Maroons are from Moree which is few miles to Kromanti (Kormanti) also a costal fishing town in the Central Region of Ghana. What can be said about Akropong (Big Village) in Ghana, corrupteded to Accompong in Jamaica?
I went to this museum yesterday. I was expecting them to talk about the most depressing part of slavery,when I got there I wasn't sure why I wasted my time..I was so wrong,my children and I left there with so much great information to process..The history that is taught in our school is not true or so manipulated the ower understands this and he is trying to do his part by properly educating a listening ear..If anyone decides go this will be a great experience.
It looks as if it would be and this is a must do for me. As I look around TH-cam, I'm starting to see more and more Black History museums are all over the place and I'd like to visit as many as I possibly can. You know, it's kind of ironic that there isn't a push at all within the community for us to even go to any. Makes me wonder why...but regardless, I'm going. I want and need to know.
Oh yes,I mentioned to a few people white and black about going to a Plantation.I was looked at as if I was crazy.. The reaction I got from most blacks is "why do you want to go there?so we can be supressed even more?"..most whites would say "why am wanting to relive the past?" I must say I was a bit hesitate just because of the word Plantation..but Im glad I ignored it all and went.I took my children and you can see a change in my kids,especially my 12yr old son who is currently learning about slavery.He was clearly empowered by it all.
That both saddens me and lifts me up with gladness. I'm so happy your babies *get it* and it gave your son such empowerment! He's ahead of the game! Bravo mom! Bravo!
If they knew my history they'd understand why I can't name one grandparent passed my 3rd... They would also understand how envious I am of those who can trace back 15 generations and sometimes more... This museum is needed
Selendria Muganogo *The only reason I can trace back mine is because we were well-hidden from political persecution. Mine happens to be an aristocratic family, but as far as I know it could be fake. In a system of social advancement based on class opportunities + the legal editing of geneologies (needed to prove you were part or not a part of the ruling social classes), all of my family trees can be fake. In fact as not a direct descendant of the eldest male descendant families, it's probably fake (90%+) are.
Honestly though I dont think most people can trace back their family that far. Part of my family is white and I only know like three recent generations and then one on the mayflower because of records. On the spanish side of my family I can only trace back like 2 generations but thats because I never knew em well.
ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ the 25th dynasty and Ramses iii is my history... So is the Sphinx and any other monument carved or built by black people in Egypt... you can have and claim whatever part belongs to you and your history...
Jon Fassold what? the bible is not a fictional book, however i agree with your point that's not your history because you're too ignorant. the same we respect you people who have no standards and have no basis or belief, the same way you should have the least bit of morale to respect us. thx :)
I must say that this guy is a rarity. He seems to be truly trying to understand the depth of mental pain and physical pain that was forced and condoned upon the African people. The "it" he speaks of is the very thing that most white folks refuse to acknowledge and or speak of. The rape, lynchings, separation of family, daily beatings, cultural rape, just to name a few evil actions. I personally have always been a Nat Turner fan, because no race or human should ever suffer this type humiliation. I'm very pleased to see a European /American trying to come to real terms with atrocities og his ancestors. It's the only way we all can try to get past it.
Buddy Silver. - Slavery has one purpose - to enrich and 'empower' the slave owner by exploiting the weak and vulnerable in society. Projecting blame for slavery at religious texts by those who are anti-religious reveals their ignorance of the deeper problem of greed and depravity that lurks behind outward human behavior. You are barking up the wrong tree.
The short answer, Clorox Bleach, is yes! But, it is critical that one understand that this is not an issue of guilt, it is an issue of compassion, maintaining human dignity and being of assistance to any other soul. If I saw you, or your sister or brother, your child, or any another person helpless and in need of care, then I have the responsibility to respond. All of human kind has a responsibility to/for the well being of others regardless of the scale of the injustice or when it may have occurred.
I so hate that term black history in school when referencing things like civil rights and slavery or... jazz, because you also have another course called American history, it separate one from the other. It implies further that slaves weren't citizens and absolves the government of the responsibility they had to protect them from the injustices they endured.
+Colin Smith except that the slaves weren't citizens in any legal regard as they were seen as the posession of their slaveowner....and if you look up history such as the dred scott decision it makes plain the idea that blacks have no rights that whites are duly bound to recognize as such....SO YOU WERE SAYING?
This is actually an interesting debate. I would argue that the dread scott case was a bad decision. The Supreme Court isn't the immaculate virgin in that its always right in its ruling. Cases like Dread Scott, EC Knight, Plessy v, and Citizens United (and if you're a pro lifer Roe v Wade) shows the supreme court rules against the public interest. That doesn't make it morally right to enforce their ruling or to simply not resist it. But I would say the black population was recognized as part of the population count made towards how many representatives each state gets. Women as well initially held a similar place in the architecture of the government.
+Colin Smith the supreme court rules against the public interest....so in yor estimation plessy vs ferguson was against the public interest....NOT ALLOWING ONE GROUP TO INTENTIONALLY SKEW THINGS IN THEIR FAVOR UNDER THE AUSPICES OF A SEPERATE BUT EQUAL DOCTRINE THAT WAS NEVER ONCE LIVED UP TO IS TO YOU AGAINST THE PUBLIC INTEREST?.....I take it you mean the WHITE publics interest because it wasn't against the long term interest of non- white Americans to have fair and equal societal access....Maybe you ought to actually read up on the case before making such a dimwitted argument ( www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537 )and then maybe you read up on the equal protection clause ( www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv ) As for the case of E.C. Knight vs The United States ( www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/156/1 ) YOU REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A RULING MEANT TO ENSURE FREE AND OPEN COMPETITION IN THE MARKETPLACE BY RESTRICTING THE ABILITY OF THOSE OF SIGNIFICANT MEANS TO USE SAID MEANS TO STIFLE COMPETITION...let me guess you're one of those free market conservatives/libertarians who fail to understand that it fails to be a free market if a lucky few can control said market and exclude any competitors. Citizens United was an absurd decision in that it conflated protected free speech with economic self interest and made no effort to restrict the corrupting potential the monied few could have on the political process...put simply say you donated 100 dollars to the campaign of Hillary Clinton, and I donated 1 million...WHO'S CONTRIBUTION DO YOU THINK WILL BE HELD IN HIGHER REGARD AND EARN THE DONOR ACCESS TO THE CANDIDATE?....and yes it works the same for any of her campaign rivals be they Republican or Democratic... As for whether blacks counted as population...sort of. As the saying goes, the Devil is in the details ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise) and yes (white) women did count in the census even if they were barred from voting.
+buddhafyre Why are people on TH-cam always so easy to ignite in fiery indignation? I'm honestly kind of confused if you're mixing up Plessy v. with Brown v . or arguing that Plessy, the case that ruled that the 14th and 15th amendment could effectively be ignored for the next 60+ years as it applied to blacks, was just and fair. EC knight made it more difficult to bust up monopolies, which if you're a capitalist is something you should honestly be all for. Regarding populations, that was my point. The three fifths compromise counted slaves and white women as citizens for the purposes of allocating the number of delegates. And the idea that a person can be 3/5ths of a person is completely illogical so the government effectively recognized them as a person but refused to represent their interests even though the states drew a portion of their power in the federal government from them. Refrain from the personal attacks if you wish to continue this discussion. And no I'm not a Libertarian since they are anarchists without the spine to give up police, a national army and street lights.
+Colin Smith Plessy v. with Brown v . or arguing that Plessy, the case that ruled that the 14th and 15th amendment could effectively be ignored for the next 60+ years as it applied to blacks, was just and fair...BOTH CASES WERE PREDICATED ON THE NOTION THAT SEPERATE WAS FAIR AND THUS EQUAL..one in regards to public accomodation and the other in regards to education. Seperate but equal was inhereantly unjust because it was unilaterally imposed and not the result of any form of mutual consent or decree meaning it was essentially one group foisting its desire to be apart from another group upon the other group thus unlawfully abridging the rights of the other group( to use Brown vs Board Of Education as an example, black folk DIDN'T CHOOSE to send their children to substandard schools, they were made to as 1/ the children were required by law to attend school and 2/ the substandard school was the only school made available to black children due to the imposition of segregation) EC Knight didn't make it more difficult to break a monopoly it actually made it simpler and more powerful .....ECK basically mandates that such cases must originate and first be considered at the state level and not as an act of congress... enough states act against a particular corporation over its business practices it then obviously becomes an interstate commerce issue which then leads to a federal class action suit and thus the sherman anti trust act comes into play with a case emboldened by the broad range of data culled from all the participating states as opposed to a single congressional investigation. the three fifths compromise was simply meant to limit southern representation by limiting the impact slaves could have on the census and thus southern representation in the congress.....although as a proxy it was also an admission of the humanity of the slaves (which southerners deeply disputed and denied) by seeking to have them counted as a person like any other
When i attended university i met up with Africans also studying there. I befriend the student, introduced me to his families. I introduced them to my families too. I took them to the MARAE of my whanau, we made a hangi for them, their played with our children. Its was the bestest weekend ever. We shared culutres, history songs, dance music....food. we learnt from each other. We all went home. This was in 1999. I graduated in 2002.
