A letter from an African to the African American | A Better View
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- This is a short film that seeks to bridge the gap between Africans and African Americans.
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For Over 400 years Africans and African Americans have had an unspoken but visible wedge between them. There is no right and wrong when it comes to why this gap exists but in order to move forward it’s important to address the pain and hurt from each side. A letter from an African tries to create a palatable table where both parties can sit and talk it out.
Written by: Nelly Sarpong
Starring: Nelly Sarpong, Sheri Ade-Eri & Samson Itodo
Directed By: Ben Zola & Sascha Lasarzewski
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Can you name the song & artist @ the end of the video, please!!! I will share, thank you!
Your parents sold your sibling. Time the truth comes out.
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How come the majority of blacks from Africa don't really reach out to blacks in the Caribbean or the Americas? I'm not saying that a few don't, but the majority do not, and why did their leaders participate in the slavery trade against a specific tribe of Blacks?
All of those horrors that she mentioned in the video happened to indigenous black people all over the world.
I'm an indigenous Black Man of the Americas and the Caribbean, and majority of the Blacks from Africa that I've encountered don't readily accept me, they come over to the Americas and Caribbean and mostly they keep separate to themselves of their freewill choice. I remember Nelson Mandela said several times before he passed away, that Africa for the blacks in Africa, Nelson Mandela was very specific, Nelson Mandela never really reached out to the blacks in the Americas or the Caribbean? In fact, many of the black Chieftains on the continent of Africa that I've already admitted that their Tribe participated in the slave trade.
I'm African, to all my brothers and sisters stolen from me centuries ago, I want to say i love you all and I'm sorry for what happened to you, I would also like to say that I'm proud of you, you fought against slavery and segregation in a foreign land and you won, you guys are surviver, you guys are fighters, a light that was taken away from us, I just hope Africa can quickly get it's shit together so y'all can come back home and feel comfortable. Till we unite again, one love my lost family.
I am speechless... Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
🥺🥰thku
Thank you from your African American sister..Imagine if that happened and the exodus back home takes place everything we have learned we can add and African can and will become a strong fruitful nation once Yehuah Grant's the time and our alpha and omega will guide the way.
Thank you ❤
Blessings and Peace from your Caribbean-born sister in the US 🤎
As a African American, I want to thank you for this😭🙏❤
Come back home and rest 💔😭😭🇬🇭
As a African American man I just want to say thank you for this.
I always know Africa was my mother And America is a abusive foster parent And I will never stop loving to Africa I love all my Black African brothers and sisters and Africa✊🏿❤️🖤💚
Respect 🫡 ❤we love you also
I cried watching this. There is so much they couldn’t take that connects us. We are family no matter how many generations we’ve been gone. Our DNA is connected . Beautiful
DNA and experience
@APEP HATEM ....and you are sir?
Leave?
Smh we are not the same ppl ther is 0 evidence to support that but wat u wer taught in school we are the indigenous ppl of ths land we are the Indians tht they speak of smh
@@midwestmayhem330 zero evidence? But evidence that black people in the Western hemisphere are the indigenous or aboriginals to the "Americas' or western hemisphere?
🤣....ok
@@Lee-ed9wv hey bro if u wanna be African gone head all I'm doin is tryna help my ppl come up out ther slumber an let u kno who u really are if u dnt wanna believe Me fine 🤷🏽♂️jus do some research an get back to me all apologies are accepted
I'm 50 and an African American man and this just touched my soul. I can't stop the tears as I am writing this. I'm not one to cry either but this has touched me to the core and something I needed to hear. The thought of returning to the homeland of my ancestors and being welcomed is something I've dreamed about many times. The division I see online between our people from here and in the Mother Land hurts my soul everytime I see or hear it. It hurts when I see my people from Africa here and they don't acknowledge me, the division truly hurts. There's so many of us that just want to go home and be one again and fight to uplift the continent against our true enemies. I know the day that I go home to the Mother Land will be very emotional as I am now after hearing these extraordinary beautiful words spoken. Sometimes we do feel like the relative that was cast away and exiled with no credit given to what we've overcome. These words have touched my heart and soul and thank you for expressing this. Truly the most beautiful words I've heard.
I LEFT A COMMENT GO BACK AND READ THEM. THE WHOLE WORLD IS GOING TO BOW DOWN .AND NOW AFIRCA WANTS TO SHOW BROTHERLY LOVE.BCUZ THEY KNOW GENESIS 15,13,14 IS AT HAND.DO NOT BE DECEIVE THE AFRICAN THAT COME TO U.S.A.DOES NOT LIKE BLACKS IN AMERICA AND THE EPIOTHIANS. CAME TO AMERICA AND SERVE WHITE MASTER .THEY NEVER THOUGH THE DAY WOULD COME READ GENESIS 15,13,14 1619-2019 THE ENDING OF THE 400 YEARS THE. MOST HIGH GOD SENT THE PLAGUE ON THE EARTH. IT WAS TIME OF REPENTANCE.
