Africans sold black Americans…. Now they are begging for forgiveness.

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]How many of you would come and sit down and apologize to us for the transatlantic slave trade?

[00:00:08]You come now, BRING YOUR WIFE AND your children and tell us you're sorry.

[00:00:15]>> I'm sorry.

[00:00:16]>> Thank you.

[00:00:17]>> That's good.

[00:00:20]>> Yeah. Over 160 years have passed and we finally >> 160 years.

[00:00:27]>> Yes.

[00:00:27]>> This is a powerful moment. Oh, this is a powerful moment.

[00:00:31]>> Thank you.

[00:00:33]>> I'm sorry for the suffering that my family caused your family so many years ago and for such a long time. And in saying that, I know that we haven't reached the end of the journey. We haven't even come to the middle, but we might have just put our feet up on the path and taken the first small steps toward understanding. I ask I ask your forgiveness.

[00:01:14]It's overwhelming.

[00:01:17]It's deep within.

[00:01:22]I'm full.

[00:01:24]I I live with racism every day.

[00:01:29]To hear that doesn't wash it away, but it says that someone recognizes what we go through when we walk out our doors.

[00:01:45]And it's overwhelming.

[00:01:48]>> We are sorry.

[00:01:51]We are sorry black Americans.

[00:01:54]>> I wish to apologize deeply on behalf of the chiefs and people of Gold Coast and Ghana for the atrocities, the cruelty, the inhuman treatment that were committed 400 years ago.

[00:02:14]We are sorry African >> in humility and brokenness to repent for the sins of the leaders in Africa and in particular the scene of sending our own brothers and sisters into slavery.

[00:02:36]This great scene brought untold pain and misery to millions of people of African descent and judgment to the African people who remained on the continent.

[00:02:51]>> We are sorry.

[00:02:55]Over 400 years ago, millions of our brothers and sisters were captured, sold, and transported under inhumane and cruel circumstances through Elmina Castle across to the Caribbeans and to the new world.

[00:03:20]We are sorry.

[00:03:24]>> On behalf of the chiefs and people of Ghana, I do render unqualified apology.

[00:03:37]Deep from the bottom of our hearts, deep from our bottom of hearts.

[00:03:43]>> SORRY. BLACK AMERICANS.

[00:03:47]>> But one thing that I want you to be aware of, it was not without resistance.

[00:03:56]Some of our chiefs did fought and resisted.

[00:04:02]>> Some of our people fought and resisted.

[00:04:08]But we are fighting a losing bon against stronger army.

[00:04:13]people with guns and we had no guns.

[00:04:18]They deceived us with liquor and all other temptations.

[00:04:29]Whatever the circumstances that led us to us, we stand here to render apology.

[00:04:39]>> We cannot rewrite the ships. We cannot erase the chains. We cannot deny what happened on the shores of West Africa.

[00:04:51]>> And it's my wish and prayer that this apology is accepted is accepted.

[00:05:00]>> Yes.

[00:05:01]>> The by our brothers and sisters from the diaspora.

[00:05:08]May the blood of Jesus assist to overcome that evil that never again never again should we witness >> this cruality this inhuman cruelty of man to man in this country.

[00:05:30]The truth belongs to history >> and history belongs to all of us.

[00:05:37]>> We are SORRY >> those devils of silence today. no more will never happen again because God is the Lord that led us all all of us stand here today to receive with humility to receive your apology. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I thank you for my people.

[00:06:08]>> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[00:06:11]>> We have come to say that we've heard your words. We have discerned through our experience and through our journey that what the devil meant for evil, God meant for good.

[00:06:25]>> Through all our trials, through all our tribulations, God has a plan. That plan involves us standing together. Us once again loving, us once again being brothers and sisters, us once again embracing. Put your arms around somebody and let them know and feel the love of God. Even as we stand at the door of no return, we are here. We are here by the grace >> of God.

[00:06:54]>> We are here by the grace >> of God.

[00:06:59]>> Never to return again to the atrocities that have been experienced in this place. We accept with love. We accept with joy >> your apology >> and we stand with you rising together.

[00:07:18]>> Mrs. Roer Charlotte, I've met many families whose ancestors were enslaved by my family.

[00:07:28]I've apologized only to one of those families because I don't think that words are enough.

[00:07:35]I don't think they answer for the wound.

[00:07:37]They're like a band-aid on the wound.

[00:07:40]Still, I want to say that >> the grave sin of slavery scattered our people all over the face of the earth where they have suffered great deprivations and loss.

[00:07:55]If it were not for the part that our African kings and chiefs played in the slave trade, this evil trade could not have survived. One man who did want to meet the descendants is Mike Foster.

[00:08:09]He's a 73-year-old Air Force veteran from Montana. While researching his genealogy last year, Mike Foster discovered he's the distant cousin of William Foster, the captain of the Clota.

[00:08:22]>> Had you ever heard of the last slave ship?

[00:08:24]>> No.

[00:08:26]>> No.

[00:08:27]>> What did you think when you heard it?

[00:08:28]>> Uh, I wasn't happy about it. It was uh was very distressing. Do you feel some guilt?

[00:08:35]>> No, I didn't feel any guilt.

