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Oh, Jesus, the American school system is such a failure. Sir, those were the Dixiecrats, democrats defined by their adherence and advocacy of southern politics, and what was called "the southern way of life', hence defined by the maintenance of slavery as institution and policy, as well as their relationship to the KKK. Fast forward to 1964, LBJ seeks passage of the Civil Rights Act, Dixiecrats refused to comply/accept the legislation and recognition/enforcement of the civil rights of African Americans, and filibuster the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it passes in spite of their racist efforts. LBJ remarks that Democrats have lost the south forever.....So fucking ill educated.... Go. read. a. fucking. book. Stop jacking off to pictures of Taylor Swift, and starting reddit threads regarding all manner of white nonsense...what is it now, Black Panther is reverse racism propaganda...whatever....it's too late anyway.
I would like to see JUST ONCE, where somebody like VICE takes a slave descendant back to Africa to try and find out their history and find out who the black slave trader was that was willing to sell somebody of their own skin color to the white man. You got that in you Vice? Nah, I did not think so either! I understand that the way many whites treated their slaves was inhumane and disgusting, but why not show the whole story? It is a part of history, is it not?
You are exactly right and I was always told by my grandmother they want it like that because they feel like black people would never read a book or get into any sort of Education but they were so wrong
I noticed that too. He's completely destroyed on the inside, to the point where he doesn't even blink when talking about his own mother being raped and abused, his uncle getting lynched... how do you come back from that, once you've seen it? There really is no way back. Your humanity is destroyed and all that's left is an empty shell. It's a terrible shame that the criminals responsible will never get to taste their own medicine.
Martin B I wouldn’t say he’s an empty shell, but I know what you mean. From this side of the screen, I could feel his pain and his goodness. I would pay money to be able to meet this man and shake his hand, tell him his voice is heard and the memory of his tormenters is and will be erased. I want to cry tears with this man. He’s a rock. A living, breathing rock.
Someone in the comments mentioned that keeping them isolated and uneducated was the key in keeping this system intact and that is so incredibly true as the fact that wanting to live free in a trailer on a field in the middle of a nowhere-farm seemed a better option to Donald than working that same farm for wages and employee benefits which could’ve paid him far more than merely saving a few hundred on rent. That couple were also eerie AF
It's 2023 And carefully reading your venomous and arrogant comments you left out that this particular Black man was stripped of education, human dignity and knowledge to move himself forward. WTF did you think he was going to be given a scholarship to Notre Dame ❓ How dare you
FYI, Donald chose this lifestyle. He has 3 older brothers that left that land to live more productive lives. One went to college and now owns his own business. One went to the military, then married and lived in Germany. The 3rd got a regular job and lives a normal life. Donald likes hunting, fishing and being around the farm. You see this as slavery. He sees this as a easy way of life. Material possessions don’t matter to him. He knows his family history. The family has had reunions since 1969. His mother was one of the best family historians. So he had knowledge, and options, but he chose to stay where he is.
@@blacklandranch6093 I read your comments several times before responding just to be sure I say what I'm going to say to you. Your comment sounds like a rebuttal and I'm going to treat it as such. You sound more like me a slave owner sympathizer than a realistic Black American Woman, here's why: You never showed proof of Donald's brother existence much less their journey in life. Donald is living on the land that he was born on in peonage. He had 5 generations on that land before him. You can't prove that Donald had a better way out of it his mental/emotional faculties are strong enough and his skill set is limited to agriculture which doesn't pay enough to house himself if he wished to go. Perhaps your 80 acres in Commerce Texas is peaceful for you, while you meditate and practice Poi, but you must be seriously inept to not see that free room and board doesn't erase the history of Donald's 5 generations not being chattel slaves but in peonage. Did you NOT hear him describe the long hours his mother worked❓ You really sound inept!
These...."humans" are STILL STICKING to their twisted, self serving reality... What did that couple say?...he does a few odd jobs for them?..and they don't charge him rent 🤦 why not give him 5 acres out of the hundreds that they have just sitting there?
Bobby Johnson I think the interviewer handled it appropriately. Going all the way in as you call it. Is a breeding ground for confrontation and a major violation - being a guest in his house.
GiveMeCoffee i agree totally -- that was hard to watch. And the selling point that had me like really? Was staying at the plantation “rent free” -- the nerve of that guy to say -- that was tough to hear.
Seeing Miss Antionette get so emotional like this over finding someone else's family records really shows just how much she loves her work. She's pure at heart, and damn good at her job.
It’s not about being pure at heart, this isn’t charity work for her. It’s personal. She’s doing hard, hard work digging up past trauma that she MUST feel in her bones even when it’s not her own family.
As it hit me listening to what that man had witnessed... I had to take a moment to process it. You took a man, killed him, castrated him and then left him hanging in a tree directly in front of his family's home so they all could see it. Anyone who even tries to justify something like that is a psychopath and disgusting. And the fact that it happened in the 40s and 50s should disturb people--that wasn't that long ago yall. We have relatives here today who grew up during that time.
That's right Jacqueline, psychopath is exactly right. One thing that also gets me is the fact that historically, families even took their children to these 'events,' picnic baskets and all, just made a day of it! SICK!
I hate how peoples say racism is a past thing because it’s really not. The past wasn’t that long ago and these racists are still alive today doing god knows what.
@@fuse911 in those times it was normal and a sign of wealth to have slaves. Not all slave masters were cruel to them, that includes some of the white slaves masters. It was more of a strategic & classist move for black people to have slaves and they were usually kind to them & most of the time their slaves were given their freedom
Think about who are the most racist the Democrats and always have been what have they done for the black people Republicans passed the 13th and 14th amendment that help blacks Republicans were first to have black members in political office so much I could go on
Especially when they talk to Carston you could feel the racism in the room like "sometimes donalds full of shit" thats wild he didnt even let him talk about what he said. The wreathe of cotton spoke volumes. Just the sheer uncaring feeling you get from the white owners there is unsettling.
JERRELD's Lifestyle “...and sometimes Donald’s fullashit”. Right...what is he bullshitting about? When the modern-day slave owner said that you knew he was hiding something concerning Donald. He was so serious and was on a defense.
It felt like he "liked him" like an owner may like their dogs but they still the owner. The will feed him and shelter him but the dog doesn't have freedom. This white man had the worst icky vibes ever, left my stomach in a knot like I wouldn't trust him with my life. I feel so much sadness for the traumas Donald has experiences and still living with and the emotional imprisonment living there still causes him. It's like kidnapped children who end up liking their abusers as a form of self survival. He is still in emotional and financial slavery to his own past and ancestral traumas.
The way that Carsten immediately tried to discredit Donald without even knowing what he had said just MOMENTS after saying they have been “best friends since childhood” was VERY telling, he doesn’t want anyone to believe anything except the way he wants to tell it.
The “master” gave me the chills. He and his wife feel like horror movie characters that act really nice and then go crazy one night. The more he talked more he revealed.
The way Carson says “you’d be living on my land” to Akil, honestly hats off to Akil I bet he felt so uncomfortable in that house. I’m white and Carson gives me the creeps, can’t imagine being in that house knowing that history
Pan-Buddhist Chick he has a slave on his property, so i think he embraces his “heritage”. The part that got me was how Akil was just mentioning about Donald sharing his life and experiences, and Karsten immediately interjects with “sometimes Donald is full of shit” before Akil can finish. Nothing Akil said was accusatory or provoking, and Karsten immediately flips to full defense mode. That speaks miles to the real dynamic between these “childhood friends.”
Imagine the ghosts, listening in, shaking their heads. Sinister is hard to exactly convey via a vid, but it was there in 'Massas' house, Felt cold, but it was there.
The saddest part is Antoinette Harrell a.k.a "The Slavery Detective" is doing a job that should be done by the system that created the trauma! I feel like I'm looking at a one woman show for no justifiable reason! Antoinette Harrell Thank you for your dedication in doing this documentary and laying down the foundation for Reparations as have been layed for 600 years inclusive of "The Louisiana Territory" which long explained "Louisiana Creoles" have been overturned by European slavery FOUR times: Portuguese, Spain, France and Britain!!!! This is why the world is the disgraceful place that it is....ALL GAIN and ABSOLUTELY NO SHAME!!!!
@@shnazynick It is refreshing to see Africa and the Pan Africanism movement is literally overturning the ruthless practices of Europeans! Please don't even part your lips to suggest Euro slave practices are to be overlooked and this 9 million you pulled our of the sky should take front and center! There is absolutely no question in my mind that you are trying your best to derail this convo! But that is for the weak minded! European countries need to mind their business! They have managed to colonize over 12,000 countries where people of color reside until this day! I say we concentrate on getting European countries put out of these regions!!! These bossy and lazy people need to mind their damn business. They need to stop exploiting Caribbean and African territories! This is a worldwide problem with this community!
You honestly expect “the system” to waste money things that happened hundreds of years ago?? This is like private investigator work. This should be done by private companies not the government. Slavery is over move on
@@huhSHUA......Well I can tell by your response you're not the brightest star! Now I want you to think about this answer you gave! It is loaded with cognitive issues! First of all slavery did not happen hundreds of years ago! You are very slow......DID YOU WATCH ANY PART OF THIS VIDEO?????
I’m a mom of two kids. To imagine someone BUYING me and my two kids for $850 made me break down in tears. Slavery is our nation’s greatest disgrace. The trauma is so deep and the echos are still reverberating.
But what are you going to do about you cuz they were your ancestors I mean thank you for your sincere concern but crying tears is not going to help us get up and do something go to the neighborhoods where these police officers are and other racist people that do this justice so black people and say something say.... something to your relatives stop crying develop thick skin like a black woman and do something... help! because we can't do it without you its going to take your community to end this since they started it.
@@edwinamendelssohn5129 Nice try to deflect from her statement. It is this nation’s disgrace, a country that was supposed to be founded on the basis of an individual’s rights and freedoms with justice and equality for all, literally ruined and stained itself from the start with its hypocrisy from its founding because of slavery. You could care less about the issue, “it’s a global disgrace” is nothing more than a sneaky Karsten like attempt to justify, equivocate, not acknowledge and make yourself feel better about America’s shameful past.
Yea it’s sadly true you should look at the Daughters of the Confederacy and how they funded publishing companies to put agenda behind textbooks so that we would know a lot of the truth from this video. I believe Vox did a video on it.
Go to the library and begin to read and never stop. I don't know if it's on YT, but several years ago PBS had a documentary called: 'Slavery By Another Name', look for it, but always read.
Donald is still captive. That makes me so sad. And Karson trying to convince the host Akil that living “rent free” made Donald lucky was just disturbing.
