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40 Acres & a Mule: The Black Nation America Destroyed: pan African caller says this
Added:on that tip, brother. You know what I'm saying, >> right?
>> But but uh yeah, man. I want to I want to learn about your Indian history, brother.
>> Uh what you what you want to know and and why do you care?
>> Well, you know, I'm curious, man, because here's the thing. You you you share you share uh ancestry in the South with me, right? Like you know my folks from the south, your honor Frederick Douglas, we honor Sjer Truth. You would say those your people, right?
>> Uh are you black American, sir?
>> Yeah, you would say those your people, right? Um uh Frederick Douglas, >> are you are you black American?
Oh, you see you see when when them Pan-African [ __ ] be too happy, they they connection keep going in and out.
>> I'm trying to uh put something on the map real quick cuz I'm out driving.
>> Oh, I'm black.
>> I'm black.
>> You black American? Okay. All right. So, I I guess we might share we might share the same lineage, you know, somewhere down the line.
>> Yeah. I I just I just don't think I don't I just don't think that we uh we Indians though. That's the thing. You know, I know I'm very confident on that, right? Unless you got some Indian ad mixture, which I'm confident on folks having Indian ad mixture as well.
>> Okay. So, are two What are you saying right now? Are you trying to say that we don't have any Indiana or we have Indian ad mixture?
Which one? Um, I think I I I'm saying that the indigenous people before Christopher Columbus came were not black and it's no all black uh like tribes.
>> Black Black didn't black didn't exist back then. Are you saying >> Negro did? Negro did though, right?
>> Yeah. Negro. Black as how we say black how how we say it today didn't exist.
Black now is a racial construct and it is a uh it is a uh ethnicity. So when you say you didn't see any black people?
Yeah. You didn't see you ain't see hip hop. You ain't see break dancing. Yeah.
Of course >> you talking about phenotype?
>> Melanin. You don't think any melanin was in America?
I mean, a Arabic person got melanin, but I could tell them I could tell tell the difference between that and a black person in Compton.
>> What is a black what is Can you Can you identify what a black person is?
>> Uh any Well, when you read dictionary, it'll be any people that uh are connected to subsaharan African groups, right? even if they live in a diaspbody.
>> No, because uh white tea people didn't come from Africa in the last 200 to 400 years unless they were uh kidnapping folks.
>> Okay. When when did black Americans get when did black Americans get to America?
How many years ago was that?
>> Um probably in the most mostly like in the last like 250 years. you know, go to the 1600s, but majority in the 1700s.
>> And what's your proof of what what's what's your proof of that? That there was no So, you're saying there was no melanated people in America? Let's start there. Let's let's go back. There was no melan.
>> Yeah. Everybody Everybody has melanin even what we call Slow down. Slow down.
So, so where did the line of melanin stop? What on the color spectrum? WHAT DO YOU THAT'S WHY I ASKED YOU. WHAT DO you consider? Are you calling black a phenotype or are you saying people from if you're saying people from Africa weren't over here? Correct. They were American. Absolutely.
>> Yeah. Like uh Tanto.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There there was no there was no Africans over here. You're right. THERE WERE AMERICAN.
>> YEAH. I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH THAT.
RIGHT.
>> YEAH. PERFECT.
So yeah, there was no Africans in America. There were Americans in America and they had melanin.
>> Well, it wasn't called America until uh America Margo Vespui uh named it, >> right? But people over here, they were Americans and they had melanin or whatever you want to call. They were they were tri they were tribal nations and uh or nations whatever you want to call them that lived on uh whatever land match you want to call cuz everybody didn't call it Turtle Island. I only came from specific tribes with that language that said it was Turtle Island.
>> Whatever. But they had melanin.
>> Yeah. Navajo people got melanin.
>> Yeah. And then you and then you had melanin from different ranges from my range down and my range and up.
Yeah, but you they also had long straight hair.
>> All of them had all of them. All of them had long straight hair >> then lips. Uh yeah. Yeah, pretty much.
>> Prove it.
>> Pretty much.
>> Prove it.
>> I mean, have you seen the Native American?
>> Native American? You talking about the term that was created in 1950? Yeah, I've seen those Siberians. They're mud.
>> Yeah, they're that's interchangeable with Indian though. That's interchangeable with Indian.
>> So is Negro.
No, negro is not. If you look up the definition negro, it's going to it's going to say relating to subsaharan subsaharan African origin.
>> Oh. Oh. Oh.
Do you want to go there, brother? Are you sure you want to go in that territory?
>> I can pull up the I can pull up the definition for you, brother.
>> Oh.
So, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead and go there, brother. Um, the term negro wasn't dedicated to a specific person.
uh who came from Africa when the Spanish first said it, they classified anybody as negro or slave. And that's been proven. Matter of fact, in the early colonial journals, they said that they made no distinction between Negroes or what would you call Indian? They call all the Negroes. So, if you're sitting here and trying to tell me that they kept each person separated, can you show me proof that they kept each person separated off the plantations?
>> So, here's the thing.
>> No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You [ __ ] the definition. You would need to tell me that they kept each person separated off those plantations.
Can you prove that they kept what you define as Native American away from what you define as African in early >> Wait, hold on.
>> Hold on. In the early 1600s, can you do that? Go ahead. And hold on. And I have a rule. Hold on. Hold on. I have a rule.
If you lie or you deflect, I'mma drop you. So, you need to prove to me in the early 1600s that they made distinctions between negro and what they call Indian >> and they never and they never and they never interchanged them at all. Go ahead.
>> So, when they use the word negro deterror, right, and I can pull that up for you. You know what I'm saying? I'mma get ready to go in a second, but it it uh designated uh what it say uh negro negro deterior negroes of the land. But it was a social cast system opposed to race, right? Because they equated them with the slaves of negro guina Africa.
So you on the same level it didn't do it didn't designate your racial structure or phenotype. So we can pull that up.
You can look that up on Google.
Slow down. I'm talking about the plantation. Are you telling me right now that they separated Negroes from Indians on the same plantation in the 1600s?
>> Not at the be not not at the beginning.
Not at the beginning.
>> Oh.
>> You know, like early on, but a lot of black people were addition service around that TIME AS WELL.
>> EVERYBODY CLAP IT UP. BUT BUT BUT THEY PUT they brought a law they put a law in there >> where they stop enslaving.
>> Congratulations, brother. That thank you for not lying. Um but since you're telling the truth, um they came out with a law called the 1662 baby follows the womb. Have you read that law before?
>> No, I haven't. But I also got laws to show you where >> Let's go there. The 1662 baby follows a womb was a uh law enacted to produce more slaves without having to go across to Africa to get go to go make some. So they rather made slaves than go get slaves. So what they said is if we deemed you a slave cuz like you just said slavery was a status. It it wasn't towards your skin color or where you from. It was a status. If they deemed you a slave or your mother a slave, that baby is now considered a slave, which is now at THE START OF OH, HE OH, HE ran away. Hey.
Hey.
Oh, we we BEAT HIM. WE BEAT HIM. We beat him.
WE WHY HE RED? WHY? WHAT? OH, MAN. A See, we just GETTING TOO GOOD AT THIS.
WE getting we getting too good.
The conversation really starting to get boring. You know what I'm saying? Cuz these [ __ ] know they lying. It just it just it just it just doesn't make any sense. Like it doesn't make any sense. Like you know what I'm saying? He knew he lost.
Appreciate that, Miss Val. He knew he lost once he admitted that they didn't make any distinctions in when they first started. So if you start like that, you [ __ ] up already.
