Why Indians Fought to be White in America

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    Over the course of American history, the racial classification of Indians has been complex and ever-evolving. In the early 20th century, a series of legal battles and court rulings attempted to determine the racial status of Indian immigrants. Despite being initially excluded from whiteness, Indians strategically argued their case by invoking theories of Aryan origin and Caucasian identity. The Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind in 1923, however, rejected the notion of Indians as "white" based on a narrow interpretation of common understanding. This decision marked a pivotal moment in shaping the racial classification of Indians in America and had lasting consequences for the Indian American community.Who counts as "white" ?
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  • @Woke365
    @Woke365 Місяць тому +120

    I am black and proud. I do not want to be white or light skin. God made meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

    • @pamparker4047
      @pamparker4047 26 днів тому +6

      Amen to that ❤❤❤❤❤

    • @sonderexpeditions
      @sonderexpeditions 24 дні тому +5

      Amen! I can't even imagine myself light skinned. Feel bad for people with that complex smh

    • @colincole7075
      @colincole7075 24 дні тому

      Iam light skin but iam more black than your you

    • @Crissy991
      @Crissy991 24 дні тому

      And as a light skin biracial . We don't want you either

    • @alphonsomorris793
      @alphonsomorris793 23 дні тому +3

      I understand that, but the problem is that we need an identity deeper than skin color

  • @user-vh5ni9jn7y
    @user-vh5ni9jn7y Рік тому +1042

    I just don’t see Indians as White, in fact most people don’t ,they should just be proud to be strong and Brown.

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 Рік тому +23

      I just see people as human frankly. My daughter when she was expecting her daughter said to me that her donor's mother was Puerto Rican and did I have any prejudices about hispanics. How crazy is that? I'm Canadian. We don't know enough hispanics up here to have any prejudices toward them frankly or I think we don't. I've since discovered that my sister has some DNA associated with Spain. That was news to us. None of us is aware of any hispanic relative. Maybe, that accounts for her darker skin and my father's darker skin. We always thought we had a First Nations ancestor.

    • @billross6013
      @billross6013 Рік тому

      The Humans are chasing a disillusioned undefined Ideology.

    • @Human_01
      @Human_01 Рік тому +10

      Power to you, bro! That's how it should 'be'!!! 👍✨👏

    • @Human_01
      @Human_01 Рік тому

      .............................
      "Evil" is the antithesis to the virtue: 'humanity'. Humanity is the characteristic that defines the human spirit. Humanity is symbiosis across humans and society. 'Humanity' exceeds 'social-darwinism'.
      .............................
      NEURO-PERSONALITY
      .............................
      "SENSORY-FEELERS" ARE LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING DISINFORMATION AND HATE TOWARDS ENTJ/INTJ (AGAINST "THINKERS" IN GENERAL)-BOTH IRL AND ON THE INTERNET; DESPITE THOSE NEURO-PERSONALITY TYPES BEING A BLESSING TO SOCIETY AND ALL OF MANKIND! THEY DESERVE BETTER! 😤
      'ESFJ', 'ESFP', ISFP and ISFJ are a pathogen to humanity, and 'then' Cluster-B (depending on they neuro-personality).
      THEIR "FEELINGS 'IS' THEIR REALITY", THEY ALSO HAVE A MALICIOUS-MIND BY DEFAULT (excluding normal ISFJ). DESPITE HAVING MALICIOUS INTENT THEY ARE ALL EMOTIONALLY-WEAK AND PRONE TO COVERT/VULNERABLE-NARCISSISM.
      ...............................
      Also... To intelligent readers (who do 'not’ have a ‘pathological disregard for rationality and reality').
      I recommend researching 'narcissistic personality disorder' (NPD) / 'cluster-B'; and know that they are the 'root of all evil' (especially 'ESFJ/ESTJ-narcissist'; Myers-Briggs reference, look it up)!
      European 'ESFJ' are the worst personality type, and they are responsible for inventing 'racism' and colonization! It is in their neuro-psychology!!!
      They are extremely 'manipulative' and often use 'looking pretty' to distract others from the witch's mind-games / mind-r@pe, e.g. gaslighting, playing the victim/damsel in distress, creating "flying-monkeys", and 'bribing' others (with money or BJ) to attack, or at times, kill someone for her. When caught, she will use her minions as scapegoats. European ESFJ are notorious for this especially in a racist context, e.g. Emmett Till.
      xSFP and ISFJ (2W1) are the most complicit, narcissistic-enablers. ISFP also tend to be 'oblivious-codependents' (look up the definition). Like ESFJ, XSFP's "feelings 'is' their reality." Most are covert/vulnerable-narcissists.
      ISFJ often perceive things only on the surface level (even by sensor standards), are suckers for a “pretty face", and their neuro-psychology makes them the ideal narcissitic-codependent and pawn to the ESFJ (blind-loyalty, surface level perception, susceptibility to covert-narcissism). Lastly, ISFJ are notorious for impersonating other people's identities IRL and on the internet.
      SUMMARY
      Evil personality: 'ESFJ' (ALL), ESTJ (Cluster-b), ISFJ-2W1 (covert-narc/enabler).
      [Secretly] Evil and narcissist-friendly gunts/flying-monkey: ISFP (ALL), ESFP (ALL), and ISFJ (2W1 enable ESFJ).
      ☝️ALL of them are secretly emotionally-disturbed, hence their need to create conflict as a distraction (at other people's expense, truly evil).
      Spread the word! Thank you.
      ___________
      Research ref: Raudha Athif, Ghislaine Maxwell, Marilyn Monroe, Karen, ESFJ-narcissists, ESFJ-neurology, Gaslighting, Amber Heard, Fake feminism, Rising of a shield hero (Malty-'ESFJ'; XSFX spread disinformation online. ISFJ is the main culprit; ISFJ largely perceive things on the surface level), 'Brood-parasitism’- XSFJ natural psychology.
      // Close.

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 Рік тому +44

      We Mexicans are classified as "White" in the USA Census😮

  • @mostbased
    @mostbased Місяць тому +245

    It wasn't just Indians. It was Hispanics and Asians too 😂😂😂

    • @BumblebeeTuna8
      @BumblebeeTuna8 Місяць тому

      Hispanics are White and I'm talking about Spaniards not those halfbreed Mesicans.

    • @rondmc44
      @rondmc44 Місяць тому +14

      Thank you!!!!!

    • @jgz-fs6kq
      @jgz-fs6kq Місяць тому +26

      Bro are you the long lost black brother of Elon Musk? Anyway with Hispanics it depends, some of them are white though most are mixed

    • @hdlam1
      @hdlam1 Місяць тому +8

      @@mostbased Namely ppl who are either not comfortable in their own skin, or try to use color labeling for their own benefits.

    • @tempest7861
      @tempest7861 Місяць тому

      ​@@jgz-fs6kq😂😂😂😂

  • @Meee22222
    @Meee22222 Рік тому +276

    I remember in middle school this very dark skinned indian kid called me the N word...and im alot lighter than he was🤣Also, an Indian girl asked some white girls who we hung out with if they liked me or her better. When the girls chose me you could tell in her face that she was very hurt. It was a very weird question but yeah a lot of indians see themselves as yt even though no one else does. Granted we were kids but they have had to learn that language from somewhere. America is a weird place. Anyway, thank you!

    • @WastedBananas
      @WastedBananas Рік тому +46

      which indians see ourselves as white? lmfao very few

    • @alani3992
      @alani3992 Рік тому

      Most Indians would want to be born white in their next life.

    • @HoodQueen258
      @HoodQueen258 Рік тому +22

      Nikki Haley looks white

    • @dadao8564
      @dadao8564 Рік тому +29

      ​@@HoodQueen258no😂😂😂

    • @freetheworld2671
      @freetheworld2671 5 місяців тому

      ​@HoodQueen258 just stop 😂

  • @nancycole-auguste6614
    @nancycole-auguste6614 Рік тому +190

    Being white is the same as being any other skin color. Being a jerk about it is the real shame.

    • @DarrenMoore-le6pg
      @DarrenMoore-le6pg Місяць тому

      In and of itself, maybe but being white especially in America also has status and social currency attached to it. It is what it is.

    • @99Gara99
      @99Gara99 Місяць тому

      You no say

    • @thelionofjudah007
      @thelionofjudah007 29 днів тому +7

      It’s not true that being yt is the same as any other colour and you know it. Anyone older than 5 years recognises this. Stop being disingenuous.

    • @warrengosling
      @warrengosling 26 днів тому

      ​@@thelionofjudah007 100%

    • @warrengosling
      @warrengosling 26 днів тому

      No its not the same. You get treated COMPLETELY different in society if you're white. Everyone knows this

  • @idib1739
    @idib1739 Рік тому +882

    I lived in four out of the 6 continents. And Asia is by far the place where colorism is at it's worst. 💔

    • @Human_01
      @Human_01 Рік тому +34

      Yup.

    • @citizencoy4393
      @citizencoy4393 Рік тому

      Makes sense. I know if we dig deep enough we will see Asia is where ytness was created! They are the true global colonizers yet still manage to come off as victims. Only ppl w enough power to make that so are those that are colonizing!

    • @jimmiehouse7736
      @jimmiehouse7736 Рік тому

      INDIA women and men spend 75 percent of their money on Skin Bleaching Cream BRICK making a big mistake by Adding India with them INDIA will put a knife in the back of BRICK for the European if the European gave INDIA more SKIN BLEACHING CREAM

    • @beast9125
      @beast9125 Рік тому +46

      Nope I think African Americans and people in the Carribean have it worst. Light vs dark skin - yellow bone vs red bone and high rates of selective breeding

    • @citizencoy4393
      @citizencoy4393 Рік тому +97

      @@beast9125 Skin bleaching is not an issue in America. It is an issue in Africa and the Caribbean. The light vs darkskin thing in the USA is simply about light ppl using blk ppl to colonize blk ppl. and selective breeding is being promoted by yt media but it is NOT the way majority of afro americans do stuff. Biracials are not the majority in the blk community in the USA.

  • @ianbynoe6515
    @ianbynoe6515 Рік тому +141

    Gandhi learnt a great lesson when he was asked to leave a white only train in south africa. Gandhi said, "I am not black, you can't ask me to leave the train", but the train conductor said, "you are not white." So what I gathered from what white people were trying to build was a world that was divided into two parts. White and non white.

    • @BumblebeeTuna8
      @BumblebeeTuna8 Місяць тому +26

      Ironic considering that indigenous South Asians/Indians were Black before the A r y a n Invasion/Conquest.

    • @DarrenMoore-le6pg
      @DarrenMoore-le6pg Місяць тому +7

      With subdivisions within those. There are racial hierarchies whether people want to admit it or not. Dismantling them will never be easy.

    • @DarrenMoore-le6pg
      @DarrenMoore-le6pg Місяць тому +7

      @@BumblebeeTuna8
      Yes, the Dravidians were with the Indus Valley civilization having been created by them.

    • @BumblebeeTuna8
      @BumblebeeTuna8 Місяць тому +9

      @@DarrenMoore-le6pg my point being that the South Asian Hunter Gatherer was originally Black before the arrival of Whites/Central Asians.

    • @Zul1788
      @Zul1788 Місяць тому +7

      That is not totally accurate. He gave his credentials to the Train conductor. He was a British trained, educated, licensed lawyer. Yes they still kicked him out . In the mind of Young Gandhi he has earned the respect and recognition from the British Empire and felt he should be respected.
      Its a bit like a black service member back in the days (WW2 and before). You could be an officer, respected in the US military bubble but the moment you leave base. You are just another Black American treated as a 2nd class citizen.

  • @hybridPeople358
    @hybridPeople358 24 дні тому +25

    I don't remember the last Indian I thought was white. The answer is ZERO. All brown to me.

    • @sexcorpio6976
      @sexcorpio6976 11 днів тому

      Then, you need to travel more.

