African Ancestry Part 3: Understanding the Impact

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[ViNTAGECARBON]

most african americans are from west african countries. but it is always so mush fun to try to guess. i want to know mine!! learn the language, cook the food, EVERYTHING!! lol

[bongiwe]

Its so sad to see people robbed of their culture and heritage that it leaves them vulnerable to all kinds of predators,economically,sociall­y,religiously,etc by people with all kinds of hidden agendas.I sure hope this company is accurate and honrable with their testings,because I shudder to think what will happen to their fragile clients if they discover there is ANY fraud in the results.Frankly, being an African myself I see Black americans being constantly exploited by all kinds of shady folks.

[Giagantus]

@NoPetrol In particular american soldiers have bragged about it (in these cases they were white if that matters) and thus got caught. Not mention all these white males that travel to poor countries to rape children (most child sex tourists are westerners). Even in the west there are some that truly question marital rape and quite frankly call it bullshit. Just because a bunch of soldiers brag about raping women doesn't make it a normal or ok, it's an outlawed practice

[Giagantus]

@NoPetrol Are you trying to tell me that husbands raping their wives is unique for Africans ?Do you have anything e what so ever to back this claims ? . Do you know that a female soldier was more likely to be raped a fellow American soldier than killed during the lastest Iraq war. In parts of the middleeast marital rape isn't even a crime. Rape is a crime in Africa but like everywhere else u can getaway with it. Hate to say it but plenty of non-africans brag about it as well

[Xaymaicana]

. . .And I just thought to myself with my last name being Welsh in origin and here I am as a black woman, I am definitely out of place. It's not about waging war against whites or hating whites but rather seeking to know who we are. Unfortunately it bothers people that some of us want to and thus we are labeled as "afro.centric" and "racist". smh.

[Xaymaicana]

seeing Isaiah Washington's reaction when he found out his results REALLY touched me. His reaction was so significant and symbolic to the feelings of diaspora blacks. All of our problems began with the Middle Passage and being robbed of our sense of who we are. I watched a documentary from Cameroon in which a public speak was discussing the importance of one's name in Africa about how you can know all about a person by their name (their last mainly). . .

[robinlue2008]

nopetrol is an agent provacateur . ignore him.

[midnitedawn]

I think every parent should sit their child down and teach them their African/Black history, past and present day. They obviously won't do it in white textbooks(all their so called history is a bunch of lies and manipulation) so its important for them to be taught at home. When I have kids, that is what I plan to do. Teach them everything they need to know at home.

[ubergirliz1]

@NoPetrol So wait, you hate Africans, but you are on an video about Africans? WTF? Wow.

[NoPetrol]

@ubergirliz1 Again you're bragging about how African culture is as advanced as other cultures were hundreds of years ago. Outside of Africa rape is a crime, but in Africa men talk about raping women without even hiding who they are. Also, this isn't just because of war: most rapes there are instances of husbands raping their wives.

[ubergirliz1]

@lionzion22 Awhhh man! I took a test there too...it told me i was 92% African, 7% European and 1% Asian. :(