Every Jamaican needs to do a DNA. MY mum Jamaican is 100% African mosttly from Nigeria but she was told a load of obsession with whiteness stories. Anyway, im so proud of my Ancestors. Out of the the millions trafficked only 25% survived!
@KeenanLambert198 The Portuguese and British divided up Africa and then divided up Jamaica. Out of many one should be about the one group of people that survived!
The Jamaican motto "out of many, one people". Refers to the different groups that make up the island's people, black (African ancestry, majority), white (Colonisers), Indian (Indentured Labourers, brought in after emancipation), Chinese came directly from Hong Kong while some came from Panama. However, all these groups see themselves simply as Jamaicans, and do not identify themselves ethnically.
Very similar story to mine. Had a white Sottish Great grandma who also ended up racist in her later years although married to a very dark African Jamaican man on my moms side, also from St Elisabeth. They had a lot of children. All of my aunties and uncles were divided among themselves to their dying day about who was light skinned and who was dark. Unfortunately there is still color racism in Jamaica.
My grandfather whom I loved and who loved me was a mulatto, white mom ,black father, he didn't care for dark skin black people and Indians (coolie) he too married a dark skin woman and bore 11 children in jamaica. Kinda weired.
Many people in Jamaica are under the impression that racism is not in Jamaica. That's so not true. Even within families, there's bias....colorism. I am from the tribe of Judea and I am blessed and proud of my bloodline.
Claire Bell say it louder I'm Jamaican I'm from the tribe of Benyamin apart of the southern kingdom which vis called Judah and I'm so proud of my lineage we are the Israelites all praises to the Abba Nawa yahawa.
That is religious doctrine. Is it historically correct or even true? These things was written by the coloniser who's mission is to tell you you are somebody you aint. These are not our stories. Don't let other people tell you who you are! Can't truss your coloniser book they will never tell you the truth
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Loving this one thanks for sharing very information knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention I took that same test and the results were very shocking to me but my family is so mixed with Chinese and English also more to name it’s very important for everyone to do their own research when it comes to family history 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
B Bradha, I am 2 seconds in your video and I had to stop and compliment your deep velvet voice, the late great Barry White has nothing on you, if you haven't already you should consider radio or voice over, but the UA-cam ting is good still because at least we get to see your face. Right back to the video, I have a feeling it's going to be fantastic. I'll comment when l have finished. 👊🏿🇯🇲
Many black people in the carribbean discriminate against dark skinned people. My friend from Guyana is dark like me and she told that her sister was half Portuguese so she was mixed race. Her sister refused to acknowledge her in public as her sister and would say that she is a relative of mine .Only when the sister was dying of cancer did she apologise for the way that she treated her sibling.
I can totally relate to the grandmother part and her questionable behavior. Now, in terms of the African makeup. I think West Africans should be considered as West Africans (in genealogy) instead of being termed by modern day nationalities. Btw, I read once where the vast majority of Blacks taken to Brasil came out of Mozambique, which is more on the South East side of the continent. Also, most of the whites found in Jamaica back in the days would've been Irish & Scottish. There were English but most of them returned to England and left the plantations to be ran by Irish and Scottish overseers who had served out their terms as indentured labourers.
Informative and funny story. Personally I like the dna tests that show which tribes we come from rather than borders which were created by Europeans. Great video
Brother O'Keenan, a salute to your tiny bit of Irish heritage. Not sure how UA-cam works as to remarks but it seems mine have been removed. Did you see them, read them? I had mentioned the local Black community founded by unrulable Maroons from Jamaica sent here by the British. I also mentioned the cultural institution in that area. Please let me know. Regards from your friend in the sovereign country and never to be the 51st state, CANADA.
Brother Joe! I think UA-cam did it's thing and hid the comment! I am ordering my kilt and bagpipe RIGHT NOW! I think I may come up north to do that Maroon video in the future. In a few months, maybe the flight to Nova Scotia will become a cheap domestic one! Your Brother, KL
I have heard of such stories where people who have overcome racist ideology revert to their younger years and racist feelings and memories when they become demented. Sad.
My great grand mother is from scotland as well, and grand mother was biracial born in 1918, Cuba but migrated to Jamaica. She had a saucy mouth on her too. i will leave it at that. Thanks for sharing.
OMG,,,your family make up is very, very similar to mine. Only difference is, it was my GREAT GRANDFATHER who was Scottish. His parents migrated to Jamaica. And my great grandmother,was Cuban, who also migrated to Jamaica with her parents, and got married to my great grandfather.
Love the story but it was too short😂. My material family is from Braes River St Elizabeth. My mother's father is from St. Ann. Would enjoy watching more ❤️
I purchased the Ancestry DNA kit and I am Jamaican and found out that I am 56 percent Nigerian. I have more Nigerian DNA. All Jamaicans should take the DNA test
Did you know if you go back 20 generations we all have over a million great great grandparents and guess what they are all from all over the world all different colours and did you know that the original Irish and Scottish, Welsh and Britton’s was all brown or dark skinned who were expelled from Europe in the 1650s sent to the Americas and the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell on a ten to 15 day ship ride
Yes, Facts, thank you, come on people we have our original names! check out the Grimaldi, ancient black people in Europe including Britain that's going back even further than Oliver Cromwell expelling hundreds of black people from the country into Barbados, Jamaica and other Caribbean contries
I lived in Scotland (Glasgow) for 4.5 years. Most Scots have no idea that they were living like parasites off black Jamaican people. In the centre of Glasgow, you have streets and massive buildings named after Scots involved with slavery. As someone with Jamaican born parents, it was difficult to walk past these places without getting angry.
