@@pietrojenkins6901 Of course not (unfortunately)...but the same can be said of Africans; not all see us AA in a good light either. Media has alot to with that. Also, people's unwillingnes to think/research for themselves.
@@INGEN_Dahnie-el-aha-ha all you said is very true . But from experience living in B'ham Alabama for 20yrs i think its purposely seen that way bcoz its a feel good factor.Africans like to see self as better mannered,more responsible than AAs while on the other hand some AAs like to see self as better looking,more advanced,living better than poor backward Africans.Its confirmation bias on either side.
The guy said he wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for African Americans. From civil rights to what happens now, he said we as Africans feel the same as well. The African American struggle to him is the African struggle. Reading the comments, I'm not sure if people actually listened to what he said.
@UNTERVÖX You asked for "help" if you're "wrong". Well, I'll just offer this. Ever heard of a tiny little thing called "colonization"? Yeah. It might have slipped by a few people. But without an intercontinental phone apparatus, broadcasting, air-travel, and many other infrastructural industries and systems, including the advent of the internet, a WHOLE lotta people, globally, didn't know what the h3ll had hit them. Africans were included in that whole little messy thing. The entire Continent was swept and barbarically crushed by country after country. The people, their treasures, their children, stolen, exploited, exported----destroyed. Borders changed, genocides waged, cities burned to the ground, well, I think you get the idea. As soon as heroes rose from the decimation, (Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, Thomas Sankara, Ras Tafari, etc.) amongst their first actions, after fighting for their own localized autonomy & liberation, was offering land to those of us in The Diaspora, forming alliances with some our leaders, and even now, scholars on both sides of the waters are working on projects to reclaim the truth about our histories. Sorry I didn't have time to go further, but you might want to research the late Dr. Yosef Ben-Yochanan, a CLOSE Ethiopian friend & Brother of AAs, Dr. John Henrike Clark, Dr. Asa Hilliard, and so many more who all have done monumental work together with our global FAMILY, to UNITE us. Not sew seeds of division. And while you're at it, if it's the last recreational $50.00 you ever spend in your life, I'd recommend you read "When We Ruled", by Robin Walker, for good measure. 👍🏾
@UNTERVÖX Sorry you have had a lot of bad experiences with Africans from the land still there are those in the land that dont act like that.Dont give up on everyone in Africa judge them by there character.
As a Filipino, I'm so proud of this Malagasy brother. We are from the same racial stock thousands of years ago. We are both descended from Austronesian seafarers. Much love and respect to Madagascar, from the Philippines. 🇲🇬🇵🇭🇲🇬🇵🇭🇲🇬🇵🇭🇲🇬🇵🇭🇲🇬🇵🇭🇲🇬🇵🇭
I am in the Philippines right now... and I can't help but notice how similar the people here to some of the tribes we have in my country... respect! One World One Human Family!
So when are you going to start fighting to liberate yourself from the biggest enemy? Yourselves. You can’t claim that you have fought for all blacks all over the world when your people are terrorizing American communities and other ethnicities like assaulting the elderly and robing lemonade stands not to mention how you murder each other by the thousands.Take this dude to Chicago and Philadelphia and let them see the real ramifications of the thug culture you are spreading . It’s sad that a large group of your people have to seek validity not just from whites but now you have to travel and seek it from others that have no actual experience living with American blacks in the ghettos. Be honest with people please tell the whole story. Notice how this young man said family first something the American black hardly has anymore did you tell them that 70 percent of black children don’t have a father in the home or just none period? Bro you gotta be more responsible these people actually believe that that thug culture is black American culture period. Does this foreign black actually know any of the nine thug or raise hustling successful black men and educators like Thomas Sowell or judge Clarence Thomas? Look who his references are all these dude that have help in the brainwashing of millions of children leading them straight to prison, single parent hood, mass abortion, drugs and death.
Lol you are crazy. Africans are the reason black america is not in bondage still. Hell some African countries were never colonized. The king of Morocco signed a treaty with your former ancestors masters to never enslaved muslims. Most of us are muslims. So none of yall good christain did a damn thing for Africa. Africa has done everything for Black America. We have our own heros in Africa. Not one american but Americans have heros from other countries. Garvey for instance. So dont trick your self.
What development only advancements Africa makes is when Chinese or Europeans are around you guys aren’t colonizers builders or creators. And everything in Africa is currently due to Chinas colonization. If it wasn’t for the French Christian’s Chinese you guys would still be without the wheel and communicating through a series of clicks and grunts
Great point! My babies got passports this year for a trip to Mexico. I want to take them to Africa asap, though! I need them to see how big the world is and how varied our people are.
I'm surprised some Black folks are unfamiliar that a small portion of Malagasy people were brought to the Americas, specifically the U.S and Peru where they were called Mangaches.
That's because the teaching of the transatlantic slave trade mainly focuses on slaves being taken from west/central Africa. I didn't know until after high school. I've also never heard of "mangaches". Interestingly enough though, I've found out that my maternal line likely comes from Madagascar, based on some results I got from a dna test and extra research I did afterwards.
My family were told we are deseantant of Madagascar thru the slave trade. Some of us have a unique look about us, especially my daughter. She has been asked many times is she from Madagascar.
Great conversation. It’s so great you have the opportunity to informed our African brothers and sisters we all aren’t drug dealers and strippers. The majority of African Americans are professionals and business owners working hard to care for our families. The media has really influence the image of us in a negative way. We have so much in common.
Yes most Africans I don't believe think this way about our people unfortunately a lot of them only see what they see in the western media with theire negativity! it's the same way about Africa all we see is war and hunger and starvation and ethnic violence we seldom see the good part of Africa or should we say the prosperity part of Africa it is the same way with the African diasper all over the world anything pertaining to black people is always betrayed in a negative way they never ever want us to believe that we can succeed anywhere even in America they want us to believe that even there we are all failures and the lowest of low!thank goodness many black people are getting more educated about the diaspora and are not buying into the propaganda of white society and White media !we need to put more stories about our people out that includes Africans !African Americans !Caribbeans and any people in the diaspora! We need to tell our own stories instead of letting others tell our stories!
@@leonardorjioffor6683 Indeed bro. We should be able to see through the White agenda that seeks to portray negatively our Afrikan brethren in the diaspora and in the Motherland, We should look for alternative media tha tell our Own Story as it is. True knowledge is power Shebeshebe!, ie, Peace!
It’s not only the media. Does tik tok help? Manosphere, divesting, all the videos on TH-cam? Is not only African Americans watching that and I think it escapes content creators when they put videos out there. Yes American media focuses on negative images but the American community also engages in it online and more people are exposed to social mediA. I’ve seen countless videos just this week alone talking about how undesirable BW in America are by their own men. How many videos talk about Blakistan but when others outside community observe things or make comments on videos they’ve seen it’s hurt feelings. No one respects that.
Well! U are right but being cool is not the most important thing in the world. Chinese people are the least cool people but they are now dominating the world. A lot of what ( not all) we call cool is backwardness. Engendering and technology is cool to me. Speaking broken English no matter how cool it may sound,having dysfunctional families,not having family values,and being lawless is not cool to me. I’m an African living in America by the way.
Well! U are right but being cool is not the most important thing in the world. Chinese people are the least cool people but they are now dominating the world. A lot of what ( not all) we call cool is backwardness. Engendering and technology is cool to me. Speaking broken English no matter how cool it may sound,having dysfunctional families,not having family values,and being lawless is not cool to me. I’m an African living in America by the way.
Yes but swag is not everything. If you have time please listen to a young lady named Yvette Carnell on TH-cam and Antonio Moore , he goes by the title tonetalks. They can explain very well why African Americans are depicted the way that they are in AMERICA . Have a great day
I've traveled all over the world and I know from personal experience, natives from everywhere admire, look up to and have great respect for US. I bare witness to this. Many of us don't know because we don't travel. I remember I read where less than 3% of Black Americans has a passport. Don't know what that number is today but it speaks volumes. We must travel black people.. of course if we have the money. We are not just African Americans or just Africans.... We are planetary people. Believe it.
Amazing, just amazing! My name is Naimbai and I have been watching the "unapologetic nomads" for a while now. I lived in the U.S for over 12 years but now I am in the motherland. I stayed in Madagascar for 3 months and came here in Tanzania only three days ago. I was in Antananarivo when the "unapologetic nomads" visited the city. I wish I knew. I could have met them in person. I visited Rova (the palace) and met the Malagasy guy in the video. His name is Toky and we flew from Antananarivo to Adddis Ababa together. I noticed he is an extrovert like me so I approached him. Toky was going to Lusaka, Zambia. He is a super friendly guy. We hanged out at the airport till our flight times. We keep in touch and hope to see each other again. I didn't know he was with this lovely family. The world is big but also small. Maybe one day I will meet the "unapologetic nomads" in person too.
I pray 🙏🏿 Lil Wayne is not how the world sees African Americans, Surely and most definitely there are thousands and I would even go far as saying millions of other Africans who could and should be seen as more influential and more dignified than some of these rappers who in my personal opinion make us appear ignorant and less dignified. We as African American must do a better job supporting those of us who truely gifted outside of a rap
Say it again for the people in the front! They are usually taking up space and blocking the message. I just said this same thing on a different thread. I am absolutely horrified that the face of American blacks has been hip hop and rap for more than 40 years! It doesn't escape my notice that when we were elegant and dignified, that doesn't mean perfect, but we were far more careful in the way we presented ourselves, people copied us but not to the extent that they have now that we are in full blown depravity mode! We have got to as a collective decide that we want a different representation. It's not just the media because there are tons of tiktokers that are just as ratchet as the day is long and that is both male and female. We've got to get bigger platforms of people who speak English, can articulate their thoughts, are well-dressed and present themselves with dignity
Please encourage more African Americans to visit Africa. I'm sure you now have a different perspective. Have always felt so bad about lack of knowledge. It pains me each time i ask African American friends to pick a restaurant to eat, and almost everyone would say either, Chinese, or Mexican!! none would say lets try African food. And yet they are proud to call themselves "African" Americans. I'm so proud of you guys taking this very enriching journey into Africa. please tell the story!
