AFRICAN AMERICANS REACTS "A Letter From an African to the African American" | The Demouchets REACT
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- AFRICAN AMERICANS REACTS "A Letter From an African to the African American" | The Demouchets REACT
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Please don't forget us Caribbean and Afro Latinos. We all one family 💪🏾
Never forgotten. ❤
We love you guys too
I'm a AFRICAN AMERICAN Woman..".I WILL"find my way back home..I don't belong here in the US..I felt it for a long time!!..IM FULL!!!😪🙏🏾
I cried through the whole letter 😭😭girl said what most of us Africans been thinking... "you don't have to stay but just come and connect to your roots".... We love you yall❤️❤️🇲🇼
Whoo chile, I had to bite back my tears throughout.
Many of us plan to come and stay.
Its beautiful
That's even better 😁
I’m in tears when she said “ you’re one of us”, here I come 2023 my passport will have a African stamp in it.
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So I lived in Japan at some point, as an African, and I had this one African American friend who is a very talented photographer and he was obsessed with the country. One day I asked him if he ever thought of visiting Africa (I was jelous of his obsession with Japan) and he said no. In a way I felt bad because I kept thinking, he's so obsessed with a county that couldn't care less about him (more or less) whereas I felt like he should be more interested in connecting with the motherland. I didn't understand why he wasn't, why he dismissed us like that. Looking back now I see that I was just jelous of him because as an African, we want to claim back our brothers and sisters. We want you here. We want you to be interested in us and our home. We want you to come visit. There is a yourning to have you back and I guess it's mutual because this letter expressed it so well.
Please visit, you don't have to stay.
Thank u for sharing. I understand
How do you spread out the red carpet and make us welcome? The crime of Genocide for 5 hundred years is a difficult trauma to overcome. Actions speak louder than words. RastafarI one love and one heart.
I know that is sad. But I would say he is not conscious of who he is yet!! Don't give up on him.. Keep him in your prayers🙏🙏
@@barringtonbrown7152 That's a strange question coming from a person using the name "Ras Tafari" in their comment, considering that Haile Selassie himself allocated land in his kingdom (Sashamane Land) SPECIFICALLY for the children of the diaspora who were affected by the trade to repatriate. And you ask, "How do you spread out the red carpet and make us welcome?" 🤨
@@jj51424 yeah the king is an exception for Ethiopia and the rest of Africa. We need a deeper understanding, interaction and integration continentaly.
As an African, I cried as I listened to this letter. It broke me.
Let me say this loud and clear, I love you, we love you, you are ours as we are yours... we are one.
😢🖤🤎🧡💛💚🫶🏽
Reading your words. ❤️❤️❤️✊🏽💪🏽✊🏽💪🏽❤️❤️ I ❤️you!
♥️♥️♥️
I love you all too
As a Nigerian, I have seen a lot of hate from African Americans towards Africans, and from Africans towards African Americans. A lot of times, I have been forced to pick a side; I obviously chose the side of Africans. I am so grateful I found your channel. Our differences should bring us together; not tear us upart.
🤎🤎 This is our purpose! Thank you for sharing this with us. #commentoftheday
Sounds like the colonizers of both sides were successful.
African Americans feel we left them out. This story summarizes what we wanna say as Africans to our diaspora family. We never did. We love you.
I can't stop crying. Africa will always be open to all her children where ever they are on this earth.
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“”In 2018, Africa experienced an increase in civil wars from 18 in 2017 to 21: this is the highest number of civil conflicts since 1946 - with 21 also recorded in 2015 and 2016. Further, there has been an increase in countries with conflict on their territory.””
I agree… growing up here in TX I used to think oh my Africa is not where I want to go… but as I grow older, my spirit yearns to touch, smell, hear, and see Africa. I am planning a trip in a year or two… my son has been to S. Africa and he is ready to go see more. I have 2 grandchildren and I pray before I close my eyes that we all can see Africa together.
The letter is straight from my heart too. I am from the Ìjẹ̀bú Kingdom in Nigeria.
I want to say to every one who looks like me scattered in every part of the world, who feels sold, rejected and betrayed by the African continent:
I AM SORRY...SO SO SORRY...😢😢😢
We will all be delivered and we will possess our possession. GOD will turn back the captivity of the Black race and we will be like them that dream...Except this time, we will be living our good dreams of total freedom...
And...you are welcome to stay or visit...
ÀLÀÁFÍÀ 💐😌🤎(Peace).
You don’t have to have any specific country. Everywhere in Africa where you put your feet is your home. The thing is that Africa was not divided like it is today. So just go. Thank you
Thanks for the love!
that's because they don't read and communicate, if you watch white press u will stay loss.
