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- On the Sea Islands along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, a painful chapter of American history is playing out again. These islands are home to the Gullah or Geechee people, the descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to work at the plantations that once ran down the southern Atlantic coast. After the Civil War, many former slaves on the Sea Islands bought portions of the land where their descendants have lived and farmed for generations. That property, much of it undeveloped waterfront land, is now some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
But the Gullah are now discovering that land ownership on the Sea Islands isn’t quite what it seemed. Local landowners are struggling to hold on to their ancestral land as resort developers with deep pockets exploit obscure legal loopholes to force the property into court-mandated auctions. These tactics have successfully fueled a tourism boom that now attracts more than 2 million visitors a year. Gullah communities have all but disappeared, replaced by upscale resorts and opulent gated developments that new locals - golfers, tourists, and mostly white retirees - fondly call “plantations.”
Faced with an epic case of déjà vu, the Gullah are scrambling for solutions as their livelihood and culture vanish, one waterfront mansion at a time.
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Young people, 30 and younger, if your family have land in these areas, keep this land in your family when your elders pass!!! Don't sell!!! If they want to change the land, you do it yourself, but keep it in your family. Do not sell!!!
Say it louder!!! My grandparents and great grands worked to hard for what they have for us to just give it away. People do ya research and get your papers in order
It's amazing how hard it is to convince family of this. I live in Beaufort county, SC, both St Helena and Hilton Head Island, and so many people will sell the land.... My brother in law was recently buried in one of these graveyards in Sea pines... Surrounded by resorts
My parents would take me and my sister to visit these islands in SC back in the 80's. I'm not a Geechee, but watching this video got by blood boiling. I'm from Alabama and I know what it's like for family to either sell their land or not take any interest in getting their paper work, deeds,etc, in order.
Mel Ross
Make sure you remember this one. 🥰
Tru3Talk Tru3Story Word iz Bound...💯💪👌👍👊✌🙌🙏✊ You Gotta Fight The Power My People's...Don't sleep on These White Folkz & Get Brain Washing Your self Tru3Talk Tru3Story...Shit No Joke out here...If this land belong too your family & It was passed on too you & your Family...Than Keep it within ya family....Never sell The Land...These White Folkz Will Do What Ever it's takes Too Get There's....No Matter what Even if their Packets are Deep & Full of Money...Don't sell Your Land that was passed on too you an generation too passed it on too...Don't Do it Folkz...Or ya will be Bloody Done for Good....Don't make a mistake that can ruin your life...Word Is Bound Tru3Talk Tru3Story..Gotta keep it Real 💯💪💯👌👍👊🙏✊✌
I don't understand why the developers don't go mess with the Amish property
You know exactly why. They stick together in ways we do not.
@@The9Minds thats exactly true
But what can be done to help them?
Because Amish communities are far from big cities. And most importantly aren't on islands or waterfront areas.
@@JDTHEONEANDONLYORIGINAL start by asking the people what they need assistance with. There are some community organizations out there dedicated to the preservation of the land and culture of our people. Most of us have ancestors who were in South Carolina at some point, so we have a vested interest in what happens there too. These are still our people
Seeing those graves behind the resorts is a disgusting sight. Shameful. I remember watching Gullah Gullah island when I was a kid and learning just a bit about their culture through that. They absolutely have every right to keep their land and to do whatever they can to maintain a community conducive to their values and traditions. Those sea islands I’m sure could be very lucrative for investors, but I’d rather them be devoted to cultural investment rather than vulture capitalism.
yeah what kind of rich person with options would by a condo with that in their backyard?
They don’t care not an ounce of respect, they just want the land. Don’t Sell
Absolutely disgusting vulture capitalism
Right??? I mean, Jesus-why would you want to live with a cemetery in your backyard anyway?!? *SMDH*
I was born on St Simmons Island, it was a very close community. Hardly no whites accept me my family , we still had a plantation there. When I left there were alot of tourist leaving trash getting drunk ect . Recently heard that most of the sea islands are federally protected. I hope St Simmons is back to where it was when I was born not when I left. Thanks to the geechee for constantly trying to get it federally protected. Most of the cemetery I've seen there were well kept and always facing east.
This is so heartbreaking. I can’t believe a brother from New York with roots down here (I stay in SC) is just selling out his own people. The Gullah Geechee must keep their traditions and culture for the future generations..💔
His name is ADOLPH 😒😒😩😒😒
Believe it
Coon
Such a strange way of fighting changes..
Yeah, his vision of "progressive" is white gentrifiers/colonizers enriching his pockets. A true Benedict Arnold of this people.
Outrageous. A whole culture lost for...golf. Capitalism, end stage.
Same thing is happening in the Caribbean and our leaders are helping these hotel owners to do it!
@@F.R.A.N.K.I.E all about profit. Let them be destroyed with their oppressive masters
For fkn real golf is not worth a ounce or a single family land or life lost!!!
‘This is America’
Because cultural destruction is totally unique to capitalism
Calling this gentrification is an understatement. These people have been on this land for hundreds of years. That's beyond gentrification. This video almost made me cry.
They need to be honest and call it what it is: white supremacist violence (economic). And they used a Black koon with an ironic name (Adolph) to assist them. I could imagine him snitching out Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey and others on the plantation in another time and place, the damn bootlick. #reparationsnow
but why didnt they just build a golf course instead? then they could have kept the land AND made generation wealth from it!!