Brainwashed and programmed HAVE WE BEEN. I see hot buttered popcorn and candy on the screen in a movie theater-NEXT thing you know- I'm buying both items. NO MORE- I will eat BEFORE I arrive at a nonracist movie now. PROPAGANDA PROGRAMMING can work fast unless you ID it before it engulfs you. I was in love with the Spanish language since grade school. We were told it was one of the most romantic languages along with French. Bought books, etc. to learn the language. Then noticed that many of them had been brainwashed against ALL BLACK people. Thus, I no longer deal with ANY RACIST Asian or Hispanic businesses anymore at ALL. And I AM weaning myself off Mexican food or making my own at home. THE other so- called minorities should know better than TO BE racist AGAINST blacks because THEY are degraded on the daily also. But GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL...
Sorry but I don't call myself A/A because Africans are the ones who sold us to the white man, we consider ourselves FBA, we have very little in common with Africans
One thing I've can to learn what the main divide is between Africans and African Americans is that there has been alot of disinformation between the two, as a result both are skeptical of the other. Having moved to the USA from Africa, because of some who are misinformed be it at church or at work I was treated poorly, on the other hand, those who were informed and open to Africans treated me like family. This lead me to conclude that the stereotypes about us and whoever decides to tune in into that frequency will side eye the other. That gap needs to be closed, we may have been born/ raised in different parts of the world but we are a one people and there should be no us vs them.
Yes, because we all face the same prejudices worldwide. I found that out during the George Floyd protests. African people in Europe said they identified with the same issues of racism. They even shared some of the murders they had happen on the continent in Europe.
@@ladellallen3155 true you are not African. In my post I pointed to the fact that, we may be born and raised in different parts of the world but we are one people. Also true that you may have mixed heritage but the African side is more accepting than the European side ( I stand to be corrected if wrong). Another side I've noticed is, if Africa was more developed, alot more of black Americans would embrace their African side, instead it is met with ; shame ( African booty scratcher- this too is a whole different story coz NGOs have to show you a certain pic to maintain those donations / funding to come in for their livelihood,salaries), misinformation has greatly been spread and this breeds resentment, I would examine the originator of this narrative. Hint, the savage oppressor. Conclusion, I'll always look at black Americans as my people regardless of how they treat me or how they perceive their relation to Africans.
@@impartialvoice1080 I have always Loved and accepted African people. They are usually quite humble, happy and accepting of me too. I've worked with many people from Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, I consider most of them good friends.
Love From Zambia. There you are.... now in Madagascar. Lotsa Love to my girl Ala such a strong girl happy go lucky girl. Shout out mom and dad too. Stay blessed
Where? Don't speak on behalf of everybody. Have you.interacted.with them. Go to America you will be shocked how they give no damn about Africans and feel about Africans same way Europeans do. Arrogant, entitled, and use very course language. If you know Nigerians the way they behave, African Americans are worse. My observation.
When I was in college I met a man at home in Atlanta from madagascar. I promise I'd never knew people actually lived there until we met. He spoke highly of black people in America and it surprised me.
My first ancestor that my family and I know of was stolen from Madagascar as a child and was sold in New Orleans. We have some of our history written. He said that the white men can on ship and would entice the children to go on rides and would give them treats. They did that to gain their trust and then took them. I have a picture of his daughter when she was in her 90s. She has strong Malagasy features. One day I will go and visit.
@so.many.obstacles White slave traders were terrified of African animals, diseases and unrestrained Africans. So frightened that they wouldn’t get off the boat. They didn’t have to as the Africans brought the slaves out to them. But no shame, my ancestors have created a whole bullshit narrative on who they are and how they got to the states too.
@@iamjustsaying4787 It's less that it's bullshit (except for Ho-teps, they can fuck off with this 'we're egyptian' garbage) and more that because we've been stuck in this country with white people and their reading of history, we haven't had the opportunity to explore the level of fault of Africans in the slave trade properly. It's difficult because it's like...not everyone's fault. I can't 'blame Ghana' because there was no Ghana yet. Can I blame that tribe though? Can I blame the Igbo and Ashanti?
I appreciate you guys taking the time to post your adventure to Madagascar. Madagascar is on my list of travel. I've been to the African Continent twice. So many more places I want to go there. Africa is my main focus for traveling. Madagascar is next. I want to go to Uganda, South Sudan, and perhaps Angola. Checking you guys out from Chicago. Peace.
I’m Malagasy that was born and raised in Wash DC, and was raised on hip hop, I relate to this video somethin ridiculous. It’s love from the motherland to the states. We as Africans are all one people. ✊🏾✊🏾🇲🇬🇺🇸
Only your skin color everything else❓Yall on your own💯 After AFRICA STARTING SELLING PEOPLE as SLAVES or otherwise is when ALL TIES were CUT BETWEEN A PEOPLE oh and OWE for that STAIN‼️💯
Cool! I used to know a couple of sisters who lived off Eastern Ave in DC near Takoma metro. Perhaps you know them. I mention this because the Malagasy community isn't that big in the DMV compared to other African communities.
I'm really proud of you guys, you are the example of what African American liberals should be doing...changing the narrative globally, that African Americans are better than portrayed by American Media and Hollywood. Im Nigerian been 20 years in the States, I guess now considered African American by most people, when I was planning to come the US 2001 the narrative about African American was so bad that when I got here and followed the history I became rebelliously in love with African Americans so much it don't matter what a black person does to me I always find a way make peace. Its a commitment I can't let go. 💚💛🖤❤💯
The Black American is there original Indian indigenous to North and South America. The Invaders sold a lie and now we aren't even called by the proper terms.
@@spiritwarcrystalawakening1915 tribe tribe😉‼️ glad you know who you are‼️🏹🪶🤎✌🏾💪🏾to ya💯 “wise up tribe up rise up “Wanagi 🪶”tribe tribe” Hawk from Hawk School😉✌🏾 we are the aboriginal copper colored Indians of America they wrote it down💯🙌🏾😉
Madagascar is a must visit. Last time I check it was way expensive to fly to Antananarivo from Lusaka than flying to Kuala Lumpur or Ho Chi Minh City in Asia. I hope flights there cheapen done so we can go explore. Great video fam! One love from Zambia. 🇿🇲
The demise of the once great Zambia Airways is the reason why it’s expensive to fly from Lusaka to Madagascar. Hope the relaunched Zambia Airways will in the coming years make travel to these places cheaper. For your info, it can be expensive to travel between on Australian state in terms of air fares & accommodation than to travel to Bali in Indonesia for holidays from an Australian state.
Is it wrong for me to feel a tinge of jealousy? How I WISH I had a mother and father who were so deeply moved by the experiences of their ancestors that they wanted to be the change that left a lasting impact in the next generation. Educating not only them self but educating their kids as well. Creating a solid foundation for them to grow and thrive in. Instead all I got was a a dead beat father and an uneducated mother. I’m having to claw my way up out of this situation painstakingly. I’m 34 years old and I’m still struggling. It’s SO DAM hard. I swear and yes I can be the change I wanted to see growing up to my future children. I get that but the road to getting there is unimaginable difficult. Some days I just feel like giving up. I’m not gunna lie. I’m getting teary eyed thinking about it. I just want you to know that what you are doing for your kids and for the Black Community is so very important and will have such a long lasting impact on so many of us. Thank you. I
Don't you dare give up on you! Your post tells me you managed to grow far beyond your environment and have a lot to offer to this world. Whatever you decide to do in life, I suspect you can/will accomplish. Stop allowing your mother & father free rent in your head! My advice is for you to research city/county resources and services. Call YOUR local elected officials because their purpose is to assist you and help find solutions to your difficulties. Take care!
I'm reading your post and I like your honesty about your challenges. I've lived a lot longer than you and have experienced many obstacles in my life but never have I felt like a failure. Give yourself credit for who you are and where you are in life today. Talk with the older women and men to get a better perspective of all we have to thru to stay in the game of life. Read every and anything that will give you positive vibes. We as a culture are and have made some great strides and have change the narrative about us as a people. Do you and be happy.
I went to London and everybody was stoked to see a black American. I also have seen that we are the most unique black people on Earth. Nobody had our swag. Not one black person. I wish more black people traveled and saw how original we are. We need to really start appreciating our journey. That's why I don't get bent out of shape for what happened to us because it makes us who we are
I loved this conversation! Learnt a lot in13mins. Its really surprising that the Malagasy gentleman speaks such good English with an impressive intonation; despite leaving in a French speaking country! And he says he was born and raised in Madagascar - How impressive!
Some do English as a 2nd language and they tend to speak it fluently. I once had a Congolese do my electricity, he was verh fluent in English. I asked how he was so fluent, he mentioned that they do English as 2nd language.🇿🇦
Probably he attended one of the best schools in Antananarivo plus his interest in Black American culture especially Hip Hop culture is an added advantage too.
