The concept of 'white' as a racial identity was artificially created in the mid-1600s through anti-miscegenation laws to divide European settlers from enslaved Africans and indentured servants, preventing unified resistance against colonial elites; this divide-and-conquer strategy continues to influence American history education, which often simplifies or omits indigenous civilizations, slavery, and systemic oppression, making it essential to understand the full, complete history of a nation to move forward and achieve true unity.
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Most white Americans are obsessed with discovering our ancestry because we are yearning to understand where we come from. When we arrived in America, our job was no longer to be Greek or French or German or whatever. Our job was to be white and embark on the project of whiteness, right? The problem, of course, besides the violence, is that uh a mere two to three generations later, we're so hungry to figure out where we come from because whiteness is rootless.
It's too new and it hasn't really done anything good for the world. We crave roots that have more nourishment. But I'm going to tell you now why the search for your European ancestors is always going to be fruitless and feudal and also why it's going to be okay. Anyway, I think it's an invitation for something even better.
>> Columbus didn't discover America. You can't discover a place where people are already living. But we celebrate that every October. It's a lie. We need to get over we need to stop telling the myths and start telling the truth. If we start teaching the truth about history, if we start teaching about Nile Valley contributions to civilization, it will totally change the way we conduct ourselves in the classroom. It will happen. Something fascinating is happening across America and more white people are questioning the history they learned in school. They're discovering that before European settlers arrived, America was already home to powerful indigenous nations with their own government, culture, and civilizations.
They are also learning that many stories about Native Americans, Africanameans, slavery, segregation, and the building of America were often simplified, minimized, or left out altogether. As a result, difficult questions are now being asked. Who were the original inhabitants of America whose labor helped build America? Whose contributions were overlooked? And why were some histories celebrated while others pushed to the margins? For some people, these questions are simply about learning history. And for others, they challenge long-held belief about identity, power, and America's past. So today we are exploring the history of Native Americans, the impacts of colonization, the struggles and contributions of black Americans, and why these conversations continue to spark strong emotions across the country. Because this debate is not just about the past, but it is about who gets remembered, who gets recognized, and how a nation chooses to tell its story.
>> Let me say that again. The whole history of America is the history of rich white men telling not rich white people that their enemies are black and brown. It starts in the colonies of what would become the United States.
Let's remember during the colonial period, mid600s, there was no such thing as white people. I know some people who are now called white find that shocking, right? Because they think whiteness is real, right? But whiteness was created.
Europeans didn't call themselves white.
We didn't call ourselves white. We weren't all members of one big happy family. Are you kidding? Have you studied the history of Europe? The history of Europe was about each other.
That's what we did in Europe. We just killed each other before we figured out there were other people that we just killed each other, right? I mean, that was the history of Europe. The English hated the Irish, right? Northern Italians didn't even think that southern Italians were Italians. The Germans hated everybody and everybody hated their ass right back, right? There was no team called white. no race called white. But all of a sudden in the middle of the 1600s there was. Why? Why was it suddenly necessary to create this thing called the white race? Well, because rich people can count. That's why. And so rich folks looked around, the ones that owned all the land, you know, in the colonies, the colonial elite looked around and they realized something that they were heavily outnumbered by African enslaved folks, by European indentured servants who were just one level above a slave or other Europeans who weren't technically indentured servants, but they were still peasants, didn't have any money, didn't have any land, and they could do the math. They added it up and they were like, "Damn, we got to figure out a way to split these folks apart from one another or they're going to rise up and take our stuff." Right?
Because after a while, these black folks who were enslaved Africans and these quote unquote white folks who were poor Europeans are going to figure out they're all getting played by these rich people, right? So ultimately the rich figure out they got to come up with some way to get somebody in that group on their team. The easiest thing is to get the poor Europeans, right? Because at least they look like you. They sort of share some of the customs and the culture. So they all of a sudden create this thing called whiteness and they say, "Now you're part of the club. Now, we're going to let you testify in court, enter into contracts, vote, at least if you're a man, own a little bit of land, at least if you're a man. Right? And we're going to get rid of indentured servitude. No more of that because you're too good for that. And we're going to take the white men, now called white men, and put them on the slave patrol to keep black people in line.
