TikToker Teaches Black American Sign Language
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- BLACK ASL: ‘I thought everyone signed the same’ - Did you know that Black American Sign Language was born out of segregation and evolved into its own dialect? Here’s a look back at its history and how people are preserving the language today.
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I was today-years-old when I found out this is a thing. Wow!
Imagine how much more of our history has been kept from us. I’m so glad to learn of BASL.
same! lol
do some deep history digging, you’ll be suprized at the gap of what you know.
Same
I only found out when RiRi had a BASL performer for halftime show. First time in history. Apparently they always feature ASL.
I’m so happy to see stories about Sign Language and the differences between ASL and BASL. I follow that girl on TikTok and her drive to make people aware is wonderful. Right now I’m studying to become an American Sign Language Interpreter and in class we actively explore the differences in signing based on race and culture. It’s so enlightening to learn and experience these differences and it drives me to one day become an interpreter that can communicate the way my client wants, and not make them switch so that I can understand. I am a guest in their culture and language, and I plan on being the best guest ever. Thank you so much for sharing this story and spreading this awareness!
Thats so beautiful!
Dear editor: When the Deaf person (e.g. Dr. McCaskill) is ‘speaking’, please keep the camera on HER, also, be sure the shot includes her hands. Of course, this goes for the other signing participants. Seeing her/his sign is a big part of the point.
Respectively, this isn't a ASL tutorial. They put captions at the bottom of the screen for whomever needs them.
@@christiant.1113
The attitude
'This isn't an ASL Tutorial'
ENSURES that People will
be discouraged from learning
sign language at every opportunity.
Those who want as many people as possible to learn sign language,
should put out videos that make it EASIER to learn sign language,
NOT more difficult - whether the video is a Tutorial or not 🎯
@@christiant.1113 you missed the point. If someone is actually able to follow along with the BASL and by not focusing the camera on them properly, it's the same as randomly cutting out the sound in a video or tearing out pages from a book that you're trying to read.
@@curious1366 i believe this video is targeted to those who don't know asl, but I guess if it's as bad as you say, the captions should clear everything up for those confused.
@Ann_the Snowowl
Of course folk should be polite and say "please" when making a request.
But this does NOT negate the FACT that Sign Language Advocates should take
Every Opportunity to give the Public
Every Opportunity to learn
Sign Language.
And to be clear,
Sign Language Advocates
should do so WITHOUT having to be asked.
This should be taught in schools.
Yes! Learning about this type of ASL on UA-cam rather than school explains a lot about education in America.
Why would we teach sign language to people who aren’t deaf? I’m pretty sure there’s already programs for the deaf
@@daddydiesel7177 so everyone can talk to deaf people
@@sunseeker9581 Id rather kids learn how to do their taxes and more important things than learning sign language
@@daddydiesel7177 why not both?
I had no idea, but it makes sense. AAVE (“Ebonics”) developed in a similar manner for spoken language.
I wonder how different ASL and BASL are. I know that BSL (British Sign Language) is completely different from ASL even though they are both English speaking countries, because they were developed independently from one another. But ASL, BASL were developed near each other, so seeing how different they are could indicate how much segregation kept the white and black populations apart. It is both beautiful and sad.
very insightful🤔 now i wonder the same
From what it looks, theyre very similar in grammar structure and general vocabulary. Of course, there are some differences for example the sign for towel and kiss are different as shown in the tiktok. I dont know enough about ASL to understand the full depth of their differences so take my word with a grain of salt.
Fun fact: ASL is closer to FSL than BSL in lingual structure.
@Pengu Penguin Since you don't know keep quiet.
Amazing...How enlightening. This needs to also be on main steam media nationally.
I never knew of this beautiful language. It's basically how black folks talk at home vs how blacks talk in a office
Keep languages and cultures alive.
THIS is why I get so frustrated with people who say race doesn’t matter and that we need to forget it. We were so segregated that even black deaf people have a separate culture from white people.
There is a difference in our cultures, traditions, and dialects. I’m very proud of mine, and I’m proud of my dear brother. Happy black history month ☺️
This video also triggered me like not only are they black and deaf but this clear difference in SL is sick and they did it to further oppress our people .