    • @LevingState
      @LevingState 7 днів тому

      Nikki Haley

    • @darbyhilltopreunion3061
      @darbyhilltopreunion3061 6 днів тому

      @@LevingState Ah ha ha ha...you thought she was white but I didn't. But she is white passing for sure. (But her brother isn't)

    • @sandrafernandez6040
      @sandrafernandez6040 2 дні тому

      Salman Rushie and Freddy Mercury (who is half Gujarati and parsi)

  • @dexterspeights3484
    @dexterspeights3484 Рік тому +193

    Stop trying to join a CLUB where you are NEVER going to get a MEMBERSHIP CARD!

    • @user-jv7ui2ku5t
      @user-jv7ui2ku5t 11 місяців тому +19

      DWL! LOL! Why people want invitations to where they are never going to be invited. SMH!

    • @thisrichbastard.809
      @thisrichbastard.809 11 місяців тому

      They don’t care.

    • @demekonrn
      @demekonrn 7 місяців тому

      I don't think it really matters. When black people tried to play by whyte rules & created their own towns, whyte people destroyed them. When black people decided to fight for desegregation, whyte people fought that. These evil demons will never be satisfied unless none of us exist. Then they'll turn on each other. Armageddon is literally what we deserve as ungrateful humans.

    • @windowsxp4322
      @windowsxp4322 2 місяці тому

      Other minorities are delusional bozos 😂😂😂

    • @demorvie
      @demorvie Місяць тому +6

      Guess we have to join the victim card club. 😂

  • @japeri171
    @japeri171 Рік тому +676

    The irony of this event is the importance that the Indians give to skin color.

    • @jaiyabyrd4177
      @jaiyabyrd4177 Рік тому +56

      You said it

    • @blaq7892
      @blaq7892 Рік тому

      Nan ,that they will pass for A niqqer if they need to is so phucked up.

    • @gwendolynallen3218
      @gwendolynallen3218 Рік тому +51

      It's hilariously ironic 😂

    • @reneedennis2011
      @reneedennis2011 Рік тому +20

      Yup.

    • @narlywaves2371
      @narlywaves2371 Рік тому

      Exactly. So miss me with this .... They even think white when they come here....immerse themselves with white people....and are proud assimilators. Lmao.
      So who cares.

  • @MJ-nz6ys
    @MJ-nz6ys 4 місяці тому +88

    Many khalistani's think they are from different race than the regular Indians, but the truth is they are also the regular Indians.

    • @MrLikea8055
      @MrLikea8055 Місяць тому +20

      This is a Sikh problem mainly. As they were drafted into the British army by giving the martial race status (i.e aryan and caucasian status)

    • @abhiraajsingh5878
      @abhiraajsingh5878 29 днів тому +4

      Punjabis have mixed DNA 🧬

    • @MrLikea8055
      @MrLikea8055 29 днів тому +3

      @@abhiraajsingh5878 true that.

    • @Killa_3
      @Killa_3 28 днів тому

      Yeah mixed with Indian lol , shut up Abdul ​@@abhiraajsingh5878

    • @TerryLouiswiththethickness
      @TerryLouiswiththethickness 28 днів тому +1

      ​​@@abhiraajsingh5878 All North Indians have mixed DNA 😂 these ancient migrations and mixtures started over 4-5000 years ago. Sikhs have no grasp of history so they fall for any theory they find online without understanding how to decipher historical data. Sikhisms not even 500 years old lol

  • @sivalingamponnuthurai3683
    @sivalingamponnuthurai3683 29 днів тому +17

    Soles of my feet are white. My crown is black.

  • @wahiidstube
    @wahiidstube Рік тому +120

    Conversely an Egyptian a few years ago darker than me fought to not be labeled “white” to obtain minority benefits. He’s a teacher.

  • @tessolalovell3407
    @tessolalovell3407 Рік тому +389

    I love being African proud of who I am

    • @anelisaqase1168
      @anelisaqase1168 Рік тому +25

      As you should!

    • @Jryder933
      @Jryder933 Рік тому +9

      Yes, absolutely!!

    • @jarelama161
      @jarelama161 Рік тому +8

      I’m proud for you! I am proud of myself for having Afro descendants…

    • @tessolalovell3407
      @tessolalovell3407 Рік тому +2

      @@jarelama161 one love

    • @abdulkool6201
      @abdulkool6201 Рік тому +9

      You ain't no African you're from Detroit stop fronting😊

  • @juniebob4420
    @juniebob4420 9 місяців тому +11

    I don't blame Singh. He either had to fought for citizenship or go back to British India and suffer under colonial tyrants

  • @lg206
    @lg206 Рік тому +59

    Lmao imagine someone darker than Africans telling you they’re white. I’d die laughing 😂😂

    • @BrownSugarBaby1992
      @BrownSugarBaby1992 Рік тому +16

      Right! They are darker than us in real time. They think they are better that’s the problem.

    • @divineflu34567
      @divineflu34567 9 місяців тому

      ​​@@BrownSugarBaby1992most indians are lighter than Africans and no one thinks they are better we have colourism problem not race we discriminate against our own dark skins btw don't come@me with Indians you met are dark bs to me because that's not a avg.represention of what indian is .there is a clear survey of them being olive at avg. Online read it before y'all starts bs random made up things unnecessarily

    • @bappasingh9075
      @bappasingh9075 Місяць тому +14

      Indians aren't darker than africans dude.. What you are talking.. Some south Asians maybe.. Many Indians are more fairer than some white people..

    • @ikax1661
      @ikax1661 Місяць тому +2

      @@BrownSugarBaby1992 Who? Dravidians only. Dravids aren't white.

    • @ikax1661
      @ikax1661 Місяць тому

      @@bappasingh9075 These confused ignoramuses are probably talking about the Dravidians. But Dravids are not Hindus.

  • @Azure_tv
    @Azure_tv Рік тому +282

    I want to thank you for creating such hard hitting content. People are often encouraged to not speak on things like race, but you have done it with such professionalism and heart.

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому +12

      thank you and thanks for being here:)

    • @jayste9334
      @jayste9334 Рік тому +3

      ​@nytn I have a great video for you to watch..its on youtube, and its a lecture by an Indian professor on Ghandi...it leads to the uncovering of the clash between the Aryans and the Dravidians and how that Brahmin to Dalit caste system came to be, (so much so, they put it into the religion)! Its crazy because he states the more light skinned Aryans came from the north.

    • @jayste9334
      @jayste9334 Рік тому

      @Videogamestashbox gotcha..ive been searching all day..its so obscure

    • @jayste9334
      @jayste9334 Рік тому

      ​@VideogamestashboxFound It!

    • @jayste9334
      @jayste9334 Рік тому

      ​@Videogamestashboxua-cam.com/video/0pWZKetnPSk/v-deo.html

  • @lex6794
    @lex6794 Рік тому +55

    I'm American my parents came from India. I never considered myself white, i'm brown skinned. I consider myself indian, but if anything I would be considered black in America. Lots of people that meet me think I'm Black. My hair is straight but now I'm bald.

    • @IsabelWilliams
      @IsabelWilliams Рік тому +3

      Black people have straight hair and blue eyes too. In my family they do.

    • @Women-hate-short-men
      @Women-hate-short-men Рік тому +19

      ​@@IsabelWilliams🤣🤣🤣 lmao probably Aryan DNA

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 Рік тому

      @@Women-hate-short-men dat cuz of the Slave Masters "doing" if you know what I mean🤓😵‍💫!

    • @HoodQueen258
      @HoodQueen258 Рік тому

      I know many Indians who look white and say they're white to escape racism for being an Indian

    • @HoodQueen258
      @HoodQueen258 Рік тому

      ​@@IsabelWilliamsIndians are white many look white
      Blacks are just blacks

  • @111xbody
    @111xbody Рік тому +121

    You can paint lipstick on a pig doesn't make you a swimsuit model. It's scary the length people go through to be accepted. Love yourself!

    • @jackharris5511
      @jackharris5511 4 місяці тому +3

      that's true. but unfortunately, people need to survive and if it means lying about your race to survive, you'll do so

    • @WilliamLi-nd4lz
      @WilliamLi-nd4lz 3 місяці тому

      says the bloody red indians 😭
      You made a completely senseless comment. What the Indians were fighting for was correct, moral. Indians are caucasians after all!

    • @kanvankosthuvaran416
      @kanvankosthuvaran416 2 місяці тому

      so you’re calling indians pigs?

    • @WilliamLi-nd4lz
      @WilliamLi-nd4lz 2 місяці тому

      Bad metaphor. If you were trying to call an indian pig, its funny its coming from a red indian.

    • @tarawiselove
      @tarawiselove Місяць тому +9

      I know that you're trying to make a clever analogy, but you might want to define what you mean by a pig or a not a swimsuit model.

  • @QueenTiye2024
    @QueenTiye2024 23 дні тому +17

    The sad thing is that the gentleman who fought so long for U.S. citizenship did so on the grounds of the unequal, discriminatory caste system of his native India. It's also hypocritical that he saw nothing wrong with India's caste system, yet he had a problem with America's caste system, which rejected him as a non-European, nonwhite person!
    Middle Easterners have also sued for White classification in America, despite not being of European origin. Every group of people seeks to enjoy the privileges that come along with "white" status and to avoid the kind of racial discrimination that Blacks have endured for centuries in America.

    • @peaceseeker9927
      @peaceseeker9927 13 днів тому

      Excellent points

    • @RemadeviRamamoorthy
      @RemadeviRamamoorthy 10 днів тому

      After colonisation and plundering wealth of the countries like India, the Newworld they ( the ehites) wanted to have themselves? How hypocritical and bad is that!!

    • @RemadeviRamamoorthy
      @RemadeviRamamoorthy 10 днів тому

      After colonisation and plundering wealth of the countries like India, the Newworld they ( the whites) wanted to have themselves? How hypocritical and bad is that!!
      Caste system is about the work you do and the whole world has it still
      1.People who rule. ..
      2.peopke who are associated with religious activities
      3.People who do commerce
      4.People who serve the above 3 in various ways!!

  • @mrcead
    @mrcead Рік тому +94

    The irony. My man used one socially toxic system to argue against another not to challenge it, but to expand the coverage to include himself 😭

    • @ramicollo
      @ramicollo Рік тому +1

      R1a haplogroup

    • @thecrimsondragon9744
      @thecrimsondragon9744 5 місяців тому +1

      If you can't beat em, join em LMAO 🤷‍♂️

    • @vikramjayaramangopala8848
      @vikramjayaramangopala8848 2 місяці тому +1

      See, if thind did not do this, he wouldve went back to india which wouldve meant going to jail as he was involved in the indepedence movement. Thind saw himself as part of the immigrant class, hence white and used whatever evidence he could to, as if he didnt it meant jail or death

    • @globalcitizenn
      @globalcitizenn 29 днів тому

      He was challenging it.. coz he’s right anthropologically.. Northern Indians are just melanated white people. Or you can say white people are faded Aryans. He challenged what determines race. If it’s just melanin then how were African descent given citizenship but melanated Indians weren’t.. if it’s skull characteristics, physical features etc then how were white people given citizenship but Caucasoid Indians weren’t. He challenged their hypocrisy and definition of race itself. It was just hard for them to admit that they are the same race as North Indian people coz they saw Indians as inferior or alien.

  • @joelmogensen579
    @joelmogensen579 Рік тому +58

    Having lived in the American south for 47 years i noticed a proclivity for non black immigrants of color, especially those from India, to align and identify themselves with the white majority power structure in a town or city and distance themselves from the native black minority community.

    • @joelmogensen579
      @joelmogensen579 Рік тому +16

      Nicki Hailey, former S.C. governor, is a good example of this. She even changed her name to disguise her ethnicity.

    • @phillipjordan1010
      @phillipjordan1010 Місяць тому

      Nikki Haley is a fraud. She even claims to be Hindu and Christian both. That is to play to her redneck constituates

    • @Infp-et8il
      @Infp-et8il Місяць тому +1

      ​@@joelmogensen579Nicki is her original Indian name, Hailey is her husband's surname and she converted to Christianity.
      May be she is trying to be like native Americans.