It is my moral obligation as an African American to share the truth about slavery and how it affects us today. Healing is in knowing and then growing...
Why is it that black people in other countries, look down on African Americans? Why are they doing well, and prospering, in those countries? Why have THEY not allowed slavery from many generations ago, dictate their lives? How slavery affects you today? DO TELL? Your ancestors suffered and died, so that you can now live in a country that gives you everything. You could have been born in any of the African countries that sold your ancestors to Europeans. But you were born HERE, and have all the benefits that your African brethren, could only dream of. They are risking their lives, and DYING, to come to America. But people like you, can only whine about your lot in life. My LIVING relatives, were sent to concentration camps, and watched their friends and family be slaughtered. Yet you want to talk about what happened to your people, many generations ago, as if it has to affect you today? Blacks were doing far better just a couple generations ago, despite actual segregation and bigotry and outright racism. Yet now, your people are in jail, having tons of kids out of wedlock. Went from 70% of kids born to two parent households, to barely any today. Who did that to you?
@@butterliz876 The white man? Exfuckingcuse me??? A black man labeled them African Americans. Maybe google the term, before you start speaking about things you know nothing about.
God bless this man!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️I just watched a tour of Nottoway plantation and the woman was dressed in an old style southern slave masters dress glorifying the old plantation owners. She even bragged about how well the slaves were treated there. She said that many of the ex-slaves stayed after slavery had ended and how “COOL it was to still have may of the descendants of those slaves still working there today”. I’m thinking how is that in any way cool!!! Those people stayed on and worked because they couldn’t read or write and didn’t have money of their own! It’s so sad that she ( the white tour guide) doesn’t get it or does not care to.
The whole plantation tourism industry is so bad at acknowledging and educating about the institution of slavery. Some plantations won't even allow tour guides to use the word "slave" and instead they have to use "field hand" or "house servant". That's exactly why we need more Whitney Plantations to help people understand what life on a plantation was really like, instead of just showing them pretty buildings and fancy dresses.
@@onebackzach i know. I was just viewing a plantation video, that I thought would be like this one, telling the truth about the hardships of the slaves, back then. But it was just glorifying the plantation, showing how it was built, showing every article bought in it, and telling the expensive price paid for things, with a brief mention of the slave cooks, and field hands. I did not care to hear what the massa bought with the blood sweat and tears money, from the slaves. I didn't finish that video. But this is a bonafide good video, where I can actually feel what the slaves went through. Before you can claim your history you have to feel it .
There is no way anyone should disagree with this video, the truth hurts but it will be told and never ever forgot that this country was founded on it we should never apologize for telling what happened till this day💪
Enjoy your trip but keep in mind, today's racism is confused with behavior. Most "racism" accusations today is not based on skin-color, but the purposeful confusion of behavior. .
I to am a fan of John Brown and Nat Turner. Having said that, I am fascinated with my heritage. Also, I have spent quite a bit of time researching my ancestry. John Cummings and this museum is a blessing. Like any other museum, such as the Holocaust Museum, it authenticates our history. That terrible dark period for those of color who were enslaved in this country. I plan to visit this museum in the very near future.
Absolutely. I try to throw in some black history, to my son, and grands, when I can, when their ears are open to hear. It was interesting what John Cummings said about most white people don't know about black history. It's interesting, because most black people don't know about black history. I know I didn't. I knew about the trials of the civil rights era on up, but I did not know about slavery until Alex Haley movie, "Roots", came out. When I saw how his family from each generation sat down with the children and told them about their ancestors, and how they got here. It made me wonder why didn't my mama do that to us. One thing that came to mind was my mama was about 7, when her mama died, so she probably was never told the history, herself. Another thing was back then they were told to leave it alone, act like it didn't happen. But if you don't know your history you'll repeat it. For some reason I don't know why I didn't ask my mama more questions, about her history, after I saw "Roots", but at any rate I feel the timing for me is now. And everyday I try to start my day watching a new black history video. And I see how it bonds me to my roots, and connects me with my ancestors. Parents shouldn't leave it up to the teachers to teach black history, which is where my mama thought I would learn it from, but I wasn't. It needs to start in the home, and taught in the right way to them, without hate and malice and watch the black pride, and self-esteem emerge from the children.
When I was in Martinique, I visited 2 museums about slavery. One was on the grounds of a former plantation. I thought to myself, “why don’t we have something like this in the United States?” I googled it and found out about the Whitney Plantation Museum
Slavery has a psychological effect on black people up to today with the way they are being treated especially the children. It will be hard for poor black people to serve in the culture of whites because of the stigma.
You didn't have choices. You now do, yet still act like you don't. Why is it that ancestors of slaves in all the other countries ( you know, the ones that did it far more than America ever did), are prospering? While you still act like you yourself went through slavery. You didn't. You have no excuse. It's all on you. The president of the country and leader of the free world, was black. Yet you still whine about not having choices. Stop living 150 years ago. 600,000 white Americans died, for your ancestors. Maybe go thank their relatives.
@@jamesbizs Why is it I never hear any of you telling jews to get over it? STFU,you people still don't get it. There's still oppression to this very day.
@@jamesbizs if you really believe that 6000,000 white people fought to free slaves, you are a fucking moron. Stop deflecting like most of you do. Sometimes I'm honestly ashamed that I'm white because of people like you. I can honestly understand why black people could have hate towards us.
i have difficulties to understand why many white people in america are offended by projects like this and go out of their way with "whataboutisms" as well as "get over it" and "white apologism is sad" ... etc. this isn't an attempt to make you, as an individual, feel guilty about being white. you don't have to apologize to anybody, unless you want to on behalf of your ancestors. but that's not what people expect. what you should do is accept, that this is part of american history. it happened, and it's important that people are aware of that and question the reasons for it so it can't happen again. it doesn't hurt to restore a little bit of dignity to those who were victims of slavery either, but that's not even the point here. i really don't see why anybody would be against museums like this. it might hurt to understand that your ancestors might have been part of this slave-owner society. but whether they were or not doesn't change that this happened in american history. so what's the problem?
ashitakaharuo because constantly talking about slavery and segregation when we all know what happened it is more so to imply that it was white ppl who did it. It's annoying. If you were white, all you can be reminded on the daily bases about your ancestors is them being "slaveowners" and "inherently racist" and such. You can praise black ppl about anything yet white are seen as spawn of the devil because of such things. Also, why would a black person talk about it today? It's not like they experienced it.
Tbunbunkou annoying is the attitude towards others experiences. No one has to make you comfortable and your misconceptions of the black experience is why you are annoyed. You’re a busybody who feels entitled to tell others what to do. Be comfortable in your home and stop watching and lusting BET.
You can never change the past. What was done was done But we can decide our future. And as hard as it sounds We must embrace the cold pass To have a educated excepting future “Never ignore the elephant in the room It will just trample you”
No, we cannot change the past, it is done. We can change our future by remembering the past and learning from it...it will guide us, but we have to know first, so we do not repeat it. Prejudice for a skin color, different accent, different culture, poverty, lack of education, prejudice for anything, is wrong. The choice we all have now, because we cannot give back those slaves their lives, their dignity, is to make sure we don't repeat the history with anyone else, today. "Red and Yellow, Black and White, ALL are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children (and big ones too) of the world. They will know we are Christians by our love...
Thank you Mr. Cummings for preserving our history, not trying to hide our history and accepting our history and not trying to hide it , you deserve a plaque for your recognition
My 13 year old daughter and I visited the Whitney Plantation for my birthday on March 12. We drove from St Ann, MO after doing my research and seeing that this particular plantation shared stories from the experiences of Blacks (our ancestors). I must say, I am still feeling the energy of the visit. My daughter talked about it a little but I can tell the energy of our ancestors is with her and I know in time, as always, she will express herself when she's ready. I want to mention that the tour guide that we had was a white girl that wasn't knowledgeable about the historical slave trade/Amer. slavery and the Whitney Plantation or she didn't have the passion to convey the truths about the horrific experiences that my ancestors had undergone. So, when I saw another tour guide, (Cheryl), I joined her group and was enlighten with an abundance of information. I paid money for my daughter and I to receive real information, not sugar coated so yes, I ditched the first girl and joined another group and was very satisfied. There were ppl from across the country and out of the country that was in both groups. I was happy to see my fellow Black brothers and sisters at the plantation and instantly felt an connection. I had mixed emotions and I am still having mixed emotions back in Missouri.
Refined Queen This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA. I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN Wake up.
Original One There are many black slaves whose ancestors transited through Ghana or are Ghanian. They traced their lineages directly. Why are you harrassing people who want to learn about their own family history?