Give them a horse and a gun and a badge and make them feel big and powerful.
Right? They're still poor. They still don't have anything. They didn't pay the slave patrol well. Right? just exploited them, used them as a buffer between the elite and the other poor folks, particularly poor folks of color. And pretty soon, the rebellions that occasionally happened where black and white got together to overthrow the elite, those stopped because the divide and conquer had begun to work, right?
You could turn people against each other by telling those poor white folks, they got to keep these black people in line.
And so that divide and conquer gets initiated in the colonies. rich white men telling not rich white people that their enemies are black and brown. Fast forward to the Civil War era.
And you have I'm from the South, right?
My people, the elite in in in my part of the country, right, actually announced that the reason they wanted to break away from the Union and possibly go to war with their brothers and sisters to the north was in order to maintain slavery and white supremacy. They said that at the time. We lie about it now and we say it had nothing to do with that. But of course at the time they didn't have any shame about it. So they just said it openly, right? The vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stevens, said that the cornerstone of the new government was the great truth that the negro was not the equal of the white man. So that's the reason the Confederacy was formed and existed. But here's the trick. If I'm rich and I want to go to war to protect my ownership in other human beings, my property, but you're poor and you don't own any enslaved people, why the hell would you go fight to protect my stuff? Cuz I'm a rich person. I'm not going to fight.
Rich people don't go to war, right? Rich people get poor people to go to war for them, whether it's in 1860 or whether it's during the 1960s or whether it's today. Right? Rich folks get doctors to write notes for them that say that they have heel spurs and that's why they can't go to Vietnam. And if you don't know who I'm talking about, you can Google that cuz he's sitting in the White House right now. Right. Well, I can't go fight. I have heel spurs. Send some poor kids to do that for me, please. Right. So, that's been a long-standing tradition. So, the rich have to figure out a way to convince the poor to go fight for them. But that's a hard thing. That's like a hard cell, right? Like, how the hell why would you do that? Why would you go fight to protect my property rights when you don't own anything? Only way you would do it is if that rich person comes to you and says, "Hey, listen. You got to you got to go fight because we got to maintain our way of life." Because if these people get free, they're going to take your jobs. No, fool. They already got your job. That's how it works, right? Cuz if I'm white and I got to charge you a dollar a day to work on the farm, but you can get a black person to do it for nothing because you own them.
Guess who got the job? Free got the job.
Right? So, in a sense, poor white folks would have been better off joining with black folks to overthrow the slave system. That would have raised the wage floor of all working people, but they got took they got tricked by rich white men telling them that their enemies were black and brown. Fast forward to the 1930s. And you have white labor leaders.
They're not even the elite, right? The labor leaders are not the elite elite, but they're the elite within the labor movement. And even they had fallen for it at this point. So, they didn't want to integrate their unions. And they would say things like, "Well, we can't have black people and Mexicans and Chinese folks in our unions because if we do that, it's going to reduce the professionalism of our craft. We have to maintain the integrity of our profession." No, fool. You need more people in the damn union is what you need. And if you don't let those folks in, guess what happens when you go out on strike? Who is the boss going to use to replace you? They're going to they're going to replace you with the very same black and brown folks that you didn't want to work next to, right? And so at the end of the and then you're going to blame them for taking your job rather than the white rich dude for giving it to them, right? Divide and conquer, telling not rich white folks that their enemies are black and brown. And now we fast forward to the president. We got the president of the United States becoming president on the basis of that same rhetoric. Telling not rich white folks that the reason they don't have a job is because Mexicans took him. Right?