So true... South African 🇿🇦 here, I've travelled the world, but came home to live and raise my children. This is and always will be home. I'm an Africa's child and always will be 🥰 🌍 ❣️
@@Vitamin_D happy to hear that but we mean our long lost sisters & brothers of the continent. I hope you understand as we are trying to bridge the gap between our people across the diaspora. You are a colonizers descendants and as a native South African I feel like don’t take this time away from our children of the soil. They’ve faced the same hardships we’ve faced on South African soil and are still told to return back to Africa. You went to live outside because whiteness has stolen every indigenous land.
And by good, the only thing that came to mind was when watching this clip, the couple is in Louisiana, and woooowwwww the food is good. I went to the Jazz fest in 1996, and I've never tasted food like that jambalaya and the crawfish.. mmmmm mmmmmmmm.... with that spice...
Y'all know how to cook!! ❣️🥰
And I know that's pathetic that food is the only good thing I can think of, but everyone has moved and changed. Yes, through slavery, which is disgusting, and the rednecks and white peeps in America and a lot here I SA are disgusting and racist, but, there are some good, and we need to help eachother and love eachother because we all on this rock together. ❣️🥰✨️
I'm Ugandan and I must say that the letter speaks exactly how most of us feel. Don't buy into the lies you've been told about us hating you our brothers and sisters. Some may have disconnecting feelings based on the same lies they've been fed but believe when you tell you, you're loved. So come home. You don't have to stay just visit and rest.
As an African American, I want to thank you for this comment. Just today in my heart I was thinking about returning to the motherland but I sadly prayed in my heart that I didn't think I could have the courage for fear of rejection. I too was told that we are hated by Africans. I knew it didn't mean we were hated by every single person on the continent but it still planted a small seed of discouragement in me. Then I stumbled across this video. The video was emotional and healing for me but your comment along with the comments of others were an answer to my prayers! May the one true living God bless you and your family exponentially!
Am from Nigeria and I love my African American brother and sister, am so sorry for what's u guys have been through over the year and still going now I wish I can give you guys a hug right now 😭
Back at cha, ❤️ 🫵🏾 from an African American. ☺️
this Open Letter goes even deeper, it is like Mama Africa calling back her babies born outside her home and telling them I am here waiting for you to come home, my other children have been waiting for you too.
🥲🥰
This is exactly what this letter about. I cried and fully felt this letter, coming from an African from the Caribbean
I'm tearing up, and it's not easy for me to do that. I own this letter; it is mine personally, I own it.
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We love our brothers and sisters in the Divided States, the Caribbean, South America, Europe. Please visit the motherland. Every morning you will wake up as a human being among human beings, not a black person to be mistreated and persecuted. Much love from Kenya.
Much love!
I have visited Kenya once and the people are very friendly and welcoming. I can't wait to visit again.
I'm an African woman getting married to an African American man who has also relocated to my country. This has moved us both so deeply because despite the odds, we found each other. We reconnected. The motherland brought us together. ❤️ It was just a matter of time because we are one people.
❤❤ May your marriage be blessed with success and longevity!
I’m Ethiopian American, this was so deep. I believe when she said “mama” she was speaking of Mama Africa saddened for her children but also very proud because they overcame so much. Love to all my brothers and sisters all over the world ❤️
I just came across your content and I love it.
👍👍👍👍🙏
This I love it 🥰
I'm an African born and grew up in Jamaica and I must say that this letter brought tears to my eyes as a 54 years old man I've never had such deep thoughts on the events that took place over the centuries yes I'm aware of slavery and the atrocities but this one really got me thinking !!!!!!
I saw this letter before yes I cried. I cried for years because I know I belong back home in Africa because our ancestors were torn from our home. My plan is to go back home and stay . Thank you resurfacing the letter so that we are reminded of who we truly are. Time to go home, to Mother Africa. I did do my DNA, and yes I am proud to be African. Nigerian descent.
Hi, I’m a Nigerian currently living in Nigeria and I want to let you know that you’re welcome! We love you guys and we’re happy that you’re coming back home and you plan to stay 🤍🤍
As a Puerto Rican with African roots, I really respect your commentary on such a difficult topic. Much love and peace❤
Whoo! This one put us through so many emotions.
The invitation applies to you too..
I fell like the writer of this letter is speaking on my behalf. As an African from Ghana 🇬🇭 I was shocked to see so many Black people in America. Before coming to the USA I thought there were maybe 10,000 African American live in America and that everybody was happy and partying.
In most countries in sub-saharan African
countries, the education " the mis-education " was plan and implemented by the colonizers who came to rob Africa at gun point.
When I stared school in Ghana, our history book begins with " the Europeans came to trade with Africa, and to spread Christianity because Africa was Barbaric and uncivilized". I always questioned that miseducation from the age of 9 because I saw a lot of complex herbal
Medicine and treatment, gold artifact and you name it. Yet none of those were importanted from Europe, neither were they made by Europeans yet our school system have adopted the European miseducation that Africa was barbaric and uncivilized and thats why the Europeans came to civilize the Africans.