@@brattingprincess : ANY SOCIAL group, including Blacks, do not care about the size of the slices in the "Equality" pie...they are much more focused on "He who holds the knife." The past 60 years of political-correctness* has taught us that even the Blacks are not interested in cutting the pie evenly whence they hold that knife. The only difference from pre-60's segregation and modern segregation is that Blacks are demanding to be segregated. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson never, ever went to an Indian reservation to stick-up for the rights of a Hispanic against the aggressions of an Asian -- much less went to Africa to stick-up for the rights of those Blacks. Why? Ain' no munny init. The one thing you will not see in this museum is an explanation of how Blacks practice racism and that Jesse and Al are just as exploiting of Blacks as any accused White during any part of our history. Congratulations! Equality has been achieved!! Now *everybody* is equally and openly racist and sexist. .
@@brattingprincess Way off. I'm, like so many other people, are getting tired of the double-standards that political-correctness (born of the 60's [anything but] civil and equal rights marches) affords two groups in the West. The very people that demanded rights are have not been policing themselves. Attacking the messenger instead of the message is a confession that one can not argue my point. Btw, how are Blacks racist? .
This is an amazing place. I love history and to see a place like this is like reliving history, and the only way to truly understand slavery is to go back to the roots and relive it.
I see several people saying: "But my ancestors didn't own slaves," but that doesn't mean they weren't complicate or did not benefit from the institution. Many people believe that the North had little to do with slavery, but the North bought raw supplies from the South to use in their factories. The yeoman benefited socially from not being the lowest class. Even those who believed in freedom for blacks did not necessarily believe in equality. These are just a few examples and really speak to why we need more education on the subject.
Technically speaking a US Black is more likely to have some slave owner ancestors than recently arrived White. "did not benefit from the institution." How did they benefit it? Seriously, costs of US civil war were enormous (both in blood and money), while already at that time it become clear that industry (and not cotton farming) is the key for further success. US on the whole would be better off had they never tried slavery, so I don't see how anyone (except actual slave owners) benefited from it.
I've visited many slave plantations in the South but where are the ones here in the North? There is the Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island in Long Island New York and I'm reading this book by Mac Griswold called The Manor 3 centuries at a slave plantation on Long Island-knew nothing of this place before....WHY is that I wonder something about history it can not remained buried for every.
The Dutch brought a big tradition of slavery to the NY area. Their plantations along the Hudson River rivaled those along the Mississippi. Slavery began to be abolished around 1800.
@@mweru1900 Deuteronomy 28:68 speaks about the ships Deuteronomy 28:48 a yoke of iron upon our necks and the slaves came to America (Egypt) on ships with iron chains on the neck and so much more is in this curse and it follows our people every one of them even the God our people worship is a curse
I wish everyone in this country would visit this plantation. It is so important for white as well as black people to understand this period of our country's history. Thank god for John Cummings.
Absolutely needed. This is my 2nd time watching this replication of slave children statues, in that room, and it's almost too hard for my heart to take, and brings me to tears. I have grandchildren their ages, is why it hurts so, to even think they would be put in a situation like that. That scene affected me so I had to pray and ask God, what can we do now to help better things. The one answer that came to me was those children, and the adult slaves only felt hate around them, so on my part I can put more love in my heart, and try not have any hate being felt by others, coming from me. Whether I like it or not, those enslaved children and adults died for my gain. I don't like how this happened, and wish it hadn't happened, but it did, the damage was done, I feel we have an obligation to pick up the torch, and carry on, from their works. I'm truly grateful and thankful, to any and all, who knocked down doors and barriers, I can freely walk through now.✌🏽❤🙏🏻 🌲🌷🌲❤AFRICA ❤🌲🌷 God bless John Cummings for the intricate, and exquisite work he's done on this plantation museum, and Dr. Ibrahima Seck, the historian, who explains slave history, so well. Thank you.
Visiting the Whitney Plantation is a spiritual experience. You are walking on sacred ground when you step onto the Whitney. You can feel the presence of the ancestors in every corner of the land. It is theirs now. All theirs. Bless the heart of John Cummings for investing in the Whitney to help make it what it is today, under the leadership of Dr. Ibrahima Seck. Cummings' actions and words are those of a good-hearted man.
I'm 39 and live 45 minutes away from This Planation. I had no ideal it existed. I had a chance to visit and was I Suprised, sadden and enlightened about my history. My white friends can name their descendants. I on the only hand cannot.
The reality of slavery is a huge contradiction to the very core fundamentals of American Independence. This is why we don't see a lot of museums. Americans from previous generations would rather pretend it wasn't really a big thing and hoped it would be forgotten into the ash heaps of history. Fortunately, it hasn't been forgotten and I don't think it ever will. Historians are beginning to bring to light real American history and the incredible misery upon which the very foundations of this country was established.
Actually, they aren't welcome! True African's don't want them! "They say, Amedkan Blacks are Shiat!" I know a lot of African's and no, they don't want them back! It's actually hilarious, when you hear them talk about how they hate American Blacks!
I think it's important for us to actually face not only the history & shame of slavery in this country, but also the history & shame of the lynchings, torture, segregation, etc. Every American should watch the 60 minutes episode with Oprah Winfrey re The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (opening 4/26/18) that aired on April 8th. Seeing actual photos is a powerful tool that will bring up emotions - horror, grief, anger, regret, and finally a desire to begin healing, because for too long there's been a quiet acknowledgement of these atrocities, without any true emotion or discussion or understanding of the African American experience in this country. Only when we face the shame and acknowledge the anguish, can we feel true sorrow and regret and try to move forward.
MagaGoddess This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA. I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN Wake up.
This man didn't have to do this, we take our kids to Disney World, six flags, movies, we have to bring them here, All Americans need this. People say they're tired of slavery movies, but we're not tired of treating people different, in 2018 it is still real, the racial bribe changes always
Lind Say This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA. I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN Wake up.
What I don't understand (among many other issues in this topic) is: enslaved people were considered ⅗ human by slave owners yet were being r*ped, m*lested and tort*red by the people referring to them as ⅗ human. Does that not then mean that: slave owners were into beastiality? Whether subconsciously or otherwise.
You're referring to Houston, Prairie View, Lancaster, Desoto, Jasper, Cedar Hill, Marlin, Beaumont and Dallas? . (For those that do not know, these are predominately Black towns)
@@funnyneptune4364 : Sundown-towns? I have never heard of the term until now. Interesting. It's like p-c in reverse. The towns/cities above, to take some artistic license, are Moon-riser towns. Thanks for replying! I learned something! .
I like this guy. Why can't there be more guys like him? He isn't afraid to talk about the roots and evilness of African american slavery in America instead of trying to justify it with other slave trades in the world.
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.” “The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath...gives a loose to his passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.” Thomas Jefferson
This says something about America. Although this was a terrible time in history, there is no other country on the face of the earth that would let the people put up a memorial reminding everyone of a horrible mistake in ideology and actions it made.
Ann Chovey This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA. I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN Wake up.
Those slaves were Hebrew people. The people of the Book. The Israelites. We are still here but we have turned our hearts back to Yah. He will restore us to our true homeland in Israel.
Maamafrica Esther We know who we are. It's a lost cause trying to tell us any different. I mean no disrespect because I don't know you and you don't know me but I know that one day the whole world will know the truth. Until that day many will deny us our true heritage. I love Africa and Africans but I am not African. I know who my people are,I'm not lost just scattered. 😊Shalom
ServantofYah5 P even African have been migrating ever since. but modern day or settlemnet states we are African. black were all over and still all over the world. Hebrews are not only the African American. yes you are Hebrew not denying but African is our heritage. your ancestors might have not had any idea and Hebrew...all they knew was Africa.
Negroids arent mentioned inthe Bible... and Pitifully Coveting, Lying, and Bareing False witness: wont help you evolve out of your Primitiveness... SMH...
Education is the #1 knowledge. The educational system needs to correct there history and give today's youths a sense of acknowledgement and understanding that black history and Indian history is the purest form of American&world history
The Kings and chiefs in Africa (and other places) sold and traded their people into the bondage of slavery. Slaves were provided with food, clothing and shelter as well as medical attention when neccessary and assigned chores (work) to complete in a timely manner. Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago. Now all people have to work or provide services to earn their income. People provide food, shelter and clothing plus needed medical assistance for themselves as much as their incomes will allow. These days are different only in that people can quit their jobs, refuse to work and live homeless of their own FREE WILL ! !
All forms of slavery are bad. But, chattel slavery is by far the worst! There has not been any other race in history that has been mistreated like black people. Even the Jewish Holocaust (religious persecution-not race) survivors received reparations for WW2 from many different countries. And, guess what? They prospered and moved forward from prejudice after WW2. But, black people still were fighting for their own rights after the war. It took another 20 years AFTER WW2 for blacks to have civil rights! Now, that is bass ackwrds! How can you be so blind when the Jim Crow era ended only 60 years or so? There are 2 generations of people who deserve reparations that are alive today. They definitely deserve a check! #ADOS
One more thing...all races use welfare. The data shows that whites actually use welfare more than other races. So..what's your point? If black people were given the reparations that they were promised, alot of them wouldn't need to be on welfare.🤷♀️
What a good idea, he seems like a really great guy. We had a similar "live museum" in Australia called "Old Sydney Town" which showed life as a convict under military colonial rule. There were live shows of whippings and hangings and executions, and it did a great job at showing just how brutal life was at the time. It would be great to see a similar thing here.
