from Johnny Be. With Larry David, excerpt from Season 4, Episode 1 of “Finding Your Roots” - please go to the official link to watch the entire episode: www.pbs.org/vi...
Even their conversation sounds like a typical scene from Curb where Larry accidentally says something insensitive: ‘My Grandfather was a slaver. Wow, that’s pretty wild.’ ‘Pretty wild?’ ‘...Yeah, you know pretty wild.’
It's tough learning about your Southern roots. My family in Mississippi had wealthy slave owners, confederate soldiers, KKK members, and a governor (which as a former high-ranking CSA military leader was not legal, but the sitting president was more interested in reconstruction than enforcing that law) that helped enact Jim Crow laws (and has many racist quotes). I have family there to this day that still believe in the Lost Cause myth. All we can do is grow by learning from history and the mistakes of others.
I feel you. My Irish American ancestors included alcoholic criminals that I wouldn't want to know. It's all about personal choices. We are not responsible for their life situations and the choices they made. We are though responsible for our own choices. Nothing more.
@@redwoods7370 if you were poor in those days, u were mostly labeled a criminal.. stealing a loaf of bread to feed ur orphan siblings is not exactly inhumane but it's the type of stuff that happened. Instead of being blinded by societies norms today, maybe try and put yourself in the shoes of young men trying to make it in a brand new world.. Irish were extremity poor and extremely discriminated against in those days. Respect your ancestors, you wouldn't be here without them... side note: look up the history of Australia. Settled and started almost entirely by "criminals" sent on boats from England.
The legacy his great grandfather left is simplified into a sentence - he was a Jewish slave owner who fought for the south. Larry David, however, will be known as a man who made people laugh. Lol hopefully. It’s crazy how our lives will either be lost to history or be simplified into a few words.
Slave owners were rich people. Wealth is passed down generation to generation. If u come from a wealthy family from usa, ur family most likely owned slaves at some point, even those up north... People try to spin it like ALL WHITES OWNED SLAVES... no... rich people did. Land owners.
A little awkward, but my guess is he took it in strides. Another curious/weird fact is that Larry David apparently also belongs to Y DNA Haplogroup Q, which originates in Paleolithic Siberia and is also the most common Y DNA haplogroup among Native Americans. Only about 3-5% of Jews belong to Y DNA haplogroup Q, which is also present among other Middle Eastern male populations in more or less equal percentages.
@@Deira854 Yes, I read that Deepak Chopra for example belongs to Y DNA haplogroup Q. Does not mean 'native American' ancestry at all since 'native american' as an autosomal component is a much more recent subset of genes, meaning what you, Deepak, Larry and other Jews as well as other Middle Easterners and South AsiaN share is a common male ancestor that lived in Paleolithic southern Siberia.
Do we have to repeat history or should we be responsible for it by NOT repeating. Do you want to be define by you bad history or reminded of your mistakes? Of course not. I love Larry David he is a beautiful man
I guess neither of them ever heard the famous song ‘minyan man’. It’s about a Jewish man passing through mobile on a Friday afternoon and he’s needed to make a minyan - a quaram of 10, which they couldn’t do because the community was dying and they only had 9 men. Great song.
literally everyone is descended from both slaves and slaveowners, can't be ashamed of it, you just gotta do the right thing with the circumstances you're given
LD took this like a champ. Apologizing is definitely what I think a normal human being with compassion would do. To the people getting upset for an apology or saying it’s not necessary, your racism is showing.
@@mzple I'm not trying to police any response. I'm just asking a simple question, Why apologize when you have done nothing wrong ? I can't see how this question makes you a racist.
@@k2bigtime It doesn’t. You are apologizing on behalf of your ancestors not for your own actions. He is not culpable in any way, but due to wealth being passed down as a result of ancestors actions, there is still a connection, even though it is a connection that he has no fault in.
He did not take it like a champ. He's trying to laugh his way out of something. He feels nothing. Don't believe his offering of "so sorry". Any sentient human would have absorbed that news with the gravitas it deserves. Not like this schmuck did.
My dad is from deep, rural Arkansas. I’m pretty sure I come more from farmers and laborers than slave owners, but I’m 100% certain I come from a long rich family history of old school racism.