And this is sadly being thought to most Africans up to date because the Europeans are the one who finance most
of the public schools in sub -Sahara Africa.
I lost my religion in the process of seeking out the truth for myself from the
the age of 9 when I was thought that nonsense of "Europeans came to civilize Africa and spread Christianity.
Then comming to America, I have also realized that miseducation work about Africa has been done here as well.
As as black people (melanated people) a lot of work has been done to program our minds wrongly. We have dialogue and try to understand each others experience across the globe so that we can Uninstaller the bad program that has been downloaded on our mind so that we can move forward in understanding and overstanding and uplift each other.
🤯 wooooowwwww! We did not know the miseducation was also in your history books. This is so sad. So basically, the real history had to depend on oral history.😭 History is so uncomfortable and unfair.
That was soooo deep. As an African American it made me cry. Thank you for presenting it. ❤️🫵🏾👍🏾 You’ve gained a new subscriber.
Welcome to the family! You should have seen our faces off camera!
Love ❤️ from Ghana 🇬🇭. Am crying 😢 this is how we really feel....This letter really expresses how we feel .
We never knew.❤
Thank you for saying this. As someone who grew up in Ghana I always wanted to come here and bond with AA. Cus back home we love them. Sadly i don’t feel the love here, I feel attack 😭😭😭it hurtsssss. Let’s forgive each other and help each other.
I'm an African lived-in America for a decade but it got me into tears...why my black sisters and brothers in USA we love you and need you back home.
I'm in tears. I cried because I feel this in my soul. I feel we all need to go back home. I will one day.
Holding tears all the way from south Africa 💔💔🇿🇦🇿🇦.
I have viewed your channel and seen the admiration you have for your motherland, Africa. Your channel is already a bridging gap as we (African and African-American)all watch your channel. Deep love from a kenyan 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
Thank you so much! 🤎🤎
Thank you for bringing this letter to your channel. As African from Ghana 🇬🇭, this is how we truly feel. After being in the US for about six months, I realized the system has pinned us against each other. Most Africa's have been made to believe our sister and brothers here (Africa Americans) are no good and lazy and our sister's and brothers (Africa Americans) have told lies about Africans selling them off,and also we didn't love them. It's very sad and frustrating that we can't even communicate to bridge the gap. I love your channel because you guys are bringing attention to us being the same. Thank you.
I agree whose writing these history books that we sold our people...... It doesn't make sense....
They said the chiefs sold their people ,it was all lies ,they came with guns to take over our rich land we had to fight with our last blood to regain our land, they were educated so they wrote it lies to take the blame from them , moreover the chiefs were not educated so they don't know what was written about them, selling their people.
❤❤ Thank you for the love.
Africans did indeed sell other Africans into slavery that ended up in this side of the world.
Personally, I've made amends with that. No1 alive today is responsible for that.
@@judythnekesa3114 Well, some Africans did sell other Africans into slavery. However, that does not mean that all, or even most Africans did this. It also does not absolve white people of the brutal behavior toward the Africans that they enslaved (though I’m sure they would like to brainwash us all into believing that).
This is so emotional, I think AAs think Africans did not suffer the effects of slavery, the fact is Africans lost their family members too never to be seen, those left behind were left distraught not knowing they will ever see their families again, sometimes you see a diasporan that looks so much like a family member that's when the enormity of the pain suffered hits you. We are family.
Wow! As an African American woman, this letter said it all for both sides. I embrace my East and West African roots, how can I not? My grandmothers survived unspeakable trauma and because of them I thrive. Many Africans and African Americans still struggle with embracing eachother respectfully. However, I have made my peace and embrace others who are willing to find theirs. Keep the conversations going!
I truly understand both sides of this letter, I am a South African and I feel that one of the reasons some African people may feel that African Americans don't deserve the name is caused by the media and how some African American comedian always talk about the continent like it's some backward land.. most Americans need to research about the continent, like its crazy to see an American with a full Bantu nose not knowing even 5 African countries...
