I feel like the younger gen of Dominican Americans are becoming more & more acceptable to African Americans and also being African themselves. It’s a lot of the older gen that’s still on that weird shit.
I remember having a conversation with a dominican who insisted he isnt black lol. I asked him can you grow an afro? Yes. Is your skin black? Yes. Are your ancestors from Africa? Yes. Then you're black!!!
It's because they don't know their history . Haitian and Dominican are the same people. One was enslaved by France and won their freedom the other by Spain.
@@gabriellejohnson9475 👍 I know it's just sad, it's crazy I know some Dominicans that are as dark as some Africans smh ,but look what Sammy Sosa did to himself 😭
@@MissCleo24 in the DR someone like Framber Valdez would be Afro taino but still would be referred to dominican. In America snoop dogg is just seen as black by most people
When he was talkin an the plátanos, it’s true bro. West Africans eat the same food as Caribbeans. Why? Cause he’s right; we have African in us. It’s in our culture ✊🏾✊🏾 hell yeah
Glad some people know their heritage. It's the white Spaniard who pronounces the z with a lisp. People of color made the spanish language sound more bad ass. Dominicans are the best example.
What do you mean have??? The entire south and Central America was wiped out by 97% by columbus they never made it to north America... then out of the 12.5 million slaves displaced by transatlantic slavery, 1.5 million died in transport 378 thousand were sent to north America and the remaining 10.6 million were dispersed in south and Central america with brazil owning 40% of all slaves up to 1885 Spanish American war. At the end of north American slavery in 1862, 378 thousand slaves turned into 3.7 million slaves out of 14.3 million FREE blks living in north America followed by the post slavery ethnicity of latinos. Nationality has no genetic BEARING on "race" its just your nation of birth. Ethnicity is the equilibrium between various physical features such as facial structure and body types and Culture being your heritage. Again its just a description for the demographic of your culture, being slave culture. Your race is determined by your skeletal descendance. You can be a bengal(Indian/nationality) tiger (ethnicity) whos a feline (race) So please stop saying youre mixed with pr dr and cuban thats like saying youre mixed with conedison bills and rent it holds ABSOLUTELY no bearing on your genetic mskeup at all.
C. Jasmian David what I meant is it’s in my genetics. I have West African ancestry from Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria; plus indigenous American blood from the Taino, Mayan and Olmec of the Caribbean and Central America. I wouldn’t just say that If I didn’t know, I know my ancestry and my ancestors. I wouldn’t just say it if it wasn’t true. I know what I’m talking about. And I also know the fact that there were millions more slaves that were taken to South America than North America. I know my history. Again, I wouldn’t say something if I didn’t know out of ignorance. I know my family history and I’ve done my research. I have a mix of Amerindian and African features myself, so I know that. My family is mixed of Amerindian, West African and Spanish. I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t know
😮 Amen to that My salsa brother because Puerto Ricans look like they have Spanish blood as well as some African and Irish blood a lot of the Caribbean islands yet they will say yeah I'm black too maybe the first one to tell you and they are so mixed how do I know that because I'm African-American and I grew up what is some Puerto Rican friends of mine and they are not ashamed of being around black people like the Dominican people are they will invite you over the Puerto Ricans for dinner and try to hook you up with one of their brothers are their cousins just as long as you are a nice person and you got a good heart they'll set an extra plate at the table I passed you to beans and rice they don't care how black your ass is or white! 😆🎉💃🏽💃
@@f.f.v.m7607 thanks he sure is one un payaso haciendole coro a lot cocolo El cocolo de estados unidos son uno dejenerao I grew up around them what that clown doesn't know what cocolo wants es metelselo a Las dominicanas
I am going to explain the "I am not black, I am Dominican". I am a real mestizo, but as I was always aware and influenced by the one drop rule of the United States, I was proud to say that I was black, until I visited New York. Since I was little I had traveled with my family to Disney (Orlando) and Europe on several occasions and i was always surprised by how polite everyone was when they stumbled asking for forgiveness, but the coincidence is that these were white people. The first time I visited New York, I took the train with my family and clashed with a black man who immediately wanted to fight me. I was 13 years old. We lasted 3 weeks and this happened to me twice more with black people, and my sister happened to a black woman who thought she was looking at her in a derogatory way and insulted her. And that's where the "I'm not black, I'm Dominican" comes from. I have a white father and a mestizo mother, the daughter of a black Dominican father (my grandfather) and a white Spanish mother (my grandmother). And yet i considered myself black. What I don't want is for them to relate me culturally to you and your attitudes that so many Dominican brothers have already copied there in New York.
I'm Dominican and am ashamed of such a mindset. When you look into our dialect, food, music and the rest of our unique and beautiful culture one cannot deny the blood line that leads to the precious continent of Africa. Let it be known that indoctrination is real and it's dangerous so we have to protect the eyes and ears of our youth and speak only the truth.
@@denny414 Whatever that means hotep, all of africa uses corn, chili peppers, and tomatoes all native american crops. Oh and wait until you find out about bbq, you're welcome.
You can hear West Africa in the music of the Caribbean. As an LA guy who grew up hearing Mexicans speak Spanish that Caribbean Spanish sounds way different. No doubt its the African influence. Most people don't realize that more Africans were taken to the Caribbean than North America. And they were importing slaves longer than America was. Santeria is basically a version of Yoruba spiritualism.
Mexico’s 2nd President Jose Guerrero was Black (actually a Mestizos) who liberated Mexico from Spanish Rule. Black and Brown PEOPLE should NEVER put each other down no matter their shade. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻✊🏾 POWER to the People!!! 💪🏾❤️💯 Equal justice for ALL People
I’m Dominican, we have music called “los palos” and the dance and rhythm is deff African and the music itself revolves around spiritualism. As a kid I loved the music but i never knew what it was really bout lmao
I speak spanish and the difference between a mexican's spanish and dominican's spanish is the accent but they speak the same ! Is not like is a different dialect. Is like a guy from nyc and a guy from alabama ! It does not have nothing to do with africa !
@@factsdc3719 More black appropriation of mixed-race people & culture. That is wrong. His name was Vicente Guerrero, and he was AfroMestizo. Mixed-race. Not black. Good Lord.
That’s what they want you to think, they want you to be only proud of your African if you have any and to erases or take your blood out and wash all the Europeans in or your indigenous in you, DR have Welcome many immigrants including African Americans when they were being thrown out of USA, USA was trying to clean their country of black peoples and they want it to send all free African American to DR the DR accept it many, because DR is a country of diversity and proud of it and so they help by given them land and houses, not only to blacks also to Jewish, japoneses, china, Arabs and they still do, even to the evil ungrateful ones.
@@yanf525 All the rest of ancestries in the DR were completely consumed by the miscegenation. I know people there who is majority European and He look black.
@@aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that can happen because genetics is 50/50from both parents and some parents might have more or less of a particular race, also how many generations ago the mixture happened matters, plus mixed people tend to mutates and so skin colors can change and hair texture as well. And another thing, not all the ethnicity comes out on a person, it have to be passed on by a parent, example my sister and I will not have the same ethnicity due to they’re so many, and will not have the same percentages.
DR people heritage is not wiped out at all, African is easy to show because they were the last to mixed and DR was invaded too many time and still is, and our Spanish still shows in higher percentages because they were the first and the one to rule longer and over others, but they also married they created families whose descendants are still here today and the live everywhere still sharing their genetics, no wiped out at all, indigenous blood stil here I carried it and it is my honor to have it, and I’m alive.
@@211jackboy5 that's the beauty of black, if you put all the colors in the world together it would turnout black so you can get any color from black. From onyx skin to albino skin, it's all black
I'm a dark skin Puerto Rican we proud to be part black even some of us lighter then white people that's just the facts but anit no shame for black being in my bloodline 💯💯💯💯 even though godfrey right their some of us who denie it but hey it is what it is
Just say your Puerto Rican man and because its In Your blood doesn't mean you have to claim being black now because these protests have forced you guys to pick a side. You still sound lost and confused your definitely one of those ppl you mentioned who still deny it
Deron Johnson Nah a lot of Puerto Rican’s, especially in NY, have recognised their African heritage for a long time, they still hold strong to their own culture though. Just look at the Zulu nation, there were a lot of Puerto Ricans.
I swear there are Dominicans that wanna be white so bad. the old Dictator of the DR is the reason why they are like that. Because he was also A shame of his own skin color He used to put white powder on his face.
I wonder when I go to those places what will I be called? I'm also a lot lighter than those countries. I also went to Ecuador they didn't see me as a black person. In Ecuador they were plenty of black people and very dark too.
Vlad idk how you’re not hysterically laughing in the background. I would be in tears if he said that for the first time in front of me. Great content as always
He's on point. I was one of the Puerto Ricans who was like naahhhh I don't know about that. But I did one of those ancestry DNA swab tests, and it turns out I'm actually like 15% African. And there is "Nutteen I con dooo!" 🤣
I'm Puerto Rican, my dad did the same, so that makes me 8 - 10% I guess. I'm proud to have African ancestry, especially knowing the horrors that my ancestors went through to end up in this hemisphere.