If I got this water bottle and I grab some fruit punch and I pour a little bit of fruit punch and it's it's no longer water no more. It's no longer It's no longer regular water no more.
No. Yeah. If I pour a little bit OF FRUIT PUNCH OR DIE IN HERE, it's muddy now. And you can never call it water again. It's no It's no longer water, right? So that's the same thing. We start off like that. That's just that's just what it is. I mean, you can't start off [ __ ] up and then try to fix it down the line. Oh. Oh. Oh, my bad. No, no, no, no, no, no. That That's a [ __ ] over there. That That He's a [ __ ] That's a Native American over there. We We got it right this time. Our bad. It's too late. It's too late once you start intermingling, having babies with each other. You know what I'm saying? Hey, Danny boy, you blocking a whole lot of You blocking a whole lot of [ __ ] you blogging. Let let people come up. Yeah.
Try unless unless they try to request and they didn't come up. Let them let THEM TALK THEIR [ __ ] for a little bit in the chat and let me read what they saying. Yeah. So, um yeah, these pan-African guys, you know, say stop blocking. Hey boy, Danny be quick, boy. Danny be quick to block these [ __ ] I I wake up with five messages every day. AI, I'm blocked.
They I'm blocked. Oh, fake pages with one a. Okay, great. If they got GREAT JOB, DANNY. MY BAD. SEE, DANNY BE HEY, Y'ALL STOP [ __ ] WITH DANNY. DANNY KNOW what he doing. If you have one one follower, wait, but sometimes they be all right, Daddy. Sometimes they don't always be a troll. But if they try to request up, that's when you could uh go ahead and block them. Yeah. Don't be on my page with no one follow [ __ ] I'm cool, bro. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Danny Danny handling business.
Danny handling business, right?
FBA versus everybody. Big Yod, you know what it is, fam. FBA versus everybody.
But let's go ahead and get this party started.
You know what I'm saying?
Boy, we got a lot to talk about.
Let's go ahead get this started. But how's everybody doing? Uh, hey, I lowkey know why black Americans are mad. Well, come on. Come on, Blizzy.
Tell tell me why. Blizz, you ain't been on in a minute. Come back. Come on. Come on. Tell me tell me why black Americans are mad.
>> But like AI, how you doing, bro? You good?
>> Blizz what what it what it do, fam? I ain't hear from you in a minute. You all right? I mean, >> yeah, man. Good, man. Good, man. You good?
So, I was going to say I low key see it now. Why? Where this comes from? Because bro, I just came back from a live. Yeah.
There was a black American that must have come on the live. Then after when when the black America came on the live, they was all just wow. Saying that, do you know where you come from? You have no culture this. And then now like damn, now I see. Damn, why why you you guys are m like wow. That that's all I'm saying, Blizzy. Like why why y'all want to Africanize everybody? Like you listen, Blizzy, I believe you guys have enough Africans to love. There are enough Africans in Africa for every African to love. You guys are not on a shortage of Africans. Why y'all acting like y'all on a shortage of African?
Y'ALL Y'ALL ACTING like you need every piece of Africa you could get. You You [ __ ] got enough. Y'all got too many.
You got too many other Africans to love.
I don't know why y'all trying to Africanize us like you need us. You guys are populating at a at a at a horrible rate. Like it y'all need to stop [ __ ] Yeah. Y'all y'all really need to stop [ __ ] That's that's what that's what really need to go on. You [ __ ] need to stop [ __ ] But um Yeah, Blizzy, I appreciate that, brother.
>> Yeah. Go on. Let's get I hope you do well, brother. Appreciate you. Have a good one. Uh, non-binary. Holl at me.
What's going on?
>> Hello.
>> What's your name? Where you from?
>> I'm from Ethiopia and Morocco.
>> Okay. Holl at me. What's good?
>> Um, you I just want to let you know that by 2050, Africans will account for 50% of the world's population. So, you [ __ ] will have to bow down to us. You keep talking [ __ ] but you're a dirty ass Jamaican. You're half Jamaican.
You're not even fully black American.
So, I don't understand, >> bro. Like, I think a rainbow just flew over the >> [ __ ] You guys have the hype.
>> I I think a rainbow a rainbow flew over the screen like this started talking the the rainbow just >> flew over Zesty Field.
[ __ ] I seen a big ass rainbow pop up, you know, by 2015 and 2015.
I thought a [ __ ] was Puerto Rican or something. And he says, "No, that you [ __ ] you [ __ ] are going to be over with. I hope you know that."
Taste the rainbow. Follow the rainbow.
Zesty [ __ ] God damn. These [ __ ] need to listen. Listen, y'all need to go have y'all little LGBTQ zesty family reunion on another panel. I ain't got nothing against the other community. Just come over here and have a a actual conversation. You don't be trying to bring Taste the Rainbow over here, right, Pedro? What's going on, >> man? I've been having a hard day with this African today. I be arguing with them for three hours.
>> Yeah.
>> God. Oh, not you and Africans. You and Africans don't need to be nowhere near each other.
>> Well, they mad because I told them that my father, the Spanish one, and they've been pretty mad. They were talking about how people don't like them. And I go like, "You travel to a different continent and you don't even know how to ride a bike." And you mad that people don't want you in. And they say, "We don't even know how to ride a bike."
>> Yeah. They don't have no bite over there. No. The guy the guy that was arguing with you, he's from Sagal. I was giving him hell earl.
>> Oh. Oh. Shippo. Shippo. Okay. Okay.
Okay.
>> Yeah. He wrong a lie. He's he's the greatest African known to mankind.
That's what they try to say that uh FBAs are the most we have the most you know >> you know uh gays but I I feel like it it's >> it might be the Africans that they just in the closet. They just in the closet you know over over here the the brothers over here who who rock that way they're more open and proud. The Africans they know they'll get their heads chopped off so they be hiding and [ __ ] >> Yeah. You declare yourself to be gay in Africa. You know they bring you alive.
You don't want to be gay there.
Jay, holl at me, brother. What's going on? It's your 20 minutes, Jay. Go ahead, holl at me. What's good, brother?
>> Hey, everybody on Instagram.
>> Everybody on Instagram, we about to switch over to Tik Tok. Y'all come over here and I tap back in with y'all in the next 30 minutes when we do have time. Go ahead, J. [ __ ] I can't complain, brother. What's good, >> man? nothing laughing at all these goddamn TPS status users uppers mugly outdators all these people who get deported all these people who going to Jamaica they want to be a little bumble clut oh they about to be a little bumba clut they going to go over there to Jamaica and say no it was us who started hip hop they going to be over there arguing about who started hip-hop I swear bro Hey, >> go ahead, brother.
>> Hey, bro. I'm freaking crying right now, bro. Hey, real talk though. You want to know what's funny about all this [ __ ] >> is that they was telling us a year ago that they weren't going nowhere. They said we going to stay here forever. We good. Y'all going to leave. They going to be sending you. They going to deport you. Ice is going to come for you. Oh, okay. Okay, [ __ ] >> Now look at them. They gone like a [ __ ] They can't bring nobody else.
Hey bro, and >> and they damn sure can't bring nobody in here. They all [ __ ] >> Hey, bro. That's the crazy part cuz I seen some I seen some Jamaicans trying to paddle their way over here on the banana boat and they got stopped.
>> Hey, hold on. FJ John 267 dope.
I'll mute your mic, brother.
>> Bro, ain't you half Jamaican, bro?
Fight, bro. He talking bad about your half side to fight.
>> Unfortunately, that's just how the cookie crumbles, dog. I mean, I have no allegiance with them people. You know what I'm saying?