That's the argument. Keep in mind there's been a net outflow of Mexican folk from this country out of this country in the last 10 years. Right now, border crossings and actual in migration at the lowest level they've been since the 1970s. So, anybody who believes that is a damn fool or somebody who does not understand how to do research on the internet or someone who doesn't care, right? But he says it. He says, "The reason you don't have a job is those brown folks took them."
>> What do you mean the British only study history for about 5 years in school?
Like their entire formal schooling, they only spend around 5 years of that learning history. That is that seriously correct? because that explains so much because I obviously you can't study all of history in five years. That's like one hour a day I imagine for five years.
That's not going to teach you everything. Americans learn history for 13 years straight. From the very first day of kindergarten all the way to the last day of 12th grade, you will have a history class. It is one of the core classes that you must take. English, history, science, math. Every single year, you have to get at least one of those classes no matter what. So this means that we have 13 years, sometimes two semesters in a class, somewhere between 13 to 20 different history classes that we must complete to get our diploma. And each of these history classes is a completely different perspective. So it's like US history, state history, local history, world history, specifically English history, might be art history. So you're looking specifically at like a very niche form of history specifically through the lens of art. Like there's a lot of different ways you could look at history. But if you only have 5 years, yeah, it's going to be a simplified version. And that actually really does explain a lot why the standards for you guys might seem different for us. Cuz like I can see why you guys assume we don't learn foreign history if you guys only learn English history cuz that's all you have time for. I can totally see why you'd assume we only learn American history. But we don't. Cuz I've had so many people in my comments trying to pull like, "Well, you guys didn't have to learn about the tutors of the Stone Age Age or the Iron Age." It's like, "Yeah, we did. Every single one of those we did. We actually had to write a report for literally all of those." So, I could tell you a lot about all of those, but it I understand why there seems to be that disconnect because if you guys are only learning about your history, it's safe to assume that everyone else is probably learning about their history, too. But that's not that's not the case in America. We literally spend 13 straight years learning history. So, it's wild to me that people think that Americans don't know history because we're definitely taught history. Most white Americans are obsessed with discovering our ancestry because we are yearning to understand where we come from. When we arrived in America, our job was no longer to be Greek or French or German or whatever.
Our job was to be white and embark on the project of whiteness, right? The problem, of course, besides the violence, is that uh a mere two to three generations later, we're so hungry to figure out where we come from because whiteness is rootless. It's too new and it hasn't really done anything good for the world. We crave roots that have more nourishment. But I'm going to tell you now why the search for your European ancestors is always going to be fruitless and feudal and also why it's going to be okay. Anyway, I think it's an invitation for something even better.
Like other people facing the rootless wonder that is European American existence, I sent off a sample of my DNA to a private company to tell me who I am. I knew the basics of my heritage in the sense that I knew my birth certificate said French, Welsh, Portuguese, and German. That's all I knew. 23 and me finished analyzing my data and they said, "Yeah, that all checks out. And also, did you know you're 12% Sardinian?"
No. I make some calls. No one in my family has any record of this, right? I become completely obsessed with Sardinia for 2 weeks. I am looking up Sardinian history. I'm looking up Sardinian culture. I am planning a $2,000 trip to Sardinia so I can go and try that like freaky worm cheese they have for a reason I can't yet articulate. I know that being from this place makes me a more interesting person. And I log in one day to show someone and poof, it is just gone. They took all my little Sardinian PokΓ©mon DNA points and put them into Portugal. Like the whole thing was just some kind of rounding error.
And I was very upset about this. I felt betrayed and then I was like, I just let a private for-profit company tell me a story about myself that I can never verify that you can never verify unless you have a time machine and used it to change my entire perception about who I am.
The whole exercise revealed itself to be what it truly was, which is useless. You go looking for your ancestors not because you are looking for blood purity. You're looking for stories.
Blood will never tell you a story.