It's legal robbery. I'm from the coastal south originally. Dvelopers went in and bamboozeled the descendents of slaves out of their land for a pittance to make big bucks for places like Hilton Head, etc.
@@billyumbraskey8135golf courses are tacky things that YT trash people do. Way better uses of land like Farming, manufacturing, etc or even just nature preserve is better than a golf course.
The graves in the condo complex hurt me to my heart. What a resilient, colorful, special culture. We need to preserve this living treasure at all costs.
I totally agree...I'm from North Charleston S.C. AND WATCHING THIS GIVE ME MIXED EMOTIONS..IVE BEEN AWAY FOR YEARS OFF AND ON...IVE REALIZED HOW SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT WE ARE AS GEECHIE GULLAH PEOPLE..WE'RE NOT JUST FROM WEST AFRICA BUT ALSO FROM NORTH AMERICA AS WELL...ABORIGINALS
I've went back 2 years ago and they've stolen and pushed my peoples off their rich lands..SMH...As we call them COLONIZERS...THEY'VE DOING THIS FOR CENTURIES...THEY MUST BE STOPPED ✋
Same no reverence given let's just build and forget culture, forget lives past just money money money
Yes that was horrible to see that.
Yeah that was awful to see that very disrespectful to build on that sacred land like that
To be a native of Hilton Head this makes my blood boil. The land I grew up on was sold right under my dad in 06 or 07. It’s sucks not being able to take my child to see the land I grew up on. My dad is longer alive but I try to visit home as often as I can. Sucks that everyone is selling their land or getting land sold from underneath them. I just hope no more of my family sell. Being able to come home and visit just gives me a sense of tranquility and ease my mind. Definitely will be be going more often.
What does your name mean? It has a meaning in my language. I am African in Africa, typing from my village.
@@Komeshokakunanwene extreme exile
Beaufort?
At some point hurricanes will destroy all the resorts there. The wraith of the Gullah ancestors be felt.
Say that
Facts
You better know it!
Lol They have Insurance they'll just rebuild again so it's pointless
I send out the same cry family. Tear that shit down.
Around 14:30 the man in the white shirt and white cap said: Can you imagine 20 acres of native indian reserve where wall street is today? My answer to that is Yes! Wall street would simply be somewhere else. Why do the privileged think that they have a God given right to unsettle people to build golf courses? What happened to the native indians hundreds of years ago still still wrong today. What happened to African slaves was wrong and the legacies live on today. We cannot dismiss any of these occurrences by simply saying that it happened hundreds of years ago. This will be the second time that the Gullah people are being displaced. The history plays an important role in framing objective criteria for future actions. We cannot simply dismiss it.
the privileged/white/colonizers/settlers are very arrogant. all things are fine unless or until it happens to them.
Isis Gonsalves he’s a trump supporter ,uncle tom at his finest
Right...
Jane the Friend - Awakened you're obviously not very "woke" it has happened do Caucasians numerous times throughout history. African tribes enslaved their captives via Warfare and sold them to European merchants. Africans owned black slaves long before any Caucasian. This is just history repeating itself one black man selling out the group out of greed. And some point you have to take accountability for your actions instead of just expecting handouts because of your ethnicity. Identity politics are racist your ideology is dying. #walkaway with the rest.
A true racist
Kwame brought me back to refresh my mind on the history. The origin of Mamas cooking.
Lol thought i was the only one
You messing with a geechee N***a!!
#👩🏽🍳
😎🤙🏾
I'd be lying if I said he wasnt the reason I'm here rightow lolol
Damn dog me to
i'm hispanic and dont like where this is going. They need to do everything possible to keep their land and culture. isn't there something they can do to change those laws so they won't lose their land?
@Tong Po they did but I didn't.
I'm Hispanic
@Tong Po I'm still Hispanic
@Tong Po you're Hispanic too
@Tong Po yes you are. everyone is.
"Forced off the land" that sounds so familiar once again history repeating itself in America.
Yeah I noticed it it’s kinda a similar thing to rez’s
It's going on all over Amerikkka!!! Gentrification is everywhere.
These are my people. I will join them to save our ancestral lands.
@@uncleshreddedwheat6180 It will be hard they want to turn that land into tourist sites to make that money! America makes everything about money.
@@sweetonyxakararegem692 they need to sell it to a family member for $1 and turn around and sell it back to them individually for a $1
How could you force your own family (even if you don't know them personally) off their land for your own selfish gain? That developer is such a douchebag.
I know! It actually hurt me to watch this, AND I DONT EVEN KNOW THEM!
+Kerri Cz it's not for JUST the money.
+Kerri Cz I hope you've never vacationed there.. I hope you catch anyone youre friends with who wants to vacation there
You're right. I would love to hit him upside the head with a bag of rocks!
Crazy because his family lives of modern ways and standards he's letting greed take over him. Selfish and just downright Fuck£r¥!
I feel like Kwame Brown pushed this up in the algorithm
I came here to find a kwame comment!!
@@QQx-sp5mg me too
I agree 👍🏿
My mother is from Walterboro sc and now I've found that my grandmother and her mother are descendants from here and all buried in colleton I will be supporting in every way possible.
I see you, sis... I, too, am from Walterboro - proud descendant.
I'm another Walterboro girl!
@@donnalane1921 It's a pleasure to me you, Ms. Lane.
Seeing the graves in the backyards of the expensive condos make me sad and angry. You'd think that, like Native American lands, these lands would also be protected.