@@oscarbunda1194 nah bro. I didnt go to no fancy school or nothing.. I was just in love with the culture so I did whatever it took to learn the language so I can understand it better. No cap
Manga🤩 Madagasikara Tsara👌🏽 Aaron..Africans like AA culture not for the negativity rather for the symbol of pride, boldness and daring to speak in eye of the oppression.
I dont see why people like this constantly go around asking other people how do they feel about black Americans, or any other race for that matter. ( maybe for hits for the show) But anyhow, a person who is about the business of living and taking cares of what he or she has to take care of should care less what a couple of people feel about them. I've traveled in and out of Africa for years, not everyone is going to like you and many people will take you in as family. I could care less what any body including some members of my own African American family feels about me. We give each other the due respect and keep it moving as they say. I suggest you do the same. If the spirit, energy and vibes are not harmonious with yours, move on to were you do fit and the energy is pleasing. The time in which we live is too serious and short, to be blind sided by trivial, minor issues such as what other feel about you. When it is all said and done, the only thing that matters is did you make your self happy, by coming on the planet and fulfilling you purpose in life, what ever that happened to be. Peace
I am so glad we made such a great impression on him as well as other ethnic people America is a great plase to prosper and we should pay attention to what they say because we built America and they know we are not a negative people and many have come to America and know who we are as a people I thank him my generations is of the 60's and I know the price we paid to pave the way for everyone else to step through and prosper
This was really heartwarming. I love seeing you both as roving ambassadors for our home back here in the states. Proud. Love you and what you’re doing.
Black, African American, Indian, Hispanic, Latino, etc. are noms de guerre and/or brands that remove people/“persons” from the human family. President OBAMA signs the DRIP (DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES) in 2010 granting US CITIZENS the right to claim their Nationality.
But We are not respected here in the USA, So I don’t understand what this guy meant by we don’t know how Africans there feel about us. Worry about how we treat eachother in the USA. Like crap
I think he is acknowledging the struggles we face in America and he admires the fact that we continue to fight for rights, he referenced MLK Jr. He enjoys that we continue to share our culture and talent through music and the arts. I heard admiration of our perseverance.
He tried to not say it, but he knows Madagascar has a strong Arab and European slave trade history ("I identify more with the mainland than with Middle East"). Before Suez Canal in 1700s and 1800s it was a strategic outpost for traders in slaves or other items for traffic that came around the southern cape going to the Middle East or Asia. Pirates and privateers also used it.
@MrDarenMakoalahy Technically it's not being freed when that group also enslaves you. Only a colonizer would tell the history that way. Like they did you a favour.
I guess you don’t see the number videos in Atlanta and New York Malls where Nigerians are asking African Americans about them. Interesting. 🤔 I don’t care for the question personally. 🤷🏽♀️
Still bullshit. If that's the case then All white people are bigots. What's the image of Jesus we see everyday? A white man. Really people? Oh hell no.
We are the blueprint, to what’s hip, what’s cool and stylish… even the ones that hate us don’t realize we have influenced their life in many ways: I was not expecting his response it was very refreshing to hear. Black people / African people we need to latch on to each other .
Wait untill you come to the real heart of Africa Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi etc if you ask an African they'll tell you how they feel African America's waste their opportunity e.g Africa has more billionaires that the US yet we rank the pouret in the world. We're slightly disappointed that more African Americans aren't achieving great success and in turn coming home to buy land and build mega businesses here and take the power way from our colonial masters who never left
@@maswanimatiki Don’t believe everything you see on tv or read on the internet/in newspapers. As the young lady said in this video, the media likes to show the rest of the world a distorted reality. We are a very educated people. And the recent uprising of violence against our people is due to the level of success we’ve achieved- in a short time span at that. They don’t just hate us because we’re black. They hate us because they did so much to us and we’re right behind them in this “race”. Come see us before you judge. I can’t blame you for your lack of knowledge tho because when I was young all I saw was those Feed The Children infomercials and I assumed that’s how it was in Africa. But as an adult I educated myself about my people of the African diaspora. We live in a divided country here and if you don’t see us for who and what we are then you’re no different than the racist people we live amongst.
@@maswanimatiki If you not from here (US) you don't understand that the struggle is different depending on where you live in America. Some go through extreme poverty. Policing in some areas and lack of opportunities have a lot to do with it. If you not smart intelligent and persevering it is difficult.... Be good to people of color wherever you are and keep being your best you! Blessings be unto you all 🙏🏾
Not truly concerned how the outside world views us for the most part because alot of propaganda is put out there. I am grateful that our accomplishments, culture and music is world renown in spite of the circumstances we've had to endure. We should serve as a beacon to all the under served people of the world that hope indeed springs eternal.
I hope those in this comment section build an interest in learning about Madagascar. Help where they can to support Malagasy people. Madagascar is one of the islands that is not wealthy, due to its isolation.
Madagascar is known for the COVID ORGANICS is it not? So there are great scientists there, and a president who believes in them. This is fantastic. I would like to learn more about this.. Andrei Rahjoelina courageously represented the country and its offering to the world in 2020, when the planned epidemic was imposed upon the world, and it could have been shut down right then.. except that there was clearly now, a whole other agenda to use it for later domination... Madagascar is not going to stay isolated. There much beauty and more to discover..
Great but get out of that western superiority mindset always thinking someone needs to be helped even when they a 100 times healthier and happier, seeing prosperity only through that narrow prism of material facility.
@@mannydavid9210 I have been doing research about Madagascar, for the past 2 years, they are very poor (many ordinary citizens), beyond what some have experienced (google about the drought in southern Madagascar). I have used the word "wealth" loosely, intentionally For your information, I'm not from the West, therefore, I have never experienced what it is like to live in luxury and perpetuate it. Assumption is a mother of all ...
It would be great if some black americans moved to Madagascar to help build and restore it. Madagascar could become a paradise on earth, it's already beautiful.
My great great Grandpa said in a family memoir that he was born (1861) in Mollyglasco ie a Malaglasco Negro. I am so intrigued. I can't imagine how he got to America, maybe missionaries.
I think this gentleman knows the difference between ordinary everyday African Americans to the outrageous pop culture. But let's face it - Black IS the culture!!! And it don't matter how we do - folks just wanna walk like, talk like, be like... Black America! Facts.
Hi Nomads. Madagascar very interesting place. Please ask them what's so unique about their Cinnamon spice compared to the rest of the world. Best perfumers recommend or prefer Madagascar Cinnamon to used it as a note. How did they grow it differently.
I enjoyed this video. Some groups of folks put plenty of negative stuff out there about black Americans painting the entire community with the same brush.
Why do black Americans think they are entitled to being liked ? Those questions are off putting. We have our problems in Africa. Please come in peace .
@@tashajohns9570 I'm pretty sure they do a whole continent worrying about us that says a lot don't you think people don't criticize down they criticize up don't tryna make jealousy look like something else that's corny that tribal energy cause division. We do us we never wanted attention the world just gravitate towards us then attempt to hijack then say we don't have culture that's been the strategy people gets bothered because they don't know why we are unique from every group on the planet and people make statements like this☝🏾 to justify envy but I do feel like us in America have been socially engineered to act out of character and taint our own image but that's due to being around people who are highly jealous if Africans stop being envious and join forces it'll be no stopping us but the tribal competition gotta stop
@@Will_of_ion I read between the lines of the post I felt the xenophobic vibes. However, African immigrants have TH-cam videos in the Malls asking African Americans the same question. However, sometimes the answer is not what they want to hear because they know more about African Americans than we know about African about their respective cultures. You can kind of tell their feelings get hurt but it’s the truth we stay in our own lane and mind our business unless invited. 🤷🏽♀️
@@tashajohns9570 My thing is why is it a discussion little ol us stay to ourselves I wish we were not on the media so much I feel like our uniqueness shouldn't be for everybody to see that's where the competition and the need to mention us comes from they say we have no culture but copy they say we are lazy but we had the most successful communities in America and the Caucasians got jealous and bombed it we had hundreds of communities we invented 90% of what's in our daily lives and it's successful people in our communities that do them but that doesn't get coverage they point to the hoods they want that to be their excuse to bring us up it's the constant need to criticize that looks odd it shouldn't be a discussion if there's a hood in Africa drugs in Africa prostitution in Africa crime how can they speak on us they not bad people I just want the competition to stop we'll be stronger together that goes for Caribbeans as well we have a whole power house that has millions of holes and it stems from greed and envy.
@@Untitled0752 I grew up in very diverse cities and let me tell you alot of African Americans I grew up with had never left the country let alone owned a passport. Very grateful to have the oppurtunity to travel to several countries and am beyond grateful for the experience to learn about and immerse myself in a culture outside of my own. It keeps me grounded and humbled.
Am really confused about u guys. What makes Madagascar not African like?? Is it because they light skin or they are not darker??. Was African continent supposed to have only darker people. Is like me traveling to Hawaii and telling people in Hawaii they don't look American or telling a native American in New Mexico they don't look American. How's an African supposed to look like? People should stop this colorism stuff or whose African or not. Racism is not a thing in Africa but tribalism is what's the problem. The former president of Confederation of African Football CAF was from Madagascar. If he wasn't African he wouldn't have been president.
@@daimyo672 So what's your point?? People from Hawaii have root from somewhere but they are Americans, native American has root from somewhere but they are Americans black Americans have roots from Africa but they are called Americans. So what's your point, Brazilians have root from somewhere and they are called Brazilians or Southern Americanas, Indians got root in Africa but they are called Asians. Is it only Madagascar that has roots from somewhere??
