The Untold History of The Free Blacks in America
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- In this video, we dive into the deep and complex internal cultural differences among Black Americans throughout history. From the earliest days of colonial America to the post-Revolutionary War era, we explore the various factors that have shaped these distinctions, including:
Urbanization and regional distribution
Education and economic achievements
Rates of crime and acculturation
The significant divide between free and enslaved Blacks
Key historical milestones highlighted include:
The presence of free Blacks as early as the 17th century, even before slavery was formally established.
The evolution from indentured servitude to perpetual slavery starting in 1661.
The rise of notable free Black individuals and communities who achieved remarkable cultural and educational advancements long before the majority of Blacks were free or literate.
The impact of the American Revolution on the population of free Blacks, leading to significant increases in the northern states and even parts of the South.
The geographical shifts in the Black population following the invention of the cotton gin in 1793.
Join us as we uncover the stories of influential Black figures like Gustavus Vassa and Benjamin Banneker and examine how their contributions reflect the broader cultural advancements within the Black community. This historical journey provides a deeper understanding of the diverse and dynamic cultural landscape among Black Americans.
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Dr.Thomas Sowell's teaching about slavery should be mandatory in all schools.
Impossible. Too much truth.
It used to be taught light this in school, at least back when I was in school it was. Unfortunately those in power today want to ensure we stay divided and fighting among one another. There is a lot of money to be had doing that and it makes it possible for losers to stay in power and keep those ignorant enough to not see their fraud to remain the real slaves!
Whites would never allow it.
White would never allow it.
Are you kidding? He doesn’t abide with the leftist agenda for blacks. They put him at the back of the bus decades ago.
And this is why more and more Americans in general should be told the actual truth about what happened in American culture ✌🏾💯🇺🇲
History is whitewashed. They don't tell you how brutal chattle slavery was in America and it's unique traits that were unprecedented in human history.
Would you mind describing a bit more what you mean by saying that? There's a lot that all kinds of people could surmise that may or may not be what you meant
History is whitewashed. If anything, white Americans don't want people knowing the truth about their history.
But you might make the silent majority feel bad about themselves.
@@drlove994 would you talk more about that please?
This isn't unique to black people. The upper class always looks down upon the lower class, no matter what country you are in
Because most are naive and have no home training what so ever
Strawman argument.
@soonerdave01 Your public education is showing. Have you met India? Turkey? Or know the history of America where Anglos looked down on Irish, slavs, and Italians? Who do you think worked in the coal mines, mills, and make up the poor south. "Irish need not apply." The largest deletion by rope happened in Louisiana wasn't even African, it was Italian. California took away citizenship from Chinese Americans. Italian s do this same exact thing,northern Italians look down on Scicilians.
Black people high class or low class did way better before Civil rights.
@@Nylon_riot Right, and.... I think what you're trying to say is that lighter-skinned people within a race have always been the upper class and looked down upon the darker folks within that same race.
"They not like us" goes way, way back.
Always remember it was our own skin folk that sold us into slavery they hunted us and sold us to the whites
💯
who wants to be like us????pure failure and stupidity looks like you need to watch more of his video you are like them! makes more sense.
But they are not.
That was the point!
This is no secret to the Black Community. Race and Class is a worldwide phenomenon. It still shouldn’t absolve anyone of wrongdoing. The problem still exists today.
You can respect a person and still look down upon them.
This is definitely a secret to the black community and most Americans. I hardly know anyone who was taught that there were any free Africans in the 1600s before emancipation let alone that there was a sizable population that was literate and successful in the country
There are always going to be people who hate and judge. You will never change that. The system has to be blind to all that though for it to work properly. And right now, democrats are seeing that it is sent back in time. It has been wild to see them segregate and fool people into thinking it is a good thing! smh those who are really racist are LOVING the new democrat party because it is going back to old ways. Just a bit more sly and they own the media now so people are big fooled today. Beyond ignorant on history.
In short, families matter!
Yeah
I think you missed a good chunk of what was said...
_"In short, families matter!"_
Close...
5:53... 6:03...
_"The point here is that _*_cultural_*_ differences lead to striking socioeconomic differences among Blacks, as they did among Whites."_
The key to differences in outcomes has never been physical differences between ethnic groups.
It was, and has always been, *culture.*
@@R._L. modern black culture is antithetical to success and a strong family hence why it's in it's current state
Not over here...
It. Never. Have.
Sadly, its information like this that is ignored in the American education system when it comes to Black history within American history classes. Even in the 80s I was never taught things like this - even when I took and Advanced Placement History Class.