I just cannot wrap my mind around how your inner voice, the voice of reason, the soul we all have unless sick mentally, can allow you to sleep at night knowing this. I'm Egyptian, and to me it is ludicrous. The DEAD teach you about life and preservation of historical tombs is essential for the future direction of a nation. it is not rocket science all civilizations know this concept but the "great" Amerikkka.
Egyptian__ __Queen Consumerism requires the forgetting of history- buy the NEWEST, it's the best! You MUST have this year's iPhone, last year's just won't do! So what if what you have works perfectly well, you should have NEWER, you should buy more and more and keep filling up those landfills!
Most schools here have terrible history programs. I come from a family that always read books, so I have some appreciation of history, but very little of my knowledge comes from my schooling.
Out of curiosity, what is the education system like where you're from?
Native American ancestral land is also being encroached upon- I had a friend of First Nations descent who went out to protest the pipeline in North Dakota with tribes people out there. She was out there in a tent in the middle of the North Dakota winter, and some of the experiences she had were very difficult, but she talked about how the community come together to support each other, and how beautiful that was...
They still lost.
Oh, and how did the pipeline end up being built through sacred land? People in the nearby urban centers didn't want the pipeline in their backyards.....
Maeve Riden yes. And the company made an point to explain that the technology was advanced and a leak, a break in the pipeline was nearly impossible... but, as it turns out unfortunately there was indeed a break of the pipeline.
It feels like someone's trying to erase history, doesn't it? Cowards.
That developer should be ashamed of himself.
You are beautiful 😘
His name is Adolph I can’t say I’m too surprised
bet his wife is white
I am Gullah Geechee, Puerto Rican and Dominican!!! Love my roots!!! Love MY people ❤
My grandmother was Gullah Geeche and black foot Indian...
I pray the people that have cheated any of the Gullah Geeche people out of their land, never prosper and never rest...
My all the money the greedy developers have made off of that land be a curse to them and their family ...🕷
mine was gullah geechee black foot from sapelo island 🎉❤ ntmu
Gulla Gulla Island! Who remembers this 90's children's sitcom
Ooo Ooo Ooo I do. I used to watch it with My Children when they were toddlers.
wash dsgn Meeeee
Welcome to Gulla Gulla Island
Yes I came to the comments just to see if anyone else made the connection!
wash dsgn come and lets play together in the bright sunny weather lets go up to gullah gullah island
This is so sad. This land should be preserved.
+Timefliesbye How is it about slavery? It's a unique culture being destroyed for luxury resorts. So what if they haven't "done anything" with the land, it's still theirs.
+Timefliesbye because it's a dying culture that should be preserved.
+Timefliesbye "What have they been doing with it for the past 100 years?" What? Living on the land isn't enough? If it is theirs, then it is their right to do whatever they want with it.
+Emily Nelson It's true...and yet you have to wonder what Native America tribes were forced off of that land in order for there to be plantations that got abandoned in the 1st place? I'm not saying the development is the right thing to do, far from it. I'm just curious about what tribes lost that ancestral land to the slave-owning plantation jerks?
I doubt any of the indigenous peoples who were marched to Oklahoma on the "Trail of Tears" are still alive and able to reclaim the land, but it is an interesting link in the long road of injustices paved by the "Get out of the way or get run over" technique that back-stabbing developer was so proud to accredit...
History is one of my favorite subjects, and I hope for future generations the Gullah culture will be preserved, especially since many of their traditions are bound to be ways of living that we will soon be returning to if all of man's gadgetry fails and folks realize they cannot eat the cell phones.
+Knolltop Farms Actually, not all of the indigenous native people went out west. My ancestors and others stood their ground, stayed behind and fought the invading SOBs. Many of these descendants still live in these southeastern areas today.
I had the privilege of living and working in beautiful Charleston South Carolina and i got to spend time in some of these timeless areas. The low country is so peaceful and yet full of history both painful and inspiring. I hope the Gee Chee community can somehow come together and keep their land. Part of me will always stay in the low country. It’s sheer beauty is irreplaceable.🌱
Its a dumpster of racists homophobes black and white sadly id never go to any of these hick states
Aside from being outraged watching this segment, the Real Estate parallel of tee pees in Wall St took me out!!! Regardless of ‘the potential’, the bottom line is always the almighty dollar, regardless of the rich beautiful culture who gets chased out 😢😢😢
The Gullah are native to this region and they uphold African culture… children in this community need these elders and culture…. shame on them for not respecting these peaceful people 😩🙏🏼
I'm a proud Gullah Geeche and many of the folks in this documentary is my peoples, even my Mother!
My Great Grandmother is Gullah Geeche she live in Georgia she’s 92year old I been studying her ancestry cause the last one of her bloodline
I’m Gullah Geechie too haven been trying to locate family. I also did a dna family tree search a lot of results of family in SC
Same here. Born and raised in Charleston
My family are Gullah Geechee! But I don't know anything about them. They are still in Georgia and South Carolina.
This makes me so angry but I pray my ANCESTORS Kraft on the greedy selfish individuals who has bullied these people
The guy at 9:10 is very unwise but thinks he is smart because he drives an old, use-to-be expensive car. He is an absolute disgrace! You never sell your Land, ever!!!!!
Exactly what I said stupid fool after finding out that was his ppl and land he ran over to sell them out for an OLD OLD UGLY AS car
He's all about the money....
He's actually displacing families
Jackie Diaz he's an obedient black Pet. 🤷🏻♀️
Sad, but very True
P.o.s.
