The pic. marked Black Waiters Ga, 1899 I would like to correct the author. The picture is actually a Black Masonic Lodge . The Worshful Master in the middle wearing dark apron ,The Sr. And Jr. Wardens on his sides The Stewards are holding the staffs wearing white aprons.
A handful of Black people of mostly African descent? Have Black people FORGOTTEN what Africans look like without racial mixing? I guess they have. Stop assigning an African identity to people who are clearly not African. What a joke.
Instead all we are taught is slavery and struggle. Settling for less and barely making ends meet. This is not what we are made up. We are made of so much more than that. This really needs to be taught to our youth. They need to know where they come from. So much false negativity is placed upon the Black race. Thank you so much for uploading this video. It brought tears to my eyes.
These pictures should be shown and talked about during Black History. This is uplifting and shows us that Blacks are an amazing and strong race. To be able to suffer so much persecution but not give up. To excel far beyond the limitations put on the Black race and to still rise to the top. Such strength, courage, and character. This part of our history is taken away from us.
Love the old pics....many of these people were not "black" ... many were mulattoes and native americans. At one point there was a very fine distinction made between negro and these other categories (such as on our census'). Just an observation
I admit I am pretty racist growing up here in rural NC, but I have nothing but respect for these people of dignity. Wish blacks had some pride like that today. No, I'm not talking about all of you before somebody pops a spring!
@Briston97 I am not a racist, and God knows we all have problems, but I feel like these people had respect and were treated with respect in kind! Man......Lil Wayne? These folks would have ran him out of the country! Maybe? Respect to you as well my friend, take care.
@darkconversationist The artist is Enya, from Ireland. She has an angelic voice & her music is quite ethereal. I played some of her music at my Mom's funeral.
@darkconversationist Your very welcome, here is a link to one of my favorite songs by Enya called "Paint the sky with Stars" check it out & enjoy! /watch?v=YlbinBv8178
These photos were taken in an age of segregated schools.
The images show many black Americans obtaining high levels of education, & of involvement in the civilized society (such as that "composition room" of a newspaper, such as the teacher's college, the university graduates, the ministers' school & the black family in front of the LOVELY Victorian home. I'm white and I wish I HAD such a home!) This is "oppression?" These images don't show a story of oppression, but opportunity & high class!
These pictures are lovely. Showing a very high degree of refinement and dignity in the subjects. However, none of them show signs of age. Can you please explain to me why they all look flawless as if they were taken yesterday? If I'm not mistaken, that was the age of the dagguerotype, which fades, smudges and ages badly. How did you find so many photos so well-preserved?
In the Caribbean we say Mulatto or Creole for 1st generation and multi-generation Mulattoes. It is not a negative word like SOME people in the US implies. In Africa Mulatto the term Mulatto and "coloured" means those of mixed race. Colored means mixed in most countries in the African continent. Negroe which is the global term for 100% or near 100% is Black unmixed. Some folks need to use their critical thinking skills. Self identifying as Multi-racial, Mulatto, Creole is fine.
@danae417 : What do you expect slaves to look like? All disheveled and unkempt as you have taught in college? Don't you know that slaves were equally humans like you too. At their free time, they were like any normal human family...they bathe, clean and dressed elegantly to have portraits of themselves taken.
@tobim2004 yes in school we were shown pictures of slaves that looked unkempt and so forth even in movies what i was saying that you don't see this in the history books i was not there back then so all i see is what is in the whitewashed history books and movies. yes i understand now why the video was put up 2 months ago i didn't and my grandparents don't have any pictures from back then so i didn't have a glue only the slave trade and the ships which was taught in school
I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT IM A BROWN GIRL WHO IS 13 YEARS OLD AND THESE PICTURES make me love my culture so much even tho some of us were mixed up but it kinda makes me sad because i know they were achieving in what they did but i can tell they were unhappy and i know blacks werent the only slaves in america but we were treated the worst we were posined,beaten,spitted on,made front of,etc.some black kids now days dont appreciate this like i do i love my people even tho we fight and sometimes argue
I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT IM A BROWN GIRL WHO IS 13 YEARS OLD AND THESE PICTURES make me love my culture so much even tho some of us were mixed up but it kinda makes me sad because i know they were achieving in what they did but i can tell they were unhappy and i know blacks werent the only slaves in america but we were treated the worst we were posined,beaten,spitted on,made front of,etc.but black kids now days dont appreciate this like i do i love my people even tho we fight and sometimes argue
I don't know about anybody else, but I alway wonder who black folks dealth with the day to day racism and challeges all around them back then, even after so many years after the civil war. I am sure glad they more than hung in there. Its a lot when every section of society and other races put themselves befofe you. Its amazing to survive, creat, and grow under all that. Man, if we had the protection of the law and that 40 acres and a mule, our wealth of this country would of been nice to have.
Before I even started reading the comments I already knew this vid would have negative racist comments behind it. It is 2011, we have a black president. Come on people, why must ignorance continue to rear its ugly head. We are all God's creatures. This is ridiculous.
You know what? Just shut up. Nobody owes you a damne thing. You have not been the only ones to have been enslaved . Every Race on this planet has been enslaved at one point or the other. The thing every one forgets is that slavery makes it's decendants better. During the Roman occupation of most Europe, The europians learned about architecture,different forms of irrigation,farming,textiles,medical procedures ect. Were it not for slavery you would be fighting lions with sharp sticks.You ow us!!
@MrBerekhhnd Africans did not used to fight lions with sticks we new they were animals and should be left alone. Its only you european caucasian devils who have to mess with the lions and put them in to cages. Your society is not all that ,the powers and sprits will showyou stuck up devils oneday. Most people whocommet on Africa have not even been there, Just thinkwhat you see on tv is ture. when your racist societies flood we willseewhere you devils are rushing to go
Uavetheface.your head is filled with monotonous knowledge..if white people not give them space for study and give their good jobs .Caculating is simple stealing . what would you do in the same place witHout chanCEs?can you tel me where go the wind and where is the expiration/ended the wind. If you think you are so smart white simple minded.How many levels have the whole universum ? or 10-9 in one second or 1 ns . Can you say what this is? who is the inventor ?white simple sardonic thinker.
Uavetheface.your head is filled with monotonous knowledge..if white people not give them space for study and give their good jobs .Caculating is simple stealing . what would you do in the same place witHout chanCEs?can you tel me where go the wind and where is the expiration/ended the wind. If you think you are so smart white simple minded.How many levels have the whole universum ? or 10-9 in one second or 1 ns , can you say what this is? who is the inventor ?white simple sardonic thinker.
Uavetheface.your head is filled with monotonous knowledge..if white people not give them space for study and give their good jobs .caculating is simple stealing . what would you do in the same place whitout changes?can you tel me where go the wid and where is the expiration of the wind. If you think you are so smart white simple minded.How many levels have the whole universum ? or 10-9 in one second or 1 ns , can you say what this is and who have invented this ?white simple sardonic thinker.
The negro is a dangerous creature suffers from being paranoid every time a white person looks at them they roam the streets like wild apes attacking when they have the greater numbers ,they rob and steal they dont want to work ..why dont we send these African Americans but to Africa !! Usa would be a better place to live in.
