST in them is what is getting my back up . I wont give you the time of day if you are going to start with that crap . is it a COMPETITION ?
Why do some African Americans think that slavery was worse than whatever oppression continental Africans endured? My African American brothers/sisters, it wasn't. Continental Africans had their own share of the white man's bs. Some of you guys need to read about King Leopold the second of Belgium and the people of Congo, the Germans and the Namibians, not to talk about apartheid South Africa. No matter where the black man lived, be it America or Africa, the treatment was the same.
She turns me off in wearing a systhetic weave in speaks volumes.
Ase'
It's a world of black vs white
Very cool
+Love's Culture Mashup wearing extra clothing will warm you up .
+William Butler 😅 yeah okay
LCMsh
Im with the woman in grey. Its wrong to compare different struggles to each other.
I enjoyed the videos and I think this will be an excellent ideal and Iam really interesting in learning more about the life in Africa as a black American...and I totally disagrees with all of the negative stereotypes of black Americans cultures because we're are not all the same people we are different kinds of people with different types of mind framesets.meaning we all don't think alike are living our life's the same here.I myself is a black American and I really hate it here and iam a very intelligent hard working woman and Im In school. and always been very independent I have been thinking strongly about packing up my family and I moving to africa but I don't really have a clue of what mylife would be like if I did that.here in America is allot of hatred and killings of the black American culture and no justice and civil rights.I will highly appreciated if someone That's their in Africa could please do a video on this topics?(black Americans new life in Africa all of what to expect as a new residential there) thank you!
Hi, more ppl are are doing just what you're contemplating..There's a sister from New York whose You Tube video I enjoyed, titled "African American in Africa" and another one hers " VILLAGE LIFE PART 1". This young graduate's life story like many others will inspire you to make that leap.
I personally took four brothers and a sister to visit Ghana and since then, they've never been the same. They are more with ideas of what to do in life than before the trip.
My other friend who hailed from Alabama and mentored me and I worked for in real estate and construction, will be going again to start a big poultry farming next year.
My dear, you have been exposed to the best education and it's time to take that exposure to a fertile land where your education and new way of thinking is needed. The next frontier is Africa and not Mars.
If you need more info, write me at kofisulla@yahoo.com and I'll be more than happy to link you up and you may not have to live in a hotel.
Agboka D5K PEACE AND BLESSINGS SISTER.....I DEFINITELY WILL LIKE TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION.. IM SERIOUSLY THINKING ABOUT TRAVELING TO GHANA MYSELF SOMETIME THIS YEAR...
angela buford
Better to find out about Africa when you sit in the table with people from all coasts of Africa. This isn't enough to take home
why the skin color of black americans usually lighter than africans?
because there mixed w white as are 99% African Americans.
David Sun Because we are not Africans.
David Sun not always Africans have lightskin too.. and besides the sun is not soo hard in North America
David Sun Same reason that some Africans' skin color are lighter than other Africans.
Africa Peaple don't have an experience of dealing with racism since they become a migrate in the american that issues africa peaple worried.
My opinion is blacks need to be Nice Nice that's missing from ya culture .here what ya need success. ....to others u show love be Nice Be Amaible...absorb this motto ..( with Great power comes great responsibility.)..:.always be nice to other races groups ....never be menacing .never ...always befriend ..others .that's key for global equality........
this is a sensitive topic. when you talk about blacks, that should give unity but when you hear about African American bullying and insulting Africans then am lost. who is going to unite black people?
HAHAHAHAHA divide and conquer. NOT. We are all one family.
