Why all the insults - is it that hard to watch and make some constructive and positive comments...?
@taylorfausett177
7 жыл бұрын
I live in Texas. My step-father was very racist towards African Americans. I remember that we watched the series "Roots." Now that I think about it, I don't understand how he tolerated it. It left me with a sadness that I could never reconcile. I came in conflict with him about his hatred many times! He was a horrible hateful person to me and my three brothers.
@Batman-wv5ng
6 жыл бұрын
Taylor Fausett You stepfather good man .
@lorebay2593
5 жыл бұрын
There are many crazy and evil things going on today. My mom is from Mississippi and she said I have many reason to hate white people, but I do not want you all to hate, judge a man by his actions, treat everybody right. It is good to know that all white people are not filled with senseless hate. God be with you always and bless you.
@douglasvilledarling2935
5 жыл бұрын
Lore Bay I wish more people had your heart
@pamelaboyd6509
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry you had to go through that.
@cbeautynblue19
10 жыл бұрын
Chris Tucker is so fine! Love you Chris Tucker =D
@lequeen737
9 жыл бұрын
Words can't describe how proud I am to be BLACK.I thank God for my ancestors.if it wasn't for them I wouldn't exist.seeing this brought tears to my eyes.my people have been through so much and we're still here!!!!!I love my brothahs and sistahs.I love being black💜
@88motho
9 жыл бұрын
+Daesha A Well said.
@dIRECTOR259
8 жыл бұрын
+Daesha A Indeed, the proper term for what you are is "Black". The term "African American" is one born of ignorance and Black nationalism. To be "Black" is not synonymous with being "African". North Africans are not "Blacks" - even though Black nationalists would like them to be so they can appropriate their culture. Are Americans from, say, Tunisia - "African Americans"? No they are not. Yet the term "Africa" was originally a Roman (Latin) name for Tunisia and its environs. The proper term, if anyone disliked "Black" so much, should have been "Subsaharan American". Or "West African American".
@justinosborne5280
8 жыл бұрын
It's always wrong to take pride in one's skin color. Certain people have a different tone of skin is all. The only brothers and sisters you have, if you do have any, are the people who are in your family.
@ElamandaKava
8 жыл бұрын
+dIRECT0R Wow, I never thaught about it that way. You are right! You should however not forget that North-Afrika does have also black people. My aunt for example is kinda black. I say kinda because to be honest I never realized that until someone told me that my grandfather was not her father and since I was so shocked my cousin laughed about me asking whether I was blind or stupid :P I know its really weird but I just didn't realize that my oldest uncle and aunt are darker than my mom and the rest of the family. And I also always thaught that the black people that were always there at family fests were friends :D Turned out my grandmother was married to a black tunisian who died in WWII befor she married my grandfather. So mos of my family is really pale and then I also have this other side of the family which is black. Also Algeria has black people! My algerian side of the family is super white though. I dont know whether it has to do with us being at the coast (but the tunisian side is also at the coast). I dont know....but I have the feeling that in Algeria white and black dont really have family together.
@dIRECTOR259
8 жыл бұрын
+moichmena There are Blacks in North Africa, naturally, but they are not indigenous to the region. And there are varying degrees of Subsaharan ancestry among people in North Africa, especially in Egypt and Morocco, while Tunisians, Algerians, and Libyans don't have much Subsaharan mixing. Algiers in particular had a lot of White mixing, as a matter of fact... after the French conquered the place to stop Muslim piracy. However: native, indigenous North Africans, without Subsaharan ancestry - are not what's called "Black" in America. They were always more a part of the Mediterranean world than the Subsaharan African world. And in the US, virtually all Blacks/Subsaharans are West Africans, from a rather small area that was in fact known as the Slave Coast. However, they're not what Americans call "White" either. They're not European in appearance. As a rule you'll note they have darker skin tones than Europeans (sometime pretty damn dark) - but their facial features, the bone structure of their scull - they're completely different from Subsaharans. Here's a Berber, as native North African as it gets: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Nomadic_Berber_in_Morocco.jpg/210px-Nomadic_Berber_in_Morocco.jpg Dark skin, yet you wouldn't call him "Black" in the American sense (which basically means "West African"). Note also the scull shapes in this Ancient Egyptian image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Ramses_II_charging_Nubians.jpg And how its not so much the skin tone - as facial features that distinguishes Egyptians from Nubians therein (although there's skin tone difference too).
@elsakristina2689
8 жыл бұрын
"Always honour your ancestors, the ones who love you and watch over you."
@lialanikaija7127
7 жыл бұрын
I'm proud to be black american. I dont care what people say.
@gyro-disregardian
6 жыл бұрын
hey
@RideWitMe1
10 жыл бұрын
I would like to know Tupac's African Lineage.
@sunriseguru9308
10 жыл бұрын
Me too
@stevencorrea6946
8 жыл бұрын
none that negus from America
@blindianswirltwo2986
7 жыл бұрын
Ready4Whatever . Tupac is a descendant of the Garanites they were a tribe of sub Saharan Africa that were poets and mathematicians. They were also royalty . The region that they were in, was the desert, water was in short supply so the Garanites were forced to leave and go to other regions where water was . The people of the other regions offered to help but tricked them into being caught by slave catchers . A descendent of the Garanites was found in Saudi Arabia who looked middle eastern however he had Tupac's facial features : The almond 👀 shaped eyes that were close together, the same smile etc .
@yolandaznostalgictv9462
7 жыл бұрын
Ready4Whatever I would like to know as well.