My Maternal Grandfather & 🙏🏽🕊️Harlem's Own🗽🇺🇲🇯🇲🏴🇮🇪Harry Belafonte's Are Cousins. Their Grandmother's Maiden Name"Love" Are Sisters. My mom called her Grandmother "Ma". White woman with long hair, down her back. Both raised in Bullbay
Wonderful baratone. Interesting story. The DNa also carries attitude...so she may have suppress those negative feelings which later popped out 😅. Hope no critical damages was done to this child.
That intro song does not speak to my Jamaican experience it shows a darker side of the culture but definitely not mine and many others. I recently discovered i have deep roots in St. Elizabeth on both sides of my family Woodlands and Accompong, my grand-father is from Alligator Pond, Manchester. My most recent white ancestor is my great-grandfather.
I am thankful you watched this video and could give a bit of your own history…. Jamaica is not the same place it used to be…. The violence from Town has drifted to country…. Guns are everywhere and the present day music reflects the reality of many places on the island….
@@KeenanLambert198Agreed. But must it be supported? It was the only part of your video that I thought was distasteful. So many songs to choose from that would reflect the theme of this piece…. Family..and their quirks. 🧐
@ my Mom said the same thing…. She hated the song, but the younger folk like it. In the UA-cam Studio there is a select amount of music one can purchase…. The free stuff is 👎🏾…. I needed to grab your attention for retention purposes and make a bang… So Shanna Madda Pot I used 😈…. The analytics numbers look good so far….
@@KeenanLambert198 Violence affects all Jamaicans even if you have not been affected directly you have to put in measures to secure yourself, but what about those with sheltered lives? I’m a 90s kid, so I only know Jamaica as a violent place but only through the news. Some Jamaicans were born on private wards at UWI, Andrews, or even in the US, attended Stella Maris, Hillel, or Sts. Peter & Paul, then moved on to Campion, Immaculate other traditional high schools. Grew up in in Barbican, Red Hills, Norbrook, Hope Pastures, Cherry Gardens or even Havendale emersed in American culture vacationed abroad. By high school’s end, it was off to boarding school in Canada or college in the States. What’s their Jamaican reality?"
@@KeenanLambert198 The reality is that most people perceive Jamaica through the lens of popular songs like that or the tourist experience so it is an attention grabber. For many that crazy life is their reality. It’s ultimately a matter of perspective, shaped by the diverse and varied realities within the Jamaican context.
Which DNA company did you do your testing with. I got a 1% Innuit reading in my results plus a genetic group of Indians of Jamaica, perhaps kalinago, or tiano😅.
I’m Jamaican with 80% African as well with the largest being Nigerian at 45% I have 10% Indian and 10 Scottish/irish and the rest being small percentage of around 20 different African countries from Cameroon and Mali all the way to Zimbabwe and most of us have the same genetic makeup
Exactly. And according to Professor Henry Gates, African Americans who have taken DNA tests are around 80% African and 20% European. I suppose its the old 80:20 rule. My people are from Manchester and St.Elizabeth. I have never taken a DNA test, but I have been told that I share a Grandmother with the late Danny Buck.
2025🙏🏽. Hey K, Interesting Family History! Brooklyn, NY❤️🔥 Love & Big Up Fellow West Indian Massive, From My Multicultural Familelelele 💃🏽🗽❄️🌆☃️🇺🇲🇯🇲🏴🇮🇪🇹🇹🇮🇳🇵🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧💙🤍❤️🖤💛💚🧡🤍 My Parents Lived In Ghana 28 Years Ago, But Back In Montego Bay. Interesting How They Say Jamaicans Originated From There.
Remember, in Dementia your memory goes back to early days, not present. It could be while here in the US she lived that . Because she was here in that Era. My 96yr old Sister used to curse words to be Aide. When asked about she would say, ME! I don’t curse. My family is “United Nations “ literally and the difference is the rich ones and the not so rich
First time watching your videos. Beautiful voice. 😊 regarding your grandmother, yes, she could have suppressed her racist views because she was married to a brown man. I have seen some of my white uncle’s that were with black women and be racist. They’re just hypocrites. 🙏🏽
Many people in Jamaican have nicknames, but I would not go that far to say that everybody has one. Most people I know and grew up with did not have one.
@@KeenanLambert198 ya man my great grandma mom white passing so u know how that go . And always get warning bout certain surnames. I traced back some to the 1600s let’s match up info one day
My family is from Jamaica as well and they started as white there from Portland blue mountain but eventually alot moved to Kingston whats your last name ? My mother has been on her ancestry alot and shes from Portland because your ancestry sounds alot like mine
I’m Jamaican, darker skinned than you and yet my ancestry DNA results show: Nigerian 36.9% Sierra Leonean 19.2% • Kenyan 6.4% West African 3.9% • Central African 1.4% EUROPE Irish, Scottish, and Welsh 27.1% Finnish 1.3% Mesoamerican and Andean 2.9% Native American 0.9% My mother was very light skinned so that’s probably why the DNA has such a high percentage of other non-African DNA, but it doesn’t mean anything. It’s part of the history of the Caribbean and can’t be changed, so dismissing part of your history won’t change it. It is what it is, so accept it!