    • @HungwonBeBe
      @HungwonBeBe Місяць тому +1

      Yeah because they are educated and wants to live a decent life by not doing drugs, stripping and robbery

    • @phillipjordan1010
      @phillipjordan1010 Місяць тому

      @@Infp-et8il her real name is Nimrata. Nikki Haley is a coward and sellout

  • @chefHolly33
    @chefHolly33 Рік тому +68

    I am a light skinned Afro Caribbean, and have lived among Indians for several years it almost flabbergasts me how most do not think they are Black. Yes, they are not Africans, but good goodness why is it so hard for ppl of color to just be happy with their color. Why does whiteness have to mean good and black be bad ? I’ve heard Indians call African Americans “The Blacks”, and look at the person saying it like, huh, bc they waaaaaaaay darker than me… 🤦‍♀️

    • @bijosn
      @bijosn Рік тому

      Indians in caribbean are lower caste usually. They are not white or black they are indian you mooorooon

    • @darbyhilltopreunion3061
      @darbyhilltopreunion3061 Рік тому +17

      I guess it's the accent & the hair because most indian men are waaaaaaayyyyyy darker then me. It's offensive that they think that they are different than me other than for the aforementioned reasons. I did speak on the subject with a pure indian man who migrated to America. He told me that by the white mans standard, he was white. Well after I laughed for about two days then I said to him "NO YOU'RE NOT!" lol

    • @bijosn
      @bijosn Рік тому

      @@darbyhilltopreunion3061 Indians are not white, but they are definitely not as lowly as blacks who didn’t even have written language until they were colonized by whites. Look at the architecture, history of Africa and India, Indians have better cuisine, architecture and history. Africans lived in mud huts and ate raw or basil Ed basic food.

    • @darbyhilltopreunion3061
      @darbyhilltopreunion3061 Рік тому +8

      Oh, and the narrator. Why is she so hell bent on doing such research regarding the Black race. In one of her videos, she said she considered herself white. "Nope, you're not". But then again, you can be who you wanna be, after all, I am who I wanna be and that is BLACK. Yep, all day and all night. Yay!

    • @bijosn
      @bijosn Рік тому +3

      @@darbyhilltopreunion3061 answer my question above

  • @bahiras
    @bahiras Рік тому +83

    It’s all about skin color in this country.

    • @jimbucket2996
      @jimbucket2996 Рік тому +4

      ​@@etruscancivilizationif a black dude speaks good English and/or is educated or talented he's going to have a better time here.

    • @tragicallyhoney
      @tragicallyhoney Рік тому

      Well that's why diversity doesnt work

    • @frederickgriffith7004
      @frederickgriffith7004 Рік тому +17

      ​@@jimbucket2996I used to believe that.And I don't say this in jest.But someone who is in his late 60s and can look back with this observation.I have done everything this society has asked me to do.A successful businessman, homeowner, taxpayer, homeowner and mentor.The problem has been at no time do I believe I have ever been granted at the minimum THE PRIVILEGE OF THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE, GOODNESS, TRUST, COMPETENCE AND RESPECT.Not in public spaces.And extremely difficult within social and professional circles.Fighting such negative stereotypes every step of the way can be exhausting at times.And that's the problem because it is reflected in every one of our institutions.BANKING AND FINANCE, REAL ESTATE, EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA PLATFORMS, LEGAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE,COMMUNITY AND PLANNING COMMISSIONS, VOTING AND ELECTORAL PROCESSES.SO in effect it undermines even the best efforts of those Black people such as myself to navigate through such constant adversity.In my opinion for every human being there is adversity that is unavoidable.And there should be adversity that is unnecessary.The problem is convincing the kids I do mentor to fight tooth and nail to reach that mountain top.Not to give up.One kid even asked,"After everything you have done do you feel LOVED, APPRECIATED,VALUED AND RESPECTED by this society?" I have to be honest with the kid.Family yes.Community yes.Society not yet.But I tell them that should never be an excuse to not strive to be the best they can be.But all human beings need that positive feedback and REINFORCEMENT and encouragement from the most powerful component of the four pillars of human existence which is the society.INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY.

    • @marcuscole1994
      @marcuscole1994 Рік тому +5

      @@jimbucket2996naaa lol def not the case

    • @brotherkareem181
      @brotherkareem181 Рік тому +2

      @@etruscancivilizationStop lying

  • @thinkbeforeyoutype7106
    @thinkbeforeyoutype7106 Рік тому +360

    You’re doing an AMAZING job in exposing the delusional concept of colonial race based on a color. Human beings are MORE than a mere color.

    • @thinktank4768
      @thinktank4768 Рік тому

      People of African ancestry have MELANIN that protects the skin. Study it. ☝🏾🇺🇸

    • @icequeen9417
      @icequeen9417 Рік тому

      Well white dont have the same skin as black asian you clown 🤡🤡🤡 ALL RACES TRY TO REAPPROPRAITE WHITE CAUCASION PEOPLE.

    • @icequeen9417
      @icequeen9417 Рік тому

      U ARE DELUSIONAL.

    • @natederrell2110
      @natederrell2110 Рік тому +3

      As excellent as rhetoric article are the responses. I would love to do a class room discussion with all the responders.

    • @jimmiehouse7736
      @jimmiehouse7736 Рік тому +18

      I went to India a few year ago, in talking to a man, He told me that skin bleaching in India was a ten Trillion dollars a year business in INDIA He said every one in Indian wanted to look white

  • @celestecarrera2963
    @celestecarrera2963 27 днів тому +8

    Ima white Hispanic woman, I don’t consider myself Caucasian.

    • @fritolaid6805
      @fritolaid6805 26 днів тому +1

      Caucasian just means migration from Central Asia or central Asian.

    • @AfroEnlightenment
      @AfroEnlightenment 24 дні тому +1

      You don’t consider yourself to be caucasian but white…You brown people have identity issues

    • @Leon18352
      @Leon18352 22 дні тому +3

      Caucasian is Somebody from the Caucasus.

    • @baddie21358
      @baddie21358 7 днів тому

      @@Leon18352 Caucasian means white

    • @baddie21358
      @baddie21358 7 днів тому

      @@celestecarrera2963 well you are

  • @amaris8084
    @amaris8084 Рік тому +7

    America is a weird place.

  • @clementmckenzie7041
    @clementmckenzie7041 Рік тому +286

    As we pull back and take a birds-eye view, here is another big takeaway, There is not a single pre-civil rights era state, federal, or supreme court case involving a plaintiff or class of plaintiffs seeking to be declared black. For any reason whatsoever, including access to immigration or citizenship. Sicily is off the coast of Africa, Meaning technically a case could have been pressed to be declared African or black in the courts, no such case exists, Egyptians and other North Africans hail from Africa so a case could have been pressed for a declaration that they qualify as black, they instead pressed a legal case to be declared white, Indians during the British empire were legally black in the empire and several regions of India received significant amounts of black African admixture during the Portuguese, British and Arab eras of occupation. The Sidi are a relatively large black African community in India that have lived there since the 15th century frankly any Indian could have claimed membership in this group as intermixing among this group is as profound as the intermixing between African Americans and white Americans, Many Indians during the British imperial period were indeed Africans having been born and raised in Africa for several generations. No court records any such assertion made by any Indian in an effort to maintain their citizenship or to gain access to citizenship. There are also no cases of any non visibly black Latin American asserting their African ancestry in the courts as a path to citizenship, even though obviously being declared black or an African was a legal possibility, no one ever purposely sought such a designation in a court of law. One has to ask, why? If whiteness was closed to you and there was a path to immigration or citizenship available through the black community why did none of these groups who could have pressed such a claim ever seek to do so? Possibly because such a legal designation would have given access to only the meager social status and opportunities available to blacks in America and open them to the legal, cultural, and social restrictions blacks in America were forced to accept as their lot in life ergo being declared black was undesirable for any reason. Better no citizenship than the 4th class citizenship enjoyed by black Americans at that time. That is another takeaway from all of this legal seeking of whiteness.

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому +42

      I would love to cover this!

    • @bobtheredskin123
      @bobtheredskin123 Рік тому

      So glad this comment is here…from my POV what OP stated is why I believe race is a social/political class created to “generally” subjugate people who look different…

    • @clementmckenzie7041
      @clementmckenzie7041 Рік тому +40

      @@nytn A question worth asking is why? Why was the white power structure amenable to black African migration to the united states. Obviously, that power structure had no great love for or fidelity to Africans or people of African ancestry so to make such generous space in the legal structure for them raises questions. Possibly it was because blacks were such a tightly legally, socially, and customarily controlled group in the U. S. with very few pathways out of the labor cast and no practical pathway to structural power making them a relatively safe bet to remain in their culturally designated place. I am of course making an educated guess, however, possibly this is a question we should be asking.

    • @pepperidge124
      @pepperidge124 Рік тому +6

      ​@@davruck1explain.the other guy gave his ideas..explain

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 Рік тому +7

      Maybe, they just never thought of it. It's a cute little legal dodge, but not one that you would seize upon instantly if you were seen to be non-white even though you were Aryan and Caucasian. I did hear a South African of Indian descent once say on CBC that he chose to be "black" in S. Africa because as an Indian South African, he could live in a very limited area and he wasn't as restricted if he was black. These right wing Supreme Court Justices didn't just start operating illogically with Trump appointees, I guess. /

  • @rocketreindeer
    @rocketreindeer Рік тому +135

    The longer I'm on Earth, the more this "whiteness" concept stands out as truly problematic, and it has basically zero to do with light or dark skin. It arbitrarily categorizes and oppresses whole groups of people created in God's image, if you believe in that stuff, and overrules any deep concept of human beings as family. The truth is, we're all related, but you'd never know it from the way this "whiteness" stuff has been marketed to us over the centuries. It's a great thing to unlearn.

    • @Kim63146
      @Kim63146 Рік тому +11

      🎯!

    • @adrianjuarez1162
      @adrianjuarez1162 Рік тому

      Lol unlearn whiteness while blacks, Latinos, and Asians have been doing the same shit white people been doing for decades 😂😂😂. We’re all different bud your not my friend and even if it means we look alike doesn’t mean we’re friends what fuck did the just read 😂😂😂😂.