Idk man i think we should just move on because we talked about and did action but we keep doing this we should never forget our past but we should move on from it
I read the Willie Lynch letter as a child but it wasn’t until I read it as an adult that I truly understand how he changed the structure of our families. Him changing our family structure still affects us today.... it’s the only true protection and stability that a person has .. family. Please go read the Willie Lynch letter and let’s break the cycles. Let’s reverse it ...☝️❤️
This brings tears to my eyes and heart.😢 We have been soooo Oppressed and still are. I don't find excuses for my people but i do understand the long term effect it has on all of us. I constantly deal with this in my own family and GOD knows i hate it with a passion...
There are museums of slavery in England; at Liverpool, Bristol and London. Surprisingly they do not mention North African Barbary Coast slavers who seized white people from coastal towns in England, Ireland and from ships and ferries in the Irish Sea. Almost the whole population of Baltimore in Ireland were seized one night. For many years the slavers were based at Lundy Island off the Bristol Channel. It took the US Navy to stop them at North Africa -after the 1860's Civil War when there was some time to devote in releasing American citizens from slavery. Suppose it's not politically correct to mention black slavers dealing in white slaves. I'm near Liverpool and often see the ridiculous sight of a 'historian' pointing out sites of slave auctions near the docks, including metal rings the slaves were said to be shackled to. Basic research would inform them that the rings were used to attach ropes when lowering barrels into cellars. The trade was of manufactured goods from Britain, offload them at west Africa, collect slaves and ship them to the Caribbean and southern States, load with tobacco, rum, sugar, cotton and back to Britain. Profit all the way. It is a fact that ship's captains and other rich folks would occasionally bring a black slave back to England as a house servant but there is no evidence of regular slave markets taking place in Liverpool. I'm not an apologist for any slave trade but wish these 'historians' would publish only what can be proved and not what they imagine.
the fact that in 2020 they st@rted to notice the problem is honestly scary because there talking about police brutality but they should give a honest speach on black history on every news station ,they rarely talk sbout slavery and that worries me about america in the future
I think when people say get over it they don't mean forget about what happened. History is important. I think that what they really mean is don't act like you yourself was a slave and that you don't have opportunity to grow today. I think they also mean that people of all races have been enslaved in the past and there is still slavery today. No one else is using the past history of slavery as an excuse of their failures today. Also it's not good to be so focused on the past that you miss important things happening in the present such as modern day slavery which should be a prioritized topic.
The only difference from pre-60's segregation and modern segregation is that Blacks are demanding Blacks be segregated. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson never, ever went to an Indian reservation to stick-up for the rights of a Hispanic against the aggressions of an Asian -- much less went to Africa to stick-up for the rights of those Blacks. Why? Ain' no munny init. The one thing you will not see in this museum is an explanation of how Blacks practice racism and that Jesse and Al are just as exploiting of Blacks as any accused White during any part of our history. Congratulations! Equality has been achieved!! Now *everybody* is equally and openly racist and sexist.
Been looking for a plantation that represented the history of slavery correctly, glad I've found this one. I drove through Louisiana in July but missed you. I'll have to visit next time around.
Martin Barshai This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA. I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN Wake up.
Yes, slavery is horrible.but it should be said that the original slaves in africa, were sold by other african blacks that had captured them in tribal wars and raids...for land and power..and that is never spoken of, and it should. My grandmother was a black woman, (in cuba) and I can talk,because I am 1/4 black, Yes, no one can take away my heritage of which i am very proud to be....but....i hate it when my brothers and sisters ignore these truths that we are here because our own brothers captured us and sold us to the ship captains...(way back when), yes, and also, SADLY IN TODAY 2019....black people are still taking, capturing, and ENSLAVING black people and selling them into slavery in africa, both FOR sexual and for work... VERY SAD ! now in 2019.... and we need to face this reality..! because my black brothers and sisters only talk of the white man...and never mention these truths....and WE, OUR ANCESTORS, are also guilty of this, .lastly but not least, in the time of slavery, here in America, there were 900 black Slave owners.. ! ! ! yes... the archives prove that there were 900 black slave owners that owned black slaves...( i know, hard to believe ! ) ( I saw that truth spoken, by that black man that does that tv show about ancestry....he said it... and that is never spoken of either ! . We need to realize that we have not been innocent of slavery ourselves and that WE are still doing it in Africa.! The world never changes and history repeats itself and we need to confront our own demons, to be fair, because God is fair and we must be fair and just. We have to change the rhetoric , we need to be honest with ourselves.....and that is where real change will happen, i believe ! There is nothing to get over, it is a reality that has to be faced...but there are good and bad whites and good and bad blacks... can anyone deny them, we all need to repent of our sins and ALL of us need salvation that comes from the cross. thank you for reading. if you respond, I may not see it because i am rarely on the computer...but i might...anyway, . thank you for reading.
shame that the vast majority live in shit hole countries, and are risking their lives just to come to America, eh? How that whole Rwanda genocide do for those people that don't need nobody for nothing?
Officially on the bucket list of places I must visit
Nigel Cooper + Mine too. Met President Carter at Plains, Georgia some years back. It was amazing
I already did when i was way younger then i am now but i would take my future kids there
Me too
Make the lynching museum in Montgomery another one. It will change your life. And so will the whitney plantation.
RACIST!!
God bless this man. Wish all was like this. Beautiful man.
Heavenly Beautifully Black yes Yah Weh bless this man and all other allies for truth, transparency and justice.
@@sylvainrelax they invented and built the toliet you sit on know. Your history before downing first man of the earth .
Maroons are from Moree which is few miles to Kromanti (Kormanti) also a costal fishing town in the Central Region of Ghana. What can be said about Akropong (Big Village) in Ghana, corrupteded to Accompong in Jamaica?
The Cimarons connection to the slaves who were brought from Africa is utterly untrue. And this falsification has to stop somewhere somehow.
"If you don't understand the source of the problem, how can you solve it?" Absolutely loved this - it makes you think deeper into this whole project.
In order to understand the present and future you have to know the past.
@@andreachung396 Agreed!
I went to this museum yesterday. I was expecting them to talk about the most depressing part of slavery,when I got there I wasn't sure why I wasted my time..I was so wrong,my children and I left there with so much great information to process..The history that is taught in our school is not true or so manipulated the ower understands this and he is trying to do his part by properly educating a listening ear..If anyone decides go this will be a great experience.
+Ruth Joyce Thank you SO much Ruth. You just brought tears of bitter-sweet joy to my heart and soul. I want and plan to go so badly! My soul needs it.
+Teach Her2Fish you will not regret it. It is mind/life changing for sure.
It looks as if it would be and this is a must do for me. As I look around TH-cam, I'm starting to see more and more Black History museums are all over the place and I'd like to visit as many as I possibly can. You know, it's kind of ironic that there isn't a push at all within the community for us to even go to any. Makes me wonder why...but regardless, I'm going. I want and need to know.
Oh yes,I mentioned to a few people white and black about going to a Plantation.I was looked at as if I was crazy.. The reaction I got from most blacks is "why do you want to go there?so we can be supressed even more?"..most whites would say "why am wanting to relive the past?" I must say I was a bit hesitate just because of the word Plantation..but Im glad I ignored it all and went.I took my children and you can see a change in my kids,especially my 12yr old son who is currently learning about slavery.He was clearly empowered by it all.
That both saddens me and lifts me up with gladness. I'm so happy your babies *get it* and it gave your son such empowerment! He's ahead of the game! Bravo mom! Bravo!
If they knew my history they'd understand why I can't name one grandparent passed my 3rd... They would also understand how envious I am of those who can trace back 15 generations and sometimes more... This museum is needed
Selendria Muganogo *The only reason I can trace back mine is because we were well-hidden from political persecution. Mine happens to be an aristocratic family, but as far as I know it could be fake. In a system of social advancement based on class opportunities + the legal editing of geneologies (needed to prove you were part or not a part of the ruling social classes), all of my family trees can be fake. In fact as not a direct descendant of the eldest male descendant families, it's probably fake (90%+) are.
Selendria Muganogo Yeah I guess that’s pretty lame that you can’t trace your ancestors.
Honestly though I dont think most people can trace back their family that far. Part of my family is white and I only know like three recent generations and then one on the mayflower because of records. On the spanish side of my family I can only trace back like 2 generations but thats because I never knew em well.
ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ the 25th dynasty and Ramses iii is my history... So is the Sphinx and any other monument carved or built by black people in Egypt... you can have and claim whatever part belongs to you and your history...
ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ sorry but Caucasian people’s bottom jaw is not shaped like that
A treasure. We must never forget our history.
Our REAL history that has been long forgotten and ignored
But we most importantly must remember not to repeat it as well.