It's not just our educational system. A lot of blacks (that includes the older ones) don't even talk about these aspects.
"How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit."
Lmao AP anything is the same stuff just with extra homework for college credits, nothin special there.
The American Board of Education does not exist to teach students facts, or make them intelligent.
We learned for example that “The Emancipation Proclamation,” freed black slaves. That is a boldface lie. It ONLY applied to slaves in areas, neither occupied, nor controlled by Union forces, and therefore could be enforced. Also, any territories occupied and controlled by Union forces, USED slave labor themselves, which was still perfectly legal at the time.
I believe I learned this from one of Mr. Thomas Sowell’s books.
This kind of information doesn’t serve Marxist narratives. If these facts were widely known we’d have much less division and angst between Americans.
Tomorrow is his birthday (6/30); I suggest we reply to as manager of his videos and wish him a happy birthday for his contributions to history, economics, and human knowledge. I’ll start:
Happy Birthday Dr. Sowell!
94 yrs old wow!
Happy Birthday to a great American! Thank You Thomas Sowell!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday and thank you very much for your teachings and writings
He shares a birthday with Mike Tyson. Two great fighters.
Same thing happened all over the Caribbean as well.
it happens all over t he world... even in nature
stronger, faster, smarter always beat weaker, slower, dumber
Caribbean worked slaves to death within six months and part of the reason the British didn't mind losing the US was because the West Indies were so much more lucrative because they worked everyone to death as quickly as possible.
There were Caribbean people who migrated to North America during the colonial era. Especially in the Thirteen Colonies. Take for example, British West Indians based in Barbados emigrated to South Carolina and helped founded the colony on behalf of Great Britain.
@@digitalian99 Race doesn't matter.
@@digitalian99how is it that possible if most that do better in sports or in the Olympics are blacks?
People in America 🇺🇸 need to inform themselves a lot better about Black history in America.
Isnt it against the law in several states?
@@CarlosIowaWhat?? No it's not. I take it you went to public school.
@@CarlosIowa what?
Advanced African American history is getting banned in several states. From my understanding, they were trying to attach a LGBTQ agenda to the curriculum in those states.
@@CarlosIowa curious are you talking about FLORIDA & Ron Desantis's Teach the Only about the GOOD TIMES of SLAVERY ⁉
If you think this behavior is unique to Blacks, you are wrong. This socioeconomic status bigotry is also present amongst Jews, Whites, Yellows, and Browns.
I can only speak for my own experience but I absolutely agree it’s exactly the same in England and in the Mexico the two countries my family comes from the so called elites in them countries have absolutely distain for the lower classes.
Yes. This is a human tendency to segregate along some lines always.
But we are talking about blacks right now. Not everybody else. Everybody elses knows their real history. Not us.
The caste system.
@@geecheefarmer You are wrong sir. This has absolutely nothing to do with knowing your history.
This is so consistent with every culture in the world. This is not a racial issue. This is a moral issue of social goodness, pride and humility. None of us is perfect. We all demonstrate some levels of such behavior. Race is just the surface means that does not imply any particular set narrrative.
you left out the money part
@@tfh5575 no. It's about money for Communist elites! The hypocrisy. Microsoft Cyber Security Report exposed communist China unforgivable acts of social and cultural sabotage against the American people.
It's called class...
@@randylahey8207 aka integrity
@@tfh5575 thr money part isnt the purpose. its a part of the process already.
One of my 4X great-grandfathers was a Confederate Captain during the Civil War and his mother was a multiracial free woman of color whose family had been freed generations prior.
Wow, that is fascinating my mother's side of the family her father in VA were all mulattos and seems to favor southern racist Democrat Confederate views. Based on their vivid views about darker skin blacks. This mindset is weird since my GGfather was a slave until 12 y/o.
Want a cookie
And he was fighting to keep the institution of slavery in place. Congratulations.
@@tarikviaer-mcclymont5762 Bless your heart....................................
Same. My family doesn’t recall any “slavery” on our end. Even thinking of it, it just sounds like ppl that are surving not living due to circumstances, same as today.
I'm a White guy living in a small New England city with a long history of a free Black middle class. We have the best economy in our state and the highest Black academic achievement test scores. Coincidence? I think not.
Thank you.
Academic achievement test scores? Never heard of that.
And what city are you in and affirmative action ever present?
And what city and state is this?