As an African (born in Germany) I can't fully comprehend the animosity between Africans and African Americans. It's online and offline here in Europe as well and it's hard to accept that some Africans look down to AA's and vice versa. I'm not the type of to show emotions fast but to know that there are AA's who don't want to be linked to Africa is devastating. Many times I've heard the phrase "I'm American not African!", American may not be an ethnicity but I understand. Because I don't know how it must feel like to be a descendant of betrayed and taken ancestors
Frederick Douglas and MLK Jr said you are NOT A.fr!con
@@adosinventedcountryrockhip6583 MLK LEAD BLACK FAMILY TO DESTRUCTION FROM FRIENLY NEIGHBORS TO WANTING THE OTHER SIDE THEY WAS NOT GIVEN TO THEM JOB 9:24 SATAN WANTED. TO RULE OVER THE CHILDERN OF GOD .EVE GAVE BIRTH TO BOTH SIDES OF HUMANKIND .THE WICKED INTRODUCE RACSIM AGAINST THE TWO.WHILE MLK GOT THE PEOPLE TO FOLLOW HIM MEANWHILE. JOBS WAS GIVEN TO CHINA BCUZ LABOR WAS CHEAP LEAVING THE BLACK MAN JOBLESS IN AMERICA.BUT YET DRUGS SENCE TO COME INTO THE BLACK COMMUNITY, AND GUNS SO THEY WOULD DESTROY THEM SELF BLACK WOMEN NO LONGER NEEDED THE MAN IN THE HOUSE WOMEN BEGAN TO DO WHAT THE FUCK THEY WANT TO DISOBEYING THE LAWS GOD HAD FOR THE MAN AND THE WOMEN .THE CHILDERN ARE NOW THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE THE KIDS HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE ELDERLY BCUZ THEY ARE LITTLE BASTARD RAISE BY A WOMEN.MLK DREAM WAS TO BRING HIM WEALTH HE USED THE PEOPLE ASS HIS BACKING. HE DIDNT STRENGTH THE BLACK COMMUNITY.HE WAS A IDIOL MISSED LEADING THE SHEEP.
52 yr old Afro Descendant here in the states and I dont cry easily either...but THIS? THIS messed me UP! I pray that the Most High YAH heal the relations and the rift between US here and the continent. We will truly NOT know WHO we are until we reconnect with our Brothers and Sisters on the continent! MUCH LOVE!
This letter is heartfelt, brilliant and beautiful. It speaks truth and very well written. Definitely something all black people should hear.
But that best part of it is that, it speaks for Us as Africans
There's so much we wanted to say but couldn't put it to words,but this letter did just that
Honestly this really hits deeper than anyone expected, its a wonderful peace that truly needs to be heard.
Thank you so much!! 👏
I agree 💯
That's cos ur to lazy to find out who u really are an it damn sho ain't African use ur brain do jus a lil research please we not African I promise u that
@@getabetterview stop tryna trick ppl you kno good an well we not the same ppl
@@midwestmayhem330 It’s about money no letters to Jamaicans, Haitians, Brazilians. This is 🤢🤮
Thank you, beloved sister. I have always loved you even when I wasn’t taught too. I defend you, your honor whenever some of our brothers and sisters make an attempt to degrade you. I have always admired you and have always felt connected to you. You represent my true home and I miss you terribly. To hate you would be to hate myself. You are beautiful in every way is what momma taught me.
Thank you for the love letter, I received it with love.
Yours Truly,
Your sister, Nonulige Ajua
Beat my heart so hard with love we will always the same because of our DNA we're the lions and one
We love you so much Africa is our home
If they’re apologizing to African Americans then they to blacks all over the world. We all went through a lot of shit. I’m sick and tired of AA issues only mentioned
@@JP-br4mx I'm sorry for your bitterness. We are one.
@@lolalove39573 bitterness that comes from years of being abused in a foreign land. We are not one. If you intend to makeup then you need to make up to blacks people world wide who suffer indescribable horror not just to AA
@@JP-br4mx Then speak up for YOUR the way the AAs do. No one has ever said you couldn't do that.
I cried watching this. I hope and pray that EVERYONE from OUR ancestral home sees this. #AfricaForever🙅🏾♂️
I'm glad they called you African-American...it reminds us Africans about you and our history together
It reminds us that our blood is somewhere out there and keeps us on our toes,praying and hoping for a chance to raise our race from the ashes of shame and humiliation
It's like a Mother (Africa) hearing about her long lost child,and recognising him by her last name (African-American)
thanks so much!
@@getabetterview Is this letter from you? I would love to know who it's from. Touched my heart in a way that words cannot even explain. I felt it to the core of my soul. truly God had to have a hand in it.
I'm in South Africa.... Thankyou Sis for an eye opening.... To all Africans around the world are welcomed to come to Africa ( To their roots)......WE ARE ALL AFRICANS (MELANIN PEOPLE).....
Shout out to you from America. I feel like South Africans can really empathize with us AA because your people had to unfortunately endure the trauma of segregation and oppression for sooo many years just like our people. I appreciate that your people come to our defense when some other Africans are putting us down. Much LOVE ✊🏾
Much love my South African sister. We black Americans do appreciate you because you understand the fight we have with white people seeking to oppress. Thanks for your comment.
@@KP82457 I’ve noticed that too. It’s mostly a South African who will understand us. Some other Africans see the white man as the savior not realizing that it’s them that is keeping their countries poor by taking their natural resources for free.
No I’m black
@@tonysparks9453 You’re not black, The definition of black is the absence of something. Black isn’t even a color. You are a aboriginal indian american. The elites & white race stole our native tongue & history & replaced it with african american. Told us all we’re from africa but we’re not. Me and you been here my brother . Our ancestors were here before the white race made themselves superior
This is the MOST beautiful thing that I have ever heard, watched and absorbed on the internet...It is deep, raw, right and perfectly spoken. Finally, finally, finally an African understands our plight here in America. The only Africans I felt that understood us African Americans was South Africans because of the racial separation of Apartheid... But this video made me exhale because now I know that many of our African siblings get us...Do not let the glitz and glamor of America fool u into thinking that we have money trees in our backyard or that we are living on easy street( wherever that is) or that we think that we are better than u...We are equally oppressed, just in a different way, but by the same monsters...I visited Africa last year, the Gambia to be exact and LOVED LOVED LOVED IT! My beautiful African brothers and sisters u can not know or understand how FREE I felt there. There was NO anxiety, NO having to look over my shoulder, wondering if I would make it back home safely, NO feeling of having to explain my full lips, broad nose, hips or beautifully kinky hair. Despite small language barrier( but many spoke English) I KNEW I belonged here, I felt at peace and everywhere I turned there was a sea of faces that looked like mine! I remember when I stepped off the plane it was exhilarating, a feeling I will never be able to truly articulate, u have to experience it for yourself...I fell in love with the people, food(Damoda) and culture and HATED to come back to America...I am presently preparing to come back HOME in December, this time to Ghana and Togo. Btw, I am PROUDLY AFRICAN American and I have always embraced my lineage of which I am from the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. No ancestry test had to tell me, I was one of the few who's family kept records and have verified it all...Sister, this video will be shared to ALL of my friends and family and I have subscribed to ur channel. I know that I have written a book and I am sorry, but this video spoke to my soul...To all of MY brothers, sisters, cousins, aunties and uncles WE LOVE U, WE NEED U AND WE RESPECT u so much...#ProudToBeAfrican!
