Very insightful and informative. Thank you from a Greek African American. I used to live in Greece and visit every summer. The vast majority of people are very welcoming hospitable and open minded. But as anywhere there are racist and judgmental individuals. Luckily there are far more just and peaceful people compared to the ignorant few who espouse hate. Thanks again! ✊🏽
Fantastic, I'm so glad you liked it! Thank you for watching and for your feedback. From a research perspective this was one of the most fascinating videos I've worked on in this series and I learnt so much about the Afro-Greek community in the process! And yes, thankfully those who espouse hate are still in the minority. Thanks again for watching!
This makes me happy as a black american who always loved Greece, the people and their culture. To know many of them think highly of continental Africans themselves warms my heart. I am aware that there are racists in Greece, racism is global. But compared to America, Greece isn't that racist. I look forward to learning more so I can eventually see about moving there. Done with America.
This is so true!! During those days there are people who try to convince me that Greeks are the same as European colonisers and I know this is not true because we’ve been the same hell!
Greeks more common culture with Nigeria than with Europe! + we were slaves under the Ottoman Empire and later many islands under British Empire! If you see a lot of Greeks are darker in skin tones as you go into southern of Greece! Many are brown as well! That’s why Europeans doesn’t like us! We are the only country in the world we have about slavery in our national anthem! The ppl who are racist are even against their own! They tried to hard to be accepted from Europeans. Do you know during Minors Asia catastrophe British, Italian and French ship didn’t accept to save Greeks and Armenians and left them die with the excuse “not white enough”? Yes as Greeks especially during summer became brown even by walking or driving! Some of them are brown anyways! So my question is: are we white Europeans? They said yes but if so then the population who is brown what are they? How can be excluded from their culture?
I'd like to make a correction to your video re: during the population exchange; virtually all of the Muslim population of Greece that were exchanged for the native Orthodox Christian population of Asia Minor were ethnic Greeks who had never stepped foot in Anatolia before and didn't speak a word of Turkish. So to say that "many were African" is simply not true; most were from the regions of Macedonia, Epirus and the island of Crete. A sizable portion (90,000) of the Muslims in Greece were permitted to stay per the Lausanne Treaty, primarily in Thrace, of which the community of Avato is a part. Also per the Lausanne Treaty, 200,000 Greek Orthodox Christians were allowed to remain in Istanbul and the islands of Imbos and Tenedos, whose populations were overwhelmingly Greek since antiquity. However, due to continued persecutions and pogroms organized by the Turkish state, this population has dwindled down to less than 2,000 souls. Meanwhile, the Muslim population in Greek Thrace has grown to 150,000+. Perhaps you can cover that in your video about Turkey.
@@RoyalBlood23 whats really funny id my mom was born in crete moved to athens around 1935 never seen a black person in her life till coming to usa in 1960
@@RoyalBlood23 what people my late mother. Durning ww2 there were no black greeks . in vid it takes about 1 village in greece thats in thace part of the muslim area that didnt deport after ww1 for some reason.
You're talking about the village of Avato, Ottoman records show no African slaves in the region, only a small Muslim Greek and Bulgarian population. The only clues we have is that the British brought Sudanese mercenaries in the region during the first world war which makes more sense. The population was offered to find their roots and they immediately refused. Also they don't consider themselves Greek, on the contrary they are loyal to Turkey.
@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 What black Greeks? African Greeks are a small minority, why would the media advertise them? They are just Africans brought to Greece by foreign imperialists. Unlike the USA and the UK, Greece did not colonize Sub Saharan Africans.
Very interesting video. I lived in Greece for two years in the 80s but don’t recall seeing Afro Greeks but I did get extremely dark probably because of my dna and sun exposure.
That's because the influx of foreign immigrants to Greece is a relatively recent development. Until the mid-90's, Greece was always a net exporter of people, which is why there is a large Greek diaspora around the world.
For some people who are going to say that Greeks are originally Black Africans please no, they aren't but mediterranean people and ofc they are some minority
I have met Mavri fram the Avato as I pass through that town to go to Turkia for a day. They very good people and as a Greek I am consider them to be the same as I.
This was so informative! Well done!! 🤗 Just subscribed. I would love to see a video on the origins of the three main tribes in Nigeria. That would be a very interesting watch!! 😊
Hi there 👋🏾Thank you that was a really informative video about the African presence in Greece....the historical background was helpful, this was an eye opener for me, I learnt a lot 😀
The original Greeks were Afro-Asiatic people who had been subjugated by invading Scythians Indo-European (Ashkenazim). The modern Greeks descended from Scythians/Ashkenazim Indo-European
Love the facts in this video! The book entitled "Stolen Legacy" by Ivan Van Sertima is a great beginning to learning the history and relationship between ancient Nubians and Greeks and how Greece ended up taking credit for what the Africans had already established.
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A rare 1976 Brazilian history book entitled "História Geral" written by Osvaldo R. de Souza suggests that the first Greeks were dark skinned and still rules out the possibility of they were Indo-European ppl. Actually he claimed that they were not Indo-Europeans
Hi Abraham! My video on Afro Italians is coming on August 3rd 😊 thank you for your kind words about my videos, I'm glad you enjoy them! Thanks for watching!
@@supermavro6072 learn your grammar and no they weren't black, and the modern greek population has not only the minoans genetics but also the mycenaeans.
