I'm a Ghanaian but sometimes we Africans in America don't understand what African Americans have been through in terms of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, etc. We have to read their history on our own to appreciate their struggles because the USA school systems don't teach you indepth history of African Americans. Their struggles are the reason why we are enjoying our success in America as Africans.
Finally, someone says it! They paved the way for all other immigrants of color. I say they because I'm a black immigrant from the dominican republic, they paved the way for me.
And this is why God is going to allow them to thrive and be so successful on the continent of Africa because the lost and stolen have returned home. They will thrive even the more of those who are “native” born. It will come so easy and with favor.
They dont know accountability, it was long time ago Even the people who went through it (50 and over) dont complain that much and most of them dont use it everyday to justify their situation in life. Also most of them are not hateful like the young generation.
Albinos are saught for bad reasons in Africa. Africa is a melting pot of tribes why are we hurting our own I love dark skin I'm medium Brown but color depends on the level of melanin in our bodies we live in a world that glorifies lack of melanin .Melanin give us protection from the sun .people need to get educated.
Hi Wode Maya, I love this interview so much. It's great to hear about the experiences these women are having being "mixed race" in Ghana. I am from California, USA, and recently started identifying as an African born in the diaspora. African Americans have never been shown anything good about Africa. Growing up, it was imbedded into our psyche that Africa was a poor dusty place where people are starving. Black people are not treated well here in the states, and somehow we've made to feel that being African is even "worse". America is a racist country. Divide and conquer has been it's main method of oppression and control since our ancestors were first brought here as slaves.
To all this I say we have to look beyond our prejudices and ignorance of one other and learn about our differences we will be surprise to find that we are similar many aspects than that divide us, it all begins in the mindset. Our brothers and sisters in the Americas went through a horrible system that robbed them of their humanity and their dignity all aspects of their culture we on the continent of Africa need be sensitive to their pains and we can learn a lot from them and they from us we all from mother Africa the cradle of humanity and civilisation whether you choose to believe or not.
After living in America for a decade I will say the confusion between AAs and As stems from the fact that we don’t know each other’s history and struggles. The education system in Africa don’t teach anything about AAs and their struggles and their history. We don’t know much about each other. Similarly, AAs treat As based on what they’ve seen on TV (which I will blame it on the media). Not until quite recently, everything about Africa was negative, hence the dissociation. I think this generation is doing a great job learning about each other’s culture in other to relate to each other. We were all brainwashed through slavery and colonialism and should be united for a better life if anything. Irrespective of one’s race or culture, we are all humans and should love one another!
I definitely agree 👍 ... this generation is getting better. I am a Nigerian American and remember in my younger years some of the most ignorant things said to me personally and also just about Africa in general. Use to hurt at first but then realized it was just plain ignorance due to what the media portrays (and this can be seen in multiple races/ethnicities). Then by the time late middle school/early high school that all went away. Its really sad how a lot of folks don't get along or have misunderstandings because of stereotypes perpetuated by the media.
I am a black man born and raised in America, and I love my African brothers and sisters with all my heart. I love my people wherever you are on the planet with all my heart!
As a Nigerian living in the United States, I’d say i do get along with African Americans pretty well. Although I’ve heard of the enmity between Africans and African Americans, I’ve never experienced it. Alot of African Americans I’ve met really wants to visit Africa but their problem is they do not know how to start the process. Last year, an African American followed i and my family to Nigeria for a month and she really enjoyed it at Nigeria. She said she wants to buy a house at Nigeria so she can come back with her own family whenever she wants.
Very true! A childhood friend of mine gets all the fine girls when we were growing up. He gets special treatment from people and mostly think his dad must be rich enough to marry and bring a white woman to Africa.
We love your positive energy too @Marintia Goto-Williams This conversation just touched on a the funny tension between Africans and African Americans, Thanks to you. A conversation that will trend on here for quite some time. I just think every race struggling with Identity should just associate as Ghanaian because Ghanaians are very accepting. 😊😊 We had this Afro Asian girl in our government High school, this girl knew how to tease. So whenever we had the upper hand, we will give her the popular Small eyes joke 😂😂 Hope you never had such in school.... Thanks for reading
From my experience mixed race people in Ghana enjoy a greater amount of privilege. One of the reasons is the colonial legacy of colourism. They are often referred to as ‘obroni’ or ‘half-cast; however half-cast is a derogatory word which should never be used. Colourism is a serious issue which we should not take lightly, or else we will be creating another class of people who we will defer to and be uplifting them on the social totem. There is already classism in Ghana and if we want to add colourism to it we will create a very unequal society. If your guests are being really honest they enjoy privilege in Ghana, Ghanaians are really welcoming to a fault that they start to uplift people who look different especially fair-skin people better than dark skinned people. We need to be careful not to feed into anti-black racism in our continent. If our brothers are mixed let us treat them as we treat those who are not mixed so as to have a fair society. With all the anti black racism going on in this world black peoples need a safe place to exist and thrive without looking at our back. We need to respect each and our differences rather than hating or giving too much differential treatment due to the person being mixed race.
@@sirc625 Not to generalize but you would be treated calmly and with respect...However, the language barrier or your religion can be a problem for a hand full of people
Just because someone doesn’t have the same problems as you, doesn’t mean they don’t have any problems. It is important to have empathy and compassion for others 🤗
Just be honest and say : i don't give a *uck for those " white people" or somethink i don't care i know you treated us like a " white" anyway who thinking for other people they don't have a problems????? WTF? This video is for that the *ucking specific things in the mix race lifes. Thats all.
@Strive For greatness I am African with African parents born and raised on the continent of Africa...African Americans have not messed me up. Why are you generalizing? Maybe some of them dislike Africans but not all of them. Also many Africans dislike them but not all!
@Strive For greatness Exactly! I have the same color as these women but it is not about color at all. This is about a spirit and a behavior. These women who are of recent mixture are not treated like those of us with ancient mixture who grew up in Africa. They are treated like they are gods in Africa and we are treated like we cannot do anything right, which is false. they come to Africa wearing thong bikinis, drinking alcohol, hiring house help (which is a form of slavery and an intense caste system in Africa). They are preying on African Americans because many of them are AWAKE and call them out on their spirits. This video is 1000% ugly. Also some African Americans call me Greek, which I'm not, although I might be mixed with that, but that's unknown to me; but because of the history of Egypt and how they understand the damage that has caused us till this day and I don't blame them.
I am a mother of two African American boys and I remember when I sent one to college and his roommate was African, and because my son had locs, the African's mother said that he was no good, even though she had not met him. Also, my youngest son's roommate, who is now in college, is a Nigerian boy, who is one of his best friends, and his mother and I are friends because of our children. I will say that there is a belief by the Africans that the African Americans have NOT taken advantage of the school system, and the opportunities afforded them. What they fail to acknowledge is the many ways slavery was reframed throughout the years to keep us behind and still fighting for rights that should have been ours. Anyway, we should be together because if not for us, there would be no them. We are all from the same continent. By the way Wode Maya, you are doing a great job and me and my husband will be visiting Ghana in 2022, look forward to seeing you.
About the locks it's really the older generation.....we the younger Africans don't see locks as something bad...like u said most of these things are attached to slavery....I know locks came from somewhere in Africa so we actually embrace locs and natural hair. Glad that u r visiting Ghana.... please I also invite you to visit Uganda the pearl of Africa...#onelove
Yes I think one needs to learn about how toxic slavery was. I noticed as a Norwegian visiting the US, I could make friends with Africans. The experience with African Americans can be more mixed, but I don't blame people. I saw many things in the US which made me deeply uncomfortable about how African Americans are treated. It still burned into my memory being in a New York restaurant and having a grown African American man turn on the tap water and give me towels in the bathroom while wearing a fancy uniform. I was just 17 years old, and it felt so wrong to me. I know he may not have thought about it that way. But to me it felt really wrong that all these African Americans should have poorly paid jobs serving white people. I am 42 years old now, and this is on of my strongest memories from visiting New York. I hated that moment so much. I didn't not want to be the spoiled white kid. It was a total shit job IMHO. Nobody needed to do it. But this guy had to do it to put food on the table. I know sometimes African Americans don't like me for being white, but I don't take it personal. I still try to do my best to educate people about racism. I have tried to explain to other whites the consequence of slavery with examples from Europe such as how Germans born to East German parents are worse off in Germany, get discriminated and labeled Ossi. They do worse in all walk of live compared to other Germans. That is the legacy of 40 years of communism. So I ask people, what do you think 400 years of slavery, and later segregation has done to people? We are all products of our ancestors and their experiences. In fact it goes both ways. Racism is also taught. Racists are almost alway a product of their family, and environment they grew up in. One has to believe in change, to make change.
I’ve heard the same from black people Non AA and even other races from outside the US about African Americans not taking advantage of the many opportunities in this country. Or that immigrant blacks go further in life than African Americans all the while failing to mention that if they’ve been able to succeed as an immigrant black person; it has been because of the struggle of the AA.
Guys let's be honest though,mixed people don't have real problems in Africa,walk into an interview with the same credentials as a mixed race person and be sure to not get the position,they are always favoured which is sad cos it's a subtle sign of how inferior we see ourselves
They never talk about this but instead they want to make it seem like black people are just as racist as the white people they came from because they dont want to tell the truth about their racist parent
True at the mixed priviledge they do enjoy in Africa. Growing up the only times that I have observed mixed kids having a hard time are : 1. If they have a black mum and there is no white father in the picture..they are called bastards quite often. 2. If their parents are poor and lower income earners and they live in the " hood"- the kids are given a real hard time becos unfortunately Africans used to think all whites were rich.
Yes indoctrination and colonisation did a bad job on our people many still thinks White is a savior because of what churches had preached and indoctrinate our people with.
Facts. Their proximity to whiteness mixed with our anti-Black mentality is fatal. We are suicidal when we uplift the products of interracial unions rather than put our own on a pedestal. Our competitors have done an amazing job at twisting our psychology to their benefit and to our detriment. Certainly the mixed race/biracial offspring will be and is used as a buffer class.
I am also a black Cuban living in Long Island, NY. I have never felt at home. Not in Cuba , my country of birth, never in the Americas. Thanks for sharing your beautiful experiences. I am definitely going to make it to Africa. Mother Africa.❤️🙏🌺💥🎶
The mind set that bringing a white person or a non black person home is a blessing is a big sign of our low self value. The mind set that “light, bright and white is right” is Insidious and sadly slows Africans down, it also encourages beautiful women to bleach their skin in order to achieve a higher value in the African society which needs to be addressed. The long and short of it is that you will be favoured for being mixed race - the down side is the fetishisation... you will be instantly loved for being exotic but you’ll have to be mindful of whether they love who you are or just the brightness of your skin. This goes for friendship and especially dating. ❤️
Njumanvùi Mùnmom ....” has the most arable land “ as you say : is hugely relevant ,, how deep white supremacist brainwash propaganda has impacted our brains !!!!!
Sherrifa Owusu yeah, is SO freaking ridiculous! Like Malcolm X said hating the oppressed and loving the opressor.... not only lack of value just being nuts really!!!
To say that African Americans don't like Africans is false. We all don't think alike. I will say that because of our cultural differences we don't necessarily go out of our way to mingle with African immigrants. It's not on purpose, it's just how the United States is. People tend to gravitate towards people more like themselves.
Can we stop making blanket disparaging comments. Instead of: ‘AAs, this and that. Or Africans, this and that’. Let’s instead say: ‘In my experience, SOME AAs...or SOME Africans...’ This is how intelligent, rational adults speak. We don’t make blanket generalizations when speaking about important topics. We ALL need to do better!
@@sumeya1923 Butb the thing is not all of us know what they mean. Or at least it shouldn't be up to us to try and figure out exactly what they mean. When someone in the USA says "black people do.....", we can all reasonably assume that they are talking about black people in their own country. The problem however rises when a video like this says "Africans believe/think/say/do.....". In this video alone there are only 4 people who are supposed to represent a continent of over 50 countries. I don't think I have to point out that people living in Egypt, Mali and Botswana will have vastly different experiences for example. And of course this isn't the only video to do this but like the original commenter said, we must be careful in just labeling a big group of people under one giant umbrella.
@@sumeya1923 We use words to communicate thoughts/ideas. The more accurate the word choice, the more accurate the communication. A lot of the comments on this thread would be moot points if the subjects in this video hadn't spoken disparagingly about other peoples of African descent, while promoting negative generalizations. We must speak more highly about each other, and at the very least, be specific when addressing a negative situation/experience.
@ShutterDe DON No haha. About 5 million South Africans consider themselves as mixed race or “colored” people. They are common place here. So they are treated like everyone else.
Light skinned people in Angola way back in the days they use to be our royals untouchable riches owners of all the banks, but now something is changing.
@ShutterDe DON I’ve lived in other African countries. You’ve never lived in SA. I know what I’m talking about when I say SA is far more diverse than other African countries. And that doesn’t make us any better or lesser than any African countries. It’s just the way it is. Go argue with your mixed-race-worshiping county men 😂
@Glock hands87 If both ur parents are black, you black, if both ur parents are white, you white, if your parents are 2 different races then you're biracial. Having a lil bit of other DNA means almost nothing if supposedly everyone has it, time to look at dominants then, reminds me of white girls with like 2 percent native DNA then claiming they're mixed.
I’m an African American who is learning about Africa and African people. We in America do not know Africans. Thank you for opening our eyes to Africa. We are only taught negative things about Africa. My bucket list is to visit Africa since I’ve been watching you. They show us only the worst of Africa. But thank God for media
Jacqueline Grant no, that just means white people make the choice ”one drop rule” and black people accept it. Black people need to think for themselves. Mixed people are black and white (Other) not one or the other. They are usually proud of both their mother and fathers lineage. The confusion comes when they deny one side in favor of the other. If you let other people's labels determine your identity you will have a lot of internal conflict. Personally why I will only marry black and keep it simple. Plus I love being black-black.
The title should be “struggle as a mixed race in the western world” bcuz in Africa, being mixed gets you some extra special treatment. I think it depends on where they are at a time. In Ghana they will feel more home than the west
Peach Butler yup. This isn’t different from all those light skin dark skin jokes that used to be so popular amongst our people before social media (Instagram to be exact) Remember this conversation had always existed and I believe its root sterns from Slavery. Remember the masters will rape the women and their offsprings will he kept in the house mostly than the field. It trickles town till today. If a light skin and darker skin walks into a space of men, they will give more attention to the lighter one. Have you forgotten how America hip hop videos used to be? Same thing
Not all African Americans are like that. For all my 18 years in the US I have only experienced it once. I feel comfortable more around African Americans. They are strong, motivated, and they endure alot.