    • @goldsteinman
      @goldsteinman Рік тому

      y'all doing crimes yet whiteys keep focus building civilization sweetie :)

    • @Human_01
      @Human_01 Рік тому

      You can thank the existence of 'narcissitic personality disorder'/NPD for all of this! It is their psychological fingerprint; to divide, spread hate and confusion, all to benefit their 'fragile-ego', perceived sense of control, wicked/sadistic mind, etc.
      ________
      .............................
      "Evil" is the antithesis to the virtue: 'humanity'. Humanity is the characteristic that defines the human spirit. Humanity is symbiosis across humans and society. 'Humanity' exceeds 'social-darwinism'.
      .............................
      NEURO-PERSONALITY
      .............................
      "SENSORY-FEELERS" ARE LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING DISINFORMATION AND HATE TOWARDS ENTJ/INTJ (AGAINST "THINKERS" IN GENERAL)-BOTH IRL AND ON THE INTERNET; DESPITE THOSE NEURO-PERSONALITY TYPES BEING A BLESSING TO SOCIETY AND ALL OF MANKIND! THEY DESERVE BETTER! 😤
      'ESFJ', 'ESFP', ISFP and ISFJ are a pathogen to humanity, and 'then' Cluster-B (depending on they neuro-personality).
      THEIR "FEELINGS 'IS' THEIR REALITY", THEY ALSO HAVE A MALICIOUS-MIND BY DEFAULT (excluding normal ISFJ). DESPITE HAVING MALICIOUS INTENT THEY ARE ALL EMOTIONALLY-WEAK AND PRONE TO COVERT/VULNERABLE-NARCISSISM.
      ...............................
      Also... To intelligent readers (who do 'not’ have a ‘pathological disregard for rationality and reality').
      I recommend researching 'narcissistic personality disorder' (NPD) / 'cluster-B'; and know that they are the 'root of all evil' (especially 'ESFJ/ESTJ-narcissist'; Myers-Briggs reference, look it up)!
      European 'ESFJ' are the worst personality type, and they are responsible for inventing 'racism' and colonization! It is in their neuro-psychology!!!
      They are extremely 'manipulative' and often use 'looking pretty' to distract others from the witch's mind-games / mind-r@pe, e.g. gaslighting, playing the victim/damsel in distress, creating "flying-monkeys", and 'bribing' others (with money or BJ) to attack, or at times, kill someone for her. When caught, she will use her minions as scapegoats. European ESFJ are notorious for this especially in a racist context, e.g. Emmett Till.
      xSFP and ISFJ (2W1) are the most complicit, narcissistic-enablers. ISFP also tend to be 'oblivious-codependents' (look up the definition). Like ESFJ, XSFP's "feelings 'is' their reality." Most are covert/vulnerable-narcissists.
      ISFJ often perceive things only on the surface level (even by sensor standards), are suckers for a “pretty face", and their neuro-psychology makes them the ideal narcissitic-codependent and pawn to the ESFJ (blind-loyalty, surface level perception, susceptibility to covert-narcissism). Lastly, ISFJ are notorious for impersonating other people's identities IRL and on the internet.
      SUMMARY
      Evil personality: 'ESFJ' (ALL), ESTJ (Cluster-b), ISFJ-2W1 (covert-narc/enabler).
      [Secretly] Evil and narcissist-friendly gunts/flying-monkey: ISFP (ALL), ESFP (ALL), and ISFJ (2W1 enable ESFJ).
      ☝️ALL of them are secretly emotionally-disturbed, hence their need to create conflict as a distraction (at other people's expense, truly evil).
      Spread the word! Thank you.
      ___________
      Research ref: Raudha Athif, Ghislaine Maxwell, Marilyn Monroe, Karen, ESFJ-narcissists, ESFJ-neurology, Gaslighting, Amber Heard, Fake feminism, Rising of a shield hero (Malty-'ESFJ'; XSFX spread disinformation online. ISFJ is the main culprit; ISFJ largely perceive things on the surface level), 'Brood-parasitism’- XSFJ natural psychology.
      // Close.

    • @johnnyearp52
      @johnnyearp52 Рік тому +9

      Should we go by European American then?

  • @billyoldman9209
    @billyoldman9209 Рік тому +178

    Gandhi also wanted Indians to be treated differently from Blacks by the British rulers in South Africa. I guess the morale of the story is that nothing good can ever come out of these imaginary identities (and unfortunately subjugated people rarely get a choice in this matter), but too much power is at stake now to just walk away from it, so they just keep complicating it and mixing it with other systems of discrimination and domination as a way of fighting these challenges to its logic. But as a result the system just keeps getting catapulted to ever greater heights of absurdity.

    • @anthonymikeaprey2250
      @anthonymikeaprey2250 Рік тому +43

      Yes Gandhi statue was uprooted in the campus of Legon for beign a racist

    • @johnnyflores5954
      @johnnyflores5954 Рік тому

      Gandhi, was a racist and a child F/cker. Dude, was wicked.

    • @jaiyabyrd4177
      @jaiyabyrd4177 Рік тому

      ​@@anthonymikeaprey2250
      Awesome. This is disturbingly the mindset of Indians, they are anti-Black

    • @Human_01
      @Human_01 Рік тому

      .............................
      "Evil" is the antithesis to the virtue: 'humanity'. Humanity is the characteristic that defines the human spirit. Humanity is symbiosis across humans and society. 'Humanity' exceeds 'social-darwinism'.
      .............................
      NEURO-PERSONALITY
      .............................
      "SENSORY-FEELERS" ARE LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING DISINFORMATION AND HATE TOWARDS ENTJ/INTJ (AGAINST "THINKERS" IN GENERAL)-BOTH IRL AND ON THE INTERNET; DESPITE THOSE NEURO-PERSONALITY TYPES BEING A BLESSING TO SOCIETY AND ALL OF MANKIND! THEY DESERVE BETTER! 😤
      'ESFJ', 'ESFP', ISFP and ISFJ are a pathogen to humanity, and 'then' Cluster-B (depending on they neuro-personality).
      THEIR "FEELINGS 'IS' THEIR REALITY", THEY ALSO HAVE A MALICIOUS-MIND BY DEFAULT (excluding normal ISFJ). DESPITE HAVING MALICIOUS INTENT THEY ARE ALL EMOTIONALLY-WEAK AND PRONE TO COVERT/VULNERABLE-NARCISSISM.
      ...............................
      Also... To intelligent readers (who do 'not’ have a ‘pathological disregard for rationality and reality').
      I recommend researching 'narcissistic personality disorder' (NPD) / 'cluster-B'; and know that they are the 'root of all evil' (especially 'ESFJ/ESTJ-narcissist'; Myers-Briggs reference, look it up)!
      European 'ESFJ' are the worst personality type, and they are responsible for inventing 'racism' and colonization! It is in their neuro-psychology!!!
      They are extremely 'manipulative' and often use 'looking pretty' to distract others from the witch's mind-games / mind-r@pe, e.g. gaslighting, playing the victim/damsel in distress, creating "flying-monkeys", and 'bribing' others (with money or BJ) to attack, or at times, kill someone for her. When caught, she will use her minions as scapegoats. European ESFJ are notorious for this especially in a racist context, e.g. Emmett Till.
      xSFP and ISFJ (2W1) are the most complicit, narcissistic-enablers. ISFP also tend to be 'oblivious-codependents' (look up the definition). Like ESFJ, XSFP's "feelings 'is' their reality." Most are covert/vulnerable-narcissists.
      ISFJ often perceive things only on the surface level (even by sensor standards), are suckers for a “pretty face", and their neuro-psychology makes them the ideal narcissitic-codependent and pawn to the ESFJ (blind-loyalty, surface level perception, susceptibility to covert-narcissism). Lastly, ISFJ are notorious for impersonating other people's identities IRL and on the internet.
      SUMMARY
      Evil personality: 'ESFJ' (ALL), ESTJ (Cluster-b), ISFJ-2W1 (covert-narc/enabler).
      [Secretly] Evil and narcissist-friendly gunts/flying-monkey: ISFP (ALL), ESFP (ALL), and ISFJ (2W1 enable ESFJ).
      ☝️ALL of them are secretly emotionally-disturbed, hence their need to create conflict as a distraction (at other people's expense, truly evil).
      Spread the word! Thank you.
      ___________
      Research ref: Raudha Athif, Ghislaine Maxwell, Marilyn Monroe, Karen, ESFJ-narcissists, ESFJ-neurology, Gaslighting, Amber Heard, Fake feminism, Rising of a shield hero (Malty-'ESFJ'; XSFX spread disinformation online. ISFJ is the main culprit; ISFJ largely perceive things on the surface level), 'Brood-parasitism’- XSFJ natural psychology.
      // Close.

    • @michaelsamuel9917
      @michaelsamuel9917 Рік тому

      Gandhi was a fraud and a fascist when it came to native Africans, he openly supported the British in SA in their colonial conquest of that land he even vowed to get Indians to fight against Africans if they ever resisted white rule again he claimed that the settlement of the land was for "the Aryan races" and Africans needed to get off it he said this before anyone ever heard of Adolf Hitler or Nazis etc. no wonder that Hypocrite was murdered by his own ppl, Indians are the worst of the human race that's why Idi Amin gave them the boot in Uganda.

  • @Loner-Wolf
    @Loner-Wolf Рік тому +107

    As an Indian Sikh (British born) i really appreciate and thank you for tackling this issue. Sadly 'my people' including Hindus suffer from a colonial mindset of favoring whiteness. We are very racist towards black and dark skinned people. You only have to look at some politicians (especially Conservative politicians) including the current Prime Minister and Home Secretary to see how they openly prefer to be associated with whiteness.

    • @Loner-Wolf
      @Loner-Wolf Рік тому +9

      @@dankkathekedar583 if iv said I'm Sikh and then said 'my people and Hindus' what do you think I mean?

    • @Loner-Wolf
      @Loner-Wolf Рік тому +10

      @@dankkathekedar583 if I want to target my own community I will. As for the rest of South Asia I'll leave that to you.

    • @anish7183
      @anish7183 Рік тому +7

      muslims and arabs too

    • @FernandoTorrera
      @FernandoTorrera Рік тому +6

      That’s an issue that existed before the Brit’s.
      Being pale meant you were rich

    • @Loner-Wolf
      @Loner-Wolf Рік тому +3

      @@anish7183 yes clearly they live rent free in you head...😆

  • @vincentturner3055
    @vincentturner3055 29 днів тому +6

    Call me Purple, because it stands for Royalty!😊

  • @CambriaCandiceMaria
    @CambriaCandiceMaria 29 днів тому +4

    Caucasians come in all colors. I'm talking about genetics, not simply what you call yourself. Caucasians range in color from white to dark brown.

    • @CambriaCandiceMaria
      @CambriaCandiceMaria 20 днів тому +1

      @@diamantecarter8625 Caucasians range in color from white to brown. You need to get out more.

    • @tiseytise
      @tiseytise 13 днів тому

      I beg to differ with dark brown

    • @CambriaCandiceMaria
      @CambriaCandiceMaria 13 днів тому +1

      @@tiseytise Look into it.
      PS: Don't beg. Never beg.

  • @aaronvu6292
    @aaronvu6292 Рік тому +36

    The Caste system is disgusting. And, this man and any human using the Caste system for their advantage are also disgusting.

    • @WastedBananas
      @WastedBananas Рік тому +5

      the caste system is not based on skin color. You don't udnerstand what it is, please stop talking liek you do.

    • @aaronvu6292
      @aaronvu6292 Рік тому +3

      @@WastedBananas Yes, it's base on color of the skin. You can see it everyday in India. The original invaders were light skinned people, The Aryans and they used the Caste System to suppressed dark colors native. Be truth.

    • @WastedBananas
      @WastedBananas Рік тому +10

      @@aaronvu6292 no it isn’t, like I said you understand very little. Please stop talking about something you don’t understand at all.

    • @aaronvu6292
      @aaronvu6292 Рік тому

      @@WastedBananas Please read Caste by Wilkerson. The author has a vast knowledge about the Caste System in modern India. Maybe, initially not based on colors. But, the British add many elements to the equation for easily controlled the population.

    • @aaronvu6292
      @aaronvu6292 11 місяців тому +1

      @@WastedBananas Did you follow my instruction and read the book by Wilkenson? The British were playing the big role in the modern Caste System in India: Any one with light skin and speak English would get promote very quickly in the hierachy system as the Caste System. You got to read it to understand why Indians want to have light skin from Bollywood to Bombay business.

  • @stephanienwadieiiamhybasia
    @stephanienwadieiiamhybasia Рік тому +57

    Funny how he tried to use used the caste system in America.
    He fought for this country.
    With his head covering on because of his religious beliefs. He didn’t “fit into “ assimilation “ into the white classification.
    At least he finally got his citizenship because he was a veteran. ( instead of what he tried to do).
    Interesting topic.
    I remember when Hispanic people were “white “ because it was just white and black to check for race.
    Well done as always.🎉

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому +9

      The caste system here in the US really struck me, too. It's a worldwide mindset...

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 Рік тому +5

      I thought Sikhs didn't believe in the caste system. He's wearing a turban so he's obviously Sikh. Maybe, I'm wrong about that.

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому +2

      Maybe he was just leveraging it here

    • @uncletheoneshotkid3001
      @uncletheoneshotkid3001 Рік тому

      @@dinkster1729Sikhs 100% do follow and believe in the caste system. They’re some of the worst with regards to caste discrimination ironically. A few months ago there was a highly publicized case in which the Nihangs, or appointed warriors of the Sikh Khalsa, chopped off a dalit’s hand for touching the holy text. They act like they don’t follow caste but they 100% do, especially the jatts

    • @majorlazor5058
      @majorlazor5058 Рік тому +19

      Funny how he didn’t try to claim he was black. He rather not be a citizen than be considered a black citizen… and that is telling.