Blakeley Taylor honest to god i swear honest to god i swear i promise. Im like oooook but he was just having simple dialogue but yet the white man acting as if there are thousands of dead bodies under the house. In which I'm sure there are but thats not why they are there. And bringing out the ol wife trick is suppose to put people at ease because a woman is suppose to bring a calm soothness to a situation. GIRLBYE. Then youh say donald is full of shit not realizing that Donald said nothing but nice things about you. If the man work give him his money so he can spend it as he pleases and the house that he choose. Youre making him stay on your plantation at that dusty house with a leaky roof and Lord knows what else. This really is the movie GET OUT.
Getting that call from the other genealogist saying that she found the family tree with pictures included was amazing. What a gift it would be for all of us of African American ancestry to be able to see and have that information of our ancestors, even though it may be heartbreaking. Antoinette is doing great work, Good bless her.
@@jamilajohnson7460 No, Kanye was very misconstrued in making that statement. If you read “The Making Of A Slave” by >William Lynch< it will explain the psychological enslavement that this man is under. It’s like a mental illness, and believe it or not, the vast majority of our community is still suffering from it. Kanye words were very ignorant to say the least. He needs to learn his history before publicly speaking on it.
When that dude said that the south was right... that was some true "Get Out" level stuff. I cannot imagine how the interviewer felt in that moment-- I'd imagine it was more than discomfort, closer to genuine fear and distrust. That was horrifying.
@@Mountainsidetreewater I'm Ghanaian and live in Toronto. Boston is definitely another major city with a considerable population of Ghanaians. And you are corrected many of us are educated. You'll will also find a large amount of us in Montreal, Calgary, Connecticut, Washington DC, Baltimore, NYC, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston. With that being said, watching this video had me in my feelings. The middle aged man who had NEVER left the plantation and here I am who have been to many countries around the world let alone. He is mentally in bondage.
Great story. We need more like this. We have tens of millions of undocumented, illegal untaxed laborers in this country. They are hard to enforce laws upon, let alone taxes. The rich that purchase protection by funneling those untaxed profits into associations organizations and campaigns that put in place those protective rackets. The people they employ are sometimes involved with organized crime in many instances beyond their knowledge or beyond their control.
I’m really confused by that moment Karson says “Well sometimes Donald’s full of shit” Right after the interviewer says they were talking with Donald about his experience. Like, bro- you automatically assumed he said something negative. Maybe I read that part of the interview wrong, but I don’t think I did. Did anyone else catch that? Right around 14:15
Greetings from Cambodia. You did an amazing job presenting this documentary. Tears me up and makes me want to scream. First thing that comes to mind is, "I'm sorry." I'm sorry this happened with your ancestors as it did with the ancestors of millions of others. So important that the stories of these hard-working, abused, and incredibly strong beings and how they survived under incredible hardships, threats, and deaths to hold you up. Just as others now stand on your shoulders. I'm so glad to see the work of this historian and the young man who created this documentary. Thank you. I was born in the Midwest of the US almost 70 years ago. I have done ancestry research--one line up to their arrival in the 1600s. I've run across stories among my ancestors who were hung as witches, who were indentured people from Europe and Great Britain, people who enslaved other human beings, Black relatives with rapist "masters," and people who owned, beat and/or emancipated enslaved humans. My 2nd Great-Grandfather was 17 and living in Rome, Georgia when he enlisted with the Federal troops occupying Georgia in 1864 and fought with the North until the end of the war. I appreciate the stories of people who stood/stand for truth, kindness, and equality, but all of the stories are not like that. Many are the source of unimaginable horror stories. All are important to know for insights into ourselves and the experience of others.
When old man Arthur said how they treated his Mother and how they just abused her and had their way with her, I truly felt my blood boil from deep within. The things that we can hardly imagine are the things our Ancestors experienced daily.
He was just a little boy, to see that, to know his mama went through that. Generational trauma is a real thing. As he said, some things cannot be fixed. But if we could even acknowledge it, apologize for it, make reparations for it, it might help just a bit. Americans, especially white ones, have to stop ignoring the history and the harm.
Also these white americans, Dems and Reps don't belive people like this man should receive reparations. Biden gives reparations to illegals and Ukraine but not to slavery descendants.
I did NOT want this documentary to END. Akil’s journalism is so special; heartfelt, brave and professional and Ms. Harrell!!! I felt this deeply and hope that a network offers her a series and additional funding for her unique work! Incredible job guys.
I would love it if someone would produce a show highlighting her work. Also there should be a major Government funded effort to assist in this area of research.
Chan T How TF Can a Man heal when he is still in Discovery mode, finding 💎 of truth everyday living like eterally - connected to everything like a Active Bluetooth
@james Williams don’t be so gullible. Scientists did not say trauma change you’re genes. VICE is selling a story its entertaining it is not real. If you really think about it there’s not even one shred of proof that slavery even happened.
Donald had nothing but good things to say about Jeffries. As soon as Akil informed him that he spoke to Donald about his life, he discredited him and vilified his character with an astonishing self assured quickness. He said not to believe Donald. Ok, thank you. I will now believe EXACTLY as he stated.
This is sad my brother just don't know no better What did Harret T say : i Free hundreds : i could have Freed thousand : if they only knew they were Slaves.
@@jordanowens3748 you do realize either way its using the language of their oppressors. You don't get to dictate their respectability based off of your expectations of good behavior. Ffs.
@@katiejane7202 that's what I thought as well! Also made me think about real toxic and abusive marriages/relationships. Where one partner can't get out, and justifies it for themselves, if that makes sense? How he said that it is home and beautiful... Childhood friends, like a brother.... That just sat very wrong with me
According to TH-cam this was done 5 years ago... It blows my mind that today in many states especially Southern Republican States it has become illegal to teach true history..... Yes this work needs to continue... LORD bless the work. LORD help us all.
Just found out that Antoinette is a cousin of mine, who I recently met. She has a channel called : Nurturing Our Roots on TH-cam and some other things in the works.
@@ah_libra Wow! I just happened to be watching videos on plantations in Louisiana and Mississippi and the Haitian Revolution. Saw this video pop up again, and I see your reply and didn't even get a notification from it. The ancestors definitely are speaking to us!
A lot of AMERICANS are related and don't know it, white people included. In fact, the more I look around, the more I wonder how many Americans are inbred. I know that sounds harsh, but I'm serious. Who would know if they're marrying a distant cousin without full background research?
This is horrifying , Some of us have close kin we remember telling us they grew up on farms picking Cotten as if it were the norm , this was in the 50’s y’all 😒. This is some sick sh&$! But you know our social studies book says slavery ended over 150 years ago 🤷🏽♀️
A lots of those land paid for by slave.before the slave master leve .they work and pay for the plantation.most of the slave master was European.when slave ended they go back to Europe.you need some research on that
It’s crazy. No matter how hard I try I just can’t watch stuff like this anymore. Literally feels like I’m being stabbed. I thank God I wasn’t at this point in college, where I learned so much about our history from great professors and my own studies, but as I got older it just became harder and harder to listen to these stories. It’s like I get immediately hooked up to the persons nervous system and can feel the pain they feel as they tell their stories-and it’s unbearable. So I end up close to tears and click off
Now imagine that same white man, who eventually has kids. He passes on his beliefs and experiences to those kids. Now those kids are working in HR or CFO of a company. How much would you bet that they wouldn't hire someone that is a minority? This is what's scary to me. Being someone who has never been a slave can still be impacted from ramifications in the past....
Exactly!!! It will never leave our memory because it's physiologically imbedded in our memory and will never leave it is in our generation to generation....
more whites ARE and were slaves than blacks. Instead of whining and cry babying all the time why not do like whites and join/help the organizations that are freeing slaves NOW. BTW TODAY'S slaves are treated FAR WORSE than any in America. Mexicans treated their slaves far worse too.
man akil did such a good job on this one. he’s so calm yet strongly empathetic to the individuals he speaks with. I think the older gentleman appreciate getting a chance to speak with Akil and maybe they don’t realize how powerful their stories are and how many people they have reached but they really deserve the best and i hope they can thrive into the sunset.
He might've been raised around Donald but there's no way he was raised ALONGSIDE Donald. He'd have been raised above him. While I'm sure he and Donald have a relationship and friendliness between them but you know he's kept Donald there out of guilt and so he can say, "see? He chose to stay. They didn't have it that bad here..." He believes he's right. That there's nothing wrong with his family's history.
Oh yes. This is some high level stunting “giving him a place to live” it’s not given, let’s be honest Donald earned that. The mental gymnastics the land owner is doing to justify everything are Olympic level.
you can hear in his voice he believes he is doing him a favor by trapping him there. What makes it even sadder is that Carson does not even understand the ideas in his head are wrong.
My grandmother passed about three years ago at 63, she picked Tobacco for most of her life . Her and her brothers . Her and her 5 children ( my mother included) stayed in a shack on the land ... no running water, no bathroom, not even a toothbrush of clean under garments ... sounds like slavery to me
Ericc Adkins This is why I don’t understand our people wanting to lay down with these folks... Whitewashing history. Also May I take you to dinner though..? You are immaculate!
Star Freelancer GTFOH! u demons want to be included in everything! Is the sun, moon & stars not enough for u??? Slavery & indentured servitude are two totally DIFFERENT things! #FuckOff
I could watch this all day, that older gentlemen is a living time capsule, his words and life should be recorded and exhibited for the world to see and hear. Good piece Vice
Make America great again had nothing to do with African American people. It’s a business statement and was used in political campaign speeches by Ronald Regan and Bill Clinton also George Bush and copied by Trump. The media twisted the true meaning behind it in a political stunt. With research you can find my statements to be true before you respond with emotion and feelings. America is not our home and never will be, but in order to survive here first and foremost we must come together as a people. It is also important to note we must learn our true identities which is not hard to do in this day and age. Black is not our identity that was a label given to us. If you go to the US Census website you see all of the Census data which shows we were labeled Slaves, Negros, Colored, Black, and after Jessie Jackson’s meeting in a Chicago hotel African American. But ask yourself, who were you before the shores of America? DNA will answer that along with research.
“ I don’t even remember meeting him. We were childhood friends. I promise to god. Swear to god.” Sounds like a whole liar. The white man owes Donald probably six to seven figures.
After the cameras left, and the documentary was all said-and-done, my only hope is that Donald didn't experience harsh treatment, as a result. I can only hope. The reality of that is slim-to-none.
I think All should have made sure that Carson understood that Donald didn't say anything bad. That he said all positive things and that he felt like Carson was a brother. I feel bad for poor Mr. Donald.
@@prettyyoungthingpyt5015 As a journalist, I think it was his job to not give anything away. It was telling how he got defensive quickly, and he probably wanted to learn more
@@tamie7974 I doubt that there was any retaliation. Sharecropping was common, until the early 80s in the MS Delta. Many of the sharecroppers really did have a good working relationship with their landlords. Most of the work wasn't hard because machines took over a lot of labor, except for harvesting cotton. That was seasonal. The rest of the time was prepping and planting, using tractors and industrial machines (cotton gins, especially). Farm work is still a big part of many people's annual salaries.