As somebody who was born and raised in Charleston SC this made me happy seeing this video pop up
i love hearing Gullah talk. Makes me feel connected to my ancestors and my heritage.
I pray the ancestors are protecting the land of the people. Ase'
Let's Talk, Conscious Ase'
Ase
@Conscious Wave: Why is what's happening NOW in the air space WE are now breathing, the responsibility of our ANCESTORS to CORRECT and make right? Our Ancestors PROVIDED and preserved this land! It is OUR RESPONSIBILITY! WE, the descendents are the ones to maintain, continue to preserve and to HONOR what has been passed on to us by living on the lands we have in the way GOD has intended!!! "Developing" land in the manner that caucasians would do it, only leaves a path of destruction and environmental upheaval... starting with the first BULL(s**t) Dozer. We can look to our ancestors for strength and guidance, but if we keep "bowing-the-knee" (NOT like Kapperneck) like this "real estate BREAKER", we can only come to our Ancestors hanging our heads in SHAME!!!
Oh yes! The "hurricanes" that are always happening here! Look up the meaning of hurricane: feminine African spirit travelling from west coast of Africa to East coast of America!
Ase
I despise that guy 9:10 selling his ancestors land, he is literally killing his ancestries culture.
He doesn't want to be poor and live in a trailer park for his entire life, he wants to do better.
Greed greed how about preserve your history...
Chris Fodor are you saying culture does not equal land? That is not true.
If there is not base or land to develop that culture, nothing is preserved
Tan Tastic he is a fool
I love my roots 🖤❤️ Asé
Geechie stand up! Shout to Kwame Brown!
And RIP Ahmaud Arbery Geechee brother.
I stand for the Gullah/Geechie community.
You need to pay obama jackson Sharpton to go and make a scene call everyone racists blah blah blah
Have a seat i guess ...tribalism istoxic
Having land is important. I would never sell land that has been in my family for generations.
Say that
Until the government forces you
Most of those people are poor. They have raised the taxes on the land so high that they can’t pay them hence why they are forced to sell. I know. My family is apart of it.
Never
@@tantris2876 why?
The nerve...to call these resorts stuff like "plantation golf course"
13:00 He plays an instrument quite similar to Berimbau.
Berimbau is an afrobrazilian instrument used to guide Capoeira fight.
He has the spirit of a white man. May the ancestors never let him rest
He has the spirit of a business man white or black it’s not a color thing......many black men have done that this man is uncultured and doesn’t respect where he or his Ancestors came from
lmao thats even more racist than anything done in this video
Not one wink. Ase!
@@maybachrob9475 we are not black and y’all ain’t white we came from the African continent where Israel is and y’all came from the Roman’s and Greeks in Europe, y’all are Europeans not white Americans
@@prettyboyterianoabioye4833 really comparing the ethnicity and culture of israel to that of continental africa?
This guy from N.Y. is a sellout, a disgrace to his grandmother!!!😡
Always some punk Northerner
@@Nonofyobusiness always!! They tend to look down on us Southerners.
he sucks
His gma wish his moma would have aborted him.
@@Nonofyobusiness
GTFOH!!!
A LOT OF BLACK SOUTHERNERS ARE QUICK TO SELLOUT.
Not a Vanishing History! But A Awakening NATION!
Just did my genealogy and my maternal side is Gullah Geechee... I learn something new everyday! Thanks for posting. Peace to the ancestors.
I live in this area of Georgia and South Carolina and the Geechie nation and traditions runs deep. People need to be mindful and respectful of ones dwellings so that we may all live in harmony.
This should be on a Historical context of not being developed. Protected by the government.
That's why Black families don't make it.
We just don't stick together.
This happened in my family over 75 years ago.
Somebody in the family would rather get rich by selling off their own culture instead of passing it down to the family.
That is not self preservation by destroying your legacy.
This is truly sad how some capitalize on other's ignorance.
Minister Martha McMurrian yea we pretty ignorant thats the mis education of the negroe!! only God can help us that happened in our family sabateur family Judas betrayers !!!!
It happens in every culture. Many Farming families all over have this happen. A Farm handed down generations and then someone decides they don't want to farm, but they sure want the money others worked for years to develop. We lost 100 acres so George Washington could have a view across the Potomac river. It's a park most don't even know is there, while we look at McMansions on the VA side and VA gets great taxes from.
Jonh Bell And there another nigga goes with “God.” Please give that dumb shit up. Nigga he’s not real!
Same thing happened in my family a few years back , it’s sickening how our family unity has almost disappeared
Minister Martha McMurrian Martin Luther King’s own sons tried to sell his artifacts but his daughter stopped them
Vice is always doing some real s**t way to go Vice thanks for putting this out there bless you hope you guys aren't sold out!!
I was singing the Gullah-Gullah Island theme song the other day and now I'm getting all kinds of Gullah-Geechee recommendations in TH-cam and my Google news feed. Pretty sure the Google gods are listening to me because I've not actually looked up anything related until this recommendation popped up!🤨😳😂❤️
I'm a Proud Geechee💯❤️😊🙏
My daddy is from Augusta, GA, but his mom was gullah geechee from south Carolina. so proud
I'm Geechee also. I'm from Savannah on one side and Florida the other side.
My granny grandmother was geechee. From south Carolina
Florida, Savannah, South Carolina is Gullah Geechee. All the low country. Long as I have been breathing my family always made sure we knew our history.
Charleston South Carolina!!!!!!