In Greece we are taught in school about the war in Troy and Ιλιάδα and its the first time I hear about a Ethiopian king that was killed in the war . Can you explain a bit more about him .( I am not trying to be hateful I am just curious also I loved the video keep ot up 👍)
The reason why it's not from the Iliad.but a later story added on by the other story tellers of the Trojan war..was big in Egypt .in reality was made up to make the war seem bigger and exaggerated plus the Indian thing comes with memnon.
I feel sad because I had a child with a greek woman in 2000 , but she ran away back to greece while she was pregnant, I have not contact or anything. I hope one day my daughter will find me
Freedom Is Mine Official I hope you know it’s really important for us to support each to tell our real history that other white groups claim just like ancient Egypt for example thank you for your work
I hope through making these videos I can help to shed some light on the history, culture and contribution of Afrodescendant people worldwide which, as you say, is often overlooked.
Egypt were blue eyed Caucasians, from the pre dynastic, SUB Saharan weren't even allowed into Egypt by decrees, the Semna stelae of Senusret III for one of many... SMH
From what I have heard, read, searched for, found out, and took in is that Greeks are generally very sympathetic, empathetic, understanding, compassionate, and sensitive
Όσα είπε ήταν αλήθεια και όσα δεν ήξερα ήδη τα τζεκαρα, και εσύ επέλεξες να την προσβάλεις με αυτό; Ζουλού; Τόσες φυλές και πολύτιμοι στην Αφρική αλλά που να ξέρεις εσυ
This could be complete horseshit... but TECHNICALLY, we all have African ancestors. Human beings began in Africa about 2 million years ago, there's so much archaeological proof it's literally part of mine, yours and everyone's history. Unless you're not a human being that is..
Im black and Italian but bc I have Croatian ancestors. I wonder if I have Greek as well considering Italian genetics. Ever since I was young I've had an odd appreciate for war helmets... Korinthian helmets exact and wondered if it's genetic memory or infatuation or a bit of both.
Castalia Spring was and still is a safe harborage place for slaves. It is the home to the temple of Apollo and the manumission inscriptions (which free slaves). Greek Orthodox temples grant/ed asylum to slaves. I think it is very important pertaining to the subject. Also, the Greeks fought the Germans in both world wars.
Very informative and well done video. I suggest taking the term "sub-Saharan" African out of your lexicon when referring to people and only use it when necessary to describe specific countries or places. It's a white supremacist term that began getting use in the late 70's meant to separate "black people" from North Africa and it's history.
Greek Myth has a Theogany of ALL ethnic groups and their Mythological origins Greeks most likely never saw a black, west African until 200ad Those sculptures you have shown are from Late Roman period
It's quite obvious that ancient Greeks were neither very white European looking people nor were they very black African looking people either. (The vast majority of humanity has always been neither " White or Black ")
cool video! interesting to see as a young kid who has greek ancestry and recently learning that I have a little bit of Somali ancestry, I am wondering how they could've got to Greece!
Hey, hope I can help connect some dots. Somalis were expert seafarers in the ancient world. They were also actively involved in Indo-Greco-Roman trade as merchants in the classical era. The gulf of Aden connects to the Red Sea & they had access to the Mediterranean world beyond that. Super interesting to see how interconnected humans are. Love from a Somali :)
Do this and don’t forget Greeks were slaves from 400 years under Ottomans and British and many islands under French and Italians. As we weren’t white enough! As a lot of Greeks (if not the majority) are brown skin colour!
Greeks texts are the only fairer that we (as black people)can have and most further furthest in time we can go to describe our people and their encounter with the greeks. Ethiopia means burnt face according to Greece interpretation at the time and more forced interpration of that interpretation today. But let's remember Ethiopian history and writings are much older than Greece, and their ancient philosophers and historians knew that. It yop'ya littirally means son of ham and grandson of Noah= Cush. Or land of gifts/gold. Happy to see afro-Greece, Love from an afro-italian!
The Original Mediterranean and Sumerian people are the Dravidians not cushitic Ethiopians or Somali. The e3b mix came from North Africa which was a mix of the canaanites and the people of phut . The people of phut were a tall slender hamitic people ,more caucasoid features . The Canaanites are the Dravidians who are original Mediterranean and Sumerian people and the other canaanite people are same as pure native Americans also like Mexican natives and im not referring to the lovely Turkic or Mongolian people Dravidians were in the Mediterranean before the E3b mix. The Hittites adopted religious deities of the Sumerians also were mixed with them . The Hittites became the Lydians neo Hittites who are the Minoans and Etruscans who were dark and fair with long hair
What if her facial beauty was not so apparent would you make such a comment ...look beyond the face, try and focus on her beautiful mind...A woman may look like a pike yet she is beautiful ..when you mention beauty be more specific as to what you are referring. She has a beautiful mind ....Beauty can be beastly...and ugly gorgeous 😍
Initially i clicked like. After you mentioned about the current political things and groups, I took the like off because you are not well informed. Do a better search about politics and then change the last part of your video so your video is accurate.
Thanks for watching! This video was made in close consultation with members of the Greek community so it would be as accurate and balanced as possible. My email is in the video description, so please feel free to send me any information, articles, videos etc you recommend would better inform my understanding. I look forward to hearing from you! Thanks again for watching and have a wonderful day.