>> So, you pretty much just sold out of your your your bloodline. Like, >> I mean, it's just it's just the experience, bro. I had a black American experience. If I grew up, you know what, John? If I grew up Jamaican, like if I grew up black American, have black American but in Jamaica, I'll be fine for Jamaicans. I'll be a Jamaican in Jamaican with a Jamaican experience and then my lineage as a black American will be in America, but I'm over here. But it's just the opposite. I'm I had I had, you know, >> that's still your chromosones and your bloodline, though. You can't let him bash your your your your bloodline like that, though.
>> But you know what? Did you come up here to >> Hold on. Hold on, Jay. Hold on, Jay. But you know what? Let's say if I was a full Jamaican. If I was a full Jamaican, I hope you know I have the same rhetoric.
I mean, because it comes down to wrong is wrong and right is right. Like, I wouldn't come to somebody else's country as a full Jamaican and start telling people about their culture and what they need to do. That's wrong.
>> It's just Hold on. Hold on. It's just It's just wrong. So, if people want to clap back at me for saying, "Well, [ __ ] you're not supposed to belong here." That's the truth, [ __ ] I got a I got a whole island to go to. So even if I was full Jamaican, I think I'll be saying matter of fact, matter of fact, [ __ ] it. Bumba clot. I'm full Jamaican today.
Bumba clot. I'm fool. Listen, By Boy.
Listen to me. I say, By Boy. Listen to what me I say. When y'all come When y'all come, you shut the [ __ ] up. When y'all come here to another man's island, to another man country, you don't play with them. You shut the [ __ ] up and you fall in line, man.
Bumba clot.
It's the same [ __ ] Like listen, you chose. It was a choice to be a [ __ ] [ __ ] when you came here. That's a choice. It was a choice to become a [ __ ] [ __ ] when you fled from Africa or the Caribbeans. No one. It's fine to be Haitian, African, Jamaican, beheaded. No one said there's anything wrong with it, but there's something wrong with being a [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm just not that.
I could be half Jamaican. That that don't half Jamaican don't equal [ __ ] [ __ ] Yeah. Coming to somebody else's country undermining them getting into their politics.
That's a that's a [ __ ] [ __ ] move. Like >> All right. Let me ask you a question though.
If you see a FBA being on a Jamaican bad, are you going to help the Jamaican out or you going to look look turn away?
Oh, if I see two FBAs fighting, I'mma look the other way. That's not >> That's not That's not what That's not what I asked. I said if you see >> Yeah. Yeah. If I two If I SEE TWO FBAS FIGHTING, I'M [ __ ] I see two dogs fighting, I go the other.
>> This is what I said, brother. That's what >> Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Yeah.
Whenever I see two people fighting, I mind my business. The [ __ ] that got to do with me?
>> So, if you see a FBA just beating on a Jamaican, you ain't going >> bump [ __ ] Yeah, [ __ ] I I ain't getting in between that [ __ ] That ain't got nothing to do with me.
[ __ ] I see Hold on, hold on, hold on, Jay. I see people fighting every day. I I don't say to ask, "Hey, what's your ethnicity and what's your ethnicity?
I let them I let them boy I'm happy that they fighting.
I'm I'm happy that they throwing hands like >> All right. Okay. Last question for you.
Does FBA have any political power in 2026?" Yes or no?
>> Uh, we had political power since 1776, [ __ ] What the [ __ ] We have political power since 1776.
>> [ __ ] what bills and laws have y'all passed a decree in from 1776?
>> [ __ ] [ __ ] Civil rights, [ __ ] >> [ __ ] that's through question.
>> Dumb [ __ ] Civil rights [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] Uh, >> and yada founding.
>> Hold on. Uh the Sherman uh field order 15 [ __ ] [ __ ] That Yeah, [ __ ] Right.
Yeah. Yeah. Listen, you [ __ ] are used to throwing coconuts in the air and slicing them with machetes and wearing two mismatching flip-flops. So, you don't know how politics and policies work and how someone could have soft power. I get it. So, you're struggling with understanding how politics work and who has soft power.
So my question to you is where are you from?
John >> Jamaica.
>> Oh, you're a Jamaican. Oh. Oh. Bumble clock. Damn. [ __ ] [ __ ] What kind of political power y'all have right now?
>> That's not the question I asked. The question I asked you, brother, is when you wrote these laws, what's the what's the founding father?
What was his name that you know passed it into the Korea law?
Uh, brother, I think you're getting confused with soft power and hard power, sir. We have soft power in America as when it obtains to politics. Politics surround us. As you can see, people cater to black Americans.
So, [ __ ] and then on top of that, we're the reason for the Republican party to this day. We're influential to politics, sir. So, my question to you is, what is your politics doing for you right now as a Jamaican?
got in there to not see the [ __ ] >> right? Yeah. The the my politics is why your Jamaican or Haitian ass is here right now. You you know you had to use them flip-flops and you started slapping the water to get here. Yeah. Yeah. We're the reason why you in this country right now. So I mean [ __ ] >> So you're saying you guys have political power?
>> Most definitely. We most definitely have political power. So you know what? as as a >> Hold on. Hold on. Great point. I like where you going.
>> FBA.
>> Wait, hold on. Hold on. Wait. Hold on. I like where you're going with this. I like where you're going with this because this is perfect. You know where we started to [ __ ] up at though? You know where our political power started to look a little bit crazy? I'm not going to lie to you. Our political power started to look crazy. When we started letting your musty ass into this country, that's when that [ __ ] started to look lopsided and [ __ ] and and and [ __ ] started to get [ __ ] up. and we started going for agendas for the LGBTQ community when we had that South African bush bush meat clapping [ __ ] on stage talking about he black when he was African or when we had Brian Donald's uh Jamaican ass on there talking about we don't deserve reparations or when we had West Moore Jamaican ass boy you Jamaicans oh boy y'all [ __ ] up when you had West Moore Jamaican ass out there talking about we shouldn't worry about reparations yeah so maybe we had you bush p bush pushy meat clapping [ __ ] getting the [ __ ] OUT OF OUR POLITICS, WE'LL PROBABLY have more power. So that's why we're delineating so we could gain more power. So if we if you can't see it right now, it's because your funky ass is in the way. If we could just get rid of your funky ass and get your player hating um kin folks out the way, black Americans would be better off. I man, >> you you half of me though. What you mean?
>> Hold on. Hold on. Give me a second. No, no, I'm not half [ __ ] [ __ ] That's the difference. Hold on. Yeah. I I don't I don't know what these [ __ ] don't understand. I'm half Jamaican, not half [ __ ] [ __ ] That's two different lineage.
Say you got a question. I got a question.
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>> By Kla.
>> Yes. Vice president. Oh. Oh, Charlemagne. Still the president.
>> Hold on. Let's Let's get your Jamaican brother on here real quick and see what he had to say about uh uh reparations if I can find that clip.
Hey y'all, while you looking for the clip, can I ask him a question real quick?
>> Go ahead. You can talk to him.
>> Hey bro, what are you doing in preparation to receive your Haitian brothers and sisters?
cuz they on their way over there, John.
So, what you doing in preparation for your Haitian brothers and sisters?
He probably not even going to answer that. That's for the government, man.
The people that's in power that we elected, that's for them to figure out.
At least got somebody to help you make plantains >> and mug cookies. You like mug cookie, John? You [ __ ] better get used to that [ __ ] boy. The them them Haitians, they know how to make that [ __ ] with a specialty. Chef's kiss. I mean mud's kiss. Get used to that [ __ ] [ __ ] Mud mud cookies with a sawfish. Boy, y'all about to be turned.