A Dominican girl told since Dominicans are mixed, they don’t like to be addressed as black or white or brown. They like to be identified as what they are: Dominican. Nothing less nothing more
that's IRON CLAD FACTS.... Taino/Arawak... mainly Taino... ALL THROUGH THE CARRIBEAN AND YES EVEN A YARD... ALL THROUGH North America... DR CUBA.. We kinfolk...like it or not. I'm Puerto Rican... My Dad is DARK AF and so is my Grandmother, DARK and super COARSE HAIR I'm lightskin but I ain't no SUCKER talking that fuck shit...
Bless Sixone, whether you're light or dark we still love you man, no need to get heated just be the best person you can be for your self before others.
ha “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” I'm bad at geography too but I can say for sure that whatever americans say about other countries is 100% incorrect. Sometimes, if they're knowledgeable by experience, it's 10% right.
He called him up he wanted to talk abt the movie black panther . So he came in and just listened to what he’s got to say and it seems Glad never even watch any of those movies or tv shows at the time!
I’m Dominican and it’s absolutely ridiculous how most of us sadly believe we’re not black but you better damn well believe not every Dominican is the same way
@@antoniogutierrezjr7471 it’s the Spanish language that has y’all fooled. We know our people when we see them just like Caucasian people know theirs but for some reason Africans who speak Spanish magically think they’re something else just because they speak Spanish. No other language does that to people. Africans who speak French don’t think that way, Africans who speak English don’t think that way.
...and their ancestors rode on the same slave ship mine rode on. They just dropped us off at different slave ports. This is the affect of not understanding your history.
Denea you’re correct on our ancestors being African. However, you’re incorrect on the part where they were slaves. Africans were sailing way before they were colonized and made slaves for trade. They were coming to the Caribbean and South America before Europeans. Our education and what we know to be “true” is highly inaccurate. I suggest (although difficult) you unlearn all these “history books” and don’t just think you’re ancestors were just slaves but much greater and powerful. Peace
@@leofernandez6831 that doesn't change the fact that the entire island of Hispaniola was worked by slaves. Shes' right. Slaves that were sold in New Orleans were often brought up from the Caribbean.
Dominican are not even biracial but tri-racial you have the imperialistic education from the US don't think because you see Sammy Sosa all of DR looks like that oh no ma'am
BlueWave yes, and again both of you are correct, please look at my opening statement “you’re correct” however there is more to slavery and colonizing that we never seem to surpass in history. My point is that we should re-educate on a lot of our history and know that our ancestors don’t just begin in slavery. There was a very clear and distinct relationship between Africans and native Taino’s. Hispańola was the name the island was given by the oppressor and furthermore colonizer. We have a much more rich history then what we were taught. Peace.
*I’m from the Caribbean, from Cuba 🇨🇺and i recognize my african heritage and roots. You have to be blind not to see it in our genetics, in our food , in our music, in our slang, in our religion, in our customs and traditions etc..*
Oh stop it, American Blacks have white blood, when last did they claim they're mix ?????, they're denying their white side. Why hate dominicans for doing the opposite.????
You mean the obsession with hating yourself? It’s weird when a MAN would claim another race over his own. You think they can go to Spain and not be seen as black? They would get laughed at for calling themselves Spanish. Nothing more weak than a man who isn’t proud of who he is.
You guys are limited by your understanding. Spanish is one of the many ways people in the U.S describe people from a spanish culture. We actually have a separate term for people from spain. So no, we don't go around calling ourselves people from the country of spain. The subtext is lost in english, not spanish. It's why I use the word spaniard. Another thing is that you are acting like all hispanic countries don't share this. It's not dominicans, and I don't know why you guys are so obsessed with us. There's like 20 spanish speaking country, all mixed, yet you people focus on giving us grief for not adhering to your different cultural beliefs that you want to force on us, and then insult us for.
SAY IT LOUD... I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD.... :) why would I want to be the RECESSIVE SPECIES who will be extinct within the next 1,000 years where I know I'm the DOMINANT SPECIES OF THE PLANET!!! LOL
Eshu Okay, there was no need to dig into Black America. Black is an identifier in the US. We dont think we have a monopoly on anything, outsiders just pay too much attention to us. The one drop rule didnt exist as standard until the 20th century, thats generations of mixed/fair people indentifying as Black long before the rule was adopted as law. It has more to do with us being prideful of African ancestry and a shared history. Dont pretend you know us just bcus you know some buzz words white people created. The “one drop rule” has influenced us in the same way the reverse one drop has influence your people. The difference? It helped to unify us where it helped destroy you and yours. Our culture has set standards in the arts, science etc around the world, something dominican culture has never and will never do. Instead you’re reduced to your wack hand me down versions of culture, taking from any group. From the Haitians to the Brazilians, Ricans, Jamaicans and the Black Americans you claim have no culture.
Mark Because we use Black as a Color not a nationality like you guys do. A lot of Dominicans don’t understand what US means by black and they struggle to explain it. Yet people like to call us ignorant when you are the ones that don’t study others peoples history before trying to impose your ideas on other countries.
@@LadyVenVen Sorry, I call bs on that one. You all know exactly what being black is. You know its not just a color. If what you say is true, then why don't you all say 'Im not black, Im brown' or Im of 'African decent'? Because you already know black equals African and thats what you are ashamed of. You try to distance yourself because yt people have convinced you that the more euro blood you have and the more you denounce your African heritage, the more acceptible you will be. You all need to understand that is a lie, you will never be 'them' and they can never be 'us'. Being a black person who speaks spanish doesnt make you a 'special' black in yt society (more Africans need to understand that too). Black people are the most envied and copied in the world yet so many afro-latinos are still ashamed.
@@shanchan8247 but it's true sadly the way Black Americans are depicted in our countries are very negatively. Does this excuse the ignorance ? Absolutely not and within the Latino especially Dominican culture there are more issues than we can recognize ourselves and a lot of lies told to us that we still think and pass down as tradition. Dominicans do deal with self hate issues, but if you go to DR, a black Dominican won't deny he's black they know and can't deny nor they reject it. They say those things to separate themselves from black Americans. It's still very fucked up but that's the context in why they say that. This is no way an excuse because it saddens me as a Dominican that we do that because in the end there is no difference, but the Latino community is complex when it deals with race. We don't acknowledge race at all in our countries but colorism is the biggest problem we have in our community and it needs to be recognized which is why you have the new generation accepting and recognizing that they are afro-latino. Which brings forth the race aspect of being a black latino. I once was one of those who said that I wasn't black. But I educated myself on what it means to be black and now I shout it out proudly to the skies. But I will say there are some black Americans don't not consider us to be black and separate us. So I think it's more a miscommunication and miseducation scenerio.
Shanchan US people are the only ones to identify themselves as a race. You will never hear in another country someone say hey your black 🤦🏽♀️. Oh hey I’m white. You do realize that only black US people go around saying I’m black to identify themselves.
Dominicans and Afro Americans are one in the same which people don’t fully understand. I’m a mixed Afro American (I’m half Samoan) and my significant other is Dominican from DR and her family understood what we both were. We brought the Afrocentrics together and it helped because they even have afros!!!!!!
@@MsTr1ck Seen what situation? Most Dominicans look like Multi-racial hispanics and thats what they identify as, Godfrey would never be confused for a Dominican in his life... Hes just projecting his inferiority complex Because Dominicans reject this obsession that blacks have with them, the term "black" is associated with African Americans and Dominicans dont identify by race, as with most Hispanics, Hence "I'm not black Im Dominican" ... Idk what this perra is talking about, No self-respecting Dominican would tolerate this gaslighting Clowns disrespectful rethoric, much less his attempt to impose American one-dropism on us.
@@KhalidAli-jc7cv Youll notice that none of the Dominicans commenting with profile pictures look anything like Godfrey or African Americans.. There should be a hint there, dont you think? Godfrey is a selfhating clown trying to gain acceptance from a multiracial hispanic group by gaslighting them with "You deny you're black" Godfrey would never be confused with a Dominican, In DR he would be mistaken with a Haitian illegal and will be treated accordingly, hence his anger towards Dominicans, he feels rejected.
I'm black, all day, everyday & 2ice on Sunday. Cubans, Portoricans and Panamanians embrace their African heritage the most. Peace and Blessings to all my kinfolks.
Sorry, but Dominicans, especially the black ones don't like to embrace it. Generally, alot of afro-hispanics, don't like to acknowledge that culture, race, and nationality are different
Not if they deny they are black.They do our ancestors a disservice when they do that.They do them a dis service by not passing on african teachings and not passing the literature of IFA our mathematics and science and computer.Each one teach one.
@@mannybudhu3905Ask the white folks that ignored his black side by calling him a thug and a witch doctor. Don’t ask us. And ease up on the exclamations.
He's right, a lot of Afro Latinos flip out when the word Black is used to describe them. They could be as dark as Wesley Snipes and still reject the word Black. Aside from hundreds of years of colonialism, self-hatred, and conditioning, one of the main reasons is that the term "Black" (with a capital B) is conflated with American Black people. If you tell a Dominican that they're Black, they likely will think you are saying that they are an American Black person. In which case, yes, they'll say you're trying to separate them from their primary identity which is their national identity of being Dominican.