In Mexico there's an inverted version of this classism where lower classes and poor people think their suffering and lack of riches make them modest, humble, and thus much better than those of the middle class. No, I wish I was kidding, but I am not. Long story short, this mentality leads to criticizing those who don't endure hardships like the awful infrastructure of all forms of public transportation, thinking it gives everyone character rather than trying to improve them. And I am talking of standing for hours in a crowded van for hours to reach your job on time in a 2-3 hour trip where mugging is guaranteed.
Victimhood has replaced religion as the new opiate of the masses.
Take a read of Friedrich Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality. It explains everything. Once you understand the roots of the kind of mentality you're describing you'll never see the world the same way again.
That was taught over many years of Catholic forced teaching.
I recently became a free man. Half a decade ago, I tried to free my family and I realized tens of thousands of dollars later when they’re in the same boat that you can’t free anyone who dosent want to be freed. They also tried to put me back into slavery claiming that working for others is more morality because they work hard and I work smart so they’re better than me. Had to cut them off so they can be slaves without me. I tried to free them and they tried to break my mind back into slavery after all I did to free myself. They hated me because I showed them how to really love and they realized it’s hard to be a free man and easy to be a slave.
@@shaq9361 well said Sir. It took many generations to get your family to that point. Through fear, hangings, burnings, killing by wolfhound, and much blood spilled. Beware the new master of the country that has taken over. The Zionist female presidenta. They took out Chapo and the others to get the Zionist gangs into power.
This man is a national treasure
Same thing in Haiti but with the cultural and economic differences being even more pronounced
Thanks guys. I'm sending to friends, some of the vids short enough to keep their attention.
The left has the attention span of a goldfish, if that long.
The world desperately needs more Thomas Sowells in it
What the world need is for the Messiah to return to set the record straight!
You beat me to it the world need Jesus..
@@heart4yah881 Amen. He is coming soon, and He will right all wrongs.
Until then his disciples must n step up as commissioned to go out and teach the Word in season & out...to change the hearts of people to image of Jesus.
Jesus says Hell enlarged itself
This needs to be an in depth series
I never understood why W. E. B. Dubois was such a close associate with Margaret Sanger until hearing this.
He was a communist that’s why.
So are you saying the Dubois supported eugenics?
@@c.tucker2247
Yes, he appears to have.
Check into it. WHY would he lend his support to that heinous woman?
@rogersheddy6414 thank you for your response and I will research it. It's sad and disheartening how he is uplifted in the black community and black history.
Everyone back then believed in the dreadful idea of eugenics, including Theodore Roosevelt and Helen Keller. Margaret Sanger did wonders for women no matter what some of her personal beliefs.
5:53... 6:03...
_"The point here is that _*_cultural_*_ differences lead to striking socioeconomic differences among Blacks, as they did among Whites."_
The key to differences in outcomes has never been physical differences between ethnic groups.
It was, and has always been, *culture.*
IQ
@@terrywinningham5405
In the last 150 years, Asian IQ score tests scores went from subpar to top percentile.
Why?
During the same time span, their education got highly westernised, especially in the US.
For anyone paying close attention to history, it has become quite obvious that, to the chagrin of some "experts", what may be tagged as *"IQ" simply doesn't exist outside* a certain context called *"culture."*
@@terrywinningham5405
In the last 150 years, Asian IQ score tests scores went from subpar to top percentile.
Why?
During the same time span, their education got highly westernised, especially in the US.
For anyone paying close attention to history, it has become quite obvious that, to the chagrin of some "experts", what may be tagged as *"IQ" simply doesn't exist outside* a certain context called *"culture."*
@@terrywinningham5405
In the last 150 years, Asian Intellectual.Quotient tests scores went from subpar to top percentile.
Why?
Answer: *Cultural* changes.
free blacks were children of wealthy white slave owners who were afforded a good life and married each other. the wealth and privilege created the “culture”
Slavery is misunderstood. It’s not about white & black, it’s about how commerce of the world involved free and not free people. Would African American slaves considered themselves free if they remained slaves by their own people in Africa.
Slavery should be taught in economics class. Not as a sin, but as an economic device.
There’s slavery in Africa today
@@edheinig1753 indeed there is.
Agreed. Slavery is completely misunderstood. Look up the writings of a 19th century southern writer named George Fitzhugh (Sociology for the South), who wrote that slavery should’ve have been extended to all labor (black and white) across the U.S.
Also look up “White Slavery, Maternal Descent, And The Politics Of Slavery
In The Antebellum United States” by Lawrence Tenzer.
@@danieleugenewilliams thank you for the recommendations. I’ll be reading them very soon.