I wish I could find this lady to help me find my ancestors. I don’t know anyone from either side of my family and I’ve been wanting to know for years so I could share with my children. I’m telling you it brought me to tears.
Just before meeting him I was willing to believe he might be trying to make up for his history but nope, that dude is drunk saying to the host "imagine you lived on my land"
I watched this piece when it was initially published, and four years later I get chills watching it again...This was very well done, and it's a story that needed to be told.
Actually there were a lot of plantations that were for sale because the owners were killed in battle or they were broke and couldn’t afford to keep them without “free labor,” slaves. Also, there were a lot of Northern men who owned plantations that sold or abandoned them to look like they were always on the right side of history. Some got broken up and sold. Some didn’t.
I'm the same. In my 30s and my father was born in the early 1900's. He always used to tell me to take my "cotton picking fingers" off things I wasn't supposed to touch. It wasn't until I was damn near grown before I fully understood the reason why he used that saying, and it definitely woke me up to what life was like for him coming up in the south.
@@crystalperry2163 My dad used to say the same thing! I just never understood what he was referring to. I was 10 when he died so I never got a chance to ask him about his experiences. And bring so little, no little girl really wants to talk about the harshness of slavery. It was a bit too much for me whenever he tried talking about it. But I wish I had listened to what he had to say...
@@retrobarbie9028 Wow. We have a few things in common. I was 9 when my Dad passed, but he used to tell us stories about before they had cars and rode horses, and listened to the radio like it was t.v. I used to sit and listen to him for hours, but I still wish I had listened more. My dad wouldve been a 110 this year. I've never met anyone with a story similar to mine. It's pretty cool knowing there were other kids who had much older parents like me.
Did anyone notice that the wife of that vile man did not shake the interviewer's hand? You could feel the disdain emanating from her all the way from the Uk 🇬🇧. Did you notice that Eli, the helper in the painting was on his knees? Even the animals were on their feet.
Excellent job pointing out the nuances of how social interaction intersects with people’s deepest beliefs. I’m sure neither of those two owners would have ever thought a free black man would enter their home on his own pretense. At least there was an offer of hospitality but even the interviewers refusal was awkward. America, we have such a long way to go....
This lady needs a team of assistants like Johnny Cochran. She's got methods, knowledge that MUST go on. It has to be taught to a few predecessors. This work is important and should be funded by hustlers, ball players, etc
Also known as taking the group that is the most self-critical, sincere and empathetic(whites) and pushing the white guilt button to violently abuse and bully them to give more resources to non-whites. Then they say exploitation is really bad. Give me a fucking break.
Traumatizing. I told some of my friends a long while ago when I found out about this that sharecropper was code for slave. Our ancestors used that to cover up the pain of what they went through.
Jessie BEE I imagine him growing up knowing where a murdered man was buried. Knowing where a brutal assault and murder happened and still having to carry out life as normal. It’s so emotionally damaging and traumatic.
Why are you guys still living in the past? No way am I saying that what this people went through wasn't horrific, just that why can't people just move on? Some people live horrible lifes as kids, and instead of crying about how much they have suffered and deciding that they'd rather be dead because they can't take the pain of those memories anymore, they choose to move on and some don't even hate the people that hurt them. Some forget them, others forgive them. Some people are born without legs, hands, and such and seen as different, but they don't let that stop them from wanting to live even if life would be so much easier if they weren't missing a body part and such. People like them have thought me so much like why is useless to be stuck in the past, how it hurts me and others around me and such. Aren't you happy that at least you're not being enslaved and such like this people were? Would you rather be one of the people that went through those things instead of being as free as you are now? Isn't something like that enough to celebrate? Enough to say, my people have suffered for so long, but now is over and if not over, at least, is not as bad as it used to be". Did you guys forget or not know that lots of whites, specially from the north were against slavery? And that some blacks and a lot of whites, especially from the south were pro-slavery? Remember not every white police officer will kill a black one on purpose. I feel like that's enough to say, that that's a choice of the individual either because they have been thaught to think as blacks as different or because they just like feeling like they're better than someone. I don't know a single person who doesn't like the same.
@@laughandlive377 Shhhh.... You may not know this but it's disgustingly-disrespectful to tell someone that went thru a traumatic experience of any kind. "To just get over it". They are simply reflecting on their lives and experience, so I don't know what possibly gave you the gull or gumption, or for better words AUDACITY, to feel like your opinions about "living in the past" are some how "needed" or "important".. But that's something you have to figure out for yourself. If the way you get thru life is by putting things behind you and not acknowledging your ancestors history then by all means YOU have every right to do that. You can't go around telling ppl how they should not handle their own history.
@@djbluejazz7349 Oh, so you'd rather live a miserable life always thinking about the bad things and ignoring even the slightly good things? Go on, but you're hurting more than just yourself by doing that. Like that saying goes "Hating someone is like poisoning yourself" or something and if you call yourself Christian, I hope you take that to heart since you can't go to heaven with hatred in you as it says in the bible. Ah, I would basically hate everyone in my life if I focused on how awful they are or the pain they have caused me. That includes family and friends. And yet, I hate none of them. Call me a bitch if you want because I refuse to listen to the depressing voice in my head that's often trying to bring me down. And that's the reason I haven't killed myself. And do to that discovery I made, I realize that depression really is all in the head and a thing you can easily get over depending on how you view things. Which explains why some kids are happy and loving to parents that threat them horrible and they never hate those people. I call those kind of people angels on Earth. Isn't it weird that depressing people tend to be really negative, blame themselves for basically everything and such? There's even science behind it and it sure is interesting. I'd recommend you read about it. You can't seriously tell me that nothing good has happened to those people, can you? The thing is, that they tend to ignore those good things and focus on the bad ones. But wathever keep on lying to yourself all you want, I'm not the one getting hurt by it in the end.
@@laughandlive377 I didn't say that at all. That is something u are projecting on to me, becuz of ur own insecurity. I don't need you to teach or tell me how to handle my "hate". Ur not my guru or spiritual advisor. U have no authority in leading me anywhere. Especially seeing as how I can easily tell you probably haven't reconciled the haterd within urself. That's what ur not understanding. You only have authority over yourself partner. No matter how many paragraphs you write it all boils down to "self". What are YOU doing
David Leighton That’s True So Stop Telling Us To Go Back Over There And Answer This If I Try To Sell You A Person Would You Buy Them And If Not Why Not
@David Leighton Does that mean they had to treat them likes DOGS once they got to America?! Is this what you tell yourself to make these actions ok? Stop making excuses for these disgusting acts. You should be ashamed.
@David Leighton and THATS where you wrong. ADOS dont lije to deny nuthin about it. The problem is because of western anti black racism and particularly in america people have been taught that "blacks" are all the same people somehow and to include africans. Africa is one of the most culturally diverse places on the planet and this misconception that blacks sold their "own people is bull shit. Did blacks sell blacks into slavery? Yea some of the sure the fuck did, however since NONE OF THEM identified as themselves by color, but by tribes, then those slave traders rarely if ever, sold "Their own people" they sold rival tribes people. Their HAS NEVER been a unifying classification of "blackness" until outsiders (non blacks) declared war on blackness. America owes reparations not just for slavery but the myriad of other public policies that were enacted specifically to keep ados oppressed. And id say african nations owe reparatiins to ALL the DOS populations of the world as well.
Wow I'm latina and my grandmother is a descedent of caribbean slavery but I feel like even the latin Americans had it easy compared to this. God bless the work Antoinette Harrell is doing. She deserves much more praise!
agreed Antoinette Harrell deserves national recognition and her own series showcasing more of her work and sadly Black Americans are the treated the worst in this country but yet everything we do is emulated without due credit.
I sat down with my dad earlier this year and he was telling me how it was for him growing up in South Carolina. He was born in the early 50s and was a sharecropper. When he told me that I damn near fell out of my seat. Sharecropper, for the majority of black people, equates to slaves. My grandparents were born in the early 20s and they too were sharecroppers. My whole family were sharecroppers. It just struck me as odd that legalized slavery (outside of the prison system) was still going on and that my dad was a damn slave. I was born in the late 80s. You should hear their stories.
You people need to record, or even better, video these conversations....find a black sponsor and get your stories told! Pronto! The truth will be buried with these beautiful people...get to it and get to it NOW!!! For the people, for humanity...please x
I knew this stuff and much more but try not to think about it because it hurts me so bad...I feel so bad for black people across the world because so much is not told to us and all we have to do is pick up a book and do research. It's not gonna be told to us so we have to find it ourselves.
And if someone keeps saying "okay?" after every affirmative statement they make, they're trying to convince *you* that what they're saying is the truth. It's basic psychology. Also, every statement he made came with a very uncomfortable stare. His body language was screaming aggression. I was just begging for him to get off the screen. I feel so bad for Donald..
To be honest this was in India as well during British colonial times. Indians were slave on their own land by Brits. To be honest times from king's as well. And still talking to people like Donald they are still afraid to admit the correct term is slavery what they are doing. You feel sadness for them.
It was. There were many black and white poor sharecroppers. They’d usually have homes they could live in, and I’m using that term very loosely. They were glorified shacks. They would plant and work a certain amount of land. If I remember stories right the land owners would buy seed and fertilizer and the sharecropper would have to give the land owner a certain pre agreed upon amount. Problem was this, if it flooded and crops rotted, if drought killed the plants you still owed the landowner. If you needed to gin the cotton to get out seeds and stuff and the landowner owned the cotton gin you had to pay to have it ginned. If someone else owned a gin you’d have to pay them, usually with a percentage of cotton. That was another side business he’d have for all the local places. Then, you’d have to make sure you could feed your family all year. A lot of people had gardens but you need more than gardens to survive so where do you go? You go to the landowner if you don’t have other income or trade goods. Similar things happened in the coal communities but in a more massive scale. The coal companies owned everything from the homes men rented to the stores they shopped at.
@@amandakelley1665 They did the same in the U.K. they still have that going on in developing countries and the U.S. military and the CIA see to it that it stays that way. If need be with a coup or a war. U.S. oligarchs making sure to exploit these people with the help of local oligarchs.
@@amandakelley1665 A reminder that the rich will act like that _if they can_ - our ruling class gladly accept such conditions - just in other countries. So they do not have to see it. Back in the day they just did not visit certain ugly areas.
My great grandad family was from Louisiana but was born and was a sharecropper in Texas one year he took all the money and took the family to California
“I just do it because it needs to be done.” Thank you, Antoinette Harrell, for doing this painful and sacred work for all of us. Thank you Black women for carrying the world.
Not just black women but anyone with a heart should do what needs to be done! Black people didn’t choose to be enslaved and I don’t believe it’s our “duty” to fix the things your ancestors created. It’s time to make things right. #WeWantOurReparations
That broke my heart when the interviewer started getting emotional when asking the one guy if he knew about the pursuit of the Civil Rights Movement and he responded no
My heart breaks watching this. Bless Antoinette, and just know many of us would love to continue watching her work! @VICE, allow a series on her work. It would be very impactful.