@@FreedomIsMineOfficial The guy is an obvious right wing idiot. It is a waste of time to to try to reason with these people because they will resort to being as blatantly and willingly obtuse as possible, especially when you try to communicate with very concrete sources. Who else would have a problem with the statements in the video about open racism and the Golden Dawn (this is the name of a great occult organization in older days, before these racist assholes stole the name) besides either one of their own or another racist loser living in some other part of Europe or the USA?
you are doing a good job and i love your works and i would like to add that long before there was white people black people ruled the world it do not matter where you come from or was born as long as you are a black man you are an african. light skin dark skin all came from the burnt skined people africa is the mother of all creation and civilization the greeks came to africa late but they got their education from egypt and timbuktu all we need to do is more research and we will find the truth
@@demetri2 wow so hellenic means greek.... wow anything is greek what about Persia is that greek is japan greek is europe greek.. the sun greek Thracians are NOT greek greek or greece is an invention name created by britain and france in 1822
@@niksmaithy6929Ancient Greece dates back to before christ. You would be a fool to not recognize socrates or Plato as greek philosophers (who also spoke ancient Greek). And don't forget about ancient greek mythology. You are referring to when Greece gained its independence from the tyrannical Ottomans.
If African migrants want to permanently settle in a country that's physically in Western Europe, why would they pass through Greece first, why not first land in Italy, Malta, Gibraltar, Spain, France, or Portugal if they want to reach the UK, Ireland, Scandinavian countries, Germany, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, or Switzerland?
If you want to know they preferred to go to Greece as they had been treated better and equal + they were to Greek universities for religious studies as Christians and learn the original text of the Bible! All the above they didn’t treats us as equals! Because even Greek have been treated as inferiors to those countries!
Yeah... Interesting video but I don't see much future to the Greek Africans. It's literally impossible for them to integrate. Most of them simply leave the country or are just crossing, on Their to Germany, France etc. The few who remain face all sorts of problems... I can't see a bright future for them. Generally, I don't see any bright future for minorities in southern and eastern Europe. The society here is really conservative. People might say "Afro Greeks are Greeks". But this is more of a wish spoken out loud rather than an actual truthful and honest statement. I don't really have an interest on the subject, nor am I right wing or anything. But I am just saying that my Greek mom, saw for the first time a black man when she was 12, and she thought he was a demon. To say that the country is unaccustomed to Blacks would be an understatement. White European immigrants have a hard time fitting in, despite not being overwhelming in numbers and white. I always like to say that in recent decades Greece has two societies. The Greeks and the integrated European immigrants. And a second society of European and Asian and black immigrants, who are not staying but rather passing by. Just waiting when they'll leave. Some of them stay for years in this Gray zone, then they leave. And that's pretty sad. I remember seeing them taking the Train from Athens to cross the border and head to western Europe. There was nothing like "integration". Muslim and black immigrants don't integrate, they are just collecting enough documents and money so as they can leave. It's really something. If you haven't seen it I can't describe it. It's like some parts of Greece have become "hotels" for immigrants and refugees.
What is this? Afro Greek? Are you crazy? There is only one greek race and thats all. No afro no asian no latin Greek. Only the pure White ( mediterranean ) colour.
Great information.... when I was in school,we were taught that the Greek amphorae depicted the ancient Greeks accurately, but the black and red skinned people were just an "artistic style"... this is a racist educational system used by white supremacists... remember the movie Clash of the Titans? well, the princess Andromeda is Ethiopian according to the ancient Greek writer of the story of Perseus... but of course, Hollywood casterd a Caucasian woman for the part...
@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 facts... even the official information shows that for a long time there were only black people on the earth....so then the question is... where did the rest of us come from???
@@sergiolantigua5362 Exactly... A rare Brazilian history book dated from 1976 entitled História Geral by Osvaldo R. de Souza claimed eleven years before Black Athena was published that the first Greeks were black people and that they were in no way Indo-Europeans
@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Today if we exposed to sun for a wile even for a couple of hours we became brown right away and many of us black! If you go to a lot of villages you’ll see a lot of dark skin ppl! During the summer especially the only white ppl are the European tourists!
The Pelasgians (black Greeks) were the ones who populated the pre-Hellenistic maritimes including Sparta and Athens. That's right, the Spartans were not white people like Hollywood portrays them; they were black! The Hellenes (white Greeks) re-wrote history depicting themselves as the pre-Hellenistic Greeks and culturally appropriated everything from the glory of building architectural megalithic structures to mathematics. In biblical history the Pelasgians are referred to as "Greeks" due to their longstanding habitation in the Greek maritimes before the Hellenes encroached on them.
@@supr4rce U are correct, the white Hellenes, (my ancestors) destroyed the pelasgayns and send them back to africa. Now this land belongs to us(white Hellenes).
Um, no; modern Greeks are actually still very closely genetically aligned to their bronze Age ancestors: www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/greeks-really-do-have-near-mythical-origins-ancient-dna-reveals
@@Paulynyc you do realize that the Mycenaeans were descendants of Stone Age Egyptians and the Stone Age Egyptians were Nilotic people, right? Your article is claiming they are not genetically related to Egyptians which completely defies logic and destroys the scientifically proven fact that modern humans originate from East Africa, not the Eurasian steppe or Anatolia. The article is making the claim of the Mycenaeans being genetically Caucasian based on Eurasian DNA from ethnic mixing, not by tracing Mycenaean’s genetic and geographic origins which come from Stone Age Egypt/Kemet. That’s like me claiming I’m Caucasian because I had ONE great grandfather on my mother’s side that was a white man and ignoring the other 90% of my genetic tree that’s African. The Mycenaeans did not originate from Indo-European or Eurasian origins because their ancestral lineage goes back to before “white” people even existed-how does that work? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years,[1] and ended between 4,000 BCE and 2,000 BCE,[citation needed] The Mycenaeans spoke Dravidian languages which are prehistoric African in origin. Dravidian people are unmistakably very dark skin people, not white like your deceptive article ignorantly portrays by using Hellenistic art that stems from Alexandrian Greek art. Smh. What you found was another article based on Eurocentric geneticist’s attempt to align Europeans with Pelasgian history by using European DNA as their base marker. Again, that’s like me using my DNA as the source proof of proving I’m Lebron James and claiming Lebron James isn’t Lebron James because he doesn’t have my DNA.