>> Why y'all so angry, bro? Like y'all be your your veins popping out your neck and everything. Why you just can't chill? Like I'm I'm vibing right now.
>> It was the mug cookies and that soft machine. Like >> you can't even say government.
>> It was the mug.
The government.
>> Anyways, John, is that is that all you had to ask? My bad, brother. You got some mug cookies and [ __ ] to look look forward to. I know you're a busy guy. Is that it?
>> I mean, yeah, that's it. I just came here to say, you know, you Jamaican, too. You know, you can't just you can't let FBA just you can't let Jamaicans just cook Jamaicans like that, bro. You Jamaican, too. You got to defend your people a little bit. Have a spine, bro.
Have them back.
>> You know what? You know what? You know what? Hold on. Let me defend my Let me Let You Right. Let me Let me Let me defend my people. Uh, Jamaicans, I hope y'all ass take y'all y'all flip-flopping, fishnet with the nipple showing ass back home. I hope y'all build that [ __ ] up. I hope you [ __ ] get your reparations from from from the British so I can get my half. And I hope you [ __ ] go ahead and kick out the Chinese and and stop letting them [ __ ] slap you [ __ ] off the beach and [ __ ] I hope you [ __ ] stop rubbing booty cheeks by the river bank and [ __ ] That's I know y'all be rubbing them punks booty cheeks, too. Yeah, y'all don't just like Y'all don't like to put it on camera, though. But whatever. We going to leave that alone. We We going to leave it alone. We We going to leave it alone. Tell them River Bank [ __ ] stop being old freaks. And another one. Why they keep leaving? Why they keep leaving? GOD DAMN Y'ALL. OH, Y'ALL NOT NO fun tonight. Y'all keep running away. And all that uh and all that bleaching too. Yeah, we can't >> Hey, you got to stop, bro.
You got TO STOP, BRO.
>> THE BLEACHING. The bleaching, too. THE BLEACHING MUST STOP. I I AIN'T GOING TO LIE. OUT OF everything I said, that pissed me off the most. That right there be pissing me off. You [ __ ] be out there looking like Casper and and the [ __ ] look weird and you [ __ ] out there smiling happy about it while holding a machete. That [ __ ] be pissing me off.
You [ __ ] need to cut that [ __ ] out.
>> I'm not joking. You [ __ ] need to cut that [ __ ] out.
>> Hey y >> Hey y'all. They be looking like Ash Larry before and after a dice game.
>> God damn them [ __ ] be pissing me off.
It's a breeze. What's going on brothers?
Holl at me. Ireie, first off, I want to say we ain't got no beef with no Jamaicans, man. Stop lying, y'all. We Y'all just keep talking. The Caribbean people keep talking and y'all gonna get checked now. That That's really about it. We ain't Y'all ain't pushing no parliament policies. Y'all really ain't into anything for real. For real. Y'all y'all just a talking point in the background that be getting on people nerds. All right. The real problem is them West African people over there. Hey y'all. They trying to collect all the melanated people around the world like Infinity Stones. A y'all. And they need the black American for that last piece in the middle so they can unlock all that [ __ ] that they've been pushing up for the last couple years. I'mma land right there.
>> All right, Mr. B, brother. Appreciate that. Oh, rag black. Holl at me. What's going on?
>> This Meadows, bro. Hey, >> Meadows was good. Goddamn Meadows.
>> I had to change my [ __ ] cuz I kept seeing all these [ __ ] talking about, oh, black Americans, regular black. We we uh uh they they got all this little extra little whatever on they blackness.
So I like, "All right, [ __ ] I'mma embrace that bullshit." But um that [ __ ] um ran cuz we were about to You ain't hear me tell you that [ __ ] Haitian. That [ __ ] Haitian, bro. He would bang um his his uh Haitian flag in the comments. That why that [ __ ] Danny had um had blocked his ass. Yeah.
>> Oh, a scar a scared Haitian. Okay.
>> Yeah, that [ __ ] >> them [ __ ] them [ __ ] I I should have known. You know you know Jamaicans don't give a [ __ ] like that. Jamaicans don't they don't be giving a they don't really be giving a [ __ ] like that. They be like whatever about your boy I see you later.
Well, goddamn where Meadows went. Yeah.
You Jamaicans don't be giving a [ __ ] They just they just going to cuss you out and just going about their business.
You know what I'm saying? They'll be giving a damn about nothing.
Uh uh. I dropped down. Well, goddamn metals. All right. [ __ ] Uh holl at me.
So y'all telling me that was a uh Haitian cosplay playing a Jamaican?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Jamaicans don't they don't like to they don't like to beef with FBAs. They just like to submit the white supremacy. They go full out. They just start talking like crackers. You know what I'm saying? Start acting like them.
They don't like to be >> Well, Jama Hey, Jamaica. I heard this African and this Jamaican going back and forth. And you know, at one time the Jamaicans were were claiming they African roots, but that Africa told him straight up, "No, no, you don't want to be Jamaican. You white your skin. You white your skin." So they know what's going on. Hell. And for a African to be holling at a Jamaican using Kate soap, boy, boy.
Yeah. Hey. Yeah. It's going It's going down now. And listen, everybody right now is [ __ ] up. Y'all hear me?
Everybody's [ __ ] up. from the Africans to the Caribbeans. And it's you [ __ ] fault. You [ __ ] started this. See, y'all done got everybody beefing and trying to figure out who's who now. They they don't like each other no more. But you know what? They've been not liking each other. They just now they just now deciding to say, "Well, [ __ ] The FBAs are doing it. We going to do it, too. If the FBAs can call you hyena nut chasing, tether uh crossdressing uh uh uh uh uh what y'all call them? Bush meat eating ass [ __ ] we can too." Anyways, Miss Miss Cherry, how you doing, ma'am?
>> I'm doing all right. Now, I'm going to talk about reparations in you might not like what I have to say by ethic. By ethnic, I you might not like what I have to say. When it comes to reparations, if you by ethnic, I don't think you should get full the full amount.
>> God damn it. I I don't think because because if you feel that you can get reparations over here and then turn around and get reparations from Kaccom, no, you shouldn't get the full amount or or or you have to choose one or the other. But if you get reparations from both, that's just double dipping. again.
>> Hold on.
>> That's just my That's just my opinion.
That's just my opinion.
>> Ch. Miss Ch, hold on. Hold on. You first. You need to slow down with the pocket watching. That's number one.
You need to slow down with the pocket watch. Hey, Miss Chay GOING AROUND CHECKING Y'ALL BANK ACCOUNT. How much?
Gina, she tried to check your UH UH UH WHAT YOU MADE THIS WEEK FROM THE JOB.
How much you made today? You made You made $5. Oh, hell no. I'm gonna go talk to the uh sir, come in here. Uh, this person made $5 extra than what I made. I don't think this [ __ ] deserve it. He was late the other day. Gonna tell a [ __ ] they don't deserve they check cuz they were late THE OTHER DAY. I deserve the whole I deserve his check, matter of fact. Well, the situation that you're bringing up, you got to be careful to an extent. Um because the thing about it is what happens with the people? Well, the thing about it is reparations for people who's attached to slavery period. Yeah. I mean, if you if you're from somewhere, if you if you're by ethnic, you get double paid, but there might be rules and standards over there, too. They might say only if you've lived in this in this uh region for a certain amount of time. That's what it really is. So, I'm not really sure if I would even qualify for reparations myself from my other side of the lineage. That's not a guarantee.