My Grandmother had an uncle everyone in town feared him that was back in 1930’s (Cornelius) was his name, was a very frightening man, to the point that he Scattered my grandmother for life, She saw him murder a young man with an Axe 🪓 she stutter after that horrible childhood tragedy.
We are not responsible for the. Wrong doings Of our ancestors in the past . But we can ensure those wrongs do not happen again . And it is correct ...history is complex ...and revisionism is what it is ...we can’t look at the past through the prism of modern eyes ....it is also important to note chattel slavery was not just an American issue ...but was practiced in many countries throughout the world .......that includes many Asian countries and the Russian empire pre ww1.......
I was searching my ancestry and found that apparently, one of my great-great something or others had been a very large property owner, and had about 3 slaves. I was very surprised, because I'll tell you something, that money did not get passed down.
The South was diverse even than. Emigrants: Irish, German Jewish, Prussia, Hispanics, Asians etc. got caught up in secession & war. And they fought for the Confederacy. The Native Americans from the Five Civilized Tribes fought for the Confederacy, Stand Waite, the most recognized, for attaining the rank of Brigadier General during the war. The truth of history isn't always what were told or taught. Tracing your heritage, no matter your ethnicity, may uncover it.
We'd all be shocked to know our family histories. Ive got extensive genealogy researchers on both sides. I've got confederate soldiers, southern unionists who fled North, union soldiers, from Maryland, slave owners, abolitionists, pacifists, relatives who took part finghting the Creeks, a Chickasaw great grandmother on the dawes roll, i could go on and on. Your family grows so much as you go back. 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 2x great grandparents, 32 3x great grand parents and so on. You never know what you'll find and many parts will likely be hard to swallow
Most likely. The kids were mixed. Their mother had to have been enslaved Black woman r*ped by the Bernstein. R*pe was sadly a common tragedy during slavery. :((
@cool ????????????? R*pe was a common occurrence during slavery. Enslaved Black girls/women had NO choice. They didn't seek out their enslavers. Let's NOT whitewash slavery. Enslaved Black girls/women were NOT in relationships with their enslavers. Enslavers r*ped enslaved Black girls/women. That is a FACT. You cannot rewrite history.
@cool Sally Hemming was a 14 year old Black girl. A child. That wasn’t a “relationship.” They weren’t lovers. She had no choice. It was rape. Stop trying to whitewash history. When Thomas Jefferson would routinely raped and impregnate Sally Hemings, the law stated that any children would be automatically assigned the social status of the "inferior" parent. This law was designed so that enslavers could rape any enslaved Black girl/women with no fear that their mixed-race children could claim freedom. Jefferson routinely raped Sally Hemings and was in a fraternity that encouraged the rape of enslaved Black girls/women as “punishment.” You are still trying to whitewash history. Throughout slavery white enslavers raped Black girls/women happened. Period.
@cool how??? By simply stating that rape was common during slavery and that hemmings a was Jefferson’s rape victim??????????????? Which is a well known fact. Goodbye.
There were 10,000 Jews who fought for the South, not 3,000. there were also close to 10,000 Italians, and close to 10,000 Free Southern Blacks who fought in the Confederate army.
Do you think in 150 years the great-grandchildren of the two businessmen who bought the Milwaukee Bucks for $550 million will have a similar reaction when they learn of their roots?
Would be great to have had sussie there just to rub it in. Leon would probably have an existential crisis. The the whole curb finale would have ended with an acquittal with Larry playing into his confederate roots.
Prettty Prettty Prettty BAD!
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Lol 😂
- I hope no slaves show up on this
- Please turn the page.
Great comedic timing.
I loved the composure where he knew what was coming, and still said calmly … “Now Larry, this is another part of the …”
Que the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song.
Cue*
Kyew*
😂😂😂
Kyoo
😂😂
“You did it” Only Larry David can make you laugh at slavery
This could totally just be put unedited into an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm and it would fit perfectly.
I can hear Leon saying "This some bullshit Larry! I want my reparations!"
