We honestly love your amazing story telling. Love that you put this together and shared all the history. We have still never been to DC and checked out any of the places, but we would love to see this museum. Great job putting all this together
What History???? Open your eyes,GOD IS OUR HISTORY. FAKE HAIR DRUGS MISEDUCATION GANG VIOLENCE RAP MUSIC ABORTIONS CANNIBALISM "OUR HISTORY"??????? DRUGS GOOD TIMES SANFORD AND SON ROOTS THE COLOR PURPLE... WHAT HISTORY?????
Just found you. Thank you for this. Great music too and love the name of it, the tour! We spent four hours on the lower levels and didn’t make it above the lobby. It was such a beautiful building as well. We will definitely visit again, so much to learn🌳
I heard start at the bottom level and move upward. Bisa Butler (artist of the quilt at 1:45) also has a piece at the Renwick until spring 2023🙌🏾Thanks for the tour
Leaving out the timelines of our AFRAKAN , history. is ridiculous! We built civilizations in Africa and took our show on the road. How pitiful that we left that out of the Musuem for our children to see. What about our scientific and mathematic inventions! Our history did not begin with slavery! The further we go back the further we will progress. So depressing for me! Not chattel slavery there is a difference. Stop it!
Awesome Job! Thank you for sharing your time and talent in putting this together! I have been to the Museum several times and I still haven't seen everything. I will share with my NYC Girl Scouts this week as a Black History Month activity! They will be motivated to take the trip themselves...
You will have a great time. There is so much to experience. There is an Emmett Till exhibit that I choose not to cover in this video. Its actually right across the train on the lower level. Emmett's passing is something that impacted me as a kid and out of respect to the audience and the museum I choose to omit it.
Also a fun fact: The original drafts of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson actually had a condemnation of slavery in them but was removed out of fear of losing support from southern states. Jefferson was also highly anti-slavery and tried to end the practice several times. The only reason he didn’t free his slaves personally is because he legally cannot
There are so many Museums in DC it can take weeks to visit them all. I heard about the Bible museum when I visited the beautiful Immaculate Conception church. I’m making another trip in the next couple of weeks and would love to pay a visit.
Not obama but, Dr. Joseph McNeil said when asked about the Woolworth sit in that sparked around the nation said "that we were just ordinary people doing an extraordinary thing". Not obama.
America loves labels. I am not sure where you are from but in America we often add the nationality to the respected group (Asian American, Italian America, and in my case Latino American or most recently LatinX). I've never seen myself anything other then American but it can all be traced to marketing from corporations. The term African American goes back to a Pennsylvania magazine ad in the 1700s as the earliest none usage of the label.
This is sad that this baby was done this way because of his color and to find out years later that this woman lied on him nobody should be brutally murdered in a manner like emmit was
No worries, I usually put a GPS mark in my other videos since I am moving around from location to location. Since this was a museum walk and it’s only 3 floors I omitted the GPS markers. I can make an addendum in the info section to break down where everything is. The chapters more or less break out the floors. My work is not so much a traditional UA-cam travel vlog but more of American History.
Avoid this museum at all costs!!!!! The employees there are extremely rude it was my very first and last time visiting this place! One of the cafeteria employees yelled at everyone in line to go get in the other lines which also had food but alot of people don't like certain foods, some people don't eat pork some people don't eat sweets some people don't eat chicken ETC and that soul food cafeteria is expensive and over priced and very crowded they charge you $8.00 just for bottled water! The museum is way to crowded to enjoy the exhibits the bottom level is way to dark and to dim to see and read artifacts from the slavery days! It's really not worth visiting period.
The point of this museum is the depth and wealth of historical information found there. That of which cannot be found anywhere else. I was “filled” with pride for how much our people endured and still persevered.
This is true and not a knock to the African American Museum since its the only one that discusses it out of the 35,000 museums in America. White slavery was much more common especially in Europe and yet so little information is available. I think I briefly touched upon it and other nations in this video and in Gettysburg. There is a small panel in the National Museum of American History which is not enough. I don't know why it's not discussed and even the terrible lives of the early immigrants through Ellis Island has slowly been swept under the rug. For others who read this comment here is some background (www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01440399808575226?journalCode=fsla20)
@@JoseOnTour This is not true.. no other ethnic group faced chattel slavery on American soil and went through nearly the amount of dehumanization and bloodshed that African Americans have faced on this soil so yes it’s very disrespectful to say that don’t diminish what our ancestors went through saying stuff like that..