True. Obviously with 40 million population over different generations not all will have the same view. Similarly out the 1.3 billion Africans a million of who are in America not all think the same way. Here is very positive article on AAs by a Ghanaian lady in America: www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/The-blindspot-Owning-my-African-privilege-in-a-racialized-America-1055512
As a mixed race person living in Africa (Kenya) I really appreciate this video. I also like that you chose some people who grew up in Europe and one that grew up in Africa. Being mixed race is complicated and I’m glad this video shed some light on it.
Maya: These guys are missing the point. The biggest difference is the West differentiation is rooted in hate unlike the African. ***The African embrace their kids, mixed or not. The Euro does not embrace biracial kids. This is why the feel at home in Ghana.
@@MedusasSnakePit Wth? They spit on you? Then if you retaliate by opening a can of whoop ass on them then they will say aboriginal is wrong. My heart goes out the your people because we have to deal with so many similar things. I watch Australian news as well.
Sherri Solomon yes and thank you for your understanding. I had truly awful experiences with racism in Australia but I grew up in the 90s. I had a few African friends too when I was a teenager and they also had absolute horror stories to tell. Myself and one Ethiopian boy were actually chased by a carfull of young white men wielding axes once. I have children of my own now and although they do experience racism, here and there, thankfully they don’t have to deal with the same extent with regard to violence and assault. And also if you have a conversation with aboriginal people here you will truly appalled at the things they have survived in this country.
Yes AA came after Vanessa kambi on her own TH-cam channel for marrying a white man. It’s so sad why they came after that beautiful woman as if she chooses to be mixed. AA hate mixed couples , they hate mixed people , they even hate their light skin children and will always come up with the slavery bullshit. Rubbish. There just so much hate in them , that they can’t think straight.
Remember tho African Americans and Africans are different the bible calls african Americans, hebrew Israelites from the tribe of judah and Africans hamites we all dont identify ourselves with what God calls us that's the root of confusion. You are who your father is at the end of the day.
I’m African American in the United States. There’s a couple reasons why some black people have an issue with African identity. Our Euro-centric (white) school systems don’t allow us to connect with the motherland as much as we wish we could. Also, being Black has been the source of so much pain that many people try to run from it. It’s an identity complex that some of us are trying to cope with. I will be visiting Ghana soon 💪🏾 🇬🇭
@@HobbsBhipp Africans were tricked thinking they were taking Africans to do paid work, and then america came back and stole more Africans from their villages
The thing is that Africa is so diverse it has countries with mixed looking people, the first girl from the left could blend in Ethiopia, the blasian girl could blend in Madagascar and Vanessa would easily blend in Cape Verde. If people want to blend in, there are various places.
In America, no one would bat an eye at any of them. They wouldn't feel out of place at all because America is so mixed up as is. Vanessa looks like some of my family members.
@Adrian Bradey even north africans morrocans who are mixed with westafricans(harratins) don t look like that mixed race girls ;focus on the features not the skin color ; they can t pass as north africans ; maybe west africans inmigrants living there or mixed race morrocans plus west africans(harratins)
It's not possible to be treated bad in Africa while being white, mixed or fair because we treat them better than ourselves even. It's the darker people in school or society that really have more struggles which is really surprising because we are Africans.
@@batavica4135 South Africa is different than west Africa in that regards. They’re generally more xenophobic than other Africans. In the west mixed race people and white people are definitely treated way better than other African people on average.
@@Jeremy-sj3pr that's because in West Africa white people left a loooong time ago and noe they are viewed like mini gods. Southern Africa still have whites and more mixed race and nobody gives them better treatment than anyone else. They are just people.
Wode Maya, I watch your show, as a Tanzanian in the diaspora and married to a white woman with two beautiful kids, I can tell you that there is a problem with humans, especially when we do not know the others. I think what you four are doing here is great! Thanks a lot.
To be honest this wasn't about African Americans the discussion was about mixed race, I don't get the comments am seeing everyone talking about African Americans
Fay Con not mostly , only some there are a lot of black Americans . Some are mixed with white because maybe an ancestor was raped but that doesn’t mean they are mixed race if they have a small percentage of white
@Fay Con Mixed kids dont look mexican they look mixed. Some mixed people look more black whereas some are white passing. Some have freckles some dont. Stop generalizing a group of people . There are "darker" ones, all over the US and Africa too
Historically the privileged class in Africa especially Ghana. The children of colonist were given higher status over the blacks. In Ghana they are also over represented in media.
Am an African married to African American, my children always had issues in School coz their mother is an immigrant . Personally I have never had issue with other African Americans when I tell them am African, they find it weird coz am more light skinned than other Africans, I usually have to explain that I come from the Island ( Zanzibar ) and we have all sorts of skin tones.
Don’t Afrikans in general have all sorts of skin tones? Here in South Afrika and in fact anywhere in Afrika, there are all kinds of skin tones because the black mother is God and can give birth to all colours.
I love the girl who unapologetically mixed race. Vanessa I believe her name is. She seems very self aware and mature when it comes to this topic. I personally feel one should never make a person feel bad for loving BOTH sides of your culture! Despite some of the ignorance you may experience on each side.
Sean Tottenham Black Americans are a hybrid people. We are forced to accept mixed people, we simply make up a people group called African American. I don’t judge how other mixed people identify in other countries, so why does it matter how we mixed people identify in the U.S?
Omg! I am called an African American woman. Mixed race. I interact with some Africans and I love them. It is my desire to live in Ghana. Wish I could live there. Tv producer writer. Bachelor in communication. If I had a job. I would leave tomorrow. Love your show! WODE MAYA! Much success to u.
@Greta Gassaway start making connections with the local film community. Following their instagram or Facebook pages. Institutions like NAFTI, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation or private media houses. That way you can start networking for work opportunities
TVS Ltd thank you so much. I certainly will. Praying and answering the call of God on my life. My aim is to go home Africa, learn from the Queen’s there and bless them in return. God’s best to you.
As a light skin Somali whos been to Somalia 🇸🇴 and Kenya 🇰🇪 all I half to say is the African continent has some of the kindest people in the world! And they don’t care what your skin color is! 🙌🏽
There are only 3 categories....white , non white and white supremacist. Everyone in the west has Europeans blood so to lessen confusion you are obviously a non white
Actually people think being African you got to be very dark skinned....and people ask me r u really African...I say 💯 proud too..... dear world Africa is mixed with so many complexions....dark, chocolate, light, and white....no one race is better than the other... it's the character that really matters. Now if u haven't left the African continent ( not SA and Egypt), u might not know that racism actually exists in the world...not until I traveled to the USA that now I know that racism is real.
I am North African and my skin is fair. I feel bad for the immigrants and the people that were always there because some of my people are racist towards them even though we share the same haplogroup that comes from east africa
I get called wannabe white mostly by nigerians because I'm light a light skinned Southern African 😂😂😂😂 I once dyed my hair blonde and some filters make me look "mixed" so every time I commented on a page on fb Nigerians would be on my neck saying "you mixed people don't belong to Africa" and when they realized I'm African they'd say I bleach my skin when the only thing I bleach from time to time is my hair 😂😂😂😂
@@villageboydee For you to say African Americans are mixed race, and amongst 46 million people, NOT EVEN one is 100% African is completely innacurate😅 there're some if not many who are 100% African, Lmao not even most Africans are 100% African💀(WELP!!) but yeah, you right, the reason African Americans blend in with Africa and Africans is because it was meant to be so, it's their land too!
If you do your research you’ll see that the average AA is 65-75% African. Louis Gates from Harvard completed a study on it. Are there some of us who have more? Sure. But that’s not the case most of the time.
@@villageboydee not true , according to scriptures Romans 11: 1-7 TMH YAH preserved his seed 1st TMH YAH PRESERVED 7000 MEN who have never mixed and there is also an remnant according to the election of grace . We must know who we are and speak facts other wise we are like a tree that has no roots.. it was and still is sin for the chosen to.mix their seed with other nations. Tobit 4: 12-13 mixing is sin , numbers 36: 6-9 we all are from nations and tribes of people and our nation are blessed for marrying within their own tribes . Joshua 23: 12-13 If you marry these strange people TMH YAH will destroy you. Israel the chosen !
Wode Maya you need to do a video and ask the people of mixed race if they are enjoying Ghana because of the priviledges they get due to them being light skin
Cyril Simpson OMG how ignorant this comment is... so light skinned people supposedly having privileges (can’t speak on that, never been there) is a reason to be upset at the mixed people or the people who create those privileges for them??? So I am suppose to forever live in a racist white person society, so you don’t feel like other people are giving me privileges based upon my skin tone?! Makes absolutely no sense my friend
cmben I know it’s a thing... but it’s a thing WORLDWIDE!! In South America for example people with my skin tone, especially women, are being looked down on, white women are the goddesses. I was a young girl, ashamed of me skin tone, hair texture, wishing I was white, blond with straight hair because I grew up in Europe and that’s what I saw growing up. So don’t @me for privilege. I am well aware it happens. What I’m saying is, me wanting to connect with my roots has absolutely nothing to do with me thinking: yeah let’s move to Africa so I can take advantage of my privileges there. Stop making it seem like everyone cares about that. I literally couldn’t care less. I want to connect to my Ghanaian side and that shouldn’t be a problem just because I am not 100% Ghanaian...
To my Americans from African decent. I apologise for my ignorance and finally understand your struggles and stand with you in this fight for equality💪🏿💪🏿
As a black American who went to a predominantly black school in the U.S., including a few African students, black Americans and Africans did not separate themselves. We got along just fine.
We all do get along more than any other group, that's a fact but in depth when it's just us, alotta times differences are pointed out coz some of our family from the diaspora don't rock with the term "African American" they preffer black and a topic like that will open up more about how we create alot of separation amongst ourselves at the end of the day in times we shouldn't coz the system don't care if u was born in America with your family generations being American too, they gon' see u and I as the same person and we all gon' "fit eachother's description" to them!
@Afro arkhitekton I feel u, fam. But just one thing I wanted to add is that, I been in Africa too and people out there love y'all so much. I'm only saying this coz alot of brothaz and sistaz think otherwise so they'll emphasize the "not African" part big time. But at the end of the day, u right u ain't African no more, but it don't hurt for all of us to kind of connect all the dots and re-build a bigger and better Family. As Black people from any part of the world, and this is best done by loving,learning and preserving an African culture in whatever way hence embracing our kind instead of any other ways that we adopt "with/without a choice". And I ain't even talkin bout u coz I know what u about by just reading your name, this message for all of us, African or not! We still got African in our blood💯.. Respeck🙏🏾
One thing I really don't like about Americans is the one drop rule thing. That's so racist! A mixed race person is obliged to identify as black because if they say they are mixed race people will say it's racist. It doesn't make any sense...
@@sumimaind That's not really a thing anymore as it was in the past to the extent you're thinking. Someone who's half black half white can put both white and black on some, if not most now, legal documents.
Hi Wada I definitely relate to their experience, I have a mixed daughter and she went through all these to a point I relocated her to Nigeria for 5yrs, there ,she was much more accepted, respected, now she's back in Asia, but that journey was like a discovery of herself, now she can't wait to settle in Africa. Thanks Maya for this video.
Most races will NOT accept mixed people into their community, even if they are half X. Black people are the only ones that will accept a half Asian/Half black person, but go to Japan or China or India or Netherlands or Denmark or UK and see if the locals there will accept you. They will NOT, they will treat you as an outsider.
I have too. My African/Alkubulan brothers and sisters. I use Alkubulan, key Swahali as Africa means the conquored one and l wish the continent will be renamed. My experienced is that Alkubalanians do not really understand slavery and what the diasparo went thru. But my sisters and brothers in Alkubulan had their own slavery in the continent. After reading of Water and Fire, l know colonization also existed in Alkubulan. Rape by Jesuit priest of Alkubulan men, flogging to beat theur Alkubalan name changed to Jack or John. Alkubulan was also colonized within their own country, not only us by the midde passage. We have more in common than our beautiful dark skin
As an African “American” (Americanized African) Man, I can tell you it’s some truth to what the Half Japanese/Half African sista was saying about AA’s and African relationships. But I feel like the topic is much more complex and complicated than that. Even when they spoke on interracial relationships and how African Americans only want to date Black ppl deserves a lot more context and detail. Race in America is a lot more hostile than the Netherlands, Japan or the UK. And interracial relationships in this country generally isn’t the most genuine of relationships in this country. Racism is deeply embedded in American culture. A white person can get in a relationship with a Black lesson and still have a disdain for Black people. So I think you really need some African Americans to fully speak on that topic brotha Wode Maya. But I respect they perspective and like always I appreciate you Wode. Btw I grew up in a Pan African household so I’ve always identify as an African. There are a significant amount of us that embrace our African identity and interact with Continental African Brothas and sistas. I have Nigerian/ Kenyan/ Ghanaian and Ugandan friends. But I understand the majority of my AA ppl do have anti- African feelings or just ignorance towards Africans. It’s complicated.
barely in the uk . the uk is racist just beneath the usa. usa is ten uk is 9 on the list of most racist countries austrailia is 8. so i can't say there is much a difference just the usa has guns. japan is 5 on most racist list so i'd think twice before assuming any of them aren't racist.
you're right as well, but i feel people are overlooking the cultural differences between the two groups. meaning, though their all black people, peoples of africa have a different culture than those from the us, and ignorance on both sides contributes as well, but once the language barrier is hurdled, we find we have more in common than previously thought.
what the Japanese Ghanaian lady said about Africans and African Americans not liking each other in the USA is very true! It's so wierd like we're all black🤷🏽♂️
Yes it's due to the aggressive brainwashing policy maintained by the oppressor to forever keep the two branches of west Africans apart so they'll never communicate with each other
an observation i made with *some* mixed race ppl is that: People mixed with black and asian or any two minorities, most likely say their mixed with those two races. Whereas some mixed with black and white or any minority and white, most likely will say their the minority and not that their mixed. Yet again something *I* noticed, not saying its a fact.
I think this is because they are identifying with their experience, people with one asian parent and one white parent usually look full asian and will identify and experience race as an asian person, also many black n white mixed ppls, lets say obama is experiencing the world as a black man and being treated as such, usually when people are mixed with white they don't look white but the other race, which is why i think they don't say their mixed the conversation is really interesting and makes me wonder if racially ambiguous ppl, ppl who experience their life as biracial and get treated as such should identify as biracial not black, iranian etc.. such as mariah carey, rashida jones etc
@@3otterlover U made a lot of sense here. Before I always thought if ur mixed with white and black just say ur mixed, however there are mixed ppl who don't look "mixed" but just white or black. Hence they say I'm black or white, cause they look that way. And I agree with the experience thing as well, great point.
