Experience Savannah's rich Gullah Geechee Heritage with Gail Smith, historical interpreter. See more local Savannah perspectives at thisismysavannah.com.
My Auntie always says before she takes off is " Mind your manners". My family is from the Bayou's of Mississippi. I never really knew what she meant by that until I got older. Some people really don't know what that means.
Blacks must return to the sources of their rich cultures and their millennial spiritualities. For instance, we have to abandon the the traditional system of Western names and Western religions to adopt first and last names tipically african on the one hand, and on the other hand, we must value the religious beliefs and cult practices that allowed our proto-ancestors to be in touch with divine power - God - or supernatural power - tutelary deities -.
I live in Savannah and grew up in the marsh areas of the Low Country and spent many days fishing, hunting, crabbing, and shrimping in those areas. I had some friends who were of Gullah heritage and great people! I love their history and their culture and find it fascinating and so glad they do their best to keep their culture alive.
i neva been way she been but we all the indigenous folks of dis land ya.Our schools taught us in codes and lies but our culture een dying out.We still carrying it on here in charleston,sc✊🏾😎#NC-SC-GA-FL#Gullah/Geechee#MyPeople
t'engk'gawd thank u ..for someone like me it's a big help..my grandfather use to talk Gullah..so we have geechee roots as well..thank u..I have alot to learn. Quntell
@@quntellnoob3898 Why do the Gullah Geeche people submit to the Black Americans!??? Geeches aren't Black Americans they have their own language, culture, lineage, music, foods etc!
I grew up in Minnesota where my Native identity was bleached, as everything is in that state. Black History Month was a speech by Dr. King. The Civil Rights Movement was one page of our book, which made it seem the movement had won and things were now rosy. I went in college in Philadelphia, night school, when the locals went, and learned another way of the American experience. I travel as much as I can to find the other America, the parts of our country that are the real national treasures. As I writer, I find myself talking to everyone, wanting to know about their lives, but also their stories. This 3 minute video was a shot in the arm. I am so happy to hear that a community has survived in this country, keeping its stories, and sharing them. This is the stuff that should go on TV; this is the America that shatters xenophobia by example. Bless you, and thank you!
I would love to visit from Europe I have been watching a few videos of late about the Geechee people & Gullah language that until now I had never heard of until recently. I love how the people speak and express their proud history and culture and love of their lands which surely is there's as they have lovenly cultivated that land since the natives are no longer there. They really do belong to the land and that area. It's so rich & mysterious, spiritual & magical I can't explain it but watching these people and land gives me an incredible feeling.
Thank You Savannah, Georgia! The roots right in America! Wow this is great info! Let's keep learning about our beautiful culture in America! I will love to visit Savannah, very peaceful setting! Great video!
Love Savannah. I was born at the old Candler hospital downtown. I was told that I was the smallest preemie born there that lived. It was the 40's and no NICUs back then.Thanks Candler! Still alive and kicking!
I hope to visit Savannah, Pin Point and Butter Bean Beach! Thanks, Gayle Smith for this tour! I'm African American and was born & raised in the Rocky Mountains.
Yeddi yeddi mi poppa said we were Geechees... Afrter doin research... I found grand fathers grand father... Ben i found his receipt and how much Savannah paid for him....
This video was beautiful and made me that much more excited to visit Pin Point and the surrounding areas when I move to Savannah next month. All that said I just have to add Gail that dress is beautiful on you! Simple earthly elegant beauty!
I don’t understand this about the Gullah people. I’m originally from Florida and I live in Charleston. I feel alienated here. And I’m black it seems like racism within our own race. I’ve never understood it. I wish that black people would treat each other better. How can we expect anyone else to treat us better when we treat each other like shit?