@uavetheface wow guess what - it appears your not very intelligent so I suggest you start educating yourself by reading the dictionary if you look up the word "Ignorant" you will see the definition of yourself!! might help if you look up redneck and racist also - you'll learn alot about yourself! oh lets not forget "stupid" look that one up also lol
Alot of these African Americans are mainly more mixed and more noticebly (the ones with lighter complections) decendants of mixed race maybe even creole, anyways, I FIND THEM ALL BEAUTIFUL, including the clothes, particularily the women esp. the woman's dress at 3:45!
@Lazybabyz wow dnt blame black ppl for your miserable sad life! all the racist deluded people on here whether your white or black for real its sad your so weak to understand what it means to be "human" first the colour or race of someone should not stop you from seeing a "human being" first - it is this sick, ignorant lazy weak way of thinking and living from lazybabyz and uavetheface that enabled hitler to dictate and inject all the hatred he spread in his horrific reign.
The women in the picture at 2.36 is Laura Nelson in 1911 her and her son were lynched From a bridge In Oklahoma go online and look up her tragic. Story
I'm pretty sure these portraits were created for the World's Fair in Paris in 1900. They had an exhibition on African Americans. You can see them at the Library of Congress online.
These people clearly aren't slaves and are clearly middle class. There were a few families who were relatively well off compared to the vast majority who were not sitting for portraits. It is nice to see photos of black gentry but it says nothing of the conditions of the vast majority. These pics all come from one studio in 1899.
It wasn't slavery that hurt black america, although bad, it was the wild behavior after 1965 with sex and drugs in the open...i always get mad when someone blames slavery!!
CLASS, HONOR AND DIGNITY is what l see when l see the people in these pictures. I wish they could come back and teach the youth today, help them get there ACT TOGETHER. cause GOD knows we need help!
I Love it I would like to make a point most of these people were from up north the south in those times were still very hostile there were only a few pics with very dark-skinned people most of them, were mixed race u can see how our race is mixed and we as black people were forever changed i think its a beautiful thing
The ever so dishonorable Nicki Minaj comes to mind as I browse these lovely pics that are full of CLASS. Black youth these days need to get it together. I blame it on the Black parents, media, etc..
I don't know what the hell you'll are talking about! 1:17, 1:48, 2:37, 2:47, 3:17, 3:38, 6:21, 7:14, 7:58, 8:18, 8:27, 8:48 could have said, " black men" going to church," but whatever. 9:02, 9:29; plenty of dark skinned people!
HELLO U STUPID ??????????NATIVES ARE NOT BLACKS NATIVES ARE DISGUSTING ,FILTH,HALF BREEDS THAT THINK THEY CAN TURN INTO WOLFSlol ALSO THINK THEY ARE SUPERIOR. IM NOT BLACK!!! I WANNA BE BLACK THATS Y I PUT MY ACCOUNT 4 ALL BLACK PEEPS BETTER THAN THOSE RED NECK FOSCELS!
Im loving the video and after reading the comments. All I can say It is what it is human race is Beautiful in all shapes and colors. Can you believe a white couple actually had a black child and the DNA test results belong to them both. God is showing you that we are 1 Race checkout a video called White Mommy, White Daddy, Black Baby (Family Tree)
@bbgurl22ful r u out your mind are you white is that your personal believe all whites come from blacks origanal people all natives that were here first were african stop calling us black its a insult your fore fathers created this word like many others to help with the land theft.who is osh kosh
@bbgurl22ful why do you say that???? there were more blacks in slavery who were not mixed than mixed yunno...some were mixed..about the same during slavery as were mixing in the 60's ...but who cares ..people only care about it cus it happened during slavery and because we werent ther so it has this "aura" about it.....mixing is at an all time high today and it really isnt a big deal.
@mddarch2 Yeah, but if u think about those mixed blacks marrying the unmixed blacks, their offspring are also now mixed & this continues through generations until until nowadays when something like 95% (or more) of black ppl R actually Multi generationally mixed whether they know it or not. Just like there are white ppl with a % of black or Native blood also. Mixing isnt a big deal cuz it doesnt hav 2 b hidden as be4.
1. True West Africans do not have light skin, straights/wavy hair, narrow noses and thin lips. Apparently, our African Ancesters came from West Africa.
2. These so called "Black Americans" are indeed mixed people who happen to have Black Blood.
You sound Extremely Ignorant, We have Black Actors, that Play Africans, Don Chetum, Derrick Luke U NEED to go down South, Honey, Some Blacks look like they Just Step out of Africa. Visit an All Black College. U R THE ONLY ONE MIXED, AND YOUR EYES HAVE PISS IN IT. U R SILLY.
i don't agree wit that at all... i may be white but i know livin in this world, i know that the whites have been rude and cruel to all african americans.. and the blacks are not mixed people... hence the name "MIXED" meaning that they are half black n half something else whether it be white, asian, hispanic whateva... i mean u can't judge n e 1, the only 1 dat can do dat is the Man up Stairs and we all have to answer to him when we leave this earth
See you are taking the characteristics of your family and blaming all blacks.That is what you mean we need to do for self.
I come from a family that has land owners since the 1800s in west bockton but the goverment forced my people to move so we moved to were we are today and still we own over 250 acers That is your family you are talking about, my family own one of the most known funeral homes in chicago
the obama family did that inspite of slavery that is what you mean correct
You said we need to do fro self and stop blaming slavery You speaking about your family. My family is not like yours You the uncle tom type that say we keep bringing up slavery. stupid asshole slavery just stoped in the 1960s My great grandfather had to go help his cousin escape from mississippi it is called by other people peonage And you say the people in oklahoma got over slavery. Slavery was still back then inspite of the rouge slave camps in the south they made good
We have always been a great people even though they tried to re-write history for themselves etc.. in-fact it was for that reason they degraded us to start with they knew !!!! and still do the truth is coming out even biblical.
race is a bunch of bull shit there are too type of people
people with melanaderm the whole world
"derm" skin verses things with lukaderm
"Luka" colerless pale plain "void off beuty" well the last one was just an opinion
and who in the fuck told that fuck face cirthgr8 my people in tulsa in the 20s was not mad about slavery fuck you it was exslaves who survived the civil war made good and had the jeouluspink trash come kill them
@bamaboy....what you call yourself is exactly what your mentality IS.....BAMA !
I did NOT SAY they weren't mad about it stupid ass. I said basically they didn't remain stagnant and just role over and die. I'm not even going to further explain myself to a miget minded asshole such as yourself. You need to "do for self " by educating that shit between your ears you call a brain . You COUNTRY BAMA ASS BOY !
are sky warrior stupid or something we can se that they are black no need to write it on every damn picture, it´s not like you would have done it if they were white.
That's because this is an international forum and outside of the United States a lot of the people we recognize as being black are perceived as being not black. The one drop rule was created by the US government. Outside the US many of the people in those photos would be considered white, or at the very least, not people of African origin. It may seem obvious to you, but that's because you've grown up seeing it all your life. That's not always the case with many people in other countries.
BULLSHT! That is NOT TRUE! AND they *are* of AFRICAN ORIGIN.... SO... that makes them Black. THey were BLACK BACK THEN AND THEY ARE BLACK TODAY! I'm MIXED AND YOU FUKERS CALL ME BLACK! You cant mix whats ALREADY THERE! All other races are just a lighter variation of BLACK! Dont believe me? Look up the article in BBC on how they found 14 DNA strands of different races on the African gene just the other day!