Systematic-Institutionalized racism, colourism, and colonized mindsets are alive and well and impact Black people “everywhere” everyday in some way shape or form.
And that's across the globe, whether it's the idea that women of other races are a prize, to the alienation of your relatives, distant and near, due to their complexion or culture.
@@claudshairandfood No they mean the ideas of racism continue and continue to be practiced through individuals. Why are all these mixed people in this video wanting to be called 'black' and don't want to identify with the other side of their race?
Thank you for having this discussion you guys! It’s so needed. I identify with both my cultures Liberian 🇱🇷 & Swedish 🇸🇪 but I grew up in Liberia, that’s where I’m rooted, so I’m Liberian but I am also very Swedish too and I’ve lived in Sweden the longest. I’m just 100% ME 🤎
She is right! We as African Americans have been brainwashed about other Africans and I personally remember growing up with negative impressions of Africans. It's sad, and some African Americans WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING AFRICAN! It's horrible. It wasn't until I joined the Black Student Union and really learned about the unity of black people around the world and an appreciation for being African.
Us African-Americans(not me) but us as a whole were conditioned to get away from anything dealing with Africa & we were stripped from our African identity.We want to be everything else except African.
I am married to an African-American and he says exactly the same. They have brainwashed them so much that they can’t embrace anything related to Africa. Everything they are being thaught, if anything, is nothing they would be proud of. He now can embrace it, because he is married to me (half Ghanaian) and because he learned about the „real“ Africa. But to be fair, he has been not living in the US for almost 30 years, so he doesn’t really have their mindset anymore... it truly is sad
You right. as an African I can tell you it goes both ways though. Some Africans are really clueless about African-Americans history so that’s why there’s so much tensions between us. It is nothing but a results of Slavery and Colonization.
My Africa American friend cried when someone said she looked African. I just laughed and confused. I cut ties with her because she used to look down on me, said really really mean things to me and made fun of my bad days. But I have other great African Americans friends who want to visit and learn from me. P.S my comment is not to bash African Americans, most of my closest friends are A.A I love them and wouldn’t trade my friendship with them. If you African coming to the United State you have to be patient and don’t let bad experiences stop you from meeting amazing A.A.
You'll notice all the diaspora youtubers take pride if they are mistaken for a local, it's a self-hatred issue created by white supremacist american media.
@@newsnowpan-afrika2875 this is true. I am mixed race but only once has someone thought I was black. Most times people call me Arab and I feel offended. On the few times that people asked me if I was Spanish or Italian, I felt complimented. It's internalized racism.
She is brain washed. See in America the imagery is push of Whites doing well, just based on their skin color (has nothing to do with race or ethnicity) only skin color. That type of “day in” and “day out” push to depict and glorify White America, is going to have 2 distinct effects on African Americans!!! You will: Want to or not want to be viewed as White, with all the underlining rights that come with it (
chigeh when I was young people used to call me Barbie doll because of how tiny I was and I would get offended. In my country if someone calls you a Barbie doll it means you built like a whit woman. I guess it really in the mind.
Great interview u made and being proud of ur black identity. Holland isn't any different from Germany, as you'll always be reminded about where u're from and never accept 100% in the society. Vanessa from Scotland isn't being honest to accept/embrace her black identity. Maybe Scotland is heaven for blacks or mixed race. She should come live in Germany or elsewhere in Europe and she'll be place in the right box, which will humble her to stand 100% of her blackness.
@@biologic9081 you know all about her and so you feel entitled to lecture her about the quality of her blackness. She isn't black enough (you're the expert on that), so she needs to be put in her "realistic" black box, right? She also needs to get bashed in by blacks who look down on her for having a white mother and having the nerve to call herself black when she wakes up.
I am Ghanaian but immigrated to the US around 10 years old. I remember 3 African Americans in my class. Of which only one would always make fun of me and ask me ignorant questions about if we walked around naked or lived in huts. I was ALWAYS mad. My dad would always tell me not to get mad and mention that they were ignorant and all we need to do was educate them-which I did. Again and again. After a few years from elementary into high school, I got along with him and a lot of the other African Americans. Media plays a huge role in what we perceive. I also believe that education is needed on both sides and obviously compassion for one another.
I am half Ghanaian and half Dutch. Born & raised in the Netherlands and have visited Ghana regularly. In my experience both in Ghana and the Netherlands I personally have not come across too many racism. It is true that in both countries they will let you know that you are not white or black, as a mixed race sometimes it is therefor difficult to know where you belong and have the feeling that you need to make a choice between one or the other. In the Netherlands they will let me know I’m different but most often ignore my skin colour, I only receive curious questions about my ethnicity. Btw I was also raised in a white environment, luckily without the bad experiences that Anna has had to welcome in her life but I do sometimes have the feeling I’m not included since I’m not fully Dutch and have a different cultural background.. In Ghana im most often welcomed as their own and often told that I am Ghanaian/African :) Only people (especially children) who don’t know me and come from a distance will call me obroni, I’m fine with it since I am foreign and also feel comfortable with my Dutch cultural background and also expect a response like this however still would like to blend in more sometimes to avoid too many eyes on me plus higher taxi rates lol but I think every foreign person would experience this no matter black or white and for the people saying that mixed-race receive more privileges, I wouldn’t know which. I talk about Ghana everyday, to me Ghana is love, a place I call home.. Call me obroni, half-caste, White, black, Dutch, I am proud to tell you I am a Ghanaian
@@TUNTALKS Oh so you don't consider them as black then? And I'm only referring back to the video. All they talked about was being black or mixed or white.
Ethiopians are diverse: all range of shades. There are people lighter than the mixed girls. There are also people darker than Wode Maye. After all, we should be defined by our character not by the colour of our skin. Our diversity is our beauty and strength. Africa Unite.
Facts. Both my parents are Ethiopians and my skin color is the same as the girl’s and my sister skin color is lighter than those girls. I was surprised that they do call themselves black. And ya africa is very diverse 🤙🏽
@@elhammohammedyasin6239 They may all be native but they definitely are not all 100% indigenous (although all/ the majority will have indigenous ancestry). If you are Ethiopian then you should know about the Arab invasion. Do a DNA test and you will probably discover that you have mixed ancestry.
Ghanaians in general accept anyone who claimed to be black/African. The ex-president Jerry John Rawlings is mixed Ghanaian and Scottish and he ruled for many years.
For the most part this true. But I can remember being a child and was told by a Ghanaian man that I was not black because Black people over here are not pure. This one moment in my life have stuck in my head to this day. I have visited Ghana and for the most part, I can say being there made me feel a sense of belonging, however, I did not like being called oburoni.
kennyx donkz Yes, destroyed our country and did many wicked things. And people followed him cause they called him 'jesus' and saw him as white. Yeah, no problem with mingling your identity with people who hate you
@@cyberopteryx Well too bad bro. I don't see you guys complaining at white people for calling you black. Both sides have their opinion. Why do you think you get to control the black opinion? Also this is about mixed people not black americans...
BlackBlaze stop with the lies. No Ghanaians ever called Rawlings Jesus so cut it off, I get it you don’t like him fine but don’t speak for all Ghanaians. Rawlings did not destroyed Ghana
@@reezak78 You don't know your history then. Yes people said he looks like jesus 😁 And of course they were basing it on the european depiction of jesus
@@cosmo_mosy There's a small percentage of Khoisan ancestry found in some West African individuals. Including myself it's not a significant amount just 2.5%.
@@cosmo_mosy No I don't think so it said 2.5% Khoisan and 1.4% Pygmy. Now I know a lot my relatives are lightskinned and have epicanthal folds. BTW I'm a proud West-African and proud of my predominantly Bantu heritage. There are also traces of Nilotic in ancestry there. But I claim my predominate acenstry.
I’m a light skin African-American and I like to be called an African. When I went to Kenya in 1997 it was no problems like there is now with Africans concerning race. Things change.
Once you decide to be an enemy of the Black Race then Africans will surely make you know you aren't wanted in their land. The light skinned people/mixed have had a reputation of degrading darker blacks that's why In South Africa thry are completely cut off the African family tree, they are a completely different race altogether. Same is slowly applying to the rest of Africa.
The “degree of blackness” really doesn’t matter that much in west Africa.. I think it’s a Southern Africa thing because of the whole “colored” race they have in SA. In Ghana, being called “Obroni” is not derogatory. It’s just a description of your light skin. Even full Ghanaians who are light skinned may be called Obroni.
Wode, thank you for this episode. It’s so very unfortunate that each of them have received the backlash and poor treatment that they’ve gotten. Growing up (in the U.S.), my family had someone of nearly every hue. As an example, my sister and Vanessa are the same color, while I am a couple of shades darker than she is... As far as African Americans not getting along with Africans in the U.S., that has NOT been my experience. America is a very large place. It would be very unfair to paint such a broad brush on limited experiences.
i agree! growing up in the SOUTH as a black person is a completely different experience than growing up in the Northern states. both will experience racism, but it's not the same type. i would assume this person was raised up North from this comment, where are you from?
It's my prayer that every African-American would get the chance to visit Africa, I mean not to stay if they don't want to, in order to familiarise themselves with the culture on the continent and tell their own stories about Africa instead of what the media in America has given them. In so doing they would get to that there are people who are living good in Africa and are more comfortable there than they would have been in America. This will help them in appreciating their roots better than they 'some' of them do now.
@jaees michelle-Yes, that’s correct, I was born and raised in NYC; however, I also have deep roots in NC. Those experiences have given me a much broader perspective than those who’ve limited their time to the N.E.
Regarding A & AA's That's what they have been doing since colonisation, divide and conquer. Keeping us spererate weakness us but united we are stronger, we are one people!
lets be honest, we didnt need colonization to be separate..even today we have clashes between tribes..that was around long before we knew that a white man was
I'm actually an African from South Sudan born and raised in Canada. My parents were born in South Sudan and spent much of their early adult years there but were forced to leave South Sudan and relocate to Canada due to the Civil War. With that being said, my parents made sure my siblings and I never lost our culture, our language, our identity. Yes, I am a Canadian citizen but I consider myself African. I fluently speak my mother tongue along with English, I still keep my South Sudanese culture (i.e. I prepare cultural dishes, I own cultural clothing and understand the signifance behind specific pieces, I know my cultural dances, and I respect the obligations that I have to my family back in South Sudan -- sending them money, checking in, etc). So, although it saddens me to hear and see that many Africans who were born outside of Africa are "lost" and don't keep up with their culture, it's important to consider and note the various factors (systemic racism, segregation, the Atlantic slave trade, etc) that cause some African Americans to react a certain way. We're all African at the end of the day and it's okay to be with any race, just make sure to keep your culture and teach your children your culture as well because it is their culture too :). The whole "race" notion is a social construct anyway, we're all human at the end of the day.
Thanks for making this video, I am a mixed race American and I always wondered about this. The one girl is correct about Africans and black Americans not getting along. It’s hard to explain but the parents of Africans have a bad perception of black Americans, and don’t want their kids hanging out with American kids. Also black Americans make fun of African kids in school for being “different”. So it is all of our fault, but it is silly and should never happen.
Thank you. It goes both ways. Most Africans purposefully isolate themselves from African Americans because they do view themselves as being superior and believe western media global narrative of African Americans being lazy, uneducated and etc. That's a whole other topic. And most African Americans I know choose not to even bother communicating with them because of the tension felt from Africans. And then you do have some African Americans who will make ugly comments about Africa as a whole based on lies told on American television about Africa. SMH.
Belkin Laster no you lying it’s due to the abuse they get from AA and the name calling . If you abuse me do you think I will want to hang out with you ???
Ethnically, mixed race are not Africans, they could be Africans as citizens. If we accept they're Africans, then we accept the white supremacy doctrine saying white is pure, if you have one drop of non-white blood that makes you impure, therefore you're not white. Mixed race peoples, mostly identify themselves as black because they're more acceptable and welcoming by black people. Naturally, we are both oppressed and deprived, and we eventually, have this bond in our struggle.
They’re mixed race not black and that’s ok. Why black people insist in calling them black? White people will never call them white because their not. Is simple.
@@aidafaustina9275 because there was a time not but one generation ago when they insisted that we call them Black & treat them as fully Black. See the wife's workplace monolouge in the Jungle Fever film for an example. Now that its seen as trendy to play the fence they wan go in the other direction 🙄. Either you are in the Afrikan family house or you are outside. running in and out with family business is not allowable. we all know this.
Nearly ALL Blacks in the u.s. are mixed with SOMETHING. There’s very few PURE Black people here. If we tried to change up and call everyone thats not pure Black “mixed”, theres gonna be a lotta push back. I, for one would be PISSED if someone called referred to me as “mixed”.
Madie GG Hospitality Not true, biracial people have a certain advantage worldwide compared to black people, proximity to whiteness makes them socially more palatable. Barack Obama, became the president of America because he wasn’t black but biracial a real black person would never be accepted as the president of America.
Yeah, and that's the problem and why certain black people want mixed people to have their own category rather than using their white and light skin privilege to be black royalty among a self hating, colorist people, with a profound inferiority complex.
A lot of people say African Americans and Africans don’t get along but that has never been my experience. I live in Texas where there are quite a few Africans and I never witnessed that hate. Sometimes we don’t even know they are African until they tell us.
Mixed girl she turn black with that white where are y'all they on us over and out, We don't have sex is such minimum so many girls don't know that, I have green eyes, does that mean we can turn black ? If you are american or western bred, we want to leave you with a great impression, Shalum, no sex?
@@aaronaiysen7534 if it was not natural did God allow Moses to marry a wife that was not his race or Josef marry a woman not his race...you sound ignorant
I am an African and I see no color all I see is human beings one ☝🏾 people . Anyone who discriminated you in one way or the other he or she doesn’t represent me or the humble people of Africa. Love you all stay bless ✌🏽🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Please big man, educate yourself, people who say they don't see colour are the problem of all this discrimination. Please everyone can see colour, except if you are colour blind.