They might just give reparations for the people who are in those areas in the in that in the in their homeland. So, I don't I don't think it works like that.
>> But the the countries that used to have colonies in the Caribbean, they all broke the Caribbean game. Nothing. What is Spain is going to be to nobody. The only country that is rich, they owe something to the former slave is the United States. France don't have nothing. What the British are going to do? It may not.
>> But you got to remember the islands are smaller than the United States. We we have the largest groups. Well, other than uh Africa. Oh, no. And and Brazil.
But yeah, to pay to put to pay the island that's that's nothing. They got money to pay the islanders. But yeah, I think there's a there's rules and regulations to reparations on who qualifies and who doesn't. If I think if you fled from that country and you formed a lineage here, you don't you're not you're not entitled to reparations.
For instance, Bahamians, if you look at the Bahamas right now, Miss Cherry, a lot of them have lineage attached to us. A lot of them are geese. The Bahamas right now they ain't they got less African slaves than we did. They got what like I think the number was 30,000. We got 388,000.
They only got 30,000 slaves. The rest of their population cames from the people who fled from Florida or from the Gichi wars down to the Bahamas or the British loyals who travel with their slaves shipwrecked into the Bahamas. Majority of their population is of our lineage.
So, but they're not they're not entitled to reparations because they didn't have the same experience. They didn't have the same experience we had. We don't just get paid for slavery. You get paid for sharecropping, Jim Crow, segregation, redlinining, all that. So, you're right. So, it's not just Go ahead. Hey, what I wanted to say is y'all ain't no such thing as half.
You either you can't cut people in half.
So you either you are or or you're not.
But I think that they basically gonna base it on what's your citizenship at the time. Because if you're an American citizen and you got American lineage, then that's all that needs to be said.
You can't run to Jamaica with no Jamaican citizenship and think you going to get on with Caraccom. It's just not going to work like that.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So I know she she heard she heard that I might get double paid and she got mad. She said, "Hold on. THIS [ __ ] >> NO, NO, NO. I SEE BUSINESS IN DOUBLE PAY. HELL NO. We going we got to put a day in THIS [ __ ] RIGHT NOW.
>> SEE, you want to add more to it. I was just giving my opinion about uh by by ethnics, you know, getting it from both ends, you know, and I said, you know, that's just my opinion. I don't know how they will work that out, you know.
>> Maybe like uh with um the the man before me had spoke to gentleman I forget your name. I'm sorry. The gentleman before me spoke um that made sense, too. But um that was just my opinion. You know, it's just an opinion. That's all.
>> No, you good. You understand? I I don't know how it will work. I don't I don't know if if if I would be attached uh I don't think I could do that. I don't >> Now they say I'm tripping.
>> I I don't I don't I don't think I could do that. I don't think I could um uh politically or like Unk said, you know, be attached to something that I've not been attached to. I said that don't make any sense cuz if that was the case, we would have to pay [ __ ] Some Jamaicans, some some Jama said some Jamaicans came out of America and went to Jamaica. You know, you don't know exactly who's been sent where and who might have that. That's why we don't play that game of if you had because then we got to do some real deep research on you feel me where people came in and out from and that's a whole another can of worms. So we just simplify by saying if you have any descendants attached to child slavery you good. You know what I'm saying? Because then we start going in because then some of the creo uh some of the people who came from Haiti who run who got brought to uh over here in 1806 or before that and they uh went to Louisiana. They're attached to reparations too.
See what I'm saying? But they're not they're not you know what I'm saying? Go ahead.
>> Yeah. And we got to be careful about this too. If we start if we don't base it off citizenship, then now we gonna have to deal with the British loyalists in Canada. We're gonna have to deal with the British loyalist because they started here. So it has to if you left here, then you done. So if you left somewhere else, you done. And I feel sorry for a lot of people who packed up their whole lineage and came here and left their reparations behind.
>> Right. So that's what that is. But you know, [ __ ] Miss M, I can't lie. You ain't wrong. Uh, some of these by ethnics I I feel [ __ ] up if they did get reparations. You know what I'm saying?
Some of them don't even claim that black American side at that. So, I understand where you coming from. That's that's a valid that's a valid um point. But [ __ ] there's some full black Americans I'd be like, man, [ __ ] you've been cooning your whole [ __ ] life and you get paid. Oh, [ __ ] Oh, [ __ ] So, it works. It works both ways. Like there's people who got both side of the lineage and cooned their whole [ __ ] life. Got three generations of cooning.
They still get paid. So you know what I'm saying? There's some people I want to scratch off and say no, we need to go ahead and hold his check. Yeah, we we know he full, but [ __ ] you know, the way he been acting, I don't think this [ __ ] matter of fact, he went against rep. How [ __ ] who go against reparations get reparations, right? So, we shouldn't be nitpicking on that because then we g we gonna keep nitpicking.
>> I need Ben Crump and Al Sharpton hold check if that's what we doing.
>> Exactly. You know, it's bigger than than that. Take uh taking small, right? Yeah, y'all. That's what that is. Oh, let's get one more caller before we start. But Miss Ch, I feel what you're saying. You you not wrong. You know what I'm saying? You're not wrong. But um that's just what it is. But no, how >> Yeah. My brother, my brother, my brother from from Jesus Christ.
How you doing, my brother?
>> Wait, hold on. Who? Who?
>> I said my brother from Jesus Christ, you know. Hey, I [ __ ] with you because I like I listen.
>> No, hold on. Hold on. Jesus. Not Jes. I don't know who Jesus Christ.
>> But okay. I have an accent. You don't.
>> No. I had to make sure you was talking about the right Christ.
>> Uhuh. I'm talking about the white Christ >> before you said my brother.
>> I'm talking about your Christ, my brother.
>> Okay, >> that's that. Yeah. Listen, man. I mess with you. You have so much energy. Let me tell you something. I know you using your energy. The energy that you got, you you using to the best your ability.
And I'm wonder are you are you an Iris?
I'm an iris. My son is an Iris. I never give up. Arius Aries Aries.
>> Oh, you want you want to know my zodiac sign?
>> Yeah. What is your zodiac sign? Please, >> [ __ ] This look like a dating a dating calling.
>> No, just like Why the [ __ ] you want to know what?
>> That's the problem with with with That's the problem with y'all. You don't know.
You see, you see that's the difference between us.
>> Hold on, [ __ ] You think this a dating call in [ __ ] It's not no dating call-in show, [ __ ] Ask me my damn zodiac sign. What the [ __ ] wrong with you? Listen, man. I thought Listen, this is not freaky Friday. It's Monday, okay?
Talking about what's what's your zodiac sign, [ __ ] What's your zodiac sign, [ __ ] Like, cool. LET ME GET PEDRO.
PEDRO, talk to him, Pedro. Come on, Pedro. Talk, >> man. This African so crazy. They believe in toodoo and bull crap. So, THEY TRY TO FIGURE >> YEAH, that's what I mean. Because they trying to get you birth. They try to put some weird voodoo. You know that the reason the Haitian don't go back home because they do nasty to each other. Mr. Haitian, are you a mass? You like boys?
Why are you asking that many sign like what do you want to date him or something? You want to invite him to dinner?
>> Who is this? Is this is this the Dominican guy?
>> Yeah.
>> Your father Dominica Dominica. Listen.
>> Okay. Sorry. We got We got to start. We behind schedule. I already showed up late. God damn. God damn. [ __ ] We got to start. Damn it.
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When were black Americans the most economically independent?
I want you guys to give me uh the time frames and or the year one more time.
When were black Americans the most economically independent?
We got Jim Crow segregation.