You know y they do that so we can do it to our kids too and black can keep exit
Did that black guy said he was of Spanish on Indian background, damn he mix why is he apart of it, yea I see is skin color a lot of people out there that are mix but just because they skin is black they are accepted on when you have a black person clearly as too black parents but genetically looks different probably because there parents have a little white blood in them, they come out brown skin with smaller gestures yet they close to a 100 percent Africans lol they are denied, problem with black people they dont know who the true black people are on that have ties with the land smh
1st of all black Americans are mixed people my mother is Irish and Cherokee Indian and my father's black side of h*** does that make me African please man we're not African Americans we are black Americans
We are neither africans nor african Americans look up the origin of both names they are of Europeans a Roman GENERAL leo scipio Africanus and A ITALIAN EXPLORER Amerigo vespucci we are israelites Negroes are shemetic not Hametic zondervan bible dictionary concerning Ham Ham the youngest son of Noah born probably 96yrs before the flood and one of the eighth person to live through the flood he became the progenitor of all the dark nations BUT NOT THE NEGROES But The EGYPTIANS LYBIANS and Caananites we are israelites Deuteronomy 28-68 read the curses of the covenant this is how you identify the true children of israel
I don't consider myself as African. I am an American. I don't need Africa for my self Identity and to know who I am as a person. I know who I am as an American. I don't need Africa or Africans to know who I am.
So grown, so stupid.
Then why are you here if you don't gain anything from the discussion?
Dr. Emory Carl Sims Yup!!! We are the REAL native americans of america!
You are stupid why here if you aren't support in continent africa
Belly of the Beast!
Why are you calling yourselves "Black" it is a color not a nation.
Thank you. It's such a simple concept. When ppl refer to themselves as black I already know that they are confused.
I am African America and I want to refer to myself as African but people would look at me weird. I don't understand why people want to call themselves black.
Exactly
We were tought that we were black , dirty, and ugly. At a point we accepted being black, but also beautiful, and powerful and proud. I could have never identify with Africa, having never been there or knowing where I could have come from. I remember being embarrassed when a teacher made an example of me to prove, that I didn't know where I came from.
if i see your picture i can guess where in Africa you come from, or you can visit africanancenstory.com and take the DNA test to really know where you come from
For those of us that are “black” we struggle with identifying withAfricans because most of us are really native Americans . Indigenous to the Americas not Africa.
Your totally correct
Wake up Afraka worldwide before it is too late
We ain't Africans we are American indians if you have eyes you can see they are not the same people
Why are Africans so dam dark, much darker than us lmao
because of the tropical weather there and also most African American are kind of mixed. however there are many African American who are as dark as Africans
Yahdiah Yahdiam you don't have to be that rude to her. i agree with you that the question is kind of "stupid", but she may not be aware of that. so instead of being rude. the best thing to do is just to inform her.
You're an idiot african Americans are dark too and what does how dark your skin is have to do what this video
this is why africans hates black american ....
Being dark doesn't make you more African. Sorry, Hun, you're of African descent. There are dark and light Africans and African Americans. We're cut from the exact same cloth, boo. It's also sad that you make it seem that being dark is a bad thing, very sad kind of mentality. I will pray for your kind.
Africans and African Americans are not the same. African Americans are Mixed race and are 20-30% European whereas Africans are 0% European. African Americans are essentially dark skinned Europeans.
you're SICK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carl Marx lmaooo what a dumbass
Carl Marx Africans are mixed too. Are all Africans the same hue?
😂😂😂😂😂😂 soooo dumb
Black Panther why do you even call yourself black panther black panther was made as a African hero you're just a house nigga that don't know what you're talkin about shut the fuck up
If anyone thinks their pain is greater, they have not learned from it. I lived through apartheid South Afrika, segregated, and still fearful of white police coming in in the middle of the night, breaking doors in search of guns that our brother could potentially be hiding. It is that pain that has taught me empathy, understanding even to some of the African Americans who think lowly of Afrika. It is that pain that makes me understand the pain Afrikan Americans have as they watch people who look like them come in and be seen as different than them, it’s the same pain we Afrikans feel as we watch the life of opulence Afrikan Americans live as shown to us by the media, the media which selectively hide the pain and of Afrikan Americans but specifically choose to share the contrast between the violence and opulence. We need to remember one thing, when family is beefing, no one wins!
Whiteness will gladly keep us all at loggerheads, because united blacks are a danger to all systems that have kept a black person at the bottom of the food chain. Melanin and being the children of the soil is our point of departure and we need to work from them and find our way back to each other. It’s all love from me.