Who remembers Gullah Gullah Island on nickolodeon? Was such a good kids show.
Arhok21 woooow never thought about it
Benya Benya!
I watched it religiously as a child. I'll never forget going shopping at Bi-Lo with my mom and running into the matriarch of their family. My mom never saw the show, but I recognized the lady immediately and got really excited, like "Mom! It's the lady from Gullah Gullah Island!!!" and my mom was just like "...who?!?!?!" Lmao.
Omg I loved Gullah Gullah island as a child. Didn’t even put it together until this comment 🥰🥰🥰
Yup
You guys are some strong people don’t sell your land .. im one of you too my grandma Sarah Blue - Patterson always told me stories about me being Geechee n my great grand parents the Blue family is from South Carolina please preserve your family history.. I can remember my grandmother‘s brother Grady blue he was a dentist there… I can’t remember them all but hopefully one day we have a reunion and I can come down there and meet everybody thank you so much for sharing the story it made me cry but also made me proud to see such beautiful people that may be my family too❤❤
I'm not afraid of westerners, always be weary of the very One who looks like you:the significant black man who predates on his own
I found out I was part Gullah Geechee. One of my great-grandfathers was from the South Carolina sea Islands. It's a damn shame what's happening to their culture.
Essentially, you have the right to say my culture. You are your ancestors....they made it possible for you to exist.
Your culture bro
Dyrell Willis Look up Igbo Landing....Gullah is not accustomed to all melanated people. I knew nothing about the perservation of African customs in Mississippi.
You mean "your" culture?
It's your culture too!
There will never be justice on stolen land.🙏🏾
@@pkmelody3 lol same
All land is stolen,literally everywhere piece of land in the world has been "stolen" at some point.
@@daybreak1239 by who whites? Theres no history of non blacks stealing land! 👀👀
Hugh Howard Mongols? Ottomans? Japanese? Chinese? Saying only white people stole land is stupid, there have been plenty of other empires in history doing the same thing.
ghostbear200123 but that land used to belong to the native Americans in the area... so the Gullahs stole land from the Carolina tribes
I'm here thanks to Kwame Brown. Now, that realtor brother, as Kwame would say, is attached to nothing! That realtor is getting his 40 pieces of silver!
A real life Judas
The government should make this ground sacred like Indian reservations
This reminds me a lot of what's happening with the Native Hawaiians and their land.
esther talabi look at how that volcano erupted
Hawaiians were done way worst. They didn't have a voice. Queen Liliokalani was jailed in her own palace because she refused to give in to the white man.
The Hawaiians don't own their land anymore. Seems the Japanese own a lot of the land, and the Hawaiians are doing housekeeping, and low-paying jobs just to survive. Bottom line is people with money end up pushing people out of their lands; For what? So that they can develop, develop, and develop. They want to put 500 condos where a few people live on a few acres. For that mighty green dollar.
esther talabi nah boo God taking they land
Their King sold a lot of it!
I wish I could punched that guy right in his smug face!! You should be ashamed of yourself! My grandfather was from Georgia and was a Geechee.
I got your back! Lets go
I never new what the term Geechee meant but my Dad is from South Carolina and I was called a Geechee as a child
As much as I hate the developers and rental companies in Orlando outpricing the few natives that live here, I am filled with even more rage and disgust for the developers that prey on the Sea Islands. These extra dollars in their bank accounts will never be worth the displaced families/culture
I’m happy this culture has been preserved. Even though this is not my heritage (as far as I know), I grew up with a woman in my church who was from SC & was Gullah/Geechee (I’m from NC). She was one of my grandmothers’ closest friends
My grandparents were geechie’s from Augusta. They moved to Florida where our family is now, but our accents are so different from other Floridians. People ask me all the time if I’m from the islands.
I love my heritage ❤️
what city u from
@@goonn337 fort Myers
My great grandparents moved from the Carolina to Florida and this is 3 generations ago. How do I find out more about if my grandparents where her geechie??? Or ares ?
@@naquaishacoward4034 do a dna test i just found out that im geechee
Why is that a big deal, gullah/geechees are african american, @@naquaishacoward4034
Woooow the disrespect calling it a plantation with the graves there I bet they will find a way to “accidentally” dig up the graves
They wont have to do it " accidentally." Those pale devils will simply use their wealth and influence to get the city and local authorities to remove the remains and the cemetery for them.Since so many communities have already been pushed out their probably are not enough local gulah left to really oppose them. :(
So true smh
Its really complicated. The fact is thats what the communities are named and what we called them. I grew up on Ladies Island and Pollywana and every community was and in many cases still identified as plantations even though slavery was eradicated our my neck of the woods at the beginning of the Civil War . Its our identity , its where we're from. Just like we were taught not to speak Gullah, because it was considered backwards and ignorant, it too was complicated. Our parents and grandparent knew slavery and wanted us to escape the stereotypes applied to our culture. But the reality many of us found out that we can have both, our heritage and the outside world, but it took a generation to realize it. So myself and many of my generation are proud of and relish in Gullah, the language and the plantations , all of it! It just needs to be viewed in context. Its history , our lives and we shouldn't allow any of what remains to become invisible!
I live in phillip I should take pictures for you to see how disturbing it actually is out here with those kind of things ...i live next to atleast 6 things names "....." plantation
Black Cherry my family won’t let them take our land
Thank you for this documentary
I'm Canadian and the loss of land and community that Gullah are facing feels so reminiscent of how Indigenous peoples here lost their land and way of life. Seeing how that story ended up in Canada breaks my heart for future generations of Gullah 💔
This is very sad for me because this is the culture of my father's ancestors, slowly being destroyed.