Jon Fassold what? the bible is not a fictional book, however i agree with your point that's not your history because you're too ignorant. the same we respect you people who have no standards and have no basis or belief, the same way you should have the least bit of morale to respect us. thx :)
Electrosation bruh then prove your religion. So long you can‘t, it‘s fictional
@Jon Fassold white people you say? which white people wrote the bible?
I must say that this guy is a rarity. He seems to be truly trying to understand the depth of mental pain and physical pain that was forced and condoned upon the African people. The "it" he speaks of is the very thing that most white folks refuse to acknowledge and or speak of. The rape, lynchings, separation of family, daily beatings, cultural rape, just to name a few evil actions. I personally have always been a Nat Turner fan, because no race or human should ever suffer this type humiliation. I'm very pleased to see a European /American trying to come to real terms with atrocities og his ancestors. It's the only way we all can try to get past it.
Bernie K. My ancestors never owned slaves. Should I still feel guilty over something my ancestors and I didn't even do?
Buddy Silver. - Slavery has one purpose - to enrich and 'empower' the slave owner by exploiting the weak and vulnerable in society.
Projecting blame for slavery at religious texts by those who are anti-religious reveals their ignorance of the deeper problem of greed and depravity that lurks behind outward human behavior.
You are barking up the wrong tree.
The short answer, Clorox Bleach, is yes! But, it is critical that one understand that this is not an issue of guilt, it is an issue of compassion, maintaining human dignity and being of assistance to any other soul. If I saw you, or your sister or brother, your child, or any another person helpless and in need of care, then I have the responsibility to respond. All of human kind has a responsibility to/for the well being of others regardless of the scale of the injustice or when it may have occurred.
where does it say that in the Torah?
Karen,
You ask, "where does it say that in the Torah"? Are you asking me a question about something?
I so hate that term black history in school when referencing things like civil rights and slavery or... jazz, because you also have another course called American history, it separate one from the other. It implies further that slaves weren't citizens and absolves the government of the responsibility they had to protect them from the injustices they endured.
+Colin Smith except that the slaves weren't citizens in any legal regard as they were seen as the posession of their slaveowner....and if you look up history such as the dred scott decision it makes plain the idea that blacks have no rights that whites are duly bound to recognize as such....SO YOU WERE SAYING?
This is actually an interesting debate. I would argue that the dread scott case was a bad decision. The Supreme Court isn't the immaculate virgin in that its always right in its ruling. Cases like Dread Scott, EC Knight, Plessy v, and Citizens United (and if you're a pro lifer Roe v Wade) shows the supreme court rules against the public interest. That doesn't make it morally right to enforce their ruling or to simply not resist it. But I would say the black population was recognized as part of the population count made towards how many representatives each state gets. Women as well initially held a similar place in the architecture of the government.
+Colin Smith the supreme court rules against the public interest....so in yor estimation plessy vs ferguson was against the public interest....NOT ALLOWING ONE GROUP TO INTENTIONALLY SKEW THINGS IN THEIR FAVOR UNDER THE AUSPICES OF A SEPERATE BUT EQUAL DOCTRINE THAT WAS NEVER ONCE LIVED UP TO IS TO YOU AGAINST THE PUBLIC INTEREST?.....I take it you mean the WHITE publics interest because it wasn't against the long term interest of non- white Americans to have fair and equal societal access....Maybe you ought to actually read up on the case before making such a dimwitted argument ( www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537 )and then maybe you read up on the equal protection clause ( www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv ) As for the case of E.C. Knight vs The United States ( www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/156/1 ) YOU REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A RULING MEANT TO ENSURE FREE AND OPEN COMPETITION IN THE MARKETPLACE BY RESTRICTING THE ABILITY OF THOSE OF SIGNIFICANT MEANS TO USE SAID MEANS TO STIFLE COMPETITION...let me guess you're one of those free market conservatives/libertarians who fail to understand that it fails to be a free market if a lucky few can control said market and exclude any competitors. Citizens United was an absurd decision in that it conflated protected free speech with economic self interest and made no effort to restrict the corrupting potential the monied few could have on the political process...put simply say you donated 100 dollars to the campaign of Hillary Clinton, and I donated 1 million...WHO'S CONTRIBUTION DO YOU THINK WILL BE HELD IN HIGHER REGARD AND EARN THE DONOR ACCESS TO THE CANDIDATE?....and yes it works the same for any of her campaign rivals be they Republican or Democratic... As for whether blacks counted as population...sort of. As the saying goes, the Devil is in the details ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise) and yes (white) women did count in the census even if they were barred from voting.
+buddhafyre Why are people on TH-cam always so easy to ignite in fiery indignation? I'm honestly kind of confused if you're mixing up Plessy v. with Brown v . or arguing that Plessy, the case that ruled that the 14th and 15th amendment could effectively be ignored for the next 60+ years as it applied to blacks, was just and fair. EC knight made it more difficult to bust up monopolies, which if you're a capitalist is something you should honestly be all for.
Regarding populations, that was my point. The three fifths compromise counted slaves and white women as citizens for the purposes of allocating the number of delegates. And the idea that a person can be 3/5ths of a person is completely illogical so the government effectively recognized them as a person but refused to represent their interests even though the states drew a portion of their power in the federal government from them. Refrain from the personal attacks if you wish to continue this discussion. And no I'm not a Libertarian since they are anarchists without the spine to give up police, a national army and street lights.
+Colin Smith Plessy v. with Brown v . or arguing that Plessy, the case that ruled that the 14th and 15th amendment could effectively be ignored for the next 60+ years as it applied to blacks, was just and fair...BOTH CASES WERE PREDICATED ON THE NOTION THAT SEPERATE WAS FAIR AND THUS EQUAL..one in regards to public accomodation and the other in regards to education. Seperate but equal was inhereantly unjust because it was unilaterally imposed and not the result of any form of mutual consent or decree meaning it was essentially one group foisting its desire to be apart from another group upon the other group thus unlawfully abridging the rights of the other group( to use Brown vs Board Of Education as an example, black folk DIDN'T CHOOSE to send their children to substandard schools, they were made to as 1/ the children were required by law to attend school and 2/ the substandard school was the only school made available to black children due to the imposition of segregation) EC Knight didn't make it more difficult to break a monopoly it actually made it simpler and more powerful .....ECK basically mandates that such cases must originate and first be considered at the state level and not as an act of congress... enough states act against a particular corporation over its business practices it then obviously becomes an interstate commerce issue which then leads to a federal class action suit and thus the sherman anti trust act comes into play with a case emboldened by the broad range of data culled from all the participating states as opposed to a single congressional investigation. the three fifths compromise was simply meant to limit southern representation by limiting the impact slaves could have on the census and thus southern representation in the congress.....although as a proxy it was also an admission of the humanity of the slaves (which southerners deeply disputed and denied) by seeking to have them counted as a person like any other
When i attended university i met up with Africans also studying there. I befriend the student, introduced me to his families. I introduced them to my families too.
I took them to the MARAE of my whanau, we made a hangi for them, their played with our children. Its was the bestest weekend ever. We shared culutres, history songs, dance music....food. we learnt from each other. We all went home. This was in 1999. I graduated in 2002.
It is my moral obligation as an African American to share the truth about slavery and how it affects us today. Healing is in knowing and then growing...
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Now its: all too recently domesticated primitives, with new clothes... keep regressing... SMH.
I’m sorry you were a slave
Why is it that black people in other countries, look down on African Americans? Why are they doing well, and prospering, in those countries? Why have THEY not allowed slavery from many generations ago, dictate their lives? How slavery affects you today? DO TELL? Your ancestors suffered and died, so that you can now live in a country that gives you everything. You could have been born in any of the African countries that sold your ancestors to Europeans. But you were born HERE, and have all the benefits that your African brethren, could only dream of. They are risking their lives, and DYING, to come to America. But people like you, can only whine about your lot in life. My LIVING relatives, were sent to concentration camps, and watched their friends and family be slaughtered. Yet you want to talk about what happened to your people, many generations ago, as if it has to affect you today? Blacks were doing far better just a couple generations ago, despite actual segregation and bigotry and outright racism. Yet now, your people are in jail, having tons of kids out of wedlock. Went from 70% of kids born to two parent households, to barely any today. Who did that to you?
@@butterliz876 The white man? Exfuckingcuse me??? A black man labeled them African Americans. Maybe google the term, before you start speaking about things you know nothing about.
God bless this man!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️I just watched a tour of Nottoway plantation and the woman was dressed in an old style southern slave masters dress glorifying the old plantation owners. She even bragged about how well the slaves were treated there. She said that many of the ex-slaves stayed after slavery had ended and how “COOL it was to still have may of the descendants of those slaves still working there today”. I’m thinking how is that in any way cool!!! Those people stayed on and worked because they couldn’t read or write and didn’t have money of their own! It’s so sad that she ( the white tour guide) doesn’t get it or does not care to.
BobbyCatsKitten what!!!! That's so wrong! I was afraid that Whitney would be so sad and dark, but man. This clip made me really look forward to it!!!