  • @sansin6250
    @sansin6250 Місяць тому +3

    The West is obsessed with skin color. We Indians won't be labeled with a color. Color labeling is extremely offensive to us. Even Africans never called themselves Black before the West labeled them as Black. It is extremely unfortunate that people of African descent around the world have accepted the West's color labeling and decided to call themselves Black instead of Africans.
    As far as Indians are concerned, there are dark skinned, tan skinned and light skinned people among us. Labeling us Black or Brown or White, and putting us in different buckets is another division we don't need. We are already fighting to eradicate the caste system and color labeling will consolidate, not weaken, the caste system, simply because skin color among Indians have a strong correlation to caste.

    • @sansin6250
      @sansin6250 Місяць тому +4

      Also, Native Americans don't want to be called Indians, its an insult to them. If you cannot refer to them by their tribe name, at least call them native Americans.

    • @lugartan3418
      @lugartan3418 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@sansin6250what lndians should acknowledge is that even if u put few drops of milk in the coffee it stays dark. So understand the example. Just be yourselves

    • @popeyecobi2240
      @popeyecobi2240 28 днів тому

      ​@@sansin6250Aren't they called "Indians" because a moron, called Colombus, thought he was in India?

    • @AfroEnlightenment
      @AfroEnlightenment 24 дні тому +1

      Even before the west came into things, the idea of race still existed

    • @Leon18352
      @Leon18352 22 дні тому +1

      Yet you Curry claim that the Caucasoid Race originated in South Asia when Caucasoids aren't indigenous to South Asia.

  • @wayneel8656
    @wayneel8656 5 місяців тому +7

    The legal system claims that white and black are legal status not skin colour/color.

    • @nytn
      @nytn  5 місяців тому +2

      Exactly

  • @jaiyabyrd4177
    @jaiyabyrd4177 Рік тому +231

    *Outstanding Research*
    Brava 👏🏾👏🏾
    As a Foundational Black American you unknowingly addressed an issue of the South Asian Indian today in America.
    @7:50
    "Mr. Singh Thind didn't try to fight for equality 🟰 He tried to sneak in the back door and use his Indian caste"
    Disturbingly today there is a growing pattern of South Asian Indians using their Country's Caste or their perceived)made up Caste here in the United States of America against Foundational Black Americans in the direct form of white supremacy and hatred.
    While not knowing or caring about how white supremacy treated them and in many ways still looks at them.
    Again this video is superb. Thank you. Keep up the good work 👍🏾

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому +26

      Thank you so much for adding to the conversation. I appreciate you being here

    • @michaelsamuel9917
      @michaelsamuel9917 Рік тому +28

      Do NOT ever Trust those ppl!!

    • @jaiyabyrd4177
      @jaiyabyrd4177 Рік тому +7

      @@michaelsamuel9917
      I've addressed my reasons, but why do you feel this way❓
      Just curious

    • @jabaltariq4606
      @jabaltariq4606 Рік тому +13

      TREAT THEM LIKE THEY TREAT YOU AND STOP THE B***H**G AND MOANING!! TREAT THEM LIKE THEY TREAT YOU AND MOVE ON!!

    • @darrickwhite1986
      @darrickwhite1986 Рік тому +10

      Great observation!! B1

  • @bobbylee_
    @bobbylee_ Рік тому +48

    7:17 “too brunette to vote here.” That really struck my because I learned that the word brunette originally referred to skin color, not hair. And their is a long list of historical figures described as brunette in appearance.

    • @ericterry6042
      @ericterry6042 22 дні тому

      I have heard some Latinos refer to brunette as a skin color

  • @PeterParker-gt3xl
    @PeterParker-gt3xl Рік тому +9

    Discrimination among one's own people is very common and worldwide, like castes in India. Lighter skin is perceived as superior even among other Asians or Blacks themselves. Where are you from originally, what school did you graduate from, what's your last name, etc. Example, the movie A walk in the cloud: just because I speak with an accent does not mean I think with an accent.

    • @maaruz1979
      @maaruz1979 16 днів тому

      If you’re born into a culture where everyone keeps telling you paler skin is superior you will eventually believe it

  • @Thutmosis7
    @Thutmosis7 28 днів тому +7

    They are not white or Caucasian to begin either. They are brown Asian

    • @fritolaid6805
      @fritolaid6805 26 днів тому +2

      Northern Indians migrated from Central Asia and are 40% Caucasians. They don’t look that different from southern Europeans.

    • @lugartan3418
      @lugartan3418 24 дні тому

      ​@@fritolaid680599% of entire lndian population is between 👳🏾‍♂️👳🏽‍♂️👳🏿‍♂️
      I honestly don't know where tf they think they are 👨🏼 or 👨🏻

    • @shawnmichealos1871
      @shawnmichealos1871 23 дні тому +2

      Caucasians are people with caucasianoid skulls, Indians do have caucasianoid skulls and are of the Indo-aryan mixture just like all other Europeans , the key factor is many of them are brown, but not all, a very good part of them are really really really fair u wouldnt even consider them Indians, but they are, example: Rohit bal, Neil Nith Mukesh ,they all are famous Indian personalities of pure indian descendant, they look more European than many, Europeans lol, so , don't talk about something which u have no idea about

    • @lugartan3418
      @lugartan3418 23 дні тому +2

      @@shawnmichealos1871 out of 1.6 billion population and only 1-2 look European? That's why there is a term called "majority"

    • @shawnmichealos1871
      @shawnmichealos1871 22 дні тому +1

      ​@@lugartan3418 Caucasian doesn't mean European lol, Caucasians are people with Caucasoid skulls and majority of the people in India have Caucasoid skull, hence making them Caucasian , idk why u are arguing ,it is a very well known thing, u can check it up

  • @chrispullinsproject
    @chrispullinsproject Рік тому +42

    Why is it so important to most Indians to identify with their European oppressor's and what about the Anti-black racism that comes from the Indian community because of it?🤔

    • @jgonzalez372
      @jgonzalez372 Рік тому +8

      Not really, Indians has this( CASTA)IDIALOGY CENTURIES BEFORE THE ENGLISH TOOK OVER THEIR COUNTRY. IT'S PART OF THEIR HISTORY OF BEEN A SERVANT FOR EVER, BEEN A MASTER FOREVER.

    • @Doge811
      @Doge811 Рік тому +2

      Ot everything is about Europeans........ The caste system still existed and people who work outside always had darker skin.........

    • @Nick-kk9ei
      @Nick-kk9ei Рік тому +6

      Both of you'll are loud and wrong.😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @WastedBananas
      @WastedBananas Рік тому

      caste system is not based on skin color, please stop talking about something you don't understand.@@jgonzalez372

    • @WastedBananas
      @WastedBananas Рік тому

      caste system is not based on skin color, please stop talking about something you don't understand.@@Doge811

  • @marcellocolona4980
    @marcellocolona4980 Рік тому +14

    There is no such thing as a “white” race anyway, it’s a meaningless social construct. What am I? My mother is Mexican and whiter than white (Basque). My father is Sicilian-Calabrese-German-French and I look very Middle Eastern.

    • @marcellocolona4980
      @marcellocolona4980 Рік тому +1

      @@etruscancivilization Yes, as long as we make it matter. I served 25 years combined in the USMC and USN. We treated everyone based on their character and qualifications, not on their skin color. Everyone under my command got a fair shake, as it should be.

    • @clementmckenzie7041
      @clementmckenzie7041 Рік тому +7

      It may be a social construct, but it is far from meaningless.

    • @StyleswithCourtney
      @StyleswithCourtney Рік тому

      Indians are Aryans

  • @gbastile
    @gbastile 25 днів тому +5

    That must be something typically North American. Categorizing people by color.

  • @77mudvayne
    @77mudvayne 22 дні тому +4

    Aryians were actually an ancient people who were Indo-Iranians. It designated those who belonged to the 'Aryan' (Iranian) ethnic stock, spoke the language and followed the religion of the 'Aryas.’.’ The Rigveda and Avesta agreed that the essence of their shared parental Indo-Iranian identity was linguistic and ritual, not racial. If a person sacrificed to the right gods in the right way using the correct forms of the traditional hymns and poems, that person was an Aryan.

    • @Godfavourite01
      @Godfavourite01 21 день тому

      All way from Southern Russia to Iran & central Asia

    • @77mudvayne
      @77mudvayne 21 день тому

      @@Godfavourite01 True. The Kardashians had Russian ties. They also had ties to William Branham, Jim Jones, Willi Brown, communist and William Branham had ties to the Klan. Jim jones was a huge communist. Branham gave Jones his religious start on the Pentecostal circuit and Willie Brown gave Jim Jones his political start. Research it.

  • @Janthony1977
    @Janthony1977 Рік тому +39

    Dude wanted it so bad he joined the service during war. Wow

    • @MrLikea8055
      @MrLikea8055 Місяць тому +3

      This is a Sikh problem mainly. As they were drafted into the British army by giving the martial race status (i.e aryan and caucasian status)

    • @osonhouston
      @osonhouston Місяць тому +1

      He's not the first to do so.

    • @tins2329
      @tins2329 28 днів тому

      Who do you think fought for British in the world wars? Natives of that tiny island? Those were all people of color… whether these were brown or black

    • @gregpettis1113
      @gregpettis1113 27 днів тому

      Most patriots do

  • @firstnationfall5451
    @firstnationfall5451 Рік тому +38

    The Chinese tried something similar.

  • @RodriguezRodrigo-dj3df
    @RodriguezRodrigo-dj3df 2 місяці тому +5

    What are you trying to prove? You are showing pictures of dark skinned South Indians and trying to prove that all Indians look like this. You have zero knowledge about India and it's people. India has people of all races.

    • @nytn
      @nytn  2 місяці тому +2

      Obviously it does. That's kind of the point

    • @mohammedabbasalgadi9419
      @mohammedabbasalgadi9419 22 дні тому

      Bro indias are blacker than black Americans 😂

    • @le_X_O_N
      @le_X_O_N 4 дні тому

      ​@@nytn An outsider should stay shut. Shows how misinformed u are.

  • @baby.nay.
    @baby.nay. 10 місяців тому +7

    The more I watch your videos, the more I realize America didn’t want nobody here 😂 the history they taught us in American schools preached how all were welcome. You don’t have to get too far into the receipts to realize that was waaay off

  • @nnfefe9451
    @nnfefe9451 Рік тому +13

    Vivek Ramaswamy changes his color like a chameleon. But then he is a politician.

    • @devannayar6456
      @devannayar6456 5 місяців тому

      Vivek rejected racism period. Whether white racism or black racism.

    • @DOWNR4NGE
      @DOWNR4NGE Місяць тому

      He can ask Anne Coulter if she considers Indians to be white 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @baddie21358
      @baddie21358 7 днів тому

      @@DOWNR4NGE Ann banged Dinesh

  • @julieennis6929
    @julieennis6929 Рік тому +61

    Thank u for this one. There are people darker than me claiming they are White. Had an argument with a person from India blikkity Black telling me he is White. Many of them look Black. Period.

    • @rahkeemthegreat360
      @rahkeemthegreat360 Рік тому +12

      Race is defined by cranial features. Not skin color

    • @pearls1626
      @pearls1626 Рік тому

      Emancipate yourself from mental slavery or colonialism that’s all what it all takes.
      Cranial is the skull need to change your brain or mindset 😂😂😂😂

    • @pearls1626
      @pearls1626 Рік тому +4

      This video and the comments are eye opening to me, I never knew these things existed.
      Don’t get me wrong I know racism exist between white and black but didn’t know it had shades….
      Thanks for the video

    • @user-lc8mn5ud1l
      @user-lc8mn5ud1l Рік тому +11

      Because in India, a person is punished for being darker-skinned. It is built into the caste system. It is physically safer, occupationally more prudent to identify as "whiter". Less chance of violence, of being raped if a woman, of your rights and humanity being trampled on. Same in the Americas, where many "passed as White" for safety and economic advantage.