You put a story on blood. You find out your part, whatever, and you tell yourself a story about what that means about you based on stereotypes you've heard about that culture from other people. That is not the same thing as learning about what your ancestors were like. Were they kind neighbors? Were they loving parents? Were they cruel to strangers? What did they think of immigrants? What did they think was happening when they prayed?
Did they ever think about you? You just don't get to know that with a DNA test.
That will only ever be a story you make up in your head that you allow a DNA test to give you permission to indulge.
And there is a freedom in this.
Actually, stay with me. I think most of us want to be burdened with a legacy. We want destiny and direction that is so certain and so strong, we we might actually have the the gall, the bratty urge to fight it. DNA tests don't give us legacy. The freedom of America that was promised to European settlers can be realized by us, the descendants of those settlers, but perhaps not in the way that it was originally set out. I feel like a wandering white ghost. I think a lot of us do. But we are still the inheritors of incredible wealth and incredible things were built for us. We are ghosts holding bags of money and power. We need to realize that looking backward is only going to get us so far.
We need to look forward. Maybe our ancestral legacy is the realization of the benefits of rootlessness. That we are part of a global family and that it is our obligation to care about that.
That is our evolution. We know how easy it is to be torn away from a bloodline, removed from a cultural and a national identity, and reformed into something new that doesn't fully understand itself and the consequences of that. Because borders always change, nations always change, and cultures are always in a state of change. If you wrap your self-perception up too much in these things, these changing things, you lose the plot of what ancestry is about.
Ancestry is the search for family, for belonging. You already are a part of a family, even if it's a dysfunctional one.
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>> I will address as many things as I possibly can in your comments as well as some other people's comments. And first and foremost, I want to say y'all need to stop attacking me. All I'm doing is basically telling you what's in the court documents. And these are actually his victims and actually eyewitnesses to his crimes that he committed. All of you are saying that, oh well, you know, these people are not on our side and of course they're going to sell their side in the court documents. No, these are actually eyewitness accounts of people he defrauded and people he actually ended up getting into a lot of trouble who ended up having to serve a lot of time in prison because he told them to do certain things. I'm not going to go and tell y'all everything. And basically the prosecution, all they did was basically summarize what the eyewitnesses said and the people who filed charges against him said and they put they they summarized it and put it on paper and said, "Okay, this is the deal." after they investigated it. This is the deal. Okay? And so these are the charges. What I don't get about those of you that are insisting, "Oh, Marcus Garvey was a good man. He did everything he could for us." Or some of you were saying for African people and yada yada this. Did you not see the picture of him with Walter Pleer, the guy that changed our identity from us being indigenous to Africans or really it to negro to color to black, all all those other things that were not. And then finally, of course, African-American, but this this was after his time.
But he is the one that began changing our identity from us being indigenous to America to us being some freaking foreigners on our own land. How is that good for us? How is that good for our people? And maybe y'all just don't know our history or don't believe it. He was colluding right along with them to send our people to Africa to make our people think that we are Africans. So, as a result of Garvey trying to brainwash the people into thinking that they're Africans and trying to send them to Africa and a place that he never even went to, there were other things that were going on. And get the book if you want to know everything else. $5 is not a lie. And it was because of the things that were going on, this this tug and pull between the indigenous people of North America and Garvey that caused a lot of the tensions between them. So, we can't just say, "Oh, well, black Americans did this." No, he came to North America trying to brainwash folks into thinking that they are some a race of people that they're not. And so he was colluding with these people to get us off our land and our people were not having that. So you want them to not fight back? Of course they're going to fight back. So you can't just say, "Oh, well the black Americans did this to him before?" No.
Can can you how would you feel if someone went to your country and they try to tell you that you are another race that you belong to another people somewhere else across the water and they're trying to convince your people that they need to leave their homeland and go over to another land and live the these people over here wanted the land and so he was helping them to get us off the land so they can take it. So don't don't say it was because black Americans did this, this, this, and this. Look at what Garvey was doing.