Chadwick your right, 23 and Me has a wider grouping and doesn't try to sort out the differences too much on that coast.... Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia (+ likely Cote Ivoire) are together on that one..... They listed you as Afro Jamaican and potentially Afro Cuban if I think I remember correctly.... So many of the Afro Cubans I met in Santiago and closer to Havana told me of their Jamaican Great Grands and Grands...
@@MrLeomorris Oh for sure - similiar to you.... I should have first cousins in Cayman because my grandfather was a typical Jamaican man of his time. I think I have more distant ones in Panama as per the Canal.
@ yea I seen some distant Panama link and I’m like no clue even some Dominican ones . It’s very interesting I’ve also found some African cousins so I have some Ethnic idea of what’s going on with some of the African side .
Jamaica was firt Spanish ;then English.When Jamaica transfered from a Spanish colony to an English Colony some Portuguese Sephardic Jews stayed .Also along with British and Scottish came some Irish endentured servants. Most Irish were poor .
The majority of slaves came from West Africa : a region from Senegambia/Mali to Angola/Congo .Nigerian : Yoruba.Ibo is very high in Jamiaca, Cuba,Dominican Republic. In Cuba there is even Santeria : 7 African Yoruba gods. The use of snails .
Many Jamaican's also ended up on Pirate ships and never returned , to confuse the matter further ,ie: theres a whole island in Columbia, ST Andres, full of English speaking Jamaican's that were shipwrecked there
@@KeenanLambert198 I truly believe that this internet was created by TMH God to bring all the lost tribes back together ie Isaiah 11:12 ..... Ezekiel 20:41 / 39:27 / 20:34 ..... Jeremiah 31:10 / 31:8 / 29:14.... Deuteronomy 30:3 There's so many Scriptures that mention this , I can't put them all but here's some , my point is you're doing TMH works Brother so thank you for that . All Praises ❤️ I will chk to see if you blogged when you went there
Note, the Europeans constructed the boundries that made up the "countries" in Africa. This in turn separated same tribes, ethnic groups. Also some groups were migrate & crossed over several (non) boarders constructed by these Europeans. Best to attempt to do history on the different groups, their lifestyle, migration before european invasion.
The fact is in Jamaica especially in those days her children would not have been considered black. Aa you said they were brown. The rules were different in Jamaica than it was in America. Jamaica didn’t have the one drop rule. Like most of the southern states
My grandma very fiercely identifies as black, despite her appearance.... I don't know if brown was believed to be a separate racial category from black.... Maybe a somewhat privileged sub category.
In the last twenty years, brown terms being used by prejudice whites who want to pit people of colour against each other. Behind closed doors anyone who isnt white European is their opposite. The few Mexicans but many South East Asians keep using it to emphasise their from people of African origin is laughable and we know they're looking to join the so-called caucasian club. Seeking validation to be like their oppressors, absolute madness. Some time tgey hope to be mistaken for Southern Europeans, ironically tanned Europeans are likely descendants of Moors/North Africans and Roman soldiers,sub saharan africans. Insiders racists are the most backward ignorant individuals.@dr.migueltorrezedd8651
the majority were non-consensual relationships but not all instances remember a large number of Irish indentured servants arrived in Jamaica many came without spouses, anti-miscegenation laws were not as strict in Jamaica and many were also unaccompanied minors escaping the potato famine who grew up around black people in poor conditions.
Many were consentual. Stop the crap please. The whites were the race in power and were looked up to. When the black race was ruling( Ezekiel 29:14,15, " they ,Egpyt, shall no more rule over the nations") the world,guess what, all the other nations wanted to have their babies too. Get over it.
Ciao io nei miei risultati mhyeritage ho greco e italia meridionale e medio orientale che era 3,8%poi e diventato 4,3% e ho un gruppo di persone ho una triangolazione stesso segmento queste persone hanno qualcuno il greco e il medio Oriente ma hanno tutti tra loro asia meridionale e gruppi genetici dei rom io sono del sud italo che vuol dire?
So she kicked her 6 year old great granddaughter(your aunt) off the stairs? I bet she really hated her great grandmother. Did any of the other family members fuss her out?
I always wanted to and finally did. Wait til end of November or December when Ancestry has holidays sale. I got my results in 5 weeks. Make certain to register the kit online first when received.
you mentioned your fathers DNA. just because he is your father doesn't mean you all have the same % of each area. or even take from the same ancestors.
Our dna will take different percentages from our ancestors. One brother could look more Chinese, another brother could look a little Irish, and another brother could look all Nigerian. The brothers could all have the same mother and father.
The test showed the same results several times. My brother and sister took the test at different times and the results were about the same. I knew where my ancestors came from before taking the test and the tests only confirmed it.
People need to stop waiting money on genealogy. Read the Bible. It tells us who we are, that is the real test. Deuteronomy 28:15-68. Read it who is it talking about? Black and brown people.
Not true everyone does not originated from Africa.Africa is far black people.Over time every race migrated there and started having children which became African but not the original people.🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇺🇸
Every human being is traced to a particular ancestor the Homo sapiens left Africa and went into Central Asia and mixed with the Neanderthals/Denisovians.@@janetlawrence7937
@@40EastTrill lol my great great grandma was white…. Sure…. but… I’m still black and Kamala’s father is still black 🤣🤣 despite his white great grandfather.