You're an asshole and I don't care to wast my time and energy talking to you. I never said they were not people of African origin. I said that outside the USA most people do not understand the why we consider a person who is obviously not 100% African to be black. You're just another youtube asshole who is incapable of holding an intelligent conversation or being able to look beyond the confines of your own stupid life to understand other perspectives. Go fuck yourself and don't reply to me.
People knew how to do their hair back in the day!lol probably because in those days people dressed more formally most of the times also at those times the way in which they did their hair was more healthy since at that time methods for styling hair was in its prime
Very beautiful pictures. Here's an interesting point too. Looking at these pics you see dignity, honor, self /respect, love, dedication etc. Look at a lot of pics today and it's pants hanging off of smeones a** or some young lady looking or being promiscuous. And the sad thing about it is....a lot of ppl STILL blame slavery. The ppl in these photos were a lot closer to those times and HAD their ACT TOGETHER ! ! I'm sure a lot of others as well as myself feel like they're in the wrong time
SLAVERY Has EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT! IT WAS A BREAKING PROCESS.. BACK then and during Black people were still OPPRESSED... That gave them litttle room to wiggle. But if you suddenly liberate a people that have always been oppressed you have CHAOS! Nothing really changed in America until after the CR movement. That's when you get to see the REAL damage...after you turn a people loose, but still find undercover ways to legally oppress them.... There is a lot of work left to be done!
@moniqtee....You mean to tell me that even TODAY slavery still has something to do w/ it . Get the fk outta here. Example...The blk ppl in Tulsa OK in the 20's. Blk Wallstreet. They had it going on and weren't pissin and moanin until it was all burned down by rascist. But building a respectful community and DOING FOR SELF...They weren't crying about slavery. They moved on and got their ACT together. Like Vineyard said in Am Hist X, How long does it take to get your ACT TOGETHER ?
@cirethgr8 oh it takes about twice as long as it took to get things the way they were, so lets bookmark the end of the civil rights movement as a cornerstone, i would supposed we have about 300 more years to create our real culture, but that won't happen, systemically there is no room for Black culture.
cont. That's just a piss poor excuse that a lot of "N***AS use that hold BLACK PPL BACK ! And there's more uncle rukus n***as than BLACK PPL, thus....collectively....making us our OWN WORST ENEMY ! I disagree entirely w/ your comment. U said if you liberate a ppl whom always been oppressed there's chaos...yeah....if there's continued institutionalized rascism. But I don't understand why collectively blks won't figure out a way around the fkn hurdle and DO FOR SELF ! STP BLMN SLVRY !
@cirethgr8 so your saying stop teaching history, looking at slave mentality as a system of civil control is not blaming, it's an examination of the past, effecting the present, used correctly this can effect the emotional maturity it takes for masses to move forward, not in what white society calls progress, but we as a culture can live with socially, economically and personally. We are always measuring ourselves with White expectations, where does that comes from... plantation expectations.
@Tracyturner1634....You've completely missed my whole point. I'm not saying stop tchg history at all. History should be learned from & move on to make things better for yourselves. Not to look back only to piss & moan & reamain stagnant like most uncle rukus folks do. I'm gonna keep it real. Some or a lot of these uncle rukus folks need to "go." They're weak links & dead weight. If you have cowards in your squad running from a fire fight setting you back what would you do ?
didnt miss your point at all, just looking forward as well. These 'uncle' types are a part of every culture (race)... there is always a remnant of those who live in a past with ignorance and excuses... but these 'types' do not define us as a people (black folk), they irritate us to no end, but we have to distroy the perception of the few and 'market' the accomplishments of the many.
it is hard to forget all that has been done to african americans ...the slavery,discrimination hatred not to mentions cruel treatment for just being a differnt color than white..i no what has happened is already past but we can never forget all those innocent black people who had to die for an unfair reason.... thats all im saying thats exactly why many black people bring that up.I ts mostly because of what our people had to go through its very hard to forget,
@cirethgr8 Looks like conforming to me. Back in the seventies no one had trounsers hanging of their arses well high waisted trousers in those days. This in my view is a bunch of fair skinned black people who could afford to get a portrait and use the photographers dress up box (used by whites too) for a piccy. All the straightening of the blokes hair is awful. Nontheless we can argue the toss here this is merely dressing up for a portrait. These days all kids look dreadful even rich ones x
@cirethgr8 very simple explanation. you dont like how black ppl act today? what are you doing to make their (im not black american so im gonna exclude myself) lives better tho?
and im only 3 minutes in the video, but i dont see any pictures of the houses they lived in, the ones with no shoes, the POOR ones, which were the majority! and there may be rich black people today, but there are still alot of poor ones! and you wanna talk about pants on the ground, there are bigger problems than that.
@rantazz23 Just SAVE IT ! And the answer to your stupid question is simple. I'm raising my son to be a MAN & a PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN that's highly unlikely to end up a statistic. That's WHAT I'M DOING to make lives better. Each 1 teach 1 & each 1 reach 1. Also.....I LEAD BY EXAMPLE ! Some ppl are just born to be FKN IDIOTS and if you or anyone else has common sense, you'll discern QUICKLY & keep your distance. That's how you make lives BETTERE ! -1-
In the Unites States being black never had anything to do with a concept of racial purity. Everyone knows most AfroAmericans are a mix of at least 3 races. And no, not all of the mixture came from rape. Alot of times there were consentual relationships and a lot of what you perceive as half white is actually half Native American.
very interesting, i really enjoyed the show and I love the sound of Enya as well. Anyway, as watching the slideshow I thought what it would be like to know who my ancestors were during that time frame. If you have any information on how I can find out please let me know, thanks.
i have pics like these at my great grand mothers house the frame is oval shaped and the glases are shaped like bublish i kant explain it its in these times thoe
This was so Nice..It touch my Heart. I love all races.But its nothing like been apart of that great Negro Race. Thank you Lord For making Me.( Me....)
Most Blacks in America that are part ot the African diaspora are mixed to different degrees. But we are still black. Saying we are black is accepting the African ancestry. We also accept our non-African ancestry whether others recognize it or not.
no its that every body tries to bbe black its a shame that we was the most hated people and now they fucking try to get tans and lip jobs and even trie to teach black history wtf. cmon now dat is some shit a white man tryn to teach me about my people. lol
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that's NOT true.
biracial and multiracial people are in their right to celebrate and embrace all of their cultures. who are you to tell people WHAT they are? each person represents an unique case. stop spreading ignorance!
Erm most of those people are Mixed Raced not really Black?? I saw a few Indian people.
Maybe u could have called this vid 'Non-white' America or the Racially & Historically ignored America??
I dont understand the use of Enya??? its kinda inapropriate isn't it? The film Far & Away depicted Irish people u migrated to America- Black people did not whimisically just decide to go to America they were kidnapped.
All blacks in North and South America did not just arrive during the slave trade. The Olmecs were African and were here centuries before Columbus or Americus Vespuci. We weren't all kidnapped. They lived in harmony with the "so called" Native americans. They didn't commit genocide on them.