Even their conversation sounds like a typical scene from Curb where Larry accidentally says something insensitive:
‘My Grandfather was a slaver. Wow, that’s pretty wild.’
‘Pretty wild?’
‘...Yeah, you know pretty wild.’
Is roger casment your youtube profile picture
@@marcusmaksym7804 Tis indeed fam. Pretty underrated guy imho. Very surprised someone recognises him!
I thought we were coup de la?
where's wanda sykes to pop out.
Pretty.... pretty.... pretty wild
Larry reads the room so well, he’s got the perfect response in my view
Honestly this probably explains Larry’s odd obsessions with civil war battles
This is a great new plot device for new episodes of 'Curb your Enthusiasm'. Heh. Wanda Sykes can go to town on this.
*cue wanda standing there looking disappointed*
It's tough learning about your Southern roots. My family in Mississippi had wealthy slave owners, confederate soldiers, KKK members, and a governor (which as a former high-ranking CSA military leader was not legal, but the sitting president was more interested in reconstruction than enforcing that law) that helped enact Jim Crow laws (and has many racist quotes). I have family there to this day that still believe in the Lost Cause myth. All we can do is grow by learning from history and the mistakes of others.
It all comes down to choices that we make as an individual that defines who we are.
My grandmother's first cousin is George Wallce Jr. who's father GW Sr. was the racist governor of Alabama. Ain't that a kick in the pants.
I feel you. My Irish American ancestors included alcoholic criminals that I wouldn't want to know. It's all about personal choices. We are not responsible for their life situations and the choices they made. We are though responsible for our own choices. Nothing more.
@@LuvBugs822 Wow. We don't pick our family do we?
@@redwoods7370 if you were poor in those days, u were mostly labeled a criminal.. stealing a loaf of bread to feed ur orphan siblings is not exactly inhumane but it's the type of stuff that happened. Instead of being blinded by societies norms today, maybe try and put yourself in the shoes of young men trying to make it in a brand new world.. Irish were extremity poor and extremely discriminated against in those days. Respect your ancestors, you wouldn't be here without them... side note: look up the history of Australia. Settled and started almost entirely by "criminals" sent on boats from England.
He secretly loves it. He's a civil war buff.
2:28 CLASSIC Larry!
Larry David is hilarious.... and when he finds out his family...he is so tickled! I love him!
So how much of his fortune did he redistribute in voluntary reparations? If he didn't give away a lot of money, he's a hypocrite
This is just so Larry... hilarious stuff. Haha
Larry: I hope no slaves turn up here 👀
HLG: Please turn the page😅
The Secretary of State for the Confederacy was Jewish - a Southern Jew, named Judah P Benjamin.
who was Anthony Johnson?
Not much has changed.
Hilarious irony
And the financial center of WORLD SLAVERY was New York. Many existing financial institutions from New York got rich on slavery.
Playing each side against one another since circa 5000bc
"I'm a bit of a stoic" ...Larry you have to be kidding
Something new for Larry to feel guilty about.
Linnaeus doesn’t look guilty he actually looks so excited he couldn’t curb his enthusiasm
@@garcia5381 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! You are right! I stand corrected.
Hes got nothing to feel guilty about here
@@snakey934Snakeybakey why not?
Turns out he's 30 percent native American
It’s a shanda, Larry!
Take a note Ben Affleck, this is how to react to history you can't change, with a laugh
Lol fact
Ben Affleck is a seriously confused individual. I've seen him flip out over muslim on Maher.....lmao.
Next step, reperations
@@scj3188 from the start of the supply chain
Or a cry, or anger, or confusion, or literally anything other than trying to hide it.
Literally a curb your enthusiasm moment
One of the only guys whose genuine reaction of learning his ancestors owned slaves is laighter that is contagious
Larry was letting his Steinbrenner voice come out when he gets excited
This guy was literally born into being an awkward genius just by natural fate! Gods work is amazing
This is amazing! When I heard about this I thought it was from Curb.
The legacy his great grandfather left is simplified into a sentence - he was a Jewish slave owner who fought for the south. Larry David, however, will be known as a man who made people laugh. Lol hopefully. It’s crazy how our lives will either be lost to history or be simplified into a few words.