Jim Crow segregation.
What else? Hold on. Hold on. The 60s.
Segregation during se 1920s. All right. Okay. All right. All right. Rico. All right. All right. Rico. Okay. 1920s up until segregation 1890 1940. Okay. All right.
That Jim Crow se. All right. Okay. That that that's y'all answer. That that all y'all show that that's what y'all gonna roll with? When Haitian won independence at all? Get the [ __ ] out of here. Get the [ __ ] out of here with that [ __ ] Uh that's when y'all started mug cookies. Uh FBA 1950 1968. Listen, Alicia said 1800s. Uh oh. I want you guys to really think about um this question. You know what I'm saying? I'm I'm I'm go ahead keep thinking and keep dropping the answers.
Um we're going to go ahead and uh unpack that a little bit later. Cash in now.
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So, let's go ahead and unpack what this Nolan Wells situation. I understand that his funeral was today. May God rest with his uh family members. I know they're going through a tough time. So the FBA has expanded its involvement in the Nolan Wells case, assisting with digital evidence and investigating threats related to the investigation. Nolan's cell phone is under is is undergoing forensic analysis through authorities has not confirmed claims that the messages were deleted. At Nolan's funeral, Reverend Al Sharpton announced a 100k reward for information leading to a conviction, including a 50k donation from Tyler Perry.
The case remains active with no arrest as investigators continue to gather evidence before presenting it to a grand jury.
So, you know that right there, you see what we just did there? We just came together. Uh, you know, I guess Allan Sharpton and uh Tyler Perry came together. I'm pretty sure they're both they're both FBA brothers, right? Tyler Perry, he's FBA. Oh, he's of the lineage. Uh, they came together and they used resource. They're using resources resources to help with this case. Now, this is what we've been talking about.
We've been talking about that we can't afford to use these same these same resources right now that Tyler Perry and Al Sharpton is using right now for immigrants.
See what I'm saying? So, if Nolan's family was fully immigrants or didn't have any FBA lineage, um I would have been against them using 100K, 50K for this. See what I'm saying? Because they're not us and we don't have the resources to be doing that. That if Nolan's family wasn't FBA, that money should have went to our community. So, this is why this is this this is a prime example of why I said we can't stick our necks out for other melanated people who are um of different lineage. Um it can't be a a a group. It can't be a political group decision. It has to be, you know, you could do it. You could support a family that's of a foreign lineage as an individual, but don't ask the community to do it because we need all of our resources for times like this.
right? We need all our resources for times like this. So, I want to go ahead and, you know, make sure that we we seen that and see why we can't defend other groups of people. It's not even about having the proper due process. It's about resources. And whenever it's our community, they don't ever put resources into our community. They take from our community. Anyways, now let's get back to question of the day, which was, if y'all forgot, when were black Americans the most economically independent?
Let me see. Let me type this in real quick. And a lot of y'all say, majority of y'all said Jim Crow, right? A lot of y'all said Jim Crow.
Hold on.
Reconstruction. Jim Crow 1870 uh 1970. Let me see.
Let's look it up. Where was the Sherman?
I want to make sure I got my dates correct before I start saying it.
Wait. Oh, yeah. What was it?
Renaissance 1800. Y'all can't just say 1800.
Y'all can't just say 1800. That don't count.
You just throwing out of Give me a specific year in the 1800s. 1920.
Titanic time. Chelsea girl.
Titanic time. I What year was that?
Anyways, uh is that it? Is all votes in?
Come on now. Come y'all. Hurry up now.
Y'all put in your votes. We don't got all day. Uh 1905 until they destroyed black enterprise.
1990 uh 1890 1940 1965 17 Danny the reconstruction period. Uh 1940. Let me see when was the what year was the reconstruction period? Well, year it was I got to call out the winner.
Uh, y'all get a special prize. I don't know. I just It might not be money though.
Come on now. Y'all voting. 1804. Hell no. That's when Mug Cookies came out.
Early 1900s.
Okay, so the winner is.
Congratulations, Ank. You got the answer right. So, I'mma go ahead and bring up on the panel.
because that's that's that's around that ballpark where I'm at. Um, and I'm and I'mma go ahead and I'mma explain it and then uh he'll be the first one he'll be the first one to break it down. So the reconstruction period which I'm going to say after slavery. So after the Civil War, so 1865 is when black Americans were most economically independent. You know why they're the most economically independent? Because that's when they issued the the uh the William Sherman special field order 15. One more time.
That's when they administrated and issued the spe the the the I'll be messing this up. The William Sherman special field order number 15. Order 15.
And the reason why that was when we were most economically independent was because uh special order 15. Yeah. The reason why that was why we were economically independent during that time period because that order gave us over 400,000 acres of land. Not each, but they gave us our own region. That's that's where that 400,000 acres of land of Yeah.
400,000 acres of land expanded to. Do y'all know where it started at and and when it stopped?
Do do anybody know what what spec specific region or what geographic region did they give us?
>> South Carolina and Georgia.
>> South Carolina all the way down to Florida. Matter of fact, South Carolina through Georgia through the northern part of Florida. We had all of that. You know what I'm saying? We had all of that and during those time and during that time um we had our own communities and we were thriving. NOW WE ONLY HAD IT FOR for a month. We only had it for a month but boy we was balling for a month. We was we was balling for a month. I'm talking about churches, communities, farming, land, all of that. We had it all. Now I'm going to play the communities because this doesn't get talked about much. We don't we don't talk about this side of things, you know, when we talk about us being economically independent, we usually talk about uh uh Tulsa and all the other Black Wall Streets, but before there was Black Wall Streets, we had a whole side of the region. Let me show y'all a picture of it. It's called the Sea Islands. My bad. It's called the Sea Islands and the Gulligi communities were already there. So the Sea Islands was where the Gull Gulligi tribes were at and the Freeman blended in with those communities and we worked side by side which I think they're the same [ __ ] but whatever. What? Fine.
Whatever. I don't got time. I haven't done enough research to you know to distinguish that out. It's called special special uh field number 15.
Special field order number 15. Special field order 15. Sea Island special field order. I'm about to show you guys on the on the screen what it looked like, what it expanded to. So, let me turn on this light real quick so y'all can see it. So, this is the region that we had or we controlled um right after slavery or where it stretched down to. I'm put on the screen.
Hold on. Let it let it uh Oh, god damn.
There you go. Look how much now look look how much they call this the sea they call this the sea islands because they're on the borders. Look how much land that is in the whole northern the whole northern Florida. And you know what you know this makes sense. And the reason why it makes sense is because people try to argue me up and down that Florida was a slave state. Florida was never a slave state. This region right here in Florida was the only place that they had slavery. Anything further down there wasn't slavery because the Florida seinals stayed below here. So anything up top here they had to issue land because this is where slavery was most rampant at in Florida and then along the coast right right here. So this whole region was called the Sea Islands and this is what we controlled and we had our communities along those shores. Now let me go ahead and give y'all the names of these thriving communities. I would say them, but I butcher names. So, I'mma let AI the real AI do his work. By the way, my name AI not because of art artificial intelligence. My my name AI because I be crossing [ __ ] over with facts. You know what I'm saying? So that I don't want y'all thinking I'm the smartest [ __ ] in the world. Now, I ain't saying that. I just cross [ __ ] over. But there's a real AI, artificial intelligence. So, I'mma read you guys the uh communities that Well, I'm not going to read it that we had uh name.
>> Hey AI, you know that there's one they don't talk about that they was trying to give us too, right?
>> What? Which one?
>> West Virginia because did nobody else want that mother?