@user-gs9hl9sh8x
6 жыл бұрын
Their all dead just like him .
@mikeandy490
9 жыл бұрын
Very touching but the suffering the ancestors went thru is unimaginable.
@gordonhall752
9 жыл бұрын
stop living in self pity
@nerblebun
9 жыл бұрын
No more unimaginable than the suffering of white Europeans (Celts, Germanic, Scott's, Britons, Greeks, Slavs, ect... as slaves of the Roman Empire.
@gordonhall752
9 жыл бұрын
Grandpa the Grey ... indeed so. They appear to have gotten beyond it.
@ChristianConrad93
9 жыл бұрын
White "slavery" was no where near the effect of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. Stop this.
@gordonhall752
9 жыл бұрын
Christian Taylor-Williams How the FUCK do you know? Were you there?
@sammavacaist
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine choosing to still work as a barber into old age when your daughter is a billionaire! Gotta admire it 😁
@katarzynamariamuszynska2811
9 ай бұрын
I wonder if she share her wealth with her father
@JRose-ub3hd
8 жыл бұрын
My mother's father managed to hold on to 350 acres of land for his children. We are building houses on it today. We don't know how he managed it, but he did. And they say we are not a smart people. Bullshit! My grandfather was amazing!
@KAMALAISHERNAME
8 жыл бұрын
Henry Louis Gates, I want to say thank you for your contributions in breathing LIFE back into our ethnic lineage & showing us where we come from. THANK YOU.
@King-of-nerds-and-geeks
7 жыл бұрын
Then tell me the truth
@KAMALAISHERNAME
7 жыл бұрын
steven correa are you mad because you don't possess MELANIN????😂😂😂😂
@blindianswirltwo2986
8 жыл бұрын
This episode moved me immensely. Oprah Winfrey 's story from troubled teen to billionaire is amazing!
@evananderson870
8 жыл бұрын
renaldi
@deemariedubois4916
7 жыл бұрын
Blindianswirl Two Oprah's life truly is a fascinating story in perseverance. She went from being a victim to a survivor then an astounding real life success story. The list of names of black Americans whose lives are stories of amazing success just astounds when you consider slavery wasn't totally ended in 1863 in the Emancipation Proclamation but in the 13th Amendment in 1865. Of course history teaches us that particularly in the south, state sponsored racism existed up to the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968. So blacks' equality differed depending on where they lived but in essence from 150 to 50 years ago, hundreds of thousands of blacks were still locked into political systems, unable to get jobs because of their skin color, and in segregated school systems which sorely limited their educations, all based on racist ideals that purposely kept them from being able to succeed. Think about that! How many African Americans up to TODAY, have achieved great things, and had, have, good lives in basically a very short time period in which they were FREE to do so.
@padmamr7452
5 жыл бұрын
Oprah is a fucking bitch stabbing on fellow African Americans
@SurahOnline
8 жыл бұрын
They should have made an episode per person instead of putting ALL the celeb stories in just one episode going back and forth
@Whenshanreads
11 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this! It gives me even more of a purpose and reason to continue with my ancestry and genealogy search.
@theterence20able
10 жыл бұрын
word
@middlepassage7023
6 жыл бұрын
I'm also a Stewart with roots in Ala. Escambia County
@brejnhardt
7 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter if you are black or white or yellow, it all comes to who you are in your heart.. I was raised to just see the person not the skin... And I am proud of that! Coz I have met so many people through my life, with open arms, to no matter there skin.. I love my mom and dad for giving that big love in my heart for humans :D
@sarahthomasweems
8 жыл бұрын
YES, I agree words can't describe how proud I am to be BLACK. I'm thank to God for all of my ancestors. Thanks to the people who made this documentary show possible...
@Batman-wv5ng
6 жыл бұрын
sarah thomas weems Bleach you self have shower you stink miles away .
@aritehook4u
9 жыл бұрын
Wanted to know about Oprah's past. She's interviewed so many people but nobody ever interviews her until now!
@TheEmadia
8 жыл бұрын
She's spoken a lot about her past on her show.
@bd3825
7 жыл бұрын
You're ignorant. Oprah's spoken to many people including Barbara Walters at the beginning of her career in television.
@sandraclaus5514
6 жыл бұрын
As an older white Woman who is ashamed of my country’s treatment of black families, I truly enjoy learning your history. I have never had a culture, so I embrace the cultures of friends that God has brought into my life. I apologize for any actions I have done that has hurt anyone of color. Please forgive me.💕🌺
@SheniceSays214
6 жыл бұрын
Sandra Claus Thanks for the acknowledgement of the painful stains that is racism.
@NicoleKe
4 жыл бұрын
Bass Warner Why can her ignorant? Perhaps she isn’t glued to the tv.