I was taught that most black Americans are geechie but just don't know it. I'm a speech language pathology major. In my study of our African-American English the earliest example of it in its purest form was traced back to the Gullah Geechee
@@ninpobudo3876 Ain't much more I can tell you other than that I saw an article about it. The person is just restating a popular opinion that AAVE comes from Gullah which is only partially true. Yes many AA in the North East arr Gullah descendants and down in South Florida also. AA around the Mississippi Valley don't typically have that Gullah heritage, their ancestors are moreso through Virginia and Creoles along the Gulf Coast
BUT IT WAS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO KEPT US ALIVE!!! If we, were muslims we would have died out!!! Islam ENSLAVED AFRICANS even today in NORTH Africa. ☪Jami` at-Tirmidhi » The Book on Business Narrated Jabir: "A slave came to give the pledge to the Prophet (ﷺ) for Hijrah, but the Prophet (ﷺ) did not realize that he was a slave. So his master came to get him and the Prophet (ﷺ) said: 'Sell him to me.' So he purchased him for two black slaves. Then he would not pledge from anyone until he asked him if he was a slave." [He said:] There is something on this topic from Anas. [Abu 'Eisa said:] The Hadith of Jabir is a Hasan Sahih Hadith. This is acted upon according to the people of knowledge. There is no harm in a slave for two slaves in hand to hand exchange, but they differ when it is on credit. Grade: Sahih (Darussalam) Reference : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1239 In-book reference : Book 14, Hadith 39 English translation : Vol. 1, Book 12, Hadith 1239
Gayle Smith thank you for this enriching and educational video. listening to you I had a chill in my spine. Do you take people on tour? I would like to visit. Which part of the African Continent your people are from?
My Grandfather on my Paternal side was a Geechee, From Savannah..GrowingUp NEVER Knew Geechee was a Real nationality Ethnic Group of Ppl..We Virginians used the term to mean a Deep Southern country'Fied, Hick Black person..Then Juss Learned Last Year my Grandfather was a Geechie, I was told he was Westindie l, Jamaican who had a Westindie accent My cousin say NO he was from Deep south Savannah & Like Lady said in Video Creo & Geechie..I was Like Huh? What?? Creo & Geechie?? So Its a Heritage I must Study up on, His parents Family Tree to See for myself
Gullah Roots - The Documentary In December 2019, a group of Gullahs (The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, in both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands) linked up with some Sierra Leoneans for an unprecedented historical study tour. Some of the activities mixed in with interviews by participants and relevant others are documented in the film. facebook.com/watch/?v=600591343968272&extid=r4PLgd0U3vSOgno4 Join us live at facebook.com/events/327493725169145/ on October 10th, 2020 1 PM EST for virtual screening of the documentary. #gullahroots #gullahgeechee #fambultik #sierraleone
I went to savannah one time and I’d never go back. The moment I got off the plane I felt the pain hurt and sorrows of my ancestors... spiritually the energy there felt extremely heavy and I went to a place that looked similar to @0:29
No disrespect for anything here. This is Amazing and more importantly. It's American. Whether or not it's wanted it is this way. The land, not the people feed and raise and provide for people. Without the land the spirit of the land and the air and the food and the beings that exist with you on the land you are not who you think you are. These people their experiences are unique. They are part of my American Spirit and my soul. I am not Gullah GeeChee. Yet. I am.
Thank you for the distinction between Gullah and Geeche. I grew up in Atlanta and always heard my father talk about the Geeche. We are white. He even said he could understand the language. Who knows? Anyway a fascinating history and culture. Question does Geeche have anything to do with the Ogeechee River that runs through South Georgia??
Patrick Rex That is one possible explanation, but the name Geechee is used by people with largely no connection with that area. The current consensus is that Geechee came from the name of the Kissi (pronounced like “GEE-dzee”) ethnic group of Sierra Leone, which has an extremely close association, culturally and linguistically, with Gullah/Geechee culture.
staceymfilms Despite our impression of Clarence Thomas as an opponent of policies that favor black people, he is essentially true to his community’s values. His roots and values, as with most Gullah/Geechee people, are conservative, and his take on things like affirmative action, while not agreeable, are also not uncommon. As a Geechee myself, when I read more about his upbringing and his professional ascent, ha’ to say I been proud o’ him, too. Anybody from us part of the world make whey he da, done walk a mighty long way, yeh?
crooked truth83 I just recently read an article about Justice Thomas that made so much sense to me: www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/clarence-thomass-radical-vision-of-race Without getting too complicated, I would like to say that though Gullah/Geechee are not separatist or segregationist in our values, we understand very clearly that we are historically unique from the majority and even other minority populations. Thomas’s views are problematic because his conservatism pushes back on the notion that the Constitution accommodates racism. The original Constitution can be seen as neither allowing nor disallowing things like slavery and segregation, but it has been definitely used to implement and then undo racist policies. Thomas doesn’t seem to see his role as a ‘judicial activist,’ even though his association with Black America would seem to suggest otherwise. Be that as it may, Thomas’s conservatism is very much a product of his upbringing. Think about it this way: If there had been no segregation nor need for a civil rights movement, and you put a Gullah on the Supreme Court, you would still probably have a Clarence Thomas, but he would not be seen as a controversial figure. There are circuit court judges and magistrates now who are conservative and neutral about the letter of the law in his home region today.