The forcing done by your own ancestors. Euros were on their way to India to hire Indians but encouraged to take "a batter deal". However the Spanish literally did not buy into this.
@KeenanLambert198 What you have said has nothing to do with what I wrote. Simply expanded the historical lies. Ask the Spanish why they could not be convinced, emphasis on the con, into buying them.
@@onlythetruth883 looks like you are saying the Europeans were just doing the kingdoms of favor by taking their slaves and giving them weapons (Instead of “hiring” Indians 🤣🤣). Looks like you are also saying the Spanish didn’t embrace slavery? That’s a wild statement as they enslaved SA’d and decimated the natives meanwhile enslaving and SA’ing the Africans.
@@KeenanLambert198 Ancestors had great foresight to get them here. What they did not have were ships. Also realise there was a great impassable geographical feature to the north.
Out of st.Elizabeth she probably RED and out of Kingston north him probably HALF BLACK. I can relate to theis JAMAICA RACISM. 😮 mine is straight SCOTLAND and JAMAICAN, you go figure😅
You have a great voice for radio bro
I've been trying to tell him this. Especially when he add the bass. He could do voice overs . I would hire him for my stream 😁
I agree, I could listen to him all day.
Ohmigod!! Yes, I would def tune in. His voice is so soothing and strong...I love it🤌🏾🙏🏾❤️
You can say that again... coooya... but it's the fact that he don't look mature, could you imagine when he get's older 😀... what a blessing
Every Jamaican needs to do a DNA. MY mum Jamaican is 100% African mosttly from Nigeria but she was told a load of obsession with whiteness stories. Anyway, im so proud of my Ancestors. Out of the the millions trafficked only 25% survived!
@@C_CZ2 when they said out of many one…. I was thinking…. Yoruba, Mandinka, Fanti, Ashanti…
@KeenanLambert198 The Portuguese and British divided up Africa and then divided up Jamaica. Out of many one should be about the one group of people that survived!
Wow never ever heard of a Caribbean DNA 💯African wow
The Jamaican motto "out of many, one people". Refers to the different groups that make up the island's people, black (African ancestry, majority), white (Colonisers), Indian (Indentured Labourers, brought in after emancipation), Chinese came directly from Hong Kong while some came from Panama. However, all these groups see themselves simply as Jamaicans, and do not identify themselves ethnically.
@CordellaKing I know what it means....
Very similar story to mine. Had a white Sottish Great grandma who also ended up racist in her later years although married to a very dark African Jamaican man on my moms side, also from St Elisabeth. They had a lot of children. All of my aunties and uncles were divided among themselves to their dying day about who was light skinned and who was dark. Unfortunately there is still color racism in Jamaica.
So true!
Definitely, alive and well.
My grandfather whom I loved and who loved me was a mulatto, white mom ,black father, he didn't care for dark skin black people and Indians (coolie) he too married a dark skin woman and bore 11 children in jamaica. Kinda weired.
But he married a black woman.
people have complicated ideas
Many people in Jamaica are under the impression that racism is not in Jamaica. That's so not true. Even within families, there's bias....colorism.
I am from the tribe of Judea and I am blessed and proud of my bloodline.
Claire Bell say it louder I'm Jamaican I'm from the tribe of Benyamin apart of the southern kingdom which vis called Judah and I'm so proud of my lineage we are the Israelites all praises to the Abba Nawa yahawa.
That is religious doctrine. Is it historically correct or even true? These things was written by the coloniser who's mission is to tell you you are somebody you aint. These are not our stories. Don't let other people tell you who you are! Can't truss your coloniser book they will never tell you the truth
Interesting and informative Keenan. It makes so much sense for us to do that to know our past, present and future.
I agree! It important to know where we come from and where we are going!
Grand Rising, King: Big UPS 4 sharing this with us. “The Virus” runs wide, deep, high & long! Keep up the great work. Continued success during your travels internally & externally! 👍🏽🙏💪🏾😎
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Loving this one thanks for sharing very information knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention I took that same test and the results were very shocking to me but my family is so mixed with Chinese and English also more to name it’s very important for everyone to do their own research when it comes to family history 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
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Bradha, I am 2 seconds in your video and I had to stop and compliment your deep velvet voice, the late great Barry White has nothing on you, if you haven't already you should consider radio or voice over, but the UA-cam ting is good still because at least we get to see your face. Right back to the video, I have a feeling it's going to be fantastic.
I'll comment when l have finished. 👊🏿🇯🇲
@@evertonnixon5881 big respect to you family 🇯🇲🇯🇲🫡🙏🏾
Many black people in the carribbean discriminate against dark skinned people. My friend from Guyana is dark like me and she told that her sister was half Portuguese so she was mixed race. Her sister refused to acknowledge her in public as her sister and would say that she is a relative of mine .Only when the sister was dying of cancer did she apologise for the way that she treated her sibling.
@@ladydivine8615 🥺🥺🥺 that’s horrible… I hope she is okay
@KeenanLambert198
Yes she forgave her before she passed away.
Great voice Bro first time watching good video will continue to watch 🇯🇲🇱🇷
I can totally relate to the grandmother part and her questionable behavior. Now, in terms of the African makeup. I think West Africans should be considered as West Africans (in genealogy) instead of being termed by modern day nationalities. Btw, I read once where the vast majority of Blacks taken to Brasil came out of Mozambique, which is more on the South East side of the continent. Also, most of the whites found in Jamaica back in the days would've been Irish & Scottish. There were English but most of them returned to England and left the plantations to be ran by Irish and Scottish overseers who had served out their terms as indentured labourers.