@@Blizzard757575 Both Donald and Karsten seemed a bit slow, traumatized and dependent on that place and their own ways. None of em chose the life theyre living, both of em were raised there and is propably all they know.
This is all I keep thinking about. How can anyone be so upset with the past when there is clearly a man living there because he has no other options in their presence. How could they go home that night?!
My grandma is from Greenville, Mississippi and worked on a plantation as a child. She told us when she was 16 she had to get out the south and moved to New York/Detroit,MI the first chance to leave. I remember my grandma saying it was horrible in the south, but never any details. It’s like she avoided that topic like crazy. I’m about to go more dig deep into this. Gwendolyn’s story should be told
Hey, I'm from Greenville. My mother's family is from Greenville as well. I remember asking my grandmother if she ever askes her father about any of his family. She said that every time she attempted to ask about their family he got quiet and look like he was about to cry. That was over 20 years ago when I asked her, at time I was 10 and my great grand father (her father) was well over 100 years old.
Lol imagine that half of the Black people in United States don’t even know that their last name is from this slave master imagine the children of today finding that out
When I was in public school in Louisiana our teachers would always tell us that our state and culture was 20 years behind everyone else in the country, and that when we grew up and might travel to keep that in mind.
Considering that this plantation stuff happened into the 1960s and slavery was "abolished" in the 1860s then they were 100 years behind the united states at the time.
@@gavinperch9413 The rest of the south wasn’t any better. And the country as a whole, hell the West as a whole, isn’t as far away from the south in that regard as they like to think.
Vice: Come back to Louisiana and do more of these docs. I live here, the world need these stories while they are able to be told correctly. Accurate information is very important to us.
VICE's Akil Gibbons traveled to Louisiana to meet genealogist Antoinette Harrell, the “slavery detective of the South," who tracks down cases of modern-day slavery and abusive labor practices.
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VICE good story
The south had slavery when the Democrats ruled thre. Just saying
awesome story.
Oh, Jesus, the American school system is such a failure. Sir, those were the Dixiecrats, democrats defined by their adherence and advocacy of southern politics, and what was called "the southern way of life', hence defined by the maintenance of slavery as institution and policy, as well as their relationship to the KKK. Fast forward to 1964, LBJ seeks passage of the Civil Rights Act, Dixiecrats refused to comply/accept the legislation and recognition/enforcement of the civil rights of African Americans, and filibuster the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it passes in spite of their racist efforts. LBJ remarks that Democrats have lost the south forever.....So fucking ill educated.... Go. read. a. fucking. book. Stop jacking off to pictures of Taylor Swift, and starting reddit threads regarding all manner of white nonsense...what is it now, Black Panther is reverse racism propaganda...whatever....it's too late anyway.
I would like to see JUST ONCE, where somebody like VICE takes a slave descendant back to Africa to try and find out their history and find out who the black slave trader was that was willing to sell somebody of their own skin color to the white man.
You got that in you Vice? Nah, I did not think so either!
I understand that the way many whites treated their slaves was inhumane and disgusting, but why not show the whole story? It is a part of history, is it not?
Keeping people isolated and uneducated was always the key.
You are exactly right and I was always told by my grandmother they want it like that because they feel like black people would never read a book or get into any sort of Education but they were so wrong
Was and STILL IS the key. Public schools anyone?
Exactly!!!
Education is the way.
You mean like identity politics and the current propaganda of the mainstream media, public schools, and Hollywood?
The fact the older gentleman kept looking over his shoulder while being interviewed shows the trauma from slavery is deep as hell man smh.
I noticed that too. He's completely destroyed on the inside, to the point where he doesn't even blink when talking about his own mother being raped and abused, his uncle getting lynched... how do you come back from that, once you've seen it? There really is no way back. Your humanity is destroyed and all that's left is an empty shell. It's a terrible shame that the criminals responsible will never get to taste their own medicine.
@@Verradonairun yea those terrible people just got to keep building their wealth and never had to pay for what they did
@@bugeye8161 exactly
This is so sad.
Martin B I wouldn’t say he’s an empty shell, but I know what you mean. From this side of the screen, I could feel his pain and his goodness. I would pay money to be able to meet this man and shake his hand, tell him his voice is heard and the memory of his tormenters is and will be erased. I want to cry tears with this man. He’s a rock. A living, breathing rock.
This woman is doing a service that should be catalogued in the Library of Congress
Invoking AOC 🌟
Weird how you still want props from the same system and people that did this in the 1st place. It never ceases to amaze me.
I wish we could share comments
She deserves a Nobel peace prize
@Pavor - No.
Someone in the comments mentioned that keeping them isolated and uneducated was the key in keeping this system intact and that is so incredibly true as the fact that wanting to live free in a trailer on a field in the middle of a nowhere-farm seemed a better option to Donald than working that same farm for wages and employee benefits which could’ve paid him far more than merely saving a few hundred on rent. That couple were also eerie AF
Isolated in a segregated group?
It's 2023
And carefully reading your venomous and arrogant comments you left out that this particular Black man was stripped of education, human dignity and knowledge to move himself forward.
WTF did you think he was going to be given a scholarship to Notre Dame ❓
How dare you
FYI, Donald chose this lifestyle. He has 3 older brothers that left that land to live more productive lives. One went to college and now owns his own business. One went to the military, then married and lived in Germany. The 3rd got a regular job and lives a normal life. Donald likes hunting, fishing and being around the farm. You see this as slavery. He sees this as a easy way of life. Material possessions don’t matter to him. He knows his family history. The family has had reunions since 1969. His mother was one of the best family historians. So he had knowledge, and options, but he chose to stay where he is.
@@blacklandranch6093
I read your comments several times before responding just to be sure I say what I'm going to say to you.
Your comment sounds like a rebuttal and I'm going to treat it as such.
You sound more like me a slave owner sympathizer than a realistic Black American Woman, here's why:
You never showed proof of Donald's brother existence much less their journey in life.
Donald is living on the land that he was born on in peonage.
He had 5 generations on that land before him. You can't prove that Donald had a better way out of it his mental/emotional faculties are strong enough and his skill set is limited to agriculture which doesn't pay enough to house himself if he wished to go.
Perhaps your 80 acres in Commerce Texas is peaceful for you, while you meditate and practice Poi, but you must be seriously inept to not see that free room and board doesn't erase the history of Donald's 5 generations not being chattel slaves but in peonage.
Did you NOT hear him describe the long hours his mother worked❓
You really sound inept!
That white man looks like his parents are related. So creepy
Please give Mrs. Antoinette her own show I would watch
Digging deeper....she may need some protection.
Yessss!!! This would be so interesting
These...."humans" are STILL STICKING to their twisted, self serving reality...
What did that couple say?...he does a few odd jobs for them?..and they don't charge him rent 🤦 why not give him 5 acres out of the hundreds that they have just sitting there?
That will never happen. She digging up too much Information
Oprah should put this on Own...
That whole conversation with the Plantation owner was so awkward.
No it wasn't,he should've went all the way in on him!!!✊😎
Bobby Johnson I think the interviewer handled it appropriately. Going all the way in as you call it. Is a breeding ground for confrontation and a major violation - being a guest in his house.
Sooo awkward idk if he was lying or if he was telling the truth but something in me tells me he was lying and I hope Donald is ok 😬🥴
That kind of attitude, like they believe what they are doing with that poor man is a good deed, made me sick to my stomach.
GiveMeCoffee i agree totally -- that was hard to watch. And the selling point that had me like really? Was staying at the plantation “rent free” -- the nerve of that guy to say -- that was tough to hear.
Seeing Miss Antionette get so emotional like this over finding someone else's family records really shows just how much she loves her work. She's pure at heart, and damn good at her job.
__yellow she is a paragon of humanity and justice.
Yess
While I agree it’s admirable she is invested in her work, Emotions often override logic and end up being damaging to any movements long term efficacy.
It’s not about being pure at heart, this isn’t charity work for her. It’s personal. She’s doing hard, hard work digging up past trauma that she MUST feel in her bones even when it’s not her own family.
and how she makes a living!
As it hit me listening to what that man had witnessed... I had to take a moment to process it.
You took a man, killed him, castrated him and then left him hanging in a tree directly in front of his family's home so they all could see it. Anyone who even tries to justify something like that is a psychopath and disgusting. And the fact that it happened in the 40s and 50s should disturb people--that wasn't that long ago yall. We have relatives here today who grew up during that time.
That's right Jacqueline, psychopath is exactly right. One thing that also gets me is the fact that historically, families even took their children to these 'events,' picnic baskets and all, just made a day of it! SICK!
Not just “found” either, they hunted him down and found him because he left
Lately ive recently learned that even some blacks had slaves back then
I hate how peoples say racism is a past thing because it’s really not. The past wasn’t that long ago and these racists are still alive today doing god knows what.
@@fuse911 in those times it was normal and a sign of wealth to have slaves. Not all slave masters were cruel to them, that includes some of the white slaves masters. It was more of a strategic & classist move for black people to have slaves and they were usually kind to them & most of the time their slaves were given their freedom
The things unsaid yet felt in this documentary is overwhelming.
Think about who are the most racist the Democrats and always have been what have they done for the black people Republicans passed the 13th and 14th amendment that help blacks Republicans were first to have black members in political office so much I could go on
Especially when they talk to Carston you could feel the racism in the room like "sometimes donalds full of shit" thats wild he didnt even let him talk about what he said. The wreathe of cotton spoke volumes. Just the sheer uncaring feeling you get from the white owners there is unsettling.
Monte Christo that cotton wreath 🤦🏽♀️ and the wife...didn't bother shaking hands
@Comrade Sky Because the unequal treatment of black people and poor people are the glue that holds up this capitalist society 🤫🤫🤫🤫
@@coryburns834 you do know Republicans and Democrats basically switched places a while back right? So this argument is invalid, try again
the slave owner acted real nervous and anxious. Donald is his slave this is so sad.
JERRELD's Lifestyle “...and sometimes Donald’s fullashit”. Right...what is he bullshitting about? When the modern-day slave owner said that you knew he was hiding something concerning Donald. He was so serious and was on a defense.
and the whole thing that he kept repeating the slaves lived "rent free" and that was a good opportunity... like, it's SLAVERY
It felt like he "liked him" like an owner may like their dogs but they still the owner. The will feed him and shelter him but the dog doesn't have freedom. This white man had the worst icky vibes ever, left my stomach in a knot like I wouldn't trust him with my life. I feel so much sadness for the traumas Donald has experiences and still living with and the emotional imprisonment living there still causes him. It's like kidnapped children who end up liking their abusers as a form of self survival. He is still in emotional and financial slavery to his own past and ancestral traumas.