@crooked truth83 Clarence Thomas is not Gullah, he's Geechee. I remember Clarence, when he used to ride on his Grandfather's vegetable truck, selling fresh fish, and crabs. My step Grandmother would buy crabs, to make deviled crabs. We lived in Woodville, on Burke Avenue.
He seems to hates anything black. Voted to get rid of Affirmative action, even though he got his education that way. Married a white woman but sexual harassment charges from a black one .
To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves) . Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah
I believed I had some gullah descent and heritage. I have read a book about the gullah language a while back, but I have been out of reading for a while.
She could at least spoken one word in gullah lol. I'm from Charleston and we still speak it here on a daily basis. To be honest i never met someone from Savannah that actually even sounds geechee.
Bull shit! I'm a Louisiana Creole and I passed through Georgia and met them Geeches! Man there English was a cooler colleg complete English Creole (Geeche!) I also speak a Belize kriol and they had me LOST! Shoutout to the Geeches! Geeches please don't fall into the Black American culture! They will force y'all to be one of them
Gullahs and Geechees are two different people that came together as one. The Geechees will sound different than Gullahs although we are the same as Hebrews
Spirit in the Sky you would be surprised at his beliefs study him learn what he stands for the truth is powerful. be proud he rose so far with all the haters trying to take him down.
I have not been into my own cultures woman for most of my life. none of them were attractive to me until I seen this woman here wow! she is mind blowing
@Beautiful mil I am a strange mixture of Gullah and Native American so no pure blood here.what I can say of both essences is that we are a people surviving an ended world and we have no true identity , only one that is made up. We use names that were given to us survive on pitty and scraps the same way. This was another man’s world and all we do in our strangest ways is mimic him in hopes of gaining favor and notes. I’ve used my notes to travel the world and be amongst real cultures seeking a better place to fit in and also to escape the devilution but there are none. So I am back in the devils belly watching the demons grow and consume one another. Why I choose not to wed with my own people. All to many have become demons and don’t even know it as there are so many that their way of life has become the “norm”.
@Beautiful mil well said and no I don’t want to “claim” any of it to be honest you can have it. I’ll gladly be a tourist in passing . Be well bright soul
Gullah is really Guale. Ogeechee, Canoochee, Chatahoochee. The names of the rivers and the lslands are OUR melinated peoples family names and titles. Yemassee is the lands called ga and s.carolina. This region is coined The Coastal Empire because this is one of the provinces of the Moroccan Empire called the A mer icas.
My grandma from Midway GA always says that. Manners could take you where money can’t
My Auntie always says before she takes off is " Mind your manners". My family is from the Bayou's of Mississippi. I never really knew what she meant by that until I got older. Some people really don't know what that means.
It all makes sense now 😉
I’m so proud of my Gullah Geechee Culture. Born and raised in Savannah (Woodsville) Georgia
My original last name is Jones we might be cousins.
I grew up in Savannah (white Bluff) in the 60's. Other people just don't get it. We ain't weak, we just polite.
My last name is Ward
Blacks must return to the sources of their rich cultures and their millennial spiritualities. For instance, we have to abandon the the traditional system of Western names and Western religions to adopt first and last names tipically african on the one hand, and on the other hand, we must value the religious beliefs and cult practices that allowed our proto-ancestors to be in touch with divine power - God - or supernatural power - tutelary deities -.
HER STRIDE HER WALK HER ELEGANCE IS MAJESTIC
HOWEVER, that comes from WHITE PEOPLE!!! But a Black woman's frame makes looks better!!!
I live in Savannah and grew up in the marsh areas of the Low Country and spent many days fishing, hunting, crabbing, and shrimping in those areas. I had some friends who were of Gullah heritage and great people! I love their history and their culture and find it fascinating and so glad they do their best to keep their culture alive.
