1980 THROWBACK: "LIBERIA"
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- Опубликовано: 2 сен 2020
- In "Native Sons," Safer reports on Liberia, a West African country that is ruled by an oligarchy and that was founded by U.S. philanthropists and former slaves. Safer interviews the president of Liberia, William Tolbert. The program concludes with Rather reading letters from viewers.
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Not gonna lie, watching clips of liberia before civil war is mind-blowing. It’s like America in bizarro world.
What is mind-blowing about the unraveling of the corrupt and nepotistic government system that held the country? Anyway, they set up a time bomb which eventually exploded and here we are today.
@@nelsonwright7296 it’s mind-blowing to see how the “freed slaves” from North America arrived in Africa and essentially became slave-masters themselves in all but name. Right down to the plantation architecture. when I was taught about Liberia in school it was usually just a sentence or two in passing, and they always made it seem as if everyone assimilated and got along with each other very well.
Meanwhile this was America in the 80s ruclips.net/video/mYoWSeflAYk/видео.html
@@ShottaKenya explain slave masters? Since slavery was illegal in Liberia and only Black people can own land
Slavery was very much still going on up until at least 1926. The League of Nations made a report that year about how Liberia was one of the few nations to still have slavery. Now slavery might have been illegal on paper but it wasn’t enforced. The bad report caused the Liberian president to resign. That’s how there were slave masters.
No mr. reporter! i'm sorry. "LIBERIA," IS ON THE WEST COST OF AFRICA...!
Thank u very much
He is right, it’s Geolocation is NorthEast. In Africa it’s west, but it’s east of America.
@@harrygeorge5918 No, he's not! when you r giving reports.
you mentioned the exact point.
not where it suits you!
Again, and again...LIBERIA, IS ON THE WEST COST, OF AFRICA! SHARING BOADERS, WITH IVORY COAST, GUINEA, AND SIERRA LEONE.
@@King-Kende ThIs guy should pay for the CORRECT ANSWER
@@harrygeorge5918 ..then he should have told us on the EAST COAST of AMERICA.
They should make a movie about President Tolbert’s life, administration, family, coup and what happened to all these people during and after the coup.
The tone and obvious bias against Liberia was disgusting in this report - they even said Liberia did not have the privilege of being colonized like the rest of Africa!
It wasn’t colonized by whites and it shows. N Africa, there is nothing where there was never whites.
No one cares about how offended you are.
It's such a horrible piece of "journalism".
@@NoahBodze oh common now. You know nothing about Ghana,Mauritius or Rwanda. I wonder why you want to push a one-sided narrative.
@@NoahBodzeWas Ethiopia colonized by the brutes! Isn't Ethiopia better off than most of those colonized countries? Educate yourself otherwise you are a biological waste of space. Your response makes it clear that you care otherwise why are you pissed?
With context I think he means in the other countries that were colonize they built up the countries the helped with infrastructure health care etc. Liberia got none of that from America.
Wow! Very very informative. I didn't know all this about Liberia. I now see the origin of the problems they had. NEPOTISM has been around for quite some time.
It's everywhere. There's more to the story. As of why it was destroyed.
Thanks a lot for putting this up. I've heard about it all my life to this point, this is my first time seeing it yet it contained everything I'd been told it contained. 40 years after that coup of 1980 so a good time to reflect on it! Putting this together with the "Faces of Death" segment from a few months later would make a powerful commentary on the end of that era of Liberian history.
The Great Liberian problem: which year did it started. After watching all videos, including this one, I sincerely believe the great Liberian problem started on December 24, 1989, the beginning of the Liberian civil war. ruclips.net/video/qJZCbzl4JnY/видео.html
@@warldorwessarnoelt3936 they are a elitist group of colonizers. Like the apartheid government in South Africa or Rhodesia.
A.B.Tolbert was, obviously, very intelligent, but I think he had a rather bizarre outlook with regards to governance and power. He talked about "ruling" Liberia and Africa, the latter eventually. He didn't seem to understand leadership, only lordship. Real governance is about leading and not ruling. This is where many of our presidents fail.
Also, he seemed to have been deeply involved in the occult. Not surprising at all, though, for that was commonplace among the elite of that era. Ultimately, I believe, this was the cause of their undoing. One cannot parley with the devil and go unscathed.