I truly hope you have established a method to continue passing on Mr. Sowell's knowledge on this channel, even after that unfortunate day when he passes from this world. His hard work & honest perspective can quench a deep thirst for many.
He spews a lot of distortions and is never quoted on issues involving stock market crashes.
@@BallinNQnzYour sense is a distortion
@Dhruv_Dogra this guy is not considered a real economist by the mainstream, not even conservative mainstream media. He is never quoted for issues involving the stock market crash. He never talks about corporate bail outs. He is simply used to talk about white supremacist talking points. He makes a lot of inaccurate and outdated talking points. His rhetoric is misleading and in many ways is lies thru ommission.
@@Dhruv_Dogra tell me whe he has talked about corporate bail outs.
@@BallinNQnz Is that something he has to talk about? Does the fact that he hasn't have any bearing on the validity of his observations about those topics he chooses to discuss? Can't he choose the topics he wishes to cover?
Tomorrow is his birthday (6/30): I suggest we wish him a happy birthday for his contributions to economics and history. I’ll start:
Happy Birthday Dr. Sowell!
Thank you very much Dr Sowell for standing your ground whilst learning politics and the cultures of all peoples. Your insight always seemed reasonable and intellectual. I still look up to you and Wm F. Buckley Jr.
The 1661 case Dr. Sowell referenced in the video that established permanent slavery as a legal condition actually involved one black man owning another. Kind of blows the whole 1619 Project narrative right out of the water.
it really does
Theyre whites related to 1619 blacks
Do you have a source where I can read up on this? thanks
@@JstBrahdAnthony Johnson first legal slave owner in the colonies. Put that in your search engine and see what pops up, because 10 years ago there were 100s of historical facts on Mr. Johnson, (now who knows).
@@JstBrahd the sources are in the OP's comment.
I can't imagine picking cotton in 1770s in South Carolina summer heat
Neither could your ancestors, that’s why they forced my people to do it
There were whites, picking cotton in CA..
and sharecroppers
6-28-1930. Happy 94th birthday, Dr. Sowell.
I recall meeting Dr Sowell many times at WDC. He was dignified yet approachable and friendly to me.
He’s lived long enough.
Sounds like intro of Boulè
It is
Dr Sowell's classes must have been absolutely amazing. His knowledge and understanding of his subject matter is on a par with the best university professors I was privileged to hear
My ex was a black woman whose mother was a light skinned Catholic who was disowned for several years for marrying a dark-skinned Protestant. People are pointlessly cruel to each other for no good reason.
This man is great, he should be speaking at major universities across the nation
It seems more like the rich get richer, and they tend to stick together, no matter what their heritage.
That's because class is more important than race.
@ad6417 , A professional virtue signaler. So how many black refugees have you taken into your home?
Could be more than money as you claim. It could be differences in intellect, morals, religious beliefs, experiences, behaviors to name a few.
@ad6417 , So how many non white refugees ( aka illegals) have to opened you house to?
They hang with people who can help them out if needs be. Not poor uneducated who could not be of any help or use.
This also happened amongst the Irish, and earlier the Scotts. People will be people.
Indentured servants and chattel slavery are not the same
This post describes the dark skinned black community's experience not the everyone else's experience.
Actually, no it did not. American blacks were the only group legally treated as property. The cognitive dissonance and ignorance on pages like this is almost unbearable.
They were indentured servants for 5-7 years and received land after they fulfilled their contractual obligations. The Irish later infiltrated the police departments in Boston and New York.
My family were free people of color but I don’t think they treated other blacks unfairly in fact they helped them gain freedom
With all due respect you don't even look black. I'm pretty sure your family was anything but fair to "lesser" dark skinned African Americans.
Tell me you're not black while trying to act like you are in one sentence.
No they didn't 🙄
@@1randomlol I said the same thing but TH-cam blocked my comment 🥴
Cope
Thomas Sowell has taught us to do better in education of our own U.S.A History than any other public school 🏫 systems.
I'M GLAD TO HEAR THIS INFORMATION THAT I DIDN'T LEARN IN SCHOOL.
I am glad that I had the teachers who let me know this information.
Belated birthday wishes Dr Sowell. May you always have peace, tranquility, health and all that you wish for.Thank you for your wisdom, thank you for your teachings, thank you for reminding us how important it is to exercise logic and common sense. Greetings from South Africa. Wishing you a wonderful year ahead.
More people need to hear this.
While viewing this video , two books came to mind, E Franklin Frazier, The Black Bourgeois and Otis Grahams , Our Kind of People. Also, Gerry H. MAJORS was the society editor of Jet Magazine. She also wrote a very historically informative book on the subject.