@@yourstepdad1632 You are mistaken. Everything indicates that this is true!! History is a lie. Zionists and Freemansonry hide the real story. Even Michael Jackson provided this. I don't believe in the system!!
@@yourstepdad1632 But there are vintage and modern photos of black Greeks unfortunately they are rare because they hid it so people don't know. In the old vases themselves you can see black Greek people portrayed. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known!
😂😂 Nobody even answers you! This is nonsense! Nobody really cares! Btw Avatos have a lot of population more than the most Greek villages! But unfortunately many villages in Greece have been abandoned due to immigration! This has nothing to do with the discussion!
African-Greeks are still Greeks!!! We love you, you matter🤎🤎🤎
I guess I would be considered an African Greek
I'm North African with Greek, Numidian and some Vandal ancestry
After being out of Greece nearly 11 years im shocked to see africans speaking perfect Greek!!!
Very insightful and informative. Thank you from a Greek African American. I used to live in Greece and visit every summer. The vast majority of people are very welcoming hospitable and open minded. But as anywhere there are racist and judgmental individuals. Luckily there are far more just and peaceful people compared to the ignorant few who espouse hate. Thanks again! ✊🏽
Fantastic, I'm so glad you liked it! Thank you for watching and for your feedback. From a research perspective this was one of the most fascinating videos I've worked on in this series and I learnt so much about the Afro-Greek community in the process! And yes, thankfully those who espouse hate are still in the minority. Thanks again for watching!
Which one of your parents is Greek?
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@@FreedomIsMineOfficialconsidering that his surname is Serpanos, I'm guessing his father is greek.
Nikolas, I am Half Greek and African American considering moving my family to greece . Will my sons be safe ?
This makes me happy as a black american who always loved Greece, the people and their culture. To know many of them think highly of continental Africans themselves warms my heart. I am aware that there are racists in Greece, racism is global. But compared to America, Greece isn't that racist. I look forward to learning more so I can eventually see about moving there. Done with America.
Just a small group of Greeks are racist, of course!
This is so true!! During those days there are people who try to convince me that Greeks are the same as European colonisers and I know this is not true because we’ve been the same hell!
Greeks more common culture with Nigeria than with Europe! + we were slaves under the Ottoman Empire and later many islands under British Empire! If you see a lot of Greeks are darker in skin tones as you go into southern of Greece! Many are brown as well! That’s why Europeans doesn’t like us! We are the only country in the world we have about slavery in our national anthem! The ppl who are racist are even against their own! They tried to hard to be accepted from Europeans. Do you know during Minors Asia catastrophe British, Italian and French ship didn’t accept to save Greeks and Armenians and left them die with the excuse “not white enough”? Yes as Greeks especially during summer became brown even by walking or driving! Some of them are brown anyways! So my question is: are we white Europeans? They said yes but if so then the population who is brown what are they? How can be excluded from their culture?
The Greeks aren’t racists - they hate everyone; especially other Greeks.
I'd like to make a correction to your video re: during the population exchange; virtually all of the Muslim population of Greece that were exchanged for the native Orthodox Christian population of Asia Minor were ethnic Greeks who had never stepped foot in Anatolia before and didn't speak a word of Turkish. So to say that "many were African" is simply not true; most were from the regions of Macedonia, Epirus and the island of Crete. A sizable portion (90,000) of the Muslims in Greece were permitted to stay per the Lausanne Treaty, primarily in Thrace, of which the community of Avato is a part. Also per the Lausanne Treaty, 200,000 Greek Orthodox Christians were allowed to remain in Istanbul and the islands of Imbos and Tenedos, whose populations were overwhelmingly Greek since antiquity. However, due to continued persecutions and pogroms organized by the Turkish state, this population has dwindled down to less than 2,000 souls. Meanwhile, the Muslim population in Greek Thrace has grown to 150,000+. Perhaps you can cover that in your video about Turkey.
No to rasism
No to nazism
No to slavery
Yes to democracy
Yes to humanity
Totally agreed!
@Ricky Lindon true but democracy evolves as ethics changes and communities modernized from the primal forms!
Yes to racism no to slavery!!!!!Europe to Europeans !!!!
@@13el77 Disgusting you need help
@@13el77 Wtf!? No. Do better.
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I'm Greek American .how times have changed. Back in 1980 never meet a greek black person .
Maybe not any in your part of Greece , how long did you live in Greece?
@@RoyalBlood23 this was in early 80s athens .there were black merchants from ships but no black greeks
@@RoyalBlood23 whats really funny id my mom was born in crete moved to athens around 1935 never seen a black person in her life till coming to usa in 1960
@@pontiacpaul1 These people are clearly in a secluded area sectioned off from the rest likely for their protection
@@RoyalBlood23 what people my late mother. Durning ww2 there were no black greeks . in vid it takes about 1 village in greece thats in thace part of the muslim area that didnt deport after ww1 for some reason.