You are truly misinformed. Wealthy black people owned slaves too. Don;t get it twisted, whites had control, but there were free blacks here before the slave trade who were NOT slaves or made slaves. Especially in Louisiana.
Most Blacks in America descend from Slavery hence the European surnames they were owned by White people at some point.
I am aware that Some 'Blacks' were 'free'.
Plus I use the term Black in a different way to you because I am from England where ther is no 1 drop rule.
Mixed Raced light skin people were more likely 2b freed.
but an overwhelming majority of Black people that are in America descend from people that were kidnapped from West Africa and forced into Slavery in America that is a fact
The one drop rule started in Britain. lol. And being you are form England, how can you try to tell me about American HIStory? Not only do I live here, but my great grandmother was a slave. I saw her papers that said she was freed back in the 1800's. She and my other familt had great stories to tell. My people are from Nigeria roots. They taught me more than you could ever learn in any classroom or book.
The pic. marked Black Waiters Ga, 1899 I would like to correct the author. The picture is actually a Black Masonic Lodge . The Worshful Master in the middle wearing dark apron ,The Sr. And Jr. Wardens on his sides The Stewards are holding the staffs wearing white aprons.
pegisus1000 1 week ago
A handful of Black people of mostly African descent? Have Black people FORGOTTEN what Africans look like without racial mixing? I guess they have. Stop assigning an African identity to people who are clearly not African. What a joke.
vutube379 1 month ago
@vutube379 Black is still black, no matter the mix. A black will still resemble an african in some way.
HaddenTheGreat 1 month ago
@HaddenTheGreat Seriously now. These photos and tons of other photos circulating on the internet says differently. Very funny.
vutube379 4 weeks ago
Thank you for uploading. Truly fascinating and beautiful portraits.
Vaniteez 1 month ago
Can someone please tell me the point of the video?
USNubia23 1 month ago
NOW THIS IS HOW WE SHOULD STILL BE!!!!DRUGS ,ALCOHOL..AND MOST OF THE RAP MUSIC/VIDEOS FUCKED UP EVERYTHING.
Briston97 1 month ago
Do you notice how lots of the "black" children look half white??
cearle28 2 months ago
Instead all we are taught is slavery and struggle. Settling for less and barely making ends meet. This is not what we are made up. We are made of so much more than that. This really needs to be taught to our youth. They need to know where they come from. So much false negativity is placed upon the Black race. Thank you so much for uploading this video. It brought tears to my eyes.
shojogrl 2 months ago 4
These pictures should be shown and talked about during Black History. This is uplifting and shows us that Blacks are an amazing and strong race. To be able to suffer so much persecution but not give up. To excel far beyond the limitations put on the Black race and to still rise to the top. Such strength, courage, and character. This part of our history is taken away from us.
shojogrl 2 months ago 2
@shojogrl Yes, I whole-heartedly agree!
suckmycod 1 month ago
Not one of those pictures have a smile
Taekrazzii 2 months ago
One of the portrait's looks exactly like my son.....wow. could be a ancestor,
justreal36 2 months ago
gotta love enya with african american pictures ^_^.. shouldve played sounds of africa by her as well :-)
mellojello30 2 months ago
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mellojello30 2 months ago
damn black people were clean at one time lol maybe we should go bk n to slavery so we can clean this world up
xxletmeloveu90xx 2 months ago
@xxletmeloveu90xx shiting me! you'll be goiong back by ya damn self. lol
USNubia23 1 month ago
Love the old pics....many of these people were not "black" ... many were mulattoes and native americans. At one point there was a very fine distinction made between negro and these other categories (such as on our census'). Just an observation
Chatzkies 2 months ago
I admit I am pretty racist growing up here in rural NC, but I have nothing but respect for these people of dignity. Wish blacks had some pride like that today. No, I'm not talking about all of you before somebody pops a spring!
suckmycod 3 months ago
If they could see the black youth of today I'm sure they would be sorely ashamed
suckmycod 3 months ago 16
@suckmycod ...i agree...its no respect anymore.
Briston97 1 month ago
@Briston97 I am not a racist, and God knows we all have problems, but I feel like these people had respect and were treated with respect in kind! Man......Lil Wayne? These folks would have ran him out of the country! Maybe? Respect to you as well my friend, take care.
suckmycod 1 month ago
ummm wheres the pictures of what was going on with a majority of blacks then
solidkid4 3 months ago
@solidkid4 Plenty of that on the tube..nice to have some beauty in the middle of all the ugliness and harshness..
MultiplicityMe2 3 months ago
@MultiplicityMe2 AGREED!
solidkid4 3 months ago
these people are beautiful thank you
blackdreamhunk2 4 months ago
Wow! Sounds like the angels are singing :)
MontagnaisPrincess 4 months ago in playlist MontagnaisPrincess's Favorited Videos
love the song u played 4 us,wat type of music is it?
darkconversationist 4 months ago
@darkconversationist The artist is Enya, from Ireland. She has an angelic voice & her music is quite ethereal. I played some of her music at my Mom's funeral.
desertdoggz 2 months ago
@desertdoggz ok thank u so much
darkconversationist 2 months ago
@darkconversationist Your very welcome, here is a link to one of my favorite songs by Enya called "Paint the sky with Stars" check it out & enjoy! /watch?v=YlbinBv8178
desertdoggz 2 months ago
These photos were taken in an age of segregated schools.
The images show many black Americans obtaining high levels of education, & of involvement in the civilized society (such as that "composition room" of a newspaper, such as the teacher's college, the university graduates, the ministers' school & the black family in front of the LOVELY Victorian home. I'm white and I wish I HAD such a home!) This is "oppression?" These images don't show a story of oppression, but opportunity & high class!
1robinsong2 5 months ago
These pictures are lovely. Showing a very high degree of refinement and dignity in the subjects. However, none of them show signs of age. Can you please explain to me why they all look flawless as if they were taken yesterday? If I'm not mistaken, that was the age of the dagguerotype, which fades, smudges and ages badly. How did you find so many photos so well-preserved?
1robinsong2 5 months ago
I really like the video. Thanks for posting.
Tarotscopebytina 6 months ago
In the Caribbean we say Mulatto or Creole for 1st generation and multi-generation Mulattoes. It is not a negative word like SOME people in the US implies. In Africa Mulatto the term Mulatto and "coloured" means those of mixed race. Colored means mixed in most countries in the African continent. Negroe which is the global term for 100% or near 100% is Black unmixed. Some folks need to use their critical thinking skills. Self identifying as Multi-racial, Mulatto, Creole is fine.