@@Nooreissad and now it’s beautiful and cultural 💕 they tried to press us and all they did was make diamonds 💎
And this is why RiRi had a Black girl doing BASL at her half-time show. I didn't know there was different until Black deaf kids were cheering about it on social media. They felt so proud!
Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes!
I’m happy this is bringing to the surface.
I’m deaf.
OMG, this is sooooo beautiful, I had no idea as a Black person that it existed!!! Thank you NowThisNews!!! 🙏🏽😎✊🏽
I never really thought about code switching in the deaf community
Right? 🤯
The is beautiful I’m not crying you are
You’re the one crying, not me!
😢
Thank God I'm not alone.
Anything black related, I truly support
SAME HEAR I LOVE IT💖💖💖💖🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@@Smilewithme069 💯💯💯💯
Same!
i’m an ASL 2 student in highschool and this hasn’t been mentioned once.. i’m honestly disappointed in my school system as my ASL class has taught us a LOT of deaf white people but only one deaf black person (andrew foster)
Her grandparents are so beautiful
Its very interesting, the code switch part. Because black people who can hear and talk also have their own "white voices" , the professional tones and word pronunciation, if you will.
To think that this switch even extends to black deaf people is interesting and a little upsetting. Even black deaf people can sense the difference in the way black people speak, express themselves versus how whites do.
This is so interesting.
This is amazing 🤩
And so beautiful, heartwarming and inspiring!
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I want to learn BASL!!!! This is dope!!!
That is so interesting, I always wanted to learn sign language. God bless them all in Jesus Christ name amen.
I wonder how they make names in sign, does every name have a different sign?
A deaf people gives you your sign name. When you spell your name out if you do t have a sign name. My name starts with an L and I make the L shape and and place it on my left cheek with my thumb. I have a beauty mark there so I place my thumb there and bounce it off my cheek and say my name. A deaf guy gave me my name.
Deaf here, we just make it up with your first name's initial. It can be based off your personality or even your favorite food.
@@darkestlight6784never knew that and it's really cool
Yes on individual’s name that use their own name sign, so you not had to spelling each time you called.
You can either spell your name out or as everyone else says a deaf person can give you a name sign which is kind of an honor if you will.
I'm deaf and use SEE/ASL mixture and live in the northwest. I never seen BASL before, very interesting. there are regional sign languages so BASL would be in the southeast? I hope they can keep BASL alive for a long time.
I appreciate this information. It's most interesting. I will be learning more about this topic.
Dang! Even sign language in America is divided!!! What TF is wrong with this country!
It’s interesting to see because i only ever saw German sign language as I grew up there and the ASL looks very different for one, but somehow BASL looks more similar to the German than the ASL. Still I cannot understand much sadly since they are too different around the world of course
4:10 “Attitudes about language are never about the language. They’re always about whose using the language.”
Respect to the translators, they do their work so quickly and seemingly effortlessly!
Yes, preserve it and share it, BASL. 💖✨💐👏🌹🍀👑👍🌞🥰
Just... 😲 Didn't even realize there was a WHOLE different signing going on.
WoW I have an older sister (whom I DO Not ever mention and this will be the only time in life I will But NeWays!) She teaches at one of the top schools for sing language in AZ and I have been around (one way or another) Sign language 🤟 most my life BuT never 👎 once had I ever Known of this! I noticed that there is sign language 🤟 for other countries and always wondered ¿WHY? And simply thinking 🤔 this was because of language but still always wondering why 🤔 this was Always thinking that This would be one way To be able to communicate easily with someone who knew how to sing but was from another country that on normal basis(meaning if we were to try to talk) we both would have absolutely nothing to worry about but 😳 WOW 😯 I honestly never knew! And honestly just wanted to Say THANK YOU FOR THIS!
though it saddens my heart to say the least I am more enlightened by something I truly feel like I have been blindly naive
This is SO interesting, it never dawned on me that code switching was even a thing in the Deaf community, and it should have because I knew there were regional variations. It just never dawned on be that BASL was a thing. And here is me, a Black woman, learning ASL from a white guy on UA-cam.😄 I want to learn BASL now!🤩🤩🤩
Can y'all keep the signer visible next time? Hate having to watch the ASL and then switch to English.