Absolutely beautiful
HalleluYah & amen Sista Love, yeah you wrote a novelett, LOL, but I hear you & concur with your sentiments! Shalom
You wouldn't know, sis, that the letter
You wouldn't know that the letter reflects many Afrikan hearts' content. I am Yoruba of Nigeria.
@@olatunbosunbode-alaaka3688 OK and my lineage is Yoruba also. What is ur point?
This is a true masterpiece. This really touched my heart. Thanks for making this film many black people need to hear this. So touching but full of truth
Thank you 👏
For what? Black Americans are trying to heal. This letter is 400 yrs to late
To break this down... We’re not black. Black are not african americans.... African americans are not african unless their roots and descendants come from any country within africa...
Awesomely Beautiful❤
I Love this. This is truly a masterpiece. Thank you.
@@kirktaylor1841
Better late than never...
Blessings 🤎 🙌
It was hard to fight the tears while viewing this. From an AFRICAN American this was wonderful to hear. I'm absolutely going to visit MAMA Africa in the very near future.
This truly is a message of Zephaniah 2:1, “Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;”
Well spoken sis, I receive it. Thank you.
Wow I have overlooked this book 😯 I read it and I know what it's talking about! When God allows his people to be sold into slavery is bcaz of a great sin and like the Hebrews it was of turning their back on God worshipping other gods! And sadly my people are doing it again nowadays! Many blk have turned against God and the younger generation is Really against God into this spiritualism which is nothing of God but which craft! They are doing practices stem from Buddhism and God is not pleased! To have God turn his back on you as his child is the worst thing ever, I mean the first commandments says, Thy shall not have no other God before me! Slavery isn't a lightweight thing it's something much deeper and there's only 2 nation of people who were slaves and African Americans was one!
All praise to the Most High. Shalam
I loved the "we are proud of you" part. For some reason that touched me.
I’m in tears right now! Thank you for this, it was much needed I love you, my sisters & brothers of Africa! ~Peace & Love~
thank you! 🙏
We love you too 😘👸🏾 sis
I'm African and this piece express my emotions towards you all everytime I imagine been estranged from my roots. Africans and African Americans, we are cousins... Descendants of sibling ancestors. Our melanin and our hearts is the bond that connects us. Till I see you, someday. Love, Mayowa.
Dear GOD, I am in tears. This is one of the most powerful things I have ever consumed. I think it's time for US ALL to go home. We need to be together to heal and become the ONE entity we were always meant to be. A Nigerian called me a foreigner the other day and it literally hurt my soul. I am no foreigner to Africa. It is ingrained in my very DNA. I am not a black American, I am an AFRICAN American. The curse has been lifted. YAH is with us. Let's go home.
Africa is not your home that’s why he called you a foreigner. The scriptures tell you who you are and where your home is. Stop thinking that just because someone is the same colour as you that they are the same as you
@@dedicated.theemperorschamp6571
Who do it say we are and where is this home at?
You are not an African American. To say that is to say 50% of you is in American and 50% is in Africa. Its 2 different continents
@@dedicated.theemperorschamp6571 Africa is literally everyone's home. Africa is where life started. My DNA is African. Maybe you should check yours. You can't tell me about me. Try again.
@@Showstoppinkind
Africa is not everyone’s home. Everyone can’t trace their origin to Africa. The oldest human remains being found there is not a proof that life began there for all of mankind. It’s just the oldest remains found thus far. But what can be proven and has been documented is that Blacks in America are from Africa and haven’t been in America for no more than 500 years which is not that long comparatively. We haven’t morphed off into nothing else since being here and NO we’re NOT natives of America as some UA-cam negroes are making up for content purposes besides the issue of self hate.
The misunderstandings brings me great sadness. I am from a small town in Florida where Africa was pumped into us. The strength that has brought my lineage this far is due to the African blood that runs through my veins. For the longest we believed a day would come when Africans would come and save us. Demand us back! As generations lived and died it became evident that would not happen. With the images america showed us of Africa we ignorantly believed that it was us that needed to save you instead. This attitude of savior was an insult to our african brothers and sisters but we never knew. No one ever set us or the record straight. With the internet I just knew THIS type of welcome awaited both groups. I am disgusted by the things I’ve seen and heard from both sides. I’ve come to realize I will be prejudged by those that are not AA and mostly bypassed. I have nothing but love and look to the day we can unite as the missing family that we are. I can not speak for others but know that there is a large percentage of us that love you and want unity. The disgust we see online is tearing us both apart. Please Judge the individual and not us as a collective. Thank you for this beautiful piece that created space for this exchange. Sorry so long.
Your words are so deep! I've been trying hard to figure out why we can't stand together. I work hard to go out of my way to meet other African to form friendships and connect. I've been to Africa several times and I've seen my grandmother several times randomly while I walked thru the streets. I've seen people from Nubia dancing for President Sadat and I swore I was at a Pentecostal Southern Black Church! And yeah it bought up the hair on my neck and it forced tears down my face. I caught myself dancing and "double clapping" with a group of women that smiled and obviously didn't know I was born in America. I think we can only heal if we stand together and recognize that we are one! If we don't we will continue to be exploited and misused...
