@dynamitedingo7720 move forward wtf are you talking about 😅 This history is here forever and as long as blacks are at the bottom of the economic ownership market structure in america. We will always use slavery as a legitimate explanation of why our financial condition exist. There is no plans for reparation, land or any financial institution to help us rebuild black wall street to remove ourselves from the oppression of European oppressors. We will always speak on how selfish, hateful and evil our history was and continues until we see real revolution. If you know anything truly aboy black america then you know we will never move forward without the big 3 requests (ownership, segregation and reparations). MLK amd Booker T thought intergration was a good idea 😂😂😂😂.
I've been to 5 countries in Africa and I can honestly say that they love it when black people come back home. I visited Senegal and it was all love no bad vibes just straight love.
@@WmikewtonytoneBecause those same people were from 500 years ago , not the same people showing blacks love genius lol You wouldn't even be able to understand your own family from 500 years ago lol
No I don’t I lived in Africa 8 years. Black ppl raided other black tribes. Killed and graced every1. And those who they didn’t kill they sold to Asian and middle eastern ppl the=most. And a very small number 2 white ppl. And 2 this day. The only race of ppl who don’t have slaves is white ppl. Facts. @@Ugofitness711
Am a Ghanaian, am always surprised when I hear people from Africa feel privileged. African American culture is highly accepted and admired here in Africa more than anywhere else in the world. Let’s change the narrative all over the Globe. We are all blacks first. Let write a new chapter for all our people’s and for our future 🎉
Why shouldn't Africans feel privileged. We have our economy to fight for. This whole thing of wanting to dress , act and speak like Americans is a huge cancer. Look at the GDPs of African countries and ask yourself why these are still benefiting people who colonised Africa. Our govt corrupt as they can be only gets taxes from those companies and that's if there is any DTA . The focus of Africans shouldn't be on what black Americans are doing but on them getting 100% of their commodities back. Who killed Gaddafi and Patrice Lumumba and Why were they killed? Even this commedian knows if Americans had to choose between him and an American born comedian he's not getting the job. African economy first. Then you can copy USA's social life.
lol except african americans do not see it that way, they see themselves as black and you as african. they claim africans do not like them,yet come up with terms like “african boot scratcher” , they will sit here and tell you how you appropriate their culture and will make tik toks making fun of the way you eat, the way you speak and your cultural practices. sometimes you have to learn to stop loving someone who wont love you back🤷🏾🤷🏾
like there are literally groups of african americans who present as phenotypic african as possible, like kwadjo down the street, and they will tell you nah nah they are either a) indian b) hebrew c)moor etc all because they would be anything else than linked to africa, you can’t teach that level of self hate.
@@hugh7547sometimes we all need education. The act of overlooking someone’s inability to comprehend or conceive the truth doesn’t mean truth is lost. Let love lead. With time all wounds be healed. The future is Key to all Black people everywhere’s sustainability.
Since everyone is sharing when they learned about slavery I’ll share mine. I’m a black American lady, a descendant of American slaves on both of my parents sides. Growing up here I Lea about slavery in the kindergarten. I was 6yrs old and we were taught through success stories of people like Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. As I got older the stories became more detailed but so much was left out that I didn’t learn about until the last 5yrs! Like breeding camps for slaves, feeding black babies to alligators or playing target practice with them using shotguns and rifles. I was once ashamed of my ancestry not realizing how resilient and strong my ancestors had to be just for me to be here, and I still long to know where home is and my ancestry. If my ancestors would have jumped off the slave ship, as some did, I wouldn’t be here. As you get older you begin to realize how important it is to know yourself and where you come from.
Those are great points, I am glad you shared. In school, they give us a kind of “whitewashed “ version of slavery. In the last several decades I came across a lot of those things independently. The lynching barbecues, “breeding “ farms, using innocent black babies as bate for wild animals,even using our skin to make things like shoes etc. I also needed to read things like They Came Before Columbus, African Presence in Early Europe-and many others.
@@catrailalexander4021 I haven’t heard of some of these things. I’m going to read these two books that you mentioned. Hopefully they’re available. Do you suggest any other books?
@@asiahobson6119 There are so many…The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality Hardcover by Cheikh Anta Diop African Presence in Early Asia by Ivan Van Sertima & Rashidi Runoko I’d recommend just about any book written by these two authors. Some may be expensive to buy online but the should be available at your local main library. I live in Japan so it is more difficult to come by, luckily I read them before. Also, you may be interested in books by Dr. Claud Anderson
It’s important for black people all over the world to understand and sympathize each other’s struggles. Instead of bashing each other we should come together and unite. 💯
These guys are the bottom of the barrel intellectually because most West African high schools teach the slave trade; importantly both Liberia and Sierra Leoneon history is immersed in teaching the Slave Trade. Liberia was founded by Freed Slaves from the United States. In Ghana most people know about the slave coastal castles including El Mina.
Im not even black but I agree with you. I come from an Italian family and neighborhood in NY. We killed each other more than others. I see blacks doing the same today. Praying for you guys 💯
T’Challa voice”Why Did You Leave The Boy Behind?!” 😢ignorance is bliss. Recognize the power that splits a people from there land and historical context! Change it now!
These ignorant (white) people want to pretend you’re having a victim mindset for wanting to talk about these things. Knowing it and realizing why social constructs and societies are the way they are today is very powerful. People especially in America expect black people to operate on the same level as whites. In the late 50s many black people were pushed outside of a full bus if there was a white person trying to get in. Heavy racism and open hate on black is not ages ago as people want to make it seem
Nobody is making anyone forget about slavery. Every single culture on earth has participated in slavery. That's how part of an economy worked. More whites were enslaved by Africans throughout the centuries. Slavics were the number 1 enslaved group, enslaved by whites and blacks and Asians. Slavery is not unique to the west. In fact, the west is who ended slavery as an institution worldwide. And no I'm not white.
@@billjames1216 Africans selling enemy tribes isn’t a big deal, that’s like a guy from oblock snitching on the oops , Africa isn’t one big happy family there’s thousands of tribes with different languages, even if we’re all African we’re different
I have an African friend & they told him that black Americans don't like them... And telling us the same about them. This is where the division starts.
But the problem is we hook line and sinker embrace the divisivenes. We only have ourselves to blame. I have seen more stuff on social media from black people promoting division between the two groups than promoting unity.
Hi, Nigerian here. We learnt about slavery in school. But there is more emphasis on Colonization and the effects of it because thats the history that's closest to us. African Americans are unaware of the colonization of Africans countries, their focus is on slavery. Plus when Africa is taught in US, it's more about the impoverished aspects of the Continent.
Yes but Slavery was taught .. Also in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.. so Akon is not knowledgeable when it comes to African Secondary Education.
Well it was more than colonization it was muitalation, buck breaking especially in the West Indies, castration, babies burned in mother's bellies, lynchings rampant AFTER slavery, burned and flooded economic centers, etc,,,,.. the point is Africans are too damn nonchalant about it. I will acknoelegd the Hutu/Tutsi conflict alll day that was caused by Belgians putting that schism between those tribes form the beginning and also Apartheid whcihwas similar to Jim Crow or even the British hand in the Biafra Civil war... so stop and take ownership that yall simply mostly dont care...
@@tobimarho which school did you go to? I was taught in my school about slavery and colonization. Even through films like Battle of Musanga or so. I can't really remember the Name but maybe in your time all that topic has been scratched out of curriculum
In Nigeria, back in high (secondary school), we learned about slavery, they taught us in Social studies and history. We learned about slave masters and how some of our local chiefs and kings fought the Europeans. I learned of King Jaja of Okpobo, Nanna of Itsekiri, Oba of Benin, etc. Yea, we might not get to know details of what really happened because it was like some centuries ago and also because slavery is no more. I think the reason why Black Americans are so engrossed with slavery up till now is because the oppressors are still with them, they are still experiencing the slavery directly. To add, any Nigerian who says they dont know about slavery till they travelled abroad is a dullard and he/she wasnt paying attention in classes. Dem no just know book. Olodo!
Thank You very much! Saying Africans don't know about slavery is completely nonsense! I know about slavery from school, books and from home. I'm not just obsessed with it coz we face other issues like Colonial effect, ethnic and religious issue, corruption etc
Thank you very much!! I was very perplexed as well. Cos I grew up in Ghana until later on in life I came here but I can assure you we definitely were taught slavery in school, especially social studies.
The last chattel slave freed in America was freed in the 1940's and Black folks being enslaved through sharecropping was going on well into the 1960's. There were Black folks that wasn't even told about the civil rights movement because white sharecroppers didn't want them to know they had rights.
Jaja of Opobo and Oba of Benin and Aro Confederacy all fought against colonialism not slavery. Enslavement was much earlier than their respective banishment.
I learnt about this stuff in Primary school, the colonisation, the missionaries, the jihad in the north, Queen Amina, Jaja of Opobo. Yes, they weren't paying attention in class 😄
It's so strange to see Michael Blackson NOT in his comical form!! All other videos of him are him laughing, cracking jokes, doing funny things. It's good to see how intelligent and educated this man is from another perspective and how appreciative he is for what he's become since he came to America.
The africans that we're sold we're sold into a bonded labor but. Instead, we're forced into chattel slavery later on african traders didn't know it was going to be that.
Vlad, don't you make excuse for what Europeans did to Africans by way of colonization and slave trade. Did Africans went to Europe to engage in slave trade or did evil Europeans came to Africa and murdered millions 9f African and forced them into slavery? Your people from the middle east were sold Africans too. Do you know how many millions of Africans that killed? Don't you ever blame Africans for slavery. Arabs were just as guilty as the Europeans too.
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Try and interview all groups of people too and not just celebrities. Africans are taught about slave trade and not slavery. But the violence of colonialism many times surpassed slavery's.
You people always look for sympathy, want to always be the victim. Meanwhile if they ask you one question about neo-colonialism or any other African issue your head will be empty.
@@kelvincyprian1237We aren’t running to africa asking for handouts or benefiting from any of your accomplishments! You Africans are leeching off black Americans accomplishments.