What guan Irish man Keenan 😂 I love the video it's definitely different.
Bagpipes ready mi G! hahaha
My great grandfather was white and we hear stories like this about him in general they are like that.
My DNA is similar 78% African and 22 European, with Nigeria making up the majority of my DNA.
Did your matches show any Africans living in Africa as your relatives?
My grandma Indian. She told my mom her son can’t breed any black woman
That’s typical among the East Indians
😆😆😆 but what about her lovers were all black😆😆😆
When you say Indian do you mean native American or india?
@@KentPetersonmoneyMost likely India.
@@KentPetersonmoney Indo-Jamaicans (From India)… They were invited to Jamaica after the end of slavery to work on the sugar plantations
Great Video. This was very interesting.
I hail from Williamsfield, St Jamaica. Family from Scotland with DNA and matching regions. Nice coverage bredren. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Balaclava, St. Elizabeth checking in
Informative and funny story. Personally I like the dna tests that show which tribes we come from rather than borders which were created by Europeans. Great video
Yeah I agree, the tribes are way more interesting than arbitrary border lines!
Brother O'Keenan, a salute to your tiny bit of Irish heritage. Not sure how UA-cam works as to remarks but it seems mine have been removed. Did you see them, read them? I had mentioned the local Black community founded by unrulable Maroons from Jamaica sent here by the British. I also mentioned the cultural institution in that area. Please let me know. Regards from your friend in the sovereign country and never to be the 51st state, CANADA.
Brother Joe! I think UA-cam did it's thing and hid the comment! I am ordering my kilt and bagpipe RIGHT NOW! I think I may come up north to do that Maroon video in the future. In a few months, maybe the flight to Nova Scotia will become a cheap domestic one!
Your Brother,
KL
I have heard of such stories where people who have overcome racist ideology revert to their younger years and racist feelings and memories when they become demented. Sad.
My great grand mother is from scotland as well, and grand mother was biracial born in 1918, Cuba but migrated to Jamaica. She had a saucy mouth on her too. i will leave it at that. Thanks for sharing.
OMG,,,your family make up is very, very similar to mine. Only difference is, it was my GREAT GRANDFATHER who was Scottish. His parents migrated to Jamaica. And my great grandmother,was Cuban, who also migrated to Jamaica with her parents, and got married to my great grandfather.
Love the story but it was too short😂. My material family is from Braes River St Elizabeth. My mother's father is from St. Ann. Would enjoy watching more ❤️
Big up! Mi used to go Braes River basic school😂
@Chaddddio 🤣. Same here until 1986. Notice your Clarke. I'm positive we FAM🤣. Stay blessed
I purchased the Ancestry DNA kit and I am Jamaican and found out that I am 56 percent Nigerian. I have more Nigerian DNA. All Jamaicans should take the DNA test
Thanks for sharing my brother
Thanks so much for watching this one fam!
Did you know if you go back 20 generations we all have over a million great great grandparents and guess what they are all from all over the world all different colours and did you know that the original Irish and Scottish, Welsh and Britton’s was all brown or dark skinned who were expelled from Europe in the 1650s sent to the Americas and the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell on a ten to 15 day ship ride
Yes, Facts, thank you, come on people we have our original names! check out the Grimaldi, ancient black people in Europe including Britain that's going back even further than Oliver Cromwell expelling hundreds of black people from the country into Barbados, Jamaica and other Caribbean contries
Keenan thanks for sharing your interesting backstory. Excited for more. You’re an amazing narrator.
Thank You Keenan🙂💙👍I got some Scottish in me too.👍
Let’s get those bagpipes going!!!!!
I lived in Scotland (Glasgow) for 4.5 years. Most Scots have no idea that they were living like parasites off black Jamaican people. In the centre of Glasgow, you have streets and massive buildings named after Scots involved with slavery. As someone with Jamaican born parents, it was difficult to walk past these places without getting angry.
Same here!! 🏴🏴🏴🏴
Keenan who did you do your DNA test with out of curiosity?
My Maternal Grandfather & 🙏🏽🕊️Harlem's Own🗽🇺🇲🇯🇲🏴🇮🇪Harry Belafonte's Are Cousins. Their Grandmother's Maiden Name"Love" Are Sisters. My mom called her Grandmother "Ma". White woman with long hair, down her back. Both raised in Bullbay
Nice. Knew a few Love that lived up in Bull bay. Played football with Lascell
@RayRay-qs8xk What, wow small world!!
Those countries are my exact makeup just add 🇨🇳
@jasonthompson4079 Us Too, Trying To Find Out Who's 🇨🇳 In Our Family As Well.
Respectfully, Jane's maiden name was Clarke. Love is her married name because her husband was William Alexander Love.
Love your strong voice brother!
Wonderful baratone. Interesting story. The DNa also carries attitude...so she may have suppress those negative feelings which later popped out 😅. Hope no critical damages was done to this child.
With the onset of Dementia I’ve seen persons revert to childhood experiences so the racist behaviour was probably this memory coming forward.
It is her true behavior that she suppressed. Who fa black pitny this?
what company did u use for your DNA tracing?