Thank you! ❤️I have love for all of my melanated extended family that has been spread out all over the world. I am very saddened when I think about the fact that we, African-Americans, lost all of our family ties, language, culture, spirituality, and much more. I feel like an adopted child in a family that never really wanted it; a family that only wanted it for the benefits and while they had it, they abused the child and broke its spirit. 😢
Most definitely we are African and we have to unite
Your words touched my heart deeply
I don't know what town in Florida that would be unless it's South Florida. Since I know the History of FLORDIA very well that would not be a Black American enclave . Therefore I would surmise you are not speaking through the experiences of a Black American. Only the TRUTH heals and we don't have that from the people who have come in our communities, not as friends or family but Trojan Horses with agendas contrary to the well being of our people.
ALL the lies and hyperbolic agenda none sense need to stop or we will never unite. None Black Americans can't speak for Black Americans and should never attempt to do so. I have been BLESSED to not only sit at the knees of my Elders. But I have studied Black American History and Culture pre and post Slavery and so have a multitude of Black Americans. No matter where we started out, separate Paleo Cultures became Indigenous to lands all over the world.
Their descendants still live in many of these lands though many was also enslaved and slaughtered. They have a separate cultural history over many generations. Slavery goes back to almost the 1st Century B.C.! What you're saying is far from true and most Black Americans know it. You're not descended from Slavery in this country with those talking points. Because they didn't exist.
NO ONE was waiting on Africans to come for us. You had slave revolts all over North America. The talking points you and lots of others repeat comes from movies or Black comedians. This rhetoric is so agendized and scripted it sounds cartoonish. When we look at the actions of African and other Black immigrants we see and hear something totally different and very destructive to our people!
I had the advantage of living in a tight knitted community with a lot of very hard working intelligent, brave elders who allowed me to quench my curiosity by sitting at their knees asking questions and listening to them revisit the past. Africa WAS NEVER the focal point of those conversations.
They spoke of the struggles here to make sure THEIR CHILDREN would never endure Slavery again. The institutions that many of you attend when you come here came from those fights. The towns burned down to destroy the passing down of wealth. The kkk, segregation, Jim Crow, was legally used to make sure our people would not continue to independently rise. They were not waiting or singing the phrases of people who sold them into slavery.
She called us her vibranium❤️😭
Wow! This puts tears in my eyes, because I do understand! I’m planning to come and move to Africa, I bought land in Takoradi Ghana beach front! I know what this truly means, thank you my sista!❤️🙏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽✊🏽✊🏽🔥🙌🏽😍🥰😘
I'm African American and this touched my heart in ways I cannot describe. I just wanna say I'm proud to be African descendant and I want my African brothers and sisters to know not all of us are ashamed of being your people or forget where we come from despite being here in America for generations... thank you to those of you who still love and care about us..
❤❤❤
❤❤❤😊
From a ADOS, I Thank you! Much Love and Respect to You!
As a descendant of American slaves, this made my heart swell with pain, and I could not hold back my tears. This isn’t home even though I may have been born & raised here it isn’t home.
It’s never been my home, and, most likely, it will never be my home. Home is where you are loved and cherished. Here in the states, we are hated and despised daily. I yearn to be where I belong among my people from whence we were stolen…
From the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Thank you & Shalom!
Where’s the love in Africa for us they have petty tribal beef that doesn’t involve us no culture having Akata as they put it …..pan Africanism is dead ☠️
It's almost time y'all. We r on our way, wherever Yah allows us, with great substance.
@@uptownslim84 Please do more research tribalism ain't that big
We were not “stolen” we were sold. I understand what you are trying to say but let’s not lie to ourselves.
@@uptownslim84 facts this whole video is bs. The African need to extend a hand now. Black Americans have been doin all the heavy lifting. The African let Asians and whites come to Africa but for black Americans they all of a sudden throw up the red tape. This video is not truthful because the average African keep separate from black Americans. We're tired of this one sided pan Africanism...
Africa, the garden of Eden, the blessed mother of humanity, and true promised land flowing with milk🥛and honey🍯, where every natural resource, mineral, and precious stones can be found in abundance. The land is a reflection of the gold, diamond, and precious stones that we, the descendants of Africa, possess within us.💎🤲🏾
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A bunch of esoteric bs, PUT THISE RESOURCES TO THE BENEFIT OF BLACK PEOPLE. Not others. Talking that plebiscite babble.
AlKEBULAN our mother land not African
Thank you. From an African American who has repatriated to Rwanda.
I cried also. I am African American and proud of it. Love to Mother Africa
How beautiful. Wow. This touched me so deeply, I cried. I am "African-American" and although I'm learning that many of us here, in America, are native and indigenous to this land, I know that Mama Africa is the land of our ancestors. We are NOT a minority. These are the tricks they have played to keep us all divided. Love to all of my brothers and sisters from the African diaspora.
I am African & I held my tears back ,this was beautiful!
History tells me my ancestors came from Sudan! When I did my genealogy I realized before Sudan we came from Nigeria!!! I wonder and still wonder why and what really happened that sent us real deep into Africa. My people we’re running from something and ended up in Kenya! This letter reminds us of the plights of a black man and black woman. Our story is long deep and wide . Let’s find each other with love .
You’re not a Black American this a letter for black Americans.