Robeltoable 6 months ago
Loved the video. Great job :)
Roxie367 7 months ago
they don't look like slaves to me what is your message in this video i want to understand
danae417 7 months ago
@danae417 : What do you expect slaves to look like? All disheveled and unkempt as you have taught in college? Don't you know that slaves were equally humans like you too. At their free time, they were like any normal human family...they bathe, clean and dressed elegantly to have portraits of themselves taken.
tobim2004 5 months ago
@tobim2004 yes in school we were shown pictures of slaves that looked unkempt and so forth even in movies what i was saying that you don't see this in the history books i was not there back then so all i see is what is in the whitewashed history books and movies. yes i understand now why the video was put up 2 months ago i didn't and my grandparents don't have any pictures from back then so i didn't have a glue only the slave trade and the ships which was taught in school
danae417 5 months ago
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@danae417 @ tobim2004 These people were not slaves. Slavery officially ended in 1865.
dawnten 1 month ago
@tobim2004 These people were not slaves. These pictures were taken in 1890, 1899, 1900 and 1924, decades after slavery had ended.
snooky396 4 months ago
@danae417 These people were not slaves. Slavery officially ended in 1865.
dawnten 1 month ago
what state were these taken
williamsivy 8 months ago
I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT IM A BROWN GIRL WHO IS 13 YEARS OLD AND THESE PICTURES make me love my culture so much even tho some of us were mixed up but it kinda makes me sad because i know they were achieving in what they did but i can tell they were unhappy and i know blacks werent the only slaves in america but we were treated the worst we were posined,beaten,spitted on,made front of,etc.some black kids now days dont appreciate this like i do i love my people even tho we fight and sometimes argue
selenaloving12 8 months ago
I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT IM A BROWN GIRL WHO IS 13 YEARS OLD AND THESE PICTURES make me love my culture so much even tho some of us were mixed up but it kinda makes me sad because i know they were achieving in what they did but i can tell they were unhappy and i know blacks werent the only slaves in america but we were treated the worst we were posined,beaten,spitted on,made front of,etc.but black kids now days dont appreciate this like i do i love my people even tho we fight and sometimes argue
selenaloving12 8 months ago 2
I don't know about anybody else, but I alway wonder who black folks dealth with the day to day racism and challeges all around them back then, even after so many years after the civil war. I am sure glad they more than hung in there. Its a lot when every section of society and other races put themselves befofe you. Its amazing to survive, creat, and grow under all that. Man, if we had the protection of the law and that 40 acres and a mule, our wealth of this country would of been nice to have.
lewis20002000 8 months ago 2
04:07...wasnt that dude the bass player in "Prince and the Revolution"...
HOMEnHIGH 9 months ago
i no this has a lot of racist comments im not even going to read them but nice "PICTURES"
ladyfine97 9 months ago
Before I even started reading the comments I already knew this vid would have negative racist comments behind it. It is 2011, we have a black president. Come on people, why must ignorance continue to rear its ugly head. We are all God's creatures. This is ridiculous.
789Foru 9 months ago
Wonderful! Made me think about all the obstacles they had to overcome we really take so much for granted now and days this was a very touching piece.
tampaadrienne 10 months ago
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TheFelixvasco 10 months ago
SkyWarriorstudio,
Just simple and beautiful your video, you thrill me. Sincerely,
Felix Vasconcelos (Irauçuba Ceará Brazil)
TheFelixvasco 10 months ago
These are very beautiful pictures, I love how classy and dignified they were:)
I admire all of these people:)
Why does everything have to be a racial fight, just enjoy the photo's of a time long gone, why can't you just do that?
sheltiepaws1 10 months ago
You know what? Just shut up. Nobody owes you a damne thing. You have not been the only ones to have been enslaved . Every Race on this planet has been enslaved at one point or the other. The thing every one forgets is that slavery makes it's decendants better. During the Roman occupation of most Europe, The europians learned about architecture,different forms of irrigation,farming,textiles,medical procedures ect. Were it not for slavery you would be fighting lions with sharp sticks.You ow us!!
MrBerekhhnd 10 months ago
@MrBerekhhnd Africans did not used to fight lions with sticks we new they were animals and should be left alone. Its only you european caucasian devils who have to mess with the lions and put them in to cages. Your society is not all that ,the powers and sprits will showyou stuck up devils oneday. Most people whocommet on Africa have not even been there, Just thinkwhat you see on tv is ture. when your racist societies flood we willseewhere you devils are rushing to go
MrAlhaji1 10 months ago
these blacks are american Indian
ASKIAOTA 11 months ago
NICELY DONE!!!
theartofthefake 11 months ago
Be Beautiful People!, America has a lot to answer for and I believe that will come till then just be Beautiful to each other!1
allhearable 11 months ago
Classy pictures. I love the clothing of that time.
escapefromobamastan 11 months ago
very beautiful
ghettogurl718 11 months ago
American history is a full shame history !
XpresloX 1 year ago
@XpresloX it's true...i'm not african america, i'm african so when i see all pics, i feel shame from american history...
loismk 11 months ago
Lets cut the crap and call it "Old America"
hhgamble 1 year ago
@hhgamble No its named rightly because old America would be a bunch of devils (white slave masters).
message2blackwomen 1 year ago
I Love seeing old photos. Wish I could get photos that old of my ancestors
cedricrlongreen 1 year ago
This music makes me feel like I'm floating lol
cedricrlongreen 1 year ago 10
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Uavetheface.your head is filled with monotonous knowledge..if white people not give them space for study and give their good jobs .Caculating is simple stealing . what would you do in the same place witHout chanCEs?can you tel me where go the wind and where is the expiration/ended the wind. If you think you are so smart white simple minded.How many levels have the whole universum ? or 10-9 in one second or 1 ns . Can you say what this is? who is the inventor ?white simple sardonic thinker.
MultiSolucion 1 year ago
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Uavetheface.your head is filled with monotonous knowledge..if white people not give them space for study and give their good jobs .Caculating is simple stealing . what would you do in the same place witHout chanCEs?can you tel me where go the wind and where is the expiration/ended the wind. If you think you are so smart white simple minded.How many levels have the whole universum ? or 10-9 in one second or 1 ns , can you say what this is? who is the inventor ?white simple sardonic thinker.
MultiSolucion 1 year ago
Uavetheface.your head is filled with monotonous knowledge..if white people not give them space for study and give their good jobs .caculating is simple stealing . what would you do in the same place whitout changes?can you tel me where go the wid and where is the expiration of the wind. If you think you are so smart white simple minded.How many levels have the whole universum ? or 10-9 in one second or 1 ns , can you say what this is and who have invented this ?white simple sardonic thinker.
MultiSolucion 1 year ago
The negro is a dangerous creature suffers from being paranoid every time a white person looks at them they roam the streets like wild apes attacking when they have the greater numbers ,they rob and steal they dont want to work ..why dont we send these African Americans but to Africa !! Usa would be a better place to live in.
uavetheface 1 year ago
@uavetheface wow guess what - it appears your not very intelligent so I suggest you start educating yourself by reading the dictionary if you look up the word "Ignorant" you will see the definition of yourself!! might help if you look up redneck and racist also - you'll learn alot about yourself! oh lets not forget "stupid" look that one up also lol
mixeddude21 1 year ago
Alot of these African Americans are mainly more mixed and more noticebly (the ones with lighter complections) decendants of mixed race maybe even creole, anyways, I FIND THEM ALL BEAUTIFUL, including the clothes, particularily the women esp. the woman's dress at 3:45!
americaforeva 1 year ago
Fuck black people, they are too negative, move the fuck on!!