>> Nobody else.
Yeah. Uh yeah. No. Yeah. West Virginia.
West Virginia. So damn, my bad to all the WV people out there, but West Virginia, I got a homie out there who I went to go visit. I was being recruited by West Virginia one time. Uh my my senior year. No, my junior year. Took a visit out there. [ __ ] West Virginia.
[ __ ] West Virginia.
>> Morgan. Morgan Town. All >> exactly. Man, that place man, that place horrible. I mean, shout out to all the brothers and sisters out there in Rand and uh Morgan Town and Beckley and Bluefield, but it ain't nothing out there, y'all.
>> Right. So, here we go. I'mma read y'all the list so y'all know.
>> St. Helena Island.
>> Hold on. I don't know what happened to the speaker.
>> Dusky Island, St. Helena, St. Helena Island, Hilton Head Island, Dusky Island, Ladies Island, Adisto Island, John's Island, James Island, Wadmala Island, Port Royal Island.
>> And that's all South Carolina. Now we're moving on to Georgia.
>> Pillow Island, St. Simon's Island, Jackal Island, Oaba Island, Skidaway Island, Cumberland Island, Amelia Island.
>> Amelia Island is Florida. So these are all the these are all the regions that we own or these are all the communities u within that region that we owned. You see what I'm saying? So when people say when we were economically the most established, it wasn't during Jim Crow.
It was uh it was it was right after slavery during the right after the civil war. And you know that just goes and proves that we we do perfectly fine independently. Like we don't we don't need the assistance of white supremacy.
And that was a problem. That's why Andrew Johnson because that's the president who took about Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson. A lot of y'all be trying to correct me by saying Andrew Jackson. Andrew Johnson, that was the vice president after President Lincoln.
Uh he was the one who reiged after President Lincoln gave out the land and took that [ __ ] right back. See what I'm saying? But the the thing about us is we do fine independently. We don't we don't need white supremacy. And that was a problem because what they started to realize is well [ __ ] if these [ __ ] keep growing the way cuz we were growing. These these communities weren't no [ __ ] ass community. These n we had churches, schools, I think it was called pen pen schools. I think farming.
Yeah. They knew that sooner or later they were going to have to compete with us economically and they would eventually have to go to W with us because the more we kept growing as black Americans uh or freedman with the Gulligi, we were going to expand and the more they were going to be like, "Well, damn. if they establish real ownership for a long period of time and pass down wealth, we might have to go back because that was the whole thing with the Civil War. The Civil War was the Union was trying to bring the South back together so the Union wouldn't have to compete with the South. See, white people, they don't like competition. And that's the difference between black Americans, Africans, and Caribbeans is that the Caribbeans and Africans, they refuse to be independent. They don't want to be independent. They want a colonizer. We don't need a colonizer.
And that's what scares white people the most is that we don't need a colonizer.
Once you give us our spot, our region, we start balling. You know what I'm saying? They have to keep coming to [ __ ] with us to take it away or make sure we don't grow and establish uh real real control over resources and wealth. But uh go ahead break down uh how you knew the answer.
Because so much happened during that period. Not only did we get land once we uh they took the land back, we start going into the mainland. We became judges, lawyers, senators, congressmen.
We talking in the 1870s. We had congressmen already. We had judges already. We had lawyers already. And that's what scared them. And that's why our problem now is unfinished reconstruction because they stopped it in the middle of it cuz we were growing like crazy, y'all. We were we were developing banks. Remember, we already had black colleges. HBU started way back in like 1809, I think, is the first one, maybe even before that. So, we were already had institutions to train our own. We were very good in the fields. We was great in agriculture. And they snatched that land back. And what did we do? We went out into the rest of society and start out building and outpacing them. And then they had to shut down reconstruction.
>> Right. Exactly. Appreciate that. U anyways y'all. Uh we've reached halftime. Uh if anybody wants to call in, I'll let you guys call in. anybody.
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>> Kind of occupied right quick.
>> Oh [ __ ] You want me to drop you, [ __ ] You was in the you was in the request box.
All right. Well, I'll leave him right there.
Yeah, y'all. So, you know, I I want y'all to understand that our biggest problem has always been them leaving us alone and letting us control our own resources and wealth.
See what I'm saying? That's that's been that's been our biggest problem because they they see they see our potential.
And that's why our fight and that's why, you know, delineation is isn't about not liking other groups of people. is not about really lineage or not liking people because of the lineage. It's really about us getting what's old to us and getting back to like how said for getting getting back to reconstruction where we were able to actually develop.
We haven't had a we haven't had a time period other than reconstruction where we were free to develop separately.
Right? Us and us and white people do not have common to to a certain degree. Us and white people don't have the same ideologies. We just don't. So therefore, we do need to be divided.
Yeah. The nation will never be one. And they know it. They know the nation would never be one because your agenda is not my agenda. So we are one nation with two nations inside of it. 5010. Go ahead.
>> What's happening? What's going on? What we talking about?
>> Playing brother.
>> What's good?
NBA verse everyone. Okay.
>> What's your name? Where you where you from?
>> I'm from Lauderdale. Now >> what's your ethnicity?
>> Um Haitian American.
>> All right, brother. You got a question?
You got something to say?
>> No, ain't no question. I'm just listening. I'm, you know, paying attention.
>> [ __ ] it's your time now. What made you come to the panel? You was in the call inbox.
>> No, cuz I want to get on that um the little Dominican, the little [ __ ] boy.
I want to get on his ass earlier. But you had you had done dropped me.
And these [ __ ] >> the little [ __ ] [ __ ] ass. They them sell outs over there. That's what I'm doing. His ass.
>> All right. All right. That's between That's between you and Pedro. Somebody Somebody tell Pedro that uh he has a fan. You know what I'm saying? So that right there, prime example, that would never be us. U us complaining about somebody in a homeland that we fled from. That's not us. You see right there, independency. Indep to be independent. We don't got that problem.
He just said he was from Lauderdale, but he's complaining about a Dominican in the Dominican Republic where his where he's the next door neighbor of.
You see how that [ __ ] But you over here on Tik Tok like [ __ ] we on Tik Tok in our homeland talking about our homeland.
They on Tik Tok beefing with different [ __ ] across the waters and no one is in their homeland. They don't like independency. That's their problem. The problem with Caribbean Africans, they need a colonizer. We don't. That's why we have to delineate from them, too, because they got a different issue.
They got a different issue than us. We don't have uh uh immigration status issues. We don't have Caribbean warfare.
uh African tribalism. Our focus is to get back to to that reconstruction era so we can actually reconstruct and get back. They're not here for that. They're here for white supremacy. They're here to be colonized.
That's why they came to America because they want to be colonized.
Yeah. Them Haitians don't go back home because they're praying that America colonizes Haiti.
the they must delineate from the word African because it's only South African.
They don't there's it's only South African African. Okay. Yeah. Um that's what that is. You see what I'm saying? So they come over here to take what they can what they can get. Right. Yeah. our their problem is they refuse to be independent thinkers that because the labor you gota you got to think you know we we got to give ourselves some props um give our ancestors and our lineage a lot of props because there was never a time that we weren't ready to pick up a hammer and a nail and get to building. There was never a time right after slavery we were ready to build. Get get straight to work. [ __ ] We just came out of the Florida Seven Wars ended. What? Like 10 years ago. We just got done beefing with the US military military army. US US military. Then we had Nat Turner. Then we just we fresh out of the Civil War.
