Godfrey's Podcast Just Keeps Getting Worse

[00:00:00]154 is Godfreyy's African Center podcast that keeps speaking on black Americans.

[00:00:04]>> You think every black American should try to find out their roots because >> I can look at someone and going, "Wow, like >> that person's Nigerian." And I go, "Excuse me?" "Oh, you're Nigerian."

[00:00:14]"Nah, I ain't Nigerian." And I'm like, >> "I don't know if anyone's told you, but you are definitely because you can tell by >> last month they caught a lot of smoke for how David the yellow disrespected black Americans."

[00:00:26]>> You know what happens to Southerners? If you take if you take the Nigerian accent >> like this and you slow it down, you put a lot of slavery in there >> and then you start to uh uh put a little bit of subservience in it.

[00:00:40]>> This is what starts to happen >> which led to Godfrey crashing out about it.

[00:00:44]>> I don't give a [ __ ] what y'all were thinking cuz I did not I didn't call I didn't make him say that.

[00:00:49]>> I didn't say it.

[00:00:49]>> I didn't make him say that. So, [ __ ] all of that. And now one of their latest podcasts, they're talking about the need for black Americans to find their roots.

[00:00:56]Like our roots and ancestors aren't right here in America.

[00:00:59]>> Nobody asked Jamaicans or Haitians to provide a family tree. But whenever the subject comes up for black Americans, people get so up in arms like where are you from? We're from here.

[00:01:07]>> But I'm Jew. Welcome to the channel.

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[00:01:13]>> You think every black American should try to find out their roots? Because >> what if we are amongst a bunch of royals and we don't even know it. Like it'd be cool if some of my homies from school and I'm like, man, I didn't know I was supposed to be calling you sir this and you know, prince this. Like, you know, like I it makes me wonder how many other people are from royal families and don't even know it.

[00:01:36]>> I really don't know why podcast centered on the 54 countries in Africa keep speaking on black Americans specifically. You would think they have enough content and discussions to talk about without discussing black American problems or what we need to do. And I'm just tired of that talking point. Black Americans don't know where we're from or we don't know where our roots are. When in fact, we do know where we're from.

[00:01:56]We're from America and we do know our roots here in America. Our ancestors are from America. Therefore, there's no need for us to look anywhere else.

[00:02:04]>> Can somebody educate me on why there's black Americans that don't know where they're from, like their ethnicity and stuff? like growing up Nigerian, having a grandfather in the house that's like straight from Nigeria. Clothing, the food, the language, the accent, everything. I've always known >> your grandfather's from Nigeria. That is so cool. My paternal grandfather is from Harlem. My maternal grandfather is from Veil, North Carolina. He spent most of his life in Hickory. My maternal grandmother is from Columbia, South Carolina, which is where I was born. My paternal grandmother is from Charleston, South Carolina. Her people are Gagichi.

[00:02:38]Do you know what all four of those places have in common? America. People get so up in arms like where are you from? We're from here.

[00:02:44]>> It comes off very counterproductive, which is how you get clips like David the Yellow Wolf. Not to even mention him alluding to black Americans being raised in hatred.

[00:02:52]>> And they didn't bring me up with all of that trauma and dysfunction and hatred.

[00:02:59]They brought me up in love.

[00:03:00]>> So when these clips go out, they feel very intentional, very ignorant, and very counterproductive. especially if your whole point of the podcast is black unity across the world. And the crazy thing to me is I've never heard these discussions about anybody else from anywhere else. When I've never heard Caribbeans or Afro Latinos being told that they're lost or they don't know where they come from or they have no connection to their ancestors. It just seems like a very ignorant, intentional question that completely ignores our history in this country going back hundreds of years before most of these 54 countries even existed >> or even just what royal or not just amazing.

[00:03:32]>> Where you from?

[00:03:33]We all are.

[00:03:34]>> We call each other king anyway. We What's up, king? What's up, queen? We going to tack it on anyway. Call me Lord. Don't.

[00:03:42]>> You know what's so funny is I see people. There was a woman I saw the other day and I'm like, "Where's your family from? You look just like my family. Where's your family from?" She I said, "My family's from Sierra Leon."