I lived in Nigeria till 19yrs not one day did I learn about slavery or racism only when I came to American black African American has been tru a lot and the are the real super hero
We learned about slavery in Highschool in Zimbabwe. It's a mandatory part of our form 2 or 9th grade syllabus. I think the reason why the West Africans don't take slavery that seriously is colonisation
They dont take it serious because they were the ones selling the slaves to Europeans. I mean it was the Europeans who tried to stop it and Africans got pissed, so most likely thats why
@rawwmagumula6155 Brotha, where did this weird azz white supremacist talking point come from? You do realize that this is something they ALWAYS say. When we call them out and hold them accountable? It's a deflection tactic. Nobody actually sits around blaming everything on them lol. Kneegriws like you are puppets and bow down to your colonizers. Folks with your mindset are the reason why a lot of black countries are 3rd world. They put people with your mindset in charge of countries. They love using Candace owens types to do their dirty work. Lol you living in a 3rd world country(because of the white man). Sitting up here, down talking your fellow black men/women. Making it look like we are a bunch of cry babies making things up. Got the nerve to wave your finger at us. When you barely have electricity and clean water. While a handful of colonizers are living like Kings off of your resources 😆 🤣. Buck dancers, cowards, and white man worshipers like you. Are the reason why they are able to do it smh. Ain't it weird how we are outnumbered 10 to one and it's the reverse in your homeland? But somehow, we managed to build a better life for ourselves and make history. While you are living like we were during slavery now. Yeah, I think yall need to start holding the devils accountable and fight them like us. Maybe you need to start blaming the devil instead of acting like he doesn't exist 🤔
Micheal Blackson still talks about slavery in an American lense Akon wasn't wrong, slavery isn't that big of a deal because it's a small portion of the history of Africans on the continent. For those in the US it's important as it's the start of everything.
It was a big portion of their history too. The reason why the European's could gain a foothold into Africa and colonize it was because they had taken away millions of males. This allowed then entree to go deeper into the continent and conquer it. Africa to this day is still dealing with the consequences of colonization. Look at all the coups that are happening in west Africa. They are still trying to dislodge the French colonialist from the continent.
My entire life in Africa I didn’t learn about slavery until 21yrs when i got into youtube and saw black americans talking about how we sold them and I am still shocked. Finding it hard to process how we did that given how fiercely we stand by each other until i found out it was the Kings that captured their enemies and it made “sense” . It had to be perpetuated by the elite.
It’s a little more complicated than that. I would suggest you look up lectures by John Henrik Clarke. He goes into detail about the Civil Wars we had which resulted in some of us being sold into slavery while others were absorbed into the tribes. When you are looking for answers about our history, don’t do it through the lens of our colonizers.
@ivy29 it wasnt a case of Kings. Ordinary people also participated. The fact of the matter is that many of those screaming that they were sold are descended from people who sold others too. Very often once an empire that was on top and selling enemies was toppled 5 -10 years after their prime, those they were selling would sell them in retaliation
To be fair. Those selling slaves didnt know the extent of the brutality of what people were being sold into. So i don’t blame them for participating. At the end of the day it wasnt Africans that set up and enforced the slave trade through military might, it was the Europeans.
@antoinejunior3353 vlad dumb azz said africans can trace the history back 100s of years. Lol we can actually trace our people, we are very well documented most can easily go back to the 1700s. Lol blacks are welcome and he say w are th same people. We definitely not no damn african
@russianwheelchairbandit8005 they are two different people. FBA don't care to learn about africa. This is our land. We looked out for africans, but we are not family nor blood
Being Ghanaian and Black-American I see the huge disconnect between my communities. White folks brainwashed both sides, and while there Ghanaians and black Americans who still connect and unite, it’s still not enough.
In Congo 🇨🇩 I learned about slavery in primary school. There was a black arab called Tipo Tipo a big trafficker of our people. Until the King of Luba tribe fought him back and killed lots of his soldiers that he came with from Zanzibar.
@@SWOTHDRA"these arabs" it was a BLACK ARAB. You dont know shit about Africa or Middle East so stfu american pos. You cant find Africa on the map, you racist loser. If you was in power youd enslave everyone.
lol ofcourse you won't face it. depending on what part of Africa, most of the whites say in the west are expatriates and work at embassies or are ambassadors and arent seen every day nor participate in the country's politics. now South Africa is something different since there's a large mix of races (blacks n whites). what replaces racism is ethnic rivalries. which depending on the country can be very deadly.....Rwanda, Congo, Liberia for example. hell, Sudan Somalia and many others
I'm from Ghana. Slavery was taught in my social studies lessons in class 4. In Ghana what happened was once slavery was abolished everyone just decided to carry on living as opposed to the U.S where the system decided to stigmatise the descendants of former slaves with iniquities like Jim Crow. Akon is right ! Africans and their Brethren in the American diaspora have long history of colaboration against colonial and racial injustice, and the rift that's been alluded to in this conversation was only recently engineered and perpetuated by race hustlers.
Man this has been your best interview love the concept the sensible conversation and michael blackson i feel him more then akon seems real down to earth and more heartfelt respect 👊🏾
Idk the fact that he made a point to say no one had they hands clean.. was triggering and false .. cuz the slaves themselves had no part in their own imprisonment 😢
Akon is very dimwitted both Sierra Leonean and Liberian history is immersed in teaching the Slave Trade. For instance, Sierra Leonian history include Slavery because many of the leaders of Sierra Leone from the 1800's until now were Creole people(freed Slaves from the Carribean); conversely, Liberia was founded by Freed Slaves from the United States. In Ghana most people know about the slave coastal castles including El Mina. So Akon is probably just Ignorant about West Africa since he was born and grew up in the US.
Akon is either a liar or on something. I have visited Senegal many times. Have you heard of "Maison des Esclaves"? It is a Slave Monument in the Dakar Senegal-- it includes the door of no return.. come on folks Akon is trolling. Slavery is taught in schools in Senegal
You probably went to a low tier secondary school. Because good African high schools teach slavery and colonialism. So unfortunately, you did not get education from an average African HS or University and that is shocking.
@@NaturallyTek Which country and which school? You are being disingenuous. I taught history at HS and college level in West Africa. Did you take the West African exams(a standard High school entrance exam)? Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana all teach about slavery. You are funny guy. I will soon share a high school logic proof simple true/false three variable stuff, but it may take you months to solve instead of minutes, judging from your dearth of basic West Africa High School subject matter. You are certainly not West African private elementary school or high school material because especially the English speaking have much higher standards of learning including history than we have in the US.
Are you crazy or something? I did not go to high school or university in Africa. I only went to Elementary school in Togo and Benin Republic. I did my high school and university in the USA. Can you not comprehend that ?
@@NaturallyTek what was your private elementary school in Togo? I have a cousin who is Ewe she can tell me whether you are telling the truth. She has family in both Ghana and Togo.
As a 56 year old black man born and raised in America, I was always curious as a youngster as to why slavery wasn't covered in school that much and to be honest we didn't talk about it much in my house. Like most folks my age it wasn't until the movie Roots came out and woke a lot of us up and made us really get angry about slavery and really from that point i wanted to know more about my family and where we came from. Like most blacks born in America i could only trace my family history back to our slave owners and i have no idea what African tribe my blood line may be tied to and for me this is the most frustrating part of slavery is the not knowing where you came from.
I'm African...youre 56,start with a DNA test for God's sake. You're living in the age where it is 1000 times easier to know. I don't know why many of you dont do it. How can you live with not knowing??? Baffles me... I spent half my life in America but went back to find the village of my ancestors. Didn't like what I saw but my soul knows I checked that off,at least I know.
@@pazo321 Great, you took a DNA test and made some discoveries on your own and i can do the same thing but do you really think a DNA test can replace the conversations or stories that a great grandma or a great aunt or uncle can tell you about your ancestors, and where you came from, hell no.
@garypace7697 I did not take the test...I was born in Africa. You are concentrating on what is of little importance. I don't have all the stories either.
I just know that I saw a comedy show with a bunch of huge artists…Michael Blackson shut that bad boy down. He cussed all of us out over and over and it was the funniest thing ever…legendary. Props to dude for just focusing on his craft and steadily improving.
Akon is hundred percent right about how African countries and peoples dont real talk about slavery or make reference to it. And i have lived in Africa for 48 years now. We,on both sides (Africans and African Americans)were diverstated by slavery,espacially the Igbo people of south east Nigeria (bight of Baifra). Children lost their parents,women lost their husband,husbands lost their wifes and parents lost their children to slavery. Kingdoms and civilizations distroyed by slave masters. While our ancestors were dealing with this truma came the scramble and partition of Africa by Europeans. Therefore,the later devastation kinda erased the former over a period of time. Thats the truth.
You guys be on some pure nonsense. It's Africans that captured and sold your ancestors into slavery to Europeans for profit. Tell the truth and stop spreading lies. Slavery has always been in Africa. It's right there in the Bible (Egypt by example ).
The difference is after your countries were colonized, you remained the majority race there and the captors were "gone" for the most part. U.S. blacks have a constant reminder that we're the implants with no roots here because we are the minority. When you go to Africa all you see most places is beautiful brown faces except in places ppl sold land.. Until they remove the tariffs on your freedoms in Africa, you still aren't free. they charge you to use their currency and consider Africa a 3rd world country but that's because African money is given to the captors off top and that's something that needs to change. Peace and strength to Africa and all of its descendants
I was born in Sierra Leone and I moved to the USA when I was 14 years old. I learned about about the Amistad Revolt when I was in secondary school. I even brought the book with me to the United States. I let one of my Black Americans friends borrowed it and they never gave it back to me.
I attended school in Ghana and they for sure thought us a lot about slavery and the transatlantic slave trade was just one of it. When you say slavery in Africa, you’ll have to specify the exact one you’re talking about and that’s why it’s not generally talked about.
I got into a discussion with an American who tried to explained to me how Sweden experienced 1,000 years of slavery compared to the U.S.’s 250 years. He went on to add if the Swedes could get over it and move on how come Americans can’t? I asked him one simple question “Did any of these Swedes loose their identity or had their religion/ culture stripped from them? Was it a capital punishment to teach them how to read & write while they were in this slave state? And finally, when they were free, were they free to return to their own homes & families? I think its important to ask and highlight if any other countries who were/are experiencing slavery having their names and identity also removed from them.