@@tonysparks9453 …. So what? You think your the only one who was affected by what happened that we all trying to put the puzzle together? there are Haitians Caribean and the whole of South America black people who were displaced, don’t be ignorant and delusional. Black Americans are not the only people who have suffered under slavery. What about South Africans who suffered until the nineties, their suffering don’t matter ? Because they are not black Americans? Selfishness is why we are still in this precarious situation and it’s high time we wash the curse of me, me ,me ! Haiti and Palestinians needs more rescue than anyone at the moment . The letter might be addressed to black Americans but the sufferings belongs to us all coz we are all family and the faster we realize they are fighting all of us the faster we’ll get our house in order .you don’t know the shock I got when I realized , there are relatives I might never know or never meet right next door to my state .so the story is not just yours because some of us lost relatives and we still don’t know why and how it happened.
@@ragwarkanisa9831 how about you stop being incompetent and properly comprehend the title which specifically states “Letter to African Americans” not all black people. Clearly you have a problem reading or something.
@@tonysparks9453 There is a small part that is directed at the bitter and resentful AA/Black American. Otherwise the piece is directed to the motherlands diaspora. That includes "us" in the Caribbean and in South America.
@@taq1238 did you call us AA? That’s a white supremacist abbreviation. Y’all really need to decolonize your mind
So beautifully expressed. Thank you for sparking a conversation amongst family that will spread as vast as the diaspora. I've taken a few different Ancestry test and found I'm mostly Nigerian and Congolese. (38% & 30% respectively). My sister did a maternal tribal test and it came back Fulani tribe!! I'm so excited about this and have been studying up on the culture. Next I hope to try some of the meals. We plan on taking a two week trip to the Mother land within the next couple of years!! Thanks again for such a warm invitation home 💕😊
I am an African-American woman that just listened to a very powerful speech that has left a lump in my throat. I care deeply about my community. We just finished our Juneteenth celebration and only now are we opening the eyes of many African-Americans about what happened to us. It is sad and wonderful at the same time. I believe that if you understand the ugliness that happened to our ancestors you can help heal the trauma. Unfortunately, for most African-Americans 23 And Me along with Ancestry DNA shows the receipts of all the breeding farms and even rapes that helped to produce ME and us. Can you imagine the excitement when the day comes and I no child check my results of my DNA test and I see an African person born in Africa as a relative with a face, first and last name? If I saw even 20 names or 10 names it would be so awesome! But this hasn’t happened yet! Please those of you who have an immediate African connection please test so that we who are still trying to find our roots can finally get there! It’s empty in this space.
African Ancestry is a great way to find your tribal people directly.
@@Nikki-ks6wi Even if our African distant relative could do any ancestry test, it would come up as a match particularly if many of them do it. Sometimes my sister and I don’t match up with everyone on our list. We have the same mother and father so we are matching at least 90% of the matches. Sometimes the genes don’t always transfer over. We have been in contact with only one cousin that is from the Congo because he shares the same Pharaoh Ramsess III gene found on 23 And Me.
You will never find your people because you don't know your name. You share a gene pool with many relatives and after hundreds of years that gene pool has expanded exponentially making it's next to impossible. I don't believe those ancestry sites are precisely accurate.
The sad thing about our Juneteenth celebration...the enslave were Indians and not Africans who came out of Galveston they didn't not tell that part of history ( Black Indians) research it for yourself.
It's so sad we never include our Black Indigenous Aboriginal and Negro Indians brothers and sisters... We only talk about Africans who was only 6% who came here.
DNA means nothing like she said...its was her spirit.. and for me it was documentation and my spirit who told me who my ancestor are and they were not all Africans.
A lie. 23 and me may say you're african but does not connect most black Americans to continental african ( DNA relatives tab ).
Y’all straight crazy and too simple to know when you’re being emotionally manipulated. And why this letter to Black Americans not to Jamaicans, Brazilians and Costa Ricans. This is pandering.
I'm a 46 year old African American man also in tears...in the last few years of my life i have had a strong pull on ❤ thank you
My brothers and sisters in the foreign lands, this is your brother from Cameroon 🇨🇲. This letter just revealed my own emptiness. Sometimes, you feel this unexplained void that you carry with you every day and everywhere. Until I watched this, I didn't know what and how to explain this emptiness in me.
You, me, us were all broken apart. Sometimes, when I watch videos on social media how you are treated I get mad at myself and to the African leaders who knowing they at least control some sort of power yet will choose to stay silent when you're been maltreated.
From the bottom of my heart, I say sorry and forgive us. I have always wondered how and when we as a continent would match up these nations and demand the return of our brothers and sisters.
Please, if you can afford it come visit home. If you don't mind eating what I eat, then my door is always open to receive and welcome you just as you are.
You don't need to bring with you thousands of dollars. Just your flight to and fro for those who just want to visit is enough. What to eat has never been a problem amongst our people in the motherland.
We continue to pray for you until each one of you is restored, your dignity.
THank you so much, I too will continue to pray for you and all my other brothers and sisters on the African continent and in the diaspora. Love from America
I am CRYING SO HARD as I have been for 71 yrs whenever I think of “MY FIRST MOTHER, AFRICA!! I’ve gotten My 1st ever passport, I spoke to my Granbaby & she is going to BRING ME HOME “MOTHER” My Bothers sisters I’ll b there SOON!! Thank for yr show it has started my HEALING & taken away the “IMPLANTED” FEAR!! May “YAHWEH” Keep u & Family under the “SHADOW OF “HIS WINGS” & till We Meet BACK “HOME” much LOVE & RESPECT
LADY Bloomfield
I know my Ancestors or from Africa
Over 400 yrs ago .. I wish all Africans felt like you
HOWEVER, we experienced the Truth on how Africans Treat/Feel toward
BLACKS in AMERICANS
I’m proud to be an
BLACK AMERICAN WOMAN 🇺🇸
Funny enough, the same could be said of African Americans to Africans. We both judge each other based on some few people's actions or inactions. We aren't all that way.