Look at what Garvey was doing. Look at the role he was playing. And you said that a lot of black Americans did things to him according to his speeches and his writings and things. What you have to understand that a lot of the pan lost to or pan-Africans and who don't really realize that we are indigenous to America, you have to understand that during that time in the in the in the early 1900s, they knew that they were indigenous to America. That's the thing.
So they were looking at him sideyed.
They were looking at him like he was crazy trying to tell them to go to Africa. And I'll say this much, this is also in the book. They were just like, "What the hell we need Africa for? We don't need Africa. This is why they opposed that whole going to Africa thing. They may not have necessarily opposed, you know, the the things that he was saying that needed to be done like, you know, segregation and all that other stuff he was saying because to be perfectly honest with you, I agree with a lot of his talking points. I do. I I I agree with a lot of the things that he said. I don't agree with with the, you know, the the anger and and and the the major racial hatred, but I get it because those were very very turbulent times. The KKK was in full swing. Our town, our towns were being bombed. They were destroyed. They were being flooded.
A lot of our people were losing their lives. So, I get it. I point blank period. Our people wasn't trying to hear that Africa nonsense cuz they knew that they were not from Africa. And a lot of them were not even taught that in schools like they did, you know, generations that came after them. That's when they began to brainwash the kids in school because if you brainwash the children, the the the older generation, they're going to die off. And so, and the children won't know any better. But during that time, they still knew that they were indigenous to America. So, they weren't going for that Africa BS.
They just weren't. And those of us that know who we are and know that we are truly indigenous to America, we ain't going for that BS either. Personally, I don't have a problem with uniting with people who are on the African continent and call themselves African or any other people on this planet that look like us.
I don't have a problem with that. But you ain't about to tell me that I have to call myself an effing African in order to unite. You got me messed up.
And so I can see why our people were not going for that BS because they knew they weren't no Africans. They knew they were indigenous to America. And a lot of y'all, it's very obvious that you are new on my channel because you're calling me an effing Christian. Yo, that's an insult. I am very well aware of Christian, all the religions. Okay, I feel the same way of the other religions as I do about Christianity. I have nothing to do with religion. So do not throw me in that box with the Christians. A lot of Christians are asleep. They are they don't know their head from their tails. And I mean no disrespect to anyone that that that's a Christian. They are the most lost people on this planet and trying to make it seem like I like the pastors and the preachers with no action and just all talk. No, I'm about that action. And you're obviously not used to my channel.
You're obviously just, you know, you've been introduced to my channel through this Garvey video cuz that that that ain't me. You got me messed up. No, I'm not going to name the people in the court documents because the book is for sale. No, I've given you guys enough of what's already in the court documents and I'm catching hell from that. People are trying to make it seem like I'm the one that's attacking a brother when I'm just simply talking about what the people in the court documents are saying about him.
I'm not going to give y'all any more than that. You have to read it. But you need to understand that even if the court documents were written by those people that y'all are are are talking about, oh no, they done switched it up.
they changed it and they done said this about him and said, "No, you got it messed up. He was on their side and they were on his side." And once you read the court documents, you will clearly see how much they were on his side and how they saved him from spending the rest of his life behind bars. That's Did anyone else leave history class in school thinking America was just like one long hate crime? Because that is not an accident. For decades, the left rewrote American history the same way they rewrite today movies, TV shows, and literally everything else. They remove context. Uh they add a lot of guilt, a lot of propaganda, and then they call it education. So instead of learning about achievements, sacrificed, and facts, we just get pure anti- America propaganda.
Slavery, racism, their favorite, colonization, uh no wins, no progress, no nuance, just teaching kids just pure shame. And you know, if you ask questions, the teacher would go absolutely nuts. That teacher was probably a far-left psychopath. That's why real history with Matt Walsh hits so hard. He goes through what was left out conveniently. What was distorted and why your teacher somehow ran out of time for anything positive to teach us. I mean, Matt Walsh made What is a woman? Am I racist? I'm sure we've all seen those.