Yeah, just made a comment along those lines. Democracy is the best tool at present that eliminates pure dictatorship despite its loopholes or flaws. Unfortunately democracy for America means easy pickings.
@George Horace Never said I knew the man. Never ever even met or saw him. I said he SEEMED to have been involved in the occult. The video is right here for everyone to watch and listen to his words. I didn't say that. His very own words speak for him! So, whether he was involved in witchcraft or not is something that everyone is intelligent enough to judge for himself after watching the video.
@George Horace Yes, I 100% agree with you that we are what we are because of our deep involvement with witchcraft. You cannot serve the devil and expect to receive God's blessings. People are still doing human sacrifice and ritualistic killings for power, riches, and fame. The more blood we shed, the more cursed the land becomes. And we wonder why we can't progress or prosper?
@@patrickjohnson4656 Yes you're right bro. Most of them served devils even ignorantly. Devil will never come to you and say I'm devil follow me, no not even the most atrocious person will follow him. Deceit is the game of the devil. We have very good upbringings but to failed to consolidate, our foundational Leaders took the whites for their god...
@@smithfair6464 Thanks very much.
I died at the part when Andrew Young said they was a bunch of uncle toms cause I was thinking the same exact thing LMAO
They’re more like normal Africans with power. Very common but I know you’d like to connect this to whites.
My friend was born here and trying to learn more. Reminds me of my people sort of. Btw, your channel is amazing and I've found it organically while searching topics several times. You sir are a historian and much appreciated over here.
Absolutely xx love you nerdy girl. You're appreciated as a beautiful historian too xx. From us both in 😮 Handsworth Birmingham UK , what area are you from xxx
@@danandlaura707you of Liberian heritage? I’m from London mums Liberian
I love my country Liberia 🇱🇷
Great piece of history....much to learn from.
Thanks so much for making me to know my history
I think the lady roughly 5 minutes in has a point. While we cannot prioritize nations other than our own, Liberia is fundamentally our ‘daughter’, and our leadership has the power to influence it in a positive manner, and yet we don’t.
Not only that, the US could have helped Liberia, its "stepchild" to avoid the civil war that caused so much suffering and destruction but it did nothing.
IDGAF about Liberia.
@@gabrielledennis4103 that's because the USA is behind the war
While I agree somewhat, the same could be said about Britain, Spain, and France regarding the US. It’s funny how until recently they all said they didn’t have a race issue yet they caused racial issues all over the world. Slavery was the legacy brought and left by Britain, France, and Spain. That’s just North America mind you.
@@gabrielledennis4103 Agree with you as a white american. least we could have done. hope the US gets it's stuff together and changes it's horrible diplomacy with the African continent.
Absolutely horrendous history... freed slaves from USA went to Liberia and enslaved natives.
What they cried for they perpetuated on others
The Great Liberian problem: which year did it started. After watching all videos, including this one, I sincerely believe the great Liberian problem started on December 24, 1989, the beginning of the Liberian civil war. ruclips.net/video/qJZCbzl4JnY/видео.html
Wrong we stoped the slave trade there and Sierra Leone the tribes were selling each ither before we came and you have to look at who made this 🎥.
@Xenate Devereaux my dear I don't know how and where you got your info but I know exactly what I'm talking about because I am a native of Liberia and my ancestors suffered at the hands of the "free slaves" or as we call them "the congo." They took children from their parents all in the name of helping them but instead treated them horribly - don't get me wrong, some where nice. Children in the care or as we say back home, living with the Congo people- were force to carry their names on grounds that the indigenous' names were too "country." They did other horrible things as well thats why, when the coup toke place in 1980, the natives went after the Congos who happened the be the ruling establishment at the time and even some natives were also targeted because of their names. After what happened in the 80s people started changing their names back to their forefathers'.
We are not talking about some report made by league of nation, what do you expect them to do, say the truth? How many truths have been told concerning Africa?
@@paulettainnocent8317 anyone who claims they know the complete truth is kidding themselves (we're talking about events that happened over 200 years ago). What we do know is men are capable of doing horrific things to gain money and power. The end result is civil war that has completely decimated Liberia. If there a hell on earth, it's the slums of Monrovia. It makes south side Chicago, Detroit look like Disneyland
True Governance requires respect, fortitude, spiritual understanding, wisdom and above all the belief in The ALMIGHTY.
GOD IS THE RULER OVER ALL.