Had the pleasure of meeting Godfrey on the street in Miami years ago and he is such a solid dude. Super funny but equally a genuinely nice and friendly guy. We hung out for a few minutes just cutting up and I always will have mad respect for him
Dominicans like Cubans, Panamanians, Puerto Ricans, Brazilians and many other Latin/Caribbean Americanos have African Blood. 80% of the West Africans were dropped off in those areas during the slave trade. They are Mixed Race (Native Indigenous, Europeans) people who speak Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
False: Brasil is a big ass country and it has millions of europeans. Brasils population varies by region Every latin americans african population varies some more than others
@davidmoon Not many indigenous people left in the Caribbean Islands. We know the Spaniards killed most of them. I've been to every single Caribbean country except for Haiti. That's just not a place for me right now. Most of the Dominicans are mixed with African blood. You can see lots of white people in cities like Santiago. Or the white rich people in Santo Domingo. You are trying to correct the wrong person.
@@RichardsWorld , yes true you sound very uneducated, you’re right. Who said Dominicans is a race? But to be Dominicans is to be from a nation whose race is just secundary, why one have to called themselves a color when one can’t divide themselves in pieces? Most Dominicans especially descendants of the originals real Dominicans are of mixed race, why do you want them to take one side only? What are you looking for with that? What is your agenda? Do you think you’re better then Dominicans? Did you think we’re less because we don’t denied our mixture? And do you think those who are white have to become black just because you said so? Nope. Leave Dominicans alone where everyone is unique in their own right. No colors no race, only ethnicity and patriotism for a free nation that had fought too many time to be one.
And by the way you are fit to go to Haiti, go you will be welcome, and there you will find what you like pure pure Africans. And yes you will find them by the millions in DR too, because they crossed everyday and instantly become good old Dominicans just like that.
I felt the same when I went to DR. As a black man from America, I fit right in as far as looks. All of the workers in DR looked at me like shit until they realized I was from America. They then became a little more respectful and helpful because of course they wanted money.
The plantain ("big banana ")! I'm dying!😅 I personally know people like this. FIVE shades darker than me with tight, curly hair , "I no black!"😲 I understand. We're at the bottom, according to MANY "White" folks. Who wants to be the losers? There's an insidious psychology to this attitude!😔
🤣🤣🤣 no Lies here! I’m a Dominican American and, since I can remember (age 9), I have been trying to get Dominicans to acknowledge that we are Black. People are leather black and they say they are white and that they’re just tanned from the sun 🤦🏽♀️
Es normal que pienses de esa forma, pues creciste bajo la cultura estadounidense y su visión sobre las razas. La realidad es que no somos negros, la mayoria de dominicanos somos birraciales (mulatos).
The same mindset that domis born in usa have cause u dont know tour culture and dont defender it, dominicans are not all black we are mixed, for me u are AA.
Old ass comment getting action I see. For anyone using the “mixed race”/mulatto argument: mixed with what? Mulatto is mixed with what? Black, so cling to the white part of the mulatto all you want, y’all still Black. But you all just proved my original comment 🤷🏽♀️ A decirlo en Español también: biracial/mulatto contiene negro, pero como dije en mi comentario original, pueden aferrarse a la parte blanco todo lo que quieran, al fin del día todavía son negros. Pero en su “refutación” comprobaron el punto que hice en mi cometario original. Al fin del día, la raza es una construcción social hecha y ejecutada tan efectivamente que todos se lo creen y tratan de navegarla lo más cerca a lado blanco posible, y entiendo, hay pocas cosas más atractivo y deseable que el poder.
toel mundo en RD conoce un tal negro o moreno / morena. el dominicano de verdad si se conoce. Estos Afroamericanos quieren adueñarse de nosotros y no se como tu no lo vez
I am not Dominican or Latino, I am African-American mixed with White, North African Egyptian-Moroccan and Levantine Bedouin. But despite me being mixed with all of these things, I do not deny my Blackness. I am proud of being Black-mixed!!
I took a vacation to the Dominican republic two years ago, There’s definitely African in Spanish origin is flowing all through the Dominican Republic. I am a light-skinned African-American and I even had some of the locals speaking Spanish just assuming I was Dominican because I look like I could be, so there you have it.
Most Dominicans are Bi-racial that's why we say Obama looks like us. Obama is half African and half European even though in this country he is considered black and not bi-racial.
Godfrey is clearly Vlads favorite guest. Why? Cuz, he asks him one question and he doesn't just get an answer, he gets a "Netflix special" for an answer...
Dominicans have the pleasure of having 2 motherlands, yes we are black but we are also European. Some of use refuse to claim both motherlands but it stands to reason that we should except both. I have black ancestors and I also have European ancestry, soooooo we both respectfully…
I'm a North African girl and I looove Nigerians ❤️❤️❤️ some of them study with me in Morocco (north Africa) and they are so genuinely nice people I even had a crush on one of them 😭😭😭
I actually have noticed on most dating sites, Dominicans are the ones that mostly like to point out their nationality in their profiles when most others don't.
Because dominicans are very nationalistic 🇩🇴 dios patria y libertad our fore fathers gave their life for our country we must always honor that and put our national identity on a pedestal.
@@gbiggaveli2564 btw, my great grandma was Japanese living in the DR. I clearly have Asian features. Yet I don't walk around calling myself asian. I call myself DOMINICAN.
Yes so? Angola and mozambique speak portuguese and many others french which are all latin languages...Im not sure where youre trying to go with this, But those are african countries, and inside those countries they identify as different ethnic groups like any other african county. So yeah when you go to any african country black will not be used nor african for the matter they know they are african. THEIR ethnic/ tribal group matters.
@Kai Ishimura Yeah, honour to your ancestors language the white Spaniards. I am not sure they will consider you as their descendants, because you don't necessarily look like them. Have you ever looked at yourself in a mirror?
@Kai Ishimura I wasn't comparing Dominicans to African Americans. I said, aside from language, Dominicans are culturally very similar to Anglo-Caribbean people. Jamaicans are also culturally mixed like you guys...many of us have Indian, Chinese, Native, Lebanese, etc. in our bloodlines. Look up the first Prime Minister of Jamaica, Alexander Bustamante, he was part Native (Taino) on his mother's side. We're more similar than you think...we eat plantain too! As well as rice and beans (but we call it rice and peas).
I am an Italian looking Puerto Rican & even I admit my black African blood. Both of my grandfathers were light skinned black men. I've noticed that Puerto Rican's, about 50% of us admit it, the other 50% are in denial. Dominican's, I love you my brothers & sister's, well, you guy's have to come to terms with who you truly are. Not all, but most of you (90%) are in serious denial, & I don't mean the river in Africa.
Ay bro, its a shame when some Latinos deny there African roots. I’m Puerto Rican, Mexican and Cuban and I KNOW i have African roots in me. The thing is even though I am a mix of Amerindian, and some Spanish; I know I have West African ancestry too. But I don’t hate it, matter of fact I’m proud of it. ✊🏾✊🏾 hell yeah. My tribes of West Africa are the Fulani, Igbo, Yoruba and Songhai. Hell yeah bro. 💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Gee money what I meant is that I know I have West African ancestry, but I don’t shame it or try to hide it like many Latinos do sadly. Many of them don’t like to admit this part of their ancestry, but I do and I embrace that I have this beautiful African ancestry in me.
As a Puerto rican myself i must say godfrey is spreading knowledge whether people want to believe it or not. I dont care how light your pigmentation is,if your from dr or pr you definitely have african blood flowing through your vains.
I work with some Dominican brothas and sistahs that know and embrace their African origins...its a beautiful thing... we connect, learn from one another, and laugh together all day
Dominicans are tri-racial though and identify by nationality only. They are of Spaniard, African and Taino descent. They do not acknowledge race (like a lot of people in the world). I think it is strange that people are still using the One Drop Rule in 2020.
Race is everywhere. Dominicans just refuse to acknowledge it. Guarantee if you ask a Black Dominican their experience in the DR they will have stories on colorism. Don't throw shade onto us Black people for telling you how the world works.
@@joevic4674 I'm Afro-Native (North American) myself so I am well aware of what is in our bloodline in the US. I just hate when people try to force or impose their own ideas onto others who don't adhere to the same standards. They identify by nationality only and that is absolutely ok. That is how all Latinos identify. People need to just leave them alone.
@@tkking1228 Many people have issues with colorism all across the world. Indians and SE Asians have their own issues with colorism. That doesn't mean that everyone should be lumped in together just because we face similar issues. They are their own people just like we are our own people. We all have our own nationalities. Americans need to stop trying to force other ethnic groups to see things through their lense.
Dominicans don't care about race, they care about nationality. This obessoin with race is a thing from black people in America, not from Latin American. We're extremely nationalistic
In dr it doesnt matter if you are black or white we dont even have this kind of conversations, we are mixed. The problem is when you come to the US and you are called black, everyone knows what black means in the US and the history between black and white they have, but when you try to put a black dominican on the same place as a black american when they dont share anything but color skim it's for that reason they deny it. It is funny because people are judging from ignorance.