Colorism; it's mind-blowing when you first observe it.
Colorism is a simplification and you clearly need to listen again!
@@QuadriviumNumbers If you can't boil it down to the essentials then you didn't understand it.
Blacks aren't the only ones who practiced colorism
All non whites do
Especially Asians
@@nolongeramused8135 I probably wouldn’t agree necessarily that that was the essential part. Different life conditions, difficult upbringing, different history, different cultural context.
@@allikirman2183 Those all go into the mix, but when you get to the snap judgements and discrimination, skin shade will play an outsized component as it will be taken as a proxy for everything else.
Banneker had a photographic memory and was assisting the designer of D.C. When some of his plans weren’t approved he took his plans and left. They used Banneker to copy his plans so they could continue and take what they wanted and ignore the rest. I read this here in DC on a history plaque
My local US Post Office had a depression era mural painted on the walls until 2020 that included the image of Banneker and his achievements. Unfortunately during the Summer of Love a customer who probably did not even know who Banneker was complained about the mural being racist so it was destroyed and removed from the walls. Such a shame that ignorance destroyed this historic tribute to Mr. Banneker.
Banneker also built a clock
Dr. Sowell is a revelation. I believe when you are really intelligent, being able to explain concepts in the simplest and most interesting way is a mark. Captivating. I definitely admire him. He's something special. 3rd graders and graduate students will both benefit from 5 minutes of anything he says.
And Einstein said solutions are always simple.
He is so eloquent I have to listen to him a couple of times! 🫣 Granted, English is not my first language....
@@nisoshahabibzadeh he speaks erudite and classy English. Not aristocratic but more impressive. Kind, smart, intelligent and very American. Anyone could fall in love with him lol
Nobody seeking truth should listen to this man. He caters to a certain demographic to make them feel good about things like slavery.
You're a national treasure, Dr. Sowell
In 2000 I lived on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and for three years attended Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Catholic Church, which was overwhelmingly black. In fact, I was one of only about 6 white parishioners. What was interesting was that everyone in the parish dressed to the nines on Sunday, including women who wore mink coats, and instead of black gospel singing the choir often chose selections from opera. (Wonderful tenor!) Later I would remarry and move to Alexandria, VA, and attend a 99 percent white Methodist church, which was my husband's faith. One Sunday the choir decided to do a selection of black gospel songs, which they sang with a hand-waving Steppin' Fetchit routine. It made me cringe, especially as I remembered HCSC.
Just out of curiosity....were the 6 White parishioners at that DC church all female?
@@paullentz1972 No, but all, including me, appeared to be single.
@@wyominghome4857 Just wondering. I learned long ago that in general, Black and White people tend to 'worship' differently when it comes to how a church sermon goes. I havent been to church since I was a kid (I believe in science...I believe that all religions are total BS..that there is no such thing as a god or devil).
@@paullentz1972 The parishioners at HCSC were very comforting and supportive of each other's struggles. If someone was trying to get over alcoholism or drug use or employment issues, their efforts were recognized and encouraged. The priest at that time, who was biracial, gave sermons that were thought-provoking and intelligent. Everyone was friendly. No one was condemned as a sinner but everyone was seen as on a path to redemption. It was all that a church should be.
But there is a difference between "church" and "faith," and too many churches have failed to bring people together. Too many clergy have failed to walk the walk. It is not the first time in history that that has happened.
As a child, I was not raised in a church and have not been to a Catholic Church, or any church, in more than 20 years, but I have felt the presence of a guiding hand in my life since I was nine years old. My "prayers," if they can be called that, are more a running conversation with God, and sometimes I've been exhausted and angry in that conversation. My life isn't perfect, or without struggle, but our lives are not meant to be perfect and our response to the many bumps in the road makes us who we are.
One problem we have today is that too many now confuse "science" with religion, but science fails as often as churches. So, how can we know faith is not, as you put it, BS? I always think of the story in the Bible where the disciples are gathered in the upper room after Christ's crucifixion. The man who had performed miracles failed to, or chose not to, save himself. Now they are without a leader and hunted men. They are terrified and full of doubt. In the Bible story, they are visited in that room and convinced by the risen Christ. We have no way of knowing if that is true or just a legend. But what is indisputable, because history confirms it, is that those frightened men came out of that room filled with a new courage, and that their sense of that faith convinced others and spread around the world.