13:50 i agree
True
The way that Carsten immediately tried to discredit Donald without even knowing what he had said just MOMENTS after saying they have been “best friends since childhood” was VERY telling, he doesn’t want anyone to believe anything except the way he wants to tell it.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!! Whole mood switched up!
Yep, the need to always try to control the narrative. This is just sickening.
This right here! I was trying to type something similar, but it wouldn’t post.
He actually thinks that he is a good person, but just a reprobate.
U caught that too, 😢
The “master” gave me the chills. He and his wife feel like horror movie characters that act really nice and then go crazy one night. The more he talked more he revealed.
yesss, omg . they both seem like terrible people .
They look a bit off, too.
So sad... so sad
Movie “get out” replayed on my mind
Reminds me of “get out”
The way Carson says “you’d be living on my land” to Akil, honestly hats off to Akil I bet he felt so uncomfortable in that house. I’m white and Carson gives me the creeps, can’t imagine being in that house knowing that history
And it came out so naturally... That phrase from him tells sooooo much.... hum...
Cause that how he feel about all of us
And he just shrugged about how the Confederacy was right? Was he saying that slavery was good???
Pan-Buddhist Chick he has a slave on his property, so i think he embraces his “heritage”. The part that got me was how Akil was just mentioning about Donald sharing his life and experiences, and Karsten immediately interjects with “sometimes Donald is full of shit” before Akil can finish. Nothing Akil said was accusatory or provoking, and Karsten immediately flips to full defense mode. That speaks miles to the real dynamic between these “childhood friends.”
Imagine the ghosts, listening in, shaking their heads. Sinister is hard to exactly convey via a vid, but it was there in 'Massas' house, Felt cold, but it was there.
The saddest part is Antoinette Harrell a.k.a "The Slavery Detective" is doing a job that should be done by the system that created the trauma! I feel like I'm looking at a one woman show for no justifiable reason! Antoinette Harrell Thank you for your dedication in doing this documentary and laying down the foundation for Reparations as have been layed for 600 years inclusive of "The Louisiana Territory" which long explained "Louisiana Creoles" have been overturned by European slavery FOUR times: Portuguese, Spain, France and Britain!!!! This is why the world is the disgraceful place that it is....ALL GAIN and ABSOLUTELY NO SHAME!!!!
What should we do about the 9 million people still enslaved in Africa?
@@shnazynick and about the war lords and slavers that sold them to the Americas
@@shnazynick It is refreshing to see Africa and the Pan Africanism movement is literally overturning the ruthless practices of Europeans! Please don't even part your lips to suggest Euro slave practices are to be overlooked and this 9 million you pulled our of the sky should take front and center! There is absolutely no question in my mind that you are trying your best to derail this convo! But that is for the weak minded! European countries need to mind their business! They have managed to colonize over 12,000 countries where people of color reside until this day! I say we concentrate on getting European countries put out of these regions!!! These bossy and lazy people need to mind their damn business. They need to stop exploiting Caribbean and African territories! This is a worldwide problem with this community!
You honestly expect “the system” to waste money things that happened hundreds of years ago?? This is like private investigator work. This should be done by private companies not the government. Slavery is over move on
@@huhSHUA......Well I can tell by your response you're not the brightest star! Now I want you to think about this answer you gave! It is loaded with cognitive issues! First of all slavery did not happen hundreds of years ago! You are very slow......DID YOU WATCH ANY PART OF THIS VIDEO?????
I’m a mom of two kids. To imagine someone BUYING me and my two kids for $850 made me break down in tears. Slavery is our nation’s greatest disgrace. The trauma is so deep and the echos are still reverberating.
It's a global disgrace and is still going on on many forms across the world.
But what are you going to do about you cuz they were your ancestors I mean thank you for your sincere concern but crying tears is not going to help us get up and do something go to the neighborhoods where these police officers are and other racist people that do this justice so black people and say something say.... something to your relatives stop crying develop thick skin like a black woman and do something... help! because we can't do it without you its going to take your community to end this since they started it.
@@edwinamendelssohn5129 Nice try to deflect from her statement. It is this nation’s disgrace, a country that was supposed to be founded on the basis of an individual’s rights and freedoms with justice and equality for all, literally ruined and stained itself from the start with its hypocrisy from its founding because of slavery. You could care less about the issue, “it’s a global disgrace” is nothing more than a sneaky Karsten like attempt to justify, equivocate, not acknowledge and make yourself feel better about America’s shameful past.
@@BE-bk1tb you might want to read the founding fathers writings on the matter.
@@QuietQueenProject how do you know these were Julie Holts ancestors? Because she has white skin? Faulty generalization
[Slavery] 'Continued through the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, and even the 60's' ... I almost threw up...
Where TF was this in our Textbooks?!
Yea it’s sadly true you should look at the Daughters of the Confederacy and how they funded publishing companies to put agenda behind textbooks so that we would know a lot of the truth from this video. I believe Vox did a video on it.
It’s not in this country’s best interest to let the truth be known, because the truth makes them look horrible.
D.C. Gold. They dont talk about it.....Cray
Sickening
Go to the library and begin to read and never stop. I don't know if it's on YT, but several years ago PBS had a documentary called: 'Slavery By Another Name', look for it, but always read.
Donald is still captive. That makes me so sad.
And Karson trying to convince the host Akil that living “rent free” made Donald lucky was just disturbing.
Yes, Donald is still treated as a slave. Brain washed...Not being able to FREELY tell his story. Thinking he's living the Good Life. Let Us Pray!
I totally agree. He is still a slave.
Yes it was sista I was like he looks like a Demon
I'm VERY worried about his (Donald) well being after this documentary.
That's not living rent free at all. That's pure slavery and I hate Slavery
Every time his eyes bug out and he says "honest to God", he's lying.
Blakeley Taylor honest to god i swear honest to god i swear i promise. Im like oooook but he was just having simple dialogue but yet the white man acting as if there are thousands of dead bodies under the house. In which I'm sure there are but thats not why they are there. And bringing out the ol wife trick is suppose to put people at ease because a woman is suppose to bring a calm soothness to a situation. GIRLBYE. Then youh say donald is full of shit not realizing that Donald said nothing but nice things about you. If the man work give him his money so he can spend it as he pleases and the house that he choose. Youre making him stay on your plantation at that dusty house with a leaky roof and Lord knows what else. This really is the movie GET OUT.
@@ouubet you aint ever lied
@@ouubet straight up !
Lmao!! Facts!!
Truth,trying to fake honesty.the whole body of white towns folk are in on it and are convinced it's rightous....with that bigoted book
Getting that call from the other genealogist saying that she found the family tree with pictures included was amazing. What a gift it would be for all of us of African American ancestry to be able to see and have that information of our ancestors, even though it may be heartbreaking. Antoinette is doing great work, Good bless her.
Carson was so quick to say Donald is full of it. Donald hardly said a word, sad.
Right! Guilty conscience!!
Exactly! This broke my heart.
felt that
The supreme Court is racist Also
Something tells me Donald is one of the most honest men walking this planet.
The man explaining how he loved his life on the plantation was heart breaking. Institutionalized.
Smdh. I can't even articulate as to how many emotions I feel from seeing that 💔😡
Peggy Wiley yes sister! Deuteronomy told us all we need to know!
So kanye saying it was a choice doesn't seem that far fetch. Obviously not all thoughts were like this man but it truly truly a great realization.
@@jamilajohnson7460 No, Kanye was very misconstrued in making that statement. If you read “The Making Of A Slave” by >William Lynch< it will explain the psychological enslavement that this man is under. It’s like a mental illness, and believe it or not, the vast majority of our community is still suffering from it. Kanye words were very ignorant to say the least. He needs to learn his history before publicly speaking on it.
Mmm. He seems a bit slow. I feel sad.
My body was so tense during the plantation owners interview. I'm not sure whether he was trying to convince us or himself.
I thought the same thing!!!! I had to actually stop watching an compose myself. And IVE SEEN some shit!
he definitely was
He was hiding something especially with the blatant disrespect and disregard for the humanity of his so-called “brother and family friend”.
@@TheUniqueInspiration Seriously that man gave me the creeps
I agree whole heartedly, that plantation owner was creepy as hell.
This interviewer was so good. Nearly making cry. You can see how learning this stuff is so impactful for him. What a great guy
When that dude said that the south was right... that was some true "Get Out" level stuff. I cannot imagine how the interviewer felt in that moment-- I'd imagine it was more than discomfort, closer to genuine fear and distrust. That was horrifying.
Very scary !!
The shape of his head looks like his parents may have been siblings.
@@JaiMitch27 dude what? 😭😭 okay now that’s a lil weird to say…
@@Mountainsidetreewater I'm Ghanaian and live in Toronto. Boston is definitely another major city with a considerable population of Ghanaians. And you are corrected many of us are educated. You'll will also find a large amount of us in Montreal, Calgary, Connecticut, Washington DC, Baltimore, NYC, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston. With that being said, watching this video had me in my feelings. The middle aged man who had NEVER left the plantation and here I am who have been to many countries around the world let alone. He is mentally in bondage.
Great story. We need more like this.
We have tens of millions of undocumented, illegal untaxed laborers in this country. They are hard to enforce laws upon, let alone taxes. The rich that purchase protection by funneling those untaxed profits into associations organizations and campaigns that put in place those protective rackets.
The people they employ are sometimes involved with organized crime in many instances beyond their knowledge or beyond their control.
I just wanna hug the old black man, my heart cries for him 😞
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Did you hear what he said about what those devils were doing to his mother ??
I’m really confused by that moment Karson says “Well sometimes Donald’s full of shit” Right after the interviewer says they were talking with Donald about his experience. Like, bro- you automatically assumed he said something negative. Maybe I read that part of the interview wrong, but I don’t think I did. Did anyone else catch that? Right around 14:15
That’s how I felt too like wtf you were saying that he was a childhood friend to you just a couple mins ago?
his attempt to discredit Donald just proves his guilt - very disturbing
Yes. I got the same feeling. There is more to that. Donald was afraid to tell the truth.
rani simpson yep. It was sad to watch.
Especially considering Donald didn’t even say anything bad about him 🙄
Greetings from Cambodia. You did an amazing job presenting this documentary. Tears me up and makes me want to scream. First thing that comes to mind is, "I'm sorry." I'm sorry this happened with your ancestors as it did with the ancestors of millions of others. So important that the stories of these hard-working, abused, and incredibly strong beings and how they survived under incredible hardships, threats, and deaths to hold you up. Just as others now stand on your shoulders. I'm so glad to see the work of this historian and the young man who created this documentary. Thank you.