I remember meeting a Dominican man who was obviously of African heritage and then he started talking about "black people" but he was obviously excluding himself. I was confused but I didn't want to challenge him... I then realized it was a thing?! But in some ways I like the unity of being ONE. If we all did this in America it might be beautiful. American. Period. ???
man this is such a beautiful comment i have been hoping to run into a comment like this for many years on youtube and all the other social media platforms judging by your comment im assuming you are not from the nyc metro area or new england where we mostly live? but yes we dominicans are one ethnic and national group regardless of skin tone or race and yes we have differences and subcultures but we are 1 thats what afrocentrics dont want to accept you should of asked him question instead of "challenging him" thats the problem with u americans you guys think you know everything there is to know so you have to "challenge" every1
@@jayceontaylor8195 u need to watch the clip of Vlad interviewing Godfrey n Godfrey imitates another dude Vlad was interviewing n he called Vlad "Glad" throughout the entire interview n it was hilarious.
I'm Dominican, I have family darker than Godfrey and he's 100% right and that imitation was hilarious!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭
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@TheGschultz Dominicans that come here from the Island call me American too 🤷🏽♂️😂😂
Yea my uncle Dominican and he’s way darker than me 😂😂
I feel like the younger gen of Dominican Americans are becoming more & more acceptable to African Americans and also being African themselves. It’s a lot of the older gen that’s still on that weird shit.
Facts
I remember having a conversation with a dominican who insisted he isnt black lol. I asked him can you grow an afro? Yes. Is your skin black? Yes. Are your ancestors from Africa? Yes. Then you're black!!!
David Suh he isn't black until the police beat his ass then I guarantee u he will be screaming Im black!
Leonardo Moore lol
Blacklivesmatter ✊🏿
Bro Jews can gro fros.. Afro does not determine your black
@@UnDeAdSpRaYe We talkin bout AFROS, not JEWFROS.
The silliest part is Dominican republic and Haiti share the same damn island 😒 how can you not think your black
It's because they don't know their history . Haitian and Dominican are the same people. One was enslaved by France and won their freedom the other by Spain.
@@CarlosMendoza-mb3di 👍exactly but to feel your total opposite but share the island is just stupid and ignorant
@@tayvaun09 And they have the same African Statue up one is just in white....
@@gabriellejohnson9475 👍 I know it's just sad, it's crazy I know some Dominicans that are as dark as some Africans smh ,but look what Sammy Sosa did to himself 😭
miller sosa's parents are Haitians
I met a few Dominicans who called themselves "mestizo" or simply tanned while looking like Snoop Dog or Whoopi Goldberg.
What's wrong with that.....after all most Blacks have white blood in America...yet they claim they're black.
@Ocēlōtl mestizo typically means half spanish half indigenous which dominicans are not
lmao
@@SuperParamorefan567 there are mestizo Dominicans you should see many of my friends and in the DR we are creole the original creoles
@@MissCleo24 in the DR someone like Framber Valdez would be Afro taino but still would be referred to dominican. In America snoop dogg is just seen as black by most people
8:20 you're welcome
Thank you.
Thank you!
Thanks ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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🤣😞 I had watched this video to get to that point, then scrolled the comments and seen this.
When he was talkin an the plátanos, it’s true bro. West Africans eat the same food as Caribbeans. Why? Cause he’s right; we have African in us. It’s in our culture ✊🏾✊🏾 hell yeah
Facts and the whole Santeria as well
Glad some people know their heritage. It's the white Spaniard who pronounces the z with a lisp. People of color made the spanish language sound more bad ass. Dominicans are the best example.
What do you mean have??? The entire south and Central America was wiped out by 97% by columbus they never made it to north America... then out of the 12.5 million slaves displaced by transatlantic slavery, 1.5 million died in transport 378 thousand were sent to north America and the remaining 10.6 million were dispersed in south and Central america with brazil owning 40% of all slaves up to 1885 Spanish American war. At the end of north American slavery in 1862, 378 thousand slaves turned into 3.7 million slaves out of 14.3 million FREE blks living in north America followed by the post slavery ethnicity of latinos.
Nationality has no genetic BEARING on "race" its just your nation of birth.
Ethnicity is the equilibrium between various physical features such as facial structure and body types and Culture being your heritage. Again its just a description for the demographic of your culture, being slave culture. Your race is determined by your skeletal descendance. You can be a bengal(Indian/nationality) tiger (ethnicity) whos a feline (race)
So please stop saying youre mixed with pr dr and cuban thats like saying youre mixed with conedison bills and rent it holds ABSOLUTELY no bearing on your genetic mskeup at all.
C. Jasmian David what I meant is it’s in my genetics. I have West African ancestry from Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria; plus indigenous American blood from the Taino, Mayan and Olmec of the Caribbean and Central America. I wouldn’t just say that If I didn’t know, I know my ancestry and my ancestors. I wouldn’t just say it if it wasn’t true. I know what I’m talking about. And I also know the fact that there were millions more slaves that were taken to South America than North America. I know my history. Again, I wouldn’t say something if I didn’t know out of ignorance. I know my family history and I’ve done my research. I have a mix of Amerindian and African features myself, so I know that. My family is mixed of Amerindian, West African and Spanish. I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t know
Yeah it’s tru the exact same thing😂
I love how unashamed proud of being African Godfrey is.
Everyone should possess the right to be like that, including Whites.
Why should he be ashamed? Nigerian and proud ❤️🇳🇬
What is there to be ashamed of? It is who we are.
He’s the original man why would he be ashamed to be African 🤣
He Is not. Is more like a Black gringo.
I'm puerto rican and I claim my African roots! My ancestors are proud! I love my people! ALL PEOPLE!!!
Good thing u do I know a few that refuse to claim it
I'm not black, I am latino though and eat plantains all the time. I love them. Not that that means anything anybody can eat them.
😮 Amen to that My salsa brother because Puerto Ricans look like they have Spanish blood as well as some African and Irish blood a lot of the Caribbean islands yet they will say yeah I'm black too maybe the first one to tell you and they are so mixed how do I know that because I'm African-American and I grew up what is some Puerto Rican friends of mine and they are not ashamed of being around black people like the Dominican people are they will invite you over the Puerto Ricans for dinner and try to hook you up with one of their brothers are their cousins just as long as you are a nice person and you got a good heart they'll set an extra plate at the table I passed you to beans and rice they don't care how black your ass is or white! 😆🎉💃🏽💃
Shut up bro
BS WOKE ASS
They try to salsa that blacknesss off 😁🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣
It’s their culture 💀💀 this is so disrespectful
LOL😂🤣😃
Ayoooo😭
Game Bred how is our victim shaming
Salsa is a blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms and Jazz
I’m dominican, My grandfather and a lot of aunts and uncles are as dark as him. It’s def tru ✊🏽
Lambon
@@f.f.v.m7607 thanks he sure is one un payaso haciendole coro a lot cocolo El cocolo de estados unidos son uno dejenerao I grew up around them what that clown doesn't know what cocolo wants es metelselo a Las dominicanas
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@Jack park thats hilariously...stupid🙄
@Jack park they're black stop it with the bull shit the self hatred is real with yall smh
Rest In Power Chadwick Boseman...the Forever Black Panther
X on the chest 4 that
Damn and at this very moment Chadwick is trending on twitter RIP Chadwick Boseman
I am going to explain the "I am not black, I am Dominican". I am a real mestizo, but as I was always aware and influenced by the one drop rule of the United States, I was proud to say that I was black, until I visited New York. Since I was little I had traveled with my family to Disney (Orlando) and Europe on several occasions and i was always surprised by how polite everyone was when they stumbled asking for forgiveness, but the coincidence is that these were white people. The first time I visited New York, I took the train with my family and clashed with a black man who immediately wanted to fight me. I was 13 years old. We lasted 3 weeks and this happened to me twice more with black people, and my sister happened to a black woman who thought she was looking at her in a derogatory way and insulted her. And that's where the "I'm not black, I'm Dominican" comes from. I have a white father and a mestizo mother, the daughter of a black Dominican father (my grandfather) and a white Spanish mother (my grandmother). And yet i considered myself black. What I don't want is for them to relate me culturally to you and your attitudes that so many Dominican brothers have already copied there in New York.
@@alexanderbecker2264 that nyc for you but that’s everywhere there’s Dominicans gangs and Puerto Rican all throughout the northeast
@@alexanderbecker2264 y’all probably got pressed for thinking y’all better lmao dark asf yet screaming y’all not black…
"They're trying to salsa it off"...I almost spit out my drink laughing 🤣🤣🤣
Salsa this shit off Back to Haiti😢
With this comment is the exact reason they separate themselves from Black Americans it’s annoying that’s why Africans insist they are African first
Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans are black people who can swim just like Paul Mooney said.
😀😀😀😁😁😁😂😂😂😂
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Cubans maybe not. Not most of them. Most of them are euro
Paul was having sex with Richard Pryor son
@@TheIcemanthomas you obviously^ never been to Puerto Rico
I’m Dominican and I’m black and no matter where you from if your black u came from motherland 💪🏾
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I don't believe all of us came from there
@@sammylaw5893 so where you come from?
Spain is the only motherland.
@@keithboykins258 everywhere lol
Godfrey needs his own show instead of a podcast with 10 cohosts 😂. He’s fantastic
Yes
🎯
He needs a TH-cam Channel
If they don't destroy him like they did to Nick Cannon.
Absolutely
Godfrey has always been a rider for Black America. We support his work and acknowledgement. FBA
He doesn't need your acknowledgement weirdo.