[00:03:51]She goes, "I'm from Louisiana, but maybe I am." She was so excited.

[00:03:54]>> That's crazy.

[00:03:55]>> So, it was just like people want to know. They just It's just like there's been a disconnect >> for anyone that doesn't know their family tree. I wouldn't knock anyone that wants to trace their family tree back, however far it goes. I don't hear black Americans falling over to try to make some connection to Africa. No knock to Africa, no knock to the Caribbeans, no knock to the Afro Latinos, but it's just not something that we're talking about or thinking about. Now, Sarah Copersonen herself, has a really interesting story. Sarah Coberson, an African-American educator and author, was adopted as an infant by a white couple in Morgantown, West Virginia.

[00:04:27]Years later, she searched for her biological father and made a stunning discovery. Her birth father was a prince from Sierra Leon, making her a menday princess. So, in and of itself, her having a father from Sierra Leone. A direct immediate connection to an African country completely separates her story from most black American stories where our fathers, mothers, grandparents, great-grandparents, great great grandparents are from America.

[00:04:51]Therefore, we have no connection to Africa. And that's okay. It's okay for her to be really excited about finding African ancestry and being connected to Sierra Leone. Even though I think that royalty discussion is really dumb. It's probably like 1% of people on the continent of Africa that were connected to royalty, which doesn't even exist anymore.

[00:05:09]>> You notice this? I know I can I can literally look and you said it earlier, you know, like like I can look at someone and going, "Wow, like that person's Nigerian." And I go, "Excuse me? Oh, you're Nigerian." "Nah, I ain't Nigerian." And I'm like, >> I don't know if anyone's told you, but you are definitely because you can tell by >> It's like so many. Yeah. When I when I was in Jamaica a couple months ago, you know, I was like, "Everybody looks the same."

[00:05:35]>> I met saw some girls, I go, "Oh, they must be Jamaican. What's up? We from Georgia?" I was like, I was like, "They look everybody. We're we're from the same, man.

[00:05:44]>> We're not all the same." And that's okay. I don't know why they're trying to make some deeper connection than what it is. Black Americans in general, an ethnically diverse group. So our features, our complexions, everything about us can be across the spectrum.

[00:05:56]>> The black American ethnicity exists in America because it was created there. We went from ethnogenesis in America creating black Americans as an ethnicity. Black Americans are extremely mixed because we're from at least seven regions of Africa, right? all those different regions of Africa then European and then trace amounts of native DNA. So when you have a group of people who come from the almost the entire continent of Africa mushed into one with white people and with natives that is a new ethnicity. And the same way that Cape Verdians are multigenerational mixed people is the same way black Americans are multigenerational mixed people.

[00:06:34]>> When I was in Cuba I went to Cuba on a study visa and I was in Cuba and there was this guy >> who looked ju I had just come from Sierra Leone. I looked at him. I'm like, it looks like they brought you from Sierra Leone here and you're speaking Spanish. It was just like it was incredible. We're we're everywhere.

[00:06:48]>> It just feels very intentional, ignorant, and obtuse. Everybody that they see, they're trying to relate back to somebody from their own country or a native to that country. I don't get this.

[00:06:57]>> You know, they're southwestern Nigerians. Cubans are >> they come straight from southwest Nigeria, Euroba.

[00:07:03]>> Cuz they got Santa, which is the Orishas, which is chang. Those are the Euroba gods.

[00:07:09]>> Yeah. They are straight from Nigeria because you you talk to old Cuban like elderly Cuban. I would when I would talk to him in New York I say and I say is Africa. Oh yeah. They break it down >> the history of the family. He knew they listen to Roomba.

[00:07:32]>> Huh?

[00:07:33]>> Cuz Roomba is like literally the the the the root of salsa, but it sounds exactly like Nigerian juju.

[00:07:41]>> Garry is trying to take anything that stands out from any culture back to Nigeria. He said this multiple times now. Sounds exactly like it.

[00:07:49]>> It's funny. I I for years I dance in a professional salsa company, urban urban Latin theater dance company. So when we were in Cuba with the drums, >> I was just so at home.