    • @sirg3137
      @sirg3137 Рік тому

      ​@@user-lc8mn5ud1l it's not sir . caste system is by your work not by birth and caste is nothing with colour . it's your people mind want to be fair skin . Nothing else. in America many people nowadays want to be dark skin so they are racist??

  • @javierflores5119
    @javierflores5119 24 дні тому +3

    The term "Caucasian" is used to describe people who have origins in Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. However, in 1923, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind that people of Indian descent were not considered white by the common American definition, and therefore were not eligible for citizenship. The court's ruling stated that while anthropologists classified Indians as Caucasian, their dark skin was considered "physical evidence" of their nonwhiteness. Who cares? They appear like dark white people, their features are like European people not Western African people but with that said so are many North African and Eastern African look like European people with sun tans. So what do we do? Why is it bad to be black? It's only bad to be black, dark, tan when your are discriminated against and these are antiquated standards? It should be that All that matters is that we are healthy, good people and be allow to live life free from discrimination. Unfortunately our Human civilization across the world is still backwards in many countries. To Hell with Caste systems of any kind and to Hell with discrimination of any kind.

  • @AJsGreenThumbLLC
    @AJsGreenThumbLLC 10 місяців тому +6

    I may have watched several of your videos over the past 3 days and finally subscribed because I was extremely impressed by your forwardness and bravery to delve into such heavy and "touchy" content. I applaud you for being unapologetic and allowing the world to see your story.

    • @nytn
      @nytn  10 місяців тому +1

      That is such a huge compliment. I really appreciate it.

  • @jayregal6478
    @jayregal6478 Рік тому +10

    An aquiline nose does not make one a CAUCASIAN. Ethiopians are a prime example of folks with that feature yet they have nothing to do with the Caucasus Mountains. The WASPS are also called CAUCASIANS and they are not from the CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS. They are from the URAL MOUNTAINS in modern day RUSSIA. Let's not always fall for nonsense. Black Indians are NOT CAUCASIANS!

    • @hemendraravi4787
      @hemendraravi4787 28 днів тому

      Black Indians bruh what ? So North Indians are Caucasians ? Lmao

    • @maaruz1979
      @maaruz1979 16 днів тому

      Caucasian is a construct. A guy literally made it up as a racial category

  • @ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e
    @ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e Рік тому +56

    About a year or two ago this plumbing contractor at my job was talking to my boss. Both Long Island, NY born and raised guys. The plumber began complaining about how he had to move from his childhood hometown "finally" because it became "overrun" woth Indian families. A few thoughts:
    • I should've asked him what he meant by "overrun ", because more than like he was probably talking about a handful of families at the most.
    • While currently the name of the exact town he was talking about escapes me, *I do* remember it being a bit of a middle to upper middle class area. So this guy isn't even making a classist point, which would be bad enough. Besides the fact that he said with his own mouthpiece, "Indian families", the type of people he's talking about are PMC professionals. Doctors, teachers, engineers, execs, etc. So even without mentioning race or nationality, it's abundantly clear what the problem is with this guy.
    • Of course, as disgusting as this all is, I find this bit ironic, because just being from the NY area I'm very familiar with more than a few people of Indian decent who seem to want to be a part of that coveted white supremacist power structure so bad. Which oftentimes results manifests itself as anti-Blackness¹. That mentality is also prevalent in other groups of minorites including Latinos and even Black people as well. But, cozying up to want to be included in a community of people that absolutely cannot stamd you is wild to me.
    ¹ⁱ ᵈᵒ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵖᵒⁱⁿᵗ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵒˢᵗ ᵖᵉᵒᵖˡᵉ ᵒᶠ ⁱⁿᵈⁱᵃⁿ ᵈᵉᶜᵉⁿᵗ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ⁱ'ᵛᵉ ⁱⁿᵗᵉʳᵃᶜᵗᵉᵈ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᶠᵃˡˡ ⁱⁿᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶜᵃᵗᵉᵍᵒʳʸ. ˢᵒ ⁱ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ʷᵃⁿᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵃᵏᵉ ⁱᵗ ˢᵒᵘⁿᵈ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ⁱ'ᵐ ˢⁱⁿᵍˡⁱⁿᵍ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵃⁿ ᵉⁿᵗⁱʳᵉ ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵘⁿⁱᵗʸ ᵒᶠ ᵖᵉᵒᵖˡᵉ.

    • @free22
      @free22 Рік тому

      Across the Americas, many immigrant groups have sought to distance themselves from Africans in order to gain status - all European groups, East Asians, South Asians, Latin Americans entering the US in this last century. In Latin America, it was the same. The Spanish promoted “blanqueamento” or “mejorar la raza,” where families could climb the social ranks by progressively marrying lighter skinned individuals. The threat is that if those new immigrant groups were to join forces with the African communities, the dominant group would lose economic power.

    • @tishainnis
      @tishainnis Рік тому +8

      👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

    • @gerardspringer8576
      @gerardspringer8576 Рік тому

      Yeah. Racist. Indians r the most successful immigrant group. Filipinos #2. Even if they own stores. They r in medicine, etc. We have a 1/4 of our Drs r foreign. It keeps Whites up by Minorities beefing. A lot of Indians have racist attitudes about Blacks. Check that shit in Africa. South Africa or U ganda. I mixed w/ both. Jamaica, Trinidad they can get along. Guyana they don't. Some immigrants come here don't like Americans. Black & White. Or they r Muslim don't like other religions. After a generation or 2 they mix up w/ others

    • @anthonygato407
      @anthonygato407 Рік тому +2

      ah ha!!! so that explains why they display the swastikas commonly. na, I quite like being among Indian immigrants and just the people in general. I find it brings out the best in me. super cool and not afraid to succeed at life.

    • @free22
      @free22 Рік тому +8

      @@anthonygato407 Swastikas means succeeding in life to you?

  • @tomcat4321
    @tomcat4321 Рік тому +14

    There are dark skinned caucasians like people from India, Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladesh.
    The skull shape and Nose shape does not lie.

    • @baddie21358
      @baddie21358 Рік тому +2

      Many Pakistanis are as pale as anything
      Look at Imran Khan, their prime minister
      Then look at Kalash people who are blond hair

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 5 місяців тому

      They just like Mestizo-Mexicans

    • @sonitawong7993
      @sonitawong7993 5 місяців тому +1

      They have all three phenotypes, not just Caucasian, some look Asian and African....

    • @biswaranjanmallick7407
      @biswaranjanmallick7407 3 місяці тому

      ​@@colinchampollion4420 But mestizo are recent even whereas we existed for thousands of years

    • @navjotsingh-vr4mt
      @navjotsingh-vr4mt Місяць тому +3

      We Indians are not white and not black.there are many people who like iranian. as an Indian girl my skin is white still I am not consider in white race because mostly indians are brown, light brown and olive skin .
      And there are also Mongolian and chinese race people in India and they are white . Don't obsessed with word India .we are not dark they are some black people in India but the majority of Indians are not dark . We consider
      Brown people.

  • @TheRainbowgary
    @TheRainbowgary 24 дні тому +3

    I am happy that thind showed the courage to fight the case and opened the gate for immigration for many people .

  • @andrewalex7873
    @andrewalex7873 Рік тому +24

    USA classifies North Africa as white.
    Morocco 🇲🇦 the first country to recognize America is classed as white almost like a credit rating system.
    Italians & others were Not classed as white initially in USA but became.

    • @Billdean25
      @Billdean25 Рік тому +1

      Syrians were Asians

    • @user-jv7ui2ku5t
      @user-jv7ui2ku5t 11 місяців тому

      You have got to be kidding. If Italians are considered people of color how can Northern African be considered anything but Arabic which is not white?

    • @1984forme
      @1984forme 29 днів тому +1

      Lots of brown in moroco and light skinned
      Italy Spain are European countries
      So many of them are white

    • @popeyecobi2240
      @popeyecobi2240 28 днів тому

      The USA is full of BS.

    • @popeyecobi2240
      @popeyecobi2240 28 днів тому +1

      ​Spain and Italy both had Arab Invasion for centuries.
      Hence the color of some of them.
      I don't remember exactly the place in Italy (but I think its Sicilia) some of them acknowledge the Arabic influence (both physically and culturally, even tough they are not Muslims).
      I've seen it in a documentary (on TV), and the person who was talking was a woman.
      Not all people deny their ancestry...
      Ps : I was also in the Dominican Republic, during a show in the hotel
      , one of the entertainers said in the microphone that they're a mixture of "African and Spanish". I often read that Dominicans deny their black roots (??).

  • @koolou2012
    @koolou2012 Рік тому +11

    Great job ..now i cant wait till you do a video on all the african and Caribbean people of dark and light complexion who are in fact white on the census here in America.

    • @maaruz1979
      @maaruz1979 16 днів тому

      That’s false - the Caribbean and Africa is very diverse and you over generalized and simplified. “Black” in the Caribbean is “Black” in the USA

  • @JayDragon-xo8jq
    @JayDragon-xo8jq Рік тому +11

    Black is a race , African is a Nationality.

    • @6688ya
      @6688ya Місяць тому +9

      Africa is a continent not a nation, same as American. , America is continent not a nation , united states is a nationality

    • @Ggg496
      @Ggg496 Місяць тому

      Of African descendants

    • @Henricus.
      @Henricus. Місяць тому

      The sky is blue, water is wet, grass is green!
      Wtf is your point? Let me guess American? Race obsessed bread and butter cuck

    • @Henricus.
      @Henricus. Місяць тому

      Congratulations 🎉 but you’re still American

    • @sampuatisamuel9785
      @sampuatisamuel9785 Місяць тому +1

      Black is a colour

  • @TWILS02119
    @TWILS02119 Рік тому +14

    Ironically Black Egyptians are considered white as well.
    White is a social club.

    • @lenaprice6239
      @lenaprice6239 Рік тому +3

      The greatest and most advanced civilization came out of Egypt, Africa. Therefore, it would make sense, if Europeans are stating that they are supreme, that they would lay claim to the Egyptian civilization, hence why, the U.S. census classifies Egyptians as White. ;)

    • @TWILS02119
      @TWILS02119 Рік тому

      @@lenaprice6239 The sheer irony we are witnessing, the CAUCASITY….KNOWING that the architects of Ancient Egypt are held in a lawful captivity, as former slaves ALSO in that same land, spiritually called Egypt in scripture.
      That land is The United States. Black folk can now clearly see ourselves in this story.
      I can understand from a social point of view why people want to be classified as white.
      That is the ruling class on the planet in 2023

    • @kaptaan_original
      @kaptaan_original Рік тому +2

      Ancient Egyptians were literally white Caucasians. The bone and hair of mummies, including Nefertiti and Tutankhamen prove this. North Africa was also Roman, Hellenic. Completely white.

    • @TWILS02119
      @TWILS02119 Рік тому

      @@kaptaan_original That’s why all the visible evidence looks black.
      The black man is the father of civilization.

    • @lenaprice6239
      @lenaprice6239 Рік тому

      @@kaptaan_original I don't believe Whites are original to the continent of Africa. Their skin couldn't survive the brutal sun, without sun screen.

  • @64north20west
    @64north20west Рік тому +14

    It just goes to show how much the supreme court has advanced in 100 years. Not much at all.

  • @pete6300
    @pete6300 Рік тому +95

    The upper echelons of India's caste system consider skin tone as part of their categorization. Just like other Asian countries the darker skin meant manual laborer. I'm a fan of Indian film and the topic of colorism and class are popular topics to be dealt with to this day.

    • @kb-gj9lf
      @kb-gj9lf Рік тому +6

      Colonisation. Didn’t always used to be like that

    • @craigr6842
      @craigr6842 Рік тому +20

      This was mostly made up in the 1830s by the British. They created Hinduism, spelled "Hindoo" back then (Hind means black in Persian btw) and put the lighter skin Brahmins at the top. Look up lord Risley and the caste system.