Lazybabyz 1 year ago
@Lazybabyz wow dnt blame black ppl for your miserable sad life! all the racist deluded people on here whether your white or black for real its sad your so weak to understand what it means to be "human" first the colour or race of someone should not stop you from seeing a "human being" first - it is this sick, ignorant lazy weak way of thinking and living from lazybabyz and uavetheface that enabled hitler to dictate and inject all the hatred he spread in his horrific reign.
mixeddude21 1 year ago
The women in the picture at 2.36 is Laura Nelson in 1911 her and her son were lynched From a bridge In Oklahoma go online and look up her tragic. Story
brickchruch 1 year ago
nice video
IceSparrow44 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure these portraits were created for the World's Fair in Paris in 1900. They had an exhibition on African Americans. You can see them at the Library of Congress online.
goeast12 1 year ago
These people clearly aren't slaves and are clearly middle class. There were a few families who were relatively well off compared to the vast majority who were not sitting for portraits. It is nice to see photos of black gentry but it says nothing of the conditions of the vast majority. These pics all come from one studio in 1899.
MrBexdem 1 year ago
@MrBexdem No they are not slaves since it ended in 1865. there has always been a Black middle/upper class
jb6591 1 year ago 2
It wasn't slavery that hurt black america, although bad, it was the wild behavior after 1965 with sex and drugs in the open...i always get mad when someone blames slavery!!
49jubilee 1 year ago
@49jubilee yeah slavery was great!shut your dicksuckin lipsor just dont post your opinions dumbshit!!
Gbundles 1 year ago
CLASS, HONOR AND DIGNITY is what l see when l see the people in these pictures. I wish they could come back and teach the youth today, help them get there ACT TOGETHER. cause GOD knows we need help!
Thetasteofhoney1 1 year ago
I Love it I would like to make a point most of these people were from up north the south in those times were still very hostile there were only a few pics with very dark-skinned people most of them, were mixed race u can see how our race is mixed and we as black people were forever changed i think its a beautiful thing
skylademae 1 year ago
A TEAR ROLLED OUT OF MY EYE....THA DATE ON THESE PIC IS NOT FAR FROM SLAVERY ENDING
imallwayzright 1 year ago
lovely
MultiplicityMe 1 year ago
simply breathtaking!
msmelody1960 1 year ago
Beautiful photos . . . beautiful people.
doltbezoar 1 year ago
Thank you so very much! This is so beautiful! Please always keep it available?
godschildyes 1 year ago
The ever so dishonorable Nicki Minaj comes to mind as I browse these lovely pics that are full of CLASS. Black youth these days need to get it together. I blame it on the Black parents, media, etc..
vivecarocks 1 year ago
8:10 Is that a aesthetically ethnically european dude in the middle?. Well, good on him for joining the band for whatever reasons.
optimisticbabe 1 year ago
These pictures are beautiful! We are so many colors. Let's just embrace and stop the bickering
madame1ricard 1 year ago
I don't know what the hell you'll are talking about! 1:17, 1:48, 2:37, 2:47, 3:17, 3:38, 6:21, 7:14, 7:58, 8:18, 8:27, 8:48 could have said, " black men" going to church," but whatever. 9:02, 9:29; plenty of dark skinned people!
dewayne408 1 year ago
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we only talk about slavery that happen in america but what about the slave trade and slavery in orther parts of the world
please look up these videos on youtube
"No Apologies for Slavery by The Southern Avenger"
"Islam, Blacks and African Slavery.... The truth about the American Slave trade. obamachrist"
"Africans started slavery - how it REALLY happened"
CrazyFavVideos 1 year ago
HELLO U STUPID ??????????NATIVES ARE NOT BLACKS NATIVES ARE DISGUSTING ,FILTH,HALF BREEDS THAT THINK THEY CAN TURN INTO WOLFSlol ALSO THINK THEY ARE SUPERIOR. IM NOT BLACK!!! I WANNA BE BLACK THATS Y I PUT MY ACCOUNT 4 ALL BLACK PEEPS BETTER THAN THOSE RED NECK FOSCELS!
Beproudtobeblackzim4 1 year ago
@Beproudtobeblackzim4 you need to be killed! and i hope soon! youre a mindless bag of shit!
ClassicRockfan79 1 year ago
Im loving the video and after reading the comments. All I can say It is what it is human race is Beautiful in all shapes and colors. Can you believe a white couple actually had a black child and the DNA test results belong to them both. God is showing you that we are 1 Race checkout a video called White Mommy, White Daddy, Black Baby (Family Tree)
l0velyyounglady 1 year ago
@l0velyyounglady AMEN, GREATcommen
vivagoddess 1 year ago
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bbgurl22ful 1 year ago 11
@bbgurl22ful r u out your mind are you white is that your personal believe all whites come from blacks origanal people all natives that were here first were african stop calling us black its a insult your fore fathers created this word like many others to help with the land theft.who is osh kosh
dickbrockford 1 year ago
@bbgurl22ful not all i have seen many AA with very strong African features.
ani1616 1 year ago
@bbgurl22ful not true. there are actually some african americans who are full african descent.
rantazz23 11 months ago
@bbgurl22ful why do you say that???? there were more blacks in slavery who were not mixed than mixed yunno...some were mixed..about the same during slavery as were mixing in the 60's ...but who cares ..people only care about it cus it happened during slavery and because we werent ther so it has this "aura" about it.....mixing is at an all time high today and it really isnt a big deal.
mddarch2 8 months ago
@mddarch2 Yeah, but if u think about those mixed blacks marrying the unmixed blacks, their offspring are also now mixed & this continues through generations until until nowadays when something like 95% (or more) of black ppl R actually Multi generationally mixed whether they know it or not. Just like there are white ppl with a % of black or Native blood also. Mixing isnt a big deal cuz it doesnt hav 2 b hidden as be4.
gangstaboo62 8 months ago
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@mddarch2 These people were not slaves. Slavery officially ended in 1865.
dawnten 1 month ago
what's up witj 1899?
um22w22 1 year ago
2 Points:
1. True West Africans do not have light skin, straights/wavy hair, narrow noses and thin lips. Apparently, our African Ancesters came from West Africa.
2. These so called "Black Americans" are indeed mixed people who happen to have Black Blood.
BlackAmericanIndia 1 year ago 2
You sound Extremely Ignorant, We have Black Actors, that Play Africans, Don Chetum, Derrick Luke U NEED to go down South, Honey, Some Blacks look like they Just Step out of Africa. Visit an All Black College. U R THE ONLY ONE MIXED, AND YOUR EYES HAVE PISS IN IT. U R SILLY.
sharonanony 1 year ago
i don't agree wit that at all... i may be white but i know livin in this world, i know that the whites have been rude and cruel to all african americans.. and the blacks are not mixed people... hence the name "MIXED" meaning that they are half black n half something else whether it be white, asian, hispanic whateva... i mean u can't judge n e 1, the only 1 dat can do dat is the Man up Stairs and we all have to answer to him when we leave this earth
sexywhtdiva 1 year ago
@BlackAmericanIndia bullshit who is osh kosh
dickbrockford 1 year ago
@BlackAmericanIndia and their decendants are walking the street so...
CerebralMadness 3 months ago
@CerebralMadness huh?
BlackAmericanIndia 3 months ago
Cirethgr8
See you are taking the characteristics of your family and blaming all blacks.That is what you mean we need to do for self.