I am not hearing anything. All about listening to your awesome voice. Now I am going over the video. Ah your voice is on a different level
That intro song does not speak to my Jamaican experience it shows a darker side of the culture but definitely not mine and many others. I recently discovered i have deep roots in St. Elizabeth on both sides of my family Woodlands and Accompong, my grand-father is from Alligator Pond, Manchester. My most recent white ancestor is my great-grandfather.
I am thankful you watched this video and could give a bit of your own history…. Jamaica is not the same place it used to be…. The violence from Town has drifted to country…. Guns are everywhere and the present day music reflects the reality of many places on the island….
@@KeenanLambert198Agreed. But must it be supported? It was the only part of your video that I thought was distasteful. So many songs to choose from that would reflect the theme of this piece…. Family..and their quirks. 🧐
@ my Mom said the same thing…. She hated the song, but the younger folk like it. In the UA-cam Studio there is a select amount of music one can purchase…. The free stuff is 👎🏾…. I needed to grab your attention for retention purposes and make a bang… So Shanna Madda Pot I used 😈…. The analytics numbers look good so far….
@@KeenanLambert198 Violence affects all Jamaicans even if you have not been affected directly you have to put in measures to secure yourself, but what about those with sheltered lives? I’m a 90s kid, so I only know Jamaica as a violent place but only through the news. Some Jamaicans were born on private wards at UWI, Andrews, or even in the US, attended Stella Maris, Hillel, or Sts. Peter & Paul, then moved on to Campion, Immaculate other traditional high schools. Grew up in in Barbican, Red Hills, Norbrook, Hope Pastures, Cherry Gardens or even Havendale emersed in American culture vacationed abroad. By high school’s end, it was off to boarding school in Canada or college in the States. What’s their Jamaican reality?"
@@KeenanLambert198 The reality is that most people perceive Jamaica through the lens of popular songs like that or the tourist experience so it is an attention grabber. For many that crazy life is their reality. It’s ultimately a matter of perspective, shaped by the diverse and varied realities within the Jamaican context.
The ladies sure got it goin on!
🔥🔥🔥 a Jamaica trip is in order for you soon!
Tribes migrated around too so your dad is fine! We’re the same bro! Except the white part.😂💯
Lmaoooo!!! You did yours?! I know you got a little Frenchy and Syrian in there!
@@jimst.germain lol bro you most result I see always a little Spain Portugal from y’all next door neighbor always creep up too
What's the name of the song playing at the beginning of this video?
Shabba Madda Pot by Dexta Daps
Thank you!
Ole "Marlou" always had it in her Bro...LOL....Hope all is well dude.....Happy New Year...Be Safe And Remember To Drink One For Ya Boy!!! 🤣
Yes more family history stories
My great grandfather 🇧🇿🇨🇮🏴🏴🏴
Which DNA company did you do your testing with. I got a 1% Innuit reading in my results plus a genetic group of Indians of Jamaica, perhaps kalinago, or tiano😅.
Hello, did you find any africa s from Africa dat are related to you in your matches?
Please! Please! Please tell us more about your family tree!😃
What test is this ?
This is the ancestry test
Santeria in Cuba is such a beautiful syncretic religion of Africa and Spanish Catholicism.
Santeria is witchcraft.
Santarie is voodoo. Jamaicans don't support that.
Which test did you take? I took African ancestry my pops lineage is 100% Bissa tribe in Burkina Faso
Bissa Tribe ayy!? Congrats! Is that Y chromosome testing he did? I did Ancestry!
@KeenanLambert198 yes I did the paternal test my mom side is Nigerian
I’m Jamaican with 80% African as well with the largest being Nigerian at 45% I have 10% Indian and 10 Scottish/irish and the rest being small percentage of around 20 different African countries from Cameroon and Mali all the way to Zimbabwe and most of us have the same genetic makeup
Exactly. And according to Professor Henry Gates, African Americans who have taken DNA tests are around 80% African and 20% European. I suppose its the old 80:20 rule. My people are from Manchester and St.Elizabeth. I have never taken a DNA test, but I have been told that I share a Grandmother with the late Danny Buck.
2025🙏🏽. Hey K, Interesting Family History! Brooklyn, NY❤️🔥 Love & Big Up Fellow West Indian Massive, From My Multicultural Familelelele 💃🏽🗽❄️🌆☃️🇺🇲🇯🇲🏴🇮🇪🇹🇹🇮🇳🇵🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧💙🤍❤️🖤💛💚🧡🤍 My Parents Lived In Ghana 28 Years Ago, But Back In Montego Bay. Interesting How They Say Jamaicans Originated From There.
Great content. New sub
Great story Keenan 👏🏿 you gain a new subscribers! Bro mi have stories fi days! Hit me up if u ever go live on your platform! . 💯🇯🇲✌🏿
Tell fi yu story.
Remember, in Dementia your memory goes back to early days, not present. It could be while here in the US she lived that . Because she was here in that Era. My 96yr old Sister used to curse words to be Aide. When asked about she would say, ME! I don’t curse. My family is “United Nations “ literally and the difference is the rich ones and the not so rich
I'm from st James,I have 40nigeria 16England 14suthern India 2scotkand 1ireland,and the rest is all over over Africa 1percent all over
First time watching your videos. Beautiful voice. 😊
regarding your grandmother, yes, she could have suppressed her racist views because she was married to a brown man. I have seen some of my white uncle’s that were with black women and be racist. They’re just hypocrites. 🙏🏽
Many people in Jamaican have nicknames, but I would not go that far to say that everybody has one. Most people I know and grew up with did not have one.