    • @pete6300
      @pete6300 Рік тому +18

      The caste system existed in one form or another for a lot longer than that. The British established the national system. Before Britain conquered India there were quite a few kings controlling territories each with their own structure. Even then just like other Asian cultures darker skin usually meant farmer. So nobles and the warrior class would naturally be lighter.

    • @free22
      @free22 Рік тому +14

      Yes, a light skinned group is on top of the caste system but the caste system in India was not based entirely on skin color the way it was used in the Americas. So there could be darker or lighter individuals within a caste. In some regions of the Americas, they advocated the one drop rule and in other regions, mostly Latin America, blancamiento or “mejorar la raza,” where your family could marry light skin people and move up the social ranks. That was never the case in India.

    • @pete6300
      @pete6300 Рік тому +2

      @@free22 I didn't say that it was.

  • @SukiThind
    @SukiThind 13 днів тому +1

    Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind was my dad’s uncle. My dad would always tell me about him, and how he’s one of the greatest men to walk this earth in his opinion. When I visited India for the first time, I was able to find the village where they both grew up. It was so surreal.

  • @dflowers1477
    @dflowers1477 23 дні тому +2

    As an American child (many years ago) there were only 3 races in our minds; Asian, Caucasian and Negro. If you were neither Black nor Asian “Oriental” you were just white which included American Indian, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Hawaiian, Middle Eastern, etc. But now no one is Caucasian apparently. The world sure has changed. I wonder if people still call themselves Heinz 57, meaning no clue of all their heritage bloodlines.

  • @blackmoses706
    @blackmoses706 Рік тому +19

    The white man doesn't except them as white no matter what they put on the paper they are brown some black 😅

    • @Women-hate-short-men
      @Women-hate-short-men Рік тому

      But white are best people bcuz they are european and european are civilized people

    • @Shiva-nx1tn
      @Shiva-nx1tn Рік тому +4

      And some white too

    • @patriotenfield3276
      @patriotenfield3276 Місяць тому +1

      I mean The term "white" is often centered around Anglo-Germanic Ethnicity & Protestant culture . Anyone who's not remotely a part of either of them , Be it Italians , Slavic , Greek or even Irish People. Now They have also included Geopolitical favourism in this inclusion as well.

    • @Concerned_one
      @Concerned_one Місяць тому +1

      Bruh, Moses wasn’t black.

    • @Sthmohtwenty
      @Sthmohtwenty Місяць тому

      Wdfc what d white man think

  • @luvbig41
    @luvbig41 Рік тому +16

    I remember watching a talk show, I wish I could remember the name....it's an old one from the late 80's, in which an Indian in the audience claimed he was Caucasian. The audience and white host laughed at him.

    • @Billdean25
      @Billdean25 Рік тому +1

      Nikki Haley is white

    • @spartawelly5863
      @spartawelly5863 Рік тому +5

      ​​@@Billdean25my father is from cyprus(greek) and my mother from gaza (Palestine) and i still dont consider myself white...stop spamming the comment section and accept facts...Arabs could be considered whiter than snow if indians are white lol

    • @pissupehelwan
      @pissupehelwan Рік тому

      @@spartawelly5863 When you open your mouth and say "Balestine", that's when you stop being White.

    • @derekm4819
      @derekm4819 Рік тому

      @@Billdean25 Only in her mind. It's a sign of her ethic inferiority complex. Her light brown skin defies her claims of being white. No visible pink or pale skin like an actual Anglo-saxon. She's a sad wannabe like many others from India.

    • @WastedBananas
      @WastedBananas Рік тому

      it doesn't matter where you're from what matters is what you look like.@@spartawelly5863

  • @TheRasta4ri
    @TheRasta4ri 3 дні тому +1

    I'm A Black Man made of African blood my hair is wooly my back is strong
    full term human being taken & enslaved from The African continent & placed in the Caribbean Jamaica W.I. under European slavery for more than 500 years

  • @josephjude1290
    @josephjude1290 Рік тому +23

    Another great topic to bring to our attention. Also making a video on people from a Lebanese background might be similar.

    • @jaif7327
      @jaif7327 6 місяців тому +1

      most lebanese people can pass as white

  • @thinkIndependent2024
    @thinkIndependent2024 Рік тому +51

    He was actually from a group that claimed European heritage, that historically helped create caste system

    • @jaiyabyrd4177
      @jaiyabyrd4177 Рік тому +1

      And it traveled globally

    • @Human_01
      @Human_01 Рік тому +2

      ​@@jaiyabyrd4177 not really.

    • @jaiyabyrd4177
      @jaiyabyrd4177 Рік тому +1

      @@Human_01
      Yes it did. The behavior traveledl with those people that immigrated to other parts of the world

    • @thinkIndependent2024
      @thinkIndependent2024 Рік тому

      @@johnnyearp52 The case he made in American court is that in Europe it was settled law( conversely being a European descent laws of marriage did not apply to him) that was the crux of his case

    • @thinkIndependent2024
      @thinkIndependent2024 Рік тому

      @@johnnyearp52 not sure what you mean that case has verified facts, if have a picture of your birth, the certificate, photos of your child hood( do you then not exist?

  • @Chucku153
    @Chucku153 11 днів тому +1

    Physically they got independence in 1947. Mentally still colonized!!!

  • @minaximoti7992
    @minaximoti7992 11 місяців тому +7

    Aryan does not mean White Blue eyed Blond Hair😂 ARYAN is Sanskriet meaning NOBEL Soul/Person ❤

    • @DOWNR4NGE
      @DOWNR4NGE 28 днів тому

      These Indians will do anything, I mean ANYTHING to be seen as “white” and that includes trying to cling to this “aryan” lineage because they think the little mustache evil tyrant of the 1930’s means the same “Aryan” (blonde hair blue eyed pure white) is the same as their “aryan” ancestors. They are literally playing semantics to try and crowbar themselves into “white-dom” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @nicholasong2760
    @nicholasong2760 Рік тому +18

    A lot of Indians claim to be white. There was this Indian guy who claim he was Dutch descent. He just claim to have a tiny 1% drop of Dutch blood.

    • @Billdean25
      @Billdean25 Рік тому

      Well Nikki Haley claims white and looks white

    • @StyleswithCourtney
      @StyleswithCourtney Рік тому +3

      Nikki Haley is white

    • @nicholasong2760
      @nicholasong2760 Рік тому

      @@StyleswithCourtney she is half indian half White

    • @StyleswithCourtney
      @StyleswithCourtney Рік тому +9

      @@nicholasong2760 Nikki Haley is full Punjabi
      Her real name is Namrata Kaur

    • @miochan6414
      @miochan6414 Рік тому +2

      ​@StyleswithCourtney so she nor her parents are white.

  • @melissabrackin3790
    @melissabrackin3790 Рік тому +22

    So interesting. Thanks for all the hard work you do, Danielle. It really has been so educational for me to follow along.. and gives me some understanding of my own upbringing.
    From my earliest memories - I was told, "You are Chickasaw" ... as a child, my Chickasaw father told me "The whiter you are, the better you'll be treated"... and prior to his death "the older you get, the darker you look".
    Those remarks told me very clearly what his mindset was and what he was taught (raised by his white grandparents).
    Oddly enough, I've never identified as white. 🤷🏻‍♀️ My own children call me "Little Brown Woman" and i view it as a compliment rather than as a derogatory term 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @Alan-lv9rw
    @Alan-lv9rw Місяць тому +5

    I’m a Swedish American. I think too many people are claiming to be white.

  • @RodriguezRodrigo-dj3df
    @RodriguezRodrigo-dj3df 2 місяці тому +2

    I haven't seen such dark Indians like the people in the thumbnail. They must be Tamil. Being half Indian, whenever I visit Delhi, I see African migrants and locals, they totally look different. Local Delhiites are fair (Excluding migrants from UP and Bihar)

  • @merchandisingparadise9440
    @merchandisingparadise9440 Рік тому +12

    Excellent video, Danella. Please keep sharing wisdom and enlightenment.

  • @nagone11
    @nagone11 Рік тому +29

    Your channel is kicking ass on this! Impressive content to say the least, always great to see and hear historical facts and truths.

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому +3

      this literally made my day.

  • @Rocanala
    @Rocanala Рік тому +2

    Only in America can you come to a new country and literally PICK your race. SMH

  • @user-fs9vk2le9i
    @user-fs9vk2le9i Рік тому +3

    Bhagat Singh Thind argument was like we are the same (as White Americans), I'm from an upper class in India that oppressed the poor darker skinned people.

  • @user-hr6uk7mn5o
    @user-hr6uk7mn5o Рік тому +30

    And I am so glad that somebody made a commentary that focuses on this because I'm an African-American woman and I remember watching a documentary on HBO at the be about center 12 years old and I remember in the in the tribal person singing to be black is like to be bad nobody wants to be black and this is so true, and it is important to note that it is a vital introduction and to human Estrada and the way that humans have been convinced that it is bad or it is not good to be a black person often times when people are exemplified with being asked what their definition of black is because I noticed most people when they think the black they think of African American and African American stand for just maybe 10% of melanated black people on Earth but for some reason it is always been with negativitynot other ethnicities of people that are melanated not Africans not Jamaicans not trinidadians not other people that are still black or afro but they come from somewhere else but it is only African-Americans because of the ignorance in the music and a lot of the things that are stigmatized from social media people don't want to be dissolute it with that that's just one part of being black the vital part of being black is the constant racism the constant and continuous systemic racism that Plex a community of people that are perplex in this country we call America because America was so good at convincing the world that black was bad and that black was all like trash or animals that people that share the same color as Africans African Americans and other indigenous Africans or people of color will throw their heritage throw their livelihood away to be declared under sump light notion that they simplified as sticking to their ethnic tissa t for example Dominicans DominicansI am not negril I am Dominican and we all know Dominican is not a race it's not an it is an ethnicity it's not erase the race on Dominican Republic 75% of people in Dominica Republic are of Afro origin afro and Diana origin and some Coolio origin they are not European there may be a 15% of European mixed with afro Taino and Cooley but for the most part they are afro ordinated I don't give a damn how like their skin is because when you go to Dominica Republic you see nothing but black people okay you seem nothing but black people there's a 10% chance you may run into it all European than mannequin Republic and usually is because they have Spaniard and Diana blood with a drop of African but I can promise you that every single Dominican Republic every single everybody on the whole entire, people are always accosted with trying to separate their battle from their fight and it doesn't work because when you come to America you are quickly reminded who you are and what you are I don't give a damn if you're from the Middle East if you're from the Middle East they will called you a sand Niger okay I don't give a damn if you are from Southern China if your skin is dark they will call you a sand Niger Puerto Ricans often time try to separate their visions from their race and it doesn't work they try to make this melting pot or create their own facade no no no noPuerto Rican is not a race either it is an ethnic to City Puerto Ricans are also 75% afro indigenous Taino indigenous and they have a small portion of Spaniard indigenous even the ones that are born with blond hair and blue eyes are afro origin8 it as well because I keep trying to explain to people color has nothing to do with your race okay to black people can create a white child with blonde hair and blue eyes okay but two white people cannot do that okay so you know it and it is vital because colorism goes hand-in-hand with racism and then their sister classes on comes right behind it you know and it's awful it really really is because nobody he ever wants to fight to be black until it's necessary until it's you know a part of something that has to do with something big or they want to be in the hip-hop culture so now they want to identify or they want to do something that we blacks too so now they want to identify as black you know but when it has nothing to do with any of that they identify with other nationalities

    • @ceruleanelectricthrone485
      @ceruleanelectricthrone485 Рік тому +3

      God will raise his children soon

    • @no-mess46
      @no-mess46 Рік тому

      Let's do away with the labels African American/black. These labels are exploitative. Makes you a target for others to feed off u. What is the benefit of being called that? If ur great grandparents r buried here, u r American period!!