I come from a family that has land owners since the 1800s in west bockton but the goverment forced my people to move so we moved to were we are today and still we own over 250 acers That is your family you are talking about, my family own one of the most known funeral homes in chicago
the obama family did that inspite of slavery that is what you mean correct
BamaBoy205SR 2 years ago
Cirethgr8
You said we need to do fro self and stop blaming slavery You speaking about your family. My family is not like yours You the uncle tom type that say we keep bringing up slavery. stupid asshole slavery just stoped in the 1960s My great grandfather had to go help his cousin escape from mississippi it is called by other people peonage And you say the people in oklahoma got over slavery. Slavery was still back then inspite of the rouge slave camps in the south they made good
BamaBoy205SR 2 years ago
We have always been a great people even though they tried to re-write history for themselves etc.. in-fact it was for that reason they degraded us to start with they knew !!!! and still do the truth is coming out even biblical.
Antwansuperstar21 2 years ago
race is a bunch of bull shit there are too type of people
people with melanaderm the whole world
"derm" skin verses things with lukaderm
"Luka" colerless pale plain "void off beuty" well the last one was just an opinion
and who in the fuck told that fuck face cirthgr8 my people in tulsa in the 20s was not mad about slavery fuck you it was exslaves who survived the civil war made good and had the jeouluspink trash come kill them
what do you mean do for self
WE BUILT THIS PLACE BITCH!
BamaBoy205SR 2 years ago
@bamaboy....what you call yourself is exactly what your mentality IS.....BAMA !
I did NOT SAY they weren't mad about it stupid ass. I said basically they didn't remain stagnant and just role over and die. I'm not even going to further explain myself to a miget minded asshole such as yourself. You need to "do for self " by educating that shit between your ears you call a brain . You COUNTRY BAMA ASS BOY !
cirethgr8 2 years ago
are sky warrior stupid or something we can se that they are black no need to write it on every damn picture, it´s not like you would have done it if they were white.
stereosnuttan 2 years ago
That's because this is an international forum and outside of the United States a lot of the people we recognize as being black are perceived as being not black. The one drop rule was created by the US government. Outside the US many of the people in those photos would be considered white, or at the very least, not people of African origin. It may seem obvious to you, but that's because you've grown up seeing it all your life. That's not always the case with many people in other countries.
TRUTHTEACHER2007 2 years ago
BULLSHT! That is NOT TRUE! AND they *are* of AFRICAN ORIGIN.... SO... that makes them Black. THey were BLACK BACK THEN AND THEY ARE BLACK TODAY! I'm MIXED AND YOU FUKERS CALL ME BLACK! You cant mix whats ALREADY THERE! All other races are just a lighter variation of BLACK! Dont believe me? Look up the article in BBC on how they found 14 DNA strands of different races on the African gene just the other day!
Moniqtee 2 years ago
You're an asshole and I don't care to wast my time and energy talking to you. I never said they were not people of African origin. I said that outside the USA most people do not understand the why we consider a person who is obviously not 100% African to be black. You're just another youtube asshole who is incapable of holding an intelligent conversation or being able to look beyond the confines of your own stupid life to understand other perspectives. Go fuck yourself and don't reply to me.
TRUTHTEACHER2007 2 years ago
Amei essas fotos. Acredito que o racismo declarado, proporcionou aos negros oportunidade de estudar e desenvolver sua cultura.
No Brasil boa parte dos retratados nessas fotos se consideraria "branco" e procuraria esconder suas origens.
luciapucia1 2 years ago
People knew how to do their hair back in the day!lol probably because in those days people dressed more formally most of the times also at those times the way in which they did their hair was more healthy since at that time methods for styling hair was in its prime
cedricrlongreen 2 years ago
Very beautiful pictures. Here's an interesting point too. Looking at these pics you see dignity, honor, self /respect, love, dedication etc. Look at a lot of pics today and it's pants hanging off of smeones a** or some young lady looking or being promiscuous. And the sad thing about it is....a lot of ppl STILL blame slavery. The ppl in these photos were a lot closer to those times and HAD their ACT TOGETHER ! ! I'm sure a lot of others as well as myself feel like they're in the wrong time
cirethgr8 2 years ago 39
You make a good point.
teeizhot 2 years ago
Thanks tee :-)
cirethgr8 2 years ago
SLAVERY Has EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT! IT WAS A BREAKING PROCESS.. BACK then and during Black people were still OPPRESSED... That gave them litttle room to wiggle. But if you suddenly liberate a people that have always been oppressed you have CHAOS! Nothing really changed in America until after the CR movement. That's when you get to see the REAL damage...after you turn a people loose, but still find undercover ways to legally oppress them.... There is a lot of work left to be done!
Moniqtee 2 years ago
@moniqtee....You mean to tell me that even TODAY slavery still has something to do w/ it . Get the fk outta here. Example...The blk ppl in Tulsa OK in the 20's. Blk Wallstreet. They had it going on and weren't pissin and moanin until it was all burned down by rascist. But building a respectful community and DOING FOR SELF...They weren't crying about slavery. They moved on and got their ACT together. Like Vineyard said in Am Hist X, How long does it take to get your ACT TOGETHER ?
cirethgr8 2 years ago
@cirethgr8 oh it takes about twice as long as it took to get things the way they were, so lets bookmark the end of the civil rights movement as a cornerstone, i would supposed we have about 300 more years to create our real culture, but that won't happen, systemically there is no room for Black culture.
tracyturner1634 2 years ago
no room for black culture what are u talking about?
jon76398 2 years ago
cont. That's just a piss poor excuse that a lot of "N***AS use that hold BLACK PPL BACK ! And there's more uncle rukus n***as than BLACK PPL, thus....collectively....making us our OWN WORST ENEMY ! I disagree entirely w/ your comment. U said if you liberate a ppl whom always been oppressed there's chaos...yeah....if there's continued institutionalized rascism. But I don't understand why collectively blks won't figure out a way around the fkn hurdle and DO FOR SELF ! STP BLMN SLVRY !
cirethgr8 2 years ago
@cirethgr8 so your saying stop teaching history, looking at slave mentality as a system of civil control is not blaming, it's an examination of the past, effecting the present, used correctly this can effect the emotional maturity it takes for masses to move forward, not in what white society calls progress, but we as a culture can live with socially, economically and personally. We are always measuring ourselves with White expectations, where does that comes from... plantation expectations.
tracyturner1634 2 years ago
@Tracyturner1634....You've completely missed my whole point. I'm not saying stop tchg history at all. History should be learned from & move on to make things better for yourselves. Not to look back only to piss & moan & reamain stagnant like most uncle rukus folks do. I'm gonna keep it real. Some or a lot of these uncle rukus folks need to "go." They're weak links & dead weight. If you have cowards in your squad running from a fire fight setting you back what would you do ?
cirethgr8 2 years ago
didnt miss your point at all, just looking forward as well. These 'uncle' types are a part of every culture (race)... there is always a remnant of those who live in a past with ignorance and excuses... but these 'types' do not define us as a people (black folk), they irritate us to no end, but we have to distroy the perception of the few and 'market' the accomplishments of the many.
tracyturner1634 2 years ago
it is hard to forget all that has been done to african americans ...the slavery,discrimination hatred not to mentions cruel treatment for just being a differnt color than white..i no what has happened is already past but we can never forget all those innocent black people who had to die for an unfair reason.... thats all im saying thats exactly why many black people bring that up.I ts mostly because of what our people had to go through its very hard to forget,
songsoulgirl 1 year ago
@cirethgr8 Well said.