Liberia indeed has a troubled history
You being long gone - Sharon 😊
George Horace as long as those native Liberians are in charge Liberia will never rise again
FlameReelz2k I agreed with you 💯 George!! Since Doe’s days Liberia has sunk! When Ellen took over Liberia moved a bit forward!!!
@@jameskiawu4210 bullshit. she destroyed the military outpost. Stop looking down at the people that enable you to be here. You cannot succeed by ignoring 98%.
Maredyg Duygu well I don’t seem to understand the point Duygu... 😊Imma just leaves it hanging.
Thanks for sharing so interesting.
Their culture is so similar to ours and they even talk similar to us Americans as well much luh comin scraight from North Carolina to my beloved Liberia
🇺🇲 ❤ 🇱🇷
The funny thing is I'm liberian and I can always tell the difference between the typical americo liberian accent vs the indigenous liberian accent.but yes liberia is the only nation with a similar culture to American, especially African american. Unless you count countries like Canada and some central American countries.
@@vaimende are you happy with being associated with American history just asking
@@Youngcarter354 it doesnt make a difference to me either way, was just pointing out facts about liberian culture.
@@vaimende would you say Liberia as a nation has a similar culture to African Americans or America or just the Americo-Liberians?
@@Ronaldo-rt7hl yes especially during this era and evan today and at first it was just the americo liberian population but after time then whole country pretty much adopted the same values, the people living in urban areas but not so much the rural population, I would say today the culture is still americanised but many of the younger generation are starting to embrace african culture more so from nigerian and Ghanaian culture due to those countries doing well entertainment wise etc
I feel so disappointed in our so-called ancestors. No vision and structural policies set to keep this country on a positive trajectory even if the colonial masters did not give you the attention you desperately needed. Tubman and Tolbert had the opportunities to even change this country's paths, but they failed selfishly. Powers consciousness were the only key point in their lives from watching this. The ACS also did not do enough to setup this country's future like other colonials did for the countries they ruled or helped. Liberia has a very long way to go. I pray that a true leader with love for this country rise.
I agree, they had over 150 years to establish something not easily destroyed from within. Do you know Liberia didnt even have a million people in 1950? How can you drop the ball and not have a well educated country by 1980. Just to keep the money in your little group? It was so shortsighted. They just thought they had succesfully supressed the natives that none of the Black Equal Rights and Independence movements or constant African coups would have any effect on their system.
ACS was not a government but an organization and the settlement that became Liberia was their first project. They were just as inexperienced as the black settlers, just with a bit more education and the funding.
What the Hell you expect after the being robbed of the knowledge of self.There was no Black Nationalism understanding then. Different day now.
I can understand tubman, but funny how u said that about tolbert, Despite the nepotism, He got killed along with his brother stephen for trying to make "change".
I'm learning A lot about my country today
Is Benedict tolbert alive?
@@sonyabell4573 who killed him and was this 1980 as well?
3:25 "It had the look of 19th Century America in Black Face" - Imagine a reporting saying that today?!?
I know ...Very insulting and biased. I don't think the Liberians this reporter interviewed knew he was going to use this documentary to ridicule them and Liberia as well as its people. He didn't have anything positive to say about Liberia and Liberians. Ironic how it took place a bit before this poor country was to fall apart. We need one that shows the positive side not just the negative side.
Very racist
he is saying that Liberia had a lot of American culture. It was a "colony" of America.
@@titokrish8936 That’s not what he said. I quoted what he said. If you’re saying that was his intent then there were other words to communicate that message.
@@gabrielledennis4103maybe he was saying that the grandchildren of the former slaves were now mimicking the characters of their white masters by looking down on natives.
Wowwww it so good to looks back from in our history.
One person held all these positions
Liberia is just the same since it's independence. Nothing has change.
What are you talking it collapsed
Independence was 1847
@Thegigadykid they should man up and fix their country , it's not only them that faught civil war in Africa
@@kingsleyanyadiegwu6105 Facts.
@@kingsleyanyadiegwu6105 14 years of war
Oooo MAMA Liberia, when will this LAND understand her PLACE in the WORLD of NATION.
Tolbart's son's fate was the epitome of hubris meeting karma.
What happened to him?
@@supersampio He was killed when Doe took over in the coup.
@@supersampio thrown out of a plane
And newscasters safely flown away
They treated their own people like salves......
Sickening.