So it's not like we ain't no thumpers for real. We be thumping like a [ __ ] And after we get done thumping, we get straight to building right to it. That's something that everybody else failed to do. And that's the difference between us and them. Once they got done with their revolution or once they got done with their revolt, they ain't pick up no hammer and no nail.
They ain't know how to break down sugar cane, tie it up, and sell it across the water and trade.
They couldn't get [ __ ] popping. And they've been more they they were independent longer than we were. We had one month of independency. We had one month of being independent. One month.
Uh that that special field order 15 only lasted for one month.
And we went straight to building. I just told you we had lawyers, judges, politicians, schools, churches.
Motion.
We had real emotion uh after after the Civil War during the reconstruction era. They don't like talking about that. You see, when white people keep saying, "We're not going to give you reparations." That's a [ __ ] lie. Cuz you did it already. And you seen what it looked like when you gave us reparations. White people seen what it looked like when we got reparations.
Boy, we g we we we went to stunting on them crackers.
We went to stunting on them crackers.
They started getting intimidated.
They started to get intimidated how fast we were building.
That was the problem with Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson thought that President Lincoln was tripping.
He said, "Nigga, what the You gave these [ __ ] you gave these [ __ ] the whole coast, that whole bottom half part of the coast. Them [ __ ] in the whole northern part of Florida. You gave them [ __ ] from South Carolina down to the northern part of Florida. Boy, you crazy as said we got to kill this [ __ ] They had to assassinate Lincoln.
Peace, brother. They had to assassinate Lincoln for this reason. They thought Lincoln was tripping.
T they seen how we was building, right? These African these African countries um these Caribbean countries they brag about being independent but they don't know how to build nothing.
Yeah. They talk about their revolt and being the first this first that. We don't got a home country. Man, it don't take us nothing but to say go and we going.
Even right after reconstruction, we came in with the Black Wall Street building.
Always building. We are always building.
These people lack being independent.
They don't know how to be without a colon. They can't think without a colonizer.
The whole rhetoric of um the white man is in our country. Tell the white man to leave our country. The white man was our next door neighbor during reconstruction era. The white man was our next door neighbor during reconstruction. We was still out there building that [ __ ] Sorry ass [ __ ] Po ass [ __ ] >> Hey AI, check this out. Before 1865, before reconstruction, we had eight or nine H.B.CU that were already established and had been running for at least 10 20 years. Right.
>> Right.
>> So when we look at it like the Indian boarding schools didn't start until the 1880s, 1890s, right out right after Civil War. So just think about this. Was people sending slaves to the universities or were them people already building? Because it was already they was already building. Now what con construction did was give us the ability to build freely and uhoh that's when it really went down >> and we had the land for real. I don't think we ever had the land before that.
They gave us a whole region of 4 400 400,000 acres.
>> Yeah. We have 400,000 acres.
You know what I'm saying? One more time for the people who just coming in. Let me show y'all what that look like. Um the regions that we had, where that's at, where that picture at.
>> AI and them universities were so important, especially Lincoln University to it's now a PWI and still get HBU H.B.CU funding because of it start. So that just to show you they've been attacking us for a long time.
>> Yeah. So, let me show y'all this the region. [ __ ] This is This is black I'mma just call this Black American Island. This is what Black American Island look like. I'mma call it It's called Sea Island, but I'mma call it Black American Island. This is Black American Island in uh 1865 for a month. This is what the island of Black America look like. North North Florida through Georgia all the way up to South Carolina. The This is the regions we controlled. This is when we were the most independent economically right after right after slavery.
We We ain't looked like this since then.
You know what I'm saying? We ain't look This [ __ ] look gangster as hell. See what I'm saying? Charles in the Jacksonville. Yeah, exactly. Charles in the Jacksonville. Boy, that [ __ ] look gangster as hell. Boy, them crackers had to THEY HAD TO SNATCH THAT [ __ ] RIGHT back cuz they knew it was be was getting ready to happen. See what I'm saying? So, this is our fight, man. man, we can't we can't we can't get complacent. We can't, you know, get distracted um on uh what the real fight is. The real fight is us having autonomy. Us having autonomy um and being being able to build freely without people coming in and infiltrating, interrupting us getting right. You see what I'm saying?
Now, I do got a question about the Gulligi. Um, now they keep describing the Gulligi as Africans, which I I I I disbelieve that they are, but that's what that's the narrative that they keep running with. But if the Gulligi were already cuz they they the Gulliges called it I think they called it a sea coastal. That region was the sea coastal um to the Gulligi because they were already there. They were already there.
My question is if they were already there, how they Africans? Yeah. if they were if they were already working cuz they were already in that part of the region anyways building and they had their own little communities. Um but it wasn't until you know we were free and the Freeman came through we intermixed but we're the same people and we really started building. Why they keep saying the Gulligas are from Africa? I don't get it.
Let me see. They are supposedly extinct gully Indians.
>> They're not extinct. You go to Sapalo Island right now, they still live the way they used to live. But the reason they try to say that is when the anthropologists and stuff went down to the area, they already was looking for African tide. So they found what they were looking for. They found the drums, they found the circles without ever thinking about that the indigenous people here has been doing call and response just as long as the Africans.
So when you go looking for something, you going to label it. Yeah. Then they want to say this about the rice. Well, this is why they grow rice. Well, the problem with that is the way they grow rice in Sierra Leon is not the way same way we grow rice over here. And we're not even dealing with the same rice product. We grow ours in water and patties. They grow theirs on land. So, how could some people from another continent come over here and teach our people how to grow something they've been growing forever?
>> Right. You know, you know, tomorrow that was a great job. Tomorrow I might, you know, do a do a special on just breaking down the Gulaguchi and uh who they are.
You know, I was I was I was always intrigued with them. But now that I know that see cuz I never knew this about uh the special field order 15 that we were given, you know, I knew we were given land, but I ain't know where. But now that I know, now that I know that the Gulligi were already over there, it makes me even more intrigued on that, you know, that specific, well, they're us, but their traditions or whatever, whatever they how they separating us, how that was. So, we might have to start going into these Gulla these Gulla wars, Gulligi Wars. I don't think I've been doing a good job of diving into that. I only talk about the Florida seminal, so we might spend this week breaking that down um and figuring that out. But you know that's what that is. Anyways, anybody got any more questions? Y'all can call in. If not, listen, don't forget to sign up for Patreon. We're about to go over there in another 10 minutes if nobody have any extra questions and we about to break that down. So, y'all can go ahead and call in now if any questions or not. Patreon family, about to head over. So, I'll give y'all a couple more minutes before um we go ahead and uh slide over there.
Someone trying to stand up about the gully. soldier.
>> Hey, hey, and if you look early, AI, they didn't even mention them with Africa at all until the Africa narrative start coming out and they was trying to displace land. If they were always known as an indigenous tribe, always up until the Africa narrative and then all of a sudden you start see and then even some of them, I hate to say it, but come back say, "Yeah, we Africa." Yeah, that's because they came down there and told y'all that [ __ ] But before you look in the records, y'all were never called African. Y'all have always been called native tribes, indigenous. They even got names amongst them. They don't they the Gulligi, but each one of those islands had different names themselves. So they've always been known for that. And if you look at the old records, you can see it yourself.
>> Right there that go. Anyways, y'all, I appreciate y'all. We about to slide over to Patreon. Patreon family, y'all know what it is. Give me about 10 10 minutes.
My matter of fact, give me five. Y'all showed up late last time. We about to go over there and have a a great conversation. Everybody, I appreciate y'all for tuning in. We back on tomorrow, same time, 9:30. Y'all know what it is. Appreciate y'all. Remember, stay up top, Uncle. I see you over there.
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