Elijah Wright its what people do
It's sick dude. I love these people and it's just getting washed away and overlooked.
Elijah Wright my great grandmother was a geechee
My grandmother told me our people on her mothers side are geechee people. I must go see this place.
My great grandmotger is Gullah but relocated to Alabama. I happened on this video by chance. I had no idea this was going on. Truly sad.
Thanks for this ❤️
The last time I was in SC; it broke my hurt to see all the trees cut down. I told my grandmother “y’all are going to have a BAD STORM” shortly after I left it happened. You can’t disrespect our ancestors to make profit. One day I hope to move back to SC.
Me too
Going home isn't the same anymore ...I try to go back at least once a year, because all my family is still in SC but its not the same 🥺....everyone from big cities is moving to the South because it cheaper and sometimes I barely recognize it, dont look the same
@@catalinareyna2942 Yeah, it's also happening in NC.
It’s even worse now. Not only are people affected but the wild life also. It’s a shame what they’re doing.
This is just horrible. Remember, the colonizers never knew the where the villages in Afrika was located, it was brothers like him who lead them to the villages to enslaved our people. History is repeating itself.
Nothing is more valuable than the land. Bless these folks who've kept it to pass down, it can't have been easy
Have always been fascinated with this culture
There's always a turncoat willing to sell us out. Smh
They couldn't have done to us what they did without help from the inside.
@@MrTonyLegrand 5000 percent correct!!!!
Why isn't this land protected by the US government? It should be designated as an area of preservation of historic sites???????
Amie H Yes it should!
Agree
Jilla Guillah yes you right they protect the Indians why not the Guillah
Kevin Kilgore Did you not see them pushing indians off their reservations for oil?
It is. www.gullahgeecheecorridor.org/ Please research before agreeing
That's why kwane brown keeps calling himself a geechee boy
Educational very good episode vice 💪😊
Gullah is not just on the Sea Islands. Gullah is in Pineville, St Stephen, Moncks Corner, and all over Berkley County SC. MY grandma has a huge plot of land, in Pineville, that a lot of my family live on. My last name is Gadsden. We are as Gullah as they come.
To hear scholars tell it, it's an island phenomenon. That's why the focus is always on the islands in most videos.
My friend, some plantations were on the islands...some were on the mainland. Still the same people. My last name runs all through those islands. I can tell you this, every time I spent the summer, with my grandma, in Pineville I came back to Jersey with a Gullah accent.
Ford Fairlane I was agreeing. I'm right up the road from Beaufort, in Hampton County, and I have had to explain to people in a classroom setting that the language and culture is very much present on the mainland. Scholars have created a narrative of the isolated Gullah population to explain why it still exists, and this is why video after video, and book after book about our culture focuses on the islands.You know, like I know, that ain' nothin dead 'bout this culture yah, and resorts on Hilton Head ain' ga stop nobody from cooking hoppin' john in Queens. ;-)
You just name all the hot spots I use to run through in high school. I was born in Charleston (MUSC) but raised outside of St Stephens in the middle of nowhere. Small town life isn't for me. But, I'll do whatever I can to help these people.
You right. We gotta keep our roots going strong for generations to come!!
Its sad how we sell our own for greed! And its even more sad, when the reporter can have a sense of pride, admiration, and understanding that a descendant cant even have for what his grandmother went through to even acquire the land, that he inherited and nows sells and develops for a community that looks at him just as they looked at his ancestor. Like a slave to do THIER bidding!!! Smh!!! 🤦🏾♀️
Yeah that man is a fool
“Can you imagine teepees on Wall Street?” What a f€£~£ idiot! So, one genocidal gentrification begets another is what he’s saying.
@@ogookpala He's a DISGRACE! u can see in his face he doesn't give a damn! His tone in the way he said "we've gone to college n work for fortune 500 companies now" he does not n CANNOT relate to or even empathize with his own people nor does he care to!😒
@@ogookpala they work for fortune 500 companies , so they shouldn't need to sell the property. He just cold
yep ........... he's a slimeball!! Absolutely no respect!
All this land and culture should be preserved, Marquetta said it best in the first few minutes, insulated societies are always more happy and generous than any generic, wide spanning faux culture that is eventually imposed upon them.
Heirs property land delegation was GIVEN to black land owners by the USDA to allow for loopholes. The USDA was sued and lost in 2018, and now you can change the designation of the land to ensure its protected under the law. All black landowners with family land or homesteads need to look through their land designation and change it with your local USDA office.
Too bad it can’t retroactively take back some of that land
Buying their land for pennies on the dollar then selling for 800k/acreage
You're right. But sadly, greed is universal. It doesn't care about color or heritage. But it's a shame because a lost lasting community that defied the odds, it's being lost because of greed.
@@bnj0828Greed has no color. You need to watch it again, that's your black brother doing the evil deed this time.
A robbery!!!
@@frankwilson726 he not black at heart, he white at heart. Whites have traveled and killed many on EVERY continent including their own. This isn't hate but 100% facts!
@@itfeltsoreal white people will tell the truth and lie about themselves being involved in the same sentence.
This happening in Atlanta in the old Black neighborhoods. The young people are selling their grandparent's homes for what they think is good money. So sad.
Still happening now.
Kassandra Robinson I don't think it's always bad intentions. It's most likely they need money. I mean we don't always have generational wealth that can be passed down to us.