We need to bridge this gap
As an African American 52year old talented individual, I love you Mamma Africa. America never told us about your beauty, never showed us about your talents, about your intelligence, your culture beyond the Bushmen. Having an Aunt that once married a Nigerian and gave birth to a cousin the same year as me ignorant to how our Biological Momma Africa felt until recently and this beautiful heart felt letter, I'm home sick. With the knowledge of the truth as to who we really are, my fellow brothers and sisters here have rarely if ever heard this narrative. Moreover, I've only witness Africans (male) mostly seem to have an attitude of supperior to their American counter parts. Maybe it is a biological brother and Mother reconnecting to the orphan brother and sister given away so that they could live. What I really want to say is that I long to come home. As an Electrical Engineer recruited by the United States Air Force and later the United States Navy, I've grown up still facing many chains seen but unseen in my life. Currently chained daily since 12/27/2016, 6 years being stalked and shot with weapons of mass destruction called Direct Energy Weapons. Testing not only weapons, but deadly germs, bacteria, virus and more on its citizens. These weapons hit my eardrums while walking around in North Hollywood recycling in 2016. The pain in my ears was very strong and feels like an invisible beam you can not see. Thanks be to my parents who were ministers as well as teacher and carpenter gave me the confidence to believe in our Heavenly Father and Son. Who can you talk to about something we can't see? No one has listen because those in charge are participating under the noses of co-workers. Within the first 48 hours, using the wisdom passed in our /DNA from my Momma Africa I was able to determine these invisible waves can be reflected through the use of mirrors or foil. Since that time other information such as the spraying of chemicals in our atmosphere and I'm sure your called chemtrails are the reason for these viruses and more. With a combination of circular foil bags separated by cups can return fire. Now I'm aware of even the outdoor lighting and communication towers 5G, 6G... can be used as weapons. While we argue 5G they are implanting 6G technology in our communities and killing our best talent. I'm the test rat that does not die. They call us gorilla and they are the ones with 96 of 98 chromosomes of the chimpanzee. Our chusains are suggested through subconscience inputs. Those that are not fooled are silenced. My hope is to come home to my momma Africa and help my family there become powerful by first sending those who are not native out momma Africa's gold, diamond, mercury and other resources. Get them out your grounds your lands. You can get your things together but we have noticed how America and all other advanced countries purposely never helped you while they helped those they have fought picking and then even choosing. We know America has not helped you, but look at our Daddy our Father who is putting this thing together. He said, "He will give us a new heart and a new mind to love Him." I can see it happening as we discover who our real Mom and Dad are. Momma Africa and Father Almghty. It feels amazing even in my struggle to know and see the love sent from Africans to African Americans. This needs to be the new narrative. Not about staying under control of our fake step parent America or dAmerica continue to abuse. We of my generation were whipped in the school system and corrected until Step Dad America stopped that and my younger generation grew wild as their kids. Together we are unstoppable. We have the knowledge and ideas to fix what is broken with our technology and experience in every part of successful nation building. Momma Africa we built this America, we picked the cotton, be built the roads, we even fought to keep ourselves in slavery with our Master America in the dirty south. We are neglected and separated, but thank you for the kind words which I'm sure my fellow brother here would love to know they could come home. Momma my photo is a picture that was in the clouds when I took a selfie a few years ago, I know who it is, and He is Coming to fix things as He promised and they know it, they know we are Gods chosen people. He is coming back to give every man is own grapevine and olive tree. Love Alpheus Allen Mother Africa United as One Nation. United States of Africa. I want the world to know we are working together. We are able to help or advise our brothers just as America allows certain J3ws to build weapons in America and then go to another country Israel and advise therm. Try Los Angeles Times front page January 10-12th 2017. Facts. Build together, build from ground up or implement suggestions to the African council. Love You....
I was not born in Africa but Africa was born in me! The desire to go back to the land where my ancestors came from is so strong and deep. How can there be such a strong desire to go to a land that you have never been? This is so strange to me. When I went to South Africa I felt so at peace. Even though the airplane was full of all munzungus I felt some type of way. I guess because of going where more of my people should have been going. Instead I was seeing the colonizers as always showing their privilege to go where ever they want and mistreat the black race. Oddly they are welcomed and given the abilities live in Africa, purchase land, even modern-day colonize the original people on the motherland. Many of us want to go home but we are not given the same opportunity to come to Africa and live. In South Africa the whites are welcomed there and they are living comfortably where they offer there services for a healthy profit to help African Americans get a visa for a longer stay. Something is wrong with this picture. Things has got to change and our people on the motherland has got to flip the strip if they truly want us to return home. We who built the USA can do so much for our ancestors land if given the chance. I love this letter and I know we have family who feel this way truly but the leaders of the countries has got to feel this way also in order for a change to come and for us to return home. I know a change is going to come, but change has got to come with our people first!
Just visit first. Come on.
Just have dual citizenship. Come and buy land. Come come
@@eddyrandu3127 what country in Africa are you in?
@@masonamaitiswritten5305 Kenya, east Africa
If you look at the representatives of the current system and refer to them as leaders, that's ok. The way I see it politicians and government officials are all the same because they all exist as part of the system. They are the same where you are as they are where we are. If there's anything we have learnt from you, it is that they do not speak for us.
We don't assume that the reason for you to come is to be seen or acknowledged by the system, the government and those that you refer to as the leaders of the country.