Okay
When i do mine, I want my results to reflect largely Ghana!!!
Our results similar but lol we might be related cause the sainti Manchester link
Lmao forreal on some cousin ting
@@KeenanLambert198 ya man my great grandma mom white passing so u know how that go . And always get warning bout certain surnames. I traced back some to the 1600s let’s match up info one day
5:02 Nay mi bhra tell them da trooth da english man dem couldnt stay way from da sweet sweet ripe black pumpum a dat mix us up man.
The world is mixed from long time. Wars and conquest and people mix up.
My family is from Jamaica as well and they started as white there from Portland blue mountain but eventually alot moved to Kingston whats your last name ? My mother has been on her ancestry alot and shes from Portland because your ancestry sounds alot like mine
Im first person born in the US on my mom side
I have a similar mix as you, I'm from Jamaica
Hey im in portugal right now. Very clean and quiet...out of season
Very interesting
I’m Jamaican, darker skinned than you and yet my ancestry DNA results show:
Nigerian
36.9%
Sierra Leonean
19.2%
• Kenyan
6.4%
West African
3.9%
• Central African
1.4%
EUROPE
Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
27.1%
Finnish
1.3%
Mesoamerican and Andean
2.9%
Native American
0.9%
My mother was very light skinned so that’s probably why the DNA has such a high percentage of other non-African DNA, but it doesn’t mean anything. It’s part of the history of the Caribbean and can’t be changed, so dismissing part of your history won’t change it. It is what it is, so accept it!
You are a true Jamaican. Your ancestry covers the word.
Jamaica got some good food off the resorts on the streets
Jamaica is known for gr8 food…. That’s something we’ll always have
I think is how ancestry does their algorithms because 23 and me had me 28 percent Ghanaian
Chadwick your right, 23 and Me has a wider grouping and doesn't try to sort out the differences too much on that coast.... Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia (+ likely Cote Ivoire) are together on that one..... They listed you as Afro Jamaican and potentially Afro Cuban if I think I remember correctly.... So many of the Afro Cubans I met in Santiago and closer to Havana told me of their Jamaican Great Grands and Grands...
@ yea they also grouped me with cayman island but then I remember some of my family members branch out on the early 1900s
@@MrLeomorris Oh for sure - similiar to you.... I should have first cousins in Cayman because my grandfather was a typical Jamaican man of his time. I think I have more distant ones in Panama as per the Canal.
@ yea I seen some distant Panama link and I’m like no clue even some Dominican ones . It’s very interesting I’ve also found some African cousins so I have some Ethnic idea of what’s going on with some of the African side .
Nice voice
@@slim9978 thanks so much Slim!!!
Jamaica was firt Spanish ;then English.When Jamaica transfered from a Spanish colony to an English Colony some Portuguese Sephardic Jews stayed .Also along with British and Scottish came some Irish endentured servants. Most Irish were poor .
Could do without that opening song
Thanks for watching! Some of the older Jamaicans over 50 are saying this...
The majority of slaves came from West Africa : a region from Senegambia/Mali to Angola/Congo .Nigerian : Yoruba.Ibo is very high in Jamiaca, Cuba,Dominican Republic. In Cuba there is even Santeria : 7 African Yoruba gods. The use of snails .
Many Jamaican's also ended up on Pirate ships and never returned , to confuse the matter further ,ie: theres a whole island in Columbia, ST Andres, full of English speaking Jamaican's that were shipwrecked there
San Andres is a great time… The Raizal people treat me like a long lost cousin
@@KeenanLambert198 I truly believe that this internet was created by TMH God to bring all the lost tribes back together ie Isaiah 11:12 ..... Ezekiel 20:41 / 39:27 / 20:34 ..... Jeremiah 31:10 / 31:8 / 29:14.... Deuteronomy 30:3
There's so many Scriptures that mention this , I can't put them all but here's some , my point is you're doing TMH works Brother so thank you for that . All Praises ❤️ I will chk to see if you blogged when you went there
In Cuba during our ceremonies we speak Lucumi. This is the language of Yoruba.
Addi weathermon! Chune! 😂🔥
Big frigg’n chune 🔥🔥🔥
IT IS DEXTA DAPS "SHABBA MODDA POT"
Note, the Europeans constructed the boundries that made up the "countries" in Africa. This in turn separated same tribes, ethnic groups. Also some groups were migrate & crossed over several (non) boarders constructed by these Europeans.
Best to attempt to do history on the different groups, their lifestyle, migration before european invasion.
This is true
Yes, keep going
The fact is in Jamaica especially in those days her children would not have been considered black. Aa you said they were brown. The rules were different in Jamaica than it was in America. Jamaica didn’t have the one drop rule. Like most of the southern states
My grandma very fiercely identifies as black, despite her appearance.... I don't know if brown was believed to be a separate racial category from black.... Maybe a somewhat privileged sub category.
@@KeenanLambert198brown is still not considered a racial classification even though Mexicans and people from India use it.
@@dr.migueltorrezedd8651There is no Mexicans in Jamaica
In the last twenty years, brown terms being used by prejudice whites who want to pit people of colour against each other. Behind closed doors anyone who isnt white European is their opposite. The few Mexicans but many South East Asians keep using it to emphasise their from people of African origin is laughable and we know they're looking to join the so-called caucasian club. Seeking validation to be like their oppressors, absolute madness. Some time tgey hope to be mistaken for Southern Europeans, ironically tanned Europeans are likely descendants of Moors/North Africans and Roman soldiers,sub saharan africans. Insiders racists are the most backward ignorant individuals.@dr.migueltorrezedd8651
Funny my grandmother used to say that also if you were darker than her and she is from St. Elizabeth.
a Black woman from California told me yesterday that she cannot favor Black people because her children had a great grandmother who was Irish.