@@Jedi_Black My response wasn't to diminish our history, it was to add some context on museums discussing white slavery. This comment wasn't generalized to American soil but on a global history as I added the statement of slavery in Europe, especially some examples like Irish slavery, or 30% of Ancient Romes population being slaves. On American soil and across the Americas, absolutely. America also had some of the harshest post slavery rules in comparison to other nations. This video is to celebrate the museum but also acknowledge the very detailed panels on slavery and the troubled history of African American culture in America. I don't think enough museums give as great detail as this museum does to flesh out the story of slavery and its impact to the world. This is a good summarized link of reading material on the history of slavery (web.archive.org/web/20140209215003/www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm)
@@Jedi_Black agreed on the point about chattel slavery. It seems like a a lot of people who come into these videos and comment are misinformed and believe all forms of slavery were the same. There is only one group who redefined slavery from a civilized practice of servitude to an inhuman practice of brutality. Chattel slavery was created during the Dark Ages of Europe were all sorts of depraved acts were invented and practiced amongst Caucasian people. Then they brought that culture and mindset to Africa unfortunately. Torture museums exists to this day in parts of Europe.
Thank you for this! I recently visited the African-American History Museum for the first time. It’s a beautiful tribute to people crucial to American history. A long overdue addition to the museums on the Mall. I was able to get same-day tickets on a weekday afternoon. The first couple of years the museum was open the tickets were all used up months in advance, even on a Tuesday. Tickets have always been free.
When I visited to the museum I had a 2-3 hour wait. It was well worth it and I agree that its a nice addition to the Mall. So much fascinating history that doesn't always surface.
There are segments within the museum where my tears just ran down my face. I could not bring myself to go inside the Emmet Till room. My wife went and said it wasn’t as bad. The final Wing of the museum had a lot of our modern day history from Floyd to Brianna Taylor and it completely wrecked me. There is a lot of fun and great stuff within the museum but also alot of tragic memories. This is the not so fun part about history and it’ll vary per user. But I can tell you, it didn’t matter what background you were from, i saw white, black, hispanic, middle eastern, and asian pretty torn up.
I guess I was a bit premature in my assessment of the Harriett Tubman portrait. The close up reveals that it dosen't look a prehistoric man. It still dosen't look like Harriett, but I guess that's the best that can be done with a quilt. And it's beautiful.
This is always interesting to see people who self educate themselves about a few topics and video tape themselves at the Smithsonian, it took 18 months of training as a docent of the Smithsonian and to see folks with limited content knowledge of the exhibits and artifacts do a video tour that’s limited on content knowledge
I’m interested in knowing where did you do your training and research for this tour of the museum and I’m speaking to dad as a Smithsonian trained docent for the museum?
We honestly love your amazing story telling. Love that you put this together and shared all the history. We have still never been to DC and checked out any of the places, but we would love to see this museum. Great job putting all this together
What History????
Open your eyes,GOD IS OUR HISTORY.
FAKE HAIR
DRUGS
MISEDUCATION
GANG VIOLENCE
RAP MUSIC
ABORTIONS
CANNIBALISM
"OUR HISTORY"???????
DRUGS
GOOD TIMES
SANFORD AND SON
ROOTS
THE COLOR PURPLE...
WHAT HISTORY?????
Just found you. Thank you for this. Great music too and love the name of it, the tour! We spent four hours on the lower levels and didn’t make it above the lobby. It was such a beautiful building as well. We will definitely visit again, so much to learn🌳
So many lessons and learnings over time and space.
I want to take my family here and thanks for putting this together. 🙏🏿
Thank you. There is a lot of great history in the museum and many other exhibits I didn't include. Your family will really enjoy it
I agree with a wonderful virtual tour. It's an excellent job. I am going there this weekend. Thank you for my pre tour 😊
I heard start at the bottom level and move upward. Bisa Butler (artist of the quilt at 1:45) also has a piece at the Renwick until spring 2023🙌🏾Thanks for the tour
I will try to check it out this SUMMER 🏝️🌞
watching this video in our class thanks for posting and creating!
It is an honor, thank you for sharing
Leaving out the timelines of our AFRAKAN , history. is ridiculous! We built civilizations in Africa and took our show on the road. How pitiful that we left that out of the Musuem for our children to see. What about our scientific and mathematic inventions! Our history did not begin with slavery! The further we go back the further we will progress. So depressing for me! Not chattel slavery there is a difference. Stop it!