I was born in the Midwest of the US almost 70 years ago. I have done ancestry research--one line up to their arrival in the 1600s. I've run across stories among my ancestors who were hung as witches, who were indentured people from Europe and Great Britain, people who enslaved other human beings, Black relatives with rapist "masters," and people who owned, beat and/or emancipated enslaved humans. My 2nd Great-Grandfather was 17 and living in Rome, Georgia when he enlisted with the Federal troops occupying Georgia in 1864 and fought with the North until the end of the war. I appreciate the stories of people who stood/stand for truth, kindness, and equality, but all of the stories are not like that. Many are the source of unimaginable horror stories. All are important to know for insights into ourselves and the experience of others.
When old man Arthur said how they treated his Mother and how they just abused her and had their way with her, I truly felt my blood boil from deep within. The things that we can hardly imagine are the things our Ancestors experienced daily.
And this man has to live with those memories of his own dear mother? It’s crying time 😫tears !!! For all these females
He’s still so traumatized, this is so heartbreaking. These people really need their reparations.
He was just a little boy, to see that, to know his mama went through that. Generational trauma is a real thing. As he said, some things cannot be fixed. But if we could even acknowledge it, apologize for it, make reparations for it, it might help just a bit. Americans, especially white ones, have to stop ignoring the history and the harm.
Right! 100% Just made me so angry!! How could someone treat another human being like that?! There's a special place in hell for all of those families.
Also these white americans, Dems and Reps don't belive people like this man should receive reparations. Biden gives reparations to illegals and Ukraine but not to slavery descendants.
I did NOT want this documentary to END. Akil’s journalism is so special; heartfelt, brave and professional and Ms. Harrell!!!
I felt this deeply and hope that a network offers her a series and additional funding for her unique work!
Incredible job guys.
Odd wording.
@@maxpulido4268 odd comment.
@@maxpulido4268
What makes you think that?
I wish there was a whole show of Antoinette digging into the past and discovering this kind of truth!
I would love it if someone would produce a show highlighting her work. Also there should be a major Government funded effort to assist in this area of research.
SarinaSharpe that is a reality show I would actually watch.
there's a show like that called Finding Your Roots
I agree, I feel like there was just a surface scratching of this story here. Like a full two hour documentary that goes more in depth would be nice.
SarinaSharpe she needs a reality tv show
Trauma. This trauma has been passed down through generations.
Chan T 😢
Chan T How TF Can a Man heal when he is still in Discovery mode, finding 💎 of truth everyday living like eterally - connected to everything like a Active Bluetooth
Yeah okay how does slavery affect you in any way??
@@jameswilliam9160 " The child who is not embraced by the village, will burn it down to feel its warmth " , African proverb.
@james Williams don’t be so gullible. Scientists did not say trauma change you’re genes. VICE is selling a story its entertaining it is not real. If you really think about it there’s not even one shred of proof that slavery even happened.
I would love to see a follow up episode with Antoinette Harrell. One of the best Vice episodes in my memory. I am happy I rewatched it 6 years later.
Donald had nothing but good things to say about Jeffries. As soon as Akil informed him that he spoke to Donald about his life, he discredited him and vilified his character with an astonishing self assured quickness. He said not to believe Donald. Ok, thank you. I will now believe EXACTLY as he stated.
That part stung too. He's knows deep in his heart he's a monster, he tried so hard to convince Akil of otherwise and none of is were fooled.
That's why you can never truly trust these ppl no matter how u think you and them are cool or close.
@@oluwoleifabiyi2933 what do you mean these people?
@@spoiledmilk7151figure it out , this ain't blues clues.
@@spoiledmilk7151 🤦🏿♂️
This is sad my brother just don't know no better What did Harret T say : i Free hundreds : i could have Freed thousand : if they only knew they were Slaves.
Deeeeeeep
That quote is fake
And yet you use languages like "don't know no better" go ahead and keep yourself down 😒
@@jordanowens3748 you do realize either way its using the language of their oppressors. You don't get to dictate their respectability based off of your expectations of good behavior. Ffs.
Carson and Donald’s relationship between each other is sick 😞 you can tell Donald is mentally messed up by this.
its like stockholm syndrome :(
@@katiejane7202 that's what I thought as well! Also made me think about real toxic and abusive marriages/relationships. Where one partner can't get out, and justifies it for themselves, if that makes sense? How he said that it is home and beautiful... Childhood friends, like a brother.... That just sat very wrong with me
I didnt see or even get a sense of that at all. I think you guys just WANT it to be that way.
it's so sad, you could tell Donald was so scared to say anything that even implied criticism of Carson
Louisa Capell huh? you are completely blind than.
According to TH-cam this was done 5 years ago... It blows my mind that today in many states especially Southern Republican States it has become illegal to teach true history..... Yes this work needs to continue... LORD bless the work. LORD help us all.
Yeah
Prohibit Black American History because it teaches the true savagery of YT Americans who supported and practiced this behavior
Just found out that Antoinette is a cousin of mine, who I recently met. She has a channel called : Nurturing Our Roots on TH-cam and some other things in the works.
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Thank you Jeremy!
@@ah_libra Wow! I just happened to be watching videos on plantations in Louisiana and Mississippi and the Haitian Revolution. Saw this video pop up again, and I see your reply and didn't even get a notification from it. The ancestors definitely are speaking to us!
Lies😂
She’s my cousin as well. I’m so proud and humble. 💙
I just realized... since so many families were separated during slavery a whole bunch of black ppl are related and we just don't know it 😱
That's why I always refer to y'all as family and call y'all either cousin, sis, auntie or uncle!
that's why family reunions are so important and unique to black people.
@@sunnydaze80 - errr, no. Important, sure. Unique, of course not.
A lot of AMERICANS are related and don't know it, white people included. In fact, the more I look around, the more I wonder how many Americans are inbred. I know that sounds harsh, but I'm serious. Who would know if they're marrying a distant cousin without full background research?
Well good news is the gene pool is large enough to the point where it wont be a big issue
He talk about Donald like a pet not a person for real...
Talkindurinthemovie smh shit gave me the heebie jeebies
NOTHING IS FREE...SINISTER.
That's how them slave masters viewed us blacks like were not human
When the interviewer said he was talking to Donald and Karstan immediately said "Donald is full of shit"...Caughtchya!
Racism should be classified as a mental illness
This is horrifying , Some of us have close kin we remember telling us they grew up on farms picking Cotten as if it were the norm , this was in the 50’s y’all 😒. This is some sick sh&$! But you know our social studies book says slavery ended over 150 years ago 🤷🏽♀️
I’m so sorry. I hope your family’s circumstances are much better now and that you’ll see some kind of justice and healing in your lifetime
I never wanna go to Louisianna 😢 🔱 $
The fact that they had the COURAGE to go to a plantation to interview was amazing.
That’s what I’m saying! LITERALLY doing God’s work in this. God bless them completely.
I hope your being sarcastic lmao the courage?
Calm down he’s got a whole production crew with him
The lady though she’s a beast fr she does this on her ones that’s admirable
A lots of those land paid for by slave.before the slave master leve .they work and pay for the plantation.most of the slave master was European.when slave ended they go back to Europe.you need some research on that
He is so careful with his words of tlike he’s making it seem like they are the best friend you know he’s a slave owner
Shoulda went in!!!👹
He the type that says ole boy.
The devil will look on your eyes, shake your hand, and smile on your face. with different evil intentions.
It’s crazy. No matter how hard I try I just can’t watch stuff like this anymore. Literally feels like I’m being stabbed. I thank God I wasn’t at this point in college, where I learned so much about our history from great professors and my own studies, but as I got older it just became harder and harder to listen to these stories. It’s like I get immediately hooked up to the persons nervous system and can feel the pain they feel as they tell their stories-and it’s unbearable. So I end up close to tears and click off
Facts. That's what pure evil feels like..
Now imagine that same white man, who eventually has kids. He passes on his beliefs and experiences to those kids. Now those kids are working in HR or CFO of a company. How much would you bet that they wouldn't hire someone that is a minority? This is what's scary to me. Being someone who has never been a slave can still be impacted from ramifications in the past....
👍👍
Nepotism
You have just described where I live here in the Cayman islands its just like that.
Exactly!!! It will never leave our memory because it's physiologically imbedded in our memory and will never leave it is in our generation to generation....
Super fact!!!
I felt so uncomfortable when the interview went into Carson's house.
He seems like a psycho
I did to I am definitely going to do some topics on my podcast about this
How they really feel about you when they smile at you
Real talk
I would have to agree with you. His attitude gave me the chills. Sick and sad this went on so long. I had no idea.
Antoinette deserves a Nobel Peace prize. She is exactly what we should all strive to be like. ❤️
🎯
A medal of honor, all of it
Nobel peace prize for what
@@davidpage322 did you not watch the video or is racism just blinding you?
I agree wholeheartedly 🙏🏽
I didn't want this to end! Please show more of Ms. Harrell's amazing work!
When Carson offered him tea it reminded me of Get Out
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jessica Allison I’m so glad he said “no”
thats exactly what i thought omg
He was def going to poison them
my first thought
Did anyone else feel very uncomfortable during Kartsen's interview?
Neida Amador Hell yes he seems to be very eerie and manipulated person
+Neida Amador - I did too..He gives off a creepy and shady vibe..
It felt like it was the sunken place.
i want his land since im the original owner
I can't deal with karsten bruh
when he got emotional while talking to arthur i felt that 😫😢❤️
Me too
So did i
more whites ARE and were slaves than blacks. Instead of whining and cry babying all the time why not do like whites and join/help the organizations that are freeing slaves NOW. BTW TODAY'S slaves are treated FAR WORSE than any in America. Mexicans treated their slaves far worse too.
man akil did such a good job on this one. he’s so calm yet strongly empathetic to the individuals he speaks with. I think the older gentleman appreciate getting a chance to speak with Akil and maybe they don’t realize how powerful their stories are and how many people they have reached but they really deserve the best and i hope they can thrive into the sunset.
I also really enjoyed those parts with Arthur. Akil has a comfortable presence
He might've been raised around Donald but there's no way he was raised ALONGSIDE Donald. He'd have been raised above him.
While I'm sure he and Donald have a relationship and friendliness between them but you know he's kept Donald there out of guilt and so he can say, "see? He chose to stay. They didn't have it that bad here..."
He believes he's right. That there's nothing wrong with his family's history.
Oh yes. This is some high level stunting “giving him a place to live” it’s not given, let’s be honest Donald earned that. The mental gymnastics the land owner is doing to justify everything are Olympic level.
you can hear in his voice he believes he is doing him a favor by trapping him there. What makes it even sadder is that Carson does not even understand the ideas in his head are wrong.
Then why doesn't he just get up and move to Chicago, Detroit, and Rochester NY?
@Reflektionz 007 Exactly he has free land, he not going anywhere
My grandmother passed about three years ago at 63, she picked Tobacco for most of her life . Her and her brothers . Her and her 5 children ( my mother included) stayed in a shack on the land ... no running water, no bathroom, not even a toothbrush of clean under garments ... sounds like slavery to me
Ericc Adkins This is why I don’t understand our people wanting to lay down with these folks... Whitewashing history.