@markbraveheart1115
6 жыл бұрын
I'm white, grew up in the border south, remember watching To Kill a Mockingbird in a segregated movie theatre when I was a fidgity little girl, but I paid attention that day because I so identified with Scout, the little white girl in the story. The scene in the movie which most affected me was the courtroom scene. The setting in which I was watching the movie was a perfect mirror of that scene. I remember twisting around in my seat and feeling insane, like I was the only person seeing it. Couldn't any of the grownups see it?? I was in a big room with a layout similar to the movie's courtroom - tall ceilings, the comfortable, spacious, lower seats occupied entirely by white people, the tiny, reserved balcony, uncharacteristically crowded with black movie-goers, just like the black courtroom attendees crammed into the balcony of the courtroom in the movie. I kept looking from the lighted, black and white screen to all the black and white glowing faces around me, all paying rapt attention, and back to the intense scene on the screen and back again to the scene of which I was a part and, suddenly realized, I passionately did not want to be. I think that's when I first experienced white shame. I didn't understand what rape was, didn't really understand what the whole story was about, but I got the gist of the fact that a great injustice was occurring on the screen and, I first began to see, all around me. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a hero of mine. Besides the very important work he is doing, educating all of us Americans about our true history, digging up the facts, explaining them in ways, one family at a time, that make them understandable, relate-able, and compelling, there also is the fact of his demeanor. How can so many black Americans be at once so unflinching about the truth of, not only of their painful and, here-to-fore, repressed history, but also the truth of current, ongoing, institutionalized racism - the latest ungodly turning of the screw being, I'd guess, corporate prisons - and yet so forgiving, so magnanimous, even inclusive whenever a white person shows any genuine interest or empathy, even as we ignorantly bumble around, say the wrong things (I hope I'm not doing that here), and then go back to our comfortable advantages after spending the day with you, considering your plight, and then deciding how involved we do or do not choose to be? We whites get to decide whether or not we want to fight racism, how often, to what degree, how much time, money, or energy to budget in our fight against racism, whether to take some time off from the fight this year, maybe pick it up again next year. Do I want to do my part to fight racism today, or do I need to catch up on laundry? Maybe I'll just post pone it until we have a divisive, white supremacist, populist president who gets elected by fanning the flames of racism and then proceeds to threaten the very foundations of my beloved, however flawed, democracy. We're so segregated, I can easily do that. It's rarely in my face, even now. I imagine few, if any, blacks ever have that luxury. Even if no black person ever lifts a finger against us, we whites are living on borrowed time and the bleeding backs of slaves. Karma often has a long arc, but it's real. Today's sermon brought to you by Jesus, Himself: "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
@MoCityBeau
8 жыл бұрын
The words Africa Americans is not in the Bible. Africa was named after a white Roman general. To call yourself Africans American you're calling yourself a white man. The Bible calls you Jacob/ Israel
@MoCityBeau
8 жыл бұрын
***** So why are it's prophecies coming true, Mr Smarty pants?
@justinosborne5280
8 жыл бұрын
+Mo City Beau When Jesus died, the differences between the outward Jew and Gentile was eliminated. However, if we do decide to bring race into the picture, let's keep in mind that the bible says there is two types of people: the lost and the saved.
@MoCityBeau
8 жыл бұрын
***** No need to argue with supreme idiots like you. Morons like you say there, the bible is a fairy tale is no GOD but you never say there is no Satan or Satan is a fairy tale!
@mariasmith2198
7 жыл бұрын
NO STUPID. Scipio Africanus was given that title after he obliterated Hannibal and conquered Africa for Rome, Africa has already been Africa for a long time at that point.
@mariasmith2198
7 жыл бұрын
And NO, Jacob, Israelites are Semites. You can find them in Israel. Not a single one was black nor ever shall be.
@Life4ever3
9 жыл бұрын
You are in your ancestors & your ancestors in YOU ! > The Past endures the `Life Cycle` which embraces the essence of `Time`. Arise !!! 9/13/2015:8:00 (UK)
@udoc.enwereuzor5429
9 жыл бұрын
A stunning narrative, immensely informative of the Black experience in America. Worth watching ana sharing.
@alesiaturner346
10 жыл бұрын
Oprah Winfrey's father was simply a MAN. He is not expected to have a nurturing element like women. He was too busy trying to save his daughter. Great example of fatherhood and real love.
@nerblebun
9 жыл бұрын
Agree 100%. Oprah's daddy is a prime example of what a MAN should be.
@aerialkate
9 жыл бұрын
ALESIA TURNER "He is not expected to have a nurturing element" I think in the context of the times being discussed you are probably right. But I don't think that's true these days. I think fathers (and that would be men, obviously) are now expected to nurture their kids. Denying that is giving a certain type of callous man a 'pass' and that is dangerous.
@nerblebun
9 жыл бұрын
aerialkate I disagree. Back in the good old days, everybody knew their place. Men and Women. Dad worked, brought home the bacon, and protected his family. Mom had the hardest job, raising children and taking care of everything in the home. Then some politician looked around and realized the government coffers were missing out on a huge group of potential TAXPAYERS... Moms. In the 60's a big push came to put as many stay at home Moms into the American workforce as possible. Lot's of propaganda made the news and television shows were designed to support the idea of women (stay at home Moms) had been unfairly held back for centuries and it was their time to get out of the home and make a living. Prices of everything increased to the point it took TWO incomes to live as comfortably as it did when only Dad worked. Now days women want a career (let somebody else raise the kids) and men have been emasculated to the point many of them don't know what to do or what their place is in the family unit. All you have to do is look at the divorce rate and all the dysfunctional families in the "modern world" to know something went terribly wrong. The proof is in the pudding.
@aerialkate
9 жыл бұрын
"Now days women want a career (let somebody else raise the kids) and men have been emasculated to the point many of them don't know what to do or what their place is in the family unit." That is rubbish. Most modern mortgage repayments simply can't be repaid on one income alone. And in the _good old days_ women were forced to stay in what were often horribly abusive marriages (recall how Oprah described what the women went through in her family alone) because their names typically weren't on the house deeds. Best to stay and suffer the odd broken rib or sexual assault. No, that had to end. And if you have daughters you should be beyond thankful for that.