This commentary has touched my very soul,I'm literally weeping as I listen....In the process of getting my Passport so I can travel to the Motherland❤🖤💚
Please have a wonderful experience when you get there.
Good grief.
True!
This is the first commentary section I've come across which didn't have blacks divided (into those who hate blacks and those who don't)
For the first time I see us truly united
Please come, we are waiting. The warmth from your brothers and sisters, you will know you are back. Love from 🇰🇪
Simply Beautiful! TMH is planning our return, even as I write.
Like many others I cried watching this thank you this was so beautifully written. I hope this gets out everywhere. Love and hugs.
Very touching and heartfelt. As a black/African American I can say what happened to us both continental Africans and disporians is sad and it is not easy to over come. We both have some deep searching of true self and direction. WE MUST be kind in words we use with one another and we MUST work together to gain an understanding. For the future of our CHILDREN and our RACE
Beautifully sad. I’m at my desk fighting tears. I haven’t been to the continent in 3 years and I miss it so.
I felt the brokeness. The feeling you get when you were a child and you had your cousins and other family members all around you. You knew nothing else. Until someone infiltrated the family and caused a separation. You were torn from the ones you loved and you grew up without them. Then, during a family funeral, you are once again reunited to your family, but you don't know them anymore. You have not seen each other in 40 years and connecting with that favorite aunt although she is old and the connection she remembers; you have no recollection. So much so, that you search your brain trying to remember all of her memories; but you can't. The disconnection is heart breaking as you so desperately need to connect....to feel safe. This not knowing who you are anymore gives the feeling of being flung into the wilderness; having to live in a country that is not yours. To live with people who don't love you and they have nothing but contempt for you. It makes me want to come back home and reunite. But, how do I do it? Can I pick up where I left off? Will I still fit in? So much has been forgotten and lost. Will you accept me as I am and together we will see each other anew? I hope so......
This is absolutely beautiful and needed for our people globally🥰
thanks for your kind words! 🙏
I'm Ugandan and this speaks for me. Matter of fact, after watching so many videos of AAs returning to Africa and seeing the difficulties they face trying to integrate, I've been wondering what could be done to show them that Africa loves them & welcomes them back. This letter does it for me. Thank you
I am literally in tears. I'm coming home as soon as I can get there. I don't care if it's the last thing I do.
@@jonc4651 Many Black people have moved to Alkebulan and have some relief returning. Stop kidding yourself NOTHING is great in Amerikkka.
@@jonc4651 Speak for yourself. I know who I am. I've had my deep dive DNA done and *none* of it is from the USA. Even my tiny percentage of Native American isn't from the USA. You are welcome to believe what you want, but stop trying to convince others to believe like you. You took a really beautiful experience for me and RUINED it. Furthermore, I don't remember asking for your opinion. WHO ASKED YOU? Mind ya bizness!
This could be one of the most important videos ever uploaded to UA-cam! I cannot thank you enough for being so candid, so reflective, and providing us with so much insightfulness 🖤👊🏽🌍🖤✊🏽🖤
This was very brave, very wise, and very loving, and very appreciated. I've had to share this video.🔥💖🙏🏾
from an African American to an African: its all good we love you, we will all be home soon. we are always going to be together in our hearts.
Tears in my eyes as I read your comments. One day we will all be HOME.
Thank you Sisi for well written love letter , to our brothers and sisters out there ❤ u are always welcome this is your home... from South Africa.
This touched the depths of my soul. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 To my dear brothers and sisters of the diaspora it is truly time to connect as we are truly one .
Wow! That was amazing! Thank you! Sis! that means the world to me!
Such a beautiful piece my sister!!! I proudly proclaim that I am an “AFRICAN in America” as those before me survived the horrific evils of the slave trade. We cannot rearrange history yet we can re-examine ourselves through the eyes of our ancestors who attempted to grasp every bit of soil that held their true identity from my home land…the Father Land. Although corruption has been embedded throughout that land and the so called “Free World”, the love of Yahweh/YESHUA/Oluwa/Olorun/Jesus/Jesu/Lion of Judah has and will continue to empower us to overtake and conquer with the dominion of originality💜As He created
#WeStandUnited
Motherland not Fatherland.
That was deep the tears are flowing 😭 love from LA.
Mine too 😢
I as a Black American had felt a type of way about how Africans especially Nigerians felt about us a Black Americans at college but one went out his way to want to become my friend. Now I understand how he felt about me
That's wassup
I love this and I think we all should collectively watch this especially now with all this divisiveness within the diaspora. We are one family and we need to get over the hatefulness and the delusions.❤️🖤💚✌🏾
I’m going to share this everywhere I can this is what we need more of tbh .
I couldn't hold back the emotions. Im in tears right now. Lately I've been feeling like i don't belong here in Jamaica. I was born here but my ancestral blood is telling me im not from here. Deep down i feel Africa pulling me back. I need to go back home
I am not an American, born and raised in the Caribbean Island Dominica 🇩🇲 but I am very sure this beautiful letter wasn't just for African Americans, but for every African stolen from Africa living across the globe.
These words of love and wisdom have really touched my inmost parts in ways my vocabulary is not equipped to express in mere words. A million thank you for the time taken to put in writing for our brothers and sisters globally, I pray that we all reunite with the Motherland and leave these sin-sick countries we've been degraded to ONCE AND FOR ALL.
I love you and To every AFRICAN, HOME, AND ABROAD, I LOVE YOU EQUALY.
ONE AFRICA ISA MUST GOING FORWARD, AND THIS LETTER IS A TESTAMENT TO THAT .❤❤❤
This was about African Americans, she didn’t say the diaspora.
BEAUTIFUL, EXQUISITELY BEAUTIFUL! This letter should include all the descendants of the Trans Alantic Slave Trades, that are now located all around the globe.