Also
May I take you to dinner though..? You are immaculate!
So sorry to hear this
Star Freelancer you're full of shit if you think for one second that a white indentured servant had it as bad as my people did.
@@yemojasson2182 u know little or irish history
Star Freelancer GTFOH! u demons want to be included in everything! Is the sun, moon & stars not enough for u??? Slavery & indentured servitude are two totally DIFFERENT things! #FuckOff
I could watch this all day, that older gentlemen is a living time capsule, his words and life should be recorded and exhibited for the world to see and hear. Good piece Vice
RalphMalf yes....WHY ISNT HE ON PRIMETIME.....they wont talk about this like they talk about other things......glad he made it through
This is why the slogan "Make America great again" gives me chills because I know it's the kind of America not for me to be great in.
So your gonna vote for Joe Biden a man who started out his political career caucusing with segregationists?
Make America great again had nothing to do with African American people. It’s a business statement and was used in political campaign speeches by Ronald Regan and Bill Clinton also George Bush and copied by Trump. The media twisted the true meaning behind it in a political stunt. With research you can find my statements to be true before you respond with emotion and feelings. America is not our home and never will be, but in order to survive here first and foremost we must come together as a people. It is also important to note we must learn our true identities which is not hard to do in this day and age. Black is not our identity that was a label given to us. If you go to the US Census website you see all of the Census data which shows we were labeled Slaves, Negros, Colored, Black, and after Jessie Jackson’s meeting in a Chicago hotel African American. But ask yourself, who were you before the shores of America? DNA will answer that along with research.
“ I don’t even remember meeting him. We were childhood friends. I promise to god. Swear to god.”
Sounds like a whole liar.
The white man owes Donald probably six to seven figures.
He owes Donald millions, that house, that land, everything!
U read my mind homie ✊😎
Yes wtf this is so angering!
Anytime somebody say I swear to god they lying facts.
They all owe us even until this day
After the cameras left, and the documentary was all said-and-done, my only hope is that Donald didn't experience harsh treatment, as a result. I can only hope. The reality of that is slim-to-none.
I think All should have made sure that Carson understood that Donald didn't say anything bad. That he said all positive things and that he felt like Carson was a brother. I feel bad for poor Mr. Donald.
@@prettyyoungthingpyt5015 As a journalist, I think it was his job to not give anything away. It was telling how he got defensive quickly, and he probably wanted to learn more
That white man beat his ass you know it
That plantation owner was sickening and disgusting....I hope Donald didn’t have any retaliation against him...
@@tamie7974 I doubt that there was any retaliation. Sharecropping was common, until the early 80s in the MS Delta. Many of the sharecroppers really did have a good working relationship with their landlords. Most of the work wasn't hard because machines took over a lot of labor, except for harvesting cotton. That was seasonal. The rest of the time was prepping and planting, using tractors and industrial machines (cotton gins, especially). Farm work is still a big part of many people's annual salaries.
I don't trust anyone who says "I swear to God" that much.
Cody Morse exactly
Same, because there is no god.
Self justification. An echo of guilt from days gone.
@Comrade Sky It's not that. It's the fact that saying it THAT much makes you sound defensive
I swear to go, honest to god....
I wish I could find this lady to help me find my ancestors. I don’t know anyone from either side of my family and I’ve been wanting to know for years so I could share with my children. I’m telling you it brought me to tears.
The conversation with the plantation owner gave me such “get out” vibes 😐
frfr !
Seriously… there is evil behind that family’s eyes
Karsten is straight out of a horror movie. Literally the scariest person I’ve ever seen. Akil is brave
A very large part of Yt-ness as a culture is pathological. Karsten is just a drop of water in an oceanic culture of delusion.
He did threaten to l(ill a man 😮
Just before meeting him I was willing to believe he might be trying to make up for his history but nope, that dude is drunk saying to the host "imagine you lived on my land"
Donald looks much more in shape than Karson, it's obvious to me who's doing all the work around that plantation.
I watched this piece when it was initially published, and four years later I get chills watching it again...This was very well done, and it's a story that needed to be told.
His family bought the plantation in 1899, long after the act to free slaves. They knew EXACTLY what they were gonna do.
Actually there were a lot of plantations that were for sale because the owners were killed in battle or they were broke and couldn’t afford to keep them without “free labor,” slaves. Also, there were a lot of Northern men who owned plantations that sold or abandoned them to look like they were always on the right side of history. Some got broken up and sold. Some didn’t.
Good point! I didn't think about the year.
I'm in my 30's. My dad used to tell me stories about how he picked cotton when he was 6-7. That was in the 40's.
Is/was he from the south back then?
@@jeffreyohler2599 He was from Texas.
I'm the same. In my 30s and my father was born in the early 1900's. He always used to tell me to take my "cotton picking fingers" off things I wasn't supposed to touch. It wasn't until I was damn near grown before I fully understood the reason why he used that saying, and it definitely woke me up to what life was like for him coming up in the south.
@@crystalperry2163 My dad used to say the same thing! I just never understood what he was referring to. I was 10 when he died so I never got a chance to ask him about his experiences. And bring so little, no little girl really wants to talk about the harshness of slavery. It was a bit too much for me whenever he tried talking about it. But I wish I had listened to what he had to say...
@@retrobarbie9028 Wow. We have a few things in common. I was 9 when my Dad passed, but he used to tell us stories about before they had cars and rode horses, and listened to the radio like it was t.v. I used to sit and listen to him for hours, but I still wish I had listened more. My dad wouldve been a 110 this year. I've never met anyone with a story similar to mine. It's pretty cool knowing there were other kids who had much older parents like me.
Did anyone notice that the wife of that vile man did not shake the interviewer's hand? You could feel the disdain emanating from her all the way from the Uk 🇬🇧. Did you notice that Eli, the helper in the painting was on his knees? Even the animals were on their feet.
Yes lol sketchy and rude.
Excellent job pointing out the nuances of how social interaction intersects with people’s deepest beliefs. I’m sure neither of those two owners would have ever thought a free black man would enter their home on his own pretense. At least there was an offer of hospitality but even the interviewers refusal was awkward. America, we have such a long way to go....
@@redevous nothing "lol" about that. Im teary eyed.
the subtle is so obvious...
Yes, I caught that. She is the type of garbage that raised Karsten to be what he is. He married his mother.
the look in the plantation owners eyes was just chilling
This lady needs a team of assistants like Johnny Cochran. She's got methods, knowledge that MUST go on. It has to be taught to a few predecessors. This work is important and should be funded by hustlers, ball players, etc
Yesss
That interview with the slave owner was one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Like Get Out but real.
Word
it's written by the Kennedy brothers, it's proven!
And he's hammered
Also known as taking the group that is the most self-critical, sincere and empathetic(whites) and pushing the white guilt button to violently abuse and bully them to give more resources to non-whites. Then they say exploitation is really bad. Give me a fucking break.
copy paste waaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa
institutional slavery still exists too, they just call it the prison-industrial complex now.
You're absolutely correct, I did 3 years in prison and it was so shocking how content black men were living in a controlled environment.
Yes, it is called the prison system.
Yes! I've even stopped buying certain products from the store because they are affiliated with prison slavery.
@Skipper , lol
@@jameswarner300 u did ur time cos of ur crime
Traumatizing. I told some of my friends a long while ago when I found out about this that sharecropper was code for slave. Our ancestors used that to cover up the pain of what they went through.
That man said, they made him dig his own grave and then killed him....I’m sick to my stomach
These devils who walk among us are not human!
“You just can’t fix that there by just givin’ me a mule” I FELT THAT!
Jessie BEE I imagine him growing up knowing where a murdered man was buried. Knowing where a brutal assault and murder happened and still having to carry out life as normal. It’s so emotionally damaging and traumatic.
Why are you guys still living in the past? No way am I saying that what this people went through wasn't horrific, just that why can't people just move on? Some people live horrible lifes as kids, and instead of crying about how much they have suffered and deciding that they'd rather be dead because they can't take the pain of those memories anymore, they choose to move on and some don't even hate the people that hurt them. Some forget them, others forgive them.
Some people are born without legs, hands, and such and seen as different, but they don't let that stop them from wanting to live even if life would be so much easier if they weren't missing a body part and such.
People like them have thought me so much like why is useless to be stuck in the past, how it hurts me and others around me and such.
Aren't you happy that at least you're not being enslaved and such like this people were? Would you rather be one of the people that went through those things instead of being as free as you are now? Isn't something like that enough to celebrate? Enough to say, my people have suffered for so long, but now is over and if not over, at least, is not as bad as it used to be".
Did you guys forget or not know that lots of whites, specially from the north were against slavery? And that some blacks and a lot of whites, especially from the south were pro-slavery?
Remember not every white police officer will kill a black one on purpose. I feel like that's enough to say, that that's a choice of the individual either because they have been thaught to think as blacks as different or because they just like feeling like they're better than someone. I don't know a single person who doesn't like the same.
@@laughandlive377 Shhhh.... You may not know this but it's disgustingly-disrespectful to tell someone that went thru a traumatic experience of any kind. "To just get over it". They are simply reflecting on their lives and experience, so I don't know what possibly gave you the gull or gumption, or for better words AUDACITY, to feel like your opinions about "living in the past" are some how "needed" or "important".. But that's something you have to figure out for yourself. If the way you get thru life is by putting things behind you and not acknowledging your ancestors history then by all means YOU have every right to do that. You can't go around telling ppl how they should not handle their own history.
@@djbluejazz7349 Oh, so you'd rather live a miserable life always thinking about the bad things and ignoring even the slightly good things?
Go on, but you're hurting more than just yourself by doing that. Like that saying goes "Hating someone is like poisoning yourself" or something and if you call yourself Christian, I hope you take that to heart since you can't go to heaven with hatred in you as it says in the bible.
Ah, I would basically hate everyone in my life if I focused on how awful they are or the pain they have caused me. That includes family and friends. And yet, I hate none of them.
Call me a bitch if you want because I refuse to listen to the depressing voice in my head that's often trying to bring me down. And that's the reason I haven't killed myself. And do to that discovery I made, I realize that depression really is all in the head and a thing you can easily get over depending on how you view things. Which explains why some kids are happy and loving to parents that threat them horrible and they never hate those people. I call those kind of people angels on Earth.
Isn't it weird that depressing people tend to be really negative, blame themselves for basically everything and such? There's even science behind it and it sure is interesting. I'd recommend you read about it.
You can't seriously tell me that nothing good has happened to those people, can you? The thing is, that they tend to ignore those good things and focus on the bad ones. But wathever keep on lying to yourself all you want, I'm not the one getting hurt by it in the end.