@nerblebun
9 жыл бұрын
aerialkate "Most modern mortgage repayments simply can't be repaid on one income alone." Yeah, that's exactly what I said. Prices on everything were increased on purpose to make it impossible for most families to live comfortably on one income. An abusive marriage is an entirely different subject.
@NastyAxis0111
7 жыл бұрын
Oprah's father is a good man.
@HighestTimeLineHM
10 жыл бұрын
Oprah is hot!
@MarcusLeepapi
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the history giving knowledge. It is really nice...
@erinneichinger1986
9 жыл бұрын
did anyone catch the mistake on Oprah's family tree? Her mom's birth year and her grandmas are the same 1935. That's kind of a big oops on the producers parts.
@MissLionRose
10 жыл бұрын
This was really beautiful!
@rebafelangkesebonye1537
8 жыл бұрын
God is awesome and His understanding is unsearchable...Behind every dark cloud there is a shining light.
@barbaraobach
8 жыл бұрын
Everyone should have at least a touch of whatever ancestry Quincy Jones has, one of the greatest artist ever. The incredible history and culture , wow
@LindaCasey
8 жыл бұрын
This is as good as Roots was .. amazing!
@Happey67
7 жыл бұрын
People before you ill treat people think twice. I know first hand, I was ill treated by my family. Today I am on top, sent myself to school. (higher education) traveled all over North America and the Caribbean, good looking, excellent health and have a relationship with God. Looking for my first home to purchase.
@bd3825
7 жыл бұрын
Good for you! All the best.
@errittsmith
8 жыл бұрын
These stories are close to me because I have been tracing my family as well I have traced mine back to 1623 witch goes back to My ten times Great Grandfather
@mrs.triana6140
9 жыл бұрын
at the 7 minute mark where you can see the family tree it says her mother was born in the early 30's... but her grandma also has born in the early 30's underneath her picture??? huh
@Batman-wv5ng
6 жыл бұрын
Mrs. Triana Don't believe blacks nothing.
@TheDtfamu89
8 жыл бұрын
This is so dang interesting.
@TheDtfamu89
8 жыл бұрын
Quincy Jones tells stories in the same way my dad does.
@lifewithkaylee5592
8 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this program
@eddiecorley3956
8 жыл бұрын
Black History Month is one way we as a nation can commit to the study and celebration of a history of change. A history of freedom, equality, and justice denied. A history of oppression and opportunity. A history of contradictions and compromise. A history of the pursuit of the American dream. A history of this American dream deferred. This history seems to embody the American spirit and power that Margaret Meade famously stated in these words: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
@peggyt1243
9 жыл бұрын
I live in Canada and knew that there was discrimination in the southern USA. Because of this video, I researched the "Jim Crow laws" that allowed this to happen. It is stunning that such discrimination was still happening in the 1960s.
@herring42
7 жыл бұрын
And still is today, just more stealthily, and therefore harder to fight.
@jackmaverick5481
9 жыл бұрын
I like this but I would be dishonest if I did not mention that although we find it interesting to see these famous people's ancestry and stories, I wonder about the ancestral stories of the millions of people who no one will remember.
@virginiamitchell42
9 жыл бұрын
This isn't "Who Do You Think You Are" and is mislabeled
@marcsenecal5835
7 жыл бұрын
Why.. Does Oprah's Oprah's Dad Work Still Wtf
@candacemoreno1964
6 жыл бұрын
Marc Senecal i was thinking the same thing!!!!!
@farirairoserwasoka274
5 жыл бұрын
it's called self respect. just coz his daughter's a billionaire doesn't mean he doesn't want to do things for himself.
@mmmusicmande7861
8 жыл бұрын
Chris Rock family stayed in Georgia after slavery! They were warriors and brave one at time! Bless them.do they still have their land in Georgia I wonder?
@davidkeenan5642
9 жыл бұрын
I have reasons to highly respect most of the people featured in this programme, but I borderline detest "Bishop" Jakes.
@EmoHippySceneGirl
9 жыл бұрын
Same
@yonduodi8693
9 жыл бұрын
+David Keenan You know something?....I used to have something in me that didn't want to associate with black Americans though I knew a couple of them whom I see look not just like me but like people from where I come from back home.. I am Igbo Nigerian by the way...and I just found out that TD Jakes is my brother.. You detest my brother, you're my enemy so FUCK YOU for detesting my Igbo brother David Keenan!!! We couldn't defend them back then, but today we have re-established that connection and I can protect my brother in his absence. Once again FUCK YOU, I and every Igbo man out there detests you also!!!
@davidkeenan5642
9 жыл бұрын
Ndu Odi I care not about his ethnicity. It's his preaching & personality I strongly dislike. I feel the same about virtually all evangelical preachers, especially those who run megachurches. You call him a brother because of his Igbo ancestry, well I call you & him cousin, & I'm as Irish as you can get. I won't judge you on one YT comment.
@yonduodi8693
9 жыл бұрын
David Keenan Ok fair enough....I thought you were trying to play ethnic games. As long as you aren't bashing his ethnicity, you're good.