I recall being told by an African co-worker that AA's are lucky and lazy. She said it in a very demeaning tone, unapologetically and un-jokingly. I know she doesn't represent the entire continent, but I'm sure she's not the only African in America who feels this way. It's always the ones who scratched and scraped to become US citizens through a paperwork process who now feel like they are better than the AA's whose connection to slavery goes back a mere 3 - 4 generations when AA's paved the way for me to have the life I have today. Shout out to Michael Blackson and African (Americans) like him who show love and understanding to black folks. ✊🏾🤎
She wouldn’t be able to say that to you if we didn’t fight for their right to be in America she would be in a 3rd world war zone in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere
I was taught slavery in Nigeria. Although history is not being not been taught as before. I went to the slave trade ports and centers in Badagry . Nobody is brainwashed. We know there was slavery,our fore fathers and mothers witnessed it. While we recognise slavery,we also have to continue our lives and not fall in the ship of victimhood. However,i must say this,just like many countries through history. The world has always been a "dog eat dog" place.Survival of the fittest. We were also taught that villagers and town residents took weaker villagers as slaves.They married their young females,turn the males to warriors and in many cases sell the healthy and strong ones as slaves.There was internalised racism in Africa long before the foreign Invaders.
This rhetoric is the type of idiociy that you are taught in Nigeria and it's why Nigerians come here and beneift from the hundreds of years of suffering and protesting and fighting for our rights AFTER slavery but have the audacity to pretend as if the road they are able to take in the past 20 years is how it was the previous 20 years and that's FAR from the truth. Victimhood is no such thing for African Americans because Slavery was revised and we are impacted generations later, whereas you come here and benefit from our hard work and pretend as if we're lazy to not be able to accomoplish the same. It's wrong all around and Nigerians have a twisted view on things in American
victim mentality HOW idiot, we running shit over here. Every succerssful person from Nigeria comes here to get validation from US fool, fuck is you talking about. Yall run from the corruption in your own country and come here to be a slave to the white man lmao that's the africans idea of success. Yall don't come here and buy land and assets, you come and seek OUR validation, dress like us, talk likeus and do all of that to look down on the people where you from. Fuck outta here @@DanielWilson-bu4cq
I wouldnt say internalized racism. Literally just how humans have behaved for thousands of years. Japanese starved and murdered each other during feudal japan. Chinese and japanese slaughtered each other (20 million chinese dead) during their war in ways that even made some nazi's be like jesus christ. Human beings, especially men, have a long history of grotesque violence against other human beings. Its hypothesized potentially a third or higher of the slaves put on boats were the direct results of other tribes not just enslaving others after a war, but actively going into areas and marauding them, and forcibly enslaving them. Agojie tribe yes we're talking about you. Barracoon: The story of the last ‘black cargo is a great read about the gross brutality of the female warriors of that tribe, and their contributions to the trans atlantic slave trade. Not 100 or 200 people, not 1000 or 2000. MILLIONS! Black americans and Africans will be a lot more uncomfortable of the truths behind the atlantic slave trade than they would expect. You can blame a lot on the european colonist of course, but like any other place in the world, people who look just like you did the same or worse to you too. Like we black americans still do to each other like never before to this day. You dont need the KKK, we'll happily kill ourselves, put ourselves in horrible predicaments, down each other for the color of our skin or hair texture, have countless children out of wedlock stuck in poverty, the list goes on.
MB my guy. Wheh i was a kid living in Phily on 73 buist ave me and my friends will see Michael blackson and he will always show his love take pictures with us tell a joke very cool dude
As a PASSPORT BRO that moved here to Tanzania 🇹🇿 you can see on my channel that people in Africa don’t care about slavery. I been living here for 2 years in Africa the only time it was mentioned was when I went on a tour and they spoke about the Arabic Slave trade which a lot of Us Americans have no idea about.
We all should research this stuff so we can be more understanding but also realize that no matter how the media or even history try to portray it ignorantly, we African-Americans and Africans are the same and we have overcome a lot and still are trying to overcome glass ceilings that are in our way of breakthrough and progress
Me too, Also I feel like most people don’t know he moved to America at a young age so he’s the perfect person to have this conversation with. He doesn’t really express it he has the best of both worlds like Hannah Montana haha, but for real I would love to have that & I’ll be representing both, but I understand why you wouldn’t.
Sorry Akon has his own perspective, about black americans he is dead wrong.. he can forgive and forget.. you have your language and culture.. we lost ours
Africans or some weirdos. I know you don’t like to talk about it but I just seen some Arab’s selling Africans. ON UA-cam. Play dumb if you want to. You’ve been late but every European country now the Chinese is Up Next.
I'm Nigerian and my generation knew about the slave trade. It was taught in primary/elementary schools until it was not taught anymore at that level but history is taught at the secondary/high school level. Now, just because it's not taught in primary schools doesn't mean Nigerians don't know about it. My kids do, I taught them and so did a lot of parents did for their kids. We've gotten over slavery because it's mental drawback but that doesn't mean we've forgotten the slavery history and the atrocities of the white man that plundered and are still plundering Africa! The slavery relics are all over Nigeria, from Badagry in Lagos to Arochukwu in Abia State to Calabar in Cross River State just to mention a few. We know our history except those that chose to be ignorant.
As a Liberian , I learned about slavery since I was in grade 4th ….since that moment deeply interested in it where as my wife she went to school in nigeria till the end she barely studied slavery , Africa’s history etc
I'm from Liberia and went to JJ Roberts and Lott Carey Baptist Mission school. WHERE DID THEY TEACH YOU ABOUT SLAVERY AT because we were never taught about slavery at all until we came to America.
@williefonte23 just because you didn't doesn't mean he didn't. Those descendants of slaves that returned often told their kids about them coming out of slavery and going back to where it all started
@kamargee9680 ....Did your stupid azz even COMPREHENDED WTF I SAID OR ASKED? I SPECIFICALLY asked WHAT SCHOOL! Not which relatives came back from America to tell him dumb az
Different histories, different experiences, different and yet long lasting psychological bondage to various conditions. It's useful ans helpful to listen and learn from each other's experiences and vjew points. MB shared some interesting insights, having nothing to do with him being right or wrong or Akon being right or wrong. It was all a hot mess and discuss any history its useful to remember that theres always several vantage points and without a doubt all people had a hand in the worse atrocities to ever happen on this planet. Likewise we all shared in the progresses we've made
We learned about slavery in Jamaica in High School. The text books had illustrations on how Africans were transported on the ships. It was really inhumane and lot chose to jump off the ship. I understand now that this was not taught in North American.
I am senegalese, I was born and raised here I have never been outside Senegal. But I went to school and slavery is part of Senegalese school programs and the colonialism. We know the process of the slavery. We were so shocked when they taught us how slavery was. I think as a black in any countries whether you are African or African Americans slavery get us all anger . It’s our ancestors who underwent this my ancestors, your ancestors meaning a brother or a sister or a son of my grandfather or grand grand fathers. But unfortunately the truth is , people are no longer talk about it in Africa. It’s only when we go to gorree island we reminded it.
@@mikko3 did they teach you about why they were selling slaves and how different slavery was in Africa and the rest of the Old World before the Age of Exploration.
@mikko3 not to say that, didn't happen, but that accounted for a fraction of the overall slave trade. Many more slaves were kidnapped directly by slave militias in raids on remote villages. Also as abhorrent as it was to sell fellow Africans, the concept of Race was not a thing in Africa. People had (and still have) far greater allegiance to Tribal Kingdoms than to race. slaves in the African context were more like indentured servants like the Irish and the English, they had limited rights and could marry and their children were not considered as slaves. The African slave "traders" had no concept of Chattel Slavery as practiced in the America's.
@@mikko3 I learned about slavery in Africa in 12th-grade and 13th-grade African history class as well, but they didn't teach us your version. According to our class version, it was a small portion of slaves were kidnapped by other Africans, but the bulk portion of slaves were been abducted by slave traders who were raiding villages those violent act was called "rasias" and those villages were often set on fire after the acts with guns that were provided to them in exchange with money, and other goods by the whites peoples who were sending them. That trade was called triangular trade because the white slave traders would load boats with guns and goods in Europe, travel to the western coast of Africa, and trade with slave traders, load slaves, and bring them to the Americas. But, since the whites are so treacherous I am always surprised to hear that version where blacks sold blacks as the main reason for slavery only here in America they dismiss all the logistics and the funding, and who was behind the funding all that. In the American version, you don't hear that they just put the blame on local African people who sold their people. But as an African, I don't care because I know that those whites who did that always find a way to try to lessen their atrocities by trying to unload the blame on Africans who aren't here to confront that version, but there is plenty of oral traditions passed from generation to generation for those who go to Africa that won't be the main version that they will hear, the sad part is that Africans didn't have their history written on paper, the history in Africa was communicated verbally, Africa has what they called an oral history tradition that is the weak link that has allowed these monsters to falsify things.
The current Africans have moved on because we did not know what happened to our ancestors families that were taken. We didn't know their experiences. Our ancestors lost their loved ones and generations have passed. Our ancestors have mourned the loss of their loved ones. For our generation, we don't remember it because it is not being talked about. The slavery is still raw in the minds of African Americans because they continue to experience the left over of the brutality. They are directly impacted unlike us in Africa today. I pray for a total healing.
Africans wept for their stolen ones till the tears dried up. Every one taken was somebody's Father, Mother, Brother ,Sister. They came from families and kingdoms.
I’m from Jamaica and we talk and learn about slavery. The US and South American countries talk about slavery too. I believe because the people who make these countries are from all over the world. Countries with less diverse immigrants probably won’t care.
I am from Africa born and raised, I went to a French private school in my country they teach about slavery in history classes but only in terms of dates beginning and end as part of America's history nothing much. But I really found out what slavery actually was is when we watch the tv show Roots, (in French ) I believe in the late 90's every saturday evening. I will watch it with my family. We were shocked, this ish was crazy,
It's simple. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. Some of our parents were born into segregation. Slavery and the effects of slavery weren't that long ago. America was built on the slave trade. Slavery is part of American history. It's not a big part of every country's history. And we're in America so we take American history in school. Other countries aren't going to learn American history in depth.
Slavery isn't just a part of American history, it's a part of world history in general. That's why it was legal for the majority of human history. It's how several cities, empires and countries were built all around the world. That's the problem with heavily emphasizing American history courses school, we don't learn about anything else obviously. Which is very crippling to blacks intellectually because we end up becoming willfully ignorant to any type of history that doesn't inflate our ego.
I think we're just looking at different perspectives of the similar crimes committed against both of us stemming from the same perpetrators and heinous acts. Let's be honest, they're really not going into deep detail about the colonization of Africa in our grade schools either, so the experience is more similar than we think. While I have met some stuck-up Africans, the majority have shown love (special shout out to my Habeshas and East Africans), especially the younger ones. We're probably connected now more than ever before. I think communication, patience, and understanding are needed to further bridge that gap.