The whole plantation tourism industry is so bad at acknowledging and educating about the institution of slavery. Some plantations won't even allow tour guides to use the word "slave" and instead they have to use "field hand" or "house servant". That's exactly why we need more Whitney Plantations to help people understand what life on a plantation was really like, instead of just showing them pretty buildings and fancy dresses.
@@onebackzach i know. I was just viewing a plantation video, that I thought would be like this one, telling the truth about the hardships of the slaves, back then. But it was just glorifying the plantation, showing how it was built, showing every article bought in it, and telling the expensive price paid for things, with a brief mention of the slave cooks, and field hands. I did not care to hear what the massa bought with the blood sweat and tears money, from the slaves. I didn't finish that video.
But this is a bonafide good video, where I can actually feel what the slaves went through. Before you can claim your history you have to feel it .
There is no way anyone should disagree with this video, the truth hurts but it will be told and never ever forgot that this country was founded on it we should never apologize for telling what happened till this day💪
They're Trump supporters. Dont be surprised hun. Vote Hillary!!
SideWayz Huh? Anyway everyone who is racist isn't voting Hillary
Pretty Nikki I was referring to the people who disliked this video hun
SideWayz That's fine it just wasn't an explanation for who or which audience you where addressing
Pretty Nikki Go to TYT News Channel. The trolls there are slavery apologist.
The next time I visit New Orleans, I'm going to the Whitney Plantation. I'm making it my mission.
Enjoy your trip but keep in mind, today's racism is confused with behavior.
Most "racism" accusations today is not based on skin-color, but the purposeful confusion of behavior.
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I to am a fan of John Brown and Nat Turner. Having said that, I am fascinated with my heritage. Also, I have spent quite a bit of time researching my ancestry. John Cummings and this museum is a blessing. Like any other museum, such as the Holocaust Museum, it authenticates our history. That terrible dark period for those of color who were enslaved in this country. I plan to visit this museum in the very near future.
The young generations need to learn about it.
America is exactly older Nazi Germany.
Absolutely. I try to throw in some black history, to my son, and grands, when I can, when their ears are open to hear.
It was interesting what John Cummings said about most white people don't know about black history. It's interesting, because most black people don't know about black history. I know I didn't. I knew about the trials of the civil rights era on up, but I did not know about slavery until Alex Haley movie, "Roots", came out. When I saw how his family from each generation sat down with the children and told them about their ancestors, and how they got here. It made me wonder why didn't my mama do that to us. One thing that came to mind was my mama was about 7, when her mama died, so she probably was never told the history, herself. Another thing was back then they were told to leave it alone, act like it didn't happen. But if you don't know your history you'll repeat it. For some reason I don't know why I didn't ask my mama more questions, about her history, after I saw "Roots", but at any rate I feel the timing for me is now. And everyday I try to start my day watching a new black history video. And I see how it bonds me to my roots, and connects me with my ancestors.
Parents shouldn't leave it up to the teachers to teach black history, which is where my mama thought I would learn it from, but I wasn't. It needs to start in the home, and taught in the right way to them, without hate and malice and watch the black pride, and self-esteem emerge from the children.
I don't need to know what happen because it hasn't stopped...I appreciate this Gentleman and his "awaking"
When I was in Martinique, I visited 2 museums about slavery. One was on the grounds of a former plantation. I thought to myself, “why don’t we have something like this in the United States?” I googled it and found out about the Whitney Plantation Museum
Slavery is still painful for me...even as a grown woman.
no body me as well
Slavery has a psychological effect on black people up to today with the way they are being treated especially the children. It will be hard for poor black people to serve in the culture of whites because of the stigma.
Seems like my black history studies get sadder, and sadder. This one really affected me so sadly, I had to pray about it.
Kanye may want to take a visit here to get a real understanding of 400 years and if we had choices or not🤔😕😞😔🙏🏾🙏🏾
Lucienda Baxter Kanye ain't too right upstairs.
He needs to do some serious cleansing. I agree with u that he should visit this place.
You didn't have choices. You now do, yet still act like you don't. Why is it that ancestors of slaves in all the other countries ( you know, the ones that did it far more than America ever did), are prospering? While you still act like you yourself went through slavery. You didn't. You have no excuse. It's all on you. The president of the country and leader of the free world, was black. Yet you still whine about not having choices. Stop living 150 years ago. 600,000 white Americans died, for your ancestors. Maybe go thank their relatives.
J H he is under the Jewish so I think it’s to late for him because he is deep in there Business
@@jamesbizs Why is it I never hear any of you telling jews to get over it? STFU,you people still don't get it. There's still oppression to this very day.
@@jamesbizs if you really believe that 6000,000 white people fought to free slaves, you are a fucking moron. Stop deflecting like most of you do. Sometimes I'm honestly ashamed that I'm white because of people like you. I can honestly understand why black people could have hate towards us.
i have difficulties to understand why many white people in america are offended by projects like this and go out of their way with "whataboutisms" as well as "get over it" and "white apologism is sad" ... etc.
this isn't an attempt to make you, as an individual, feel guilty about being white. you don't have to apologize to anybody, unless you want to on behalf of your ancestors. but that's not what people expect.
what you should do is accept, that this is part of american history. it happened, and it's important that people are aware of that and question the reasons for it so it can't happen again.
it doesn't hurt to restore a little bit of dignity to those who were victims of slavery either, but that's not even the point here.
i really don't see why anybody would be against museums like this. it might hurt to understand that your ancestors might have been part of this slave-owner society. but whether they were or not doesn't change that this happened in american history. so what's the problem?
ashitakaharuo because constantly talking about slavery and segregation when we all know what happened it is more so to imply that it was white ppl who did it. It's annoying. If you were white, all you can be reminded on the daily bases about your ancestors is them being "slaveowners" and "inherently racist" and such. You can praise black ppl about anything yet white are seen as spawn of the devil because of such things. Also, why would a black person talk about it today? It's not like they experienced it.
Tbunbunkou annoying is the attitude towards others experiences. No one has to make you comfortable and your misconceptions of the black experience is why you are annoyed. You’re a busybody who feels entitled to tell others what to do. Be comfortable in your home and stop watching and lusting BET.
Tbunbunkou and whites did do it. What does that have to do with you. Lol smh
You can never change the past.
What was done was done
But we can decide our future.
And as hard as it sounds
We must embrace the cold pass
To have a educated excepting future
“Never ignore the elephant in the room
It will just trample you”
Amy The 4 "We must embrace the cold past." This museum is part of it.
No, we cannot change the past, it is done. We can change our future by remembering the past and learning from it...it will guide us, but we have to know first, so we do not repeat it. Prejudice for a skin color, different accent, different culture, poverty, lack of education, prejudice for anything, is wrong. The choice we all have now, because we cannot give back those slaves their lives, their dignity, is to make sure we don't repeat the history with anyone else, today. "Red and Yellow, Black and White, ALL are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children (and big ones too) of the world. They will know we are Christians by our love...
Thank you Mr. Cummings for preserving our history, not trying to hide our history and accepting our history and not trying to hide it , you deserve a plaque for your recognition
It good to tell and inform people about the past. To understand what is going on now.
As long as it is only BLACK past.
(Any other would be politically-incorrect, therefore, racist.)
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Arguably the greatest shame in the country's history and no museum until 2014??
Thank you for presenting this in a realistic, historical way. Slavery is still an issue today, so apparently we have to learn something from the past.
My 13 year old daughter and I visited the Whitney Plantation for my birthday on March 12. We drove from St Ann, MO after doing my research and seeing that this particular plantation shared stories from the experiences of Blacks (our ancestors). I must say, I am still feeling the energy of the visit. My daughter talked about it a little but I can tell the energy of our ancestors is with her and I know in time, as always, she will express herself when she's ready. I want to mention that the tour guide that we had was a white girl that wasn't knowledgeable about the historical slave trade/Amer. slavery and the Whitney Plantation or she didn't have the passion to convey the truths about the horrific experiences that my ancestors had undergone. So, when I saw another tour guide, (Cheryl), I joined her group and was enlighten with an abundance of information. I paid money for my daughter and I to receive real information, not sugar coated so yes, I ditched the first girl and joined another group and was very satisfied. There were ppl from across the country and out of the country that was in both groups. I was happy to see my fellow Black brothers and sisters at the plantation and instantly felt an connection. I had mixed emotions and I am still having mixed emotions back in Missouri.
Refined Queen
This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA.
I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN
Wake up.
Original One There are many black slaves whose ancestors transited through Ghana or are Ghanian. They traced their lineages directly. Why are you harrassing people who want to learn about their own family history?
@@brattingprincess : ANY SOCIAL group, including Blacks, do not care about the size of the slices in the "Equality" pie...they are much more focused on "He who holds the knife."
The past 60 years of political-correctness* has taught us that even the Blacks are not interested in cutting the pie evenly whence they hold that knife.
The only difference from pre-60's segregation and modern segregation is that Blacks are demanding to be segregated.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson never, ever went to an Indian reservation to stick-up for the rights of a Hispanic against the aggressions of an Asian -- much less went to Africa to stick-up for the rights of those Blacks. Why? Ain' no munny init.