@jitaamesuluma9730
9 жыл бұрын
+David Keenan i detest christianity , but only because the people that are and where christians , they have no love they are not humans they go to church then walk past a homeless person and not only do not feed them but call the police , the priest rape kids the native schools they tortured kids even killing some , you might dislike this one , i dislike most of them because most of them are so far from the teachings of Yesua Bin Dvid as to be a disgrace , i am a spiritualist, i follow no book , i am not told not to judge then say horrible things about people to feel better about me , i am far from perfect but i would never walk past a hungry human and not feed them
@deemariedubois4916
7 жыл бұрын
Loved episode 1, can't wait to continue to next segment. Blacks have such a difficult time tracing their ancestors because considered property like live stock, blacks reach the WALL unable to actually trace their roots back to Africa but when they do, it always brings tears. Even then there is frequently a gap of decades of years, the slave years, in their genealogy that is seemingly impossible to reconstruct. We should never forget the African families that were torn apart, waking and living each day wondering where members of their family were and if they were still even alive. So many died on the Middle Passage that no one can even accurately give the number of the human lives lost. Those that made it to their new 'home' had to longingly through out their entire lives CRAVE to return to their family in Africa. Slavery is truly the ugliest history of the USA. But then those that survived generation after generation, owned, abused, sold, loosing family again and again, until freedom was granted were some of the most amazingly strong brave Americans in our history. Even with freedom blacks' especially in the south had to survive SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME and share cropping which caused The Great Migration. Still in subgregation, Jim Crow laws in effect, incredibly brave blacks (joined by brave whites) had to lead the CIVIL RIGHTS movement to attain LEGAL RIGHTS in states who continued to OFFICIALLY sponsor racism. I can't imagine America without those who came from Africa in the belly of ships and their progeny who built so much of our country. We would not be the nation that we are without African Americans' contributions to our culture, to our nation, then and now. It is time for ALL Americans, black and white, to rid their hearts of hatred and racism in any form and delight in the diversity of America today.
@wahadmenel-ness6408
10 жыл бұрын
wow Oprah didn't give back to her father?
@candacemoreno1964
6 жыл бұрын
wahad menEl-Ness yes im mad watching this
@pamelaboyd6509
5 жыл бұрын
I believe she did, but older black people get proud when they get their own business or whatever and you cant buy them from it, they won't budge.
@imightmakeit1659
6 жыл бұрын
KZitem video >> What the Enemy Stole : Beyond the 40 Acre & a Mule Promise
@dommarcitoprofessor8069
9 жыл бұрын
nice video (brazil in the house)
@bryanrounds
8 жыл бұрын
Language is the key. We speak one tongue. Only then can we achieve our true power... becoming united and language and communication. The explanation is thre in our face
@teej70
10 жыл бұрын
Only watching this for Oprah's story..
@cassandrasiraganda2940
8 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, amazing!!!
@psat21
9 жыл бұрын
I know that this is beyond off topic, but I must comment on the guitar intro, LOVE IT!!!
@paddyjoe68
7 жыл бұрын
Im irsih and my partner is British jamaican....this is fantastic and my birthday present to her is to find out her out African heritage
@elsakristina2689
8 жыл бұрын
I'm mixed black and white, and it's always an overwhelming feeling when you find out who even your most ancient ancestors were and where they came from. Whether they lived in the Bronze Age or the Victorian era, you can't help but love them, they're still family, and finding them stirs up mixed emotions. Happiness at finding your ancestors and having more people to have a special place in your heart, and also crippling sadness to know that they had to endure hardships such as slavery. I wish I could go back in time and see my ancestors. Even though they're long dead, no matter whether they're from the Viking Age or from the Georgian era, I still hope they know that I love them and I always will, no matter how distant the relation is.
@pamelaboyd6509
5 жыл бұрын
Thank God for Oprah's father!😇
@katalinaaniseto5632
6 жыл бұрын
South Africa has the best artists and songs ever 🙌🏻💯💓 it’s sad to see some African Americans in the states growing up and not embracing or actually owing their real cultural identity and they become that American instead of African.
@axelmamouaka442
4 жыл бұрын
Truth
@joeldodd5522
8 жыл бұрын
so what do you think about block slaves people that comes to Jamaica back in the days you think there should be called African Jamaicans
@Atlas24gh
8 жыл бұрын
I don't think so. I think African American is for blacks in the USA whose ancestors are west African captives. Jamaica have a slavery history too but they have a different experience. They're also have African ancestry but I think I distinction can be made. African American is a distinctive ethnic group in the US and I think a distinction can be made from other black groups
@peytonwm
5 жыл бұрын
I really wish I knew more about my black heritage. I can find all sorts of records on the white branches, even down to 12th cousins, but it just trails off at my 3rd great grandparents on the black side. I’ll stop at nothing to find that part of me!!
@mwrgibsonr169
4 жыл бұрын
I would like them to find out about a black man that lived by Quinter Kansas in Gove County. I don't know his name. Did he have family? Where did he come from? When he died Quinter people didn't want him buried in the local cemetery so they buried him at the local dump. When the civil rights movement came about they got worried and they moved him to the local cemetery but kept him on the outside of the fence. I believe that is where he is today. Someone did fine a embossed seal stamp that said The Knights of the Klan Quinter Kansas.
@mwrgibsonr169
4 жыл бұрын
@@rjlovesyah9564 good question?
@robinrocha2091
7 жыл бұрын
God Bless Oprah's Father!
@hazradrury5164
9 жыл бұрын
Fascinating.
@Tamaki742
8 жыл бұрын
WAIT BEN CARSON?