@@nmoomoo Some decide to sale, but many are actually pushed out too! I do see your point though. It's definitely a 2 sided coin. In the case of Adolfe Brown down there in Hilton Head ... He needs to be fed to the Alligators, he's a traitor.
Yup, in Atlanta, they're putting up half million dollar homes. Right, now in 2021
I'm Atl born & raised & this is true still in 2022
This is heartbreaking on too many levels to speak. I just can't 💔💔
This is awesome and I rlly enjoyed it. I live in Savannah and have never heard of these folks. Hope everything works out for them.
As an African I am so proud of these ppl, I gotta go and support em heck its out duty to do so. We can be tourists to our own
Roxanna Freebush Thank YOU
Thank You 😊 for support ❤️
Thank you
This is happening everywhere, especially cities. I grew up in Harlem and it was probably 95% Black/Latins & 5% whites when i grew up late 80's & 90's and they did the same. Had only white one person in my elementary school. They came in a brought property, raised the rents to ridiculous amounts that the people who been there since forever cant afford.
+dblocknyc happens everywhere.
Gentrification is alive and well
+dblocknyc As a Canuck, I must ask: Was it bad to have people of that particular 'race'? Increases in rent are bad, but is it that the did so intentionally or that it's a byproduct of the racism?
Gentrification is raceless imho... I see it here in Canada all the time and it impacts all races in proportion to the poverty rates associated...
I'm sure there are a few who gained through intentional manipulation of markets, but it seems that you should want to have a proportional amount of all peoples in all areas and thus average the costs of living.
It's that the costs of living were disproportional in the first place. Localized depressions suck.
Harlem turning into the new uptown for white people who were once afraid to go up there. Now it's chic to go to trendy restaurants and jazz spots.
It's called gentrification. Research the topic. White people make a profit off of places where minorities and POC reside which displace poor people for lavish living. For white people.
I love that she made the distinction of insulated not isolated
Im From hiltonheadisland the gullahgeechi culture is still alive and striving!!!!!
I didn't last in Charleston, SC for more than 7 mo. ... And this is the reason why. It made me sick to my stomach to drive an hour every day to Edisto Island and see so many impoverished black people and unkept homes along the way.. just to get to Edisto Beach and see golf courses and million dollar EMPTY homes.... They even treat the black people there like slaves and give low wages with long hours. My pay as a contract coordinator for Wyndham wasn't bad but my conscience wouldn't allow me to stay there. Glad I came back to Florida. Lol.
I don't blame you. I just moved to Charleston & learning all of this is upsetting.
My Family is from Edisto Island
It's called education, that's what brings prosperous people, so your mad cause those people chose to live in squaller?
@@whipcracker27 what ARE YOU SAYING?
This makes me so sad, I grew up loving Gullah Gullah island on tv. As a kid I got to meet a Gullah family by chance at a restaurant in Georgia and I was so tickled it was like meeting celebrities for me.
Wow never understood it til now
Wow, Ms "DIXIE" Cup, well bless your little pea-pickin' heart. You'll probably be pleased to know that your wonderful "encounter" with "Gullah Gullah Island" may have had some Black people on the screen and gave you a "peek" into some caucasian's INTERPRETATION of what Gullah culture was "all" about. But, as for the proceed$ and royaltie$ that continue to be generated any time the program is aired, NOT ONE ZINK-COPPER CENT goes to any of the Gullah community! It's just another perpetuation of euro EXPLOITATION of indigenous cultures of the Americas.
That was my show too.
@Choin Dung - The only things I "hate on" are cultural exploitation, the objectification of human beings and the perpetuation of unnecessary "blissful ignorance" in ADULTS. If the shoe fits...
Choin Dung you roach
As a gullah Hilton Head Islander Our Gullah Geechee Culture and land should be Preserved Protected and placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This is beautiful!!!
It be your own people smh 🤦🏾♀️. They should curse the land when the Developers get it.
EXACTLY
I would start by cursing the people buying the land and people selling it.
Yup! Just like our African brothers sold us! Some of us never learn!
Lol
MercyAlwyz23 🤦🏾♂️ stop believing that story bruh.
I feel no empathy for the blk land developer for aiding and supporting a system that would gentrify his own🤦🏿♂️
This is so fascinating. Thank you for documenting this amazing culture for history and everyone who shared their stories. So much rich flavor and beauty. It heartbreaking to see even other black people are in on destroying this beautiful and special culture. That real state guy made me think how people will justice to themselves anything like how drug dealers poison their own communities but say if it wasn’t me it would be someone else. If there was no one else and everyone saw each other as one then there would be no one to tell the drugs.
amazing documentary!!! I cant believe the calousness of the Real Estate Guy. I havent heard of the Gullah people or the location and only came across studying herbal medicine. My daughter is heavy into Ancestry and purchased a book titled HOODOO medicine. The history in the book is extremely compelling and I started researching the Gullah People. My Dad was born in North Carolina in 1921. I will absolutely try to purchase some of this land for my family asap.
Its made up culture
Update?
WoW! His Grandmother must be rolling in her grave....how can you honestly, with a straight face and imply that, what happened to the Native Tribes was "OK", and "Inevitable ".....and that The Geeche people are backwards and living in the past. ..is reprehensible. That is why we as a people need to communicate with one another, and teach,.... Just because they look like you, doesn't mean they think like you.