@Jude I do not think it is about complexion, most probably the Austronesian genes but I hear your point: Africa is diverse. This takes us to slave trade era and earlier migratory times - by now it should be normal that the continent is very diverse and there is no "typical" African.
@@daimyo672 Nope not everyone is from Indonesia majority are of Bantu stoke just got little bit misses with assians that came from Indonesia... And complexion we come in different complexions as Africans most people from the southern part of africa are light skinned.
Good & interesting discussion & I’ve learned something thru the comments that I didn’t know about the Malagasy black people & their Asian ancestry connection. If a Malagasy person went to Indonesia, would they feel that they’re part of Indonesia? An answer from a Malagasy person would be appreciated
Hello. Quite a part of our population, mainly in the highlands would blend in physically if they go to Indonesia. But as for to feel being a part of Indonesia I don't really think so since our culture and language have evolved to be more of a mix rather than mainly Indonesian. Big up bros and sis☺️
What does Malagasy people think of African Americans? This is a strange question because 99% of Malagasy people have never met or interacted with African Americans. How can one have an opinion of something they don't know anything about?
It's interesting how he gives 3 distinct traits: FLASHY, cool and MAGIC because that's what HE has seen in Rap Videos. That's common wording of how AA are seen in Africa! It's a shame because MOST simply 'have on' a persona, not Organic! Peace
@@Aeon1019 y'all be jealous that shi is corny so the only thing people have seen is music so they didn't see anything else you tryna make organic confidence look like something bad because you don't posse the same traits that's why y'all cling on but hate at the same time stop the slick comments at this point we know we got haters that share our same skin complexion
I encourage you to visit South Africa and Ghana. Nigeria where am from would have been great to visit but for now its not safe due to insecurity. You can come when things get better. Good job. 👍👍👍
I feel frustrated watching this. It's showing the soft effects of colonialism. I was wanting to see more of unaffected culture. I appreciate what he said about protecting the culture. Although I am a little saddened by what type influence our culture has on their impressions of colonialized wealth and development. This attempt to assimilate has desinigrated cultures across the world with just one generation many times.
I agree! And I am extremely horrified that hip hop is the major impression on the world of American blacks AKA ADOS. We are so much more than that and it is shameful, to me, that the elegance and dignity of decades prior have all but been lost. I hope we can regain it because clearly ADOS is quite consequential to the way the world goes.
Most people see the fact that black people in the US are the wealthiest group of blacks in the world. They have advantages no other blacks have anywhere else
@@nealandersen4867- We do not have an "advantage". We fought, bled, and died for every single RIGHT that we utilize in the United States. Furthermore, we have never had the privilege of fighting just for ourselves. We are surrounded by packs of hyenas including Africans and other immigrant Blacks who hijack our suffering and take what rightfully belongs to us. The first main group to do this was white women whose suffrage movement did not result in the rights that they wanted to achieve so they snatched Civil Rights legislation and declared themselves minorities. Even though there have been far more white women than white men over the last several decades, white women still declared themselves to be minorities. They aren't mistreated for this. Everything they have they owe to legislation that use the civil Rights movement as its cornerstone. If you other blacks, especially those of you in Black countries, want what we have then get up off your asses and do what we did!!
@@TheBLACKboard65 I mean really, my great-grandmother and grandmother were AKA’s and my other Grandma was a member of the links. All of that time and effort spent in the community for us to travel outside the US and to be know for rap music. Oh no ma’am. This has to change. My three grandmothers would be mad as Hell right to know this.
Its usually positive when traveling to other countries because they know you are a guest, and its temporary. However, when you are a Black American that now have relocated to a part of Africa and you try to do business...it becomes quite a different experience.
Probably if we come to invest and help the locals, like develop jobs and training where there are lack of opportunities then fine. Like, if I go there will be to invest in the economy & expand abroad with Real Estate. Some foreigners go over there just to leech and the local population doesn't gain or benefit, but instead lose out.
Facts. It's not fair either. The Africans can come to America and get ahead because of the blood sweat and tears shed by Black Americans, yet we can't go to Africa and get the same energy from the locals. These videos are very misleading. By in large, Africa don't rock with us, only on paper do we have anything in common. Africans are funny style if you ask me..
I know I’m white, but I lived in three African countries and saw what you are talking about. A lot of them had negative connotations about some of my black American teammates. (It was so bad that some of them started saying they were Jamaican and not American). It was a two way street though… a lot of my teammates thought that African folks we’re basically cave people and almost talked down to them. It’s important just to go in with no expectations. You are a guest in their country and a representative of Americans, it’s important to be respectful and open to experience. I literally never had a single shitty interaction with anyone the whole time I was in Africa. I can barely go to the store here without somebody being antagonistic or rude just because they feel entitled to be that way. America is kind of broken in that department… there is no reason to be ugly to each other they way we do.
African American, Indian, Hispanic, Latino, etc. are noms de guerre and/or brands that remove people/“persons” from the human family. President OBAMA signs the DRIP (DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES) in 2010 granting US CITIZENS the right to claim their Nationality.
***Black America, don't let how people feel about you stop you from traveling, it's lame to think that way.
exactly my thoughts
@Novembre Ode I'm in the US and I love you, my African bro n sisters ❤
@@INGEN_Dahnie-el-aha-ha not all AA's feel that way though.
@@pietrojenkins6901
Of course not (unfortunately)...but the same can be said of Africans; not all see us AA in a good light either. Media has alot to with that. Also, people's unwillingnes to think/research for themselves.
@@INGEN_Dahnie-el-aha-ha all you said is very true . But from experience living in B'ham Alabama for 20yrs i think its purposely seen that way bcoz its a feel good factor.Africans like to see self as better mannered,more responsible than AAs while on the other hand some AAs like to see self as better looking,more advanced,living better than poor backward Africans.Its confirmation bias on either side.
The guy said he wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for African Americans. From civil rights to what happens now, he said we as Africans feel the same as well. The African American struggle to him is the African struggle. Reading the comments, I'm not sure if people actually listened to what he said.
So true…
I listened to what he said and I got positive results in South Africa coming from the U.S.A.
@UNTERVÖX
You asked for "help" if you're "wrong". Well, I'll just offer this. Ever heard of a tiny little thing called "colonization"?
Yeah. It might have slipped by a few people. But without an intercontinental phone apparatus, broadcasting, air-travel, and many other infrastructural industries and systems, including the advent of the internet, a WHOLE lotta people, globally, didn't know what the h3ll had hit them.
Africans were included in that whole little messy thing. The entire Continent was swept and barbarically crushed by country after country. The people, their treasures, their children, stolen, exploited, exported----destroyed. Borders changed, genocides waged, cities burned to the ground, well, I think you get the idea.
As soon as heroes rose from the decimation, (Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, Thomas Sankara, Ras Tafari, etc.) amongst their first actions, after fighting for their own localized autonomy & liberation, was offering land to those of us in The Diaspora, forming alliances with some our leaders, and even now, scholars on both sides of the waters are working on projects to reclaim the truth about our histories.
Sorry I didn't have time to go further, but you might want to research the late Dr. Yosef Ben-Yochanan, a CLOSE Ethiopian friend & Brother of AAs, Dr. John Henrike Clark, Dr. Asa Hilliard, and so many more who all have done monumental work together with our global FAMILY, to UNITE us. Not sew seeds of division.
And while you're at it, if it's the last recreational $50.00 you ever spend in your life, I'd recommend you read "When We Ruled", by Robin Walker, for good measure. 👍🏾
@UNTERVÖX Sorry you have had a lot of bad experiences with Africans from the land still there are those in the land that dont act like that.Dont give up on everyone in Africa judge them by there character.
he is just trying to be polite 😅Africans in Africa and black Americans have nothing to do with each other. Maybe the Africans abroad do
As a Filipino, I'm so proud of this Malagasy brother. We are from the same racial stock thousands of years ago. We are both descended from Austronesian seafarers. Much love and respect to Madagascar, from the Philippines.
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Much love to the Filipino community of Malagasy decent y’all have always shown me love and my nephew is half Filipino got much love for y’all
Malagasy are also black
🤔 not all of them Asian decent some are African descent
I am in the Philippines right now... and I can't help but notice how similar the people here to some of the tribes we have in my country... respect! One World One Human Family!
His response gave me chills. Never heard anyone say what he said. Much respect to the fam over in Madagascar from USA. ✊🏾
You're absolutely on point.
Facts
I wish we all felt that way about one another, mo matter what country, religion, nationality.
Black people need to come together!!!
I have literally encountered thousands of people who speak and think this way.
@@notinterested8452 that’s such a blessing!
Absolutely , First time ever . the Zulu are also great fans of the african Americans . but this is unique for a person from Madagascar .
We love our Africans in america here in Mozambique
i already knew how he felt, black americans, have fought for the freedom, and diginity of black all over the planet
💯🎤mic drop…
It's the truth
So when are you going to start fighting to liberate yourself from the biggest enemy? Yourselves. You can’t claim that you have fought for all blacks all over the world when your people are terrorizing American communities and other ethnicities like assaulting the elderly and robing lemonade stands not to mention how you murder each other by the thousands.Take this dude to Chicago and Philadelphia and let them see the real ramifications of the thug culture you are spreading . It’s sad that a large group of your people have to seek validity not just from whites but now you have to travel and seek it from others that have no actual experience living with American blacks in the ghettos. Be honest with people please tell the whole story. Notice how this young man said family first something the American black hardly has anymore did you tell them that 70 percent of black children don’t have a father in the home or just none period? Bro you gotta be more responsible these people actually believe that that thug culture is black American culture period. Does this foreign black actually know any of the nine thug or raise hustling successful black men and educators like Thomas Sowell or judge Clarence Thomas? Look who his references are all these dude that have help in the brainwashing of millions of children leading them straight to prison, single parent hood, mass abortion, drugs and death.
