Leonard Pitts Visits His Ancestral Homeland, Niger - Africa

Watch Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Leonard Pitts find his roots and travel back to Niger, Africa.

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[Nwuese]

oh puhlease. Why can't you people let it go. We are AFRICAN!! We don't want to be anything else. Please let it go!!

Why can't Africans just be Africans??? Why do we feel that we need to claim we're originally from somewhere else to make ourselves feel better about ourselves???

[werwr4]

Thank God for the correction to anitaalford! I get so tired of the "True Jew" argument from racists. It's very old.

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@lionzion22lol calm down i didnt wanna use that word like i said but i meant if you go back before the invasion of arabs & later whites thats what i meant

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@lionzion22 just do me favor at least aknowlege the fact this guy probably or theres a chance however you wann put it this, guy has white ancestors too(but ihe aint tryin to find out about them) please i'll be alright after that :)

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@lionzion22 1st you know that because you are dark skinned doesnt mean u dont have white blood in you anyway i'm not a specialist at that so i'm not gonna argue forever idk if the numbers you are talking about are correct or not but i'm wise enough to aknoledge my ignorance so maybe your right maybe your not i'm gonna do some deep research on that but once & for all that wasnt my point & keep actin like u dont kno what i was talkin about

[lionzion22]

@NicKingPapiChulo

No. Most research says 3 out of 10 do, which means 7 out of 10 do not. At one time African slaves outnumbered europeans by a large number in america. This is how much europeans demanded african skill. All african americans are not light either and a lot are dark. You can't let something as simple as skin complexion get in the way of facts.

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@NicKingPapiChulo so why not do a researsh on that too? i was just pointing out the fact when "african americans" talk aboyt their ancestors they just think of the black side & they sometimes say "the reason why whe have light skin brothers its because our ancestor swere rape by white"s which was not always as simple as that(tho slaves rape was rife back then of course) & its funny cause technically the white person who fathered your lineage is also your ancestor

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@lionzion22 yeah south africa you have the Khoikhoi in ethiopia the somali & other ethnies & Hausas in west africa as you said i dont really kno the origins of the South african different ethnis but i do kno that somali people & hausas are mixed with other races from centuries maybe milleniums ago anyway i dont wanna get into all that so yeah maybe not all every africans are not dark...but that wasnt the point my point was as an "african american he most likely has white ancestors too isnt it?

[lionzion22]

@NicKingPapiChulo

That is wierd, because I know South Africans who have no white ancestry that are lighter than I am. I know Ethiopians lighter than I am. There are countless Hausas lighter than I am.

All Africans people are not dark, and those that are not dark all don't have lebanese or Turk Arab ancestors. Maybe you should go visit and get out of France once in a while.

[lionzion22]

@NicKingPapiChulo

You are VERY ignorant. What exactly is a "thorobread" African? Africans from Ethiopia? South Africa? Congo? Kenya? Do they all look alike and all have the same complexion? What makes one more "thorobread" than the other?

I won't waste my time arguing. I can only tell you to go learn more because at this moment, you know nothing at all.

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@lionzion22 cause everybody knows "thorobread" africans (i hate that word but...) are very dark so i dont understand your point are you arguing the fact as said he also has white blood? most black people has white ascendents?

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@lionzion22 yea u can tell by his skin complexion his blood is not a 100 percent black & since he is american theres like 99 percent of chance that he also has white blood in em maybe indian too but something other than black for sure i'm actually french of Cameroonian descent & my mother has the same complexion as this guy i even have uncles lighter than him & i know thats because we have white & lebanese ancestors.