We are hoping that you want to come to the land and connect with the soil. That you heal from the embrace of the mother herself. This time, you can journey on your own terms. And your healing will create that bridge between where you are and where you came from. And you will reveal and celebrate every achievement of yours, knowing that you now have access to everything you built with pain, sorrow, tears, and blood. And it would be a celebration, a union of the lost and those who lost them. Closure, new beginnings, new horizons.
Imagine what we could be together.. with all the experience, beauty, size, resources and spirit.
@@eddyrandu3127 Kenya and Angola is on my bucket list! South Africa was too modernized and my next journey is where I can see our people advancing on their own without the help of the colonizers. I want to be a part of the growth and advancement.
Wow this hits deep. Especially after watching Will Smith movie Emancipation just the other day. As a South Sudanese, I always find myself very invested emotionally on what is happening to African American. I’ve always thought it was just the skin colour, but this letter put things into perspective, it’s much more deeper than that.
The Will Smith movie is based on a story set in our home state 😭. It's much deeper.❤
Beautiful, thank you. I went to Tanzania and the first thing everyone said was welcome home. My sister and I wept. This letter is so beautiful.
As a African American I love you all ..this letter hit hard . However I have recently been looking into what part of Africa I should visit first. Of course I'm looking into my ancestry. Studying my roots and where they may lead me . I cried because we all don't feel the same about Africa. At least the brothers I know .. We have looked up and down for a good place to raise our children without racism and the Hate it brings. I have been blessed to be in a position to change any negative narrative that's been placed upon us . I want to meet the rest of my family. It's funny because in America to be and Africa America is only important when the numbers are staked against us or someone done wrong. But when you look at it as a whole All Africans living anywhere in the whole world. When they think of themselves as being a Family member of Africa. It hit A LOT HARDER.. this letter is powerful as it speaks to us as a family member instantly.. Gave me the chills..🎯💯🌍❤️💯✌️
Just hv to empathise this part…”come back home,you don’t have to stay but just come and connect to your roots”❤️❤️
Right after that, she said "I know all your emotions will come running back to you."
And right there and them, I think I felt what many in the comments are describing. It's almost like her words saw right through me. Lol.
I am so emotional right now 😭Everything she said needed to be said... However what stuck with me is the 'come back home,even if you don't stay'. Come back home African Americans,come back and connect with your roots. We love you African American all the way from🇿🇦
I am Kenyan and she spoke on our behalf (Us African).We should be proud of our roots. Let the division only come when we are on the field tracks tying to honor our flags. But after that we hug and embrace because we are one.
Much love from RSA 🇿🇦. Thank you guy's 🙏
Much love!
As kenyan🇰🇪 living in USA 🇺🇸 I've always felt your pain and the disconnect but she's is right just visit and I can truly say it will all come rushing in the freedom the sense of belonging we always have much love and respect for you all.
❤❤ Much love!
🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬Mama Africa 🌍 calling, love from Naija
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Literal tears ... I felt all of that felt something i never knew i needed to hear or understand .. We miss our sense of belonging here and feel so thrown away ... Taken ... Mistreated as a people that we dont know what we are missing and are feel so sad just as a people ... Wow thx
I thought i was the only who has that affection and inexplicable love for our brothers and sisters in the diaspora, Am in tears and i cannot explain how much i love you guys...remember, You all were Africans before you became who you are now.!!!
I am hardly moved but this letter has power behind it and must say, It spoke in words what and how Africa feels. Just to flesh out more details, as an African, I think slavery was an inflicted and self inflicted sin, that Africa has to atone for and exorcise. This letter speaks to that need. Also, the branches of the African family has done a lot to protect Africa than many Africans realise. African Americans, Caribbean, African Brazilians, etc have all sacrificed and even unconsciously protected the mother land just by being where they are. This may come across as insensitive or devaluing the pain of the African diaspora but far from it. I am saying the branches, as an African, do not only deserves a welcome home, they have been heros, a shield that has helped protect Africa.
Has anyone ever wondered why the US, UK, France and all, never actually invaded African countries directly for over 70 years now? That is because of the consequences that would flow from the African greater diaspora. In the US alone, today African Americans are 50 million and make up a sizable chunk of the military. In Brazil the same. The US African Americans are critical to this analogy because of proximity to power. Not just power, the super power of the world. There is evidence emerging for this and an African American has confirmed this to me.
There is the mobilisation in the US when Ethiopia was about to the invaded decades ago by a European nation. All this points to signs that the African family branches never forgot and acted to protect their motherland, which also stands as the motherland of all humanity.
So the branches of the African family have always, even unconsciously most of the time, protected the continent. For this Africa owes them more than an apology but recognition and actions to repair what was broken that lead to the savagery of slavery, so that never again shall an Africa commit such grave sin against itself by selling the greatest creation ( a human being) we know of in the universe for trinkets.