My father was born & raised in Savannah Ga until he came to Columbia SC to attend college. He taught me so many things about the culture
Mi di Gullah Geechee tu di upmost yeah I have mi roots frum South Carolina and Savannah
Savannah GA is my most favorite place to visit. I don't know why i just feel at home there away from NY city. There's a peaceful, kind vibe there !!!
i neva been way she been but we all the indigenous folks of dis land ya.Our schools taught us in codes and lies but our culture een dying out.We still carrying it on here in charleston,sc✊🏾😎#NC-SC-GA-FL#Gullah/Geechee#MyPeople
I made a video about the Gullah language. I hope more native Geechee/Gullah make more videos on the language.
Kiki Learns Languages thanks! I'm Gullah geechee
t'engk'gawd
thank u ..for someone like me it's a big help..my grandfather use to talk Gullah..so we have geechee roots as well..thank u..I have alot to learn. Quntell
@@quntellnoob3898 Why do the Gullah Geeche people submit to the Black Americans!??? Geeches aren't Black Americans they have their own language, culture, lineage, music, foods etc!
@Robert Scott You clearly don't understand the difference between race and "ETHNIC-BACKGROUND" my good sir
Tenki tenki fuh deh hep.... me Nana just lub du Nu Tesement wut got dun....
great job gullah geechee people, love from africa, you are welcome to your ancestors land with open arms
I grew up in Minnesota where my Native identity was bleached, as everything is in that state. Black History Month was a speech by Dr. King. The Civil Rights Movement was one page of our book, which made it seem the movement had won and things were now rosy. I went in college in Philadelphia, night school, when the locals went, and learned another way of the American experience. I travel as much as I can to find the other America, the parts of our country that are the real national treasures. As I writer, I find myself talking to everyone, wanting to know about their lives, but also their stories. This 3 minute video was a shot in the arm. I am so happy to hear that a community has survived in this country, keeping its stories, and sharing them. This is the stuff that should go on TV; this is the America that shatters xenophobia by example. Bless you, and thank you!
Thank you for sharing your fantastic perspective. We will continue to share stories of Gullah Geechee culture in Savannah.
I met this women this year , and I learned so much ! She's an amazing person
Gullah Geechee on my maternal side via Jacksonville Florida. Love my Savannah family as well! Thank you ancestors for the richness of our culture🙏🏽✨
My birthplace/hometown
Leak Jones yaay!! I know and I love it
Richmond Hill Geechee fa sho!!!Ten minutes south of Savannah on the Ogeechee River.We love our food, family and way of life!!!
I would love to visit from Europe I have been watching a few videos of late about the Geechee people & Gullah language that until now I had never heard of until recently. I love how the people speak and express their proud history and culture and love of their lands which surely is there's as they have lovenly cultivated that land since the natives are no longer there. They really do belong to the land and that area. It's so rich & mysterious, spiritual & magical I can't explain it but watching these people and land gives me an incredible feeling.
@Robert Scott stfu troll head basic bishé
Thank You Savannah, Georgia! The roots right in America! Wow this is great info! Let's keep learning about our beautiful culture in America! I will love to visit Savannah, very peaceful setting! Great video!
Beginning and end is strong statement there 💪🏿👌🏾
I'm from Atlanta and I have relatives down in Savannah I love the coastal areas in south Carolina ga costal I'm proud to be melenated man
My father in law was Gullah beautiful heritage.
Love Savannah. I was born at the old Candler hospital downtown. I was told that I was the smallest preemie born there that lived. It was the 40's and no NICUs back then.Thanks Candler! Still alive and kicking!
I hope to visit Savannah, Pin Point and Butter Bean Beach! Thanks, Gayle Smith for this tour! I'm African American and was born & raised in the Rocky Mountains.
Thank you Ms Smith for sharing your wonderful history and experiences living in the Pinpoint, South Carolina
tenki tenki me famble!!! e gwan save disyea!
Bezal-El LaGrone Jr. Artist I just cot wat u's saying thar yeah ya hurd me
I just learned that I am a Geechee girl today. I never knew until I spoke with a cousin. My dad and grandfather were Geechee men
savannah black community have a different accent then the rest of georgia 💯
yea i lived there lol ... y'all accent is different from the rest .... that just like how new orleans is with lousiana different from the rest
Yeddi yeddi mi poppa said we were Geechees... Afrter doin research... I found grand fathers grand father... Ben i found his receipt and how much Savannah paid for him....
whole 912 🗣
They sound like some of us in south Carolina
@@s25s2m9 yah yah.... We might got fambol wutgo back n fort
Since the age of 12 i always said i wanted to live in Savnnah GA that place is constantly calling me
I was born and raised in savannah ga
Found me Grandfather's G.father.... Receipt purchased by Savannah they named him Ben paid 400 dollars
So Beautiful , Thank you, My Parents were born in Savannah.