There are remnants of Africans from the Ottoman empire in northern Greece.Now Greek Africans.
You're talking about the village of Avato, Ottoman records show no African slaves in the region, only a small Muslim Greek and Bulgarian population. The only clues we have is that the British brought Sudanese mercenaries in the region during the first world war which makes more sense. The population was offered to find their roots and they immediately refused. Also they don't consider themselves Greek, on the contrary they are loyal to Turkey.
@@mackjeez in ottoman empire there were also black people mainly from Ethiopia that were in sultan palaces, they were called Kızlar ağası.
They are mixed. This is very simple to understand. All Greeks are not African and ancient Greeks were not African or black
I have Greek and African ancestry
There are black Greeks but the media hides them. The media is totally biased
U should return to Africa
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@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 What black Greeks? African Greeks are a small minority, why would the media advertise them? They are just Africans brought to Greece by foreign imperialists. Unlike the USA and the UK, Greece did not colonize Sub Saharan Africans.
You just have to look and you can see the features depicted in Greek art ..Greece us a mixed society from the beginnings of time ...
Very interesting video. I lived in Greece for two years in the 80s but don’t recall seeing Afro Greeks but I did get extremely dark probably because of my dna and sun exposure.
That's because the influx of foreign immigrants to Greece is a relatively recent development. Until the mid-90's, Greece was always a net exporter of people, which is why there is a large Greek diaspora around the world.
@Black Lesbian Poet You can't "take back" something that "wuz" never yours. Nice rhyme, though.
I'm Cretan ( Kourites) I have never seen a Negro Cretan in my life! Come to Psiloriti Mori...the problem will be your mom won't find you ever again.
Thank you for this history
Michael Jackson was right when he said at that conference that history is a lie
For some people who are going to say that Greeks are originally Black Africans please no, they aren't but mediterranean people and ofc they are some minority
I have met Mavri fram the Avato as I pass through that town to go to Turkia for a day. They very good people and as a Greek I am consider them to be the same as I.
They were already there and had been for centuries
This was so informative! Well done!! 🤗
Just subscribed. I would love to see a video on the origins of the three main tribes in Nigeria. That would be a very interesting watch!! 😊
Thank you so much Funke, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Hi there 👋🏾Thank you that was a really informative video about the African presence in Greece....the historical background was helpful, this was an eye opener for me, I learnt a lot 😀
Thank you so much for such lovely feedback! That's really made me smile 😃 I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching
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The original Greeks were Afro-Asiatic people who had been subjugated by invading Scythians Indo-European (Ashkenazim). The modern Greeks descended from Scythians/Ashkenazim Indo-European
@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 ummmm...nooo
@@avidfather1864 You are blind
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Love the facts in this video! The book entitled "Stolen Legacy" by Ivan Van Sertima is a great beginning to learning the history and relationship between ancient Nubians and Greeks and how Greece ended up taking credit for what the Africans had already established.
Thought Greeks didn’t took the credits! It’s not even referred in Greece! The Europeans did it and just gave it as Greek to be acceptable!
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I'm so sorry for the backlash that you are getting in the comment section about the video
Do you have a video on Blacks in France? I would like to see a video on that subject.
Thank you. My father is from Zakynthos and there is strong evidence that Minoans lived there.
A rare 1976 Brazilian history book entitled "História Geral" written by Osvaldo R. de Souza suggests that the first Greeks were dark skinned and still rules out the possibility of they were Indo-European ppl. Actually he claimed that they were not Indo-Europeans
@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Yes but Europeans wants us that way to steal our culture and claim them as theirs!
Burnt face is actually a very translation of the compound of words.
This is excellent work! The commentary you gave on ancient Greece was amazing!
Hi Christian, thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it and thank you for your feedback 😊
Fantastic channel awesome breakdown 🙏🏿
Thank you so much!
Our people are scattered everywhere, facing the same oppression thus say the Lord. We are the Israelites.
True that but the ignorant will do as they always do label us afrocentrists. They always do the opposite btw
amazing job! Mpravo
thank you so much for this
Hi do you have a video on Afro Italians? By the way, I enjoy watching your videos they're very educational.
Hi Abraham! My video on Afro Italians is coming on August 3rd 😊 thank you for your kind words about my videos, I'm glad you enjoy them! Thanks for watching!
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Extremely useful interesting and informative!!!
Thanks for this video 🙂!
You're culture is like mine in America ❤️✌🏿 My DNA traces me to 13 different regions around the world.
Opa,opa,opa there you have it! the """hellenes""" this says it all!
Love your channel
Thank you so much! 💜
my teacher sent me this :/
The minoans weren't black rather tan skinned.
Minoans were Africans
@@supermavro6072 no they weren't.
@@christoforospapakonstantin3409 They were and there gone.
@@supermavro6072 learn your grammar and no they weren't black, and the modern greek population has not only the minoans genetics but also the mycenaeans.
@@supermavro6072 Nobody’s gone! The same DNA found in Greeks today
Interesting video. Bro science is heavy in the comments section though.
I actually very much doubt Ethiopia is Greek in origin, I believe it was repeated.
Teach ur kids people
ΤΟΥΣ ΑΓΑΠΑΜΕ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΔΕΡΦΙΑ ΜΑΣ....
