What do you know about your ancestry? | Keep It 100: Black in America | Cut

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[seirracruse]

Would love to see this on Native Americans. This would be so cool.

[haidemim]

I’m a black Brazilian and here nobody knows our origin, ancestry, no idea about the countries our ancestries came from. I really like this video and would love to make one here.

[iniyama]

So many "first black (enter job here)" and I'm happy and sad at the same time because *YES progress* but also *I can't believe it's been only a couple years since then*

[sana_fanboi]

6:02
My great grandfather, his leg got caught in a bear trap and so, it wasn't the best time 😕

BUT, they got away PERIOOD ✨💅

[SalamanderMagic]

“My great great grandfather was general Lee” DAMN WHAT

[miaburns]

Cant begin to express how important it is to find out who you are, whether you believe it or not ancestry plays a huge part of who you are today genetically, how your family interacts etc. I started doing research last year and found my great great great grandmothers information via ancestry and another site. Found the house my grandmother was raised in and everything would love to buy the land and improve the home one day. Would be a wonderful gift to my mother and her siblings- dads side no luck but I think everyone should get into it happy bhs ❤️

[mxdinxtt]

Being Nigerian British I feel so bad for African Americans because some can’t even pinpoint what country they could come from

[brasco]

"We might not know where we come from but when we're ready our ancestors find us"


I felt that deep smh

[MegumiHayashida]

This always breaks my heart whenever I think about the consequences from this cultural/spiritual genocide "Africans" in general keep enduring. The good news: current generations (mostly gen Y & gen Z) started reconnecting more and more with their heritage which gives me hope (:

[lalalalalalalala]

It never really hit me until now how much pain someone must feel to see a plantation headquarters, house what ever you want to say, still being used today as an Airbnb or a tourist site. Especially when they KNOW their ancestor was enslaved there or even the not knowing and always thinking my great great grandmother might have been an enslaved person there. Wow thats disgusting, especially if you don't talk about the enslaved people who were forced to stay there.

[ShakiraShakira_CR]

2:08
Her: my grandfather was a serial
Me: Killer 🤨
Her: Entrepreneur
Me: 😶

[cara]

“My cousin was a Temptation” …the way my jaw dropped

[ONS]

People forget how recently slavery was abolished.

[notfound_humanexe]

We need better access to ancestry information especially for the Black community. Everyone deserves to know more about their ancestors, what diseases they’re predisposed to, etc. It can save people’s lives or tell them things like they have the gene for Alzheimer’s. So unfortunate there’s little access to this information and the access we do have is expensive or not accurate. These are the stories I want to hear but I never have heard. Thank you all for sharing. 🙏

The gooseneck quilt story gave me chills.

[PepperCyanide]

"My cousin was a Temptation"

YO 🤯

[heyjay]

I’m jealous of the people who know their ancestry 😞

[alexistifani]

That quilt story was beautiful!! That's amazing you have that.

[amenooni]

0:52 Irish and Kazakhstani
Me being from Kazakhstan and making research on Kazakh immigration in 18th and 20th centuries as response of Kazakh Khanate becoming a part of Russian empire and later USSR: I want to interview this person!

[val-zuiq]

This is so interesting!! i love this. also that quilt story... i cant belive the family still has the quilt.

[yannickm.]

"If you know where you are from, you know where you are going".
- African proverb -

As a Congolese🇨🇩, I have made a lot of "self" research, because even as a African, a lot of our past has been erase due to European and Arabic colonisation.
I'm from the Luba people (Western people call it "Tribes). I come from an ancient Empire that started in the 3rd century. We had our culture, language, spirituality, our history. We were known for being hunters, artist, carpenters, sculptors and the more I read about them, the more I find myself. But we made so much mistakes by trusting the wrong peoples, which led to wars, slavery extinctions. But I'm still proud today knowing who I am and where I'm PRECISELY from.

But it's hard to look back on your background when EVERYTHING is erase, from your name till your origins.

Great video by the way.