There was no “mixing” nor “blending into the population” as mentioned on the video, we all know what it’s called.
Good video though.
the majority were non-consensual relationships but not all instances remember a large number of Irish indentured servants arrived in Jamaica many came without spouses, anti-miscegenation laws were not as strict in Jamaica and many were also unaccompanied minors escaping the potato famine who grew up around black people in poor conditions.
Many were consentual. Stop the crap please. The whites were the race in power and were looked up to. When the black race was ruling( Ezekiel 29:14,15, " they ,Egpyt, shall no more rule over the nations") the world,guess what, all the other nations wanted to have their babies too. Get over it.
Not everybody in J'ca has a nickname. Some do but not all.........
Ciao io nei miei risultati mhyeritage ho greco e italia meridionale e medio orientale che era 3,8%poi e diventato 4,3% e ho un gruppo di persone ho una triangolazione stesso segmento queste persone hanno qualcuno il greco e il medio Oriente ma hanno tutti tra loro asia meridionale e gruppi genetici dei rom io sono del sud italo che vuol dire?
Nobody ever called it "Caribbean' until the 2000s. They were called "West Indian" if you want to be accurate.
Could you not use a better song.🇯🇲
My sentiments to be exact.
So she kicked her 6 year old great granddaughter(your aunt) off the stairs? I bet she really hated her great grandmother. Did any of the other family members fuss her out?
I have wanted to do one of these tests. Maybe 2025 is the year for it.
The results are very accurate. My ancestors are from where the test shows.
I always wanted to and finally did. Wait til end of November or December when Ancestry has holidays sale. I got my results in 5 weeks. Make certain to register the kit online first when received.
you mentioned your fathers DNA. just because he is your father doesn't mean you all have the same % of each area. or even take from the same ancestors.
Our dna will take different percentages from our ancestors. One brother could look more Chinese, another brother could look a little Irish, and another brother could look all Nigerian. The brothers could all have the same mother and father.
@@kellyandrews8161 you just said what i said just in a different way lmao
That was a little different.
A weee bit different…. Likely a one off video but it was fun to do something out of the ordinary
These ancestry results are not accurate. If you do it again and use a different name and / or another company, you will get another results.
The test showed the same results several times. My brother and sister took the test at different times and the results were about the same. I knew where my ancestors came from before taking the test and the tests only confirmed it.
are u complaining about 1 percent difference?
People need to stop waiting money on genealogy. Read the Bible. It tells us who we are, that is the real test. Deuteronomy 28:15-68. Read it who is it talking about? Black and brown people.
what. nonsense
We are the Israelites
Wow! Granny, Hmme!! She could have killed that child. Thank God she was not badly hurt.
The real side came out .😮
Everyone originates from Africa not just black people
Well sureee
Not true everyone does not originated from Africa.Africa is far black people.Over time every race migrated there and started having children which became African but not the original people.🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇺🇸
Christopher Columbus too and just like him you discovered this fact.
Every human being is traced to a particular ancestor the Homo sapiens left Africa and went into Central Asia and mixed with the Neanderthals/Denisovians.@@janetlawrence7937
Not everyone is from Africa. That's a big lie.
The song bad!!!!!!!!!!!!
We should move on from the race conversation and begin to talk about racism amongst black people.. begin to build a better future for all people.
All the Kamala supporters that thought Jamaican automatically means black needs to see this.
@@40EastTrill lol my great great grandma was white…. Sure…. but… I’m still black and Kamala’s father is still black 🤣🤣 despite his white great grandfather.
@@KeenanLambert198 Kamala father look mixed, like uptown mixed. Kamala is coolie tho.
Sound like amercian with that southern voice
Southern voice?! HAHAHAHA! Thanks for watching
Jamaica Jamaica 🇯🇲
The forcing done by your own ancestors. Euros were on their way to India to hire Indians but encouraged to take "a batter deal". However the Spanish literally did not buy into this.
Lmfao!!! Europeans were just looking for people to hire? So they kept generations in a cycle of chattel slavery instead!? How noble of them!!!
@KeenanLambert198
What you have said has nothing to do with what I wrote. Simply expanded the historical lies. Ask the Spanish why they could not be convinced, emphasis on the con, into buying them.
@@onlythetruth883 looks like you are saying the Europeans were just doing the kingdoms of favor by taking their slaves and giving them weapons (Instead of “hiring” Indians 🤣🤣). Looks like you are also saying the Spanish didn’t embrace slavery? That’s a wild statement as they enslaved SA’d and decimated the natives meanwhile enslaving and SA’ing the Africans.
@@KeenanLambert198
Ancestors had great foresight to get them here. What they did not have were ships. Also realise there was a great impassable geographical feature to the north.
@@KeenanLambert198
Ancestors had great foresight and interest to get them here. What they did not have were ships.
Out of st.Elizabeth she probably RED and out of Kingston north him probably HALF BLACK. I can relate to theis JAMAICA RACISM. 😮 mine is straight SCOTLAND and JAMAICAN, you go figure😅
SMH 🙄
JA MACA!