I'm Dominican and am ashamed of such a mindset. When you look into our dialect, food, music and the rest of our unique and beautiful culture one cannot deny the blood line that leads to the precious continent of Africa. Let it be known that indoctrination is real and it's dangerous so we have to protect the eyes and ears of our youth and speak only the truth.
No offense but a lot of your food is also native american, alot of caribbean food actually.
@@charleyu5506 yawn
@@denny414 Whatever that means hotep, all of africa uses corn, chili peppers, and tomatoes all native american crops. Oh and wait until you find out about bbq, you're welcome.
@@charleyu5506 everything came from Africa
@@denny414 L-O-FUCKEN-L this is what happens when white people don't call you out because they feel sorry for you
You can hear West Africa in the music of the Caribbean. As an LA guy who grew up hearing Mexicans speak Spanish that Caribbean Spanish sounds way different. No doubt its the African influence. Most people don't realize that more Africans were taken to the Caribbean than North America. And they were importing slaves longer than America was. Santeria is basically a version of Yoruba spiritualism.
Mexico’s 2nd President Jose Guerrero was Black (actually a Mestizos) who liberated Mexico from Spanish Rule. Black and Brown PEOPLE should NEVER put each other down no matter their shade.
✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻✊🏾 POWER to the People!!!
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Equal justice for ALL People
I’m Dominican, we have music called “los palos” and the dance and rhythm is deff African and the music itself revolves around spiritualism. As a kid I loved the music but i never knew what it was really bout lmao
BlueWave Why is the “more Africans were taken to the caribbean than North America” always a talking point. Why does it even matter?
I speak spanish and the difference between a mexican's spanish and dominican's spanish is the accent but they speak the same ! Is not like is a different dialect. Is like a guy from nyc and a guy from alabama ! It does not have nothing to do with africa !
@@factsdc3719 More black appropriation of mixed-race people & culture. That is wrong. His name was Vicente Guerrero, and he was AfroMestizo. Mixed-race. Not black. Good Lord.
That part of "they try to salsa that shyt off" had me Rollin to death😂
RIGHT!
Same!🤣🤣🤣
Especially because salsa has African roots 😭🤣
"No papi!" lol
Bring funny is funny but the African incorrect
I'm Dominican, and proud of all my roots. It is a privilege to be of African ancestry 🌻🐝
That’s what they want you to think, they want you to be only proud of your African if you have any and to erases or take your blood out and wash all the Europeans in or your indigenous in you, DR have
Welcome many immigrants including African Americans when they were being thrown out of USA, USA was trying to clean their country of black peoples and they want it to send all free African American to DR the DR accept it many, because DR is a country of diversity and proud of it and so they help by given them land and houses, not only to blacks also to Jewish, japoneses, china, Arabs and they still do, even to the evil ungrateful ones.
@@yanf525 All the rest of ancestries in the DR were completely consumed by the miscegenation. I know people there who is majority European and He look black.
@@aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that can happen because genetics is 50/50from both parents and some parents might have more or less of a particular race, also how many generations ago the mixture happened matters, plus mixed people tend to mutates and so skin colors can change and hair texture as well. And another thing, not all the ethnicity comes out on a person, it have to be passed on by a parent, example my sister and I will not have the same ethnicity due to they’re so many, and will not have the same percentages.
DR people heritage is not wiped out at all, African is easy to show because they were the last to mixed and DR was invaded too many time and still is, and our Spanish still shows in higher percentages because they were the first and the one to rule longer and over others, but they also married they created families whose descendants are still here today and the live everywhere still sharing their genetics, no wiped out at all, indigenous blood stil here I carried it and it is my honor to have it, and I’m alive.
@@yanf525 cool story bro
It not the same papi🤣🤣🤣
nunca
@@dontwatchthat869 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think you meant" It not same papi"
Imposible lol
DOMINICAN isn't a Race....
... we are a mix of races.
And African Americans can say their mixed too. Hardly no one is full blood one race.
That's the point exactly. It's the country full of black people who won't admit they are black. They prefer to say I'm Dominican.
Duhhh
The D.R. is a country or whatever tf it is
Afro Honduran 🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
You white af you ain’t no Afro Honduran the real ones are really brown or black with curly ass hair or African hair texture
Hondureños unite !
@@211jackboy5 that's the beauty of black, if you put all the colors in the world together it would turnout black so you can get any color from black. From onyx skin to albino skin, it's all black
You must be Garifuña
Young Goon 🤦🏻♂️ not all Hondurans look alike lmao
GODFREY is a Comical Genius. I laughed the entire time of this interview. Keep going man. 💪🏾
I'm a dark skin Puerto Rican we proud to be part black even some of us lighter then white people that's just the facts but anit no shame for black being in my bloodline 💯💯💯💯 even though godfrey right their some of us who denie it but hey it is what it is
Cant be lighter than white.
@@BlackMist123 bruh i knew some Puerto ricans that pass as Scandinavians. Lol
Just say your Puerto Rican man and because its In Your blood doesn't mean you have to claim being black now because these protests have forced you guys to pick a side. You still sound lost and confused your definitely one of those ppl you mentioned who still deny it
Deron Johnson Nah a lot of Puerto Rican’s, especially in NY, have recognised their African heritage for a long time, they still hold strong to their own culture though. Just look at the Zulu nation, there were a lot of Puerto Ricans.
It’s called a white person who speaks Spanish
Well when Dominicans go to Peru, Ecuador, Argentina or Chile you will be called black (negro). So please be proud to be black.
Cusco Transport For real. Even if they like it or not your still black.
I swear there are Dominicans that wanna be white so bad. the old Dictator of the DR is the reason why they are like that. Because he was also A shame of his own skin color He used to put white powder on his face.
I wonder when I go to those places what will I be called? I'm also a lot lighter than those countries. I also went to Ecuador they didn't see me as a black person. In Ecuador they were plenty of black people and very dark too.
@@Jrtambora Ecuador and Colombia have a lot of black people and accept them fine. In their national soccer teams, most of them are black
@@kuz5133 exactly my point. They only accept them when it benefits them. Hypocrisy
I would have to say that Godfrey's bit about Dominicans is the funniest thing that I've ever experienced in an interview.
😂😂that’s because its so true even ppl in the comments saying it
Vlad idk how you’re not hysterically laughing in the background. I would be in tears if he said that for the first time in front of me. Great content as always
Hilarious 😂
@@ifreshimonyou8476 Of course. Everything Godfrey said and impersonated about Dominicans is the truth.
It’s funny and ignorant.
He's on point. I was one of the Puerto Ricans who was like naahhhh I don't know about that. But I did one of those ancestry DNA swab tests, and it turns out I'm actually like 15% African. And there is "Nutteen I con dooo!" 🤣
Actually ones dominant nationality/ DNA overtakes the minor DNA. Thats why there's so much controversy on how many have misidentified themselves.
Which is crazy bc in PR we’re taught in school about our roots
I'm Puerto Rican, my dad did the same, so that makes me 8 - 10% I guess. I'm proud to have African ancestry, especially knowing the horrors that my ancestors went through to end up in this hemisphere.
Glad has a flashback for EVERYTHING
It’s his expertise
Glad 😂😂😂😂😂
Getting paid for the same content over and over again. It's pretty genius
Jason Andrew no just common sense
A lot of good memories I would presume.
Black is like Gold. Y’all gotta understand that we are their cash cows.
BIG FACTS..
We produce nothing but sweat in America bro
You are right. Everyone can cash in on Black anything - and they’ll benefit and we won’t! 🤔
whos cash cows?
@@uPSIDEdOWN577 Lol
This is actually a legendary flashback.
A Dominican girl told since Dominicans are mixed, they don’t like to be addressed as black or white or brown. They like to be identified as what they are: Dominican. Nothing less nothing more
Ain't nobody ask ❤
What Godfrey said about Dominicans was 100 percent CORRECT
that's IRON CLAD FACTS.... Taino/Arawak... mainly Taino... ALL THROUGH THE CARRIBEAN AND YES EVEN A YARD...
ALL THROUGH North America... DR CUBA.. We kinfolk...like it or not.
I'm Puerto Rican... My Dad is DARK AF and so is my Grandmother, DARK and super COARSE HAIR
I'm lightskin but I ain't no SUCKER talking that fuck shit...
Facts. And, Dominican Republic is filled with Africans.
Bless Sixone, whether you're light or dark we still love you man, no need to get heated just be the best person you can be for your self before others.
He is actually very ignorant, but I start to realize now why Europeans always think people from US are dumb.
ha “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
I'm bad at geography too but I can say for sure that whatever americans say about other countries is 100% incorrect. Sometimes, if they're knowledgeable by experience, it's 10% right.
This man is 50 years old. 50!!!!
You look 45 at least
@Egaal O For real cuz i thought he was 35 around that.
Wait whatt- at most I thought 32
🧢 🧢 😳
That’s crazy
I would have his babies.
Good black don't crack ✊🏾
Glad out here making money off the black struggle
Berhane Alemayehu I noticed too. Watching from the U.K. and judging!
Kano Billz blacks
Trust me, Trump has done worse in the 3 years he been in office
That’s the whole premise of his show.
so “Glad” you funny asf 😭😭😭
I actually cried😂 Godfrey is a master of impersonations
VladTv definitely knows how to repost certain videos at the right time.