Legacy? Owning a 4 year old girl as a product?
@@deeznutz8320 Legacy. Correct. Look it up.
Slave owners were rich people. Wealth is passed down generation to generation. If u come from a wealthy family from usa, ur family most likely owned slaves at some point, even those up north...
People try to spin it like ALL WHITES OWNED SLAVES... no... rich people did. Land owners.
Austin Harmon - Well, yeah. Guess who the majority of rich people were back then?
Why else would Jews were there? They were involved in the slave trade and that’s what they did.
I was waiting for Wanda to appear at the end of this scene!
I’m laughing just imagining that interaction
I would like to see Mike Tyson appear.
Larry David isn’t known for his ancestors actions; he’s known for his own achievements.
Tell that to minorities in America who say that white people are nothing but slave-owner racists.
The face that he looked so proud that his ancestors owned slaves makes me think he is chicken shit
@@bojackbojackbojack most of the people saying this nonsense are not even minorities. the Left is lead by white-supremacist with guilty consciences.
@@snakey934Snakeybakey - Exactly.
@@snakey934Snakeybakey thank God for white supremacists with a guilty conscious, Martin Luther King called them "whites of good will"...
Plot twist. The 4 year old girl was his grandfathers child with the 17 year old girl.
This is super plausible, which is quite disturbing.
Omg can you imagine a Larry David fighting for the south.
He will get out after his ist day. He wont go for that lol
2:29 My dad won’t stop quoting this whenever anyone does anything
I think Larry is deeply affected by the findings. I think he is emotionally scarred now in a way he never experienced.
Yeah that seemed more like nervous laughter, especially after he had just said, I hope he didn’t own slaves
Stoics don't scar easily.
@@factsoverfiction7826 isn't the point of stoicism to not throw tantrums about your emotions? Who said anything about it not having an impact on you
No he isn't. He literally could not care less. He just said sorry for the cameras.
@@factsoverfiction7826 stoics can be affected by things. they're human. he isn't a stoic.
This man had one Mode and it's hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
A little awkward, but my guess is he took it in strides. Another curious/weird fact is that Larry David apparently also belongs to Y DNA Haplogroup Q, which originates in Paleolithic Siberia and is also the most common Y DNA haplogroup among Native Americans. Only about 3-5% of Jews belong to Y DNA haplogroup Q, which is also present among other Middle Eastern male populations in more or less equal percentages.
Also some in North India, my family is Q1B branch though
@@Deira854 Yes, I read that Deepak Chopra for example belongs to Y DNA haplogroup Q. Does not mean 'native American' ancestry at all since 'native american' as an autosomal component is a much more recent subset of genes, meaning what you, Deepak, Larry and other Jews as well as other Middle Easterners and South AsiaN share is a common male ancestor that lived in Paleolithic southern Siberia.
Larry: please tell me there were no slaves
Turn the page
Larry: ear to ear smile
Do we have to repeat history or should we be responsible for it by NOT repeating. Do you want to be define by you bad history or reminded of your mistakes? Of course not. I love Larry David he is a beautiful man
I guess neither of them ever heard the famous song ‘minyan man’. It’s about a Jewish man passing through mobile on a Friday afternoon and he’s needed to make a minyan - a quaram of 10, which they couldn’t do because the community was dying and they only had 9 men. Great song.
I hope Wanda Sykes pops up at the right moment in this one.
“Wow! There’s a temple in Mobile, Alabama?”
😂
There are two temples in Mobile, Alabama. I know I live there.
I live there too!
Larry David has more balls than Ben Affleck. Larry David actually owned up to his ancestry.
literally everyone is descended from both slaves and slaveowners, can't be ashamed of it, you just gotta do the right thing with the circumstances you're given
You know that he wanted to say "Holy shit"!😅😅😅😅
This guy really has no damn business being so funny
LD took this like a champ. Apologizing is definitely what I think a normal human being with compassion would do. To the people getting upset for an apology or saying it’s not necessary, your racism is showing.
Why should he apologize for someone else's deeds? Doesn't make sense.
@@k2bigtime If they want to apologize let them, why are you trying to police others emotional responses?