It’s one thing to know about history and understand. It’s another thing to obsess over it and identify by it, especially when it’s something bad like slavery. I think Akon was alluding to the fact that it empowers them to not have that in the forefront of their minds.
Is it obsessing over it when the wrongs are never righted? Slavery, jim Crow cointelpro 🤷 nobody demands Jews get over the holocaust and what defines them as a people if not more than the horrors of holocaust
Most Africans are from a different tribe (religiously) they're nothing like us. Genetically related, but vastly different. From the food to perception of reality.
@@Chiraqfan. Africans don't consider you one of them nigga. They don't even respect you, they wonder why it took hundreds of years to get out of slavery (when Jamaicans kicked the British off their island and Haitians did the same to the French). They think you're weak and don't value education. And, certain ones will tell you that's half of the reason why black Americans are in the current state they in. No unarmed African nigga ever got killed by the police in the US to date. They don't identify with you, us whatever. If you know one, ask them. I see you are familiar with what I'm referring to though 😂 They can trace their lineage back probably a 1000 years to a specific country in Africa. Where can you trace your lineage to? You have no idea nigga.....you need to "get tf on". Nigga gone jump in a UA-cam comment section just to be heard by somebody and can't disprove a damn thing I said. Just watch videos on here, my guy, this commenting s*** isn't working in your favor at the moment.
@williamhayes981 Yep. That is why most groups in America despise y'all. A dwindling super minority who thinks that the world owe them something. You people complain about racism, yet you black American are the most racist people in America. Yes we are different. The most racist people towards Africans and Africa are black Americans. Please challenge that. Now, hispanics are here to replace you and it's happening. You can not go to a black America establishments without the fear of being robbed or shot. I bet you yourself dont even live in a black neighborhood in America? Nope. Who wants to be part of a self-hating group who has no respect and regards for themdelves or others? A tiny minority group who espouses thuggery and violence culture? A morally bankrupt group who refuse to look at the mirror and take responsibility for their own uncivilized and myopic mindsets? It is true that we are different for sure!
We didnt sell our own, we sold rival tribes , you guys were our opps, we live in land and ya'll live on the coast. Ya'll played with the tribal king and found out quick....
@@SWOTHDRAI respect your honesty. But most people want to ignore the truth. The truth is Africans sold other Africans and sighed a treaty with the colonizers. After awhile the colonizers just overruled the sellout Africans and just starting taking Africans by force. Africans that were sellouts in the end gain nothing.
I never lived in any of the African countries but his comments make sense. Why would the colonizing country want to teach accurate history of their injustices? If anything they're going to create statues and monuments that praises themselves. Part of that is the reason that some Congolese praise Belgium
You know this guy isn't speaking the whole truth, right? I mean, Michael Blackson is trying not offend both people, Americans and Africans. I am African, and I learnt about slavery and colonisation since 4th grade. I even know this term, "xibalo" which I learnt two decades plus ago and it stuck with me forever.... The difference is in African countries, we black folks are the majority of the population, period which is the case in the US. Sorry for the long comment
Hard for Black Americans to forget when even after slavery ended there continued to be a lot of things that happened that resembled semi-slavery treatment, images, oppressive policies and infrastructure over the decades.
@@Ace-zq2ou It's not our fault if you choose to close your mouth. Close mouths don't get fed. You can do whatever you want with your history. We won't stop until changes are made. People love speaking on Black foundational Americans, without actually being one 😒💅🏾
What I always find it interesting about these conversations with Africans is that eventually they do get their wake up call. Look up Idris Elba. He recently complained about wanting to just be seen as an actor and not a black actor, and it is clear that he really didn't get the memo. At the end of the day, you're still a black actor. That's what black Americans are talking about. There are so many roles that so many black actors and actresses could have gotten, but Hollywood still views you as a black actor instead of just an actor. Africans can say that all they want, but at the end of the day, they are in the same boat with us whether they realize it or not. Another example is that young African man who was recently killed by the cops in prison. His mother with her thick beautiful accent was at the podium crying and talking about her son, and who was she standing next to? Attorney Benjamin crump who represents a lot of black Americans in these police brutality cases. Like I said, at the end of the day, we are all in the same boat whether they realize it or not.
Only Americans label themselves shit like that, he’s from Sierra Leone he’d rather be called that not called black , he’s just an actor from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
We are not in the same boat. And the more we differentiate from you, the more the world is gonna view blk people different and finally start to respect africans
@djvlad I appreciate that you have done some footwork on some of our African History. When it comes to African involvement in the slave trade, there is more to unpack. I would like to see more African professors discuss this in length in hopes to get a better picture and understanding.
Michael Blackson spoke facts on wanting our kids to know the truth 💯.
Erasing history is a great way of controlling the masses.
Yea it’s good to learn and know, but don’t forget to move forward
@dynamitedingo7720 move forward wtf are you talking about 😅 This history is here forever and as long as blacks are at the bottom of the economic ownership market structure in america. We will always use slavery as a legitimate explanation of why our financial condition exist. There is no plans for reparation, land or any financial institution to help us rebuild black wall street to remove ourselves from the oppression of European oppressors. We will always speak on how selfish, hateful and evil our history was and continues until we see real revolution. If you know anything truly aboy black america then you know we will never move forward without the big 3 requests (ownership, segregation and reparations). MLK amd Booker T thought intergration was a good idea 😂😂😂😂.
@@dynamitedingo7720Yea, but you cant let it go if you want to be a professional victim.
I lived in Nigeria until I was 13 years old and didn’t learn anything about slavery until I came to America
Wow really
@@ronniephilpot1682??? U seriously didn't know this????
They were selling the slaves in the first place😂😂😂😂. They give zero damns
That’s cause most blk Americans are weak minded and looking for excuses to justify their stupid behaviors.
i did hear that once many many many years ago. There was an African woman that didn't know slavery ocurred in America. It was interesting.
Because the real pain of slavery doesn't reside there it's here
Went to lagos nigeria in 2003. Best experience of my life.. really felt like i was home. I shed tears it was really a emotional moment.
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I've been to 5 countries in Africa and I can honestly say that they love it when black people come back home. I visited Senegal and it was all love no bad vibes just straight love.
Come back home. Lol. Why they sell them off in the 1st place
@@WmikewtonytoneBecause those same people were from 500 years ago , not the same people showing blacks love genius lol You wouldn't even be able to understand your own family from 500 years ago lol
If I was an American going to Africa. I’d be pissed like look what ya ancestors did to my ancestors @@analyticalmindset
@mikesiegel6884 what ethnicity are you because you have a Jewish last name and you obviously need a history lesson and I can teach you
No I don’t I lived in Africa 8 years. Black ppl raided other black tribes. Killed and graced every1. And those who they didn’t kill they sold to Asian and middle eastern ppl the=most. And a very small number 2 white ppl. And 2 this day. The only race of ppl who don’t have slaves is white ppl. Facts. @@Ugofitness711
Am a Ghanaian, am always surprised when I hear people from Africa feel privileged.
African American culture is highly accepted and admired here in Africa more than anywhere else in the world.
Let’s change the narrative all over the Globe.
We are all blacks first. Let write a new chapter for all our people’s and for our future 🎉
Thanks bro
Why shouldn't Africans feel privileged. We have our economy to fight for. This whole thing of wanting to dress , act and speak like Americans is a huge cancer. Look at the GDPs of African countries and ask yourself why these are still benefiting people who colonised Africa. Our govt corrupt as they can be only gets taxes from those companies and that's if there is any DTA . The focus of Africans shouldn't be on what black Americans are doing but on them getting 100% of their commodities back. Who killed Gaddafi and Patrice Lumumba and Why were they killed? Even this commedian knows if Americans had to choose between him and an American born comedian he's not getting the job. African economy first. Then you can copy USA's social life.
lol except african americans do not see it that way, they see themselves as black and you as african. they claim africans do not like them,yet come up with terms like “african boot scratcher” , they will sit here and tell you how you appropriate their culture and will make tik toks making fun of the way you eat, the way you speak and your cultural practices.
sometimes you have to learn to stop loving someone who wont love you back🤷🏾🤷🏾
like there are literally groups of african americans who present as phenotypic african as possible, like kwadjo down the street, and they will tell you nah nah they are either a) indian b) hebrew c)moor etc
all because they would be anything else than linked to africa, you can’t teach that level of self hate.
@@hugh7547sometimes we all need education.
The act of overlooking someone’s inability to comprehend or conceive the truth doesn’t mean truth is lost.
Let love lead.
With time all wounds be healed.
The future is Key to all Black people everywhere’s sustainability.
Since everyone is sharing when they learned about slavery I’ll share mine. I’m a black American lady, a descendant of American slaves on both of my parents sides. Growing up here I Lea about slavery in the kindergarten. I was 6yrs old and we were taught through success stories of people like Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. As I got older the stories became more detailed but so much was left out that I didn’t learn about until the last 5yrs! Like breeding camps for slaves, feeding black babies to alligators or playing target practice with them using shotguns and rifles. I was once ashamed of my ancestry not realizing how resilient and strong my ancestors had to be just for me to be here, and I still long to know where home is and my ancestry. If my ancestors would have jumped off the slave ship, as some did, I wouldn’t be here. As you get older you begin to realize how important it is to know yourself and where you come from.
Those are great points, I am glad you shared. In school, they give us a kind of “whitewashed “ version of slavery. In the last several decades I came across a lot of those things independently. The lynching barbecues, “breeding “ farms, using innocent black babies as bate for wild animals,even using our skin to make things like shoes etc. I also needed to read things like They Came Before Columbus, African Presence in Early Europe-and many others.
@@catrailalexander4021 I haven’t heard of some of these things. I’m going to read these two books that you mentioned. Hopefully they’re available. Do you suggest any other books?
@@asiahobson6119 There are so many…The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality Hardcover
by Cheikh Anta Diop
African Presence in Early Asia
by Ivan Van Sertima & Rashidi Runoko
I’d recommend just about any book written by these two authors. Some may be expensive to buy online but the should be available at your local main library. I live in Japan so it is more difficult to come by, luckily I read them before.
Also, you may be interested in books
by Dr. Claud Anderson
A descendants African slave not American slaves.
Harriet Tubman is a figment of the government imagination Nat Turner is also. Dane Callaway I’m just here to make you think. Make me a cup🏹🏹🤔
Michael Blackson is a very intelligent man and an incredible artist
Bot lol
no one has ever said this in the history of Michael blacksons existence 😂 😆
Plus he bit off a cd
From Philly
Had the honor of speaking to him about a project a few weeks ago. He really is a great guy.