Facts i was going to search this up after i saw it on IG
For real bro he loves to start shit
The boy vlad really a hustler 😂
Say what cha want about Vladimir, the mafucka know how to get to the money
Him and the other 2 ppl on his staff
Im not Dominican but I love being black and I love my heritage and my people. Black people are really the most beautiful people on earth. 🙏🏽💪🏽
@Jason Bouphasavanh nah latinas
Culos grandes
@@jayden56858 They are fine. But Latinas got more ass than sisters? Nah bruh, better go do your research lol
@@jayden56858 Tf you think Latinas get the thickness from😂
@@Kuro_Dante the same way some white girls and middle eastern girls get thick...genetics has nothing to do with being black
Glad didnt ask Godfrey not one question and he talked through the whole video lmao
A rarity on his platform.
Yeah he did. He asked him "what's up?"
Hahaha I love it
He tends to do that with this guy. Guess he likes hearing him talk lol
He called him up he wanted to talk abt the movie black panther . So he came in and just listened to what he’s got to say and it seems Glad never even watch any of those movies or tv shows at the time!
I’m Dominican and it’s absolutely ridiculous how most of us sadly believe we’re not black but you better damn well believe not every Dominican is the same way
U not Dominicans, we are mix
There is some that are ethnically Spaniard tho especially I’m Cuba not all have African
@@antoniogutierrezjr7471 it’s the Spanish language that has y’all fooled. We know our people when we see them just like Caucasian people know theirs but for some reason Africans who speak Spanish magically think they’re something else just because they speak Spanish. No other language does that to people. Africans who speak French don’t think that way, Africans who speak English don’t think that way.
...and their ancestors rode on the same slave ship mine rode on. They just dropped us off at different slave ports.
This is the affect of not understanding your history.
Denea you’re correct on our ancestors being African. However, you’re incorrect on the part where they were slaves. Africans were sailing way before they were colonized and made slaves for trade. They were coming to the Caribbean and South America before Europeans. Our education and what we know to be “true” is highly inaccurate. I suggest (although difficult) you unlearn all these “history books” and don’t just think you’re ancestors were just slaves but much greater and powerful. Peace
I'm black 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🖤✊🏿
@@leofernandez6831 that doesn't change the fact that the entire island of Hispaniola was worked by slaves. Shes' right. Slaves that were sold in New Orleans were often brought up from the Caribbean.
Dominican are not even biracial but tri-racial you have the imperialistic education from the US don't think because you see Sammy Sosa all of DR looks like that oh no ma'am
BlueWave yes, and again both of you are correct, please look at my opening statement “you’re correct” however there is more to slavery and colonizing that we never seem to surpass in history. My point is that we should re-educate on a lot of our history and know that our ancestors don’t just begin in slavery. There was a very clear and distinct relationship between Africans and native Taino’s. Hispańola was the name the island was given by the oppressor and furthermore colonizer. We have a much more rich history then what we were taught. Peace.
“Tryna salsa that shit off” @ 8:38 LMFAOOO WTF 🤦🏽♂️🤣
"Negro nunca!" 😂
*I’m from the Caribbean, from Cuba 🇨🇺and i recognize my african heritage and roots. You have to be blind not to see it in our genetics, in our food , in our music, in our slang, in our religion, in our customs and traditions etc..*
Oh stop it, American Blacks have white blood, when last did they claim they're mix ?????, they're denying their white side. Why hate dominicans for doing the opposite.????
@@mannybudhu3905 they are barely white compared to their little white blood
@@mannybudhu3905you’re yapping in here 😂😂😂 any black person is from Africa…stop denying it negrito
You mean the obsession
with hating yourself? It’s weird when a MAN would claim another race over his own. You think they can go to Spain and not be seen as black? They would get laughed at for calling themselves Spanish. Nothing more weak than a man who isn’t proud of who he is.
We proud of Dominican and Dominican only!
You guys are limited by your understanding. Spanish is one of the many ways people in the U.S describe people from a spanish culture. We actually have a separate term for people from spain.
So no, we don't go around calling ourselves people from the country of spain. The subtext is lost in english, not spanish. It's why I use the word spaniard.
Another thing is that you are acting like all hispanic countries don't share this. It's not dominicans, and I don't know why you guys are so obsessed with us. There's like 20 spanish speaking country, all mixed, yet you people focus on giving us grief for not adhering to your different cultural beliefs that you want to force on us, and then insult us for.
SAY IT LOUD... I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD.... :) why would I want to be the RECESSIVE SPECIES who will be extinct within the next 1,000 years where I know I'm the DOMINANT SPECIES OF THE PLANET!!! LOL
Eshu Okay, there was no need to dig into Black America. Black is an identifier in the US. We dont think we have a monopoly on anything, outsiders just pay too much attention to us. The one drop rule didnt exist as standard until the 20th century, thats generations of mixed/fair people indentifying as Black long before the rule was adopted as law. It has more to do with us being prideful of African ancestry and a shared history. Dont pretend you know us just bcus you know some buzz words white people created. The “one drop rule” has influenced us in the same way the reverse one drop has influence your people. The difference? It helped to unify us where it helped destroy you and yours. Our culture has set standards in the arts, science etc around the world, something dominican culture has never and will never do. Instead you’re reduced to your wack hand me down versions of culture, taking from any group. From the Haitians to the Brazilians, Ricans, Jamaicans and the Black Americans you claim have no culture.
So true, it's embarrassing when u lack pride of your race
I remember this Dominican told me, "Youre Jamaican you're not black." What??? I had to scratch my head.
Mark Because we use Black as a Color not a nationality like you guys do. A lot of Dominicans don’t understand what US means by black and they struggle to explain it. Yet people like to call us ignorant when you are the ones that don’t study others peoples history before trying to impose your ideas on other countries.
@@LadyVenVen Sorry, I call bs on that one. You all know exactly what being black is. You know its not just a color. If what you say is true, then why don't you all say 'Im not black, Im brown' or Im of 'African decent'? Because you already know black equals African and thats what you are ashamed of. You try to distance yourself because yt people have convinced you that the more euro blood you have and the more you denounce your African heritage, the more acceptible you will be. You all need to understand that is a lie, you will never be 'them' and they can never be 'us'. Being a black person who speaks spanish doesnt make you a 'special' black in yt society (more Africans need to understand that too). Black people are the most envied and copied in the world yet so many afro-latinos are still ashamed.
@@shanchan8247 but it's true sadly the way Black Americans are depicted in our countries are very negatively. Does this excuse the ignorance ? Absolutely not and within the Latino especially Dominican culture there are more issues than we can recognize ourselves and a lot of lies told to us that we still think and pass down as tradition. Dominicans do deal with self hate issues, but if you go to DR, a black Dominican won't deny he's black they know and can't deny nor they reject it. They say those things to separate themselves from black Americans. It's still very fucked up but that's the context in why they say that. This is no way an excuse because it saddens me as a Dominican that we do that because in the end there is no difference, but the Latino community is complex when it deals with race. We don't acknowledge race at all in our countries but colorism is the biggest problem we have in our community and it needs to be recognized which is why you have the new generation accepting and recognizing that they are afro-latino. Which brings forth the race aspect of being a black latino. I once was one of those who said that I wasn't black. But I educated myself on what it means to be black and now I shout it out proudly to the skies. But I will say there are some black Americans don't not consider us to be black and separate us. So I think it's more a miscommunication and miseducation scenerio.
Shanchan US people are the only ones to identify themselves as a race. You will never hear in another country someone say hey your black 🤦🏽♀️. Oh hey I’m white. You do realize that only black US people go around saying I’m black to identify themselves.
*Dominicans* mistakenly thinks nationality is a race of people....🤔
LMAO! As a Dominican born in the USA I 100% agree with you and you don't know how many times I've had this conversion
Dominicans and Afro Americans are one in the same which people don’t fully understand. I’m a mixed Afro American (I’m half Samoan) and my significant other is Dominican from DR and her family understood what we both were. We brought the Afrocentrics together and it helped because they even have afros!!!!!!
@@SOCyak bwhaahahahh!!!! Dominicans are not the same as you canned cranberry dry biscuit Abraham Lincoln ancestor having people. GTFOH.
That's a lie..do afro American identify .asv Haitian nooooo way. So Dominican same Noooo wayyyy is vlad a Ukrainian or Jewish....I say he Jewish ...ri
Dies any one ask Godfrey if he Dominican answer hell no . Ur saying face of Dr is Godfrey lol lol lol nooooo wayyyyy
How can you be Dominican bid you were born in the USA 🤔
I just love and miss these so much. The Godfrey rants. The trolling. The gems 🥰
This man kills me every time I see one of these videos and I'm Dominican and he's so wise about the situation. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your white though
@@KhalidAli-jc7cv i think she’s saying she’s seen this situation before & it’s mad accurate. i don’t think she’s saying she’s black
@@MsTr1ck Seen what situation? Most Dominicans look like Multi-racial hispanics and thats what they identify as, Godfrey would never be confused for a Dominican in his life... Hes just projecting his inferiority complex Because Dominicans reject this obsession that blacks have with them, the term "black" is associated with African Americans and Dominicans dont identify by race, as with most Hispanics, Hence "I'm not black Im Dominican" ... Idk what this perra is talking about, No self-respecting Dominican would tolerate this gaslighting Clowns disrespectful rethoric, much less his attempt to impose American one-dropism on us.