As an African-Brazilian, I'd love to talk about how slavery affect blacks in Brazil from 1500 until now. Eb Baffour has brought up a very serious topic to a broaden audience. Check this Brazilian Documentary th-cam.com/video/BSADBL3H6UM/w-d-xo.html
Wondering maya I'm a African American in America and I'm really a man living in America. Brother I swear you have opened my eyes on Africa so much in America they only put out bad things about the motherland I mean its bad places everywhere in any country but brother you making a difference I started watching your videos one day ago and I can't stop I took off work today just to get more enlighten on the motherland you breaking barriers my neighbor is from Ghana and I went to him today and I had questions for him and when I showed him your channel he hugged me and said your great man he watches you too and we never really talked because he always work and we just say hey and bye but he just left my home today and we talked for 3 hours man I'm coming home to Africa I got to go before I leave this earth your pure inspiration and keep doing what you do now let me get back to your videos my wife jealous but your amazing love you brother
Thanks for creating quite informative videos and not just random stuff. I've noticed too many youtubers make pointless videos nowadays just for the sake of becoming famous and making money .. but you keep it more interesting.
Dutch people are very racist people there very bold about it aswel and are obsessed with race and color. I even knew a white dutch who grew up in south africa try to tell me the white Dutch people were the first people in south africa. Get your money bro and adventure out there's a greater life out there.
Netherlands, Belgium... Same thing. I wonder if sinterklaas would be celebrated dis year. As a kid, they also to me "I was already black so no need to paint my face" as they laughed. Felt so bad but I thought it was normal then. Cause I was in the minority
@@punisher9169 Yes, Atlanta has a huge West African and Caribbean Community. My roomate was from the Virgin Islands. I had a few friends from Trinidad. Some from Jamaica. There is a sizable amount of Senegalese, Gambians, Nigerians, and some Ghanaians.
As a 58 year old African American, I am and have been aware of the "tension" between African and African Americans since I was in college. There are prejudices sometimes it seems. I hosted a Nigerian student in my home for 3 summers several years ago. She has become a daughter to me. We had cultural differences but learned how to work things out. I was told for years that Africans felt superior to African Americans. I suppose that can go both ways. But we all should really band together and support each other as brother and sister. Also, MrGhana, you should get your connections together to have travel packages for those of the African diaspora 50 and older. I'd like to visit Ghana before I leave this earth.
trooper:. I'm a 58 year old African-American too and I totally agree with all you said. I also think that Wode Maya should visit the United States and see for himself how AA thing. He would be greeted warmly here.
I am 62, and my inner self has been pulling me to visit the continent for the past several years. I would like to visit Ghana to put my feet on the same earth that my enslaved ancestors placed, go back to the door of no return, go out to the beach, look back and see what for all of them was the last thing they witnessed of the mother land. Many of your feel it. It is a calling and we are now in the awakening. The problem for many of us is funding. I want to come but will not come without my wife and kids. They should see for themselves WHO we came from and WHO we are truly connected to. Even though centuries have passed. I am confident, without a doubt that the Great One will make it possible. Remember, they do not want us together. Our togetherness is the missing glue for the world.
@@Slaveship-zh8vx OK. Can we agree that Ghana is missing a big opportunity to promote more tourism to African Americans? I should be seeing some commercials or something 💯
Ghana is a vibe, feeling of freedom and being yourself amongs your family and friends is amazing.I remember walking from Odorkor to Dansoman beach just to swim and we don’t even have the money,but we made it and came home in a ride.Certain countries you will get kidnapped just being an innocent child.I love Ghana 🇬🇭 ❤️
I as a black American have nothing against Africans , what my experiences have been is that we are culturally different so we do not connect without making an purposed effort , I also find this true with blacks from other countries like south America and the Caribbean ,as American blacks we don't always connect easily but it's not because we don't want to it's the culture difference. This has been my personal experience.
Well said. I agree. Black Africans & African Americans are just culturally different from each other. We should accept that & move on. Skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
I'm just going to come out and say it, the perception of being "African" has always been negative, black people in the diaspora try their best to stay away from this due to perceived shame and embarassment to avoid any association with an African as it is seen as backward. (hence the edgy relationship between Carribeans and Africans in the UK) It's hard to blame them, when images of Africa and stories they hear are that of suffering and negativity. For years abroad, when an image of Africa comes on television you get 1 of 3 things, 1. War 2. Those fake charity infomercials with starving kids and flies 3. Mufasa's pride lands. After seeing that on TV all your life, the last thing you want is to be associated with an African. It's only now in the last decade due to the rise of social platforms and thanks to recent events such as the world cup in South Africa, black panther movie, rise of Afro beats, use of DNA Geneaology and this new Afrocentric "wokeness" for the first time, there appear to be some interest in Africa.
This is very true. Thankfully that edginess between Africans and Caribbeans is easing up as far as I can see in the UK. My American friend said there were similar tensions in the US between the two groups and I was shocked. I think things are very slowly changing. I know in the 90s there was definitely more of a divide.
dotunn We all associate with success, Africa’s lack of development of its human capital together with inter tribal wars, hunger, political corruption and abysmal infrastructure developments to mimic what is happening on other continents makes it hard for the Blacks diaspora, not just African Americans to have any strong sense of identity with the continent . A Chinese born in America will tell you he is Chinese , a Blacks will mention America, Caribbean or Britain instead of saying they are African . That will change over time when the continent is showing its successes.
stanley glover yes that’s very true, if Africa looked half as good as Dubai, I guarantee you, the diasporans will pack their bags and head back rather than suffer racism and abuse in the USA and Europe.
Interesting bro. By the name I know you're Naija. I always thought the Caribbean-African relationship in UK was symbiotic... didn't realize there was some tension, and that the Caribbeans play things a certain way. Hmm. Useful info to know.
I actually just shared my experience with AFRICAN-Americans on my channel. We are culturally not the same, and must learn about their history. When I came to America, I was not Ghanaian anymore, had to carry the whole continent of Africa on my back, had to hear the stereotypes m, wasn’t cool to be African 7 years ago when I came, but now everyone is loving the continent. One love ❤️
All Africans who are born and raised in the diaspora with the Blacks are closer to Africa than the AA's. I met few AA's when I studied in the US that are into the mother continent especially the high academically educated. My AA colleagues called me Konta Kante if I pointed out something that is not right, although my father is from Sudan and my mother is a Black Bahraini LoL x-D
What Marintia said about African Americans not mixing with Africans makes a lot of sense to me! I’m from the UK but growing up with my dad being Nigerian and mum Caribbean it was literally like having 2 completely different race parents because Africans and Caribbeans don’t mix🤦🏽♀️
@@everaldopereira49 oh hello I didn’t know you knew my mother 🧐 well she’s actually mixed heritage but majority Caribbean 52% black if we want to get precise since she did a dna heritage test but ok you jump to conclusions with no facts 😆
Thank You Wode Maya for this particular video. The interview with the 3 beautiful Ladies. Vanessa was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel every 2 years to Ghana as a child. Marinta is the most Blessed because she had the opportunity to grow up in Ghana. Anna has had the most racial experience and it is exactly the same for a Black people living in Europe where it is severe as she explained by the Christmas season - Santa Clas in the Netherlands. Wode there is also a struggle with being mixed black where one of you parents is from the following:- Caribbean/America/Canada/Britain/ the rest of Europe and the other parent is from Africa. It would be good to interview them too. In England there are a lot of Ghanaians who have married Caribbean's which is beautiful too. Your channel is inspirational and continue with Your Great Works - Ghana Baby!!!
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I'm a Ghanaian but sometimes we Africans in America don't understand what African Americans have been through in terms of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, etc. We have to read their history on our own to appreciate their struggles because the USA school systems don't teach you indepth history of African Americans. Their struggles are the reason why we are enjoying our success in America as Africans.
This is Deep!
Finally, someone says it! They paved the way for all other immigrants of color. I say they because I'm a black immigrant from the dominican republic, they paved the way for me.
I have said these exact words to my African friends and family in the States. The same words. Wow!
And this is why God is going to allow them to thrive and be so successful on the continent of Africa because the lost and stolen have returned home. They will thrive even the more of those who are “native” born. It will come so easy and with favor.
They dont know accountability, it was long time ago
Even the people who went through it (50 and over) dont complain that much and most of them dont use it everyday to justify their situation in life. Also most of them are not hateful like the young generation.
Africa is the last place for mix people to be discriminated. They are treated wayy better than pure black
Albinos are saught for bad reasons in Africa. Africa is a melting pot of tribes why are we hurting our own I love dark skin I'm medium Brown but color depends on the level of melanin in our bodies we live in a world that glorifies lack of melanin .Melanin give us protection from the sun .people need to get educated.
@@veronicajohn2522 medium brown you are dark skin be proud
Nasibong Pinky this is not true from what I’ve experienced especially as a child 😭😂
I think that sort of thing happens in almost all black nations for some odd reason, It also happens in the Caribbean.
Lol thats not true though...
The fact that some of us still view marrying white as an achievement says a lot about how effective neocolonialism is.
@Hungarian Cuman I'm not worried😁
@Hungarian Cuman The fact that you are under this video even taking time to comment says it all😅😅😅😅. Keep throwing shades 😅😅😅🤣🤣
Thank you so much for saying that could not have said it better
You have done well. Brother achiwadi four and people think they are important. All who slept with them will loose their souls in reincarnation.
Absolutely!
Hi Wode Maya, I love this interview so much. It's great to hear about the experiences these women are having being "mixed race" in Ghana.
I am from California, USA, and recently started identifying as an African born in the diaspora.
African Americans have never been shown anything good about Africa. Growing up, it was imbedded into our psyche that Africa was a poor dusty place where people are starving. Black people are not treated well here in the states, and somehow we've made to feel that being African is even "worse". America is a racist country. Divide and conquer has been it's main method of oppression and control since our ancestors were first brought here as slaves.
Hi, Zakari from Ghana
Do you have WhatsApp?
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@@brendaandrade6753 hi
@@toggledhat864 eeii
At least some people are starting to get WOKE.
Not all react the same.
I am black woman born in USA. Love Africa. Married to a Nigerian for 40 years!!!
To all this I say we have to look beyond our prejudices and ignorance of one other and learn about our differences we will be surprise to find that we are similar many aspects than that divide us, it all begins in the mindset. Our brothers and sisters in the Americas went through a horrible system that robbed them of their humanity and their dignity all aspects of their culture we on the continent of Africa need be sensitive to their pains and we can learn a lot from them and they from us we all from mother Africa the cradle of humanity and civilisation whether you choose to believe or not.
Bijou Jewel good deal !!
Black Minoan of course, you are correct
40 years of marriage?? Dayyyuuuuuummm that’s a blessing.
Black Minoan Awww I feel you buddy
After living in America for a decade I will say the confusion between AAs and As stems from the fact that we don’t know each other’s history and struggles. The education system in Africa don’t teach anything about AAs and their struggles and their history. We don’t know much about each other. Similarly, AAs treat As based on what they’ve seen on TV (which I will blame it on the media). Not until quite recently, everything about Africa was negative, hence the dissociation. I think this generation is doing a great job learning about each other’s culture in other to relate to each other. We were all brainwashed through slavery and colonialism and should be united for a better life if anything. Irrespective of one’s race or culture, we are all humans and should love one another!
I am grateful for your comments. It speaks volumes.
Well said brotha!
That's what they have been doing since colonisation, divide and conquer. Keeping us spererate weakness but United we are stronger
Bro this is so true. My dream is for AAs and As to get past our misunderstandings of each other and unite.
I definitely agree 👍 ... this generation is getting better. I am a Nigerian American and remember in my younger years some of the most ignorant things said to me personally and also just about Africa in general. Use to hurt at first but then realized it was just plain ignorance due to what the media portrays (and this can be seen in multiple races/ethnicities). Then by the time late middle school/early high school that all went away. Its really sad how a lot of folks don't get along or have misunderstandings because of stereotypes perpetuated by the media.
I am a black man born and raised in America, and I love my African brothers and sisters with all my heart. I love my people wherever you are on the planet with all my heart!
We love you more and appreciate you
we love you too
God bless you my brother, we love you too! 🙏🏾❤️
@@fifimpia7372 And may God bless you as well tenfold! ❤️❤️
@Malcom X Jajah One love my brother!
As a Nigerian living in the United States, I’d say i do get along with African Americans pretty well. Although I’ve heard of the enmity between Africans and African Americans, I’ve never experienced it. Alot of African Americans I’ve met really wants to visit Africa but their problem is they do not know how to start the process. Last year, an African American followed i and my family to Nigeria for a month and she really enjoyed it at Nigeria. She said she wants to buy a house at Nigeria so she can come back with her own family whenever she wants.
Stop calling us African Americans...we're not from Africa and a lot of us hate being called that.
@@konpeitosama i wasn’t referring to you, i was referring to African Americans.
You would she the division more in Europe.
@@konpeitosama And some of us don’t even want to hear your name 🤦♂️
@@konpeitosama so where we from?
Mixed race people born and raised in Africa have a different experience to mixed race people born and raised aboard when they are in Africa.
Yep
@Jay Blood It's a different experience here in Africa for us mixed race people.
Very truevl
Very true
Very true! A childhood friend of mine gets all the fine girls when we were growing up. He gets special treatment from people and mostly think his dad must be rich enough to marry and bring a white woman to Africa.
Thank you so much for having me!🤎🤎 you have such a positive energy I had so much fun🥳
❤❤❤
We love your positive energy too @Marintia Goto-Williams This conversation just touched on a the funny tension between Africans and African Americans, Thanks to you. A conversation that will trend on here for quite some time.
I just think every race struggling with Identity should just associate as Ghanaian because Ghanaians are very accepting. 😊😊
We had this Afro Asian girl in our government High school, this girl knew how to tease. So whenever we had the upper hand, we will give her the popular Small eyes joke 😂😂
Hope you never had such in school....
Thanks for reading
Thanks
You did great Marintia
Mari Tia I would for you to show me Ghana. I would like to visit one day.
From my experience mixed race people in Ghana enjoy a greater amount of privilege. One of the reasons is the colonial legacy of colourism. They are often referred to as ‘obroni’ or ‘half-cast; however half-cast is a derogatory word which should never be used. Colourism is a serious issue which we should not take lightly, or else we will be creating another class of people who we will defer to and be uplifting them on the social totem. There is already classism in Ghana and if we want to add colourism to it we will create a very unequal society. If your guests are being really honest they enjoy privilege in Ghana, Ghanaians are really welcoming to a fault that they start to uplift people who look different especially fair-skin people better than dark skinned people.
We need to be careful not to feed into anti-black racism in our continent. If our brothers are mixed let us treat them as we treat those who are not mixed so as to have a fair society.