I am glad to see the first stages of this process has begun.
We don't even have to add to your comment.🎯
Uncle 2naija!!! 🤝🏾🖤
Ugandan living in America we love you brothers. Sisters, aunties, uncles, fathers and mothers 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
Thank you for the love!❤
Africa is literature displayed. Africa is art. Africa is cultured. This African youthful generations will do wonders.
My father was Haitian. This letter hits twice. He left Haiti to come to America for a better life(1980) he died in 2006. Thank you for posting this video.
Holy shiiit, this letter has been coming for a long time. There are those that thought of us like this continuously that are in silence. Im a grown man and before the letter even started to being read, I felt what was about to reveal. Our motherland is weeping for her creations that was stolen and put in shame. Bless you for this assurance that we are still one people.
This video just got me all emotional now. The line about this not being an opression olympics and the line "you need to find your roots to stand firm in the soil and I need to find my branches to flourish" is too deep. Y'all just got a new subscriber. Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬 ❤️
Thank you for what you do on your channel. This was so deep for me. As an African who has lived in America and Europe, and now repatriated back to Africa. I have felt a fraction of your pain 💔 and i wish i can just hug you guys right now. I am home in the Motherland now and i look forward to welcoming you home anytime soon as your long lost BROTHER. ❤️ always.🇳🇬🇳🇬
Thank you, brother. We're coming soon.❤
Can we have a Live on this letter and the author invited, cause wow I cannot express myself right now. This is deep 😮
This was very deep and unexpected! We had to hold it together. I was looking for you in our last live! We're going live this Saturday at 12AM CST.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT I think I was at work I’ll definitely tune in this Saturday .
I am Namibian, Southern Africa, and currently, in the US, I have heard stories and I wish you all never left Africa, we don't hate you, we love and want you all to come back or visit and make your own perception about Africa then what you have been told all along. Now that I have lived and experience America, my next goal is to visit the Caribbean and meet with my other cousins. From my deepest core, I believe that we are all cousins. Much love.
I was avoiding watching this video, because I had a feeling it was going to make me cry. And I watched it tonight finally. And the flood gates open, I felt every word… 😢😭
I’m Jamaican living in the US and I planning on moving to Africa somewhere. We coming home family. ❤we will be a family again..
Soo much love for you guys that side from Africa and South Africa, Thanks for listening to the Letter i know its deep but i felt it needed to be heard that you are not alone, we are here for you guys this side waiting for you guys and to welcome you back home where you belong.
You are most welcome! Much love!
No words can say how I feel. Very, very powerful.Reminds me of my visit to Cape coast in Ghana.
Right from 🇦🇴🇨🇩🇨🇬 the Great KONGO
We love you all. I've just discovered your channel.
Indeed there are many narratives that are been said to separate both sides (you in US and us in Africa), yet remember we need more information and education to overcome this system of thinking. Anyway I am glad the time has come for the prophecy to be realized because we always knew you were coming home and soon we'll be together so we'll arrange this world with the accompaniment of the Most High 🙏🏿😇
Americans must stop calling Africans “African Booty Scratchers”. And West Africans must stop calling Americans Akata(Cotton Pickers). Yes we will never be one again, but we should never be against each other. We should do productive things together for the sake of the future generations. This channel is great for dialogue, we need more.
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Wow I'm chopping onions foreal 🥺🥺😭😭
Much love you guys 🇿🇦🇿🇦
🥺😢 it hurts and these words warm my heart and give me strength. We must find our way back, we will be unstoppable. I love you Africa
Wow. I am feeling a lot of emotions. That letter was beautiful and heart wrenching. It is both hard to hear and exactly what I wanted to hear. I never knew Africans loved us. Not in this way. I’m usually very articulate but I cannot produce the words. I loved this and I hope one day we can have real conversations, real relationships, real familial bonds. Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
This GHANAIAN POET spoke from embeded words of yesterday,God bless AFRICA
This should be viral! I feel this in my spirit. Black world without end. Amen. ✊🏿🙏🏾✊🏿
Oh! This made me cry. When I look at y'all I see people who look like me, move like me, dance like me.
It's funny bcos though I can't relate to what you went through, I feel like I bleed when you bleed.
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South Africans living in America we love you our brothers and sisters.
She wasn't talking about a child.
I understood it differently.
It's the current day African writing to African/black Americans. Explaining how Mama Africa(Africa) feels and cry for her children who have been through a lot in the America. How the other countries, the Europeans have treated and still treating Africa.
It's methaphoric😊
I was feeling exactly what the brotha said, "I feel a hug waiting for me". Perfectly put. Visiting for the first time in April. Can't wait !