Black Americans will cry about the term reverse racism.
@@Moorsho Shutup
“Their own people” sold their ancestors into slavery in the first place, and even repeatedly attacked Liberian settlers during the initial resettlement of America-Liberians
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mr. Reporter , Liberia 🇱🇷 is on the west coast of Africa 🌍.
A nation on the WEST COAST of Africa
Exactly....how can we take it seriously when they can't even get the simple geography correct.
Yet he thinks he knows because he is white 🤣😂
Lol, liberia is actually on the WEST COAST OF AFRICA
Before the earth shifted 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
14:27 Look at A.B. Tolbert talking about ruling Liberia as his old man looks on proudly. Neither realized they were only a few months away from their deaths. Eerie stuff.
Liberia is in the West Coast Sir because it is situated next to my country Sierra Leone which is as far as I can remember in West Africa.....
Wow!!
I see why my country is still like this😭😭
I know right
Dang bastards
God please heal our land.
Point of correction:
Liberia is located on the west coast of Africa not the east coast of Africa..
Sierra Leone to the northwest, Guinea to the north, and Ivory Coast to the east
We are not on the East sir we are on the Westside.
Very ignorant of him
Don’t mind that fool
@ThirdeyeStrike wats ur point ?
@ThirdeyeStrike u dont assume nonsense on behave of me I have a mind of my own. Now be gone with the Foolery 🙄
@@luscuenkhodish8353😂😂😂
I've been wanting to watch this ever since I've read Helene Cooper's book, The House At Sugar Beach, several times! The lady who scolds Jimmy Carter for "just passing through" on his visit to Liberia is Helene Cooper's grandmother. I forget the lady's name but her grandchildren called her "Mama Grand."
You read that book? I sure did.Nice book
I've read it several times... it's a good read!
That's so interesting. When did her grandmother pass?
@@vaimende I honestly don't know.
I read that book too.
Late President William R Tolbert is the ONLY one who can wear that suit expertly. No offense President George Weah, we Love you too. Happy Prosperous New Year President George Weah, may God continue to bless you and keep you.
This history or video is hurtful and distributing 😰😰😭 Nepotism is very dangerous 😰😰
Why do you say that? Because it speaks the truth?
@@loleoncy321 to you is nepotism a good thing for a government of a country?
@@forstilialdweh2362 Didn't say it is
@@forstilialdweh2362 your country is a joke after Tolbert
That journalist says "Liberia,a nation in east Africa...". Wow,really?
It's so sad that one watched this and can't help noticing the racist undertones in words like "civilize" ,"uncivilized"; "natives" etc. The reporter's disdain for the land is quite clear
I love the way he balanced his conclusions at the end. It is not unique to Liberia.
One thing I’ve learned, you can’t put a price tag on stability.
the Best president Liberia ever had 🥺❤️🇱🇷
Nepotism, Corruption, adultery, Greed, and Pride.etc.
100% agree with you...
Really sad
@@kassimkamagate6741 Omg, If only these folks could have shared the wealth, could you imagine how powerful Liberia would be?
@@suzycarmichael933 Yes, Liberia had potential. Hope Liberia truly becomes the America of Africa.
Oh so sad!!! Sadder than the 100000s of dead!!! Look at Sierra Leone same shit would’ve happened you numbskull
@@jestinmathew4503 Doe was a fucking nightmare and if you look at Liberia today it is the same as 1970s
Once he started by saying Liberia was on the East coast I stopped listening, SMFH
Thought I was the only one that picked that up
I am from there where is mistakenly pick up....!!!.
13:55 " a boss knows everything a leader admits mistakes ,a boss tells people what to do a leader shows how to do things , a boss criticises a leader gives advice , a boss talks fast and gives orders a leader gives direction , a boss demands respect a leader earns and deserves , a boss rules with threats not law a leader shows human kindness , a boss depends on hearsay a leader investigates , that's why in Africa you could not fit the description of either AB Tolbert and you met your death before ascending to power because just like other despots you were doomed or lemme say cursed and your whole fam is greedy for this lust of power even God would judge you on the last day for your sins and me i don't regret"
Wow!