Lol you are crazy. Africans are the reason black america is not in bondage still. Hell some African countries were never colonized. The king of Morocco signed a treaty with your former ancestors masters to never enslaved muslims. Most of us are muslims. So none of yall good christain did a damn thing for Africa. Africa has done everything for Black America. We have our own heros in Africa. Not one american but Americans have heros from other countries. Garvey for instance. So dont trick your self.
@@WARLORD8189 you done bumped your head
I really like how your daughter is getting first hand exposure to Africa's culture's and economic development.
What development only advancements Africa makes is when Chinese or Europeans are around you guys aren’t colonizers builders or creators. And everything in Africa is currently due to Chinas colonization. If it wasn’t for the French Christian’s Chinese you guys would still be without the wheel and communicating through a series of clicks and grunts
Thank you so much for allowing we every step of the way
It's very important.
Great point! My babies got passports this year for a trip to Mexico. I want to take them to Africa asap, though! I need them to see how big the world is and how varied our people are.
I'm surprised some Black folks are unfamiliar that a small portion of Malagasy people were brought to the Americas, specifically the U.S and Peru where they were called Mangaches.
That's because the teaching of the transatlantic slave trade mainly focuses on slaves being taken from west/central Africa. I didn't know until after high school. I've also never heard of "mangaches". Interestingly enough though, I've found out that my maternal line likely comes from Madagascar, based on some results I got from a dna test and extra research I did afterwards.
I’m a history buff and when I found out about Madagascar the people, the animals and the food! It’s like NO OTHER
My family were told we are deseantant of Madagascar thru the slave trade. Some of us have a unique look about us, especially my daughter. She has been asked many times is she from Madagascar.
He's African American I can tell by the way he speaks. Don't know who this brother is fooling.
@@cindy7792000able ik you’re ankles gotta be some type of ashy 😂 he looks like he’s from Madagascar
Great conversation. It’s so great you have the opportunity to informed our African brothers and sisters we all aren’t drug dealers and strippers. The majority of African Americans are professionals and business owners working hard to care for our families. The media has really influence the image of us in a negative way. We have so much in common.
Yes most Africans I don't believe think this way about our people unfortunately a lot of them only see what they see in the western media with theire negativity! it's the same way about Africa all we see is war and hunger and starvation and ethnic violence we seldom see the good part of Africa or should we say the prosperity part of Africa it is the same way with the African diasper all over the world anything pertaining to black people is always betrayed in a negative way they never ever want us to believe that we can succeed anywhere even in America they want us to believe that even there we are all failures and the lowest of low!thank goodness many black people are getting more educated about the diaspora and are not buying into the propaganda of white society and White media !we need to put more stories about our people out that includes Africans !African Americans !Caribbeans and any people in the diaspora! We need to tell our own stories instead of letting others tell our stories!
The fake news have the world thinking negative about us.
@@leonardorjioffor6683 Indeed bro. We should be able to see through the White agenda that seeks to portray negatively our Afrikan brethren in the diaspora and in the Motherland,
We should look for alternative media tha tell our Own Story as it is.
True knowledge is power
Shebeshebe!, ie, Peace!
The LIES hidden in the dark will surface when the MORNING light EXPOSES them.
GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL...
It’s not only the media. Does tik tok help? Manosphere, divesting, all the videos on TH-cam? Is not only African Americans watching that and I think it escapes content creators when they put videos out there.
Yes American media focuses on negative images but the American community also engages in it online and more people are exposed to social mediA.
I’ve seen countless videos just this week alone talking about how undesirable BW in America are by their own men. How many videos talk about Blakistan but when others outside community observe things or make comments on videos they’ve seen it’s hurt feelings.
No one respects that.
Much love to the global African community!! Greetings from Ghana.🇬🇭❤
Black Americans are the coolest people on this planet, every culture on this planet tried to imitate their swags.
Tru dat
Salute,child of the Sun 🌞
Well! U are right but being cool is not the most important thing in the world. Chinese people are the least cool people but they are now dominating the world. A lot of what ( not all) we call cool is backwardness. Engendering and technology is cool to me. Speaking broken English no matter how cool it may sound,having dysfunctional families,not having family values,and being lawless is not cool to me. I’m an African living in America by the way.
Well! U are right but being cool is not the most important thing in the world. Chinese people are the least cool people but they are now dominating the world. A lot of what ( not all) we call cool is backwardness. Engendering and technology is cool to me. Speaking broken English no matter how cool it may sound,having dysfunctional families,not having family values,and being lawless is not cool to me. I’m an African living in America by the way.
Yes but swag is not everything. If you have time please listen to a young lady named Yvette Carnell on TH-cam and Antonio Moore , he goes by the title tonetalks. They can explain very well why African Americans are depicted the way that they are in AMERICA . Have a great day
As an A.A I really appreciate this brother. Many know this but will never freely speak it with ease like he has. 💖
You guys are great. Im proud of the way you represent us abroad!!
I've traveled all over the world and I know from personal experience, natives from everywhere admire, look up to and have great respect for US. I bare witness to this. Many of us don't know because we don't travel. I remember I read where less than 3% of Black Americans has a passport. Don't know what that number is today but it speaks volumes. We must travel black people.. of course if we have the money. We are not just African Americans or just Africans.... We are planetary people. Believe it.
you can't expect to be liked everywhere you go no matter where you come from or what you look like
Good advice!
So true. All these billions of people on the world. There's someone out there who will like you for who you are.
Amazing, just amazing! My name is Naimbai and I have been watching the "unapologetic nomads" for a while now. I lived in the U.S for over 12 years but now I am in the motherland. I stayed in Madagascar for 3 months and came here in Tanzania only three days ago. I was in Antananarivo when the "unapologetic nomads" visited the city. I wish I knew. I could have met them in person. I visited Rova (the palace) and met the Malagasy guy in the video. His name is Toky and we flew from Antananarivo to Adddis Ababa together. I noticed he is an extrovert like me so I approached him. Toky was going to Lusaka, Zambia. He is a super friendly guy. We hanged out at the airport till our flight times. We keep in touch and hope to see each other again. I didn't know he was with this lovely family. The world is big but also small. Maybe one day I will meet the "unapologetic nomads" in person too.
What's up broooo! Looking forward to seeing you again very soon!
@@tokyarison2173 Hi Toky! I'm hoping you can show me around Madagascar as well!
I pray 🙏🏿 Lil Wayne is not how the world sees African Americans, Surely and most definitely there are thousands and I would even go far as saying millions of other Africans who could and should be seen as more influential and more dignified than some of these rappers who in my personal opinion make us appear ignorant and less dignified. We as African American must do a better job supporting those of us who truely gifted outside of a rap
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Say it again for the people in the front! They are usually taking up space and blocking the message. I just said this same thing on a different thread. I am absolutely horrified that the face of American blacks has been hip hop and rap for more than 40 years! It doesn't escape my notice that when we were elegant and dignified, that doesn't mean perfect, but we were far more careful in the way we presented ourselves, people copied us but not to the extent that they have now that we are in full blown depravity mode! We have got to as a collective decide that we want a different representation. It's not just the media because there are tons of tiktokers that are just as ratchet as the day is long and that is both male and female. We've got to get bigger platforms of people who speak English, can articulate their thoughts, are well-dressed and present themselves with dignity
👍LETS ME SAY IT TO .💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Please encourage more African Americans to visit Africa. I'm sure you now have a different perspective. Have always felt so bad about lack of knowledge. It pains me each time i ask African American friends to pick a restaurant to eat, and almost everyone would say either, Chinese, or Mexican!! none would say lets try African food. And yet they are proud to call themselves "African" Americans. I'm so proud of you guys taking this very enriching journey into Africa. please tell the story!
100% my bro 👊
In most African countries, we do not have Chinese or Mexican foods, because we have our own.
Brainwashed and programmed HAVE WE BEEN. I see hot buttered popcorn and candy on the screen in a movie theater-NEXT thing you know- I'm buying both items. NO MORE- I will eat BEFORE I arrive at a nonracist movie now.
PROPAGANDA PROGRAMMING can work fast unless you ID it before it engulfs you.
I was in love with the Spanish language since grade school. We were told it was one of the most romantic languages along with French. Bought books, etc. to learn the language. Then noticed that many of them had been brainwashed against ALL BLACK people.
Thus, I no longer deal with ANY RACIST Asian or Hispanic businesses anymore at ALL. And I AM weaning myself off Mexican food or making my own at home. THE other so- called minorities should know better than TO BE racist AGAINST blacks because THEY are degraded on the daily also.
But GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL...
Always willing to give black dollars to other races! But none never supports You! Our people are lost!😣
Sorry but I don't call myself A/A because Africans are the ones who sold us to the white man, we consider ourselves FBA, we have very little in common with Africans
@@abm5707 yall missing out on mexican food
One thing I've can to learn what the main divide is between Africans and African Americans is that there has been alot of disinformation between the two, as a result both are skeptical of the other. Having moved to the USA from Africa, because of some who are misinformed be it at church or at work I was treated poorly, on the other hand, those who were informed and open to Africans treated me like family. This lead me to conclude that the stereotypes about us and whoever decides to tune in into that frequency will side eye the other.
That gap needs to be closed, we may have been born/ raised in different parts of the world but we are a one people and there should be no us vs them.