And further more....how can you steal the land, that your great-great Grandparents was forced to work, eventually BOUGHT, and is buried on, for $....he needs to be driven off Geeche land...."By Any Means Necessary! "
black skin white mindset
And couldn't even admit the he and his grandmother are Geeche. Lowlife "she was a midwife on the island" His uppity ass. We losing our culture to golf courses, fighting against aborigines saying we didn't come from Africa. Welll this is more proof.
The European TOOK the land Native Americans lived. I haven't heard not one of them say they were paid. Let a lone a fair price. Now, the European are trying to find a loop hole to take the Greater land. Now ain't that a trip?
When the first piece of property was "sold", they should have changed the legal terms of the ownership. Instead of each person owing their portion of the land, they all should own 100%. That way no one can buy the land from any one person.
Joann Byrd , Grandma had a saying. They (the oppressors) are empty. Even when they take everything they still won't be satisfied. Greed is a disease, unfortunately now it's yet another one to infiltrate people of color too. There is only one way to fix greed....
A lesson in racism and how economic enslavement works.
They don't want to give us reparations, but on top of that they want to take the land that you do have! I agree with the brother heading the meeting. It's time to start calling on the ancestors and using the spiritual powers and curses on anybody that steps in their path trying to steal what belongs to them. We don't realize the powers we possess...
Always with the race card, even when it is a black man that is playing the devil. The guilty color here is GREEN.
@@frankwilson726 there are proxy racists among us. How else do you explain an all black territory now being occupied by mostly whites? Remember whose faces are printed on that green. Many black people will sell their own children for the sake of white economic development.
@Michelle love liberia was your people's reparations.A whole country granted to blacks in 1823,to do with whatever you all wished,but the blacks refused to go,presumably because they didn't want to leave the relative comforts of the US.Puzzling,really.
@@daybreak1239 liberia was a colonial owned by porugal spain and france it wasn't given this is another lie.
when some people who may or may not have even been from there went to liberia there was already a civil war going on and france and spain were fighting each other.
you really think they would give negros land in africa lol okay they were racists so at the end of the day it's our job to look up real events.
Wow...this breaks my heart. My family just discovered through ancestry that we have Gullah Geechee roots. It is very disheartening to know that the 1st connection to my heritage I’ve found is being squandered away by one of our own... it breaks my heart..
Evolve or die ..simple...hes smart preservation is a joke you make a shrine of everything and your offspring have no where to stand ....look ahead not 200 years ago which has nothing to do with you today no matter how much you want it to ..most the things people think they know about people alive then are just dalusions and opinions
At the end of the vedio the man recited the Verse from The Quran:Chapter (Surah Al Fatiha).in the name of Allah the beneficent the merciful. 1.praise be to Allah the lord of the worlds. 2.The beneficent the merciful. 3.Master of the day of requital. 4.You do we serve and you do we beseech for help. 5.Guide us on the right path. 6.The path of those upon whom thou hast bestowed favors. 7.Not those upon whom wrath is brought down,nor those who go astray.
If I could, I would buy up every inch of the gullah properties, and put some kind of legal hold on it, for 100 years, allowing the people and culture to stay and thrive. And prevent anyone's heirs shares from being parceled out. I would also buy up all the farmland and any other undeveloped land that I could, and just let it sit, remaining as farmland, or waterfronts, or forests or whatever.....
Carolyn Olsen keep dreaming
LOVE HOW YOU THINK!
Me and you both hun. People can't let things just exist.
The government would just bomb it from the air.
@@donelbenyisrael2316 swear!
they are demonic greedy thieves
9:32, the Lenape people never lived in tipis. That is a stereotype. Also, most Ndn people will tell you that losing and selling land to colonizers, even for the sake of "progress" is extremely harmful to Ndn bodies, language and culture. The same can definitely be said for black bodies, language and culture, especially Creole cultures such as the Gullah people. The loss of land for Lenape people and subsequent forced removal to Oklahoma was genocidal and did not in anyway benefit the Lenape people. Myths like these are harmful and it is sad that is being used as justification for the displacement of Gullah families.
People don't care about lives and culture. It's about the almighty dollar.
@Koolade Porter Found another lost soul. Y'all are original to African continent, African. Ik yall like denying your African roots which is really sad and a disgrace to your ancestors.
Stay out of native american business bc you aren't one (unless you mixed or were adopted in). The nerve of these frauds
Mr Crumbley Dane Callaway is all I gotta say. There are no blacks just indigenous people.
Really grateful to learn about this culture
So he’s saying get with it, or get lost. Real nice Adolph!
The Gullah folks need to hurry up and get that law concerning the sale of their lands changed so that it can't be taken from them, period.
They can put it in a Trust
There are Gullah in Nova Scotia who came to Canada after the American Revolution.
John Dean there’s a movie about it called “The Book of Negroes”.
@@MwtcultureisSHE That is a good start. The problem with that movie is they mix up the timeline and the arrival of the Blacks from the south. The riot is also a misrepresentation, but I see it as a good start of a discussion whose time is long coming.
@lil min The Canada of the 80s and 90's didn't reflect people who look like me. Those bigots you mention are alive and well. The people who changed likely had their perspectives changed by your so called problematic justice warriors.
@lil min canada's origins are as a white supremacist state lol what are you talking about ??? there was never a canada "fairly free from racism", the whole thing could not possibly exist if it were not for racism
I’m a proud mix geechi I’m half Indian from Jamaica, we still got out land down in sc
I am so glad the own it, keep it that way! My father’s people so am I of this nation