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Did They Come Before Columbus?
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In this episode, African American Frontiers (Part 2): Africans in the Spanish and English territories of the Americas. How was life on the frontier different for African Americans? How do those differences translate to both danger and opportunity for persons of African descent in the Spanish and English American territories? What role did Africans play in shaping what was to become the American frontier?
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@KenDSigma
July 6, 2013 at 3:26 pm
p.s. 1% of Mexicans DNA have African Roots. 1% means ONE-DROP. In the USA "One-Drop" means, you are "BLACK" Here's a FAMOUS 100% Mexican. Will the real Mexicans PLEASE stand UP.
watch?v=q3EBDD1VjBc
Surely you've heard of GEORGE LOPEZ. How you Not gonna say he's Not Mexican. But he tells what most Mexicans have been trained to hide. @ 3:38 he says it LOUD & PROUD. Interesting which one he claimed FIRST. Really this probably all you Mexicans. DNA doesn't LIE, remember!
@BlackpoliticsOrg
January 10, 2015 at 9:47 pm
very good video with an objective analysis of the question. More here at http://www.blackpolitics.org
@calivette2020
November 27, 2015 at 8:54 pm
I thought it was pretty clear that the picture of the Olmec had and Afro but in the video it is referred to as a helmet.
@taetheegoal-digger7661
November 19, 2017 at 6:44 am
At the end of the day. The Africans were here first. Get over it
@cleezsmith7321
August 10, 2019 at 6:08 am
Wow stop and listen… Moors are Kings.. Mayans are apart of moors history tells us… Truth is key…
@GETMONEYJONES2304
August 11, 2019 at 6:42 pm
No they was already here in the America
@emergematic9048
August 19, 2019 at 1:29 pm
Dude don't be an uncle Tom even in the beginning of roots the first people they encounter are Black looking native Americans or at least very dark complected aboriginals and I know statues of my people I don't need a fugaze ass scientist
@emergematic9048
August 19, 2019 at 1:32 pm
Jack ass the continents were one back then they have bold drawings that predate Columbus of aboriginals trading with native Americans and so called Africans
@alreddog
December 17, 2019 at 1:02 am
You know what's so funny about it is a masters of put it right in front of your face in children's movies Ice Age was talks about animals moving across the continents but don't tell you that panicked America but all the continents were together in mammals and people were moving across the continent Finding Nemo tells you about the currents that he just talked about the turtles were riding the currents they would jump in the currents and just chill out and go that's the mass media laughing at you putting things in front of your face to see if you can try on all these things come instantly to me when he starts talking about the current
@kermitalexander6655
June 24, 2020 at 6:48 am
Quite a few folks did it seems.
@hadesinferno2927
July 19, 2020 at 9:46 am
This is a flawed and erroneous theory because the native indigenous peoples of America were more developed than the Africans (with the exception perhaps of Egypt). For towns like the Incas or the Mayans or the Aztecs had millennia of advantage for the African peoples.
@marlonb2804
August 2, 2020 at 1:02 pm
Africans didn't come to Americas and saw anybody, they were already here.
During a different point and time there were Africans who would sail from west African to the West Indies and the Americas .
@antwi313
September 4, 2020 at 4:14 pm
Exactly work my brother, thank you for sharing…👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@Nockturnmortem
October 17, 2020 at 10:23 am
It's incredible. This is exactly what my grandfather told me when we went to Esmeraldas Ecuador. I was amazed as an ecuadorian to see our country had a whole city of mostly black people, since blacks are not that many in Ecuador. He told me then something he told me his grandfather had told him in time about this place we were in. ( Esmeraldas) Blacks were always here he told me, they came very long ago from the big sea in enormous ships. They were many and powerful but they were only looking for corn and gold, something we had a lot in my beautiful country and the Andes. In exchange for such things they taught us how to build and some strange magic to some of our rulers. There was a war between our races and we reds overpowered blacks by number, they retreated to the jungles heart where sometimes were discovered by some of our people. We were told not to fight them or to talk to them but to run as hell as soon as we find them. There are another tales about giant red haired white Giants that were cannibal also.
There still exists a drawing of two Black Caciques dressed on gold and feathers with jewels on their faces and ritual weapons on Ecuador Government Palace. It's undeniable blacks have been part of this land history for many years.
@lovelife2186
December 29, 2020 at 10:16 am
Your hair
@nuggg7933
June 3, 2021 at 3:06 pm
If the Africans didn't travel b4 Columbus what do you believe??
@margon1234
August 2, 2021 at 8:52 am
And then ?
Do you really believe that blacks reached the americas intentionally before anybody else ? May be Arabs got there by accident and they could have had blacks with them…
@fabbeyonddadancer
August 9, 2021 at 12:18 pm
I hope you updated your position from this time . There’s has been a abundance of data produce since you made this video by academic scholars in fields pertaining to Native American , mesoamerican history and so the Afrocentric position on a pre Columbian African presence has been highly debunk .