It’s important for black people all over the world to understand and sympathize each other’s struggles. Instead of bashing each other we should come together and unite. 💯
These guys are the bottom of the barrel intellectually because most West African high schools teach the slave trade; importantly both Liberia and Sierra Leoneon history is immersed in teaching the Slave Trade. Liberia was founded by Freed Slaves from the United States. In Ghana most people know about the slave coastal castles including El Mina.
Im not even black but I agree with you. I come from an Italian family and neighborhood in NY. We killed each other more than others. I see blacks doing the same today. Praying for you guys 💯
That is stupid! Move on! Move in from that taught …
Ikr! Look at ALL the white nations of people that stick together, even though they are in the minority on the planet.
Agreed! That also means being honest w eachother...no reason for ppl to get upset at Akon for being honest
T’Challa voice”Why Did You Leave The Boy Behind?!” 😢ignorance is bliss. Recognize the power that splits a people from there land and historical context! Change it now!
Just know the some people benefit from others forgetting history. Just because some have already forgotten doesn’t mean you should.
These ignorant (white) people want to pretend you’re having a victim mindset for wanting to talk about these things. Knowing it and realizing why social constructs and societies are the way they are today is very powerful. People especially in America expect black people to operate on the same level as whites. In the late 50s many black people were pushed outside of a full bus if there was a white person trying to get in. Heavy racism and open hate on black is not ages ago as people want to make it seem
I dint sell anyone to America that's history anyway I don't know u know about Africa either so who cares
Nobody is making anyone forget about slavery. Every single culture on earth has participated in slavery. That's how part of an economy worked. More whites were enslaved by Africans throughout the centuries. Slavics were the number 1 enslaved group, enslaved by whites and blacks and Asians.
Slavery is not unique to the west. In fact, the west is who ended slavery as an institution worldwide. And no I'm not white.
Because history shapes the present @@billjames1216
@@billjames1216 Africans selling enemy tribes isn’t a big deal, that’s like a guy from oblock snitching on the oops , Africa isn’t one big happy family there’s thousands of tribes with different languages, even if we’re all African we’re different
I have an African friend & they told him that black Americans don't like them... And telling us the same about them. This is where the division starts.
But the problem is we hook line and sinker embrace the divisivenes. We only have ourselves to blame. I have seen more stuff on social media from black people promoting division between the two groups than promoting unity.
That part!
There is no division.. Africa is a continent with many many people.. some people you like and some people you will not like.. that's really it.
Michael Blackson is a solid guy... We appreciate his humble perspective and words...
Hi, Nigerian here.
We learnt about slavery in school. But there is more emphasis on Colonization and the effects of it because thats the history that's closest to us.
African Americans are unaware of the colonization of Africans countries, their focus is on slavery. Plus when Africa is taught in US, it's more about the impoverished aspects of the Continent.
Thank You
Yes but Slavery was taught .. Also in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.. so Akon is not knowledgeable when it comes to African Secondary Education.
Well it was more than colonization it was muitalation, buck breaking especially in the West Indies, castration, babies burned in mother's bellies, lynchings rampant AFTER slavery, burned and flooded economic centers, etc,,,,.. the point is Africans are too damn nonchalant about it. I will acknoelegd the Hutu/Tutsi conflict alll day that was caused by Belgians putting that schism between those tribes form the beginning and also Apartheid whcihwas similar to Jim Crow or even the British hand in the Biafra Civil war... so stop and take ownership that yall simply mostly dont care...
who was teaching you about colonization in Nigeria?
@@tobimarho which school did you go to? I was taught in my school about slavery and colonization. Even through films like Battle of Musanga or so. I can't really remember the Name but maybe in your time all that topic has been scratched out of curriculum
In Nigeria, back in high (secondary school), we learned about slavery, they taught us in Social studies and history. We learned about slave masters and how some of our local chiefs and kings fought the Europeans. I learned of King Jaja of Okpobo, Nanna of Itsekiri, Oba of Benin, etc.
Yea, we might not get to know details of what really happened because it was like some centuries ago and also because slavery is no more.
I think the reason why Black Americans are so engrossed with slavery up till now is because the oppressors are still with them, they are still experiencing the slavery directly.
To add, any Nigerian who says they dont know about slavery till they travelled abroad is a dullard and he/she wasnt paying attention in classes. Dem no just know book. Olodo!
Thank You very much! Saying Africans don't know about slavery is completely nonsense! I know about slavery from school, books and from home.
I'm not just obsessed with it coz we face other issues like Colonial effect, ethnic and religious issue, corruption etc
Thank you very much!! I was very perplexed as well. Cos I grew up in Ghana until later on in life I came here but I can assure you we definitely were taught slavery in school, especially social studies.
The last chattel slave freed in America was freed in the 1940's and Black folks being enslaved through sharecropping was going on well into the 1960's. There were Black folks that wasn't even told about the civil rights movement because white sharecroppers didn't want them to know they had rights.
Jaja of Opobo and Oba of Benin and Aro Confederacy all fought against colonialism not slavery. Enslavement was much earlier than their respective banishment.
I learnt about this stuff in Primary school, the colonisation, the missionaries, the jihad in the north, Queen Amina, Jaja of Opobo.
Yes, they weren't paying attention in class 😄
It's so strange to see Michael Blackson NOT in his comical form!! All other videos of him are him laughing, cracking jokes, doing funny things. It's good to see how intelligent and educated this man is from another perspective and how appreciative he is for what he's become since he came to America.
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The africans that we're sold we're sold into a bonded labor but. Instead, we're forced into chattel slavery later on african traders didn't know it was going to be that.
Vlad, don't you make excuse for what Europeans did to Africans by way of colonization and slave trade. Did Africans went to Europe to engage in slave trade or did evil Europeans came to Africa and murdered millions 9f African and forced them into slavery? Your people from the middle east were sold Africans too. Do you know how many millions of Africans that killed? Don't you ever blame Africans for slavery. Arabs were just as guilty as the Europeans too.
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Africans didn’t practice chattel slavery, Europeans did. Just like indentured servitude. Stop the cap.
Try and interview all groups of people too and not just celebrities.
Africans are taught about slave trade and not slavery.
But the violence of colonialism many times surpassed slavery's.
Michael Blackson is more sympathetic to the Black American plight. That’s why we rock with him
You people always look for sympathy, want to always be the victim. Meanwhile if they ask you one question about neo-colonialism or any other African issue your head will be empty.
😄😄😄@@kelvincyprian1237
you rock with him is that why you people are attacking him in every recent interviews on youtube comment
@@kelvincyprian1237thank you!!! Black Americans always playing victim 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@kelvincyprian1237We aren’t running to africa asking for handouts or benefiting from any of your accomplishments! You Africans are leeching off black Americans accomplishments.
I lived in Nigeria till 19yrs not one day did I learn about slavery or racism only when I came to American black African American has been tru a lot and the are the real super hero
We learned about slavery in Highschool in Zimbabwe. It's a mandatory part of our form 2 or 9th grade syllabus. I think the reason why the West Africans don't take slavery that seriously is colonisation
That is exactly what I’m saying. I’m from Zambia, we learn about slavery but we are still dealing with colonialism till this day.
yeah but we aren't out here blaming slavery on every white person we see...
@@rawwmagumula6155neither is anyone in America. Just because racist white people say that, doesn't mean black people actually do that.
They dont take it serious because they were the ones selling the slaves to Europeans. I mean it was the Europeans who tried to stop it and Africans got pissed, so most likely thats why
@rawwmagumula6155 Brotha, where did this weird azz white supremacist talking point come from? You do realize that this is something they ALWAYS say. When we call them out and hold them accountable? It's a deflection tactic. Nobody actually sits around blaming everything on them lol. Kneegriws like you are puppets and bow down to your colonizers. Folks with your mindset are the reason why a lot of black countries are 3rd world. They put people with your mindset in charge of countries. They love using Candace owens types to do their dirty work. Lol you living in a 3rd world country(because of the white man). Sitting up here, down talking your fellow black men/women. Making it look like we are a bunch of cry babies making things up. Got the nerve to wave your finger at us. When you barely have electricity and clean water. While a handful of colonizers are living like Kings off of your resources 😆 🤣. Buck dancers, cowards, and white man worshipers like you. Are the reason why they are able to do it smh. Ain't it weird how we are outnumbered 10 to one and it's the reverse in your homeland? But somehow, we managed to build a better life for ourselves and make history. While you are living like we were during slavery now. Yeah, I think yall need to start holding the devils accountable and fight them like us. Maybe you need to start blaming the devil instead of acting like he doesn't exist 🤔
Micheal Blackson still talks about slavery in an American lense Akon wasn't wrong, slavery isn't that big of a deal because it's a small portion of the history of Africans on the continent. For those in the US it's important as it's the start of everything.
So do Africans not view colonization as a form of slavery?
It’s not just the us. Slaves where taking everywhere.
It was a big portion of their history too. The reason why the European's could gain a foothold into Africa and colonize it was because they had taken away millions of males. This allowed then entree to go deeper into the continent and conquer it. Africa to this day is still dealing with the consequences of colonization. Look at all the coups that are happening in west Africa. They are still trying to dislodge the French colonialist from the continent.
Africans don’t think about it yet there getting re conquered by the Chinese
Slavery is ALWAYS “that big of a deal!” Jews all over the world would never say Auschwitz and the holocaust weren’t a major part of their history.
My entire life in Africa I didn’t learn about slavery until 21yrs when i got into youtube and saw black americans talking about how we sold them and I am still shocked. Finding it hard to process how we did that given how fiercely we stand by each other until i found out it was the Kings that captured their enemies and it made “sense” . It had to be perpetuated by the elite.
It’s a little more complicated than that.
I would suggest you look up lectures by John Henrik Clarke. He goes into detail about the Civil Wars we had which resulted in some of us being sold into slavery while others were absorbed into the tribes.
When you are looking for answers about our history, don’t do it through the lens of our colonizers.
do not drag the 53 others country onto your failing education system.
I did learn it in my country
@ivy29 it wasnt a case of Kings. Ordinary people also participated. The fact of the matter is that many of those screaming that they were sold are descended from people who sold others too. Very often once an empire that was on top and selling enemies was toppled 5 -10 years after their prime, those they were selling would sell them in retaliation
You know how white people get uncomfortable talking about slavery? Yeah it's kinda like that.