@Life4ever3
9 жыл бұрын
Oh Mother Afrikah ! `Land of the `Rising Sun & Mother & Father Earth`. Afrikahan Americans > You have a Beautiful History, Just like the `Colours of the Rainbow & the ascension of the `Sunrise` (WoW) We embrace your `History` >>> 9/13/2015: 3:00 (UK)
@truthbtold2207
8 жыл бұрын
Prove so called Africa is the motherland
@wakaka2waka
8 жыл бұрын
Lmao, Henry Louis' father is 70% white at LEAST.
@aprilwest9852
6 жыл бұрын
wakaka2waka So What !!! Is your black ass jealous of him ?? Get off your ass. Let us see you do better than he does Then talk shit about him.
@misstaybz
8 жыл бұрын
If I am not black, and I live in America but was born in Africa, what does that make me?
@StarhawkRanger
8 жыл бұрын
A foreigner born in an undisclosed country. Your color is irrelevant.
@BerlinerOmar
8 жыл бұрын
Ull b called white African,, that's how they're described in South Africa
@StarhawkRanger
8 жыл бұрын
African Americans are those people who are decended from slaves brought to America against their will. Their decendants did not know their country of origin and they didn't want to be called "colored" or some other heinous name so the term "African" was used. Make no mistake they are 100% American!
@ChiChiGlamShop
7 жыл бұрын
MissT A I'd call you someone that has no business in Africa 😒
@jamelamoore1636
6 жыл бұрын
+Chiamaka Ifeoma Uzoma Uh why?
@joeldodd5522
8 жыл бұрын
I don't understand this African ting how when someone born in Jamaica they don't call him or she African Jamaica
@joeldodd5522
8 жыл бұрын
how when someone born in Jamaica they don't call him or she African Jamaican what is the difference when someone born in America they called him African American?
@sexyEros
8 жыл бұрын
+Joel Dodd Jamaica was under Britain rulership. plus Jamaica is its own nation which would make it a nationality. African American is a term used to identify a particular ethnic group to North American blacks from the slave trade. slaves brought to the American Nation .Jamaicans are a different ethnicity that would be called Afro-carribean/ west Indian. That's why most Jamaicans would call them selves Jamaican American when born here because the have another or nation to identify with. And some also call them selves Afro-carribean too.
@joeldodd5522
8 жыл бұрын
Ok i understand that but you have people who were slaves come to Jamaica too
@sexyEros
8 жыл бұрын
yes i just explained that. That is why they are called afro-carribean. Jamacans are a different ethnic group. So you basicly have 3 different Ethnic gruops who are apart of the African diasporas people here in the west. Afro-Americans, Afro-Carribeans/west-indian and Afro-Latinos of Latin America.
@maryamkim1281
8 жыл бұрын
Black Jamaicans call themselves Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Jamaicans, outside. You have heard of Indian and Chinese Jamaicans. What do you think they call themselves?
@ramyarmany
8 жыл бұрын
There are many African americans who descend from north Africa and their ancestors are arabs and muslims some african American still have arabic names even after being forced to embrace Christianity such as (,jamal , latefa , rehana , abdol ....)
@TheSuperbeauty24
8 жыл бұрын
uhhhhm no. Africans were the first so you mean arabs descend from africans
@theMusoni
8 жыл бұрын
Arabs were one of our worst oppressors, they did not just steal North Africa from us in the 7th century they drove us out so that they would claim to be natives of Egypt. I used to wonder why the Europeans who came to South Africa called us Kaffir until I learned that the word is Arabic for "Infidel". Arabs are not our next to kin as most would think, they came to finish us up after the Greeks and the Romans robbed us. Arabs are not African.
@ramyarmany
8 жыл бұрын
Dimitri Tsafendas you are tottaly wrong , you forggeting what the american and Europeans did to your nations and coming to disgrace arabs who did nothing to your ancestors but embrace and develop them while the westerns have enslave , detested and brutally Controlled you and till this day there are blacks getting discriminated against in the west , so i hope you correcting your information
@theMusoni
8 жыл бұрын
Kenan Ramy Arabs enslaved us before the Europeans did, your ancestors conquered North Africa during the Umayyad conquest of 607 AD and today you are known as the ancient Egyptians when you haven't even been here 2000 years. As we speak Arabs still oppress our people in many parts of this continent. Don't worry you're not in a court, it's only to inform my African people who have this notion of "brotherhood" with the Arabs when they are no better than the Europeans. Developed us? Lol! How? our ancestors built the pyramids of Giza centuries before the Greeks and Romans colonized, you guys only came to take the crumbs left by these two European monsters. As I said here in South Africa the British and Dutch came calling us Kaffirs which is an Arab word, they didn't invent it nor did they speak any Arabic but found the word being used on us already.
@ramyarmany
8 жыл бұрын
Dimitri Tsafendas ok but who you are ? Are you Egyptian ?
@sunriseguru9308
10 жыл бұрын
Oh, brother...