@@laughandlive377
I didn't say that at all. That is something u are projecting on to me, becuz of ur own insecurity. I don't need you to teach or tell me how to handle my "hate". Ur not my guru or spiritual advisor. U have no authority in leading me anywhere. Especially seeing as how I can easily tell you probably haven't reconciled the haterd within urself. That's what ur not understanding. You only have authority over yourself partner. No matter how many paragraphs you write it all boils down to "self". What are YOU doing
This woman is absolutely amazing and her work should be funded by America - it’s important work.
...SHE PROBABLY APPLIED FOR A GRANT - AND - WAS ALLEGEDLY DENIED...
David Leighton That’s True So Stop Telling Us To Go Back Over There And Answer This If I Try To Sell You A Person Would You Buy Them And If Not Why Not
@David Leighton Does that mean they had to treat them likes DOGS once they got to America?! Is this what you tell yourself to make these actions ok? Stop making excuses for these disgusting acts. You should be ashamed.
Yvette carnell , tonetalks, and sandy darity need to get in touch with her!
@David Leighton and THATS where you wrong. ADOS dont lije to deny nuthin about it. The problem is because of western anti black racism and particularly in america people have been taught that "blacks" are all the same people somehow and to include africans. Africa is one of the most culturally diverse places on the planet and this misconception that blacks sold their "own people is bull shit. Did blacks sell blacks into slavery? Yea some of the sure the fuck did, however since NONE OF THEM identified as themselves by color, but by tribes, then those slave traders rarely if ever, sold "Their own people" they sold rival tribes people. Their HAS NEVER been a unifying classification of "blackness" until outsiders (non blacks) declared war on blackness. America owes reparations not just for slavery but the myriad of other public policies that were enacted specifically to keep ados oppressed. And id say african nations owe reparatiins to ALL the DOS populations of the world as well.
Wow I'm latina and my grandmother is a descedent of caribbean slavery but I feel like even the latin Americans had it easy compared to this. God bless the work Antoinette Harrell is doing. She deserves much more praise!
agreed Antoinette Harrell deserves national recognition and her own series showcasing more of her work and sadly Black Americans are the treated the worst in this country but yet everything we do is emulated without due credit.
I sat down with my dad earlier this year and he was telling me how it was for him growing up in South Carolina. He was born in the early 50s and was a sharecropper. When he told me that I damn near fell out of my seat. Sharecropper, for the majority of black people, equates to slaves. My grandparents were born in the early 20s and they too were sharecroppers. My whole family were sharecroppers. It just struck me as odd that legalized slavery (outside of the prison system) was still going on and that my dad was a damn slave. I was born in the late 80s. You should hear their stories.
You people need to record, or even better, video these conversations....find a black sponsor and get your stories told! Pronto! The truth will be buried with these beautiful people...get to it and get to it NOW!!! For the people, for humanity...please x
I can just imagine
You should start recording those videos Bees Knees and put it on your TH-cam channel.
Born in the 50s, was he a sharecropper in the 80s. I think somthings off.
I knew this stuff and much more but try not to think about it because it hurts me so bad...I feel so bad for black people across the world because so much is not told to us and all we have to do is pick up a book and do research. It's not gonna be told to us so we have to find it ourselves.
Anyone who says “ I swear God” more than once in a conversation is most likely a liar
No homo mam.. But your are gorgeous looking!..have VERY similar features of my mother! It's kinda scary..i look just like her too ❤🤗
Fact
It's just like those people who say trust me all the time. If you have to tell me to trust you, I don't.
And if someone keeps saying "okay?" after every affirmative statement they make, they're trying to convince *you* that what they're saying is the truth. It's basic psychology. Also, every statement he made came with a very uncomfortable stare. His body language was screaming aggression. I was just begging for him to get off the screen. I feel so bad for Donald..
Sis that part
Sharecropping? now that just sounds like slavery with extra steps
To be honest this was in India as well during British colonial times. Indians were slave on their own land by Brits. To be honest times from king's as well. And still talking to people like Donald they are still afraid to admit the correct term is slavery what they are doing. You feel sadness for them.
i caught that rick and morty quote lol
It was. There were many black and white poor sharecroppers. They’d usually have homes they could live in, and I’m using that term very loosely. They were glorified shacks. They would plant and work a certain amount of land. If I remember stories right the land owners would buy seed and fertilizer and the sharecropper would have to give the land owner a certain pre agreed upon amount. Problem was this, if it flooded and crops rotted, if drought killed the plants you still owed the landowner. If you needed to gin the cotton to get out seeds and stuff and the landowner owned the cotton gin you had to pay to have it ginned. If someone else owned a gin you’d have to pay them, usually with a percentage of cotton. That was another side business he’d have for all the local places. Then, you’d have to make sure you could feed your family all year. A lot of people had gardens but you need more than gardens to survive so where do you go? You go to the landowner if you don’t have other income or trade goods. Similar things happened in the coal communities but in a more massive scale. The coal companies owned everything from the homes men rented to the stores they shopped at.
@@amandakelley1665 They did the same in the U.K. they still have that going on in developing countries and the U.S. military and the CIA see to it that it stays that way. If need be with a coup or a war. U.S. oligarchs making sure to exploit these people with the help of local oligarchs.
@@amandakelley1665 A reminder that the rich will act like that _if they can_ - our ruling class gladly accept such conditions - just in other countries. So they do not have to see it. Back in the day they just did not visit certain ugly areas.
My great grandad family was from Louisiana but was born and was a sharecropper in Texas one year he took all the money and took the family to California
Thank you 🙏🏽 . My grandmother picked cotton .... she just passed two weeks ago at 92 .... she’s free now 😢❤️🙏🏽
🕯 Eternal Mother Grand Awakening love you granny
sharj76ify love you sistar ⭐️ this is your brother 🌌 ♾ ⭕️
sharj76ify S.i.p Queen
May she rest in peace❤
I'm sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace.
protect this women at all costs!
She should have summer interns working with her every summer. Very important work
From what ?
@@danfield6030 From people that hate ... we honestly have people that are filled with hate amongst us.
@@danfield6030 From history being re-written.
“I just do it because it needs to be done.” Thank you, Antoinette Harrell, for doing this painful and sacred work for all of us. Thank you Black women for carrying the world.
Want to hear a song about George Floyd & our brothers and sisters who've been killed? This should GO VIRAL! th-cam.com/video/PFhRPejLjn8/w-d-xo.html
Not just black women but anyone with a heart should do what needs to be done! Black people didn’t choose to be enslaved and I don’t believe it’s our “duty” to fix the things your ancestors created. It’s time to make things right. #WeWantOurReparations
Thank you for this comment.
It makes me sad how black women have to carry the world when they shouldn't.
@@soiceyjanay1294 If this ain't the damn truth...black women always have to be "strong" and that really bothers me.
more videos like this need to be published and even shown in schools, this was so educating
If the Ballground plantation scene doesn't give you "Get Out" feels I don't what will...
BanaMUA I think you need to get out that hijab honey
I Love Controversy
- - pathetic
- - I think you need to get out from your backwater neighborhood and give up your gun and see the world with some sense honey
my thoughts exactly that that interview and tour carried a "Get Out" vibe.
Seem like the master son thought the slave desendent exposed him for being a monster but black just repeated the white talking points about rent free
The way he was disrespectful to Donald...pissed me off
T Terry Respect goes a long way.
englishgal234
RESPECT BEGETS RESPECT
T Terry Respect those who respect you. You’re right.
That broke my heart when the interviewer started getting emotional when asking the one guy if he knew about the pursuit of the Civil Rights Movement and he responded no
My heart breaks watching this. Bless Antoinette, and just know many of us would love to continue watching her work! @VICE, allow a series on her work. It would be very impactful.
"The south was right, its written" I'm sorry WHAt, so is Harry Potter my man you believe that to be the truth too?
Kind of like the Bible.
@Homer Simpson you have to READ the books. I watched the films for good measure, not expecting them to be as good, and they weren't.
Damn y’all should have taken Donald with u guys... something about “massa” Was creeeepy asf
unfortunately he's so dependent and entangled it would probably kill him to remove him from the environment.
His eyes says all
@@Blizzard757575 Both Donald and Karsten seemed a bit slow, traumatized and dependent on that place and their own ways. None of em chose the life theyre living, both of em were raised there and is propably all they know.
This is all I keep thinking about. How can anyone be so upset with the past when there is clearly a man living there because he has no other options in their presence. How could they go home that night?!
@@furkids2789 my thoughts exactly! The way he looks at that man....omg.😲
My grandma is from Greenville, Mississippi and worked on a plantation as a child. She told us when she was 16 she had to get out the south and moved to New York/Detroit,MI the first chance to leave. I remember my grandma saying it was horrible in the south, but never any details. It’s like she avoided that topic like crazy. I’m about to go more dig deep into this. Gwendolyn’s story should be told
Shanie boi Yesss please do
Greenville,Ms born and raised
Hey,
I'm from Greenville. My mother's family is from Greenville as well. I remember asking my grandmother if she ever askes her father about any of his family. She said that every time she attempted to ask about their family he got quiet and look like he was about to cry. That was over 20 years ago when I asked her, at time I was 10 and my great grand father (her father) was well over 100 years old.
Slavery ended in 1865..think about that, this family was kept in bondage nearly 100 years after the end of slavery.
That plantation owner LITERALLY looks EXACTLY LIKE the head penguin from the Madagascar movie.
ESP Daniella lmao I knew he looked familiar 🤣
ESP Daniella 😂😂💀
ESP Daniella 💀
I agree it appears as if he is a product of inbreeding
@@KnockOutCutie Exactly, inbred.
Carlson said Donald was full of shyt but Donald gave him nothing but respect. Smh
KiaFlow he didn't even know what he said.
KiaFlow exactly. I had the same thought.
Donald said good things about him, no offense, Donald is full of shit, Karson is a terrible human being.
She is an amazing women and deserves an award for connecting people with their families. Providing the truth to the world.
This needs to get included in public high school 'US History' class.
What? They already teach slavery and sharecropping and slaves being sold and families separated and on and on.
Lol imagine that half of the Black people in United States don’t even know that their last name is from this slave master imagine the children of today finding that out
This should’ve been longer 20 mins is not enough , we need more information 😢
She needs it asap or a TH-cam channel
Watch "The Cotton Pickin Truth" on Amazon
Indeed
When I was in public school in Louisiana our teachers would always tell us that our state and culture was 20 years behind everyone else in the country, and that when we grew up and might travel to keep that in mind.
Considering that this plantation stuff happened into the 1960s and slavery was "abolished" in the 1860s then they were 100 years behind the united states at the time.
@@gavinperch9413 exactly...
Wow.
@@gavinperch9413 The rest of the south wasn’t any better. And the country as a whole, hell the West as a whole, isn’t as far away from the south in that regard as they like to think.
Vice: Come back to Louisiana and do more of these docs. I live here, the world need these stories while they are able to be told correctly. Accurate information is very important to us.
I’m wondering what jobs they do on the plantations now that they have computerized driverless tractors and drones to check on field conditions.