With all the anti black racism going on in this world black peoples need a safe place to exist and thrive without looking at our back. We need to respect each and our differences rather than hating or giving too much differential treatment due to the person being mixed race.
This is very deep
How would a darker skinned African be treated in Ghana? Say, someone from Sudan.
@@sirc625 Not to generalize but you would be treated calmly and with respect...However, the language barrier or your religion can be a problem for a hand full of people
We must address this prejudice before it bites us in the a** some decades to come
Eugene Ansah Yeah. The inferiority complex also plays a role
Just because someone doesn’t have the same problems as you, doesn’t mean they don’t have any problems. It is important to have empathy and compassion for others 🤗
Couldn´t have said better myself!
Amen
Just be honest and say : i don't give a *uck for those " white people" or somethink i don't care i know you treated us like a " white" anyway who thinking for other people they don't have a problems????? WTF? This video is for that the *ucking specific things in the mix race lifes. Thats all.
This message needs to get through the heads of people
I am an African born in America and I have never had a problem with Africans We Are One.
Carmen, ihola !
Carmen burns Same here sister, I haven't had any problems with African Americans. African Americans are the only one who showed me love in America
Because u are a African by parents that we talk about African American
@Strive For greatness I am African with African parents born and raised on the continent of Africa...African Americans have not messed me up. Why are you generalizing? Maybe some of them dislike Africans but not all of them. Also many Africans dislike them but not all!
@Strive For greatness Exactly! I have the same color as these women but it is not about color at all. This is about a spirit and a behavior. These women who are of recent mixture are not treated like those of us with ancient mixture who grew up in Africa. They are treated like they are gods in Africa and we are treated like we cannot do anything right, which is false. they come to Africa wearing thong bikinis, drinking alcohol, hiring house help (which is a form of slavery and an intense caste system in Africa). They are preying on African Americans because many of them are AWAKE and call them out on their spirits. This video is 1000% ugly. Also some African Americans call me Greek, which I'm not, although I might be mixed with that, but that's unknown to me; but because of the history of Egypt and how they understand the damage that has caused us till this day and I don't blame them.
I am a mother of two African American boys and I remember when I sent one to college and his roommate was African, and because my son had locs, the African's mother said that he was no good, even though she had not met him. Also, my youngest son's roommate, who is now in college, is a Nigerian boy, who is one of his best friends, and his mother and I are friends because of our children. I will say that there is a belief by the Africans that the African Americans have NOT taken advantage of the school system, and the opportunities afforded them. What they fail to acknowledge is the many ways slavery was reframed throughout the years to keep us behind and still fighting for rights that should have been ours. Anyway, we should be together because if not for us, there would be no them. We are all from the same continent. By the way Wode Maya, you are doing a great job and me and my husband will be visiting Ghana in 2022, look forward to seeing you.
About the locks it's really the older generation.....we the younger Africans don't see locks as something bad...like u said most of these things are attached to slavery....I know locks came from somewhere in Africa so we actually embrace locs and natural hair. Glad that u r visiting Ghana.... please I also invite you to visit Uganda the pearl of Africa...#onelove
Leticia Perry thank you and we will definitely think about the different places to visit. #onelove
Yes I think one needs to learn about how toxic slavery was. I noticed as a Norwegian visiting the US, I could make friends with Africans. The experience with African Americans can be more mixed, but I don't blame people. I saw many things in the US which made me deeply uncomfortable about how African Americans are treated.
It still burned into my memory being in a New York restaurant and having a grown African American man turn on the tap water and give me towels in the bathroom while wearing a fancy uniform. I was just 17 years old, and it felt so wrong to me. I know he may not have thought about it that way. But to me it felt really wrong that all these African Americans should have poorly paid jobs serving white people.
I am 42 years old now, and this is on of my strongest memories from visiting New York. I hated that moment so much. I didn't not want to be the spoiled white kid. It was a total shit job IMHO. Nobody needed to do it. But this guy had to do it to put food on the table.
I know sometimes African Americans don't like me for being white, but I don't take it personal. I still try to do my best to educate people about racism. I have tried to explain to other whites the consequence of slavery with examples from Europe such as how Germans born to East German parents are worse off in Germany, get discriminated and labeled Ossi. They do worse in all walk of live compared to other Germans. That is the legacy of 40 years of communism. So I ask people, what do you think 400 years of slavery, and later segregation has done to people?
We are all products of our ancestors and their experiences. In fact it goes both ways. Racism is also taught. Racists are almost alway a product of their family, and environment they grew up in. One has to believe in change, to make change.
Better make that 2021.jah bless.
I’ve heard the same from black people Non AA and even other races from outside the US about African Americans not taking advantage of the many opportunities in this country. Or that immigrant blacks go further in life than African Americans all the while failing to mention that if they’ve been able to succeed as an immigrant black person; it has been because of the struggle of the AA.
Guys let's be honest though,mixed people don't have real problems in Africa,walk into an interview with the same credentials as a mixed race person and be sure to not get the position,they are always favoured which is sad cos it's a subtle sign of how inferior we see ourselves
They never talk about this but instead they want to make it seem like black people are just as racist as the white people they came from because they dont want to tell the truth about their racist parent
True at the mixed priviledge they do enjoy in Africa.
Growing up the only times that I have observed mixed kids having a hard time are :
1. If they have a black mum and there is no white father in the picture..they are called bastards quite often.
2. If their parents are poor and lower income earners and they live in the " hood"- the kids are given a real hard time becos unfortunately Africans used to think all whites were rich.
That's just as stupid as me saying non "mixed" people in Africa don't have real problems.
Yes indoctrination and colonisation did a bad job on our people many still thinks White is a savior because of what churches had preached and indoctrinate our people with.
Facts.
Their proximity to whiteness mixed with our anti-Black mentality is fatal. We are suicidal when we uplift the products of interracial unions rather than put our own on a pedestal. Our competitors have done an amazing job at twisting our psychology to their benefit and to our detriment. Certainly the mixed race/biracial offspring will be and is used as a buffer class.
I am also a black Cuban living in Long Island, NY. I have never felt at home. Not in Cuba , my country of birth, never in the Americas. Thanks for sharing your beautiful experiences. I am definitely going to make it to Africa. Mother Africa.❤️🙏🌺💥🎶
The mind set that bringing a white person or a non black person home is a blessing is a big sign of our low self value. The mind set that “light, bright and white is right” is Insidious and sadly slows Africans down, it also encourages beautiful women to bleach their skin in order to achieve a higher value in the African society which needs to be addressed. The long and short of it is that you will be favoured for being mixed race - the down side is the fetishisation... you will be instantly loved for being exotic but you’ll have to be mindful of whether they love who you are or just the brightness of your skin. This goes for friendship and especially dating. ❤️
Well put
Absolutely sis!
Njumanvùi Mùnmom ....” has the most arable land “ as you say : is hugely relevant ,, how deep white supremacist brainwash propaganda has impacted our brains !!!!!
Sherrifa Owusu yeah, is SO freaking ridiculous! Like Malcolm X said hating the oppressed and loving the opressor.... not only lack of value just being nuts really!!!
true
To say that African Americans don't like Africans is false. We all don't think alike. I will say that because of our cultural differences we don't necessarily go out of our way to mingle with African immigrants. It's not on purpose, it's just how the United States is. People tend to gravitate towards people more like themselves.
Not true, black people really don't like their own, they prefer other races more. Lucifer (the gods of this world) program such?
exactly.
I agree
The media created the wedge. The walls are coming down.
Lov McPherson, that is not true!
Can we stop making blanket disparaging comments. Instead of: ‘AAs, this and that. Or Africans, this and that’.
Let’s instead say: ‘In my experience, SOME AAs...or SOME Africans...’
This is how intelligent, rational adults speak. We don’t make blanket generalizations when speaking about important topics. We ALL need to do better!
I agree but of course we don’t need to say SOME all the time ...as I’m pretty sure that we know they mean but some ppl don’t take it that way
@@sumeya1923 Butb the thing is not all of us know what they mean. Or at least it shouldn't be up to us to try and figure out exactly what they mean.
When someone in the USA says "black people do.....", we can all reasonably assume that they are talking about black people in their own country.
The problem however rises when a video like this says "Africans believe/think/say/do.....". In this video alone there are only 4 people who are supposed to represent a continent of over 50 countries. I don't think I have to point out that people living in Egypt, Mali and Botswana will have vastly different experiences for example.
And of course this isn't the only video to do this but like the original commenter said, we must be careful in just labeling a big group of people under one giant umbrella.
@@sumeya1923 We use words to communicate thoughts/ideas. The more accurate the word choice, the more accurate the communication. A lot of the comments on this thread would be moot points if the subjects in this video hadn't spoken disparagingly about other peoples of African descent, while promoting negative generalizations.
We must speak more highly about each other, and at the very least, be specific when addressing a negative situation/experience.
Wode Maya really needs to really learn that.
@@sumeya1923 nah it has to be said. Not saying it is what creates more ignorant people that just believe this kind of thing when they hear it
Mixed people struggle in Africa? You're joking, right? They're almost like royalties in Angola 🤣
@ShutterDe DON definitely not in South Africa. We don’t reject them but we don’t treat them like royals either. We just treat them as one of us.
@ShutterDe DON No haha. About 5 million South Africans consider themselves as mixed race or “colored” people. They are common place here. So they are treated like everyone else.
Light skinned people in Angola way back in the days they use to be our royals untouchable riches owners of all the banks, but now something is changing.
@ShutterDe DON I’ve lived in other African countries. You’ve never lived in SA. I know what I’m talking about when I say SA is far more diverse than other African countries. And that doesn’t make us any better or lesser than any African countries. It’s just the way it is. Go argue with your mixed-race-worshiping county men 😂
@@lancemt5074 you're right. Got that from reading Trevor Noah's born a crime
No what's lost is thinking that bringing home a non black person is an achievement. That's fetishization and self hate imo.
All over the world -- caribbean no different.
Very true it’s sad though 🤦♂️
If a Indian person brings home a white person it's seen as an achievement as well😂
It’s due to colonialism and white supremacy
@@mariasingh3424 are you an Indian if I may ask???
For real as Ghanaians we must stop calling Asian people or people with a monolid Chinese.
And they must stop disrespecting you in your own house. They are guest on the land they eat.
@@kkv6124I agree with that.
A lot of people in the US and Latin America do the same.
Who cares tell them.to stop being racist
@@saeon4427 A lot of Asians are racist, yes, but that's not what I was talking about.
Blacks are blacks, whites are whites, biracials are biracials.
THAT PART!!!
@Glock hands87 If both ur parents are black, you black, if both ur parents are white, you white, if your parents are 2 different races then you're biracial. Having a lil bit of other DNA means almost nothing if supposedly everyone has it, time to look at dominants then, reminds me of white girls with like 2 percent native DNA then claiming they're mixed.
@Glock hands87 No problem brother, stay blessed & safe 👍
Biracials can be any race as long as they the same
Exactly! I don't know why that is so hard to understand.
I’m an African American who is learning about Africa and African people. We in America do not know Africans.
Thank you for opening our eyes to Africa. We are only taught negative things about Africa.
My bucket list is to visit Africa since I’ve been watching you.
They show us only the worst of Africa. But thank God for media
Speak for yourself. I know Many Africans!
I’m learning more and more about the motherland.
It is hard for me to think about how much I did not know until Wode Maya on TH-cam
@@l.e.c9620 hahahaahahahha hello
@@l.e.c9620 One thing you have to know is that Africans are not monolithic
Welcome to Mama Africa......❤️
They'll never show the positive about Africa they only show the worst
I think mixed race people should be free to claim both heritages. They shouldn't have to choose one because they are a mixture!
and those of the heritage they claim should be free to reject them
If you mix white paint with blk , it’s not white no more
Lady G it doesn't make black either
Jacqueline Grant no, that just means white people make the choice ”one drop rule” and black people accept it. Black people need to think for themselves. Mixed people are black and white (Other) not one or the other. They are usually proud of both their mother and fathers lineage. The confusion comes when they deny one side in favor of the other. If you let other people's labels determine your identity you will have a lot of internal conflict. Personally why I will only marry black and keep it simple. Plus I love being black-black.
Jacqueline Grant it’s the same in Australia too
The title should be “struggle as a mixed race in the western world” bcuz in Africa, being mixed gets you some extra special treatment. I think it depends on where they are at a time. In Ghana they will feel more home than the west
I agree with you.
Agreed
"Extra special treatments"???? Wow!
Peach Butler yup. This isn’t different from all those light skin dark skin jokes that used to be so popular amongst our people before social media (Instagram to be exact) Remember this conversation had always existed and I believe its root sterns from Slavery. Remember the masters will rape the women and their offsprings will he kept in the house mostly than the field. It trickles town till today. If a light skin and darker skin walks into a space of men, they will give more attention to the lighter one. Have you forgotten how America hip hop videos used to be? Same thing
@Diane M. not true in America. Mixed (light skinned) people are elevated over fully black people in the US.
Not all African Americans are like that. For all my 18 years in the US I have only experienced it once. I feel comfortable more around African Americans. They are strong, motivated, and they endure alot.
I don't think any of them have lived in America for an extended period of time. My take th-cam.com/video/RjQYxOf5oAo/w-d-xo.html
True. Obviously with 40 million population over different generations not all will have the same view. Similarly out the 1.3 billion Africans a million of who are in America not all think the same way. Here is very positive article on AAs by a Ghanaian lady in America: www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/The-blindspot-Owning-my-African-privilege-in-a-racialized-America-1055512
As a mixed race person living in Africa (Kenya) I really appreciate this video. I also like that you chose some people who grew up in Europe and one that grew up in Africa. Being mixed race is complicated and I’m glad this video shed some light on it.
Maya: These guys are missing the point. The biggest difference is the West differentiation is rooted in hate unlike the African.
***The African embrace their kids, mixed or not. The Euro does not embrace biracial kids. This is why the feel at home in Ghana.
Africans shouldnt be mixing in the first place tbh.
@@MedusasSnakePit Wth? They spit on you? Then if you retaliate by opening a can of whoop ass on them then they will say aboriginal is wrong. My heart goes out the your people because we have to deal with so many similar things. I watch Australian news as well.
@@MedusasSnakePit dont accept that term its racist
Sherri Solomon yes and thank you for your understanding. I had truly awful experiences with racism in Australia but I grew up in the 90s. I had a few African friends too when I was a teenager and they also had absolute horror stories to tell. Myself and one Ethiopian boy were actually chased by a carfull of young white men wielding axes once. I have children of my own now and although they do experience racism, here and there, thankfully they don’t have to deal with the same extent with regard to violence and assault. And also if you have a conversation with aboriginal people here you will truly appalled at the things they have survived in this country.