Love it mrs. Gal 💯
Beautiful lesson. Beautiful area. You are very fortunate.
Gail gave us a tour when we visited. I highly recommend it..it was so interesting!
Thank you for sharing ✨🍂🌿
God bless you and may you continue your culture
This video was beautiful and made me that much more excited to visit Pin Point and the surrounding areas when I move to Savannah next month. All that said I just have to add Gail that dress is beautiful on you! Simple earthly elegant beauty!
Damn White girl you're hott 🔥. You like chocolate?
Thank you for the video is awesome. !!!
A little late but I can’t wait to go 🤍 There are so many things for us as Black people to see. So many stories we haven’t heard
Beautiful Gullah Geechie Woman!
What a beautiful sight ...
Ase o!!!! I LOVE MY AFRIKAN PEOPLE! Beautifully shot.
Ase-OOO
African
Get that Black American flag out of here! Gullah Geeches aren't Black Americans! African decent yes but they're a different ethnic-group!
Why does this mean anything bro black is black.
I don’t understand this about the Gullah people. I’m originally from Florida and I live in Charleston. I feel alienated here. And I’m black it seems like racism within our own race. I’ve never understood it. I wish that black people would treat each other better. How can we expect anyone else to treat us better when we treat each other like shit?
On my bucket list
Wonderful wonderful wonderful! And I hear that Gail makes a MEAN DELICIOUS GEECHEE GUMBO!
I'm a Louisiana-Creole don't try to steal our Gumbo name Thanks
@@ninpobudo3876 That word is older than Louisiana
I was taught that most black Americans are geechie but just don't know it. I'm a speech language pathology major. In my study of our African-American English the earliest example of it in its purest form was traced back to the Gullah Geechee
You should look up old Virginia Plantation Creole
@Beautiful mil
Early Virginia had a full on Creole, different from today's AAVE.
@@bootbredda2724 tell me more
Most Black Americans AREN'T Geechees! You better be ready to back that statement up!
@@ninpobudo3876
Ain't much more I can tell you other than that I saw an article about it.
The person is just restating a popular opinion that AAVE comes from Gullah which is only partially true. Yes many AA in the North East arr Gullah descendants and down in South Florida also. AA around the Mississippi Valley don't typically have that Gullah heritage, their ancestors are moreso through Virginia and Creoles along the Gulf Coast
Beautiful ❤ story
Beautiful
I am Montagnard indigenous live in North Carolina I love savannah we go there 3 to 4 times a year.
MORE PEOPLE DEFINITELY NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT US BUT WE NOT DIEING AT ALL COME TO CHARLESTON, SC THOUSANDS OF GEECHIE GULLA PEOPLE HERE
Hi Gail from Gail. When I lived in GA I didn't know about this. I would love to see it.
Yessss, manners can take you where money can't👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I'm Geechee Muslim brother from Brooklyn I love it
BUT IT WAS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO KEPT US ALIVE!!! If we, were muslims we would have died out!!! Islam ENSLAVED AFRICANS even today in NORTH Africa.
☪Jami` at-Tirmidhi » The Book on Business
Narrated Jabir:
"A slave came to give the pledge to the Prophet (ﷺ) for Hijrah, but the Prophet (ﷺ) did not realize that he was a slave. So his master came to get him and the Prophet (ﷺ) said: 'Sell him to me.' So he purchased him for two black slaves. Then he would not pledge from anyone until he asked him if he was a slave."
[He said:] There is something on this topic from Anas.
[Abu 'Eisa said:] The Hadith of Jabir is a Hasan Sahih Hadith. This is acted upon according to the people of knowledge. There is no harm in a slave for two slaves in hand to hand exchange, but they differ when it is on credit.
Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)
Reference : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1239
In-book reference : Book 14, Hadith 39
English translation : Vol. 1, Book 12, Hadith 1239
Yo we grow up just speaking this for half my life i didn’t even know it was a language😂
Gayle Smith thank you for this enriching and educational video. listening to you I had a chill in my spine. Do you take people on tour? I would like to visit. Which part of the African Continent your people are from?