@@mzple I'm not trying to police any response. I'm just asking a simple question, Why apologize when you have done nothing wrong ? I can't see how this question makes you a racist.
@@k2bigtime It doesn’t. You are apologizing on behalf of your ancestors not for your own actions. He is not culpable in any way, but due to wealth being passed down as a result of ancestors actions, there is still a connection, even though it is a connection that he has no fault in.
He did not take it like a champ. He's trying to laugh his way out of something. He feels nothing. Don't believe his offering of "so sorry".
Any sentient human would have absorbed that news with the gravitas it deserves. Not like this schmuck did.
It’s like game of thrones!!!
Roots are roots ....they don’t dictate who one is .......fair play to Bernstein ......
My dad is from deep, rural Arkansas. I’m pretty sure I come more from farmers and laborers than slave owners, but I’m 100% certain I come from a long rich family history of old school racism.
No way that he didnt donate to some black organization right after that...
My Grandmother had an uncle everyone in town feared him that was back in 1930’s (Cornelius) was his name, was a very frightening man, to the point that he Scattered my grandmother for life, She saw him murder a young man with an Axe 🪓 she stutter after that horrible childhood tragedy.
Jesus...
"One female, 4 years old, mulatto, one female, 17 years old, mulatto"
Jesus, Henry! Gross
I hadn’t even thought of that! That is gross!
Outer voice: “alright, this is gettin cool”
Inner voice: “run Larry, get out now!”
In about 400 years people are going to react like when when they realize their ancestors were furries
.....or Republicans 🤣
I thought Larry David was 37% Native American?
He's zero according to this one I guess
2:20 i can't 💀
What episode of Curb was this from?
Where's the part where they tell Larry his ancestor was killed by a shovel? Lmao
That was Anderson Cooper wasn't it?
Much more humble and proper way to react to slave ownership roots than Ben Affleck.
It looks to me like he actually knew about the slave thing and is just trying to act surprised
Why is this like the 20th clip of this show I’ve seen. I should be in bed 🛌
We are not responsible for the. Wrong doings Of our ancestors in the past . But we can ensure those wrongs do not happen again . And it is correct ...history is complex ...and revisionism is what it is ...we can’t look at the past through the prism of modern eyes ....it is also important to note chattel slavery was not just an American issue ...but was practiced in many countries throughout the world .......that includes many Asian countries and the Russian empire pre ww1.......
So hes not 30% native american? Im not surprised
justiceingeneral George Lopez is a big, fat liar.
@@MostHighLordFeatherbottom No, just used a very unreliable test.
@@Meirstein which test?
Larry didn’t expect to utter the words ‘name of the slave owner’ with regards to his family. What a crazy crazy surprise. Reactions were hilarious.
Ok but why 17yr and a 4 yr old. Was the 17 yr old the 4 yr olds mother? I have always have so many questions 😅
Larry looks really uncomfortable, he blushes too. He doesn't know what to say.
My god to hear the call to Jerry after filming wrapped...
Larry David, time to pay up!
I was searching my ancestry and found that apparently, one of my great-great something or others had been a very large property owner, and had about 3 slaves. I was very surprised, because I'll tell you something, that money did not get passed down.
HA!!!!, Got him!
Congragation Sha'are Shamayim
The South was diverse even than. Emigrants: Irish, German Jewish, Prussia, Hispanics, Asians etc. got caught up in secession & war. And they fought for the Confederacy. The Native Americans from the Five Civilized Tribes fought for the Confederacy, Stand Waite, the most recognized, for attaining the rank of Brigadier General during the war. The truth of history isn't always what were told or taught. Tracing your heritage, no matter your ethnicity, may uncover it.
So inspiring how his great grandfather overcame antisemitism while rising through the ranks of the Confederate army
Turn it into a Curb episode please
We'd all be shocked to know our family histories. Ive got extensive genealogy researchers on both sides. I've got confederate soldiers, southern unionists who fled North, union soldiers, from Maryland, slave owners, abolitionists, pacifists, relatives who took part finghting the Creeks, a Chickasaw great grandmother on the dawes roll, i could go on and on. Your family grows so much as you go back. 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 2x great grandparents, 32 3x great grand parents and so on. You never know what you'll find and many parts will likely be hard to swallow
Were those children fathered by his grandfather? Conveniently forgot to ask that question.