She read a truth about stereotypes
Of course they segregated sign language 😩
Biden must do more to tackle white supremacism
Agreed
It's not about supremacism man...it's that you are still a segregated country, not anymore willingly, but black people all live in the same places and go to the same schools, white and black don't live together, you're not united
From Europe
There is no such thing. Blacks and whites are equal and Idk what more you people want. Racism is something we cannot defeat right now so let’s just focus on covid
That’s a true 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 of mine 💖💖
@@emperorsponge9208 show me a video of a 12 yr old white girl getting pepper sprayed in the face by cops while handcuffed thats the shi that happens to blacks never to whites
We even segragated a disability smh
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I didn't learn about BASL until now. it's beautiful and I hope more people learn about it too!
This story about featuring ASL & Black History during Black History Month is informative. It's a way to share their story as being included in participating in their history. Thank you for highlighting ASL & segregation in the Disabled community.
I had no idea there was a BASL.
What a beautiful video, I had no idea of this. Keep your language strong! Love and blessings to all that have to live with injustice. From a white chic! 😘❤️🇨🇦✌🏻
ALL language is the key to our roots
There is always more to learn, this was extraordinary. Now I have more information on the Black experience and this exact intersection.❣️
Wow 😮African sign language will blow your mind 🤗...particularly Kenyan 🇰🇪💯
Awesome video thank you 😊
wow this is so interesting, thank you
I've been black all my life never knew this
This is wonderful! I learned about the variants of ASL in marthas vineyard but I've never heard about BASL and I got a degree in sign lol
As someone learning ASL, I was today years old when I discovered BASL was a thing. Makes perfect sense though
WOW. This is really interesting. I didn't even know this existed. 😃
I am a retired high school ASL teacher. I was also an interpreter. I think it is good to acknowledge race as long as “different values” don’t get attached to one race or another, or one dialect of a language or another. It’s all beautiful and we should all show respect and kindness to everyone and all “do our best” in life so there are no more “victims” of racism.
Omg I love your great grandfather 😍😍
😮WOW!!! I never knew! I'm excited that I came across this.
ASL of all kinds should be taught in schools. I have always thought that and still do.
Why is it racist? It just appears to be 2 different ways of signing. I don't get it. What am I missing?
Just plain powerful stuff. A luta continua.
Yes we do my cousin blind
We have our own sign language too?! Whoa!!!
finally something I can give a thumbs up for Now This - would be good if you did more of these types of truly non political stories
This is why we need to understand intersectionality better
She is 4th generation deaf? Wut
They most likely carry a gene that is linked to hearing loss. Not sure though xd
Some deafness is genetic. There are many multigenerational deaf families.
It's genetic - over half of the instances of deafness pre-adulthood have genetic causes. It's why families where everyone is Deaf exist.
Was this purposely done to further oppress deaf blacks like I don’t understand how this happened
Deaf or not they were still black. They didn't want black kids in the same school as their white kids. Any disability, ot didn't matter, if you were black you went to a school only with blacks
I was unaware that there is more than one ASL.
There's actually a lot of different Sign languages in the United States: Black ASL, Sign Supplemented Speaking, English Word Order, the little fusion languages that pop up in immigrant communities, and then there's place by place differences that can get pretty wild. It's really cool to look into!
@@Psychwriteify I am ashamed to say that I was unaware of anything other than ASL here in the US.
@@AGDinCA it’s okay, don’t be ashamed. Be glad you learned. Research more info, it’s interesting.
@@Yeti-xc4jg Oh, I will definitely look into it. I am ashamed because I actually took two semester-long classes in ASL and don't recall learning anything about other forms of ASL. Either my teacher (she was a CODA) didn't know or didn't feel the need to share, or I somehow simply forgot.
Congratulations! 👏🏾👏🏾
Sign language should be Mandatory in school who care if you not deaf . You not caring is may reason why america is mad divide .
I’m so humbled by this
Wow! I took ASL for a semester and it was my absolute favorite thing I’ve ever learned but I never heard about BASL! This is amazing, it’s like having an accent! I hope it continues in history
Friggin Awesome!
And no link to the tiktoker
I love this...