In Greece we are taught in school about the war in Troy and Ιλιάδα and its the first time I hear about a Ethiopian king that was killed in the war . Can you explain a bit more about him .( I am not trying to be hateful I am just curious also I loved the video keep ot up 👍)
Hi there, thank you for watching! Yes of course, his name is Memnon 😊
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memnon_(mythology)
@@FreedomIsMineOfficial Thank you very much for responding
My absolute pleasure!
Γιατί κάνεις αποσπάσματα δεν έκατσες να την διαβάσεις... Κανείς μας δεν έκατσε...
The reason why it's not from the Iliad.but a later story added on by the other story tellers of the Trojan war..was big in Egypt .in reality was made up to make the war seem bigger and exaggerated plus the Indian thing comes with memnon.
I feel sad because I had a child with a greek woman in 2000 , but she ran away back to greece while she was pregnant, I have not contact or anything. I hope one day my daughter will find me
Ghana to the world forever and ever and ever and ever
Very good job my sister keep it up
Thank you! ✊🏽
Freedom Is Mine Official I hope you know it’s really important for us to support each to tell our real history that other white groups claim just like ancient Egypt for example thank you for your work
I hope through making these videos I can help to shed some light on the history, culture and contribution of Afrodescendant people worldwide which, as you say, is often overlooked.
Freedom Is Mine Official you heard of UFO before am just asking you question it’s something related to us black people
What UFO?
I think that it really shows that some of our ancestors where black since we tend to get very tan especially in the summer
exactly
Sub saharans and caucasians were a minority in egypt
Egypt were blue eyed Caucasians, from the pre dynastic, SUB Saharan weren't even allowed into Egypt by decrees, the Semna stelae of Senusret III for one of many... SMH
Noah
@@DrLoren668 noah: the Caucasian that landed his boat in the caucass mountain area?
@@NeptunesLagoon what nonsense
@@NeptunesLagoon rubbish
From what I have heard, read, searched for, found out, and took in is that Greeks are generally very sympathetic, empathetic, understanding, compassionate, and sensitive
The African diaspora, afro Greece 😂😂 🖐️🖐️
people who are proud with their own history dont try to steal others history . Be happy and proud for your zulu blood
Thank you for watching, wishing you a wonderful day 😊
Όσα είπε ήταν αλήθεια και όσα δεν ήξερα ήδη τα τζεκαρα, και εσύ επέλεξες να την προσβάλεις με αυτό; Ζουλού; Τόσες φυλές και πολύτιμοι στην Αφρική αλλά που να ξέρεις εσυ
This could be complete horseshit... but TECHNICALLY, we all have African ancestors.
Human beings began in Africa about 2 million years ago, there's so much archaeological proof it's literally part of mine, yours and everyone's history.
Unless you're not a human being that is..
@@manofculture8666 African origin is just bullshit
@@ceruxii3079 That's fine. I'm not sure if it's true, but would love to hear your counter argument.
Please do Barbados
Beautiful greek wahman
WAE WUZ GREEEKZZ
Im black and Italian but bc I have Croatian ancestors. I wonder if I have Greek as well considering Italian genetics. Ever since I was young I've had an odd appreciate for war helmets... Korinthian helmets exact and wondered if it's genetic memory or infatuation or a bit of both.
And is it just me or is she jaw-dropping...?
Good video though, very interesting considering I thought only Persians and Indians integrated with Greek society.
Wow you’re black and Italian! Not too many of you around. Italian women stay away from us like the plague. I bet your father is Italian
Castalia Spring was and still is a safe harborage place for slaves. It is the home to the temple of Apollo and the manumission inscriptions (which free slaves). Greek Orthodox temples grant/ed asylum to slaves. I think it is very important pertaining to the subject. Also, the Greeks fought the Germans in both world wars.
Very informative and well done video. I suggest taking the term "sub-Saharan" African out of your lexicon when referring to people and only use it when necessary to describe specific countries or places. It's a white supremacist term that began getting use in the late 70's meant to separate "black people" from North Africa and it's history.
Greek Myth has a Theogany of ALL ethnic groups and their Mythological origins
Greeks most likely never saw a black, west African until 200ad
Those sculptures you have shown are from Late Roman period
It's quite obvious that ancient Greeks were neither very white European looking people nor were they very black African looking people either. (The vast majority of humanity has always been neither " White or Black ")
@@JustJoe326 that depends on which Greeks we are referring too
Minoans, Cretans, Mycenaeans
@@hollynonya6991 I'd like to know your opinion on the Minoans?
cool video! interesting to see as a young kid who has greek ancestry and recently learning that I have a little bit of Somali ancestry, I am wondering how they could've got to Greece!
Hey, hope I can help connect some dots. Somalis were expert seafarers in the ancient world. They were also actively involved in Indo-Greco-Roman trade as merchants in the classical era. The gulf of Aden connects to the Red Sea & they had access to the Mediterranean world beyond that. Super interesting to see how interconnected humans are. Love from a Somali :)
I would to do a research , to determine if African and Greek .
Africans were much closest to the Greeks as compassion and respect even more than any other ppl in the world!
Do this and don’t forget Greeks were slaves from 400 years under Ottomans and British and many islands under French and Italians. As we weren’t white enough! As a lot of Greeks (if not the majority) are brown skin colour!
Press that subscribe button ❤️
Thanks Shirley! 🤗
If the Greeks mentioned any Blacks, it was as oddities. It clearly shows it in the Sculptures
Oddities?! They clearly mention Africans in a favourable light and Ethiopians played a huge role in Greek society
Greeks aren't white but Middle Eastern. The ones that look white are from when Greece became part of the Venetian Empire during the 17/18 century.