I see how Yahuah is bridging the gap between African Americans to our ancestors on the continent and it is the most wonderful thing. The video was very powerful and it touched my heart in a great way. Thanks for sharing it ❤️🙏🏾
You are blessed, I cried when my grandma talked about her elder sister you was taken when she went to fetch water from the River and found the village aboushed.. it's a sad story I ever heard...
Omg! We would love to hear this story.
Although slavery was abandoned long long ago, it still continued long after.
Such stories are common among our great great grand parents of you ever met them.
There is a story I heard about a popular town in Ghana's middle belt. When the slave raiders go. To the town, the first civilized place, they heard that slavery had been banned 30 years prior. The raiders left the slaves there and vanished
This also happened in the U.S.
This hurt me because I feel so disconnected from my roots...like idk who I am. I can't wait to visit Africa ..it's going to be the first international visit.
This is all I needed to hear. I'm AA, I lived in the mother land, Niamey Niger for three years. I've been to Morocco, Senegal, Togo, Algeria, and Mauritius. I love Mama Africa. I want to buy a house there, likely Niger because that's my second home. Being in Africa frees my mind, it's nothing like Africa NOTHING................
I cried , i felt the connectedness of her words , as a Caribbean African I Needed to Hear ,See and Feel this. Mother I'm Coming Home.
We ALL cried with this letter. WE accept the Love given in this Letter. Do NOT accept the others Hatred work thru IT!
I have wanted for so long to know, why we were sold away from our home land. Takes my breath away, knowing that we're missed. Thank you for the love. Right back at you.
This, this, this here.... wow!!!! So powerful! I dare the majority of people to not cry listening to this letter!!! It's just weird because as African American who was born in the Caribbean Islands, I never consider myself to be anything but African since I came out of childhood.! My heart yearns for my native brothers and sisters and my heart yearns for Mama Africa!!! Thank you SO SO SO much for posting this video! You got yourselves a new subscriber. I'm all about supporting one an other in anyway I can.
We felt the love through this comment! Much love! Welcome to the family!
We love you 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 Mama Africa calling!!!!
Thanks for the love! She is and we're coming!
I'm African and living in the west. That was deep. I cried
Today I felt extremely emotional - then I stumbled upon your channel and video. What can I say... this entire letter resonated very deeply with me. I’m South African and I grew up during the Apartheid regime.
Wu! This video was emotional but oh so necessary and priceless. I believe that it aligns our hearts as Africans and African Americans. It has the spirit of Ubuntu ("I am what I am because of who we all are"). Thanks for this healing reaction video. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The hardest video ever.🥲
Hey Miss G, it's Zet. I haven't seen you in ages big sis! How have you been? 😊
@@Zet85ec Yuu! What a pleasant surprise 😊I am good man. How are you?
@@erit.africa I'm good too sis. What are the odds of coming across your comment. ❤️
Yho this letter was so deep. We are bridging the gap and it's not oppression olympics. We want you to come feel how it's like to be at home, if you choose to stay we will be overjoyed but if you don't want to stay we will respect it. It's painful when some people say they were never part of us and some accuse us of being interested only in your dollars. As a South African who has lived under apartheid and know how "the other people" according to the letter operate we have to remember that as a people we didn't have the luxury to write that part of our history and until a lion can write its story we will always know the story from the hunter's point of view. We can heal together.
Yeah. It got me in tears too! I also, didn't want it to end. I yearn, my heart yearns for Africa. Someday... someday soon. AFRICA
Just a simple "I am sorry" can heal any wounds and bridge any gap, in family ects!
This letter is so beyond the scope of emotions. It is as if all the emotions of our Ancestors during the hijacking of our people is crying out from deep within our souls. The emotions in me while listening to the letter came from such a deep place within, that I was not aware that such longing pain existed inside of myself. To hear such deep longing gave me sweet sorrow.
We need to be home.
I couldn't hold back my tears. This is deep
Some times it's so hard being African American in America Fighting Everyday against Raciam For over 400 +years we never Forgot our Motherland and God gives us Strength, To Fight on and must come together Shalom.
This was a deep letter- except the ones who took us......are to this day........NOT OUR FAMILY......and they have never let us forget it.
Can't stop crying 😭
Much love from Nigeria 🇳🇬
I can’t believe… no yes I can! You guys were right this is definitely it! I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing while taking this in😢wow! I’m not even finished listening yet… this!!!!
Now this is deep 🥺🥺🥺🥺i wish it reaches more and more of our people
We hope so🙏🏾
No I didn't just tear up after hearing this love letter. I thought I was tough. I'm going home. Thank you for this letter of healing. 😪🤗
Am in tears 😭😭😭 through out,love 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇬🇭🇬🇭.
Much love!