@@KhalidAli-jc7cv Youll notice that none of the Dominicans commenting with profile pictures look anything like Godfrey or African Americans.. There should be a hint there, dont you think? Godfrey is a selfhating clown trying to gain acceptance from a multiracial hispanic group by gaslighting them with "You deny you're black" Godfrey would never be confused with a Dominican, In DR he would be mistaken with a Haitian illegal and will be treated accordingly, hence his anger towards Dominicans, he feels rejected.
Arod Albert pujols look totally latino..Godfrey wrong
I'm black, all day, everyday & 2ice on Sunday. Cubans, Portoricans and Panamanians embrace their African heritage the most. Peace and Blessings to all my kinfolks.
Haitian Prodigy dat’s wassup man ✊🏾✊🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Sorry, but Dominicans, especially the black ones don't like to embrace it. Generally, alot of afro-hispanics, don't like to acknowledge that culture, race, and nationality are different
Not if they deny they are black.They do our ancestors a disservice when they do that.They do them a dis service by not passing on african teachings and not passing the literature of IFA our mathematics and science and computer.Each one teach one.
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Im PR we consider or self's white/European.
I was laughing so hard, I had to pause at "I no black, I no black" to catch my breath
Did you laughed when Obama denied his "white side"???????????????????
@@mannybudhu3905 you can bet your ass he didn’t they don’t keep the same energy it’s all based
@@mannybudhu3905Ask the white folks that ignored his black side by calling him a thug and a witch doctor.
Don’t ask us. And ease up on the exclamations.
@@77Creation American Blacks don't want to acknowledge their white Blood...they hated that. That is why Latin "Black" hated American Blacks.
Ditto, along with the "Salsing it off". 🤣
He's right, a lot of Afro Latinos flip out when the word Black is used to describe them. They could be as dark as Wesley Snipes and still reject the word Black. Aside from hundreds of years of colonialism, self-hatred, and conditioning, one of the main reasons is that the term "Black" (with a capital B) is conflated with American Black people. If you tell a Dominican that they're Black, they likely will think you are saying that they are an American Black person. In which case, yes, they'll say you're trying to separate them from their primary identity which is their national identity of being Dominican.
afro latino that does not exist
Had the pleasure of meeting Godfrey on the street in Miami years ago and he is such a solid dude. Super funny but equally a genuinely nice and friendly guy. We hung out for a few minutes just cutting up and I always will have mad respect for him
His Oprah impression tho!!! "I got you a THEATAAAAAAAAAAHR!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
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I drop dead lmao 😂
I read your comment as soon as he said it 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 that moment was priceless 😭😭😭
Epic
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“Empire got a little weird for me “ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 naar im rolling can’t watch dat disgusting show
I’m Dominican
This is true
Dominicans like Cubans, Panamanians, Puerto Ricans, Brazilians and many other Latin/Caribbean Americanos have African Blood. 80% of the West Africans were dropped off in those areas during the slave trade. They are Mixed Race (Native Indigenous, Europeans) people who speak Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
Impossible.
Most of Brazilian people are aware and proud of that 🇧🇷
You must not get out much
False: Brasil is a big ass country and it has millions of europeans. Brasils population varies by region Every latin americans african population varies some more than others
"Plantin" same word in french caribbean islands Martinique Guadeloupe and we are proud of our african roots ....
Difference from english and french speaking excluding st baarts is that the populations are mostly black than anything else
I've been to the DR many times. What he says is very true. None of them admit they have African heritage.
@davidmoon Not many indigenous people left in the Caribbean Islands. We know the Spaniards killed most of them. I've been to every single Caribbean country except for Haiti. That's just not a place for me right now. Most of the Dominicans are mixed with African blood. You can see lots of white people in cities like Santiago. Or the white rich people in Santo Domingo. You are trying to correct the wrong person.
They don’t have to, Dominicans are Dominicans regardless of race, respect that’s all you need to understand.
@@yanf525 Dominicans are not a race. That's like saying a new race was created 600 years ago. Too many uneducated people replying here.
@@RichardsWorld , yes true you sound very uneducated, you’re right. Who said Dominicans is a race? But to be Dominicans is to be from a nation whose race is just secundary, why one have to called themselves a color when one can’t divide themselves in pieces? Most Dominicans especially descendants of the originals real Dominicans are of mixed race, why do you want them to take one side only? What are you looking for with that? What is your agenda? Do you think you’re better then Dominicans? Did you think we’re less because we don’t denied our mixture? And do you think those who are white have to become black just because you said so? Nope. Leave Dominicans alone where everyone is unique in their own right. No colors no race, only ethnicity and patriotism for a free nation that had fought too many time to be one.
And by the way you are fit to go to Haiti, go you will be welcome, and there you will find what you like pure pure Africans. And yes you will find them by the millions in DR too, because they crossed everyday and instantly become good old Dominicans just like that.
I felt the same when I went to DR. As a black man from America, I fit right in as far as looks. All of the workers in DR looked at me like shit until they realized I was from America. They then became a little more respectful and helpful because of course they wanted money.
They probably thought you were Haitian
@@Xenlacasa45 Agreed.
Sad what a sell out place
“Looks” Culture it’s a different story and if you can’t understand that then perhaps you never will.
Why do you go, then? Are you going to look for services? And you want to get it for free, why?
The plantain ("big banana ")! I'm dying!😅 I personally know people like this. FIVE shades darker than me with tight, curly hair , "I no black!"😲 I understand. We're at the bottom, according to MANY "White" folks. Who wants to be the losers? There's an insidious psychology to this attitude!😔
🤣🤣🤣 no Lies here! I’m a Dominican American and, since I can remember (age 9), I have been trying to get Dominicans to acknowledge that we are Black. People are leather black and they say they are white and that they’re just tanned from the sun 🤦🏽♀️
Tra!t0r! You're bra!nwashed... Dominicans are mixed.
Es normal que pienses de esa forma, pues creciste bajo la cultura estadounidense y su visión sobre las razas.
La realidad es que no somos negros, la mayoria de dominicanos somos birraciales (mulatos).
No Dominican aren’t blacks that’s haiti 🇭🇹
The same mindset that domis born in usa have cause u dont know tour culture and dont defender it, dominicans are not all black we are mixed, for me u are AA.
Old ass comment getting action I see. For anyone using the “mixed race”/mulatto argument: mixed with what? Mulatto is mixed with what? Black, so cling to the white part of the mulatto all you want, y’all still Black. But you all just proved my original comment 🤷🏽♀️
A decirlo en Español también: biracial/mulatto contiene negro, pero como dije en mi comentario original, pueden aferrarse a la parte blanco todo lo que quieran, al fin del día todavía son negros. Pero en su “refutación” comprobaron el punto que hice en mi cometario original.
Al fin del día, la raza es una construcción social hecha y ejecutada tan efectivamente que todos se lo creen y tratan de navegarla lo más cerca a lado blanco posible, y entiendo, hay pocas cosas más atractivo y deseable que el poder.
He said, “They try to💃🏾salsa💃🏾 that shit off.” 💀 DEAD💀 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭
I’ve been wheezing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a born Dominican and raised in New York City I agree 1000% ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Feliz Garcia, you need to absorb continental african music from the 80s onward. BP are all family
toel mundo en RD conoce un tal negro o moreno / morena. el dominicano de verdad si se conoce. Estos Afroamericanos quieren adueñarse de nosotros y no se como tu no lo vez
@@PHlophe Are u Dominican?
The Washington monument is an ancient African symbol. A Tekhenu.
Dope...I love learning new things like this. Much love. Thx
Yep and was taken from egypt.. called a obelisk
@@therealmccoy2004 where is Egypt?
It also resembles some of the ancient monuments(stelaes) of the ancient axum Empire in modern day Ethiopia.
Wugyz108 yes because just like Africa , this society is built all around worshiping the false ancient gods Egyptian sun god Horus & Ra.
SHOWING LOVE FROM PALM BEACH FL 🤟💯🐐🇧🇷
love
I am not Dominican or Latino, I am
African-American mixed with White, North African Egyptian-Moroccan and Levantine Bedouin. But despite me being mixed with all of these things, I do not deny my Blackness. I am proud of being Black-mixed!!
Dude, your black
Maybe the Police will decide for them what colour they are.....this guy is sooooooo on point !
Besides that hilarious Dominican imitation, his Terrence Howard impression was so on point.
Carlitos, the DR imitation was a realistic parody. his dance moves are sexi
I took a vacation to the Dominican republic two years ago, There’s definitely African in Spanish origin is flowing all through the Dominican Republic. I am a light-skinned African-American and I even had some of the locals speaking Spanish just assuming I was Dominican because I look like I could be, so there you have it.
My people consider Haitians as “blacks” but not themselves even tho we share the same fucking island lol shits dumb
If u light skin u not 100%black think about that
Some of em be blacker than black folks they living in denial or maybe drinking from that Egyptian river
GalletaConLeche 🧢
Most Dominicans are Bi-racial that's why we say Obama looks like us. Obama is half African and half European even though in this country he is considered black and not bi-racial.
Godfrey is ALWAYS SPOT ON!