Yes AA came after Vanessa kambi on her own TH-cam channel for marrying a white man. It’s so sad why they came after that beautiful woman as if she chooses to be mixed. AA hate mixed couples , they hate mixed people , they even hate their light skin children and will always come up with the slavery bullshit. Rubbish. There just so much hate in them , that they can’t think straight.
Who else commented before watching the video
Wode Maya is. Getting me addicted to this channel ❤️
I really like your videos! Florida born and raised. I’m seeing Africa in a whole new light! Great job you are doing.
You have space to yourself in Africa to breath in
Remember tho African Americans and Africans are different the bible calls african Americans, hebrew Israelites from the tribe of judah and Africans hamites we all dont identify ourselves with what God calls us that's the root of confusion. You are who your father is at the end of the day.
I’m African American in the United States. There’s a couple reasons why some black people have an issue with African identity. Our Euro-centric (white) school systems don’t allow us to connect with the motherland as much as we wish we could. Also, being Black has been the source of so much pain that many people try to run from it. It’s an identity complex that some of us are trying to cope with. I will be visiting Ghana soon 💪🏾 🇬🇭
So well said thanks for saying this, I am African American and agree 10 fold.
Enjoy your visit to Ghana. And remember, you're not African and you're not Ghanaian. You're American. Remember that and you will have a great time.
Africans sold us away, many can never be Africans again.
@@HobbsBhipp Africans were tricked thinking they were taking Africans to do paid work, and then america came back and stole more Africans from their villages
@Andrew Trought That was not my intention.
The thing is that Africa is so diverse it has countries with mixed looking people, the first girl from the left could blend in Ethiopia, the blasian girl could blend in Madagascar and Vanessa would easily blend in Cape Verde. If people want to blend in, there are various places.
Yeah they look Polynesian
@Adrian Bradey no they can t pass in north africa at all ;maybe south of mauritania ;
In America, no one would bat an eye at any of them. They wouldn't feel out of place at all because America is so mixed up as is. Vanessa looks like some of my family members.
@Adrian Bradey even north africans morrocans who are mixed with westafricans(harratins) don t look like that mixed race girls ;focus on the features not the skin color ; they can t pass as north africans ; maybe west africans inmigrants living there or mixed race morrocans plus west africans(harratins)
@Adrian Bradey are you american right ?you guys focus a lot on skin color not features ;race is not about skin color;
It's not possible to be treated bad in Africa while being white, mixed or fair because we treat them better than ourselves even. It's the darker people in school or society that really have more struggles which is really surprising because we are Africans.
Albinos in Tanzania get treated the worst
@@frankie7529 Yeah but they are sub saharan with white skin.
Very very very true submission
@@batavica4135 South Africa is different than west Africa in that regards. They’re generally more xenophobic than other Africans. In the west mixed race people and white people are definitely treated way better than other African people on average.
@@Jeremy-sj3pr that's because in West Africa white people left a loooong time ago and noe they are viewed like mini gods. Southern Africa still have whites and more mixed race and nobody gives them better treatment than anyone else. They are just people.
Be careful of using 1 or two isolated cases and generalize about a whole group of people.
I'm so over it
*THANK YOU!*
it happens a lot it’s not one or two
Wode Maya, I watch your show, as a Tanzanian in the diaspora and married to a white woman with two beautiful kids, I can tell you that there is a problem with humans, especially when we do not know the others. I think what you four are doing here is great! Thanks a lot.
To be honest this wasn't about African Americans the discussion was about mixed race, I don't get the comments am seeing everyone talking about African Americans
Bc the person in the video said, "write in the comments below if you think African Americans treat Africans differently"
@Fay Con you cannot look "african american", they look mixed race... we have mixed race people here in Africa too
Fay Con not mostly , only some there are a lot of black Americans . Some are mixed with white because maybe an ancestor was raped but that doesn’t mean they are mixed race if they have a small percentage of white
@Fay Con Mixed kids dont look mexican they look mixed. Some mixed people look more black whereas some are white passing. Some have freckles some dont. Stop generalizing a group of people . There are "darker" ones, all over the US and Africa too
African Americans think they have the monopoly on being black. They seem to think that everything is based off of their history.
"Don't care where you come from as long as you're a black man you're an African
No mind your complexion there is no rejection" -Peter Tosh
"Peter M. Tosh, OM (born Winston Hubert McIntosh; 19 October 1944 - 11 September 1987) was a Jamaican reggae musician."
There’s no struggle for mixed race girls in Africa stopppp this
Exactly
I don’t agree I got hated on in South Africa for being Coloured/mixed.
Stop lying we do
Historically the privileged class in Africa especially Ghana. The children of colonist were given higher status over the blacks. In Ghana they are also over represented in media.
Shut up you can’t speak on things that you haven’t experienced
Am an African married to African American, my children always had issues in School coz their mother is an immigrant . Personally I have never had issue with other African Americans when I tell them am African, they find it weird coz am more light skinned than other Africans, I usually have to explain that I come from the Island ( Zanzibar ) and we have all sorts of skin tones.
I love your Channel!
@@WODEMAYA Thank you!
Don’t Afrikans in general have all sorts of skin tones? Here in South Afrika and in fact anywhere in Afrika, there are all kinds of skin tones because the black mother is God and can give birth to all colours.
@@aromaofzanzibar dada mambo vp nijibu kama wew ni mzanzibar
@@mgasathedon1579 sawa
African peaple are naturally humen, warm and hospitable;we don't just hate unless there is a reason!
yea right
You right Bro 👍
But we hate each other but nice to outsiders
@@Kingajetun said:"we don't just hate unless der s à reason" .
There’s been quite a few civil wars and genocides in the African continent
I love the girl who unapologetically mixed race. Vanessa I believe her name is. She seems very self aware and mature when it comes to this topic. I personally feel one should never make a person feel bad for loving BOTH sides of your culture! Despite some of the ignorance you may experience on each side.
Sean Tottenham Black Americans are a hybrid people. We are forced to accept mixed people, we simply make up a people group called African American. I don’t judge how other mixed people identify in other countries, so why does it matter how we mixed people identify in the U.S?
Omg! I am called an African American woman. Mixed race.
I interact with some Africans and I love them.
It is my desire to live in Ghana. Wish I could live there. Tv producer writer.
Bachelor in communication. If I had a job. I would leave tomorrow. Love your show! WODE MAYA!
Much success to u.
So nice to hear that sis. All the best 👍👍👍 all the way from Dr Congo
I suggest you rather work on setting up your own movie production house .
@@kaybee3757 that would take a lot of money
@Greta Gassaway start making connections with the local film community. Following their instagram or Facebook pages. Institutions like NAFTI, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation or private media houses. That way you can start networking for work opportunities
TVS Ltd thank you so much. I certainly will. Praying and answering the call of God on my life. My aim is to go home Africa, learn from the Queen’s there and bless them in return. God’s best to you.
As a light skin Somali whos been to Somalia 🇸🇴 and Kenya 🇰🇪 all I half to say is the African continent has some of the kindest people in the world! And they don’t care what your skin color is! 🙌🏽
The world is so much more than black & white, Wode Maya I'm so glad you made this video ❤️
Wada Maya is all love. That is why I subscribed to him!
@Zion Roots yep, thats how the enemy sees it.
@Kuro Zee fact brother
I’m from California and biracial and have only ever had positive interactions with Africans and they’re extremely polite.
There are only 3 categories....white , non white and white supremacist. Everyone in the west has Europeans blood so to lessen confusion you are obviously a non white
@Kofi Sam "I can love any race and still maintain my self-steem" Exactly!!💯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Actually people think being African you got to be very dark skinned....and people ask me r u really African...I say 💯 proud too..... dear world Africa is mixed with so many complexions....dark, chocolate, light, and white....no one race is better than the other... it's the character that really matters. Now if u haven't left the African continent ( not SA and Egypt), u might not know that racism actually exists in the world...not until I traveled to the USA that now I know that racism is real.
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I am North African and my skin is fair. I feel bad for the immigrants and the people that were always there because some of my people are racist towards them even though we share the same haplogroup that comes from east africa
@@Mesfin887 tell her they are delusional those notherners enemies of Africa
I get called wannabe white mostly by nigerians because I'm light a light skinned Southern African 😂😂😂😂 I once dyed my hair blonde and some filters make me look "mixed" so every time I commented on a page on fb Nigerians would be on my neck saying "you mixed people don't belong to Africa" and when they realized I'm African they'd say I bleach my skin when the only thing I bleach from time to time is my hair 😂😂😂😂
@THE LORD OF POETRY that's very dumb. Everyone who was born and raised here is from here and there's nothing you can do about it.
I love Vanessa’s explanation of being mixed race. Call a spade a spade, they are mixed race!!!
African Americans are mixed race.
@@deedeelaveen6872 Not all of them.
@@villageboydee For you to say African Americans are mixed race, and amongst 46 million people, NOT EVEN one is 100% African is completely innacurate😅 there're some if not many who are 100% African, Lmao not even most Africans are 100% African💀(WELP!!) but yeah, you right, the reason African Americans blend in with Africa and Africans is because it was meant to be so, it's their land too!
If you do your research you’ll see that the average AA is 65-75% African. Louis Gates from Harvard completed a study on it. Are there some of us who have more? Sure. But that’s not the case most of the time.
@@villageboydee not true , according to scriptures Romans 11: 1-7 TMH YAH preserved his seed 1st TMH YAH PRESERVED 7000 MEN who have never mixed and there is also an remnant according to the election of grace . We must know who we are and speak facts other wise we are like a tree that has no roots.. it was and still is sin for the chosen to.mix their seed with other nations. Tobit 4: 12-13 mixing is sin , numbers 36: 6-9 we all are from nations and tribes of people and our nation are blessed for marrying within their own tribes . Joshua 23: 12-13 If you marry these strange people TMH YAH will destroy you. Israel the chosen !
Wode Maya you need to do a video and ask the people of mixed race if they are enjoying Ghana because of the priviledges they get due to them being light skin
I second that👍🏾👍🏾
Cyril Simpson OMG how ignorant this comment is... so light skinned people supposedly having privileges (can’t speak on that, never been there) is a reason to be upset at the mixed people or the people who create those privileges for them??? So I am suppose to forever live in a racist white person society, so you don’t feel like other people are giving me privileges based upon my skin tone?! Makes absolutely no sense my friend
@@MissFlorenceBeauty just because you cant speak on it doesn't mean it don't happen.
cmben I know it’s a thing... but it’s a thing WORLDWIDE!! In South America for example people with my skin tone, especially women, are being looked down on, white women are the goddesses. I was a young girl, ashamed of me skin tone, hair texture, wishing I was white, blond with straight hair because I grew up in Europe and that’s what I saw growing up. So don’t @me for privilege. I am well aware it happens. What I’m saying is, me wanting to connect with my roots has absolutely nothing to do with me thinking: yeah let’s move to Africa so I can take advantage of my privileges there. Stop making it seem like everyone cares about that. I literally couldn’t care less. I want to connect to my Ghanaian side and that shouldn’t be a problem just because I am not 100% Ghanaian...
SOME BIRACIALS MAKE IT HARD FOR THE AUTHENTIC ONES!
IN AMERICA MOST OF THEM CRINGE @ BEING CALLED BLACK!!
THEY RIDE TGE FENCE OF BOTH RACES
To my Americans from African decent. I apologise for my ignorance and finally understand your struggles and stand with you in this fight for equality💪🏿💪🏿
Apology accepted❤❤❤
The Democratic Party is evil
As a black American who went to a predominantly black school in the U.S., including a few African students, black Americans and Africans did not separate themselves. We got along just fine.
We all do get along more than any other group, that's a fact but in depth when it's just us, alotta times differences are pointed out coz some of our family from the diaspora don't rock with the term "African American" they preffer black and a topic like that will open up more about how we create alot of separation amongst ourselves at the end of the day in times we shouldn't coz the system don't care if u was born in America with your family generations being American too, they gon' see u and I as the same person and we all gon' "fit eachother's description" to them!
@Afro arkhitekton I feel u, fam. But just one thing I wanted to add is that, I been in Africa too and people out there love y'all so much. I'm only saying this coz alot of brothaz and sistaz think otherwise so they'll emphasize the "not African" part big time. But at the end of the day, u right u ain't African no more, but it don't hurt for all of us to kind of connect all the dots and re-build a bigger and better Family. As Black people from any part of the world, and this is best done by loving,learning and preserving an African culture in whatever way hence embracing our kind instead of any other ways that we adopt "with/without a choice". And I ain't even talkin bout u coz I know what u about by just reading your name, this message for all of us, African or not! We still got African in our blood💯.. Respeck🙏🏾
@Afro arkhitekton Respect that,💯
One thing I really don't like about Americans is the one drop rule thing. That's so racist! A mixed race person is obliged to identify as black because if they say they are mixed race people will say it's racist. It doesn't make any sense...
@@sumimaind That's not really a thing anymore as it was in the past to the extent you're thinking. Someone who's half black half white can put both white and black on some, if not most now, legal documents.
Hi Wada
I definitely relate to their experience, I have a mixed daughter and she went through all these to a point I relocated her to Nigeria for 5yrs, there ,she was much more accepted, respected, now she's back in Asia, but that journey was like a discovery of herself, now she can't wait to settle in Africa. Thanks Maya for this video.
Most races will NOT accept mixed people into their community, even if they are half X. Black people are the only ones that will accept a half Asian/Half black person, but go to Japan or China or India or Netherlands or Denmark or UK and see if the locals there will accept you. They will NOT, they will treat you as an outsider.
It’s not true for all. I’ve gotten along with Africans very well. They are my people!
I have too. My African/Alkubulan brothers and sisters. I use Alkubulan, key Swahali as Africa means the conquored one and l wish the continent will be renamed. My experienced is that Alkubalanians do not really understand slavery and what the diasparo went thru. But my sisters and brothers in Alkubulan had their own slavery in the continent. After reading of Water and Fire, l know colonization also existed in Alkubulan. Rape by Jesuit priest of Alkubulan men, flogging to beat theur Alkubalan name changed to Jack or John. Alkubulan was also colonized within their own country, not only us by the midde passage. We have more in common than our beautiful dark skin
Their not talking about your experiences their talking about their own
She probably interacted with a few AA and now she labeling all of us. I judge ppl by them not a country.