My Grandfather on my Paternal side was a Geechee, From Savannah..GrowingUp NEVER Knew Geechee was a Real nationality Ethnic Group of Ppl..We Virginians used the term to mean a Deep Southern country'Fied, Hick Black person..Then Juss Learned Last Year my Grandfather was a Geechie, I was told he was Westindie l, Jamaican who had a Westindie accent My cousin say NO he was from Deep south Savannah & Like Lady said in Video Creo & Geechie..I was Like Huh? What?? Creo & Geechie?? So Its a Heritage I must Study up on, His parents Family Tree to See for myself
BEAUTIFUL SISTER
We believe gullah to be Us and Geechee to be the language here in Charleston.. ❤️🖤💚
Gullah Roots - The Documentary
In December 2019, a group of Gullahs (The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, in both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands) linked up with some Sierra Leoneans for an unprecedented historical study tour. Some of the activities mixed in with interviews by participants and relevant others are documented in the film.
facebook.com/watch/?v=600591343968272&extid=r4PLgd0U3vSOgno4
Join us live at facebook.com/events/327493725169145/ on October 10th, 2020 1 PM EST for virtual screening of the documentary. #gullahroots #gullahgeechee #fambultik #sierraleone
Our minds coming back home
I went to savannah one time and I’d never go back. The moment I got off the plane I felt the pain hurt and sorrows of my ancestors... spiritually the energy there felt extremely heavy and I went to a place that looked similar to @0:29
i wanna move there from cali
❤
Amen
Amen...
I've always been told I was Geechee but never knew what it meant. Apparently my family comes from Savannah too.
No disrespect for anything here. This is Amazing and more importantly. It's American. Whether or not it's wanted it is this way.
The land, not the people feed and raise and provide for people. Without the land the spirit of the land and the air and the food and
the beings that exist with you on the land you are not who you think you are. These people their experiences are unique. They are part
of my American Spirit and my soul. I am not Gullah GeeChee. Yet. I am.
I have family in Pin Point shout out to my kin folks
U.GLY ( U Gotta Love Yourself ) - Keveius Polite... Charleston Geechies
I want to come here
Thank you for the distinction between Gullah and Geeche. I grew up in Atlanta and always heard my father talk about the Geeche. We are white. He even said he could understand the language. Who knows? Anyway a fascinating history and culture. Question does Geeche have anything to do with the Ogeechee River that runs through South Georgia??
Patrick Rex That is one possible explanation, but the name Geechee is used by people with largely no connection with that area. The current consensus is that Geechee came from the name of the Kissi (pronounced like “GEE-dzee”) ethnic group of Sierra Leone, which has an extremely close association, culturally and linguistically, with Gullah/Geechee culture.
The Ogeechee river runs through Richmond Hill ,ten minutes south of Savannah. I am a Richmond Hill Geechee born and grow!!!
Yes, it does and some white people who grew up in small fishing communities understood and could speak it too.
Thank you
Did she say they loved CLARENCE THOMAS?! Lord...that's so crazy and antithetical to everything it seems being Gullah is about. But ok...
staceymfilms I think she means in a town boy done good kind of way. At least I hope so.
staceymfilms Despite our impression of Clarence Thomas as an opponent of policies that favor black people, he is essentially true to his community’s values. His roots and values, as with most Gullah/Geechee people, are conservative, and his take on things like affirmative action, while not agreeable, are also not uncommon. As a Geechee myself, when I read more about his upbringing and his professional ascent, ha’ to say I been proud o’ him, too. Anybody from us part of the world make whey he da, done walk a mighty long way, yeh?
crooked truth83 I just recently read an article about Justice Thomas that made so much sense to me: www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/clarence-thomass-radical-vision-of-race
Without getting too complicated, I would like to say that though Gullah/Geechee are not separatist or segregationist in our values, we understand very clearly that we are historically unique from the majority and even other minority populations. Thomas’s views are problematic because his conservatism pushes back on the notion that the Constitution accommodates racism. The original Constitution can be seen as neither allowing nor disallowing things like slavery and segregation, but it has been definitely used to implement and then undo racist policies. Thomas doesn’t seem to see his role as a ‘judicial activist,’ even though his association with Black America would seem to suggest otherwise.
Be that as it may, Thomas’s conservatism is very much a product of his upbringing. Think about it this way: If there had been no segregation nor need for a civil rights movement, and you put a Gullah on the Supreme Court, you would still probably have a Clarence Thomas, but he would not be seen as a controversial figure. There are circuit court judges and magistrates now who are conservative and neutral about the letter of the law in his home region today.