Great Episode
Thank you
Thank you for such a great video! I really enjoyed your presentation of the museum… truly a must-visit in DC
Thank you for the support
Awesome Job! Thank you for sharing your time and talent in putting this together! I have been to the Museum several times and I still haven't seen everything. I will share with my NYC Girl Scouts this week as a Black History Month activity! They will be motivated to take the trip themselves...
came from ur reddit comment. Thanks for sharing
I was just there two months ago. There is a lot to take in. I wish I saw this video before I went up the escalator. 👏
Yes you start from the bottom
Beautiful tour, thank you Jose!
Honestly this is one of the few Smithsonian museums on the national mall I’ve not had the pleasure of visiting. I would like to on my next visit
Nice job 👍🏾 it’s tuff to put this out here while the country is split terribly at this time. Hopefully people learn from this.
Hi, fascinating tour. I plan to visit the museum next weekend. Is there an Emmett Till exhibit? If so, what items are in the exhibit?
You will have a great time. There is so much to experience. There is an Emmett Till exhibit that I choose not to cover in this video. Its actually right across the train on the lower level. Emmett's passing is something that impacted me as a kid and out of respect to the audience and the museum I choose to omit it.
@@JoseOnTour Understood. Thank you again. Looking forward to visiting the museum.
Perhaps you chose to omit the Emmett Till exhibit, however photos of this exhibit are prohibited by the museum.
sound track it dope. great information shared my man
Thank you so much Andre
The word dope is not cute bro. Your use of it reflects your generations corruption.
Esau's blessings r up. They had 400 yrs. Done
Why dosen't the Harriett Tubman portrait look anything like Harriett Tubman? It looks like a prehistoric man.
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Also a fun fact: The original drafts of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson actually had a condemnation of slavery in them but was removed out of fear of losing support from southern states. Jefferson was also highly anti-slavery and tried to end the practice several times. The only reason he didn’t free his slaves personally is because he legally cannot
Awesome video! i just learned there is a museum of the bible in D.C! Ever thought about checking it out?
There are so many Museums in DC it can take weeks to visit them all. I heard about the Bible museum when I visited the beautiful Immaculate Conception church. I’m making another trip in the next couple of weeks and would love to pay a visit.
Not obama but, Dr. Joseph McNeil said when asked about the Woolworth sit in that sparked around the nation said "that we were just ordinary people doing an extraordinary thing". Not obama.
I just don't get why is it called African American museum. When those people aren't African they may be black but they are Americans
America loves labels. I am not sure where you are from but in America we often add the nationality to the respected group (Asian American, Italian America, and in my case Latino American or most recently LatinX).
I've never seen myself anything other then American but it can all be traced to marketing from corporations. The term African American goes back to a Pennsylvania magazine ad in the 1700s as the earliest none usage of the label.
This is sad that this baby was done this way because of his color and to find out years later that this woman lied on him nobody should be brutally murdered in a manner like emmit was
Genesis 15;13&14 Read that then look worldwide and see the Bible speak.
Blacksmithsonian markiologist
You didn't give a idea of WHERE you were in the building. This video was almost useless. Just some constructive criticism.
No worries, I usually put a GPS mark in my other videos since I am moving around from location to location. Since this was a museum walk and it’s only 3 floors I omitted the GPS markers. I can make an addendum in the info section to break down where everything is. The chapters more or less break out the floors. My work is not so much a traditional UA-cam travel vlog but more of American History.
Avoid this museum at all costs!!!!! The employees there are extremely rude it was my very first and last time visiting this place! One of the cafeteria employees yelled at everyone in line to go get in the other lines which also had food but alot of people don't like certain foods, some people don't eat pork some people don't eat sweets some people don't eat chicken ETC and that soul food cafeteria is expensive and over priced and very crowded they charge you $8.00 just for bottled water! The museum is way to crowded to enjoy the exhibits the bottom level is way to dark and to dim to see and read artifacts from the slavery days! It's really not worth visiting period.
The point of this museum is the depth and wealth of historical information found there. That of which cannot be found anywhere else. I was “filled” with pride for how much our people endured and still persevered.
They went from slave catcher to cop.
Why isn't there a museum, for the millions of white slaves that suffered the same fate?
This is true and not a knock to the African American Museum since its the only one that discusses it out of the 35,000 museums in America. White slavery was much more common especially in Europe and yet so little information is available. I think I briefly touched upon it and other nations in this video and in Gettysburg. There is a small panel in the National Museum of American History which is not enough. I don't know why it's not discussed and even the terrible lives of the early immigrants through Ellis Island has slowly been swept under the rug.