"Terrence Howard sounds lightskinned" then follows it up with a spot on impersonation... that was funny
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No such thing as sounding light skin, y'all making up any damn thing now.
@@ladybird491Can’t be black w/o colorism. 😂
Godfrey is clearly Vlads favorite guest. Why? Cuz, he asks him one question and he doesn't just get an answer, he gets a "Netflix special" for an answer...
GODFREY IS HILARIOUS😂😂😂😂
For real 😭😭
Lol Yes he always talks about relevant stuff with hilarity! Love it!
Dominicans have the pleasure of having 2 motherlands, yes we are black but we are also European. Some of use refuse to claim both motherlands but it stands to reason that we should except both. I have black ancestors and I also have European ancestry, soooooo we both respectfully…
I'm a North African girl and I looove Nigerians ❤️❤️❤️ some of them study with me in Morocco (north Africa) and they are so genuinely nice people I even had a crush on one of them 😭😭😭
I actually have noticed on most dating sites, Dominicans are the ones that mostly like to point out their nationality in their profiles when most others don't.
Yooo that's dead true I ain't realize it til you said that
Because dominicans are very nationalistic 🇩🇴 dios patria y libertad our fore fathers gave their life for our country we must always honor that and put our national identity on a pedestal.
Yeah, because we love our culture and where we come from. American blacks can't seem to understand that.
@@lisettes.9598 Just like some afro Dominicans can't seem to understand their black
@@gbiggaveli2564 btw, my great grandma was Japanese living in the DR. I clearly have Asian features. Yet I don't walk around calling myself asian. I call myself DOMINICAN.
I love Godfrey, his perspective and energy is so dope!!
Puerto Rican here! Proud to have African Ancestry
Ya white asf be looking like white Italians Puerto Ricans are the lightest in the whole Caribbean domincans actually look black
Truth!!!! I love the way you blended truth and comedy. Respect Godfrey!💯💯✊🏽❤🖤💚
There is a Spanish speaking African country name Equatorial Guinea and the citizens of that country see themselves as African.
They have no choice they are in Africa. Lol
Nothing great about that it just means they were colonized probably for their resources.
How u know lol
because they are in Africa 🧐
Yes so? Angola and mozambique speak portuguese and many others french which are all latin languages...Im not sure where youre trying to go with this, But those are african countries, and inside those countries they identify as different ethnic groups like any other african county. So yeah when you go to any african country black will not be used nor african for the matter they know they are african. THEIR ethnic/ tribal group matters.
Ay no blak.
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If anybody “confused” you with being Black, it’s probably because you ARE Black. The only difference is that you speak Spanish....
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣impossible
I was cryinnnggggggggg
It’s like they are saying “ I no Black” 😂😂😂😂
He had me laughing when he said you are black ain't nothing you can do about it!! and he's right about that!!!
I am late to the conversation but I just spent about 2 mins laughing so hard at that same bit 🤣
im from loiza puerto rico and they proud to be black and proud of african roots
@@watchdogsthebeast3540 Tengo Calderon has blue eyes and straight blonde hair.
@@mikebadreputation993 and the most retarded post goes to
U notice Ricans and Dominicans dont really participate in Carribean parades. They have their own separate parades
@Kai Ishimura Aside from language, the cultures really aren't that different if you think about it.
@Kai Ishimura Yeah, honour to your ancestors language the white Spaniards. I am not sure they will consider you as their descendants, because you don't necessarily look like them. Have you ever looked at yourself in a mirror?
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and you notice how they have their own instead of one for both.
@Kai Ishimura I wasn't comparing Dominicans to African Americans. I said, aside from language, Dominicans are culturally very similar to Anglo-Caribbean people. Jamaicans are also culturally mixed like you guys...many of us have Indian, Chinese, Native, Lebanese, etc. in our bloodlines. Look up the first Prime Minister of Jamaica, Alexander Bustamante, he was part Native (Taino) on his mother's side. We're more similar than you think...we eat plantain too! As well as rice and beans (but we call it rice and peas).
I am an Italian looking Puerto Rican & even I admit my black African blood. Both of my grandfathers were light skinned black men. I've noticed that Puerto Rican's, about 50% of us admit it, the other 50% are in denial. Dominican's, I love you my brothers & sister's, well, you guy's have to come to terms with who you truly are. Not all, but most of you (90%) are in serious denial, & I don't mean the river in Africa.
"They try to salsa that sh*t off...." LOL😂😂😂
8 minutes and 22 seconds is what you guys are looking for. 😊
Thanks
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Man, that impression had me with tears in my eyes and me laughing like a little girl. Kills me every time...
Ay bro, its a shame when some Latinos deny there African roots. I’m Puerto Rican, Mexican and Cuban and I KNOW i have African roots in me. The thing is even though I am a mix of Amerindian, and some Spanish; I know I have West African ancestry too. But I don’t hate it, matter of fact I’m proud of it. ✊🏾✊🏾 hell yeah. My tribes of West Africa are the Fulani, Igbo, Yoruba and Songhai. Hell yeah bro. 💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Why would u say I don’t hate it???
U don’t hate what?? & what’s there to hate, please explain what u meant.
I'm glad you know where you're from
Thank you brother I'm black Trini domini but black all day
Wonderful ❣️
Gee money what I meant is that I know I have West African ancestry, but I don’t shame it or try to hide it like many Latinos do sadly. Many of them don’t like to admit this part of their ancestry, but I do and I embrace that I have this beautiful African ancestry in me.
As a Puerto rican myself i must say godfrey is spreading knowledge whether people want to believe it or not. I dont care how light your pigmentation is,if your from dr or pr you definitely have african blood flowing through your vains.
Exactly
Godfrey look jacked, you been lift Bro💪🏾💪🏾
IFBB PRO SHAWN LINDO I never realized he fuck with the steroids, but good for him staying in shape.
I work with some Dominican brothas and sistahs that know and embrace their African origins...its a beautiful thing... we connect, learn from one another, and laugh together all day
This man is jokes. I came here from Twitter. He's obviously intelligent but also a funny person 😄😄👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
"I ain't no black, I'm Puerto Rican baby" Bettlejuice
Dominicans are tri-racial though and identify by nationality only. They are of Spaniard, African and Taino descent. They do not acknowledge race (like a lot of people in the world). I think it is strange that people are still using the One Drop Rule in 2020.
American blacks as well. Learn something
Race is everywhere. Dominicans just refuse to acknowledge it. Guarantee if you ask a Black Dominican their experience in the DR they will have stories on colorism. Don't throw shade onto us Black people for telling you how the world works.
@@joevic4674 I'm Afro-Native (North American) myself so I am well aware of what is in our bloodline in the US. I just hate when people try to force or impose their own ideas onto others who don't adhere to the same standards. They identify by nationality only and that is absolutely ok. That is how all Latinos identify. People need to just leave them alone.
@@tkking1228 Many people have issues with colorism all across the world. Indians and SE Asians have their own issues with colorism. That doesn't mean that everyone should be lumped in together just because we face similar issues. They are their own people just like we are our own people. We all have our own nationalities. Americans need to stop trying to force other ethnic groups to see things through their lense.
... we are more than tri racial. We have Caucasian, Lebanese and many even have Asian.
We are just one whole cluster...
I’m Dominican and I embrace the fact that I’m black idk why other Dominicans don’t 😂
Black= african American. If your Dominican your not african American silly
Dominicans don't care about race, they care about nationality.
This obessoin with race is a thing from black people in America, not from Latin American. We're extremely nationalistic
@PrinceTheGemini what you mean?
In dr it doesnt matter if you are black or white we dont even have this kind of conversations, we are mixed. The problem is when you come to the US and you are called black, everyone knows what black means in the US and the history between black and white they have, but when you try to put a black dominican on the same place as a black american when they dont share anything but color skim it's for that reason they deny it. It is funny because people are judging from ignorance.
@@speakingtruth9924 stop ignoring the comments ^ we tired of explaining this to you Afro centrics
Godfrey spitting pure facts!
Maybe in your delusional head he is.
I remember meeting a Dominican man who was obviously of African heritage and then he started talking about "black people" but he was obviously excluding himself. I was confused but I didn't want to challenge him... I then realized it was a thing?! But in some ways I like the unity of being ONE. If we all did this in America it might be beautiful. American. Period. ???
man this is such a beautiful comment i have been hoping to run into a comment like this for many years on youtube and all the other social media platforms
judging by your comment im assuming you are not from the nyc metro area or new england where we mostly live?
but yes we dominicans are one ethnic and national group regardless of skin tone or race and yes we have differences and subcultures but we are 1 thats what afrocentrics dont want to accept
you should of asked him question instead of "challenging him" thats the problem with u americans you guys think you know everything there is to know so you have to "challenge" every1
I don’t fetishize the individual.
It takes a village to raise a child. And a house divided can’t stand.
Bro. The name is GLAD TV. What it is wrong with you people. 😠
Yeah!
@@ultrainstinctbowser994 😁
What’s the story behind this?
That will forever b a classic! Godfrey nailed that shit!
@@jayceontaylor8195 u need to watch the clip of Vlad interviewing Godfrey n Godfrey imitates another dude Vlad was interviewing n he called Vlad "Glad" throughout the entire interview n it was hilarious.