First of all let me say this is my first time watching your channel and I want to Thank You guys for bringing this letter. It touched me in such away I started crying uncontrollably. It was like this letter touch a pain and yarning I didn't know I had. It was so welcoming. They are always showing division in our people "African American vs. African. There is no division we are all the same "God's chosen People" I hear people say "I'm not African" "I have never been to African". Of course not!! It was designed that way!! It was designed for you to lose who you really are!! Just because you never been to Africa doesn't mean you don't have the African roots!! We have had 400 years of people telling us "African American or African we are not good enough so much so, we start to believe it!! Well I'm hear to tell you whether you are my African American sister and brother or my sisters and brother on the African continent YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH!! because if you weren't they wouldn't have went through so much trouble hiding our true identity!! "ijs" There is so much more to US!! Stop looking at the differences and start looking at the similarities!! When listening to my sister in this letter I felt her! and her pain!! That is a connection to our people and I have never been to the continent. But my goal is to definitely go. We are family.. So Please stop letting people divide us We are stronger together. Stay Blessed my Beautiful People!! Much Love!! Thank you again it made my day!!
This is deep!! Much love to you guys for bringing up such a powerful topic worth discussing. Love from South Africa 🇿🇦
"A healing journal" Yes it was very deep, it is not about who hurt the most but to accept both were/are hurting and try "bridging the gap"
"Just listen to the letter"
Internet is the best thing that happened to this world the last 100 years. It’s hard nowadays to shape people opinions if they are willing to know.
With internet we can see you, and you can see us and it’s fantastic. It’s only the beginning, but i feel like it’s the beginning of something great for black people all over the world.
You're right about that!
Yes! I’ve been to a few places in Africa (South Africa, Egypt, and spent time briefly in Morocco) but I would love to visit other regions. Unfortunately, I have become disabled, so that makes things very difficult in that regard for me. That is why I really enjoy watching world travelers when they take their cameras and travel there. I get to see a small glimpse of what it’s like to be in those places.
That letter could have been my thoughts put to paper by a distant sibling. The story and impact of slavery, on both sides of the Atlantic, is one human mouth was never designed to tell. There's no way to narrate the depth of our traumas; you feel it until you are numbed in order to survive and carry on. But the scares are ever glaring.
Sometime in the 90's, I went to a neighborhood theater at Little 5 Points, Atlanta GA, to preview the movie, "Sankorfa" and all the memories and sadness came rushing, just as this letter invokes.
We have been lied to, in the effort to keep us separate and powerless. During the discussion following the preview, one African American gentleman said, ". . . but you Africans sold us into slavery?" staring at me in an accusatory manner.
I responded: "imagine you're a woman at her late 40s with 1 boy and 2 girls living in the tropics in Africa some 200 years ago. You scratch the soil with your primitive tools for survival. You know your daughters will soon be married off to start their own families. There are no retirement benefits, no insurance or any provisions for you or anyone to enable you navigate through old age. You have to toil every day to subsist thru life. Your hope of not dying from starvation is bestowed on the boy. He is the one to grow up to protect and provide for you. One day, as a 12 year old, he went into the woods to hunt rabbits. And he never came back; he's been taken by slave raiders."
She cried so hard that her eyes became permanently foggy. She was past menopause and could not conceive again to take a chance at birthing another baby boy. She fell into clinical depression and her 2 girls did their best, but it was impossible to console her. She was depressed and within 2 years, she died. From heart break!"
Fast forward 150 years to now and your great, great, great grand children are accusing their great, great grand cousins of selling them into slavery. Imagine that woman hoovering above us today and overhearing your utterances and feelings of anger! Poor mother! Poor Africa!!
Yes, I don't know what you went thru to get here, but you have no idea how my life turned bcuz you were not there to protect and provide for me. Can't you understand we are both banks of the same river? We both lost what would have been, through no fault of ours: can't you see we are both victims? Why are we comparing who suffered most?
How would we live, if only we both knew the truth? That same enemy keeps lying to us to keep us separate and disempowered. Most people sold into slavery were victims of war and abduction. No one happily sold his kit and kings to slavery. That's not how it happened.
The perpetrators' of this evil are still raping, cannibalizing and selling Africa to this day. The 'merchandize' may not be human but the impact is just the same.
At this point, I broke down crying and left the audition theater. My wife who is African American followed me out and we got into our car and drove home. We did not utter a word on our way home, and we never talked about it, really. We understood the depth of the trauma and that some experiences are better communicated in silence. We are both damaged.
You know...breaking bread together is always a great way to connect. Bring the fufu, ugali, pumpkin greens, jolaf, and your roasted stews and meats, and we will bring our fried fish with grits, ital soup, squash & zucchini, sweet potatoes, cornbread, apple smoked meats, and especially our beans and yellow rice. Ginger beer, Malta, and Muscadine wine will go with everything... It's a small start, but it would be a sweet beginning. We just need to agree to start on time🤣.