For others who read this comment here is some background (www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01440399808575226?journalCode=fsla20)
@@JoseOnTour thank you for the response and educating me on the matter!
@@JoseOnTour
This is not true.. no other ethnic group faced chattel slavery on American soil and went through nearly the amount of dehumanization and bloodshed that African Americans have faced on this soil so yes it’s very disrespectful to say that don’t diminish what our ancestors went through saying stuff like that..
@@Jedi_Black My response wasn't to diminish our history, it was to add some context on museums discussing white slavery. This comment wasn't generalized to American soil but on a global history as I added the statement of slavery in Europe, especially some examples like Irish slavery, or 30% of Ancient Romes population being slaves.
On American soil and across the Americas, absolutely. America also had some of the harshest post slavery rules in comparison to other nations.
This video is to celebrate the museum but also acknowledge the very detailed panels on slavery and the troubled history of African American culture in America.
I don't think enough museums give as great detail as this museum does to flesh out the story of slavery and its impact to the world.
This is a good summarized link of reading material on the history of slavery (web.archive.org/web/20140209215003/www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm)
@@Jedi_Black agreed on the point about chattel slavery. It seems like a a lot of people who come into these videos and comment are misinformed and believe all forms of slavery were the same. There is only one group who redefined slavery from a civilized practice of servitude to an inhuman practice of brutality. Chattel slavery was created during the Dark Ages of Europe were all sorts of depraved acts were invented and practiced amongst Caucasian people. Then they brought that culture and mindset to Africa unfortunately. Torture museums exists to this day in parts of Europe.
Keep the victimisation alive 😂
Keep the trolling alive.
Do think African history starts in America
The answer is no
So why do you African history in America
I would never visit these museums
Their misleading
Thank you for this! I recently visited the African-American History Museum for the first time. It’s a beautiful tribute to people crucial to American history. A long overdue addition to the museums on the Mall. I was able to get same-day tickets on a weekday afternoon. The first couple of years the museum was open the tickets were all used up months in advance, even on a Tuesday. Tickets have always been free.
When I visited to the museum I had a 2-3 hour wait. It was well worth it and I agree that its a nice addition to the Mall. So much fascinating history that doesn't always surface.
You are doing such an amazing job with each video. Truly appreciate your work. 🙌🏾
Great video! You really captured the spirit of this incredibly interesting museum. The music section is one of my favorites.
Thank you Carrie
Can’t wait to visit the museum. Thank you.
One of the best virtual tours available! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank you Adrianna for the great feedback
Lovely museum been a few times
It really is a beautiful museum and the history is very detailed
Love it. Thank you for doing this
Thank you Felicia
My sister went already it was a bit painful for her. I’m contemplating? Please give some your feelings below.
There are segments within the museum where my tears just ran down my face. I could not bring myself to go inside the Emmet Till room. My wife went and said it wasn’t as bad.
The final Wing of the museum had a lot of our modern day history from Floyd to Brianna Taylor and it completely wrecked me. There is a lot of fun and great stuff within the museum but also alot of tragic memories.
This is the not so fun part about history and it’ll vary per user. But I can tell you, it didn’t matter what background you were from, i saw white, black, hispanic, middle eastern, and asian pretty torn up.
Johnson Sarah Jackson Larry Walker Jessica
Is what's under the Vatican included ?
What is the music at 5:40? Thank you.
The Artist name is - Almost Here, Song - Slow Food Jam
@@JoseOnTour Thank you!
Thank you to all of the rich, mostly black, and other good people who made this Museum possible.
Makes me so proud of what we can do.
@@AnnetteTabornIt was long overdue and I think its in the ideal location by the Washington Monument.
I guess I was a bit premature in my assessment of the Harriett Tubman portrait. The close up reveals that it dosen't look a prehistoric man. It still dosen't look like Harriett, but I guess that's the best that can be done with a quilt. And it's beautiful.
Im going with my church tommorow
Great work. What jazz song is playing in the background
The song is, Slow Food Jam by Almost Here
This is always interesting to see people who self educate themselves about a few topics and video tape themselves at the Smithsonian, it took 18 months of training as a docent of the Smithsonian and to see folks with limited content knowledge of the exhibits and artifacts do a video tour that’s limited on content knowledge
I’m interested in knowing where did you do your training and research for this tour of the museum and I’m speaking to dad as a Smithsonian trained docent for the museum?