What A.B. Tolbert was rambling on about sounded weirdly cultish and quite frankly just plain bizarre. I know his family were Freemasons, as were most Americo-Liberians at the time, but it is my understanding that the Grand Masonic Temple of Liberia was pretty much a vaguely religious elitist club. This seems quite different from that. I wonder what on Earth he was even talking about.
revolution is not for those who fight it but those who come after kweme nkrumas quote
Great history about Liberria en America
was just me that heard east coast of Africa or something?
That's great
Africa been sad ever I don't know when this going to change 😪
Some nations are actually moving forward now in Africa. From what I have read about Liberia is that they are moving slowly forward too. I have no idea if it is caused by the investments of China but Africa deserves a chance to become a great continent.
16 seconds in. A nation on the east coast of Africa? This was aired on tv?
A Benedict Tolbert went skydiving and forgot his parachute.
Good documentary.
Satire.. almost like the narrator knew that chaos was coming.
this archive is very important, you have to know the past to understand the present. there we see the beginning of the whole problem of Liberia. the president and his son believe themselves head of state of a sugar cane plantation
My friends from Liberia were born in the mid to early 80s. The Liberia they remember from the late 80’s & 90’s is very different from the Liberia I see on this documentary.
The news caster didn't even know what coast of Africa Liberia is on. Sad!
Destination Africa 2021: Ghana and Senegal, Welcome Blaxiteers!
Rest President Tolbert💓❤️ Greatest Liberian President after Tubman🇱🇷💓
AB Tolbert sounds like a Fool...
@@arvinpareftsid2039 Really?
He was marked for death as soon as he mentioned Uniting the whole of Africa The Colonizers don't wanna hear or see a United Africa
@@blazingbomba6137 nope he was drunk with power
Just to clarify: Liberia IS on the west coast of Africa. So many wrong comments.
West coast not east coast
Liberia is not a nation on East Coast of Africa.. Liberia is a nation located in West Part of Africa.. So I have no trust on this histories event u mentioned about Liberia...
It's so strange seeing the old American cars in Africa.
refter aftervolution is not for those who fight for it but for those who come after
The first lie from your mouth... 'Liberia a land on the east coast of Africa ☹️☹️shame.. Liberia is situated on the west coast of Africa..
"Liberia is stable"...little did he know what was coming down the pike...OR maybe they DID know and that was the reason for airing the story 🤔
Yes some Tolberts is still alive some live in the States
This was right before the coup
Wow!!!
The fix was in!
How in the world America discovered Liberia? I guess I forgot America discovered America
Right they didn't discovered shit they only founders of its government native people were already living in Liberia its their country they had a different name for Liberia
Good
True history
Dat where my dad use to work at
AB Tolbert was on some shit.
East coast???? Are you correct
Where are all these people today
Did he say “ Liberia is on the West coast of Africa”?
" East Coast of Africa"???
An intelligent man he said East Africa come on people it was just a slip of tongue
Liberia is not on the east coast of Africa rather the west coast.
Education without common sense!!!!
Okay Tolbert had ambition but it didn’t sound like good ambition. So it wasn’t about democracy but about dictatorship.
And he got served by the people of PRC(master sergeant Samuel kanyon Doe and his bunch of guys)
prince Johnson got away with that too
@@brandonjablasone7544 yes the Nimba prince(as i personally call him) did a great and fantastic job!And now Liberia is enjoying real democracy. And i think that i can make up my mind that it is definitely over with dictatorship rule in that part of Africa; i want to believe it my God!
Arrogant, egotistical
Hi Billy my friend from Liberia... Where are you??? If you get my comment please contact me
Maybe full name would help
Who placed Liberia on the east coast?
The all mighty idiot criminal journalist did
AB had strange ideas?
West Coast, not East Coast.
I know right? He even went there in person and nobody corrected him before this aired?
Ten seconds into the video... is not EAST but WEST AFRICA. But really interesting information.
The fact that people are more concerned with the incorrect location rather than with the disgusting apartheid and subjugation of the Natives by the black colonizers
The greed and power started many many years ago in Liberia.
04:55 min
She has the motherland spirit
Cheers
Liberia is on the "East" coast of Africa huh?
That's really interesting. The Liberia I know is on the West coast of Africa. Must be a different Liberia......
Interesting 🤔🧐🤣
How black men can use black people in Africa
who’s here from the house of sugar beach
Damn, the Tolberts et al have no idea what's ahead of them.
Did the reporter say Liberia is located on the east coast of Africa?!?!?
Wow
The laughing at 14.40 couldn't be more insulting