@jasonpatten4574
9 жыл бұрын
God help us all I Wish that there were MORE documentaries that investigate this richly layered, complex and pertinent subject... When I find myself inclined to criticize THIS documentary I have to keep reminding myself that there need to be MORE OF THEM in order to get a comprehensive portrait of slavery as a fundamental force within the HUMAN CONDITION down through the ages AS WELL AS how it affected American history in general and naturally "African American" history in particular ... For example WHY are the only people interviewed and/or investigating their history the fortunate few who are extremely successful citizens and with all this intensive research of old census records& records of slaves as property does nothing to point out that those who could afford slaves let alone a PLANTATION full of them were in the minority like the the "Fortune 500 club" C.E.O.s of today or the wage slaves of the North before unions came into play ... this documentary also gives the impression that Black Americans or "African Americans" have a monopoly on the experience of Slavery When in fact it went on in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome ETC and throughout the early years of Europe where Vikings raped pillaged AND ENGAGED IN the SLAVE TRADE selling White and/or European people to others as property... In fact the word "Slave" has it's origins in "Slavic" as it was in the area of the emerging Slavic nations and/or tribes where many of these White slaves were "harvested" and MOST were put on the auction block as Slaves were humans were bought and sold and therefore reduced to property. Although to his credit our gracious and learned host of this 4 part Documentary IS honest enough to point out the fact that African Tribes at war would capture,debase and ultimately sell humans as property or slaves to the highest bidders most (but not all) of the customers being European who were BUYING NOT SELLING. THAT was the ROOT of the problem and it is mentioned in passing and soon takes a back seat to an intensive exploration of the atrocities of slavery in America. Further while the way slave owners are investigated and/or portrayed it is not only fair it is downright gracious all things considered. Still this conveniently overlooks the fact that free Black Americans who lived in the South could&DID buy or sell slaves as property themselves and a few even inherited and then owned substantial plantations that owned BY free African Americans and the labor was provided by African American slaves The same way Pimps are flesh peddlers and Whores get the shaft from EVERYONE as the law is on the side of the "john" and does everything to protect the customers and treats the prostitutes as the criminals. While Slavery is an AWFUL INEXCUSABLE institution I would think folks would be at least AS interested in HOW their ended up in the position of being a slave as they in the gritty gut-wrenching facts of what it was AFTER they became slaves. Also as I was watching this noticed it's easy to slip into the notion that African Americans had a monopoly on the horrors of slavery!? NOT SO folks! AT LEAST 25-35 TIMES MORE African slaves were sold Throughout the West Indies as well as many if not MOST Central American and South American colonies and nations! The Black American's who were emancipated in the mid 1860's DO NOT have a monopoly on being enslaved... ESPECIALLY since Slavery is NOT OVER it is going on in Sri Lanka&Thailand (were some are smuggled in and sold right here in N.Y.C. via Chinatown. Further and FINALLY to bring the HORRORS of Slavery full circle RIGHT NOW Slavery is rampant in the Sudan back in the good old Motherland Africa!?
@ginamitembe8935
Жыл бұрын
There's no question!!!!!!!🙆😢 If not for the Grace and God's MERCIES 🙏 who keeps us all through unimaginable plights to today!!! Ooooooooh MERCY 🙏🙏😭
@annedunne7738
6 жыл бұрын
This documentary makes you wonder, where are our dead ancestors now? Can the The Dead Help Us? A prominent West African chief died in 1990. He had five wives and many children. He owned two businesses that made much money. When the chief died, the family carefully observed the rituals that they believed would honor his spirit. His wives dressed in black, pulled their hair in disarray, ate little, and did not bathe. They wept and wailed for seven days after the burial. Next, in harmony with local custom, the entire family gathered with relatives for a celebration to conclude the burial rites-a feast of food and drink along with dancing. Surely, if the chief could have done so, he would have preserved and richly blessed his loving family! But that did not happen. His businesses failed. Family members quarreled over the inheritance and later went their separate ways. Now the chief’s large compound that was once filled with people has only a few remaining. The Bible promises that God will awaken dead ones to life on a paradise earth. (John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15) But that time is yet future. Presently, they are asleep in death. (John 11:11-14) We should not fear or worship them, since they can neither help us nor harm us. Please visit wol.jw.org for more information on this subject and many more.
@svennielsen633
7 ай бұрын
When ever I hear about Black slaves in America, I have to think of my forefathers who were White peasant and craftsman slaves in Europe for centuries, were exploited no less, with no more freedom, treated as the property of manor owners and the Danish Crown. It started with centuries of suppression, they had to fight from the bottom of society after they got their freedom and independence and often with nothing to start on. This human history is far more common than you think, and it is not only Black history.
@kayceegreer4418
6 жыл бұрын
Chris Rock needs to put in some money and perhaps help to raise some money to make that property a historical site if all these things are true about keeping the community together. he needs to make that place look good for posterity's sake! His great granddad was selfless, caring more for people than for his ownership of a vast landtract. That should be commemorated. That's family history, that's community history, that's township history, that's black history, the man should be honored. Chris, git bizzy with the black community at large!!!
@mmmusicmande7861
8 жыл бұрын
part 1: African American.Oprah it's not and never was you fault some sick Mr did that to you! I am so angry all that stuff happen to you and other little black girl! You have the power now and happy you talk about this often!! you made it possible for others to step up and talk about this sickness in other family too!! You got the power Me Winfrey! and more power to You and others for stepping up!
@mohamedadammohamed875
6 жыл бұрын
You bet she did,I watched her for many years today subscribe to TV OWN I love it for the info Black Culture.
@etelrosenberg5141
7 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed hearing Quincy Jone's comments about what music did for him. Great documentary.
@Melanin_Move
6 жыл бұрын
Beloved Oprah, retake that test please. Bantus were taken. I don’t know how they missed that one.
@tracyboyce8716
6 жыл бұрын
This is great considering that I have 2 dad's. One living and one dead. I would live to know which one is really my FATHER.
@tribeofasherblessed326
6 жыл бұрын
African Americans ( Lineage if Yashua)are one of the twelve tribes ()are one nation The chosen of Yah!! If your father was from the lineage of of the 12 tribes as the bible speaks of than thats all that matters. Read your bible diligently.