The one thing you will not see in this museum is an explanation of how Blacks practice racism and that Jesse and Al are just as exploiting of Blacks as any accused White during any part of our history.
Congratulations! Equality has been achieved!! Now *everybody* is equally and openly racist and sexist.
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@@capie44 i see that finding your ancestors is shameful. Why are you changing the topic? You just hate Black people. nice job. Just say it.
@@brattingprincess Way off.
I'm, like so many other people, are getting tired of the double-standards that political-correctness (born of the 60's [anything but] civil and equal rights marches) affords two groups in the West.
The very people that demanded rights are have not been policing themselves.
Attacking the messenger instead of the message is a confession that one can not argue my point.
Btw, how are Blacks racist?
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This is an amazing place. I love history and to see a place like this is like reliving history, and the only way to truly understand slavery is to go back to the roots and relive it.
History is being corrected not rewritten but truth to the people.
Thank you John Cummings.
I see several people saying: "But my ancestors didn't own slaves," but that doesn't mean they weren't complicate or did not benefit from the institution. Many people believe that the North had little to do with slavery, but the North bought raw supplies from the South to use in their factories. The yeoman benefited socially from not being the lowest class. Even those who believed in freedom for blacks did not necessarily believe in equality. These are just a few examples and really speak to why we need more education on the subject.
(Late Reply) It's true my ancestors didn't own slaves, they weren't even here in America yet.
Mildew They probably historically owned slaves. Unless they were a slave. Most societies had slaves.
M D Same for you. Your stuff was probably made by forced labor of Uighurs. (source: Hong Kong Free Press)
Technically speaking a US Black is more likely to have some slave owner ancestors than recently arrived White.
"did not benefit from the institution." How did they benefit it? Seriously, costs of US civil war were enormous (both in blood and money), while already at that time it become clear that industry (and not cotton farming) is the key for further success. US on the whole would be better off had they never tried slavery, so I don't see how anyone (except actual slave owners) benefited from it.
Use Bitchute The war wasn't about slavery. It is a key issue, but not the forefront.
We had a school field trip here
I've visited many slave plantations in the South but where are the ones here in the North? There is the Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island in Long Island New York and I'm reading this book by Mac Griswold called The Manor 3 centuries at a slave plantation on Long Island-knew nothing of this place before....WHY is that I wonder something about history it can not remained buried for every.
The Dutch brought a big tradition of slavery to the NY area. Their plantations along the Hudson River rivaled those along the Mississippi. Slavery began to be abolished around 1800.
Abraham Lincoln was born in a Log Cabin in Kentucky State on February 12th 1809.
Thank You for this channel. I just subscribed and I will tell others. God Bless.Much LOVE from Georgia
My people if you don't know, Deuteronomy 28 speaks of a curse of us coming on slave ships
Where exactly? Please quote for me. Thank you
@@mweru1900 Deuteronomy 28:68 speaks about the ships Deuteronomy 28:48 a yoke of iron upon our necks and the slaves came to America (Egypt) on ships with iron chains on the neck and so much more is in this curse and it follows our people every one of them even the God our people worship is a curse
I wish everyone in this country would visit this plantation. It is so important for white as well as black people to understand this period of our country's history. Thank god for John Cummings.
I visited that place and it was amazing. You have to go!!!!
Absolutely needed.
This is my 2nd time watching this replication of slave children statues, in that room, and it's almost too hard for my heart to take, and brings me to tears. I have grandchildren their ages, is why it hurts so, to even think they would be put in a situation like that. That scene affected me so I had to pray and ask God, what can we do now to help better things. The one answer that came to me was those children, and the adult slaves only felt hate around them, so on my part I can put more love in my heart, and try not have any hate being felt by others, coming from me. Whether I like it or not, those enslaved children and adults died for my gain. I don't like how this happened, and wish it hadn't happened, but it did, the damage was done, I feel we have an obligation to pick up the torch, and carry on, from their works. I'm truly grateful and thankful, to any and all, who knocked down doors and barriers, I can freely walk through now.✌🏽❤🙏🏻
🌲🌷🌲❤AFRICA ❤🌲🌷
God bless John Cummings for the intricate, and exquisite work he's done on this plantation museum, and Dr. Ibrahima Seck, the historian, who explains slave history, so well.
Thank you.
We need a slavery museum. I didn't know about many American atrocities until I was out of school. Shine a light on the ugly past lest we repeat it.
Just went to AA history museum in D.C. the slavery museum will be my next trip
Visiting the Whitney Plantation is a spiritual experience. You are walking on sacred ground when you step onto the Whitney. You can feel the presence of the ancestors in every corner of the land. It is theirs now. All theirs.
Bless the heart of John Cummings for investing in the Whitney to help make it what it is today, under the leadership of Dr. Ibrahima Seck.
Cummings' actions and words are those of a good-hearted man.
great video, definitely on the bucket list ! Thank you
I'm 39 and live 45 minutes away from This Planation. I had no ideal it existed. I had a chance to visit and was I Suprised, sadden and enlightened about my history. My white friends can name their descendants. I on the only hand cannot.
It’s important to confront this problem that happened so long ago than just pretending it never happened
The reality of slavery is a huge contradiction to the very core fundamentals of American Independence. This is why we don't see a lot of museums. Americans from previous generations would rather pretend it wasn't really a big thing and hoped it would be forgotten into the ash heaps of history. Fortunately, it hasn't been forgotten and I don't think it ever will. Historians are beginning to bring to light real American history and the incredible misery upon which the very foundations of this country was established.
Sounds like he trying to make amends for something in his lifetime as well
Black people come back to your motherland, your welcome,. Love to y'all
Actually, they aren't welcome! True African's don't want them! "They say, Amedkan Blacks are Shiat!" I know a lot of African's and no, they don't want them back! It's actually hilarious, when you hear them talk about how they hate American Blacks!
I wish I could like this more than once. What a beautiful, yet incredibly poignant documentary. Thank you for making it.
I think it's important for us to actually face not only the history & shame of slavery in this country, but also the history & shame of the lynchings, torture, segregation, etc. Every American should watch the 60 minutes episode with Oprah Winfrey re The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (opening 4/26/18) that aired on April 8th. Seeing actual photos is a powerful tool that will bring up emotions - horror, grief, anger, regret, and finally a desire to begin healing, because for too long there's been a quiet acknowledgement of these atrocities, without any true emotion or discussion or understanding of the African American experience in this country. Only when we face the shame and acknowledge the anguish, can we feel true sorrow and regret and try to move forward.
MagaGoddess
This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA.
I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN
Wake up.
This man didn't have to do this, we take our kids to Disney World, six flags, movies, we have to bring them here, All Americans need this. People say they're tired of slavery movies, but we're not tired of treating people different, in 2018 it is still real, the racial bribe changes always
Lind Say
This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA.
I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN
Wake up.
minceyjs sick of internet trolls, ugly
Lind Say Just click report over and over and over again. Less energy and effective.
What I don't understand (among many other issues in this topic) is: enslaved people were considered ⅗ human by slave owners yet were being r*ped, m*lested and tort*red by the people referring to them as ⅗ human.
Does that not then mean that: slave owners were into beastiality? Whether subconsciously or otherwise.
Must be an emotional place to visit. I'm from Texas and there are still small towns that you do not want to stop in while traveling.
You're referring to Houston, Prairie View, Lancaster, Desoto, Jasper, Cedar Hill, Marlin, Beaumont and Dallas?
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(For those that do not know, these are predominately Black towns)
@@capie44 I think they were talking about sundown-towns
@@funnyneptune4364 : Sundown-towns? I have never heard of the term until now.
Interesting.
It's like p-c in reverse.
The towns/cities above, to take some artistic license, are Moon-riser towns.
Thanks for replying! I learned something!
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I’m surprised there aren’t any.
"North of 8 million..."
That's like telling a woman who was brutally raped and beaten and left for dead to get over her past its over
We enjoyed our visit last week.
I like this guy. Why can't there be more guys like him? He isn't afraid to talk about the roots and evilness of African american slavery in America instead of trying to justify it with other slave trades in the world.
We already have one. There's a place called the underground railroad freedom center. Its located in Newport, Kentucky.
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.”
“The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath...gives a loose to his passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.”
Thomas Jefferson
This says something about America. Although this was a terrible time in history, there is no other country on the face of the earth that would let the people put up a memorial reminding everyone of a horrible mistake in ideology and actions it made.
Ann Chovey
This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA.
I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN
Wake up.
Ann Chovey Thank you
Original One you must be demented
Yes we can never change the post my bro
Those slaves were Hebrew people. The people of the Book. The Israelites. We are still here but we have turned our hearts back to Yah. He will restore us to our true homeland in Israel.
ServantofYah5 P stop it. they were Africans. and they were not sold.
