Black family in Georgia passed down a song through the centuries after slavery. Researchers linked song to Mende tribe in West Africa.

[Ozymandeas]

 

[CopiousX]

That's impressive. Hard to believe this is how knowledge used to be passed down before large scale literacy

 

[FromStLouis]

Fascinating absolutely fascinating.

There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time. Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.

The Gullah Geechee.

 

[The Burger King]

This is the reason why I can’t fukk with clowns who try to say “we’re not African, we’re indigenous to this land.”

You’re disrespecting your ancestors who suffered through shyt like this so that your ungrateful ass can be here today.

You don’t wanna identify with Africa? Cool. But don’t disown your ancestors.

 

[Skooby]

This is the reason why I can’t fukk with clowns who try to say “we’re not African, we’re indigenous to this land.”

You’re disrespecting your ancestors who suffered through shyt like this so that your ungrateful ass can be here today.

You don’t wanna identify with Africa? Cool. But don’t disown your ancestors.

You're confusing genetics with ethnicity and culture.

From an ethnic and cultural point of view, Black Americans are our own people. It's been nearly 500 years. This one family with this one incredibly rare example doesn't change that.

 

[Ugo Ogugwa]

Genius shyt

 

[The Burger King]

You're confusing genetics with ethnicity and culture.

From an ethnic and cultural point of view, Black Americans are our own people. It's been nearly 500 years. This one family with this one incredibly rare example doesn't change that.

No, I agree with that sentiment exactly.

I’m talking about clowns who try to claim that we aren’t African at all.

Idiots who say that we are actually the real Native Americans.

 

[Skooby]

No, I agree with that sentiment exactly.

I’m talking about clowns who try to claim that we aren’t African at all.

Idiots who say that we are actually the real Native Americans.

Although most of us have some Native American genetics, we're mostly west and central African and western European.

In the very early British colonial days there was a lot of mixing going on.

 

[Charlie Hustle]

 

[010101]

music makes things easier to remember*

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

This is the reason why I can’t fukk with clowns who try to say “we’re not African, we’re indigenous to this land.”

You’re disrespecting your ancestors who suffered through shyt like this so that your ungrateful ass can be here today.

You don’t wanna identify with Africa? Cool. But don’t disown your ancestors.

fukking Shebrew Isralites, Tariq Nasheeds and fraud ass Konscious movements!

 

[The Burger King]

Although most of us have some Native American genetics, were mostly west and central African and western European.

In the very early British colonel days there was a lot of mixing going on.

Yes, I’m not talking about black people with actual Native American roots.

I just mean the ones outright erasing their African roots and claiming they have no origin in Africa.

 

[Harry Sax]

Fascinating absolutely fascinating.





The Gullah Geechee.

real spill i used to think ppl that speak other languages cried and laughed in diff languages as well

 

[UncleTomFord15]

 

[Uchiha God]