@@paullentz1972Its different for everyone and it has nothing to do with race. I'm black & grew up going to a conservative church in DC as well (which was mostly black clergy & attendants, some white), it's very much like the OP described. Everyone always dressed very well not flashy, church services were quiet & very traditional, so loud music & noises were frowned upon. Had a friend invite me to a black Baptist church a few times, completely different environment. People jumped and danced a lot, service was extremely long, it felt more over the top, people fell out in services from what they call "holy ghost". For me personally, I could not concentrate nor worship in a service like that. So to each its own. Its not really a race thing, it's more of a people thing (preference & mindset). My husband (whose white) and I go to a diverse non denominational church, the services are nothing like my former uptight church or the Baptist. Its somewhere in the middle, the people are open, similar in mindset, many interracial couples & families. People are more unique than you believe & God is very much real.
During America's colonial era many colonies tried to abolish slavery by law. The Declaration of Independence referred to the king intervening to prevent it in the first grievance:
"He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
Please notice the end of the video - where he championed "behavior" as the defining characteristic for access to the "upper class". what may be lost here - is that "behavior" is a precursor for affluence. Academics and Marxists love to promote the yarn that capitalists are greedy and corrupt - but the fact is, that honesty, reliability, trustworthiness are all predicates to success. No demographic group, elite capitalists or industry leaders included, is 100% free from corruption; however, good behavior will certainly help pave the way for success, as it will lead one to avoid destructive pitfalls, such as crime, divorce, and alcoholism.
Now this is what black America needs to understand. The culture of toxic behaviour will only lead to a predictable outcome.
@@QuadriviumNumbers white America needs to understand that education of Black history is not the enemy of white children.
Good behavior gets you nowhere when there are *policies* in place to obstruct your advancement.
I'm all for personal accountability and I've never had a shortage of either pride or class but even I know that it's complicated.
@@lisabrightly fortunately, there are other benefits to good behavior other than mere socio-economic class climbing. Affability, for example.
Good behavior? Lol honestly, what does that even mean?
We are not from Africa. We been here since ever.
I think a better explanation is that the origin of blacks in the US just like other races isn’t one singular forced and/or voluntary migration. But instead various migrations during different time periods.
There were indeed people of African descent in the Americas over a millennia prior to the arrival of Columbus. This is why many blacks claim to have Native American ancestry.
People of African descent were sold into slavery by other groups of Africans to Europeans and brought to the US.
People with Black Moorish ancestry that converted to Protestantism also immigrated from Europe to the US. WEB Dubois’ origin is actually that of a Huguenot with some Black Moorish ancestry.
Gypsys of East Indian origin also immigrated to the US from Europe and were often classified as black. They just like other European immigrants with non white accepted black status since it’s better to be at the top of black society than to be at the bottom of white society.
Blacks from the Caribbean going back to the 17th century that were typically mixed race would immigrate to the U.S. upon gaining their freedom. Look into the story of Prince Hall who was a mixed raced man from the Bahamas.
This is the history of my mother and father's families precisely, though the mixing of classes took place in my father's family in only one generation and changed the conditions of that specific line to this day. Whereas, my mother's family has continued this behavior to this day.
Brilliant, as always, Dr. Sowell! Brilliant!
Thank you for this video 😊❤🙏💝
Rush used to call him the smartest man in America.
I never listened to Rush because I was a lefty back then.
Shows that even broken, drug addicted, clocks are right twice a day.
@@HB-yq8gytried listening multiple times. Always a waste of it.
11:11- In short, it's the same old tired battle between the wealthy and the poor. Literally had nothing to do with skin color just class got it.
Learn about your family’s history by asking questions
A friend of mine was biracial. He was a true mutt. He could trace his ancestory back to a Dutch sea captain in the mid 1600's. He had researched his family and could not find any ancestors who were slaves. Initially, he was very surprised. He was told there was Native American in him as well but again no evidence. He has to conclude with the research he had done that no one in his family had been slaves but free men. Nevertheless, his history was very interesting. It included murder, family members passing as whites, and more. I hope he gets to write that book he planned to do one day.
I am 59 y/o your friend's ancestry is similar to mine. My GGfather's was a slave until 12 y/o in Southside VA. However, his son my Gfather's name was General Jackson & his son's name was General Lee! You can't get any more confederacy mindset than black rednecks.
Sounds like my ancestry results. I tested mine to find out black people didn't come into my ancestry until after slavery ended. Somewhere between the late 1890s to early 1900s is when my bloodline mixed with black. We need more true history told in American schools. This was something I never knew until I watched this video. Very interesting.
Why are you calling a human a "true mutt"? That reeks of white supremacist language.