@annerobinson1408
6 жыл бұрын
I, no longer have respect for Henry L. Gates. He lie and covered for a wealthy celebrity. He's an un-remorseful person who is a bareface liar.
@MsDisneylandlover
5 жыл бұрын
2019 black history what will they do
@vwilliams8196
6 жыл бұрын
This was my favorite episode for so many reasons. Yes, the process of learning about your roots is indeed powerful, but the shade and ignorance in this particular episode is TOO real. I must say it provides some great television. It also proves that colorism is alive and well.
@worthwords420
7 жыл бұрын
racism is one of humanity's undoings out of infinite flaws. salvation is when we learn and can live peacefully anywhere in the universe. maybe thats the reason we still primitive and stuck here in this planet until we self destroy. hope , prosperity and racismless is what maybe other human generations will enjoy.
@tochterzionjerusalem227
8 жыл бұрын
The back home to Zion for Afro-American is over Africa.The back home for Africans is over Jesus Christ and King David the everlasting King over Israel and Judah.I,m a South-African belong too the Tribe of Judah. And too Jesus Christ trew the twelfe Apostel the Twelfe Monutain in South-Africa I belong too Jesus Christ.And the back home too Zion for Jamaican is over Zion. They have too sing the Songs of Pretaction and Blessings for the Children of Zions, the Sons of Zion. The mother of the Nations.From all Afro-American I love Lauren Hill. She can stand at Zions Door and tell the Pope and all Kings: Trew Zions Door just the Children of Zion go trew. Twelfe Tribes of Israel.
@douglasvilledarling2935
5 жыл бұрын
I wish they would do a show on white people whose ancestors were slaves that passed for whites. Many white people do not know they came from slaves
@tss9886
5 жыл бұрын
I gave a great respect fir black Americans who have been stripped of their history. My African ancestos are known. As are my white ancestors. I can not imagine not having that history.
@mwrgibsonr169
4 жыл бұрын
I would like them to find out about a black man that lived by Quinter Kansas in Gove County. I don't know his name. Did he have family? Where did he come from? When he died Quinter people didn't want him buried in the local cemetery so they buried him at the local dump. When the civil rights movement came about they got worried and they moved him to the local cemetery but kept him on the outside of the fence. I believe that is where he is today. Someone did fine a embossed seal stamp that said The Knights of the Klan Quinter Kansas.
@jeffreydavis2999
9 жыл бұрын
thank you for illuminating Our history within /under the most-positive light.
@audioworks247
8 жыл бұрын
How do you even began to delve into your history to this extent, is it through Ancestry.com or another organization and what is the cost? Can anyone tell me please?
@ashleydedee803
7 жыл бұрын
Samille Johnson I think you can start on ancestory.com and them from there it might mean actually going to the places that your ancestors were born and actually doing research there. You should be able to go to the library in the specific place they were from and look through old newspapers and death and birth records. I took a DNA test through ancestory. It was amazing. It actually showed me what lay in my DNA and connected me with possible cousins.
@MultiCfoster
9 жыл бұрын
They are Africans living in America, so African American..
@ReasonsWhy5
8 жыл бұрын
+Carl Foster Blacks in America are not African.
@ReasonsWhy5
8 жыл бұрын
What???
@jazzingirl
8 жыл бұрын
+Mabinty Mabinty what african american means you were born in the us, it has nothing to do with where you live.
@ReasonsWhy5
8 жыл бұрын
If this comment is referring to what I said, I'm saying that not all of us, (our ancestors) who came to America by way of the Trans Atlantic Slave trade were African people. The majority were Hebrew, who were living in Africa. So when people say, "Africans sold Africans into Slavery, that's false: Africans sold Hebrews into Slavery. Africans did not have to sell their own people. America set that up that way, and taught it in schools for generations. Now the Truth of us is known. African's did not like us then, and don't give a shit about us now!
@ElamandaKava
8 жыл бұрын
+Reasons Why where did you get this info from?
@lorebay2593
5 жыл бұрын
These comments, they are still trying to tell us what we aren't. How is recognizing your origin disrespect to America. For years of not knowing anything about yourself to finding truth is great, why is that disrespect to you who should have no say in this matter.
@michaelmokotong
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I could feel myself grow as I watched this.
@MsJeniify
9 жыл бұрын
Kelly Green Where did you obtain your stats from and why repeat them in this forum? What is your purpose?
@yankumar5280
9 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing JohnHenry1869
@johngluck6938
7 жыл бұрын
This is very interesting to me. I love to study family histories. NOt just my own either.
@vernicejillmagsino9603
Жыл бұрын
2:41 Black American can trace their ancestor through Ellis Island by their white ancestors
@sandramucha8948
5 жыл бұрын
So much adversity, very admirable!
@NicoleKe
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder were Oprah’s mom got her name. It’s not a common southern name of the 50’s.
@Quincy82AAC
3 жыл бұрын
I was named after Quincy Jones. 😊😊
@LynnRC1957
6 жыл бұрын
I am grateful for the gift of all races trailing from our Father in The Heavens!
@Parnall71
7 жыл бұрын
In min. 43:51 the man says: "...The night before they threw some babois in the lake...". What is "babois"? I really don't know.
@psychgyrlnp
4 жыл бұрын
André Subrac Barbed wire a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. It is used to construct inexpensive fences and is used atop walls surrounding secured property.
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