We are not middle Eastern we are Mediterranean
Great propaganda, not the best place to spread it.
Also there's many European looking middle easterners so this premise is flawed
Greeks texts are the only fairer that we (as black people)can have and most further furthest in time we can go to describe our people and their encounter with the greeks.
Ethiopia means burnt face according to Greece interpretation at the time and more forced interpration of that interpretation today.
But let's remember Ethiopian history and writings are much older than Greece, and their ancient philosophers and historians knew that.
It yop'ya littirally means son of ham and grandson of Noah= Cush.
Or land of gifts/gold.
Happy to see afro-Greece,
Love from an afro-italian!
But the ignorant will always say that it is an Afrocentrist agenda. There is no such thing as Afrocentrist agenda
The Original Mediterranean and Sumerian people are the Dravidians not cushitic Ethiopians or Somali. The e3b mix came from North Africa which was a mix of the canaanites and the people of phut . The people of phut were a tall slender hamitic people ,more caucasoid features .
The Canaanites are the Dravidians who are original Mediterranean and Sumerian people and the other canaanite people are same as pure native Americans also like Mexican natives and im not referring to the lovely Turkic or Mongolian people
Dravidians were in the Mediterranean before the E3b mix.
The Hittites adopted religious deities of the Sumerians also were mixed with them . The Hittites became the Lydians neo Hittites who are the Minoans and Etruscans who were dark and fair with long hair
What's your name lady? You are so knowledgeable and beautiful.
damn...she's beautiful
Why thank you!
Yeah bro she is gorgeous lady!!!!
What if her facial beauty was not so apparent would you make such a comment ...look beyond the face, try and focus on her beautiful mind...A woman may look like a pike yet she is beautiful ..when you mention beauty be more specific as to what you are referring. She has a beautiful mind ....Beauty can be beastly...and ugly gorgeous 😍
@@heatheryearwood9199 Ma'am, be patient...somebody out there will compliment you as well
Initially i clicked like. After you mentioned about the current political things and groups, I took the like off because you are not well informed. Do a better search about politics and then change the last part of your video so your video is accurate.
Thanks for watching! This video was made in close consultation with members of the Greek community so it would be as accurate and balanced as possible. My email is in the video description, so please feel free to send me any information, articles, videos etc you recommend would better inform my understanding. I look forward to hearing from you! Thanks again for watching and have a wonderful day.
@@FreedomIsMineOfficial The guy is an obvious right wing idiot. It is a waste of time to to try to reason with these people because they will resort to being as blatantly and willingly obtuse as possible, especially when you try to communicate with very concrete sources. Who else would have a problem with the statements in the video about open racism and the Golden Dawn (this is the name of a great occult organization in older days, before these racist assholes stole the name) besides either one of their own or another racist loser living in some other part of Europe or the USA?
Just curious whats your ethnic background??
you are doing a good job and i love your works and i would like to add that long before there was white people black people ruled the world it do not matter where you come from or was born as long as you are a black man you are an african. light skin dark skin all came from the burnt skined people africa is the mother of all creation and civilization the greeks came to africa late but they got their education from egypt and timbuktu all we need to do is more research and we will find the truth
MACEDONIA IS macedonia and NOT greek
Hellenic
Hellenic = Greek
@@demetri2 wow so hellenic means greek.... wow anything is greek what about Persia is that greek is japan greek is europe greek.. the sun greek Thracians are NOT greek greek or greece is an invention name created by britain and france in 1822
@@niksmaithy6929Ancient Greece dates back to before christ. You would be a fool to not recognize socrates or Plato as greek philosophers (who also spoke ancient Greek). And don't forget about ancient greek mythology. You are referring to when Greece gained its independence from the tyrannical Ottomans.
Hey monkeydonia your Bulgarian
If African migrants want to permanently settle in a country that's physically in Western Europe, why would they pass through Greece first, why not first land in Italy, Malta, Gibraltar, Spain, France, or Portugal if they want to reach the UK, Ireland, Scandinavian countries, Germany, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, or Switzerland?
Well a good portion of them goes to France I know that for sure
Who are you to tell them where they should go? Are you financing their migration?
@@BriLaDivina98 I agree with you 🤣
I know many black migrants that live in Norway, and they are mostly very nice people. Cut your racism, would you?
If you want to know they preferred to go to Greece as they had been treated better and equal + they were to Greek universities for religious studies as Christians and learn the original text of the Bible! All the above they didn’t treats us as equals! Because even Greek have been treated as inferiors to those countries!
"Undocumented" More like illegal
Before 1821 these was no identity of greek nothing
Wrong.
Greece has always been a “complicated destination” for everyone - including the Greeks themselves...
Yeah... Interesting video but I don't see much future to the Greek Africans. It's literally impossible for them to integrate. Most of them simply leave the country or are just crossing, on Their to Germany, France etc. The few who remain face all sorts of problems... I can't see a bright future for them. Generally, I don't see any bright future for minorities in southern and eastern Europe. The society here is really conservative. People might say "Afro Greeks are Greeks". But this is more of a wish spoken out loud rather than an actual truthful and honest statement. I don't really have an interest on the subject, nor am I right wing or anything. But I am just saying that my Greek mom, saw for the first time a black man when she was 12, and she thought he was a demon. To say that the country is unaccustomed to Blacks would be an understatement. White European immigrants have a hard time fitting in, despite not being overwhelming in numbers and white. I always like to say that in recent decades Greece has two societies. The Greeks and the integrated European immigrants. And a second society of European and Asian and black immigrants, who are not staying but rather passing by. Just waiting when they'll leave. Some of them stay for years in this Gray zone, then they leave. And that's pretty sad. I remember seeing them taking the Train from Athens to cross the border and head to western Europe. There was nothing like "integration". Muslim and black immigrants don't integrate, they are just collecting enough documents and money so as they can leave. It's really something. If you haven't seen it I can't describe it. It's like some parts of Greece have become "hotels" for immigrants and refugees.