To be fair. Those selling slaves didnt know the extent of the brutality of what people were being sold into.
So i don’t blame them for participating. At the end of the day it wasnt Africans that set up and enforced the slave trade through military might, it was the Europeans.
Now this is an amazing interview both akon and micheal blackson
@antoinejunior3353 vlad dumb azz said africans can trace the history back 100s of years. Lol we can actually trace our people, we are very well documented most can easily go back to the 1700s. Lol blacks are welcome and he say w are th same people. We definitely not no damn african
I Think Both Africans And Blacks Can Be Ignorant To Each-others Struggles .
To a degree I wouldn’t say so much Africans…blacks can have some understanding with them there is none with Africans
@russianwheelchairbandit8005 they are two different people. FBA don't care to learn about africa. This is our land. We looked out for africans, but we are not family nor blood
No lol just Africans who talk shit about AA’s while on food stamps holding up the line
@@mikejones-wn1sw”we” ain’t no we you didn’t do nothing
@@mikejones-wn1swyou’re all on Native American land fuck outta here clown
Vlad is the only interviewer to do interviews about his other interviews.
Being Ghanaian and Black-American I see the huge disconnect between my communities. White folks brainwashed both sides, and while there Ghanaians and black Americans who still connect and unite, it’s still not enough.
Yea its all white man, we didn't give you free education, living and health care ... When you going back? You can blame the Chinese next.
Btw your own people sold your ass to the Europeans .. got nothing to do with guns.
Whats the brainwash?
He is right
Facts. Different struggles but the same enemy in all. They don’t want a real connection between us all
I love Vlad lecturing the African native about Africa. 😏
💯💯💯💯
Vlad is a MARK 😭
Tell me where Vlad lied tho
😂😂That was... _SOMETHING._
There's alot gyoingyon😂
I appreciate the honest talk
They don’t think about it and that’s why it’s repeating in Africa right now.
Spot on. As an African I agree
In Congo 🇨🇩 I learned about slavery in primary school. There was a black arab called Tipo Tipo a big trafficker of our people. Until the King of Luba tribe fought him back and killed lots of his soldiers that he came with from Zanzibar.
Proud of wbat ya'll did to him, keep fighting back these arabs
@@SWOTHDRA"these arabs" it was a BLACK ARAB.
You dont know shit about Africa or Middle East so stfu american pos.
You cant find Africa on the map, you racist loser.
If you was in power youd enslave everyone.
That’s right in French country in Africa we do learned about slavery in school
Wow! I need to look this situation up.
Michael Blackson made sense 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
SO TRUE. I never faced racism in Africa till I travelled Europe. Racism ain’t gonna stop today till we get back back to our roots.
lol ofcourse you won't face it. depending on what part of Africa, most of the whites say in the west are expatriates and work at embassies or are ambassadors and arent seen every day nor participate in the country's politics. now South Africa is something different since there's a large mix of races (blacks n whites). what replaces racism is ethnic rivalries. which depending on the country can be very deadly.....Rwanda, Congo, Liberia for example. hell, Sudan Somalia and many others
Agree
So racism won’t stop until you’re fully segregated?
Off course not. It called tribalism when Africans can't stand each other
You wouldn’t face racism in Africa, a more accurate term is tribalism/ethnocentrism.
nice to hear Blackson in a serious tone
Yes
It’s the feeling of disconnect…tribal slavery was different from chattel slavery 😢
I'm from Ghana. Slavery was taught in my social studies lessons in class 4. In Ghana what happened was once slavery was abolished everyone just decided to carry on living as opposed to the U.S where the system decided to stigmatise the descendants of former slaves with iniquities like Jim Crow. Akon is right ! Africans and their Brethren in the American diaspora have long history of colaboration against colonial and racial injustice, and the rift that's been alluded to in this conversation was only recently engineered and perpetuated by race hustlers.
Yeah. Baiters like nariq tasheed
man you better PREACH!! Watch these brainwashed fools come for your comment 🤦🏿♂️🤣😂🤣
Nice.
I stamp it
true, I learned about Slavery earlier in school we even took a trip to slave castles : all this in class 5
Man this has been your best interview love the concept the sensible conversation and michael blackson i feel him more then akon seems real down to earth and more heartfelt respect 👊🏾
Yes, Mike is real and genuine. There's a warmth when he speaks.
I like the representation that michael blackson 🇬🇭and akon🇸🇳 are giving. They are explaining things.
Respect to Vlad and Michael for a very healthy conversion about our history
Exactly
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Never trust Vlad
Idk the fact that he made a point to say no one had they hands clean.. was triggering and false .. cuz the slaves themselves had no part in their own imprisonment 😢
@@dantepayne8658my grandad randomly says he misses his slave family 😂 like wtf this guy is completely oblivious
Akon mentioned Senegal, not Africa as a whole
Akon is very dimwitted both Sierra Leonean and Liberian history is immersed in teaching the Slave Trade. For instance, Sierra Leonian history include Slavery because many of the leaders of Sierra Leone from the 1800's until now were Creole people(freed Slaves from the Carribean); conversely, Liberia was founded by Freed Slaves from the United States. In Ghana most people know about the slave coastal castles including El Mina. So Akon is probably just Ignorant about West Africa since he was born and grew up in the US.
@jenkroberts8973 I think Akon is trying too hard to appeal to his fellow Africans.
Akon is either a liar or on something. I have visited Senegal many times. Have you heard of "Maison des Esclaves"? It is a Slave Monument in the Dakar Senegal-- it includes the door of no return.. come on folks Akon is trolling. Slavery is taught in schools in Senegal
@@jenkroberts8973 100% A Con
The way he took a different turn in explaining it was amazing
I was born in africa too. Never knew about slavery until I moved to the US.
You probably went to a low tier secondary school. Because good African high schools teach slavery and colonialism. So unfortunately, you did not get education from an average African HS or University and that is shocking.
@@jenkroberts8973 actually, I went to a private elementary and did the rest of my schooling in the USA.
@@NaturallyTek Which country and which school? You are being disingenuous. I taught history at HS and college level in West Africa. Did you take the West African exams(a standard High school entrance exam)? Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana all teach about slavery. You are funny guy. I will soon share a high school logic proof simple true/false three variable stuff, but it may take you months to solve instead of minutes, judging from your dearth of basic West Africa High School subject matter. You are certainly not West African private elementary school or high school material because especially the English speaking have much higher standards of learning including history than we have in the US.
Are you crazy or something? I did not go to high school or university in Africa. I only went to Elementary school in Togo and Benin Republic. I did my high school and university in the USA. Can you not comprehend that ?
@@NaturallyTek what was your private elementary school in Togo? I have a cousin who is Ewe she can tell me whether you are telling the truth. She has family in both Ghana and Togo.
Make Michael a regular. I like this level headed Michael, we can see the human in him, and not the actor nor comedian
Yes, he really is!
Dj vlad 1000 percent right. On why we act differently regarding slavery.
As a 56 year old black man born and raised in America, I was always curious as a youngster as to why slavery wasn't covered in school that much and to be honest we didn't talk about it much in my house. Like most folks my age it wasn't until the movie Roots came out and woke a lot of us up and made us really get angry about slavery and really from that point i wanted to know more about my family and where we came from. Like most blacks born in America i could only trace my family history back to our slave owners and i have no idea what African tribe my blood line may be tied to and for me this is the most frustrating part of slavery is the not knowing where you came from.
I'm African...youre 56,start with a DNA test for God's sake. You're living in the age where it is 1000 times easier to know. I don't know why many of you dont do it. How can you live with not knowing??? Baffles me... I spent half my life in America but went back to find the village of my ancestors. Didn't like what I saw but my soul knows I checked that off,at least I know.
@@pazo321 Great, you took a DNA test and made some discoveries on your own and i can do the same thing but do you really think a DNA test can replace the conversations or stories that a great grandma or a great aunt or uncle can tell you about your ancestors, and where you came from, hell no.
@garypace7697 I did not take the test...I was born in Africa. You are concentrating on what is of little importance. I don't have all the stories either.
Yes buy none of the tribes kept records. So the information isn't available in countries that were 3rd world.
Much love Michael Blackson 🤜🏿
I just know that I saw a comedy show with a bunch of huge artists…Michael Blackson shut that bad boy down. He cussed all of us out over and over and it was the funniest thing ever…legendary. Props to dude for just focusing on his craft and steadily improving.
Akon is hundred percent right about how African countries and peoples dont real talk about slavery or make reference to it. And i have lived in Africa for 48 years now. We,on both sides (Africans and African Americans)were diverstated by slavery,espacially the Igbo people of south east Nigeria (bight of Baifra). Children lost their parents,women lost their husband,husbands lost their wifes and parents lost their children to slavery. Kingdoms and civilizations distroyed by slave masters. While our ancestors were dealing with this truma came the scramble and partition of Africa by Europeans. Therefore,the later devastation kinda erased the former over a period of time. Thats the truth.
You guys be on some pure nonsense. It's Africans that captured and sold your ancestors into slavery to Europeans for profit. Tell the truth and stop spreading lies. Slavery has always been in Africa. It's right there in the Bible (Egypt by example ).
The difference is after your countries were colonized, you remained the majority race there and the captors were "gone" for the most part. U.S. blacks have a constant reminder that we're the implants with no roots here because we are the minority. When you go to Africa all you see most places is beautiful brown faces except in places ppl sold land.. Until they remove the tariffs on your freedoms in Africa, you still aren't free. they charge you to use their currency and consider Africa a 3rd world country but that's because African money is given to the captors off top and that's something that needs to change. Peace and strength to Africa and all of its descendants
@@mrsbobbicisse Blame it all on the Europeans huh? What about when Africa was colonizing Europe? I'll wait...
I was born in Sierra Leone and I moved to the USA when I was 14 years old. I learned about about the Amistad Revolt when I was in secondary school. I even brought the book with me to the United States. I let one of my Black Americans friends borrowed it and they never gave it back to me.
I attended school in Ghana and they for sure thought us a lot about slavery and the transatlantic slave trade was just one of it. When you say slavery in Africa, you’ll have to specify the exact one you’re talking about and that’s why it’s not generally talked about.
That would be like us Americans telling Africans that they should just “get over” colonialism as if it still doesn’t effect them today.