ServantofYzah5 P
Maamafrica Esther We know who we are. It's a lost cause trying to tell us any different. I mean no disrespect because I don't know you and you don't know me but I know that one day the whole world will know the truth. Until that day many will deny us our true heritage. I love Africa and Africans but I am not African. I know who my people are,I'm not lost just scattered. 😊Shalom
ServantofYah5 P even African have been migrating ever since. but modern day or settlemnet states we are African. black were all over and still all over the world. Hebrews are not only the African American. yes you are Hebrew not denying but African is our heritage. your ancestors might have not had any idea and Hebrew...all they knew was Africa.
Negroids arent mentioned inthe Bible... and Pitifully Coveting, Lying, and Bareing False witness: wont help you evolve out of your Primitiveness...
SMH...
Education is the #1 knowledge. The educational system needs to correct there history and give today's youths a sense of acknowledgement and understanding that black history and Indian history is the purest form of American&world history
Every country in the world can have these museums and each will be portrayed as the "bad" guy in a different country lol
If they gonna tell it, tell it all
This is amazing, thank you. I now know of a place that I'd love to visit in the south :)
The Kings and chiefs in Africa (and other places) sold and traded their people into the bondage of slavery. Slaves were provided with food, clothing and shelter as well as medical attention when neccessary and assigned chores (work) to complete in a timely manner.
Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago. Now all people have to work or provide services to earn their income. People provide food, shelter and clothing plus needed medical assistance for themselves as much as their incomes will allow. These days are different only in that people can quit their jobs, refuse to work and live homeless of their own FREE WILL ! !
All forms of slavery are bad. But, chattel slavery is by far the worst! There has not been any other race in history that has been mistreated like black people. Even the Jewish Holocaust (religious persecution-not race) survivors received reparations for WW2 from many different countries. And, guess what? They prospered and moved forward from prejudice after WW2. But, black people still were fighting for their own rights after the war. It took another 20 years AFTER WW2 for blacks to have civil rights! Now, that is bass ackwrds! How can you be so blind when the Jim Crow era ended only 60 years or so? There are 2 generations of people who deserve reparations that are alive today. They definitely deserve a check! #ADOS
One more thing...all races use welfare. The data shows that whites actually use welfare more than other races. So..what's your point? If black people were given the reparations that they were promised, alot of them wouldn't need to be on welfare.🤷♀️
What a good idea, he seems like a really great guy.
We had a similar "live museum" in Australia called "Old Sydney Town" which showed life as a convict under military colonial rule. There were live shows of whippings and hangings and executions, and it did a great job at showing just how brutal life was at the time. It would be great to see a similar thing here.
I have to visit this museum!!!!! This is AMAZING
A new slave movie without reperation of a constant reminder of cruelty and violating the rights of others always came with conquences
Idk man i think we should just move on because we talked about and did action but we keep doing this we should never forget our past but we should move on from it
I read the Willie Lynch letter as a child but it wasn’t until I read it as an adult that I truly understand how he changed the structure of our families. Him changing our family structure still affects us today.... it’s the only true protection and stability that a person has .. family. Please go read the Willie Lynch letter and let’s break the cycles. Let’s reverse it ...☝️❤️
This brings tears to my eyes and heart.😢 We have been soooo Oppressed and still are. I don't find excuses for my people but i do understand the long term effect it has on all of us. I constantly deal with this in my own family and GOD knows i hate it with a passion...
Lol IGNORANT Dummy 😂
Thank you 🙏 The Atlantic
I'd never heard of slavery before I watched this video.
It's not only in America, the problem is worldwide
We have one in Charleston, SC. Maybe you should get out more.
There are museums of slavery in England; at Liverpool, Bristol and London. Surprisingly they do not mention North African Barbary Coast slavers who seized white people from coastal towns in England, Ireland and from ships and ferries in the Irish Sea. Almost the whole population of Baltimore in Ireland were seized one night. For many years the slavers were based at Lundy Island off the Bristol Channel. It took the US Navy to stop them at North Africa -after the 1860's Civil War when there was some time to devote in releasing American citizens from slavery. Suppose it's not politically correct to mention black slavers dealing in white slaves. I'm near Liverpool and often see the ridiculous sight of a 'historian' pointing out sites of slave auctions near the docks, including metal rings the slaves were said to be shackled to. Basic research would inform them that the rings were used to attach ropes when lowering barrels into cellars. The trade was of manufactured goods from Britain, offload them at west Africa, collect slaves and ship them to the Caribbean and southern States, load with tobacco, rum, sugar, cotton and back to Britain. Profit all the way. It is a fact that ship's captains and other rich folks would occasionally bring a black slave back to England as a house servant but there is no evidence of regular slave markets taking place in Liverpool. I'm not an apologist for any slave trade but wish these 'historians' would publish only what can be proved and not what they imagine.
Hebrews are the tribe of Juda and the awakening has arrived the Heboes are the Hebrews .
Why didn't they pay reparations is what I would say.
the fact that in 2020 they st@rted to notice the problem is honestly scary because there talking about police brutality but they should give a honest speach on black history on every news station ,they rarely talk sbout slavery and that worries me about america in the future
Get over the H cost then we get over slavery all I want to say
They should call it The Transatlantic Slave Trade Museum because saying Slavery Museum is not specific enough
Maybe we should focus on the problems that we have today instead of constantly obsessing over something that ended over 155 years ago.
Yes, these beautiful sculptures need a home so they're not outside.
Thank you!
Well now we have one in Montgomery, Alabama
I think when people say get over it they don't mean forget about what happened. History is important. I think that what they really mean is don't act like you yourself was a slave and that you don't have opportunity to grow today. I think they also mean that people of all races have been enslaved in the past and there is still slavery today. No one else is using the past history of slavery as an excuse of their failures today. Also it's not good to be so focused on the past that you miss important things happening in the present such as modern day slavery which should be a prioritized topic.
Oh thank god this comment section isn’t murdured
you've got one, it's called Detroit.
A bit like - I don’t know what they want of me, because they won’t contact me, so on and on we go.
I went to Louisiana with my mom to come here.
Good video
The devil stole 7 stars from my head and Our Heavenly Father said he will judge who I direct contact with
If you don’t know what the ‘ it ‘ is then don’t ask the question. 🧐
“...unless you know what the ‘it’ is, don’t ask the question...” POWERFUL!
The only difference from pre-60's segregation and modern segregation is that Blacks are demanding Blacks be segregated.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson never, ever went to an Indian reservation to stick-up for the rights of a Hispanic against the aggressions of an Asian -- much less went to Africa to stick-up for the rights of those Blacks. Why? Ain' no munny init.
The one thing you will not see in this museum is an explanation of how Blacks practice racism and that Jesse and Al are just as exploiting of Blacks as any accused White during any part of our history.
Congratulations! Equality has been achieved!! Now *everybody* is equally and openly racist and sexist.
Been looking for a plantation that represented the history of slavery correctly, glad I've found this one. I drove through Louisiana in July but missed you. I'll have to visit next time around.
Martin Barshai
This is a fake Museum to keep the BLACK THINKING THERE FROM AFRICA.
I bet every So called Black person watching this . Someone in your family told you that your Great Great Grandparents are INDIANS not Africans. AFRICAN AMERICANS AIN'T AFRICAN
Wake up.
Yes, slavery is horrible.but it should be said that the original slaves in africa, were sold by other african blacks that had captured them in tribal wars and raids...for land and power..and that is never spoken of, and it should. My grandmother was a black woman, (in cuba) and I can talk,because I am 1/4 black, Yes, no one can take away my heritage of which i am very proud to be....but....i hate it when my brothers and sisters ignore these truths that we are here because our own brothers captured us and sold us to the ship captains...(way back when), yes, and also, SADLY IN TODAY 2019....black people are still taking, capturing, and ENSLAVING black people and selling them into slavery in africa, both FOR sexual and for work... VERY SAD ! now in 2019.... and we need to face this reality..! because my black brothers and sisters only talk of the white man...and never mention these truths....and WE, OUR ANCESTORS, are also guilty of this, .lastly but not least, in the time of slavery, here in America, there were 900 black Slave owners.. ! ! ! yes... the archives prove that there were 900 black slave owners that owned black slaves...( i know, hard to believe ! ) ( I saw that truth spoken, by that black man that does that tv show about ancestry....he said it... and that is never spoken of either ! . We need to realize that we have not been innocent of slavery ourselves and that WE are still doing it in Africa.! The world never changes and history repeats itself and we need to confront our own demons, to be fair, because God is fair and we must be fair and just. We have to change the rhetoric , we need to be honest with ourselves.....and that is where real change will happen, i believe ! There is nothing to get over, it is a reality that has to be faced...but there are good and bad whites and good and bad blacks... can anyone deny them, we all need to repent of our sins and ALL of us need salvation that comes from the cross. thank you for reading. if you respond, I may not see it because i am rarely on the computer...but i might...anyway, . thank you for reading.
i know rite and we got 1.400 billion Blacks around the world too we dont need nobody for nothing i got all the people i need
shame that the vast majority live in shit hole countries, and are risking their lives just to come to America, eh? How that whole Rwanda genocide do for those people that don't need nobody for nothing?