Okay but doctor mccaskill’s interpreter is relaying it like it’s straight from her mouth
Awesomeness!😍
Wow. I didn't know this existed. Thank you.
I am proud to be among the many students who learned ASL.
🤟
Fuuuh BASL code switching
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Wow ! I just found this out today..
Literally no different than drinking from a black only water fountain. We're going backwards extremely quickly.
Love this!!! Yaaaaaasssss!!!!
Never knew. Beautiful!
Say what?
Wats up jake
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is there a difference between black american sign language and white american sign language?
Yes they just confirmed that when the said code switch. Look at sign language like any other language but more along the lines of like morse code or programming languages such as Python and JavaScript.
With programming languages once you have the core of a major one you will see similarities yet the differences where as you more likely can understand it just not scribe with it right away because the way its written.
Hopefully this makes sense.
Yessss
Yes, i can see the difference. Although i disagree with the guy with the glasses. ASL is considered very, very expressive. They sign all big and even their faces say a lot. All deaf ppl do it, its pretty rare they sign in a robotically way lol. Maybe it's different where he lives, idk.
Yes it is different if you pay attention. At first glance both of them seem same but closer notice it are different.
@Kriztian B did you watch the video? They explained the difference in these two types of ASL.
So, is this sign language Ebonics?
That dr , that generalizing her idea , is bad , sometimes it is about the language , sometimes languages are hard so you avoid them , it is not always about the people , ,, there are many other factors , if there is a high benefit from learning the language , people will learn it , some will even learn it for the sake of fun , stop making things black and white and about race ....
The world isn't all sunshine and rainbows, race played a huge role in all countries
🤦🏾 I think you are forgetting something obvious. She made that statement because throughout American history, it has been about race. The black deaf literally came up with the language because of racial segregation.
@@christiant.1113 it is not always like that , i do realise the , that why i said , sometimes , the fact that she is speaking as generalization and denying the fact that there could be other possibility it is what annoying me , there are always the different cases , even scientence does not talk with 100% accuracy because there is maybe that one different 1% chance
@@littlegothgirl8869 i do understand that she made the statement due to american history , never the less she is not considering other factors , as a DR that degree that she Holds , i expect more of her , she cliams it is only about the race , no it is not only about the race , there are other factors like being poor , the language being taught only at certian places and not other , the lack of awareness of the culture , being part of minority language ,,
@@ghadeeralghamdi2950 All of the other factors you listed are directly tied to racism in America. Are you stupid?
How is black sign language different from American Sign Language? Why is this a video?
Because much like spoken American English, there are differences in the way certain groups speak English around the US, particularly amongst black people and other minorities. You can attribute a difference in education and upbringing or simply SEGREGATION. With the Black American SL students learning off to the side with teachers who only know the language as they were taught. You will find dramatic differences in how the language is used/signed. My aunt has been deaf since she was 5 years old. I started learning American SL when I was in middle school. When I attempted to communicate with her she would laugh at me and tell me I was speaking as if I was white. which as an 11 yr old confused me. My cousin(her daugnter) taught me BASL which is what my aunt grew up learning in the 70’s. So see this video is very necessary bc it highlights just how different parts of American life are.
@@markalusss Blacks be crazy 😂
@@Cheddar012181 😐 🤔
@@Cheddar012181 its weird how people constantly ignore the fact that yes, sometimes black Americans have cultural differences. Lol
@@littlegothgirl8869 What's even weirder is that they literally talk about how segregation led to these cultural differences, but some people just like being ignorant and racist for some pathetic reason.
It'll be about as useful as learning Klingon.
It’s very useful tho, there are a lot of deaf people and this helps us commuicate with them
@@ryeryeryerye Yeah? Who's teaching white sign language?
@@cambellschunky704 just like you're as useful as a bag of lint.
Bruh he’s right tho. Who teaches white sign language
@@JesusPrice I can make a fire out of a bag of lint and I routinely take bags of lint camping in order to do so. So yes, a bag of lint is lightyears more useful than this dumbassery. But hey, after you've mastered this useless skill, you can go on to finish your gender studies class with hopes of making 6 figures.
Wow. I never knew any of this. So much to learn in this world