Tell Mommy... We have not been treated right or loved 💔😭 Also Tell mom that we are ok b/c of the strength in our DNA! Some of us will make it back if we can brothers and sisters 🙏🏾 but for those of us who cannot please continue to pray for us & think of us with love 🤞🏾
I’m a 25 yr old AA from NJ n I cried within the first minute. 1991 Public Enemy released “Lost at Birth” talkin about this situation. I hope one day I will be able to travel back to the motherland to see it for myself. I just wish my ancestors could have seen it, it I will see it for them. My last grandparent died a couple months ago n I’ve been looking for motivation to keep going. Thank you for this video
Hello. My daughters and myself traveled to Gambia in February 2022, the experience was life changing. We are already planning another trip back to the Gambia for now. We would love to have others travel with us in the future. So if you can't get family or friends, to travel with you, you can always travel with us. I am on all socials under my real name.
You’re an Alcoholic Anonymous?
@@tonysparks9453 What does that have to do with the video?
@@goddesswarrior760 AA stands for Alcoholics Anonymous
I'm still crying oh my goodness we need to unite we must go home...I love you AFRICA I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU Always....
Beloved Brothers and Sisters, Kings and Queens, born in, or from Africa. We have gone from our ancestors picking and growing tobacco, rice, corn, sugar cane, cotton and every other crop to build the wealth of the world, to us becoming the cotton, sugar cane, tobacco, corn and every other form of wealth in this world. It is time for us to see how precious we are and stop destroying ourselves with the poison we have been fed in return for our work. This letter is igniting the soul of many to see who we are, rebuild our connection to our African Brothers and Sisters so we can restore ourselves. Shalom and love to everyone.
I needed to hear this
like so many others, Thank you my sister! This greatly warms my heart, spirit and soul.
Some ppl don’t know that Africa is the only continent in the world that goes to the core of the earth, like an umbilical cord…Africa is a very vibrant, magical and very special place. It’s the root and beginning of all life. The best way to heal and avenge our ancestors is to thrive globally in love, respect and solidarity. Rebuild AFRICA more greater than before. As our ancestors wanted before the colonizer came. Please let’s let our differences go for the greater good and the future generations to come. Fulfill our birthright and destiny. We must Finish it.
Agreed 💯! We must change the narrative, we are not decendants of slaves. Slavery is a condition, resulting from crimes of kidnapping and murder. We are descendants of kidnapping victims living in an active crime scene. There's no statute of limitations. All are guilty, Governments, bank's business estates, all guilty! ALL!!!
And some people don't understand that Africa is like the root of all blacks. We might be here,there and everywhere...dispersed like seeds blown by the wind,but we all came from one source,place and origin
That alone should tell you something
Neither of us can reverse what has taken place, but we can heal together, through emotional and a spiritual hands across the water. Let's reach out our hands and hearts, as penpals, as a beginning, form friendships, communicating, writing to each other. I have discovered through research, that I am a descendant of the original Hebrews from the Bible's Old Testament. I am 69 years old, so I am probably old enough to be your grandmother. But.......If you are willing to be my friend, I am reaching out. Will you return the hand of friendship, so we can forgive and heal?
As a AA man I needed to hear this letter it definitely drew tears because my sista speaks the truth so much of who we are is missing no culture pre United States no language except the one we were forced to learn and no sense of pride as to what our people accomplished before they were brought here. One thing some of us have learned is how to loath ourselves and our origin the way we are loathed by those who kidnapped us and it makes me sad. My mother has been to South Africa several times she said she just feels lighter as soon as she steps off of the plane she traced her ancestry back to Cameroon 🇨🇲 and the government is going to officially recognize our family this is what is missing this is what we need as a people a connection to our mother
This touched my soul. Made me feel like Africa was my mother and she was praying for me. Lovely
My mother is from Harlem like her mother was. 🙄🙄🙄
It can be your home, sis.
Mama Africa loves all her children equally and she does cry for her children that were ripped from her arms. Come home, even if its just once. Her heart and yours will simultaneously heal from this reunion 🫂
As I read comments from our brothers and sisters outside Africa it is so painful that you lost your identity your culture just know that we do love you all in mother land
This is very deep.... Love and respect to the writer. Thank you for sharing. 💖🙌🏾🌈
This was moving…😢I recently found out that I have roots in Camaroon and it was emotional to finally know where my ancestors came from. Best knowledge I could of ever received.
This Stolen African's tears has turn to Cheers for the next chapter.....
Very Well Written ! Ase'
We black Americans don't know were to go in Africa
just go anywhere you wanted and feel comfortable.
U can start with any country in west Africa. U have over 5k AA living just in Ghana 🇬🇭. Many others in The Gambia 🇬🇲, Senegal 🇸🇳. So do ur research
We African Americans are a mixture of West and Central African (Bantu) tribes, you can start there. Also, try connecting with English speaking African countries to help with the language barrier. Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, South Africa, Kenya, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are a few…
Me personally i feel the most connection with Congo and Zambia. Check out the Unapologetic Nomads on youtube. They are an AA family in Zambia. Also T3 and Me, Journey WithUs are in Tanzania, and Black Acres of Gambia. Are good channels.
Peace be with you.
@@oumlowe8885 Not just West Africa but also Central African Bantus. The first enslaved Africans to America came from present day Angola which was apart of the Kingdom Kongo at the time.
Nowhere because a lot of them do not want us there and they do not like us...may be a few.
You stay here and the creator will tell you what to do.
This is one of the most beautiful letter that I have ever ever listened to it reach my soul
I just came from Ghana yesterday. This video is incredibly timely.
This letter can also be called A LETTER TO THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. Great work!
I agree. I am Black American and I know that it is only being targeted towards Black Americans for opportunity and deceit.
Africans are looking for opportunities in the west not the Caribbean.