3:48 Greece's original inhabitant
What is this? Afro Greek? Are you crazy? There is only one greek race and thats all. No afro no asian no latin Greek. Only the pure White ( mediterranean ) colour.
Don't be ignorant
Greeks are neither white nor Mediterranean. They are some type of African people who lnvaded the Balkan in 700 B.C
Greeks have mix ancestry. Greek are beautiful people ❤️❤️❤️
@@honeychick4ever280 no they're not mixed.
@@supermavro6072 greeks are white who can become brown like every other white person
Great information.... when I was in school,we were taught that the Greek amphorae depicted the ancient Greeks accurately, but the black and red skinned people were just an "artistic style"... this is a racist educational system used by white supremacists... remember the movie Clash of the Titans? well, the princess Andromeda is Ethiopian according to the ancient Greek writer of the story of Perseus... but of course, Hollywood casterd a Caucasian woman for the part...
Youre right. Man, these commenters are so blind they are mad at the hidden history. The first Greeks were black and red skinned people
@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 facts... even the official information shows that for a long time there were only black people on the earth....so then the question is... where did the rest of us come from???
@@sergiolantigua5362 Exactly... A rare Brazilian history book dated from 1976 entitled História Geral by Osvaldo R. de Souza claimed eleven years before Black Athena was published that the first Greeks were black people and that they were in no way Indo-Europeans
@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Today if we exposed to sun for a wile even for a couple of hours we became brown right away and many of us black! If you go to a lot of villages you’ll see a lot of dark skin ppl! During the summer especially the only white ppl are the European tourists!
The Pelasgians (black Greeks) were the ones who populated the pre-Hellenistic maritimes including Sparta and Athens. That's right, the Spartans were not white people like Hollywood portrays them; they were black! The Hellenes (white Greeks) re-wrote history depicting themselves as the pre-Hellenistic Greeks and culturally appropriated everything from the glory of building architectural megalithic structures to mathematics. In biblical history the Pelasgians are referred to as "Greeks" due to their longstanding habitation in the Greek maritimes before the Hellenes encroached on them.
I can’t read or speak Portuguese. Translate please.
@@supr4rce U are correct, the white Hellenes, (my ancestors) destroyed the pelasgayns and send them back to africa. Now this land belongs to us(white Hellenes).
Um, no; modern Greeks are actually still very closely genetically aligned to their bronze Age ancestors: www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/greeks-really-do-have-near-mythical-origins-ancient-dna-reveals
@@Paulynyc you do realize that the Mycenaeans were descendants of Stone Age Egyptians and the Stone Age Egyptians were Nilotic people, right? Your article is claiming they are not genetically related to Egyptians which completely defies logic and destroys the scientifically proven fact that modern humans originate from East Africa, not the Eurasian steppe or Anatolia.
The article is making the claim of the Mycenaeans being genetically Caucasian based on Eurasian DNA from ethnic mixing, not by tracing Mycenaean’s genetic and geographic origins which come from Stone Age Egypt/Kemet. That’s like me claiming I’m Caucasian because I had ONE great grandfather on my mother’s side that was a white man and ignoring the other 90% of my genetic tree that’s African. The Mycenaeans did not originate from Indo-European or Eurasian origins because their ancestral lineage goes back to before “white” people even existed-how does that work?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years,[1] and ended between 4,000 BCE and 2,000 BCE,[citation needed]
The Mycenaeans spoke Dravidian languages which are prehistoric African in origin. Dravidian people are unmistakably very dark skin people, not white like your deceptive article ignorantly portrays by using Hellenistic art that stems from Alexandrian Greek art. Smh.
What you found was another article based on Eurocentric geneticist’s attempt to align Europeans with Pelasgian history by using European DNA as their base marker. Again, that’s like me using my DNA as the source proof of proving I’m Lebron James and claiming Lebron James isn’t Lebron James because he doesn’t have my DNA.
@@supr4rce sources, please (other than "Black Athena") ...go ahead, I'll wait.
The first Greeks were black people. Martin Bernal reports in his book named Black Athena published in 1987
Nop this shit Ain true
@@yourstepdad1632 You are mistaken. Everything indicates that this is true!! History is a lie. Zionists and Freemansonry hide the real story. Even Michael Jackson provided this. I don't believe in the system!!
@@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 i am greek and i know my history very well we are not black
@@yourstepdad1632 But there are vintage and modern photos of black Greeks unfortunately they are rare because they hid it so people don't know. In the old vases themselves you can see black Greek people portrayed. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known!
@@yourstepdad1632 They look African American but are actually Greek women. It's an old photo 3:21
What the fuck
The Abatos are dying off, no one wants to go near them.
😂😂 Nobody even answers you! This is nonsense! Nobody really cares! Btw Avatos have a lot of population more than the most Greek villages! But unfortunately many villages in Greece have been abandoned due to immigration! This has nothing to do with the discussion!
Yo. "burnt face"...