Lol how many bombs Obama and biden dropped in Africa
most of us if not all have gotten over colonialism tho lol
You can't get over something that is embedded in you brother you speak they language enjoy they foods etc etc
@@Codkillshot730 i speak multiple languages including mine and enjoy my own food, travel more man
@@Hedgingmastermind How can you when Caucasian people stay In Africa, stealing resources. Look at the 🇨🇩 Congo right now. Yeah I think 🤔 diffently.
I appreciate your craft Michael Blackson, keep bridge building.
Well spoke and well done my Brother Michael Blackson🤜🏿💢🤛🏿
I got into a discussion with an American who tried to explained to me how Sweden experienced 1,000 years of slavery compared to the U.S.’s 250 years. He went on to add if the Swedes could get over it and move on how come Americans can’t? I asked him one simple question “Did any of these Swedes loose their identity or had their religion/ culture stripped from them? Was it a capital punishment to teach them how to read & write while they were in this slave state? And finally, when they were free, were they free to return to their own homes & families? I think its important to ask and highlight if any other countries who were/are experiencing slavery having their names and identity also removed from them.
Swedes weren't enslaves it was Swedes who enslaved and colonized Finland for +500 years.
I recall being told by an African co-worker that AA's are lucky and lazy. She said it in a very demeaning tone, unapologetically and un-jokingly. I know she doesn't represent the entire continent, but I'm sure she's not the only African in America who feels this way. It's always the ones who scratched and scraped to become US citizens through a paperwork process who now feel like they are better than the AA's whose connection to slavery goes back a mere 3 - 4 generations when AA's paved the way for me to have the life I have today. Shout out to Michael Blackson and African (Americans) like him who show love and understanding to black folks. ✊🏾🤎
You coworker was dumb and ignorant…AA are the reason her arse was allowed to roam free in the US
She wouldn’t be able to say that to you if we didn’t fight for their right to be in America she would be in a 3rd world war zone in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere
Well that person didn’t lie
@@Lilhunna509when did you fight? What year?
@@queenofnyc5584you a customer
He really is a good dude. Every time I sat and talked to him it was all love.
All Love To Mike Blackson 🤎 💯
Vlad giving an African History lesson is wild 😂😂😂
I was surprised Mike took that stance…. Salute ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
I was taught slavery in Nigeria. Although history is not being not been taught as before. I went to the slave trade ports and centers in Badagry . Nobody is brainwashed. We know there was slavery,our fore fathers and mothers witnessed it. While we recognise slavery,we also have to continue our lives and not fall in the ship of victimhood. However,i must say this,just like many countries through history. The world has always been a "dog eat dog" place.Survival of the fittest. We were also taught that villagers and town residents took weaker villagers as slaves.They married their young females,turn the males to warriors and in many cases sell the healthy and strong ones as slaves.There was internalised racism in Africa long before the foreign Invaders.
Most people say black Americans play victim. But in actuality, slavery been revised. And black Americans is just not gonna stay quiet about it.
This rhetoric is the type of idiociy that you are taught in Nigeria and it's why Nigerians come here and beneift from the hundreds of years of suffering and protesting and fighting for our rights AFTER slavery but have the audacity to pretend as if the road they are able to take in the past 20 years is how it was the previous 20 years and that's FAR from the truth. Victimhood is no such thing for African Americans because Slavery was revised and we are impacted generations later, whereas you come here and benefit from our hard work and pretend as if we're lazy to not be able to accomoplish the same. It's wrong all around and Nigerians have a twisted view on things in American
@@MWSportsInsider nah y’all have victim mentality different race of people can’t be saying the same thing about y’all and be wrong cmom
victim mentality HOW idiot, we running shit over here. Every succerssful person from Nigeria comes here to get validation from US fool, fuck is you talking about. Yall run from the corruption in your own country and come here to be a slave to the white man lmao that's the africans idea of success. Yall don't come here and buy land and assets, you come and seek OUR validation, dress like us, talk likeus and do all of that to look down on the people where you from. Fuck outta here @@DanielWilson-bu4cq
I wouldnt say internalized racism. Literally just how humans have behaved for thousands of years. Japanese starved and murdered each other during feudal japan. Chinese and japanese slaughtered each other (20 million chinese dead) during their war in ways that even made some nazi's be like jesus christ. Human beings, especially men, have a long history of grotesque violence against other human beings. Its hypothesized potentially a third or higher of the slaves put on boats were the direct results of other tribes not just enslaving others after a war, but actively going into areas and marauding them, and forcibly enslaving them. Agojie tribe yes we're talking about you. Barracoon: The story of the last ‘black cargo is a great read about the gross brutality of the female warriors of that tribe, and their contributions to the trans atlantic slave trade. Not 100 or 200 people, not 1000 or 2000. MILLIONS!
Black americans and Africans will be a lot more uncomfortable of the truths behind the atlantic slave trade than they would expect. You can blame a lot on the european colonist of course, but like any other place in the world, people who look just like you did the same or worse to you too. Like we black americans still do to each other like never before to this day. You dont need the KKK, we'll happily kill ourselves, put ourselves in horrible predicaments, down each other for the color of our skin or hair texture, have countless children out of wedlock stuck in poverty, the list goes on.
Shout out to Micheal Blackson💯💯
MB my guy. Wheh i was a kid living in Phily on 73 buist ave me and my friends will see Michael blackson and he will always show his love take pictures with us tell a joke very cool dude
As a PASSPORT BRO that moved here to Tanzania 🇹🇿 you can see on my channel that people in Africa don’t care about slavery. I been living here for 2 years in Africa the only time it was mentioned was when I went on a tour and they spoke about the Arabic Slave trade which a lot of Us Americans have no idea about.
Are speaking for all Africans or just Tanzania cause as an African we very much so care that’s why we look at those who marry colonizers funny
We all should research this stuff so we can be more understanding but also realize that no matter how the media or even history try to portray it ignorantly, we African-Americans and Africans are the same and we have overcome a lot and still are trying to overcome glass ceilings that are in our way of breakthrough and progress
Exactly
I love seeing Michael being serious
Me too, Also I feel like most people don’t know he moved to America at a young age so he’s the perfect person to have this conversation with.
He doesn’t really express it he has the best of both worlds like Hannah Montana haha, but for real I would love to have that & I’ll be representing both, but I understand why you wouldn’t.
Much respect to him for this. I love the way he handles this question and spoke the truth! Also... How did he build a school faster than Dr Umar 😂
"Donations. Donations. We're my Donations?"😂😅😂
Ohh the Dr Umar reference was a straight up burn😂😂😂 the difference is Michael is not living off the donations
Lol absolutely!!! I need king consciousness to stop begging lol
I have more respect for Michael Blackson after this interview
Me too.He's speaking mad game in this interview.
Didn't really learn about slavery and I am Jamaican. It was thrown in my face when I go to the USA
Akon is completely right, as an African I can confirm.
Sorry Akon has his own perspective, about black americans he is dead wrong.. he can forgive and forget.. you have your language and culture.. we lost ours
Africans or some weirdos. I know you don’t like to talk about it but I just seen some Arab’s selling Africans. ON UA-cam. Play dumb if you want to. You’ve been late but every European country now the Chinese is Up Next.
Then it is a matter of perspective. Im not going to place more importance on yours, Akon's or my own. @@onelevel2346
I'm Nigerian and my generation knew about the slave trade. It was taught in primary/elementary schools until it was not taught anymore at that level but history is taught at the secondary/high school level.
Now, just because it's not taught in primary schools doesn't mean Nigerians don't know about it. My kids do, I taught them and so did a lot of parents did for their kids.
We've gotten over slavery because it's mental drawback but that doesn't mean we've forgotten the slavery history and the atrocities of the white man that plundered and are still plundering Africa!
The slavery relics are all over Nigeria, from Badagry in Lagos to Arochukwu in Abia State to Calabar in Cross River State just to mention a few.
We know our history except those that chose to be ignorant.
Did you teach your kids about the slavery that happened in american and how we still shave laws that's still applies to that era?
@@jerrycamonjr.9594 Jr. You teach your kids that.
I never thought i would ever see Michael Blackson this serious, first time😊
As a Liberian , I learned about slavery since I was in grade 4th ….since that moment deeply interested in it where as my wife she went to school in nigeria till the end she barely studied slavery , Africa’s history etc
Liberia has an interesting history of Africans coming back to settle. They don't want you to forget their history.
I'm from Liberia and went to JJ Roberts and Lott Carey Baptist Mission school. WHERE DID THEY TEACH YOU ABOUT SLAVERY AT because we were never taught about slavery at all until we came to America.
@williefonte23 just because you didn't doesn't mean he didn't. Those descendants of slaves that returned often told their kids about them coming out of slavery and going back to where it all started
@kamargee9680 ....Did your stupid azz even COMPREHENDED WTF I SAID OR ASKED?
I SPECIFICALLY asked WHAT SCHOOL! Not which relatives came back from America to tell him dumb az
Different histories, different experiences, different and yet long lasting psychological bondage to various conditions. It's useful ans helpful to listen and learn from each other's experiences and vjew points. MB shared some interesting insights, having nothing to do with him being right or wrong or Akon being right or wrong. It was all a hot mess and discuss any history its useful to remember that theres always several vantage points and without a doubt all people had a hand in the worse atrocities to ever happen on this planet. Likewise we all shared in the progresses we've made
We learned about slavery in Jamaica in High School. The text books had illustrations on how Africans were transported on the ships. It was really inhumane and lot chose to jump off the ship. I understand now that this was not taught in North American.
I am senegalese, I was born and raised here I have never been outside Senegal. But I went to school and slavery is part of Senegalese school programs and the colonialism. We know the process of the slavery. We were so shocked when they taught us how slavery was. I think as a black in any countries whether you are African or African Americans slavery get us all anger . It’s our ancestors who underwent this my ancestors, your ancestors meaning a brother or a sister or a son of my grandfather or grand grand fathers.
But unfortunately the truth is , people are no longer talk about it in Africa. It’s only when we go to gorree island we reminded it.
Did they teach you that it was you who were selling and capturing the slaves and werent too happy when Brits decided to make it stop?
@@mikko3you really sound ignorant. You probably are
@@mikko3 did they teach you about why they were selling slaves and how different slavery was in Africa and the rest of the Old World before the Age of Exploration.
@mikko3 not to say that, didn't happen, but that accounted for a fraction of the overall slave trade. Many more slaves were kidnapped directly by slave militias in raids on remote villages. Also as abhorrent as it was to sell fellow Africans, the concept of Race was not a thing in Africa. People had (and still have) far greater allegiance to Tribal Kingdoms than to race. slaves in the African context were more like indentured servants like the Irish and the English, they had limited rights and could marry and their children were not considered as slaves. The African slave "traders" had no concept of Chattel Slavery as practiced in the America's.