I had a coworker refer to herself as a “mutt” after telling her I’m biracial. Then she proceeded to rattle off 3-4 ,non-exotic flavors of Caucasian.
Like it’s some kind of kind distinction or a club, and I recoiled.
I explained that I don’t identify with a dog, and if that’s how she chooses to refer to herself - feel free. And another one that my distinction as a “mulatto”sounded really colonial, you could hear a pin drop.
You should choose better words.
That’s how you end up in HR.
So this is a breakdown of how colorism in the black community came to be and the root of it. This is what I take from this. Interesting and informative. I wish this how it was taught in school.
Only on the Collegiate level. Colorism is a holdover from Slavery.
I’m grateful this type of nonsense isn’t taught in schools
I don't usually agree with Thomas Sowell, but this Segment explains many Observations I've seen currently, recently, and historically. 👌👌
You're clearly not ready to receive his thorough and intellectual understanding. There's noting to disagree with.
They were trying to separate themselves from those who did not want to be or do better. They didn't want to be associated. That's their choice. But no one has to hate another because they are doing better, and you don't owe anyone else anything else. Help who you want.
Im sure we will see this on MSNBS, they are obsessed with black history.
..no you won't. That's why I bought several of his books!
MSNBS/C would NOT DARE touch this. It does not fit the narrative of victimhood.
Suuuuuuure you will lol
not a chance
I am holding my breath.
Divide and conquer. Divide and conquer
I am going to rewatch this video.
Class is the big divide. Economic reform needed.
We are way beyond a time when actual scarcity
could justify mistreatment and denial of opportunity for anyone.
Great video and a belated happy 94th birthday 👍👍👍👍
The mindset of haves & have nots is most definitely why this will happen
Its biblical...
Inter tribal conflict is more prevalent than tribal warfare.
Human nature is filled with judgement, jealousy, and deceit.
So the people we are around the most are where these dark aspects of humanity will show.
Its not just the Italianos that have a hard time getting along!!! 🤌
Happy belated Birthday, Dr Sowell!
I guess this explains why my mother was always derided for being high yellow.
It's weird when you look back in the history and have it explained why it makes much more sense coming forward.
I'm sure she benefited from it and exploited it throughout her life!
@@QuadriviumNumbersyour insecurities and jealousy showing
Because white people created a social hierarchy among blacks where lighter blacks were treated better. Shockingly, this wasn’t mentioned in Sowell’s video, despite this being the sole cause and origin of colorism.
Teaching it would not follow the narrative and keeps us at each others throats. Easier to control separate groups rather than a united one. Conflict creates money.
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Truly fascinating and a reminder of how truly rich and varied history can be.
This is a great reminder of the successes that black America had despite oppression but also that this oppression was not uniform and omni-present. In pushing the victimhood of black America to instill guilt and justify anti-white racism today, we never learn about the heights that some in that community reached nor times and places where there was interracial harmony and community.
Happy birthday Dr Sowell
I remember learned this in my College US history class…. My instructor was African PhD level historian from GHANA where apparently they’re taught this information in school
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Happy Birthday Dr Sowell 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
The presence of violent crime and school attendances are indicators of class difference not cultural differences -- across all races.
To summarize, people are people.
He forgot to mention that those upper class black people we educated in a white school system that did not teach them about the history of Africa nor about the achievements of black peoples in America. So of course there wil be disdainful toward those they assumed less themselves.
They didn't assume!
thank you for this video, I had the book the Black Bougerise in the 80s, I immediately thought of it as I came across your video, you have a new fan. I appreciate your lessons
Very imformative! New subscriber. Our Kind Of People!
Education is the great equalizer.
And ppl in other countries KNOW THIS!
However in the U.S., intelligent Blk ppl got criticized for “acting White” when it came to academic achievements.
Hope at least that has changed over the past decades.
@@sherockz.24.7 Intelligent blak people got criticised by black people!!! It is exactly the same today!
@sherockz.24.7 Lies. Tell me why Gen X's grandparents had more wealth and more econimally stable in the 60's, whilst only 3% of them had formal education vs the over 50% of blacks having degrees today? I'll wait.
@@sherockz.24.7 Haitians and alot of Africans know this
Person of Colour originally was meant only for Mixed-race racially ambiguous peoples; ex Quadroons ( Mul@toes and White) some Mul@toes and Mestizos ( Native American and European).
My father was in the navy during the Korean War when the navy was first racially integrated. He said the biggest problem they had was that the blacks from the north, who were typically high school graduates and had technical trade skills, electricians, welders, carpenters, etc. would lord it over the blacks from the south who were coming off sharecropper farms and who were often illiterate.