[00:08:00]I was so >> so African. Even if things from other cultures do have roots that carried over from Africa during slavery and evolved from there, it's a completely new thing.

[00:08:08]It's a completely new culture that doesn't even relate back to a country that didn't exist when those people were put on that land. Nigeria was officially formed by Britain in 1914 >> and I had just found my family in Sierra Leone >> and it was just like it's just oh we're all connected and I think it's a something for all of us to remember. I think sometimes we go like oh I'm from Louisiana. I'm from here. I'm from Oh, I'm Jamaican. I'm We are all one.

[00:08:33]>> We're all one.

[00:08:34]>> Everybody got a drum circle.

[00:08:37]>> Everybody got a damn drum circle and eating rice with meat on it. I'm tired.

[00:08:41]And then you see a fried banana. Can we all just shut up?

[00:08:45]>> Why are you eating a fried banana though?

[00:08:48]>> We're connected by the big yellow banana. I said, we all connected. You go to the down to to Holland, it's like they look like us and they're from Curtis and they speak Dutch and they look exact we look exactly alike.

[00:09:01]>> If they wanted this podcast to be a unifying platform, especially when they speak about black Americans, then they would stop trying to force some distant connection on people and have black Americans on their podcast to discuss their experience. Cameron actually just spoke about being black on one of his podcasts.

[00:09:15]>> I'm not African. I love my Africans. Why would we go to the Olympics and a black man go to Olympics? They be like the American.

[00:09:21]>> So why is the African there already?

[00:09:23]It's it's in it's in the name already.

[00:09:25]African American.

[00:09:27]>> That label African-American didn't get popularized until the 80s by the NAACP and Reverend Jesse Jackson. So that label hasn't always been there.

[00:09:34]>> No, they don't say that at the Olympics.

[00:09:36]They say American. They don't say AfricanAmerican cuz it's Africans there at the Olympics. So they don't confuse it and say African-American. They just say American.

[00:09:45]>> Nothing is wrong with being African or Caribbean or Afro Latino. What's wrong with being black?

[00:09:50]>> Ain't nothing wrong with being African.

[00:09:51]It's just that I'm not African. I was born in America.

[00:09:54]>> So So your your bloodline are you black?

[00:09:57]>> Yeah, I'm black.

[00:09:58]>> Black what? You just black.

[00:10:01]>> That's so disrespectful. Clearly he's not black. This reminded me when Ken that said black people don't have culture and was so disrespectful and saying you're nothing, you're just black.

[00:10:10]>> All my mods who are not cultured at all, stop dick riding. I don't want to HEAR LIKE WHEN I'M ASKING GENERAL QUESTIONS.

[00:10:19]I'm not asking y'all [ __ ] Stop dick boding. Y'all [ __ ] is IS BLACK. YOU'RE BLACK. YOU'RE JUST FULLY AMERICAN.

[00:10:25]YOU'RE AFRICANAMEAN, BRO. That's it. A lot of That wasn't an insult.

[00:10:30]>> That was 100% an insult and intended to be one.

[00:10:33]>> That was strictly you're black. You're not Trinidadian. You're not Jamaican.

[00:10:36]You're not African. Which is funny because our culture, who we are, how we talk, how we dress, everything about us, our lingo is what everybody around the world copies off of, including Kai.

[00:10:45]>> I'm a black man, [ __ ] What are you talking about? Am I I'm black.

[00:10:48]>> Why are these two Nigerians always talking about what black Americans should do, etc., instead of talking about Nigeria or any of the other countries. And it comes off very counterproductive to me, which is how you get clips like David the Yellow Wolf, cuz they're talking about black Americans and we're not in the room. So when these clips go out, they feel very intentional, very ignorant, and very counterproductive. Africans encouraging black Americans to overlook our ancestors from the past 400 plus years just to find one Native African is not beneficial mentally, emotionally, or financially for black Americans. We like who we are. We love who we are. We're not the ones bringing up these discussions or trying to force some distant connection. And I think everybody will be better off just respecting that. Thanks for watching, y'all. Let me know what you think about all this in the comments. Also, make sure you check out the next video. And don't forget to follow me on Instagram for behind the scenes and life stuff.

[00:11:36]And I'll catch you next time.