As an African “American” (Americanized African) Man, I can tell you it’s some truth to what the Half Japanese/Half African sista was saying about AA’s and African relationships. But I feel like the topic is much more complex and complicated than that. Even when they spoke on interracial relationships and how African Americans only want to date Black ppl deserves a lot more context and detail. Race in America is a lot more hostile than the Netherlands, Japan or the UK. And interracial relationships in this country generally isn’t the most genuine of relationships in this country. Racism is deeply embedded in American culture. A white person can get in a relationship with a Black lesson and still have a disdain for Black people. So I think you really need some African Americans to fully speak on that topic brotha Wode Maya. But I respect they perspective and like always I appreciate you Wode. Btw I grew up in a Pan African household so I’ve always identify as an African. There are a significant amount of us that embrace our African identity and interact with Continental African Brothas and sistas. I have Nigerian/ Kenyan/ Ghanaian and Ugandan friends. But I understand the majority of my AA ppl do have anti- African feelings or just ignorance towards Africans. It’s complicated.
True!
barely in the uk . the uk is racist just beneath the usa. usa is ten uk is 9 on the list of most racist countries austrailia is 8. so i can't say there is much a difference just the usa has guns. japan is 5 on most racist list so i'd think twice before assuming any of them aren't racist.
terrica m the USA is currently promoting racism right now to try to became re-elected
you're right as well, but i feel people are overlooking the cultural differences between the two groups. meaning, though their all black people, peoples of africa have a different culture than those from the us, and ignorance on both sides contributes as well, but once the language barrier is hurdled, we find we have more in common than previously thought.
@Jade Star ✊🏾🇧🇮
what the Japanese Ghanaian lady said about Africans and African Americans not liking each other in the USA is very true! It's so wierd like we're all black🤷🏽♂️
not true
Yes it's due to the aggressive brainwashing policy maintained by the oppressor to forever keep the two branches of west Africans apart so they'll never communicate with each other
@Afro arkhitekton Not so.
Other than in the event of war
I am half lebanese half german and i can totaly relate to these women experiences. Being "mixed" has its own challenges and its unique priveleges :)
an observation i made with *some* mixed race ppl is that:
People mixed with black and asian or any two minorities, most likely say their mixed with those two races. Whereas some mixed with black and white or any minority and white, most likely will say their the minority and not that their mixed. Yet again something *I* noticed, not saying its a fact.
@@henrydo8377 ur correct, and i was using them as an example when it comes to places like america
As if there's something wrong about being part/fully white...
@@itzmichahere4904 now did i say that? No so whats ur point of commenting this hmm???
I think this is because they are identifying with their experience, people with one asian parent and one white parent usually look full asian and will identify and experience race as an asian person, also many black n white mixed ppls, lets say obama is experiencing the world as a black man and being treated as such, usually when people are mixed with white they don't look white but the other race, which is why i think they don't say their mixed
the conversation is really interesting and makes me wonder if racially ambiguous ppl, ppl who experience their life as biracial and get treated as such should identify as biracial not black, iranian etc.. such as mariah carey, rashida jones etc
@@3otterlover U made a lot of sense here. Before I always thought if ur mixed with white and black just say ur mixed, however there are mixed ppl who don't look "mixed" but just white or black. Hence they say I'm black or white, cause they look that way. And I agree with the experience thing as well, great point.
Systematic-Institutionalized racism, colourism, and colonized mindsets are alive and well and impact Black people “everywhere” everyday in some way shape or form.
And that's across the globe, whether it's the idea that women of other races are a prize, to the alienation of your relatives, distant and near, due to their complexion or culture.
B W Exactly.
Very true sister it's very well alive.
Do you mean the Jim Crow law is back and has been supported? Please explain.
@@claudshairandfood
No they mean the ideas of racism continue and continue to be practiced through individuals. Why are all these mixed people in this video wanting to be called 'black' and don't want to identify with the other side of their race?
Thank you for having this discussion you guys! It’s so needed. I identify with both my cultures Liberian 🇱🇷 & Swedish 🇸🇪 but I grew up in Liberia, that’s where I’m rooted, so I’m Liberian but I am also very Swedish too and I’ve lived in Sweden the longest. I’m just 100% ME 🤎
Half Liberian here, myself. Except, I'm Gambian on my other side.
Roligt att man ser en annan svensk kommentera här. :P
She is right! We as African Americans have been brainwashed about other Africans and I personally remember growing up with negative impressions of Africans. It's sad, and some African Americans WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING AFRICAN! It's horrible. It wasn't until I joined the Black Student Union and really learned about the unity of black people around the world and an appreciation for being African.
Us African-Americans(not me) but us as a whole were conditioned to get away from anything dealing with Africa & we were stripped from our African identity.We want to be everything else except African.
True that’s why they treat other races better than Africans
I am married to an African-American and he says exactly the same. They have brainwashed them so much that they can’t embrace anything related to Africa. Everything they are being thaught, if anything, is nothing they would be proud of. He now can embrace it, because he is married to me (half Ghanaian) and because he learned about the „real“ Africa. But to be fair, he has been not living in the US for almost 30 years, so he doesn’t really have their mindset anymore... it truly is sad
You right. as an African I can tell you it goes both ways though. Some Africans are really clueless about African-Americans history so that’s why there’s so much tensions between us. It is nothing but a results of Slavery and Colonization.
really?
Deshone Robinson here we go again we that indigenous American. So question, where did you think your so called black indigenous Americans came from?
My Africa American friend cried when someone said she looked African. I just laughed and confused. I cut ties with her because she used to look down on me, said really really mean things to me and made fun of my bad days. But I have other great African Americans friends who want to visit and learn from me.
P.S my comment is not to bash African Americans, most of my closest friends are A.A I love them and wouldn’t trade my friendship with them. If you African coming to the United State you have to be patient and don’t let bad experiences stop you from meeting amazing A.A.
You'll notice all the diaspora youtubers take pride if they are mistaken for a local, it's a self-hatred issue created by white supremacist american media.
@@newsnowpan-afrika2875 this is true. I am mixed race but only once has someone thought I was black. Most times people call me Arab and I feel offended. On the few times that people asked me if I was Spanish or Italian, I felt complimented. It's internalized racism.
She is brain washed. See in America the imagery is push of Whites doing well, just based on their skin color (has nothing to do with race or ethnicity) only skin color. That type of “day in” and “day out” push to depict and glorify White America, is going to have 2 distinct effects on African Americans!!!
You will:
Want to or not want to be viewed as White, with all the underlining rights that come with it (
chigeh when I was young people used to call me Barbie doll because of how tiny I was and I would get offended. In my country if someone calls you a Barbie doll it means you built like a whit woman. I guess it really in the mind.
Damn that’s messed up
Thank you for having me 🥰
Hey love x
Great interview u made and being proud of ur black identity. Holland isn't any different from Germany, as you'll always be reminded about where u're from and never accept 100% in the society. Vanessa from Scotland isn't being honest to accept/embrace her black identity. Maybe Scotland is heaven for blacks or mixed race. She should come live in Germany or elsewhere in Europe and she'll be place in the right box, which will humble her to stand 100% of her blackness.
Thanks for keeping it real
Awesome contributions Anna
@@biologic9081 you know all about her and so you feel entitled to lecture her about the quality of her blackness. She isn't black enough (you're the expert on that), so she needs to be put in her "realistic" black box, right? She also needs to get bashed in by blacks who look down on her for having a white mother and having the nerve to call herself black when she wakes up.
I am Ghanaian but immigrated to the US around 10 years old. I remember 3 African Americans in my class. Of which only one would always make fun of me and ask me ignorant questions about if we walked around naked or lived in huts. I was ALWAYS mad. My dad would always tell me not to get mad and mention that they were ignorant and all we need to do was educate them-which I did. Again and again. After a few years from elementary into high school, I got along with him and a lot of the other African Americans. Media plays a huge role in what we perceive. I also believe that education is needed on both sides and obviously compassion for one another.
I am half Ghanaian and half Dutch. Born & raised in the Netherlands and have visited Ghana regularly. In my experience both in Ghana and the Netherlands I personally have not come across too many racism. It is true that in both countries they will let you know that you are not white or black, as a mixed race sometimes it is therefor difficult to know where you belong and have the feeling that you need to make a choice between one or the other. In the Netherlands they will let me know I’m different but most often ignore my skin colour, I only receive curious questions about my ethnicity. Btw I was also raised in a white environment, luckily without the bad experiences that Anna has had to welcome in her life but I do sometimes have the feeling I’m not included since I’m not fully Dutch and have a different cultural background.. In Ghana im most often welcomed as their own and often told that I am Ghanaian/African :) Only people (especially children) who don’t know me and come from a distance will call me obroni, I’m fine with it since I am foreign and also feel comfortable with my Dutch cultural background and also expect a response like this however still would like to blend in more sometimes to avoid too many eyes on me plus higher taxi rates lol but I think every foreign person would experience this no matter black or white and for the people saying that mixed-race receive more privileges, I wouldn’t know which. I talk about Ghana everyday, to me Ghana is love, a place I call home.. Call me obroni, half-caste, White, black, Dutch, I am proud to tell you I am a Ghanaian
God bless you to
Anna Acheampong's experience was really bad. I like how she's real about it.
butterfly dragon
She seems entitled to black identity even though she's far from black. We don't want that
@@blackblaze5271 who's "we"? Speak for yourself. There's no such thing as "Black identity" you sound like an American.
Sounds like a typical scandinavian country Anna lived in. If your ancestors were not vikings you are not one of them
@@TUNTALKS
Oh so you don't consider them as black then? And I'm only referring back to the video. All they talked about was being black or mixed or white.
@@blackblaze5271 she is black all of them are black.
Half Accra half takoradi🤣🤣🤣
lol
Hahahahah. Half Kwesimintim,Half Kwabenya
Thank you Maya for bringing up topics such as this. Much love my brother 🙏🏾
Ethiopians are diverse: all range of shades. There are people lighter than the mixed girls. There are also people darker than Wode Maye. After all, we should be defined by our character not by the colour of our skin. Our diversity is our beauty and strength. Africa Unite.
@nita bineta True.
Facts. Both my parents are Ethiopians and my skin color is the same as the girl’s and my sister skin color is lighter than those girls. I was surprised that they do call themselves black. And ya africa is very diverse 🤙🏽
Indigenous Ethiopians are dark skin, only the people with mixed ancestry are light.
@G. Beauty Who said only Ethiopians are light skinned?
@@elhammohammedyasin6239 They may all be native but they definitely are not all 100% indigenous (although all/ the majority will have indigenous ancestry). If you are Ethiopian then you should know about the Arab invasion. Do a DNA test and you will probably discover that you have mixed ancestry.
Ghanaians in general accept anyone who claimed to be black/African. The ex-president Jerry John Rawlings is mixed Ghanaian and Scottish and he ruled for many years.
For the most part this true. But I can remember being a child and was told by a Ghanaian man that I was not black because Black people over here are not pure. This one moment in my life have stuck in my head to this day. I have visited Ghana and for the most part, I can say being there made me feel a sense of belonging, however, I did not like being called oburoni.
kennyx donkz
Yes, destroyed our country and did many wicked things. And people followed him cause they called him 'jesus' and saw him as white. Yeah, no problem with mingling your identity with people who hate you
@@cyberopteryx
Well too bad bro. I don't see you guys complaining at white people for calling you black. Both sides have their opinion. Why do you think you get to control the black opinion?
Also this is about mixed people not black americans...
BlackBlaze stop with the lies. No Ghanaians ever called Rawlings Jesus so cut it off, I get it you don’t like him fine but don’t speak for all Ghanaians. Rawlings did not destroyed Ghana
@@reezak78
You don't know your history then. Yes people said he looks like jesus 😁 And of course they were basing it on the european depiction of jesus
These people are light as me. I am 100% African Bantu/Zulu in South Africa
& Our mixed race are way lighter, I'd think them just black
What's a bantu?
Black comes in all shades!
@@SD_M9 they must come to South Africa they will see that they are black
@@cosmo_mosy There's a small percentage of Khoisan ancestry found in some West African individuals. Including myself it's not a significant amount just 2.5%.
@@cosmo_mosy No I don't think so it said 2.5% Khoisan and 1.4% Pygmy. Now I know a lot my relatives are lightskinned and have epicanthal folds. BTW I'm a proud West-African and proud of my predominantly Bantu heritage. There are also traces of Nilotic in ancestry there. But I claim my predominate acenstry.
I’m a light skin African-American and I like to be called an African. When I went to Kenya in 1997 it was no problems like there is now with Africans concerning race. Things change.
tha'ts because yall hatred spread over to them
Once you decide to be an enemy of the Black Race then Africans will surely make you know you aren't wanted in their land. The light skinned people/mixed have had a reputation of degrading darker blacks that's why In South Africa thry are completely cut off the African family tree, they are a completely different race altogether. Same is slowly applying to the rest of Africa.
The “degree of blackness” really doesn’t matter that much in west Africa.. I think it’s a Southern Africa thing because of the whole “colored” race they have in SA. In Ghana, being called “Obroni” is not derogatory. It’s just a description of your light skin. Even full Ghanaians who are light skinned may be called Obroni.
It’s amazing to see all four of you. I love your work.
Wode, thank you for this episode. It’s so very unfortunate that each of them have received the backlash and poor treatment that they’ve gotten. Growing up (in the U.S.), my family had someone of nearly every hue. As an example, my sister and Vanessa are the same color, while I am a couple of shades darker than she is... As far as African Americans not getting along with Africans in the U.S., that has NOT been my experience. America is a very large place. It would be very unfair to paint such a broad brush on limited experiences.
G. Carnell:. This is the best comment yet.
i agree!
growing up in the SOUTH as a black person is a completely different experience than growing up in the Northern states. both will experience racism, but it's not the same type.
i would assume this person was raised up North from this comment, where are you from?
It's my prayer that every African-American would get the chance to visit Africa, I mean not to stay if they don't want to, in order to familiarise themselves with the culture on the continent and tell their own stories about Africa instead of what the media in America has given them. In so doing they would get to that there are people who are living good in Africa and are more comfortable there than they would have been in America. This will help them in appreciating their roots better than they 'some' of them do now.
@jaees michelle-Yes, that’s correct, I was born and raised in NYC; however, I also have deep roots in NC. Those experiences have given me a much broader perspective than those who’ve limited their time to the N.E.