Yes, because we all face the same prejudices worldwide. I found that out during the George Floyd protests. African people in Europe said they identified with the same issues of racism. They even shared some of the murders they had happen on the continent in Europe.
We are not African, that is the divide. We are not the same people. That is not to say that we have not mixed with other nations with Melanin.
@@ladellallen3155 true you are not African. In my post I pointed to the fact that, we may be born and raised in different parts of the world but we are one people. Also true that you may have mixed heritage but the African side is more accepting than the European side ( I stand to be corrected if wrong).
Another side I've noticed is, if Africa was more developed, alot more of black Americans would embrace their African side, instead it is met with ; shame ( African booty scratcher- this too is a whole different story coz NGOs have to show you a certain pic to maintain those donations / funding to come in for their livelihood,salaries), misinformation has greatly been spread and this breeds resentment, I would examine the originator of this narrative. Hint, the savage oppressor.
Conclusion, I'll always look at black Americans as my people regardless of how they treat me or how they perceive their relation to Africans.
Misinformation
@@impartialvoice1080 I have always Loved and accepted African people. They are usually quite humble, happy and accepting of me too. I've worked with many people from Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, I consider most of them good friends.
I want Tuki to be my tour guide when I visit!!
This is beautiful and keep up the good work in connecting to African culture. God bless.
Absolutely 💯
That’s nice conversation… am really impressed and proud of this guy…. He is knowledgeable and this video is worth seen … Alefa Malagasy 🇲🇬
Love From Zambia. There you are.... now in Madagascar. Lotsa Love to my girl Ala such a strong girl happy go lucky girl. Shout out mom and dad too. Stay blessed
Black Americans are loved worldwide. Don't get it twisted.
We sure are. I'm on a language exchange app and ppl from around the world have shown me so much love 🥰
They love your culture but not the people.
@@anthoniquesharon1828 cap
Come on. Don't be so naive. This is not true, not by far.
Where? Don't speak on behalf of everybody. Have you.interacted.with them. Go to America you will be shocked how they give no damn about Africans and feel about Africans same way Europeans do. Arrogant, entitled, and use very course language. If you know Nigerians the way they behave, African Americans are worse. My observation.
When I was in college I met a man at home in Atlanta from madagascar. I promise I'd never knew people actually lived there until we met. He spoke highly of black people in America and it surprised me.
great interview
Madagascar looks like a beautiful country
My first ancestor that my family and I know of was stolen from Madagascar as a child and was sold in New Orleans. We have some of our history written. He said that the white men can on ship and would entice the children to go on rides and would give them treats. They did that to gain their trust and then took them. I have a picture of his daughter when she was in her 90s. She has strong Malagasy features. One day I will go and visit.
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wow!
@so.many.obstacles White slave traders were terrified of African animals, diseases and unrestrained Africans. So frightened that they wouldn’t get off the boat. They didn’t have to as the Africans brought the slaves out to them. But no shame, my ancestors have created a whole bullshit narrative on who they are and how they got to the states too.
@@iamjustsaying4787 It's less that it's bullshit (except for Ho-teps, they can fuck off with this 'we're egyptian' garbage) and more that because we've been stuck in this country with white people and their reading of history, we haven't had the opportunity to explore the level of fault of Africans in the slave trade properly. It's difficult because it's like...not everyone's fault. I can't 'blame Ghana' because there was no Ghana yet. Can I blame that tribe though? Can I blame the Igbo and Ashanti?
Weird, as most slaves were sold by their own people to Jewish and Arab Middle men, then to whites
Beautiful country, so happy to catch up with you family. Keep up the excellent work, continue to enjoy the journey. Much love always
Thanks so much
I appreciate you guys taking the time to post your adventure to Madagascar. Madagascar is on my list of travel. I've been to the African Continent twice. So many more places I want to go there. Africa is my main focus for traveling. Madagascar is next. I want to go to Uganda, South Sudan, and perhaps Angola. Checking you guys out from Chicago. Peace.
I’m Malagasy that was born and raised in Wash DC, and was raised on hip hop, I relate to this video somethin ridiculous. It’s love from the motherland to the states. We as Africans are all one people. ✊🏾✊🏾🇲🇬🇺🇸
I would love to visit!
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You were born here? Cool. I wonder who your parents are? Maybe I know them.
Only your skin color everything else❓Yall on your own💯 After AFRICA STARTING SELLING PEOPLE as SLAVES or otherwise is when ALL TIES were CUT BETWEEN A PEOPLE oh and OWE for that STAIN‼️💯
Cool! I used to know a couple of sisters who lived off Eastern Ave in DC near Takoma metro. Perhaps you know them. I mention this because the Malagasy community isn't that big in the DMV compared to other African communities.
You are such a positive person. You represent America so well. Keep it up.
I'm really proud of you guys, you are the example of what African American liberals should be doing...changing the narrative globally, that African Americans are better than portrayed by American Media and Hollywood. Im Nigerian been 20 years in the States, I guess now considered African American by most people, when I was planning to come the US 2001 the narrative about African American was so bad that when I got here and followed the history I became rebelliously in love
with African Americans so much it don't matter what a black person does to me I always find a way make peace. Its a commitment I can't let go. 💚💛🖤❤💯
We all should make and maintain this commitment to each other.
In the Name of the Holy Spirit Amen to You ☮️❤️🙏
Thx 4 taking the time to know our history and our fights for rights..
The Black American is there original Indian indigenous to North and South America. The Invaders sold a lie and now we aren't even called by the proper terms.
@@spiritwarcrystalawakening1915 tribe tribe😉‼️ glad you know who you are‼️🏹🪶🤎✌🏾💪🏾to ya💯 “wise up tribe up rise up “Wanagi 🪶”tribe tribe” Hawk from Hawk School😉✌🏾 we are the aboriginal copper colored Indians of America they wrote it down💯🙌🏾😉
For a Malagasy this guy speaks a very good english. And I can relate to what he was saying.
Madagascar is a must visit. Last time I check it was way expensive to fly to Antananarivo from Lusaka than flying to Kuala Lumpur or Ho Chi Minh City in Asia. I hope flights there cheapen done so we can go explore. Great video fam! One love from Zambia. 🇿🇲
The demise of the once great Zambia Airways is the reason why it’s expensive to fly from Lusaka to Madagascar. Hope the relaunched Zambia Airways will in the coming years make travel to these places cheaper. For your info, it can be expensive to travel between on Australian state in terms of air fares & accommodation than to travel to Bali in Indonesia for holidays from an Australian state.
@Esther Com you should try Ethiopia Airlines or Kenyan Airways.
I've got the popcorn 🍿 ready for this one !!!!
🙈🙈🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂 I can see you are in the movie 🎥 theatre 🎭 watching this
Is it wrong for me to feel a tinge of jealousy? How I WISH I had a mother and father who were so deeply moved by the experiences of their ancestors that they wanted to be the change that left a lasting impact in the next generation. Educating not only them self but educating their kids as well. Creating a solid foundation for them to grow and thrive in. Instead all I got was a a dead beat father and an uneducated mother. I’m having to claw my way up out of this situation painstakingly. I’m 34 years old and I’m still struggling. It’s SO DAM hard. I swear and yes I can be the change I wanted to see growing up to my future children. I get that but the road to getting there is unimaginable difficult. Some days I just feel like giving up. I’m not gunna lie. I’m getting teary eyed thinking about it.
I just want you to know that what you are doing for your kids and for the Black Community is so very important and will have such a long lasting impact on so many of us. Thank you. I
The struggles in your life define who and what you are, depending on if you overcome them or fail.
Don't you dare give up on you! Your post tells me you managed to grow far beyond your environment and have a lot to offer to this world. Whatever you decide to do in life, I suspect you can/will accomplish. Stop allowing your mother & father free rent in your head! My advice is for you to research city/county resources and services. Call YOUR local elected officials because their purpose is to assist you and help find solutions to your difficulties. Take care!
I'm reading your post and I like your honesty about your challenges. I've lived a lot longer than you and have experienced many obstacles in my life but never have I felt like a failure. Give yourself credit for who you are and where you are in life today. Talk with the older women and men to get a better perspective of all we have to thru to stay in the game of life. Read every and anything that will give you positive vibes. We as a culture are and have made some great strides and have change the narrative about us as a people. Do you and be happy.
I love this brotha, i feel he should have his own youtube channel.
This island is very mix Africans Indians and Asian, beautiful place
Wow! Thank you for sharing, I was bracing myself for a negative response, but I was pleasantly surprised!
That brother knows the shit he’s talking about! Enlightened brother!
I went to London and everybody was stoked to see a black American. I also have seen that we are the most unique black people on Earth. Nobody had our swag. Not one black person. I wish more black people traveled and saw how original we are. We need to really start appreciating our journey. That's why I don't get bent out of shape for what happened to us because it makes us who we are
I love when people from different places pay respect to Black Americans ✨🫶🏿✨
This guy is great listening to. I hope to Visit Madagascar next year, would love to meet him. His English is great.
Great video. It was nice of that guy to show you around. I hope yall gave him a tip. I know in other countries they expect a tip for all that👍
I loved this conversation! Learnt a lot in13mins. Its really surprising that the Malagasy gentleman speaks such good English with an impressive intonation; despite leaving in a French speaking country! And he says he was born and raised in Madagascar - How impressive!
Some do English as a 2nd language and they tend to speak it fluently. I once had a Congolese do my electricity, he was verh fluent in English. I asked how he was so fluent, he mentioned that they do English as 2nd language.🇿🇦
@@walkwithorr That's interesting to note!