@warrioromarzthefirst5949
August 19, 2021 at 7:15 am
Debunked
@BlackSolutions7532
August 26, 2021 at 7:44 am
Black people was here before Columbus
@trelawnny
November 27, 2021 at 4:54 pm
"YES"!
@jimmytwotymes7460
November 30, 2021 at 2:38 pm
Thanks for the video! And the knowledge.
@1225bright
December 26, 2021 at 6:21 am
The evidence of african présence in ancient america is strong for me. Western make thier history with lies lies and lies, but when we got true evidence, they just say there is a problem with. Stop it.
@aivel3973
March 6, 2022 at 1:54 am
The mass majority of Indigenous peoples in the Americas of Asian descent came from the Trans- Pacific slave trade. They mixed with the Black indigenous people pf the Americas prior then the West African trans Atlantic Slave trade. Please read Tatiana Sejas Books Asian Slavery in Mexico from Chinos to Indians. Please read the sources in her book. There is plenty of evidence. The US hides this. It is the greatest lie ever told. When the Trans Atlantic slave trade came they used that to hunt down the Indigenous Blacks of the Americas. Who by the way, helped the Asian slaves escape and adopted them into their tribes and taught them their rituals. When the pope decreed the Asian free people they did not want to pay to send them back to their Asian native homelands, they were decreed the new native Americans. Real Native Americans know this. Their young people may not know this, but the elders know. Also, when they do DNA tests they will see the Trans Pacific Slave trade in their lineage.
@jarmelli.roberts5148
March 14, 2022 at 5:57 pm
Answer to question: YES
@Mexican-tacobutnotabreakfast1
March 17, 2022 at 9:27 pm
What are your thoughts on the newest data and information? See: https://youtu.be/mJ0OwYjVHhI
@TheBrandonlove123
April 13, 2022 at 7:38 am
Everything comes/form from darkness
@darz3829
May 9, 2022 at 2:11 pm
In recent times Columbus has been vilified for bringing disease to America. It's gotten to the point where his statues are being dismantled because he single-handedly committed genocide of the Native Peoples in the New World. If this video is correct, there is a greater probability that the earlier explorers from elsewhere are the real culprits responsible for the crimes Columbus is accused of. Perhaps we need justice for Columbus.
@mutebatshibanda1450
May 15, 2022 at 12:26 pm
Thank you. I wish there would be books written in several languages about this very important subject. So we could share this with our children and give this to the racists who claim that they gave culture to this World. But it was the other way.
@PGDragon350z
June 1, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Not native american we are Niiji
@PUREGRAPP
June 20, 2022 at 12:05 am
I have read Van Sertima, and the evidence is flimsy at best, and altogether his book is intriguing but unsubstantiated in the evidence. Some arguments and interpretations of Native Mexican cultural artifacts are strictly written from an Afrocentrist perspective. I am not denying that a few Nubian ships could have arrived to the Americas, but the contact was likely not sustained, intense, or critical enough to engender cross-cultural borrowings of the like Van Sertima hypothesized. His work on early African influences in Europe is quite accurate, however, given the proximity and cultural borrowings in the Afro-Eurasian world, but the Americas and their Native people were relatively isolated for millennia. The Natives of Mexico created written codices, wrote hieroglyphs on stone, smelted gold, built pyramids, aqueducts, grew crops in the middle of lakes, and traded intensely with one another without influence from Africa, Asia, or Europe. I am a Native Ethnic Mexican and have a big head, thick full lips, Mongolian eyes, and people have asked if I am Polynesian or part Black. Not all Native Mexicans or Native Americans had the same facial features and body types.
@MaxwellFrith
June 22, 2022 at 5:32 am
Bruh this video was bomb!!!!
@someone-rt6vz
July 7, 2022 at 7:28 pm
The statue Van Sertima compare to a Nubian also have a tail.
@franklinhenderson3806
August 1, 2022 at 3:43 am
It's already known that west Africans we're here long before Columbus could find this country. Columbus stated all of this in his diaries.
@johngibs5356
September 1, 2022 at 1:31 am
Africans came before everyone
@bonitagringo9903
September 7, 2022 at 4:57 pm
They are petrified giants not regular humans
@mcfact1827
March 19, 2023 at 11:57 am
@4:40..That's not a helmet. That's afro with a "widows peak"
@Lumpy1983
November 1, 2023 at 6:05 am
DNA has proven that the olmecs and luzia as well as all other new and old remains have all tested to be pure American indian. No african haplogroups in American Indian DNA.
@Ma1q444
March 26, 2024 at 4:21 am
lol OG Darius