[00:08:38]I didn't do it, but I could apologize for it.

[00:08:43]>> Africa owes black Americans reparations.

[00:08:48]Africa, we all know, sold slaves into slavery and they cross the transatlantic ocean to become the blacks of America.

[00:08:59]We know a population, a percentage of the black Americans in America could be definitely traced to Africa to those countries that sold slaves.

[00:09:11]Blacks know this. Everyone knows this.

[00:09:15]Africans in Africa, Tik Tok and all that, y'all need to understand that y'all owe reparations, too. Y'all cannot be complicit and then try to complicate the matter and benefit from reparations when your countries sold millions of black slaves, African slaves into slavery that came to America. That is all. Take accountability.

[00:09:41]>> So at the time of the slave trade, right, different African kingdoms had all types of slaves. By the way, these slaves were black. And these different kingdoms would go to war and then the prisoners of war, they would take and make them slaves. In addition to that, other kingdoms would purposely go to war in some situations to capture slaves and sell them. So in a lot of cases, the slaves that were actually sold were captured by other black kingdoms, tribes, whatever you want to call it. So what is the reason you guys are not up in outrage and messaging African governments and countries asking for reparations from them cuz they're just as big of perpetrators as the people in the US. African tribes and kingdoms had slaves. They had them. They sold them.

[00:10:17]They went and conquered other tribes and captured those people and sold them as slaves as well. Why do we only want to see reparations from the US?

[00:10:25]>> Dig deep in your pockets, grab $5 million in the form of direct cash payments and apologize financially. Now mind you as a sister stated with lineage I say 1870 census sister you know >> you know the uh American Indians that was reclassified to black color negro matto those are ones who qualify here in San Francisco. Nobody else not the continent not the Caribbean not across that border. Only us the original copper color people. Gratitude. Brothers and sisters, this is the moment for people to be accountable. This is the moment for people to drop their pride and their ego and admit where their ancestors were wrong. Adding to what those African leaders have said, we are sorry due to the crimes, the sins that were made by our ancestors. Please forgive us. See, in life, we all mess up. We all make mistakes. Some of those mistakes come from ignorance. Some of those mistakes come from being influenced by others. But making mistakes not a problem for human beings.

[00:11:39]The problem is when you realize that you have made a mistake and your pride, your ego prevent you from admitting where you were wrong. We see it every day. People making mistakes and realize that they have missed them. And because of their ego, their pride, they can't even go and ask for forgiveness from the same people that they have wronged. See, the history of transatlantic self trade was a bit complicated. It involved some African chiefs who wanted to enrich themselves by selling their brothers and sisters in exchange for guns, textiles, and other different materialistic things. And I think I won't be wrong if I say that these African brothers and sisters who sold their brothers and sisters were ignorant. They weren't even aware of how their brothers and sisters were going to be treated in the Americas because of their materialistic mindset. They saw their brothers and sisters as products to be sold be sold to those white people. Another group that was involved in transatlantic slave trade was European colonizers who were greedy and they wanted to be rich by leveraging African slaves. These people were just buying human beings. They were buying products from the market. They were packing them into ships like they were packing products to be shipped making sure that they maximize the number of people who can get into their ships. Can you imagine? They were beating people, putting them on chains, starving them.

[00:13:18]Whoever who were there to resist, he or she would be dropped into the ocean.

[00:13:23]After arriving in the Americas, they were beating these people. They were oppressing them. They were forcing them to work on their farms. They were gripping them and they were about to get rich by using these slaves for free. And today in Africa, we no longer have those African chiefs who sold our bloods. And in America and Europe, we no longer have those slave owners, but we have people who are in the positions of those African chiefs. We have people who descended from those slave owners. And today, seeing these videos of them admitting where where the ancestors were wrong, that is a very good sign. Seeing them being bold enough to ask for forgiveness, begging for forgiveness from black Americans, there's a very good indication of people dropping their ego. But let's talk about this. Black Americans can say we forgive you. But with this reduce the harm that they have inherited from their ancestors, I'm trying to mean with words alone be enough for these black Americans. Will the president of Uganda saying that the ancestors, African ancestors committed their crime be enough for these brothers and sisters? With that chief from Ghana admitting what he admitted, enough for black Americans? Why instead of just speaking words, why can't we ask for forgiveness in the form of tangible things, in the form of reparations? Why can't they get their reparations? It is clear that there are people who have benefited from their sufferings. It is clear that they all want their reparations. Why can't they receive their reparations? Brothers and sisters, you cannot ignore the fact that these people need support, financial support, emotional support. They need many things to be done for them so that they can catch up with other communities in America. Those are my personal opinions.

[00:15:27]So now brothers and sisters of black Americans, they have asked for forgiveness. Did y'all forgive them?

[00:15:34]Apology accepted or denied. If you think that these people are forgiven, I want you to write down there in the comment section, apology accepted. If you think they don't deserve being forgiven, write down there in the comment section, apology denied. And then we count the number of people who have forgiven us.

[00:15:56]the number of people who haven't forgiven us. And as you're watching the video, remember that the video is for educational purposes. And that's why I encourage you all to share your own ideas down there in the comment section so that we can educate each other. See you next time. Mr. TA, your African brother signing off.