Probably he attended one of the best schools in Antananarivo plus his interest in Black American culture especially Hip Hop culture is an added advantage too.
@@unclepwechnov1381 I suppose so.
@@oscarbunda1194 nah bro. I didnt go to no fancy school or nothing.. I was just in love with the culture so I did whatever it took to learn the language so I can understand it better. No cap
Thank you so much for this.🙏🏽 Great content.❤️
Manga🤩
Madagasikara Tsara👌🏽
Aaron..Africans like AA culture not for the negativity
rather for the symbol of pride, boldness and daring to speak in eye of the oppression.
Exactly!
I dont see why people like this constantly go around asking other people how do they feel about black Americans, or any other race for that matter. ( maybe for hits for the show) But anyhow, a person who is about the business of living and taking cares of what he or she has to take care of should care less what a couple of people feel about them. I've traveled in and out of Africa for years, not everyone is going to like you and many people will take you in as family. I could care less what any body including some members of my own African American family feels about me. We give each other the due respect and keep it moving as they say. I suggest you do the same. If the spirit, energy and vibes are not harmonious with yours, move on to were you do fit and the energy is pleasing. The time in which we live is too serious and short, to be blind sided by trivial, minor issues such as what other feel about you. When it is all said and done, the only thing that matters is did you make your self happy, by coming on the planet and fulfilling you purpose in life, what ever that happened to be. Peace
Ohhhhhhhh my Godddddd...say this again and again and again❗😲FACTS❗
@@pattysmall1865 this is why the small tribal minds have to be separated from the consciously enlightened minds, for the two will really never meet.
It's not bad to know. It help not to be surprised by people behaviour towards you when you come to a new environment.
🙏 AMEN ❤ You have spoken the truth.
well said and articulated. i took the advice
Madagascar has the world BEST vanilla!!!🖤💚❤
Even though I live outside of the US in an Asian Country.....there is NOTHING like the LOVE from your OWN BLACK PEOPLE!!!!
If anyone hasn't mentioned it yet, many black communities in the coastal south and bits of Southern New York state have Malagasy ancestry.
I am so glad we made such a great impression on him as well as other ethnic people America is a great plase to prosper and we should pay attention to what they say because we built America and they know we are not a negative people and many have come to America and know who we are as a people I thank him my generations is of the 60's and I know the price we paid to pave the way for everyone else to step through and prosper
This was really heartwarming. I love seeing you both as roving ambassadors for our home back here in the states. Proud. Love you and what you’re doing.
I love this guy in Madagascar! He's amazing. Come visit US. I will take you around my town. Now, I want to visit Madagascar!!!!
Great video. Thank you for the insight.
GOD BLESS YOU MADAGASCAR!! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!
We are magical. Thank you 🙏🏽.
from Los Angeles, watching in Namibia. Let me start me a dayum channel
Sis. I know you’re Foundation Black American. 🇺🇸❤️🖤💚 😂😭🤣
Black, African American, Indian, Hispanic, Latino, etc. are noms de guerre and/or brands that remove people/“persons” from the human family. President OBAMA signs the DRIP (DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES) in 2010 granting US CITIZENS the right to claim their Nationality.
Much Love. Great interview and much respect to the interviewee. Peace.
But We are not respected here in the USA, So I don’t understand what this guy meant by we don’t know how Africans there feel about us. Worry about how we treat eachother in the USA. Like crap
I think he is acknowledging the struggles we face in America and he admires the fact that we continue to fight for rights, he referenced MLK Jr. He enjoys that we continue to share our culture and talent through music and the arts. I heard admiration of our perseverance.
“Flashy, Cool, and Magic” is how he described AA 🙂🙂🙂
He tried to not say it, but he knows Madagascar has a strong Arab and European slave trade history ("I identify more with the mainland than with Middle East"). Before Suez Canal in 1700s and 1800s it was a strategic outpost for traders in slaves or other items for traffic that came around the southern cape going to the Middle East or Asia. Pirates and privateers also used it.
@MrDarenMakoalahy Technically it's not being freed when that group also enslaves you. Only a colonizer would tell the history that way. Like they did you a favour.
Nice to hear positive words about FBA/ADOS from others.....:)
Here we go again black americans goin around afrika asking what the natives thinking about them 🤔 interesting
I guess you don’t see the number videos in Atlanta and New York Malls where Nigerians are asking African Americans about them. Interesting. 🤔 I don’t care for the question personally. 🤷🏽♀️
@@tashajohns9570 yeah nigerians in amerika thats one thing
I'm still confused on why we are hated by so many people. What have we done to these people? Nothing.
propaganda by hollywood perpetuated the stereotypes about us to the world
Because of stereotypes, we are believed to be all criminals, loud and angry, lazy, impoverished, unfaithful and uneducated. And our culture is hated
Still bullshit. If that's the case then All white people are bigots. What's the image of Jesus we see everyday? A white man. Really people? Oh hell no.
That's just why I stop going to church. Praising the white man? Kiss my ass.
Ask “GOD” y’all love him so much. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
We are the blueprint, to what’s hip, what’s cool and stylish… even the ones that hate us don’t realize we have influenced their life in many ways: I was not expecting his response it was very refreshing to hear. Black people / African people we need to latch on to each other .
Wait untill you come to the real heart of Africa Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi etc if you ask an African they'll tell you how they feel African America's waste their opportunity e.g Africa has more billionaires that the US yet we rank the pouret in the world. We're slightly disappointed that more African Americans aren't achieving great success and in turn coming home to buy land and build mega businesses here and take the power way from our colonial masters who never left
@@maswanimatiki Don’t believe everything you see on tv or read on the internet/in newspapers. As the young lady said in this video, the media likes to show the rest of the world a distorted reality. We are a very educated people. And the recent uprising of violence against our people is due to the level of success we’ve achieved- in a short time span at that. They don’t just hate us because we’re black. They hate us because they did so much to us and we’re right behind them in this “race”. Come see us before you judge. I can’t blame you for your lack of knowledge tho because when I was young all I saw was those Feed The Children infomercials and I assumed that’s how it was in Africa. But as an adult I educated myself about my people of the African diaspora. We live in a divided country here and if you don’t see us for who and what we are then you’re no different than the racist people we live amongst.
Uh huh , yea Latinos are good without that bullshit
@@maswanimatiki
That sounds like a hater to me
@@maswanimatiki If you not from here (US) you don't understand that the struggle is different depending on where you live in America. Some go through extreme poverty. Policing in some areas and lack of opportunities have a lot to do with it. If you not smart intelligent and persevering it is difficult.... Be good to people of color wherever you are and keep being your best you! Blessings be unto you all 🙏🏾
I'm new to your channel and ❤ loving it.
Keep up the positive image of our people from the states.
Another great video family. The ending was a bit abrupt, but good none the less 👍🏾
Thanks!
Shout out to Toky, for showing you around. 👊
Thanks for sharing!! Know more about the floral and fauna (as he indicated) but have always been curious about the ppl of Madagascar.
Not truly concerned how the outside world views us for the most part because alot of propaganda is put out there. I am grateful that our accomplishments, culture and music is world renown in spite of the circumstances we've had to endure. We should serve as a beacon to all the under served people of the world that hope indeed springs eternal.
we must also understand that there is a difference between people who love black music versus loving black people.
Toky spittin nothing but facts. Now, if they could make flight tickets cheaper, we should have more tourism.
This man is well spoken
I hope those in this comment section build an interest in learning about Madagascar.
Help where they can to support Malagasy people. Madagascar is one of the islands that is not wealthy, due to its isolation.
Madagascar is known for the COVID ORGANICS is it not? So there are great scientists there, and a president who believes in them. This is fantastic. I would like to learn more about this..
Andrei Rahjoelina courageously represented the country and its offering to the world in 2020, when the planned epidemic was imposed upon the world, and it could have been shut down right then.. except that there was clearly now, a whole other agenda to use it for later domination...
Madagascar is not going to stay isolated. There much beauty and more to discover..
Great but get out of that western superiority mindset always thinking someone needs to be helped even when they a 100 times healthier and happier, seeing prosperity only through that narrow prism of material facility.
@@mannydavid9210 I have been doing research about Madagascar, for the past 2 years, they are very poor (many ordinary citizens), beyond what some have experienced (google about the drought in southern Madagascar). I have used the word "wealth" loosely, intentionally
For your information, I'm not from the West, therefore, I have never experienced what it is like to live in luxury and perpetuate it. Assumption is a mother of all ...
It would be great if some black americans moved to Madagascar to help build and restore it. Madagascar could become a paradise on earth, it's already beautiful.
My great great Grandpa said in a family memoir that he was born (1861) in Mollyglasco ie a Malaglasco Negro. I am so intrigued. I can't imagine how he got to America, maybe missionaries.
I think this gentleman knows the difference between ordinary everyday African Americans to the outrageous pop culture. But let's face it - Black IS the culture!!! And it don't matter how we do - folks just wanna walk like, talk like, be like... Black America! Facts.
I love us, but this isn't true.
@@chrisyoung1720 Oh, but it is.
@@mikirose2598 How??
@@chrisyoung1720 Research it Chris.
@@mikirose2598 I don't think I'm the one that needs to reaserch.
We love you too Toky.
Hi Nomads. Madagascar very interesting place. Please ask them what's so unique about their Cinnamon spice compared to the rest of the world. Best perfumers recommend or prefer Madagascar Cinnamon to used it as a note. How did they grow it differently.
I enjoyed this video. Some groups of folks put plenty of negative stuff out there about black Americans painting the entire community with the same brush.