I highly agree, our ancestors were enslaved in so many areas.
Shoo I am an African and this made me sob non stop. This is powerful and you sister and our God will make all things possible ❤️👏
Absolutely brilliant! I have liked and subscribed and shared - and will continue to share. Thanks.
I'm an African American woman and I love your video. I'm also a true believer that everything that happens in our lives is part of God's plan. Everything happens for a reason. It's my dream to go to Africa and I plan on making it happen one day.
Hey Tonya, thank you very much :)
Us bein abused kidnapped rapped an killed is not Gods plan. We need to get out they’re religion
@@Brownskin83 I don't know if you read the Holy Bible. Read Deuteronomy chapter 28: 16-68. Read carefully. Line by line and it's about the Most High giving the Israelites a choice to stop worshipping other idols and God's, and if they did they would be blessed and if they didn't they would be cursed. The Israelites chose to continue worshipping idols, and The Most HIGH cursed them with slavery. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade didn't just happen for no reason. It was The Most Highs plan.
@@tonyamd9800 plsss, stop that bs. God doesn’t plan evil. That’s all the devils work. If God planned for slavery to happen, then God would be evil. That would mean the Bible is contradicting. Evil things happen because this world is evil.
@@Brownskin83 Exactly that was the white mans plans.
Thank you so much for this. As a daughter of those who were scattered, this touched my heart so very deeply. Again, I say from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
So beautiful! Thank you for this!
WOW, THIS BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES. LIVE , LOVE AND PROSPER, WE ARE ALL GODS CHILDREN.
I'm in tears....
Wow that is powerful. A incredible piece of work. The emotions on all levels put into words. This is what is needed. We have a place to start and that is us. As a African born in the Americas 🌎 all of us on this side who are pan African and who enjoy are Africaness and our history. Understand that in the 500years of Slavery. They may have taken us away but they can never take mama Africa 🌍 and her sprit away from us. Went home to Ghana 🇬🇭 2019 and can't wait to get back after covid. Peace and one love 💘 love for this. We know who the true children of the earth 🌎 😌 is. Thank you again. I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE ⚫ 🖤.
I'm a African American Thank you so much 🥲
This is very beautiful my sister and I'm going to share this and I pray it get shared until the end of time
I am not an emotional person, I denied my African heritage and DO NOT LIKE THE TERM African-American. I am black, until tonight when I listened to this young lady apologize for allowing my ancestors to be taken from their home. I wish that the government of the various African countries had written this letter a long time ago. Why did you not do this, why did you let us believe you did not care about us, I blame the government for not reaching out to let us know we were welcomed back to the Mother Land... I am 73 and never ever wanted to visit Africa other than Egypt. I now want to let this young lady know you have brought a yearning to my heart, I want to come home, I want to be with my people, I want to die and be buried on my continent where my roots began. I know that I am 70% African through DNA testing with 28% being Nigerian and 22% being from Ghana and the other 20% being from various other countries, So either of these 2 countries would be fine. But again, thank you young lady for this letter and just so you know I will proudly call myself African because that is who I am....thank you
HALLELUYAH! I HEAR you! This IS beautiful & so bitter sweet. I do love, think about you, welcome you, & long for our reunion. I long to revisit Africa again before I die. Watching from the wildes of Amerikkka. Shalom to all who read this & to the brillant producer(s) of this film Shalom family & may our Elohim keep & bless YOU!
I’m here in America here in 2024, I thank You for this I needed this! I been here since a child, grew up here. I’m more American then apple pie! Ive always had a longing for Africa and I’m coming home even if it’s for a Time or maybe a time in a half I’m coming and I will play a part in closing the 400 yr gap! I’m coming home….. see you soon Africa
So wonderfully amazing and comforting.
Signed,
An African American 🖤🙏🏽
Thank you 🙏
IM A FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICAN. Not African.
Facts. FBA is my lineage not a damn Hamite
This touched something down in me. I wept. The PTSD in our veins is a real thing. I'm ready to start the healing process. It's not going to be ready but we NEED to do it. Our men, our women, our children, our FAMILIES depend on it. Our future depends on it. We are still being attacked in a much more subtle way. We need to heal and come together once more✊🏿. As an AFRICAN AMERICAN I say THANK YOU FOR THIS!!
So POWERFUL...I am so ready to come home, to reconnect with my true roots. I desperately need to.
This is beautiful and how I felt my whole life,
Beautifully written, thank you.
BEAUTIFUL!
OMG!!! You have me in tears as I can feel the power of God in every word your spoke. I can't speak for everyone but for me as an African American I feel the connection without a doubt. My hearts desire is to touch the ground of Africa but I'm almost 70 years old so I'm afraid it will just be a dream and not reality. I love my African family dearly and I am so sorry for the disconnect caused by the enemy through the media portraying us in a negative light. We must reunite and stand together some way, some how. Peace and much love.
Truth is neither of us has recovered from the results of the trans Atlantic slave trade. This touched me deeply, it conveyed I think what we all as African Americans have always wanted to express. Thank you and yes we miss home too.
@APEP HATEM This isn't for you, why are you here? (Rhetorical question)
@APEP HATEM I see u on divested channels under a different name. U are a fraud and no, we never recovered. The world knows it
@APEP HATEM
Hebrew-Israelites, were not enslaved for 6,000 years in Egypt...
They lived in 'Egypt'..as free people ...hard workers, and their numbers grew....
which Pharoah almost lost his mind, when he saw the increase. When Mos-
es and the Israelites were preparing to leave...Pharoah said..NO''...and that's
when they became slaves...for 200 years?
The combining of the years in Egypt...were closer to 450 years...rather than the
6000 years...you've said!!
WE ARE COMING HOME
WE NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU
BLOOD ✊🏿❤️💚🖤