Regarding A & AA's That's what they have been doing since colonisation, divide and conquer. Keeping us spererate weakness us but united we are stronger, we are one people!
lets be honest, we didnt need colonization to be separate..even today we have clashes between tribes..that was around long before we knew that a white man was
carsonc29 well there was nothing like colourism
Before unity can happen we have to unlearn some things on both sides
I'm actually an African from South Sudan born and raised in Canada. My parents were born in South Sudan and spent much of their early adult years there but were forced to leave South Sudan and relocate to Canada due to the Civil War. With that being said, my parents made sure my siblings and I never lost our culture, our language, our identity. Yes, I am a Canadian citizen but I consider myself African. I fluently speak my mother tongue along with English, I still keep my South Sudanese culture (i.e. I prepare cultural dishes, I own cultural clothing and understand the signifance behind specific pieces, I know my cultural dances, and I respect the obligations that I have to my family back in South Sudan -- sending them money, checking in, etc). So, although it saddens me to hear and see that many Africans who were born outside of Africa are "lost" and don't keep up with their culture, it's important to consider and note the various factors (systemic racism, segregation, the Atlantic slave trade, etc) that cause some African Americans to react a certain way. We're all African at the end of the day and it's okay to be with any race, just make sure to keep your culture and teach your children your culture as well because it is their culture too :). The whole "race" notion is a social construct anyway, we're all human at the end of the day.
She is so right. I am going through that right now. Some Black Americans hate African women and the love African men.
huh?how can they hate African women & love African men?
@@WODEMAYA 😆😆😆😆😆it's complicated.
Very true because I witnessed the same situation
@@WODEMAYA Sne won't tell but I will: They hate/envy black women but love black man🍆
@Olga Williams trust me the hate towards Afrucan students in the US is unbelievable. Spelman is the worst!
Thanks for making this video, I am a mixed race American and I always wondered about this. The one girl is correct about Africans and black Americans not getting along. It’s hard to explain but the parents of Africans have a bad perception of black Americans, and don’t want their kids hanging out with American kids. Also black Americans make fun of African kids in school for being “different”. So it is all of our fault, but it is silly and should never happen.
having live in usa for almost 20 years now , i think there is ignorance on both sides.
Cheers for being honest.
Thank you. It goes both ways. Most Africans purposefully isolate themselves from African Americans because they do view themselves as being superior and believe western media global narrative of African Americans being lazy, uneducated and etc. That's a whole other topic. And most African Americans I know choose not to even bother communicating with them because of the tension felt from Africans. And then you do have some African Americans who will make ugly comments about Africa as a whole based on lies told on American television about Africa. SMH.
Belkin Laster no you lying it’s due to the abuse they get from AA and the name calling . If you abuse me do you think I will want to hang out with you ???
Look at african underground forget about african over there
Ethnically, mixed race are not Africans, they could be Africans as citizens. If we accept they're Africans, then we accept the white supremacy doctrine saying white is pure, if you have one drop of non-white blood that makes you impure, therefore you're not white. Mixed race peoples, mostly identify themselves as black because they're more acceptable and welcoming by black people. Naturally, we are both oppressed and deprived, and we eventually, have this bond in our struggle.
This is the most stupid thing on the internet today
What are you?
@@shinga61 you're stupid to call me stupid. You cannot make a rational argument but to spew few words of nonsense.
@@jcrowviral white people say white is pure and black is impure. Black people do not buy into that assertion.
Jentul J I cannot make a rational argument to an irrational, out of place claim .. You do not have enough brain cells to understand rationality
Her on the far right 🥰 so confident and comforting 🧡
It's an interesting topic. We have many mixed people here in USA and it's common to just call them black not mixed.
They’re mixed race not black and that’s ok. Why black people insist in calling them black? White people will never call them white because their not. Is simple.
@@aidafaustina9275 because there was a time not but one generation ago when they insisted that we call them Black & treat them as fully Black. See the wife's workplace monolouge in the Jungle Fever film for an example. Now that its seen as trendy to play the fence they wan go in the other direction 🙄. Either you are in the Afrikan family house or you are outside. running in and out with family business is not allowable. we all know this.
People always tell me I'm black.They try to make me check one box too.I'm biracial
Nearly ALL Blacks in the u.s. are mixed with SOMETHING. There’s very few PURE Black people here.
If we tried to change up and call everyone thats not pure Black “mixed”, theres gonna be a lotta push back. I, for one would be PISSED if someone called referred to me as “mixed”.
Madie GG Hospitality Not true, biracial people have a certain advantage worldwide compared to black people, proximity to whiteness makes them socially more palatable. Barack Obama, became the president of America because he wasn’t black but biracial a real black person would never be accepted as the president of America.
In Ghana ., Mixed Race People are chilling and cherished even above the normal black person !!!
You say that like it’s a good thing smh
That's really sad
Yeah, and that's the problem and why certain black people want mixed people to have their own category rather than using their white and light skin privilege to be black royalty among a self hating, colorist people, with a profound inferiority complex.
@Jusu Jaka duly noted.
Black is beauty... Africa to the world 🇳🇬🌍👍
A lot of people say African Americans and Africans don’t get along but that has never been my experience. I live in Texas where there are quite a few Africans and I never witnessed that hate. Sometimes we don’t even know they are African until they tell us.
Mixed girl she turn black with that white where are y'all they on us over and out,
We don't have sex is such minimum so many girls don't know that, I have green eyes, does that mean we can turn black ?
If you are american or western bred, we want to leave you with a great impression,
Shalum, no sex?
Nappy Kiate the fuck you talking about are you high
The mixed one, the young one
This is why I do not date non black women, the confusion is real😔😔😯🙄
Agreed, brother.
Facts
I’ll never marry or have a kid with one. It’s not natural regardless what people say
@@aaronaiysen7534 if it was not natural did God allow Moses to marry a wife that was not his race or Josef marry a woman not his race...you sound ignorant
@@redeemablesoul my friend we don't mind about Moses, Joseph and that God. We Africans we gonna get married to those who look like to our mothers.
I am an African and I see no color all I see is human beings one ☝🏾 people . Anyone who discriminated you in one way or the other he or she doesn’t represent me or the humble people of Africa. Love you all stay bless ✌🏽🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Please big man, educate yourself, people who say they don't see colour are the problem of all this discrimination. Please everyone can see colour, except if you are colour blind.
As an African-Brazilian, I'd love to talk about how slavery affect blacks in Brazil from 1500 until now. Eb Baffour has brought up a very serious topic to a broaden audience. Check this Brazilian Documentary th-cam.com/video/BSADBL3H6UM/w-d-xo.html
Wondering maya I'm a African American in America and I'm really a man living in America. Brother I swear you have opened my eyes on Africa so much in America they only put out bad things about the motherland I mean its bad places everywhere in any country but brother you making a difference I started watching your videos one day ago and I can't stop I took off work today just to get more enlighten on the motherland you breaking barriers my neighbor is from Ghana and I went to him today and I had questions for him and when I showed him your channel he hugged me and said your great man he watches you too and we never really talked because he always work and we just say hey and bye but he just left my home today and we talked for 3 hours man I'm coming home to Africa I got to go before I leave this earth your pure inspiration and keep doing what you do now let me get back to your videos my wife jealous but your amazing love you brother
Thanks for creating quite informative videos and not just random stuff. I've noticed too many youtubers make pointless videos nowadays just for the sake of becoming famous and making money .. but you keep it more interesting.
It's true what the half dutch girl said about the Netherlands! I live in the Netherlands.
Dutch people are very racist people there very bold about it aswel and are obsessed with race and color. I even knew a white dutch who grew up in south africa try to tell me the white Dutch people were the first people in south africa. Get your money bro and adventure out there's a greater life out there.
@@Akinolashes Absoultely brother! I will leave soon out of this continent and back to the motherland. Stay safe!
@@Akinolashes They were not even the first people in Europe.
The dutch colonized African countries and took their gold and diamonds.
Netherlands, Belgium... Same thing. I wonder if sinterklaas would be celebrated dis year. As a kid, they also to me "I was already black so no need to paint my face" as they laughed. Felt so bad but I thought it was normal then. Cause I was in the minority
When I lived in Atlanta I worked with a lot of Africans and there was never and issue. We all got along.
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@@eugeneoseitutu4601 Hello
Are there many Africans and Caribbeans in Atlanta?
@@punisher9169 Yes, Atlanta has a huge West African and Caribbean Community. My roomate was from the Virgin Islands. I had a few friends from Trinidad. Some from Jamaica. There is a sizable amount of Senegalese, Gambians, Nigerians, and some Ghanaians.
@@Odiee99 Are Black Americans and White Americans majority in Atlanta?
Woohoo nice to see some representation for the mixed races! Filipino Uganda here
As a 58 year old African American, I am and have been aware of the "tension" between African and African Americans since I was in college. There are prejudices sometimes it seems. I hosted a Nigerian student in my home for 3 summers several years ago. She has become a daughter to me. We had cultural differences but learned how to work things out. I was told for years that Africans felt superior to African Americans. I suppose that can go both ways. But we all should really band together and support each other as brother and sister.
Also, MrGhana, you should get your connections together to have travel packages for those of the African diaspora 50 and older. I'd like to visit Ghana before I leave this earth.
trooper:. I'm a 58 year old African-American too and I totally agree with all you said. I also think that Wode Maya should visit the United States and see for himself how AA thing. He would be greeted warmly here.
Hey! I'm 49. Don't leave me out! 😂
I am 62, and my inner self has been pulling me to visit the continent for the past several years. I would like to visit Ghana to put my feet on the same earth that my enslaved ancestors placed, go back to the door of no return, go out to the beach, look back and see what for all of them was the last thing they witnessed of the mother land. Many of your feel it. It is a calling and we are now in the awakening. The problem for many of us is funding. I want to come but will not come without my wife and kids. They should see for themselves WHO we came from and WHO we are truly connected to. Even though centuries have passed. I am confident, without a doubt that the Great One will make it possible. Remember, they do not want us together. Our togetherness is the missing glue for the world.
@@Slaveship-zh8vx OK. Can we agree that Ghana is missing a big opportunity to promote more tourism to African Americans? I should be seeing some commercials or something 💯
Wahoo
Ghana is a vibe, feeling of freedom and being yourself amongs your family and friends is amazing.I remember walking from Odorkor to Dansoman beach just to swim and we don’t even have the money,but we made it and came home in a ride.Certain countries you will get kidnapped just being an innocent child.I love Ghana 🇬🇭 ❤️
Ebeny, we want to see pictures.
These comments are ridiculous. It took 400 years to do this...how long will it take to undo it.
Yes, INDISPUTABLY TRUE!!! You could not have said it any better!
Finally, someone gets it.
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I as a black American have nothing against Africans , what my experiences have been is that we are culturally different so we do not connect without making an purposed effort , I also find this true with blacks from other countries like south America and the Caribbean ,as American blacks we don't always connect easily but it's not because we don't want to it's the culture difference.
This has been my personal experience.
Well said. I agree. Black Africans & African Americans are just culturally different from each other. We should accept that & move on. Skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
I'm just going to come out and say it, the perception of being "African" has always been negative, black people in the diaspora try their best to stay away from this due to perceived shame and embarassment to avoid any association with an African as it is seen as backward. (hence the edgy relationship between Carribeans and Africans in the UK)
It's hard to blame them, when images of Africa and stories they hear are that of suffering and negativity. For years abroad, when an image of Africa comes on television you get 1 of 3 things, 1. War 2. Those fake charity infomercials with starving kids and flies 3. Mufasa's pride lands. After seeing that on TV all your life, the last thing you want is to be associated with an African. It's only now in the last decade due to the rise of social platforms and thanks to recent events such as the world cup in South Africa, black panther movie, rise of Afro beats, use of DNA Geneaology and this new Afrocentric "wokeness" for the first time, there appear to be some interest in Africa.
This is very true. Thankfully that edginess between Africans and Caribbeans is easing up as far as I can see in the UK. My American friend said there were similar tensions in the US between the two groups and I was shocked. I think things are very slowly changing. I know in the 90s there was definitely more of a divide.
Agreed that mentality is not new as we always been divided by religion wealth etc tribalism before Europeans arrived.
dotunn
We all associate with success, Africa’s lack of development of its human capital together with inter tribal wars, hunger, political corruption and abysmal infrastructure developments to mimic what is happening on other continents makes it hard for the Blacks diaspora, not just African Americans to have any strong sense of identity with the continent . A Chinese born in America will tell you he is Chinese , a Blacks will mention America, Caribbean or Britain instead of saying they are African . That will change over time when the continent is showing its successes.
stanley glover yes that’s very true, if Africa looked half as good as Dubai, I guarantee you, the diasporans will pack their bags and head back rather than suffer racism and abuse in the USA and Europe.
Interesting bro. By the name I know you're Naija. I always thought the Caribbean-African relationship in UK was symbiotic... didn't realize there was some tension, and that the Caribbeans play things a certain way. Hmm. Useful info to know.
I actually just shared my experience with AFRICAN-Americans on my channel. We are culturally not the same, and must learn about their history. When I came to America, I was not Ghanaian anymore, had to carry the whole continent of Africa on my back, had to hear the stereotypes m, wasn’t cool to be African 7 years ago when I came, but now everyone is loving the continent. One love ❤️
All Africans who are born and raised in the diaspora with the Blacks are closer to Africa than the AA's. I met few AA's when I studied in the US that are into the mother continent especially the high academically educated. My AA colleagues called me Konta Kante if I pointed out something that is not right, although my father is from Sudan and my mother is a Black Bahraini LoL x-D
People are waking up here now..things are getting better
What Marintia said about African Americans not mixing with Africans makes a lot of sense to me! I’m from the UK but growing up with my dad being Nigerian and mum Caribbean it was literally like having 2 completely different race parents because Africans and Caribbeans don’t mix🤦🏽♀️
No, your mum is black
@@everaldopereira49 oh hello I didn’t know you knew my mother 🧐 well she’s actually mixed heritage but majority Caribbean 52% black if we want to get precise since she did a dna heritage test but ok you jump to conclusions with no facts 😆
Thank You Wode Maya for this particular video. The interview with the 3 beautiful Ladies. Vanessa was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel every 2 years to Ghana as a child. Marinta is the most Blessed because she had the opportunity to grow up in Ghana. Anna has had the most racial experience and it is exactly the same for a Black people living in Europe where it is severe as she explained by the Christmas season - Santa Clas in the Netherlands. Wode there is also a struggle with being mixed black where one of you parents is from the following:- Caribbean/America/Canada/Britain/ the rest of Europe and the other parent is from Africa. It would be good to interview them too. In England there are a lot of Ghanaians who have married Caribbean's which is beautiful too. Your channel is inspirational and continue with Your Great Works - Ghana Baby!!!