INSECURITY......HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT AFRO AMERICANS.......WHAT IF HE HAD SAID HE DOES NOT LIKE AFRO AMERICANS?.........
I hope to be back in Madagascar in a few months, I'm in East Africa now! I really loved my last visit! ❤
Why do black Americans think they are entitled to being liked ? Those questions are off putting. We have our problems in Africa. Please come in peace .
Hater all skin folk not kin folk
You do know there are other continental Africans that asked African Americans the same type of questions right?
@@tashajohns9570 I'm pretty sure they do a whole continent worrying about us that says a lot don't you think people don't criticize down they criticize up don't tryna make jealousy look like something else that's corny that tribal energy cause division. We do us we never wanted attention the world just gravitate towards us then attempt to hijack then say we don't have culture that's been the strategy people gets bothered because they don't know why we are unique from every group on the planet and people make statements like this☝🏾 to justify envy but I do feel like us in America have been socially engineered to act out of character and taint our own image but that's due to being around people who are highly jealous if Africans stop being envious and join forces it'll be no stopping us but the tribal competition gotta stop
@@Will_of_ion I read between the lines of the post I felt the xenophobic vibes. However, African immigrants have TH-cam videos in the Malls asking African Americans the same question. However, sometimes the answer is not what they want to hear because they know more about African Americans than we know about African about their respective cultures. You can kind of tell their feelings get hurt but it’s the truth we stay in our own lane and mind our business unless invited. 🤷🏽♀️
@@tashajohns9570 My thing is why is it a discussion little ol us stay to ourselves I wish we were not on the media so much I feel like our uniqueness shouldn't be for everybody to see that's where the competition and the need to mention us comes from they say we have no culture but copy they say we are lazy but we had the most successful communities in America and the Caucasians got jealous and bombed it we had hundreds of communities we invented 90% of what's in our daily lives and it's successful people in our communities that do them but that doesn't get coverage they point to the hoods they want that to be their excuse to bring us up it's the constant need to criticize that looks odd it shouldn't be a discussion if there's a hood in Africa drugs in Africa prostitution in Africa crime how can they speak on us they not bad people I just want the competition to stop we'll be stronger together that goes for Caribbeans as well we have a whole power house that has millions of holes and it stems from greed and envy.
MADAGASCAR LOOKS & SOUNDS COOL!👍🏾WOULD LOVE TO VISIT😃
You can tell that he learned English from Us lmboo
I loved this so much. I've always wanted to go to Madagascar and try their rum!!
I told my friend Chelsea who is black that black people need to travel more often and this video is proof why she should
Ok white person
Black people travel all the time what are you talking about
@@Untitled0752 A very small minority of them as a lot of you guys are scared of what could happen to you overseas well, I don't blame you.
@@Untitled0752 The man on the video said black people don't travel, so leave the girl alone.
@@Untitled0752 I grew up in very diverse cities and let me tell you alot of African Americans I grew up with had never left the country let alone owned a passport. Very grateful to have the oppurtunity to travel to several countries and am beyond grateful for the experience to learn about and immerse myself in a culture outside of my own. It keeps me grounded and humbled.
Flashy... Cool... Magic!
Am really confused about u guys. What makes Madagascar not African like?? Is it because they light skin or they are not darker??. Was African continent supposed to have only darker people. Is like me traveling to Hawaii and telling people in Hawaii they don't look American or telling a native American in New Mexico they don't look American. How's an African supposed to look like? People should stop this colorism stuff or whose African or not. Racism is not a thing in Africa but tribalism is what's the problem. The former president of Confederation of African Football CAF was from Madagascar. If he wasn't African he wouldn't have been president.
origins from Indonesia
@@daimyo672 So what's your point?? People from Hawaii have root from somewhere but they are Americans, native American has root from somewhere but they are Americans black Americans have roots from Africa but they are called Americans. So what's your point, Brazilians have root from somewhere and they are called Brazilians or Southern Americanas, Indians got root in Africa but they are called Asians. Is it only Madagascar that has roots from somewhere??
@Jude I do not think it is about complexion, most probably the Austronesian genes but I hear your point: Africa is diverse. This takes us to slave trade era and earlier migratory times - by now it should be normal that the continent is very diverse and there is no "typical" African.
@@JudehEmpire they are not black african they are just physically in africa
@@daimyo672 Nope not everyone is from Indonesia majority are of Bantu stoke just got little bit misses with assians that came from Indonesia... And complexion we come in different complexions as Africans most people from the southern part of africa are light skinned.
My man Toky is killing it 🎉🎉🎉
Good & interesting discussion & I’ve learned something thru the comments that I didn’t know about the Malagasy black people & their Asian ancestry connection. If a Malagasy person went to Indonesia, would they feel that they’re part of Indonesia? An answer from a Malagasy person would be appreciated
Hello. Quite a part of our population, mainly in the highlands would blend in physically if they go to Indonesia. But as for to feel being a part of Indonesia I don't really think so since our culture and language have evolved to be more of a mix rather than mainly Indonesian. Big up bros and sis☺️
@@natanaelarafera295 Great response
WoW. RESPECT to this BROTHER for acknowledging our struggles and triumphs. I'm truly humbled by him and inspired as well.
What does Malagasy people think of African Americans?
This is a strange question because 99% of Malagasy people have never met or interacted with African Americans. How can one have an opinion of something they don't know anything about?
It's interesting how he gives 3 distinct traits: FLASHY, cool and MAGIC because that's what HE has seen in Rap Videos. That's common wording of how AA are seen in Africa! It's a shame because MOST simply 'have on' a persona, not Organic! Peace
Exactly
Bro! I met a lot of Africans American and white Americans in Madagascar in 2016. I live in Seattle Washington.
Media
@@Aeon1019 y'all be jealous that shi is corny so the only thing people have seen is music so they didn't see anything else you tryna make organic confidence look like something bad because you don't posse the same traits that's why y'all cling on but hate at the same time stop the slick comments at this point we know we got haters that share our same skin complexion
I encourage you to visit South Africa and Ghana. Nigeria where am from would have been great to visit but for now its not safe due to insecurity. You can come when things get better. Good job. 👍👍👍
I feel frustrated watching this. It's showing the soft effects of colonialism. I was wanting to see more of unaffected culture. I appreciate what he said about protecting the culture. Although I am a little saddened by what type influence our culture has on their impressions of colonialized wealth and development. This attempt to assimilate has desinigrated cultures across the world with just one generation many times.
I agree! And I am extremely horrified that hip hop is the major impression on the world of American blacks AKA ADOS. We are so much more than that and it is shameful, to me, that the elegance and dignity of decades prior have all but been lost. I hope we can regain it because clearly ADOS is quite consequential to the way the world goes.
Most people see the fact that black people in the US are the wealthiest group of blacks in the world. They have advantages no other blacks have anywhere else
@@nealandersen4867- We do not have an "advantage". We fought, bled, and died for every single RIGHT that we utilize in the United States. Furthermore, we have never had the privilege of fighting just for ourselves. We are surrounded by packs of hyenas including Africans and other immigrant Blacks who hijack our suffering and take what rightfully belongs to us. The first main group to do this was white women whose suffrage movement did not result in the rights that they wanted to achieve so they snatched Civil Rights legislation and declared themselves minorities. Even though there have been far more white women than white men over the last several decades, white women still declared themselves to be minorities. They aren't mistreated for this. Everything they have they owe to legislation that use the civil Rights movement as its cornerstone. If you other blacks, especially those of you in Black countries, want what we have then get up off your asses and do what we did!!
@@TheBLACKboard65
I mean really, my great-grandmother and grandmother were AKA’s and my other Grandma was a member of the links. All of that time and effort spent in the community for us to travel outside the US and to be know for rap music. Oh no ma’am. This has to change. My three grandmothers would be mad as Hell right to know this.
Toky is the exception when it comes to how people feel about Foundational Black Americans. Good video!
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Its usually positive when traveling to other countries because they know you are a guest, and its temporary. However, when you are a Black American that now have relocated to a part of Africa and you try to do business...it becomes quite a different experience.
Probably if we come to invest and help the locals, like develop jobs and training where there are lack of opportunities then fine. Like, if I go there will be to invest in the economy & expand abroad with Real Estate. Some foreigners go over there just to leech and the local population doesn't gain or benefit, but instead lose out.
Facts. It's not fair either. The Africans can come to America and get ahead because of the blood sweat and tears shed by Black Americans, yet we can't go to Africa and get the same energy from the locals. These videos are very misleading. By in large, Africa don't rock with us, only on paper do we have anything in common. Africans are funny style if you ask me..
I know I’m white, but I lived in three African countries and saw what you are talking about. A lot of them had negative connotations about some of my black American teammates. (It was so bad that some of them started saying they were Jamaican and not American). It was a two way street though… a lot of my teammates thought that African folks we’re basically cave people and almost talked down to them. It’s important just to go in with no expectations. You are a guest in their country and a representative of Americans, it’s important to be respectful and open to experience. I literally never had a single shitty interaction with anyone the whole time I was in Africa. I can barely go to the store here without somebody being antagonistic or rude just because they feel entitled to be that way. America is kind of broken in that department… there is no reason to be ugly to each other they way we do.
African American, Indian, Hispanic, Latino, etc. are noms de guerre and/or brands that remove people/“persons” from the human family. President OBAMA signs the DRIP (DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES) in 2010 granting US CITIZENS the right to claim their Nationality.
I am a SUPERFAN of 2PAC. I am so happy 2 hear that, and the respect he has for black ppl.