The DNA That Black Americans Should Know About

[00:00:00]Hello, this is Sandy Boule and thank you for clicking on the video. Thank you for your support. Thank you for all you do to support the channel. And yes, we are commanded to love one another whether we want to or not or whether we agree with each other or not.

[00:00:18]And a lot of black Americans are taking DNA tests, 23 and me or some other name that the DNA tests have, and they're trying to find out where they came from in Africa, how much uh European ancestry they have, if they have Native American ancestry, blah blah blah blah blah. But the DNA tests now are revealing something about us that it might or it might not be important for you to know.

[00:00:46]But I think that it would help us in our total in our total search for self-identity. Who we are in this country, not just where we came from in Africa, but what happened to our people here in the United States. Now, we didn't know, well, I didn't know that DNA test could tell you that, but apparently they can. So, listen to this video.

[00:01:13]>> Here's the unfortunate reality. 23 and me recently did a study that showed even in the genetic makeup of Americans, you can see the legacy of sexual assault.

[00:01:26]>> How so?

[00:01:27]>> That so many enslavers raped their slaves that is a part of the genetic makeup of America. that there were more black men brought to America than black women because it was perceived that the black men would be able to work hard in the fields. And yet when you see the DNA record, one of the highest contributions toward producing the next generation would be between white European men and black women. It's in our DNA. That's how deep >> these structures and systems have harmed us that that we see it in the DNA of not just our ancestors but [music] of people today.

[00:02:10]So I find that to be very deep. So when we are running around trying to find out where we came from in Africa and who we are related to in Africa, I accept that when those slave ships left the west coast of Africa with our ancestors on board, my relationship with Africa was severed. So, I have never taken a DNA test and I have no intention of taking a DNA test because it's not going to alter my life. I'm not going to Africa to live unless something happens drastically in this country and that's my only alternative. And even then, I would be going to East Africa or South Africa or somewhere like that. I'm not going back to the scene of the crime. But there's a lot of emphasis on black people finding out where they came from in Africa to take the focus off what happened here in America. I also don't celebrate Kwanza.

[00:03:16]I celebrate what happened here to our ancestors here. But anyway, I did go searching for more information about this to verify what this person said was right. And this is what I found from the co-pilot. I asked the co-pilot, "Is the legacy of SA assault visible in the DNA of black Americans?" And the short answer, yes. The legacy of sexual assault is visible in the DNA of black Americans. And modern genetic studies have confirmed it with painful clarity.

[00:03:54]The evidence is not metaphorical. It is measurable, patterned, and consistent across multiple data sets. The clearest marker is the disproportionate amount of European ancestry coming specifically from white men, not white women, a signature of rape during slavery. So, the DNA is clear enough that it tells you where the DNA came from. It came from European men and not European women. That is the DNA that is in black Americans. So the DNA tests are concise.

[00:04:36]They can tell you that. And yet we're going looking for something over in Africa when there's something we need to study right here. Especially when we talk about reparations.

[00:04:47]This is as important to a reparations claim as anything else. the abuse of the enslaved women who had no control over what happened to them, their families, their children, their lives. So, this should be studied in addition to everything else that's being talked about during reparations. And just to digress for a minute, I find it almost laughable that now you'll hear these so-called MAGA and and white supremacist men on social media and anywhere anybody would listen to them talking about how unattractive black women are and how we are the most unattractive women of all of the women. I bet everything I have that the enslaved women wish that white men had found them as repulsive as they claim to find black women now. So that trauma itself is visible in the DNA.

[00:05:47]There is emerging evidence that violence and chronic stress can leave epigenetic marks. That's changes in the DNA patterns. A study of African-American young men found measurable differences associated with exposure to violence.

[00:06:05]This doesn't mean trauma changes your ancestry, but it does mean trauma can leave biological footprints that affect stress response, inflammation, and health across generations. So that means that the trauma is in our DNA and is passed on generation to generation.

[00:06:28]That's interesting. I find that very interesting. Now what does this mean for black Americans today? It means the sexual exploitation of black women was systematic. So the system instituted it.

[00:06:43]That was a saying when I was a young girl that during those slavery days there were white men who were saying that there was no virgin black girls in the south. And I was saying to myself at the time, how would they know that? How would they know that? Well, they knew it because they had instituted that as a system. It was part of their right as white men to sexually assault or rape or whatever you want to call it those enslaved girls. And the genetic record matches the historical records almost perfectly. See, what I always say about white people is whatever they do, they write it down. So, they wrote it down.

[00:07:22]It's written somewhere. And so, now the gen genetics is matching up with what they've written down. And what I like about this study is that it shows exactly where the DNA, the European DNA comes from. It comes from white men.

[00:07:39]even though hundreds of years later that they can test black women and black men, but they can still tell you that that DNA came from white men during the slavery days. Now, that's science catching up to the Bible. As one of my pastors used to say, he said, "The Bible doesn't have to catch up with science.

[00:08:00]Science has to catch up with the Bible."

[00:08:02]And this is an example of it. And this is not remarkable. This is a miracle. So for all the people who are doing their DNA test to see where they come from in Africa and how much European ancestry they have, we can trace our lineage back to specific regions of Africa. But the forced European at mixture is the part tied to violence here in the United States. This is why conversations about black American identity, lineage, and diaspora must include the reality that our ancestors did not choose their mixed ancestry. It was forced upon them. All of this was forced upon us. Coming to the United States was forced upon us.

[00:08:50]Our lineage was forced upon us. And now we have to embrace it in order to move on and be healthy individuals. So on social media, I hear these Africans telling black Americans, "You are African too. You are African too."

[00:09:05]Especially when they lose an argument with black Americans, then they start talking about, "You are an African. You are African too." A black American should never argue their ethnicity. So your response should be, "I am a black American." And so I think that we need to consider this test because this is not something that I made up. And by all means do your own research. Do your own research from this video. Trauma in black Americans DNA. And it will lead you to meaningful research to find out where all of this trauma that we're feeling is coming from, especially black boys, because they are the ones who seem to be the most impacted by the stress, by the trauma. It is the males in our community. So, it would help to know how much this is being passed on to them from generations before them. Please do your own research. Okay y'all, thank you for listening and have a good evening.