@@mikko3 I learned about slavery in Africa in 12th-grade and 13th-grade African history class as well, but they didn't teach us your version. According to our class version, it was a small portion of slaves were kidnapped by other Africans, but the bulk portion of slaves were been abducted by slave traders who were raiding villages those violent act was called "rasias" and those villages were often set on fire after the acts with guns that were provided to them in exchange with money, and other goods by the whites peoples who were sending them. That trade was called triangular trade because the white slave traders would load boats with guns and goods in Europe, travel to the western coast of Africa, and trade with slave traders, load slaves, and bring them to the Americas. But, since the whites are so treacherous I am always surprised to hear that version where blacks sold blacks as the main reason for slavery only here in America they dismiss all the logistics and the funding, and who was behind the funding all that. In the American version, you don't hear that they just put the blame on local African people who sold their people. But as an African, I don't care because I know that those whites who did that always find a way to try to lessen their atrocities by trying to unload the blame on Africans who aren't here to confront that version, but there is plenty of oral traditions passed from generation to generation for those who go to Africa that won't be the main version that they will hear, the sad part is that Africans didn't have their history written on paper, the history in Africa was communicated verbally, Africa has what they called an oral history tradition that is the weak link that has allowed these monsters to falsify things.
1st time ever seeing him and listening to him so seriously engaging in such an important conversation
The current Africans have moved on because we did not know what happened to our ancestors families that were taken. We didn't know their experiences. Our ancestors lost their loved ones and generations have passed. Our ancestors have mourned the loss of their loved ones. For our generation, we don't remember it because it is not being talked about. The slavery is still raw in the minds of African Americans because they continue to experience the left over of the brutality. They are directly impacted unlike us in Africa today. I pray for a total healing.
Africans wept for their stolen ones till the tears dried up. Every one taken was somebody's Father, Mother, Brother ,Sister. They came from families and kingdoms.
@@ayinkemartinsExactly as an African those Africans who arrived in America are also my ancestors.
I’m from Jamaica and we talk and learn about slavery. The US and South American countries talk about slavery too. I believe because the people who make these countries are from all over the world. Countries with less diverse immigrants probably won’t care.
YES, WE DON'T
Akon doesn't even understand anything about colonization
Hahaha ok
He understands it because he grew up under the results from it.
Just like you dont understand anything about Africa.
Just STFU, victim.
This gave me more respect for Michael Blackson I always thought he was an idiot now I see otherwise. Much respect ✊🏾
What Mede u believe he is an idiot? He likes to play dumb cause he is a comedian, that’s his job. This is a smart man who knows what he is doing.
What made you think he ws an idiot?
@@angelozue7925Right!
And he dont really talk african he whole west philly bul
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Questions like these should be ask to individuals who understand the African geopolitic history and issues
I am from Africa born and raised, I went to a French private school in my country they teach about slavery in history classes but only in terms of dates beginning and end as part of America's history nothing much. But I really found out what slavery actually was is when we watch the tv show Roots, (in French ) I believe in the late 90's every saturday evening. I will watch it with my family. We were shocked, this ish was crazy,
It's simple. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. Some of our parents were born into segregation. Slavery and the effects of slavery weren't that long ago. America was built on the slave trade. Slavery is part of American history. It's not a big part of every country's history. And we're in America so we take American history in school. Other countries aren't going to learn American history in depth.
Slavery isn't just a part of American history, it's a part of world history in general. That's why it was legal for the majority of human history. It's how several cities, empires and countries were built all around the world. That's the problem with heavily emphasizing American history courses school, we don't learn about anything else obviously. Which is very crippling to blacks intellectually because we end up becoming willfully ignorant to any type of history that doesn't inflate our ego.
@@snowyrox3331
World history isn't as important as Black American history.
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AKON WASN'T LYING PERIOD
I’m happy he thanked us Cause us Black Americans are the pioneers for Many things Used in everyday life
Like what?
example please ?
@@omni-man4624
Everything..
I think we're just looking at different perspectives of the similar crimes committed against both of us stemming from the same perpetrators and heinous acts. Let's be honest, they're really not going into deep detail about the colonization of Africa in our grade schools either, so the experience is more similar than we think. While I have met some stuck-up Africans, the majority have shown love (special shout out to my Habeshas and East Africans), especially the younger ones. We're probably connected now more than ever before. I think communication, patience, and understanding are needed to further bridge that gap.
you out here preaching my guy ✊🏿
History repeats itself if you forget what happened
It’s one thing to know about history and understand. It’s another thing to obsess over it and identify by it, especially when it’s something bad like slavery. I think Akon was alluding to the fact that it empowers them to not have that in the forefront of their minds.
Is it obsessing over it when the wrongs are never righted? Slavery, jim Crow cointelpro 🤷 nobody demands Jews get over the holocaust and what defines them as a people if not more than the horrors of holocaust
Does it?
EXACTLY
Tell that to the chews - they stay reminding their kids and everybody else about the holocaust
@@bigolbabyhueyok they should Tf
Most Africans are from a different tribe (religiously) they're nothing like us. Genetically related, but vastly different. From the food to perception of reality.
I agree
Well of course you guys are white washed
Bro get tf on with that Hamite vs Shemite bullshit 😂
@@Chiraqfan. Africans don't consider you one of them nigga. They don't even respect you, they wonder why it took hundreds of years to get out of slavery (when Jamaicans kicked the British off their island and Haitians did the same to the French). They think you're weak and don't value education. And, certain ones will tell you that's half of the reason why black Americans are in the current state they in.
No unarmed African nigga ever got killed by the police in the US to date. They don't identify with you, us whatever. If you know one, ask them.
I see you are familiar with what I'm referring to though 😂 They can trace their lineage back probably a 1000 years to a specific country in Africa.
Where can you trace your lineage to? You have no idea nigga.....you need to "get tf on".
Nigga gone jump in a UA-cam comment section just to be heard by somebody and can't disprove a damn thing I said.
Just watch videos on here, my guy, this commenting s*** isn't working in your favor at the moment.
@williamhayes981 Yep. That is why most groups in America despise y'all. A dwindling super minority who thinks that the world owe them something. You people complain about racism, yet you black American are the most racist people in America. Yes we are different. The most racist people towards Africans and Africa are black Americans. Please challenge that.
Now, hispanics are here to replace you and it's happening. You can not go to a black America establishments without the fear of being robbed or shot. I bet you yourself dont even live in a black neighborhood in America? Nope. Who wants to be part of a self-hating group who has no respect and regards for themdelves or others? A tiny minority group who espouses thuggery and violence culture? A morally bankrupt group who refuse to look at the mirror and take responsibility for their own uncivilized and myopic mindsets? It is true that we are different for sure!
Thank you for your honesty and compassion Vlad.
I’m glad Vlad said everyone had a hand in slavery because you can feel that we sold our own people when you go to west Africa
We didnt sell our own, we sold rival tribes , you guys were our opps, we live in land and ya'll live on the coast. Ya'll played with the tribal king and found out quick....
@@SWOTHDRAI respect your honesty. But most people want to ignore the truth. The truth is Africans sold other Africans and sighed a treaty with the colonizers. After awhile the colonizers just overruled the sellout Africans and just starting taking Africans by force. Africans that were sellouts in the end gain nothing.
Black on black crime never ends
@@SWOTHDRA So Black american from New York isn't same as someone from Atlanta?
Blackson is very correct 💯
I never knew about slavery until I got to 30yrs I am Nigerian
I never lived in any of the African countries but his comments make sense. Why would the colonizing country want to teach accurate history of their injustices? If anything they're going to create statues and monuments that praises themselves. Part of that is the reason that some Congolese praise Belgium
You know this guy isn't speaking the whole truth, right? I mean, Michael Blackson is trying not offend both people, Americans and Africans. I am African, and I learnt about slavery and colonisation since 4th grade. I even know this term, "xibalo" which I learnt two decades plus ago and it stuck with me forever....
The difference is in African countries, we black folks are the majority of the population, period which is the case in the US.
Sorry for the long comment
They literally teach about colonization and slavery
Hard for Black Americans to forget when even after slavery ended there continued to be a lot of things that happened that resembled semi-slavery treatment, images, oppressive policies and infrastructure over the decades.
Bingo. No one talked about how slavery ending was never for black people to begin with
@@Ace-zq2ou It's not our fault if you choose to close your mouth. Close mouths don't get fed. You can do whatever you want with your history. We won't stop until changes are made. People love speaking on Black foundational Americans, without actually being one 😒💅🏾
Mike is really well spoken, he is very intelligent aswell
What I always find it interesting about these conversations with Africans is that eventually they do get their wake up call. Look up Idris Elba. He recently complained about wanting to just be seen as an actor and not a black actor, and it is clear that he really didn't get the memo. At the end of the day, you're still a black actor. That's what black Americans are talking about.
There are so many roles that so many black actors and actresses could have gotten, but Hollywood still views you as a black actor instead of just an actor. Africans can say that all they want, but at the end of the day, they are in the same boat with us whether they realize it or not.
Another example is that young African man who was recently killed by the cops in prison. His mother with her thick beautiful accent was at the podium crying and talking about her son, and who was she standing next to? Attorney Benjamin crump who represents a lot of black Americans in these police brutality cases.
Like I said, at the end of the day, we are all in the same boat whether they realize it or not.
That’s because he isn’t black american he is British American
Lol.... So isn't he black...??? Weather and American or as a Brit ..??
Only Americans label themselves shit like that, he’s from Sierra Leone he’d rather be called that not called black , he’s just an actor from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
We are not in the same boat. And the more we differentiate from you, the more the world is gonna view blk people different and finally start to respect africans
@@Camefromnoneexactly!!! I do not identify as a color 😂 especially not a color assigned to you from a slave master, wtf?
...at the end of this segment, Vlads whiteness shines through
Yeah, it sounded like he wanted to aportion the blame equally on all people. The kind of slavery that was going on in America was the worst kind.
Respect, this is great information from the young man.
@djvlad I appreciate that you have done some footwork on some of our African History. When it comes to African involvement in the slave trade, there is more to unpack. I would like to see more African professors discuss this in length in hopes to get a better picture and understanding.
The professors have already done the research snd published it. It's sitting in your libraries ans universities.
Vlad said he started crying 😂😂😂
😂😂😂. Mike tried his best not to react