They're incredible. Uh, it's called Real History with Matt Walsh. It's streaming now on Daily Wire Plus. watch it and tell me you don't immediately think, "Oh, so they just lied about a lot of stuff."
>> The first white person was born in 1691.
This is a White History Minute. I don't know their name. I don't know their gender. I don't know their daddy's name or their mama's name. I know nothing about this person other than the fact that I know without a doubt that the very first white person in the world was born in 1691 in Virginia colony because prior to 1691 in Virginia colony the concept of white did not exist. It was created in anti- misguanation I can't say that word laws which stated that whatsoever English or other white man or woman being free shall intermar with a negro mulatto or Indian man or woman bond or free shall be banished from the dominion forever.
Before that there was no such thing as a white person. You had Christians versus heathens. You had Englishmen versus negroes. You had Irish. You had Scots.
You had the free and the enslaved. You had the indigenous peoples and you know they had some contact with Asians. But there was no such thing as a white person until they decided to group similar looking Europeans together to reduce the risk all of the poor people joining together in rebellion against the colonial governors. This was a white history minute.
>> I agree with this 100%. This totally pisses me off especially when education standards are set by each state. So that means not everybody got the same education. I feel like if we all knew the information in this book, we would be such a united population. We can only progress forward as a nation if we learn from the mistakes of the past. That's why it's imperative that we know the true story of our history. For us to heal and come together as a nation. I challenge all of you to take a step forward. Read this book. It is so good.
It's informative. This helps us know the root of everything that our ancestors fought for and the things that we should continue to fight. You're interested in grabbing a copy for you, your kids, or just somebody who needs to know their history a little bit better. I did drop a link for you below, but out of all the books I've read, which is many, this is probably my favorite. We deserve to know.
Americans find it very upsetting that we didn't learn about 1776 in school. And I explained that there is so much British history that we couldn't fit everything in and 1776 didn't make the cut. Now Americans are saying that I should have learned all of British history. I just said there's too much to learn. Then they said, "Well, you should at least learn about the important stuff." We did. 1776 wasn't important enough and Americans are still saying we should learn all of British history. Well, you should learn all of British history because our history is your history, too. So, shouldn't you know all of our history, too? Before European colonization, the land that became the United States was home to hundreds of indigenous nations. These nations had their own governments, their own languages, their own trade systems, and their own culture and spiritual traditions. For thousands of years, native peoples lived across North America long before European settlers arrived. Historians, archaeologists, and genius communities have documented these histories extensively. Yet, many Americans today admit that they were taught very little about native civilization beyond brief mentions in school. As more people study American history, they discovered stories that often receive less attention. forc removals, broken treaties, land seaas, boarding schools, and cultural suppression. For some Americans, learning these facts creates a sense of shock. Not because the information is new to historians, but because it feels new to them. History is never just about the past. It shapes identity. It shapes national pride. It shapes how people understand themselves. And when people discover parts of history they were never taught, reactions vary. Some become defensive, some become angry, and some simply want a fuller understanding of the history. Many people also draw connections between Native American history and Africanamean history. Both communities experienced discrimination, legal exclusion, loss of rights, and effort to erase parts of their history.
While their experiences were different, many activists and scholars have noted parallels in the struggle for recognition, dignity, and equal treatment. This is one reason discussion about native history often lead into broader conversations about race and justice in America. The biggest question is not who should feel guilty. The real question is can a nation move forward without understanding its full history?
Because history is not just about celebrating achievement. It is also about understanding mistakes, learning from them, and making sure they are not repeated. The debate is not really about the past. It is about the future. It is about whether Americans are willing to learn a fuller story of the nation they call home. Because history becomes strongest when it's complete, not when part of it are ignored. And perhaps the greatest challenge facing American today is not discovering the facts. It is being willing to confront the facts that were always there. Thank you for watching. This is messy realities.
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