BIGBOSSandTHEDOLL 1 year ago
@cirethgr8
lol really good point
vivagoddess 1 year ago
@cirethgr8 Amen to that!
godschildyes 1 year ago
@cirethgr8 Looks like conforming to me. Back in the seventies no one had trounsers hanging of their arses well high waisted trousers in those days. This in my view is a bunch of fair skinned black people who could afford to get a portrait and use the photographers dress up box (used by whites too) for a piccy. All the straightening of the blokes hair is awful. Nontheless we can argue the toss here this is merely dressing up for a portrait. These days all kids look dreadful even rich ones x
MegaSketty 1 year ago
@cirethgr8 very simple explanation. you dont like how black ppl act today? what are you doing to make their (im not black american so im gonna exclude myself) lives better tho?
and im only 3 minutes in the video, but i dont see any pictures of the houses they lived in, the ones with no shoes, the POOR ones, which were the majority! and there may be rich black people today, but there are still alot of poor ones! and you wanna talk about pants on the ground, there are bigger problems than that.
rantazz23 11 months ago
@rantazz23 Just SAVE IT ! And the answer to your stupid question is simple. I'm raising my son to be a MAN & a PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN that's highly unlikely to end up a statistic. That's WHAT I'M DOING to make lives better. Each 1 teach 1 & each 1 reach 1. Also.....I LEAD BY EXAMPLE ! Some ppl are just born to be FKN IDIOTS and if you or anyone else has common sense, you'll discern QUICKLY & keep your distance. That's how you make lives BETTERE ! -1-
cirethgr8 11 months ago
wow beautiful photos
sojoudEL 2 years ago
Nice, but i hope you are aware that some of these children up there are half white from your ancestors raping them.
islamsqueen 2 years ago 2
In the Unites States being black never had anything to do with a concept of racial purity. Everyone knows most AfroAmericans are a mix of at least 3 races. And no, not all of the mixture came from rape. Alot of times there were consentual relationships and a lot of what you perceive as half white is actually half Native American.
TRUTHTEACHER2007 2 years ago
so sad!!!!!!!!!!!!
ds89rj 2 years ago
very interesting, i really enjoyed the show and I love the sound of Enya as well. Anyway, as watching the slideshow I thought what it would be like to know who my ancestors were during that time frame. If you have any information on how I can find out please let me know, thanks.
Aceskii77 2 years ago
Beautiful Video...Thank you for sharing.
Yahwehservant 2 years ago
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UMMM 1900'S PUSSY
nauris706 2 years ago
ignorant!!!!!!!!
ds89rj 2 years ago
VERY BEAUUUUUUTIFUL.
nelsexybrown 2 years ago
i have pics like these at my great grand mothers house the frame is oval shaped and the glases are shaped like bublish i kant explain it its in these times thoe
The8400mobbin 2 years ago
This was so Nice..It touch my Heart. I love all races.But its nothing like been apart of that great Negro Race. Thank you Lord For making Me.( Me....)
HotLadyRed 2 years ago
yes she Beautiful old black america Beautiful not today blacks. i want ask people in pictures they still Live??
ArabianHero1 2 years ago
girl in 03:56 she Beautiful to much im Shocked from she Beauty
indian3divdas 2 years ago 4
WHY ARE YOU SHOCKED?
nauris706 2 years ago
Great Video! Thanks for the history. Many of us need things like this to get a grip on reality.
Quranite 2 years ago
Most Blacks in America that are part ot the African diaspora are mixed to different degrees. But we are still black. Saying we are black is accepting the African ancestry. We also accept our non-African ancestry whether others recognize it or not.
Quranite 2 years ago 2
behold a pale horse
Ezkeel 2 years ago
i'am black regardless july you got issues to work out my brother
poopoo178 2 years ago
Qeen July is a female and she is perfect she does not like whites iam a fan of hers already. She must be a dam genius!
poo poo i was going to take your side but when I heard july does not like white people I almost started crying i was filled
with so much joy. dam what agreat day
BamaBoy205SR 2 years ago
That is crazy 1:36 looks just like my 10 year old daughter named Queen. Wow.
queensarah34 2 years ago
it no such thing as a mixed black person.if you have 1 drop black blood in you you're black.
poopoo178 2 years ago
so all people must be black because the first people were black
BamaBoy205SR 2 years ago 3
no its that every body tries to bbe black its a shame that we was the most hated people and now they fucking try to get tans and lip jobs and even trie to teach black history wtf. cmon now dat is some shit a white man tryn to teach me about my people. lol
The8400mobbin 2 years ago 6
THATS RIGHT! You got it! Thats exactly genetically a very TRUE STATEMENT! Yay! someone out there DOES GET IT!
Moniqtee 2 years ago
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that's NOT true.
biracial and multiracial people are in their right to celebrate and embrace all of their cultures. who are you to tell people WHAT they are? each person represents an unique case. stop spreading ignorance!
jarelys4175 2 years ago
I'm multiracial too! but... I AM BLACK!
Moniqtee 2 years ago 12
nah one drop of black blood? wtf then i guess u dont evn look black den dam u aint black u want to be
The8400mobbin 2 years ago
Erm most of those people are Mixed Raced not really Black?? I saw a few Indian people.
Maybe u could have called this vid 'Non-white' America or the Racially & Historically ignored America??
I dont understand the use of Enya??? its kinda inapropriate isn't it? The film Far & Away depicted Irish people u migrated to America- Black people did not whimisically just decide to go to America they were kidnapped.
Applebaum 2 years ago
All blacks in North and South America did not just arrive during the slave trade. The Olmecs were African and were here centuries before Columbus or Americus Vespuci. We weren't all kidnapped. They lived in harmony with the "so called" Native americans. They didn't commit genocide on them.
coreyaustin1 2 years ago
most were kidnapped....but all Black people were made to be slaves in America
Applebaum 2 years ago
You are truly misinformed. Wealthy black people owned slaves too. Don;t get it twisted, whites had control, but there were free blacks here before the slave trade who were NOT slaves or made slaves. Especially in Louisiana.
coreyaustin1 2 years ago
Most Blacks in America descend from Slavery hence the European surnames they were owned by White people at some point.
I am aware that Some 'Blacks' were 'free'.
Plus I use the term Black in a different way to you because I am from England where ther is no 1 drop rule.
Mixed Raced light skin people were more likely 2b freed.
but an overwhelming majority of Black people that are in America descend from people that were kidnapped from West Africa and forced into Slavery in America that is a fact
Applebaum 2 years ago
The one drop rule started in Britain. lol. And being you are form England, how can you try to tell me about American HIStory? Not only do I live here, but my great grandmother was a slave. I saw her papers that said she was freed back in the 1800's. She and my other familt had great stories to tell. My people are from Nigeria roots. They taught me more than you could ever learn in any classroom or book.
coreyaustin1 2 years ago
I have pictures like this of my family, and we are all different shades, but we would never call ourselves mixed. We are BLACK.
Africana3789 2 years ago 4