Most likely. The kids were mixed. Their mother had to have been enslaved Black woman r*ped by the Bernstein. R*pe was sadly a common tragedy during slavery. :((
@cool ????????????? R*pe was a common occurrence during slavery. Enslaved Black girls/women had NO choice. They didn't seek out their enslavers. Let's NOT whitewash slavery. Enslaved Black girls/women were NOT in relationships with their enslavers. Enslavers r*ped enslaved Black girls/women. That is a FACT. You cannot rewrite history.
@cool Sally Hemming was a 14 year old Black girl. A child. That wasn’t a “relationship.” They weren’t lovers. She had no choice. It was rape. Stop trying to whitewash history.
When Thomas Jefferson would routinely raped and impregnate Sally Hemings, the law stated that any children would be automatically assigned the social status of the "inferior" parent. This law was designed so that enslavers could rape any enslaved Black girl/women with no fear that their mixed-race children could claim freedom. Jefferson routinely raped Sally Hemings and was in a fraternity that encouraged the rape of enslaved Black girls/women as “punishment.”
You are still trying to whitewash history. Throughout slavery white enslavers raped Black girls/women happened. Period.
@cool I’m not whitewashing history, but ok. 😭😭😭
@cool how??? By simply stating that rape was common during slavery and that hemmings a was Jefferson’s rape victim??????????????? Which is a well known fact. Goodbye.
This was so funny idc
See the vein in his head? that's where the funnys come from
2:28 - 3:32 feels like an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
There are three Temples in Mobile, Alabama.
i fucking love larry
Age 4 and age 17 😱😰
maybe he was a *nice* slave owner that's why there young or he was a pedo
@@Dreyz-pg2zz that was my thought so you're probably right🥺
@@porscha1563 or they were a sibling package deal
I'm thinking they're his kids. Illegal to marry interracially then.
@@samanthaa.6055 me too, it could have been a way to legally adopt them, however awful that was
There were 10,000 Jews who fought for the South, not 3,000. there were also close to 10,000 Italians, and close to 10,000 Free Southern Blacks who fought in the Confederate army.
And Jews of the north were very supportive of southeners.
It was 2,000 not 10,000 from the 2001 book, The Jewish Confederates.
@@rachelgarber1423 I read the same book, I'm sure it says 10,000
3,000 is believed to be correct.
It depends on how we define Jews. If we mean religious Jews, it’s 3,000. If we mean people of Jewish heritage, it’s 10,000.
The oldest synagogue in the U.S. is in South Carolina.
His GG Grandfather had 2 Mixed slaves
He wasn’t just owning them, that’s for sure.
You going all Thomas Jefferson on us?
Ancestors were Jewish Sothern slave owners.
"It's pretty cool, the whole thing." - Larry David
*Que the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song*
😆
Its annudah shoah
Just another Curb your enthusiasm Episode
I as a patriotic American finds out that I have ancestors on both my mother’s and father’s side from Prussia?
I’d pay good money to watch an episode of Curb where he plays his grandpappy in a reenactment. *Obviously JB would have to be involved
Pretty pretty pretty fooked
Do you think in 150 years the great-grandchildren of the two businessmen who bought the Milwaukee Bucks for $550 million will have a similar reaction when they learn of their roots?
The south were overall actually the good guys in the civil war.
Shut UP conservative
you can't choose your family
wait mulatto children? were they his children?
Yup
Where’s that’s so called Native American part that he found out in the George Lopez show
Shhhhhhh.....those two "Slaves" may be more like Great Aunts.... or even Grandmothers!👀
why doesn't he comb the hair he has left?
What is Leon gonna say?
tracks ... constant tension, hubris, self-loathing, ironic love of sadism and oppression as hallmarks of civilization
Would be great to have had sussie there just to rub it in. Leon would probably have an existential crisis. The the whole curb finale would have ended with an acquittal with Larry playing into his confederate roots.
There weren't slave auctions on the Sabbath 🤔