@crooked truth83 Clarence Thomas is not Gullah, he's Geechee. I remember Clarence, when he used to ride on his Grandfather's vegetable truck, selling fresh fish, and crabs. My step Grandmother would buy crabs, to make deviled crabs. We lived in Woodville, on Burke Avenue.
He seems to hates anything black. Voted to get rid of Affirmative action, even though he got his education that way. Married a white woman but sexual harassment charges from a black one .
To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves)
. Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah
I want to visit
I believed I had some gullah descent and heritage. I have read a book about the gullah language a while back, but I have been out of reading for a while.
Would love to visit, please can someone tell i where can we go to visit...give thanks
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We are the natives !!!
Was Looking at some For sale Properties There..
She could at least spoken one word in gullah lol. I'm from Charleston and we still speak it here on a daily basis. To be honest i never met someone from Savannah that actually even sounds geechee.
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Bull shit! I'm a Louisiana Creole and I passed through Georgia and met them Geeches! Man there English was a cooler colleg complete English Creole (Geeche!) I also speak a Belize kriol and they had me LOST!
Shoutout to the Geeches! Geeches please don't fall into the Black American culture! They will force y'all to be one of them
Gullahs and Geechees are two different people that came together as one. The Geechees will sound different than Gullahs although we are the same as Hebrews
@@ninpobudo3876 Yes, Gullahs and Geechees are two different people, yet we are one as Hebrews
@@ronaldjohnson783 u are clueless
What did Clearance Thomas do for pinpoint. Serious question
Turned it off when she said Clarence Thomas
Who's that?
1:10
"I love clarence thomas." Ok im out.
Spirit in the Sky you would be surprised at his beliefs study him learn what he stands for the truth is powerful. be proud he rose so far with all the haters trying to take him down.
He ain't upholding nuthin bout no Geechee, he aiding & abetting at the highest level. He one dem black men wey lash whip fe de buckra dem 😅
He tried and still tries to take his own people down and tries to distance himself from black people we love anything.SMH.
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Grr u stole my name in real
they love Clarence Thomas
Always remember, no one knows our story and should tell it unless they have lived it.
Nah when you said you love Clarence Thomas
I’m guessing she means as a homie and how far he’s come. She’s graceful and classy for that alone.
she is the real aboriginal american indian! not african! this is our land! everybody else is foreigners.
Yeah right that's a West African or Central African features all day long
crooked truth83 you are quite stupid, she agreed dumbass and yes it’s very possible most of her ancestors are aboriginal
@Rusell Shaw lol
Totally agree
I'm born in Savannah and I agree
Great video, but you lost me with Thomas
I have not been into my own cultures woman for most of my life. none of them were attractive to me until I seen this woman here wow! she is mind blowing
Indeed
@Beautiful mil I am a strange mixture of Gullah and Native American so no pure blood here.what I can say of both essences is that we are a people surviving an ended world and we have no true identity , only one that is made up. We use names that were given to us survive on pitty and scraps the same way. This was another man’s world and all we do in our strangest ways is mimic him in hopes of gaining favor and notes. I’ve used my notes to travel the world and be amongst real cultures seeking a better place to fit in and also to escape the devilution but there are none. So I am back in the devils belly watching the demons grow and consume one another. Why I choose not to wed with my own people. All to many have become demons and don’t even know it as there are so many that their way of life has become the “norm”.
@Beautiful mil well said and no I don’t want to “claim” any of it to be honest you can have it. I’ll gladly be a tourist in passing . Be well bright soul
Gullah is really Guale. Ogeechee, Canoochee, Chatahoochee. The names of the rivers and the lslands are OUR melinated peoples family names and titles. Yemassee is the lands called ga and s.carolina. This region is coined The Coastal Empire because this is one of the provinces of the Moroccan Empire called the A mer icas.
W were already here in America before they came
These people are African
Psuedo history
Give the land back to the natives
The real natives, who ain't black americans
I was with her until she brought up Clarence Thomas. You may love him but he won't love you...or our people. I have more respect for the crabs.
One dislike. You have no life, sir.
is it true that the Geechee people are Hebrew?
Hell naw, that's some made up crap that black people invented to sound more special than what they really are
I from Charleston South Carolina, I can't hear da geechie in her