Reflections of these lessons can be found in organizations like the Jack and Jill of America. It was started by members of the black elite in the late 1930s who were mulattos. A great book that explores the history of the black elite and this organization is Member of the Club by Lawrence Otis Graham.
No one seeking truth should listen to this man. He makes a certain group feel good about past transgressions and that’s why they love him.
So the truth is whatever you agree with emotionally and not historical evidence?
@@joshuacooperseo There is plenty of historical evidence that Mr. Sowell ignores to placate a certain demographic
I guess it’s feeling over facts
@@Mimi-ht6xr what you’ve said may very well be factual, however I’ve yet to hear you, Mr. Sowell or any of his believers address Co-!ntelpro, the purposeful elimination of black leaders like Malcolm X, Mlk, and Fred Hampton (or do you think that was coincidental?). Why were the Black Panthers viewed as a threat? I’m also guessing you’ve never heard of John Erlichman, you should quickly google him and see what he said about blacks (he was an aide to Nixon). What about the ‘War on Drugs’, where drugs were allowed to be flown and floated into black neighborhoods. Only then to have the president publicly condemn what was allowed privately. As smart as Mr. Powell is, for him to just ignore these factors in state of Black America shows a clear and intentional bias.
@@mauricewells7838 Does he ignore other known truths or is he delivering additional truths to give you the full picture?
Now I don’t know Thomas Sowell’s complete intent but if he is giving historical data, then that’s what needs to be dealt with.
If it can be validated as truth then we need to be honest with ourselves, not biased.
Thomas Sowell should of been President
It was black Indians in America wayyyyy before 1619.
@DollaB65. If you want the truth. Then go back to 1619 and look at the history and what happened in that year. And see what is the difference is what they said back then and what you are reading and what they are saying today about 1619. And that 1619 project is a bunch of garbage. Go back to 1619 look at what happened in that year.
Imagine, a man so great that you have people saying his work should be mandatory teaching for school. Just imagine if he had an elite education😮
How bad was the crime back then in the black neighborhood. I bet it was no where near than it is today.
Blame gangsta rap
@@kathleenking47 it's not going to help
LBJ's no-man-in-the-house welfare got the ball rolling.
Thomas Sowell is the Candace Owen’s of his generation.
I disagree. Dr. Sowell is a Korean War veteran and an Ivy League scholar. Candace Owens is a college dropout, grifter, and attention seeker.
This is still very common today in a lot of industries 😢
THE "BLACK ELITE "IS A BOOK THAT IS VERY INFORMATIVE
It's interesting that this occurred even in cities as improbable as Pittsburgh, where the earlier African American residents tended toward this more affluent class (including a number of Creoles.) Their neighborhood was called Sugar Top but is now commonly referred to simply as the Upper Hill. It's now a pretty blighted area though there are sill some discernible fingerprints of its more prosperous past. Even Lena Horne is reputed to have lived there for a time though there's no real consensus about which was her actual home.
Paper bag test comes to mind. One could cheat if they had enough money or power.
The black indentured servants that came to America didn't come from Africa they came from Europe.
Very educative, thanks!
As a member of the so-called "elite," I do not hold any distain towards other Black Americans.
I don't either. Though I have learned the hard way that we shouldn't marry people who's family culture and lack of progress is not the same as ours. 🤷🏽♀
That's comforting to know 😙
@@marianaya5824Exactly, this a fundamental fact. People usually gravitate towards those who are like-minded, it has nothing to do with race. I'm black & had more in common with people outside the black community because surprise surprise, some of us find it easy to get along with others unlike difficult people. People who struggle with this concept usually are the problem, they are prideful & bitter regardless of race.
Everyone needs to start hit the thumbs up on these videos. So the algorithm will spreed his videos
This is the first time I've heard anyone speak publicly,( besides myself), about the cultural differences among Black people, these differences are profound and many, yet society insists on lumping Black people together.
TH-cam videos are often a prime example of this.
"I'se jest goin' to get me sum food, Bro" as opposed to, "I was just on my way to dinner, Officer", either phrase would be a dead give-away as to which class you're dealing with.
My mother told me never bring home a girl walking, talking, eating or doing anything like a field hand.
I agree strongly he is so intelligent and truthful
The lighter/mixed your bloodline, the more discriminatory they are towards other Black people ie Creoles don’t consider themselves Blk they say they’re “Creole” as if that’s a diff race.
Or melungeons?
Look at jimmy carter, charles Stanley