    • @mrcead
      @mrcead Рік тому

      European colonial programming pushes love of the state over love of one's cultural heritage not because of some grand ideal but because they did not recognise non European cultures and felt them unworthy to be documented adequately

    • @goldsteinman
      @goldsteinman Рік тому +2

      @@ceruleanelectricthrone485 in every religion darkness is negative conotation and lightness in positive conotation, god try to make it clear but doesnt want to hurt non white people i guess

    • @warrendoris9669
      @warrendoris9669 Рік тому +7

      Sis with all that you had to say,it would have been a lot more understandable if n you would have used some basic grammar and punctuation. You wrote an entire page with absolutely not even one comma or period.

  • @YourFav_Anastasia01
    @YourFav_Anastasia01 Рік тому +27

    Very interesting. You find very little content created about Indian-Americans and their experiences! Remember that the people of the Caucasus are the original caucasians a region with 50 different ethnic groups. Europes being categorized as caucasians was also changed in history by a German physician

    • @spartawelly5863
      @spartawelly5863 Рік тому

      My father is Greek and my mom is Palestinian...i have hazel eyes and blonde(ish) hair...do i fit in your "white" category? No

    • @YourFav_Anastasia01
      @YourFav_Anastasia01 Рік тому +2

      @@spartawelly5863 In the US who is “white” as changed overtime so yes white

    • @spartawelly5863
      @spartawelly5863 Рік тому

      @@YourFav_Anastasia01 wait isnt "white" the term used to refere to people from the united kingdom and Ireland Only?

    • @YourFav_Anastasia01
      @YourFav_Anastasia01 Рік тому

      @@spartawelly5863 Not anymore. Her videos explain this and so much more

    • @YourFav_Anastasia01
      @YourFav_Anastasia01 Рік тому

      @@spartawelly5863 anybody European and MENA is classified white by the US government.

  • @shawnmichealos1871
    @shawnmichealos1871 23 дні тому +1

    Aryans are only called for Indo-Aryan peoples who are mixed with Indians, just like other european peoples, the term used is indo european for all othe non Indo aryan people who didnt migrate to India

  • @jjoyce46
    @jjoyce46 Рік тому +2

    There are some African Americans that think the same way. Because African women were raped during slavery by their white slave masters in America, the offspring looked lighter and in some cases light eyes. They were treated better than darker skin people. The light skin people would mistreat the darker skinned people. Most of them worked inside when the darker people worked outside in the fields. I'm African American and my grandmother could pass for white with green eyes (through rape) and a lot of my cousins and aunts and uncles were light with different colored eyes. Luckily in my family we embrace real history not taught in schools and embrace the Beautiful Black part of ourselves and call ourselves Black and EXTREMELY proud of that. That's why i get confused when i see Sikh Indians that some look darker than my own family calling themselves White. The truth is, White people did a good job trying to tear the human race up into different colors enough to mistreat other people for no reason whatsoever! My grandkids father is from Sri Lanka and on the lighter side and my daughter is Puerto Rican and Black and guess what? I'm teaching my grandkids to be proud of who they are and that definitely includes the Black part of themselves!! A lot of immigrants that come to America are lied to about African Americans as if we didn't build this nation through blood, sweat and tears of my ancestors and invented a lot of things in this country between jazz, the stop light, open heart surgery and many other things that other people take for granted everyday while fighting in all the wars for this country and at the same time being mistreated to this day. Even when Black people had money and built their own and Black Wallstreet, that was stolen by White racists and Black people were killed for that!African Americans plight was built on systemic racism but some people tend to try and overlook that everytime. I've taught some Africans about real Black History in America and they were shocked to learn some of the real history in America! Some of them didn't even know who the Ku Klux Klan was (a White terrorist group in America) that's been around since the start of America. Just like Chuck D says, "Don't Believe the Hype"!

  • @cardiffalexander6026
    @cardiffalexander6026 Рік тому +10

    Just as India has a cast system the US has one that the world over is using and in there the definition for the category white is defined as a person having origins in any of the original peoples Europe the middle east and North Africa so you may want to check out the SF 181.

    • @WastedBananas
      @WastedBananas Рік тому +2

      The caste system is not based on skin color. Please stop talking about something you don't understand.

    • @lindar6326
      @lindar6326 Місяць тому

      ​@@WastedBananasAS FAR AS INDIANS, THEY COME FROM THE ASIAN SUBCONTINENT, SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT?

    • @neerajanaghosh4464
      @neerajanaghosh4464 Місяць тому

      @@cardiffalexander6026 Just because one Indian fought to be classified as "White" doesn't mean that rest of us consider ourselves white. I have never met anyone who is Indian say they are white.

    • @cardiffalexander6026
      @cardiffalexander6026 28 днів тому

      @@neerajanaghosh4464 Greetings am making reference to the global standard which is not subject to debate because CDC WHO US education dpt endorse so it's not me saying that you will have to take it up with them.

  • @MadACeTeeMack
    @MadACeTeeMack Рік тому +6

    You are getting "Caucasian" confused with "Caucisoid." Iranians, Armenians, Turks and other Eastern Europeans around the Caucas mountains are Caucasian. Western Europeans are Germanic or Scandinavian. Arguably All Asians can be classified as "Mongoloid" and that includes Semites and Sri. Native Americans are also classified as "Mongoloid." Polynesians are a unique group with both Mongoloid and Negroid characteristics.

    • @WastedBananas
      @WastedBananas Рік тому

      semitic people aren't mongoloid

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 5 місяців тому

      We Mexicans are counted as White

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 5 місяців тому

      @@MadACeTeeMack then why does my USA birth certificate states that my RACE is White? And my DNA results plus the USA Census states the same?

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 5 місяців тому

      @@MadACeTeeMack Iberians are White they from South Western Europe!

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 5 місяців тому

      @@MadACeTeeMack we are primarily White Mediterranean-White and Indigenous-Mexican

  • @user-ep6yx4mk2j
    @user-ep6yx4mk2j Рік тому +2

    I am Indian born in a America and trust me I am not white and I do not try to be white. Can you do a documentary on “Chicanos” “Mejer La Reza”, I am not sure what your nationality is whet her Colombian, Mexican, Venezuelan, Peruvian, Chilean but I don’t make click bait videos generalizinga culter

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому

      I am covering all the court cases from 1900-1924 on this topic! This is one of many

    • @92_09
      @92_09 11 місяців тому

      Indian born is America is still trash. I’m Indian from India 😂

    • @user-ep6yx4mk2j
      @user-ep6yx4mk2j 11 місяців тому

      @@nytnPlease cover the racist beliefs of Mexican gang, “La Raza” they are probably the most racist sub culture in the US.

  • @sebastianford3453
    @sebastianford3453 22 дні тому +1

    I don't remember getting to choose what color or race I wanted to be before I was born...I was born and I am who I am...but I don't like racist people...I treat everyone the same.

  • @davidmolina7543
    @davidmolina7543 Рік тому +11

    Thank you for your insightful, candid poignant, heartfelt research into race, and everything that is related to it in this country.

  • @sknmwms6516
    @sknmwms6516 Рік тому +5

    She bleached her skin at least 5 shades lighter!

    • @ikax1661
      @ikax1661 Місяць тому

      But what race is she? White? Black or ....braaaaawn?

  • @Jesusiscomingbacktojudgeall
    @Jesusiscomingbacktojudgeall 6 місяців тому +2

    Every Indian should vote for Trump and Vivek. They will really be a powerhouse.

  • @lenaprice6239
    @lenaprice6239 Рік тому +2

    Your interpretation is incorrect. You couldn't be "African" and be a citizen, because the U.S. barred Africans from immigrating to the U.S., prior to the civil rights act. What the U.S. did however allow, per the 14th amendment was citizenship to former slaves, who were born in the U.S. and of African descent.

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому

      Just go read the 1870 naturalization act. It verbatim says African descent or nativity.

    • @lenaprice6239
      @lenaprice6239 Рік тому +1

      @@nytn You have to understand the context and clearly you don't. The 13th amendment essentially freed the Slaves (who were predominately of African descent). While the 14th amendment granted freed slaves, citizenship.
      What is important to understand is that the 14th Amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people who were primarily of African descent (born in the U.S.). It had nothing to do with Africans, in Africa.
      I find it hilarious that you actually think that the 14th amendment applied to Africans. ;)

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому

      I never mentioned the 14th amendment, you did

  • @rastatafari7691
    @rastatafari7691 Рік тому +4

    White and black are not races just status

  • @user-bj5cv4ms3u
    @user-bj5cv4ms3u Рік тому +5

    His ass set people of India backwards because he was only fighting for himself based on his top-caste status he wasn't fighting for the low caste, but his fight endangered the whole Indians. Citizenship only included the African descendants because they did not ask to be here but were forced here by slavery...same way Jamaicans got citizenship in England...but this dude was fighting for himself period! Great content though.

  • @ORTEZW
    @ORTEZW Рік тому +1

    It is just racism here in America period. anyone can fold into whiteness . but the American descendants of slavery are not . as I said, those from North Africa are also considered white. It was Benjamin Franklin.
    That once said. What a wonderful white country we have.
    White or whiteness is measured by power. Not necessarily by pigmentation.
    That is the first thing to understand here in American.,

  • @marileedent8499
    @marileedent8499 8 місяців тому +2

    I'm German Irish Cherokee and English little Scottish my grandchildren same one Italian and other 2 brown . All races. My heart ❤️

  • @gora876
    @gora876 9 місяців тому +4

    “Indians fought to be white”??? Yeah right!! Indians neither wants to be black or white. Indians trying to bring out their own fair complexion is a far cry from Indians wanting to be “white”. We don’t have to call ourselves “Aryan”, we know we are “Aryan”. Caste system has nothing to do with skin color. You have a lot to learn about Indians and their background. A little knowledge is dangerous thing. Your video is a true example of that

    • @DOWNR4NGE
      @DOWNR4NGE 28 днів тому +1

      Yeah right 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @youvasquez
    @youvasquez Рік тому +21

    Thank you for showing or referencing the documents that support your findings. Keep up the good work this is so fascinating. I think its more than color obviously, its about culture. The irish, Germans, Italians were not considered "white" so to speak until they mixed in with the dominant culture. Of course looking white helps. My "white" friends say I'm white despite the fact that Im of Mexican extraction but with olive skin tones.

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 Рік тому +1

      The same thing happens with Franco-Ontarians. They are if they speak perfect English considered to be "English". But if they start demanding their rights to French government services and education, they are not viewed as kindly. LOLOL!

    • @billross6013
      @billross6013 Рік тому

      Agreed!

    • @adrianjuarez1162
      @adrianjuarez1162 Рік тому

      Then your Hispanic or Latino right?

    • @Ralfi_PoELA
      @Ralfi_PoELA Рік тому

      Mexicans are classified as "white" they fought for it via LULAC and even their leaders said they're closer to the Caucasian race. Many of them know they're not Indigenous especially the German ones.

    • @FernandoTorrera
      @FernandoTorrera Рік тому

      If you are mostly of Spanish descent you are white.
      If you are northern Mexican you are very white.
      There are plenty of white people in the us who have indigenous blood but because their ancestry is a European with very light skin no one treats them as indigenous.
      If your indigenous roots go back to your great grandparents it’s not recent enough and you’re not qualified to be indigenous

  • @CarolynEHS
    @CarolynEHS Рік тому +10

    You have the best channel! I'm learning so much history about this country that I did not know .. Thank you❣

    • @nytn
      @nytn  Рік тому +2

      Wow, thank you. really glad to have you here☺️

    • @denisehenry3427
      @denisehenry3427 11 місяців тому

      Thanks for sharing your research. PBS, has some great documentaries on Race, culture and ethnicities. ♥

  • @yogeshkhanna5173
    @yogeshkhanna5173 19 днів тому +1

    If it is not white then you are not caucasian.period
    I am nor racist
    But i am an indian.