Schooled by Youtube: America’s Wealth……From the Backs of Our Ancestors

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At Black Then, we often see videos that make us stop and think. They frequently reveal information that is not broadcast to the masses and great talents that are not shown in mainstream media.

In a video posted on The Great Griot Youtube channel, we learn more about America was built off of the back of slaves. This wealth created did not disappear after the “Great Emanicipation” neither was it shared with the new black citizens of America. It remained with colonizers and their decedents creating a wealth disparity that we still see TODAY.


America was built off of the back of slaves. This wealth created did not disappear after the “Great Emanicipation” neither was it shared with the new black citizens of America. It remained with colonizers and their decedents creating a wealth disparity that we still see TODAY.

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47 Comments

  • PAUL WHALEY August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Whites got rich by murdering, raping and enslaving people all over the world and setting up evil white supremacist governments.
    The belief that whites achieved all of their wealth and advantage by HARD WORK is an absurd historical fantasy and a LIE.>>> http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_7867.shtml …… AND …… Yet without Black People, whyte America:
    Would be lot poorer – it got rich in part on the backs of Black People who were FORCED into generational slavery and, later, through cheap Black slave labor wages. This has helped to underwrite both industrialization and LAZY whyte comfort. Black slave laborers built America’s infrastructure, including its buildings, roads, bridges, and railways. Blacks built America—just as they built the pyramids in Egypt—and then gave civilization to the new man on earth, the European. >>>>http://blackinamerica.com/content/287839/ten-best-lies-of-black-history

  • Lessie Pruitt August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    When you read the real history, I feel so defeated and helpless. I know I be never ever been free.

  • Dajuan Tarver August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    And a lot of white people like to act like they earned their land wealth. ???is what we dealing with peace family were have to pull together like our ancestors did. Knowledge is power

  • hainley simpson August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    P.S: Fuck the free world.

  • hainley simpson August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Black people we were and are in the Saturn stage of life. Suffering will make us strong, refuse to back down and hold your head high and breath from the gut, not the nose.

  • Pacquiao Lenny August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    I remember asking why slavery happened & you finally gave me the answer I was long searching for. Keep sharing knowlegde.

  • John Benning August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    you have great content. keep making more videos.

  • Michael Gould August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Keep the wind at your back, and may your seas be smooth sailing….Straight Ahead. Birmingham, Alabama

  • Long D August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    niggas! smh

  • MelaniteX August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Can't really argue this….

  • Pianki Pianki August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Concentrate on the ill-gotten wealth. Remember the cotton tax and head tax in Article 1 section 9. The emotional plea goes nowhere. Create a atmosphere of I got what you need and You got what I want. But what is sad about this documentary, the so few views thus far.

  • Faheem Faquir August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    outstanding

  • Z Majors August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Excellent 

  • Ksanner Hernandez August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    excellent i enjoyed this ? …can i suggest a topic sister?

  • MrsLegit Parttwo August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Peace Sis, how can I get in touch with you? I'd be honored if you would come on my Blog talk radio show, as my guest??

  • landmark22 August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    The LAND OR Naturalization Would Be A GOOD one

  • George EX August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    8:07 THANK YOU!!!!

  • ramazone2 August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Thank you for this video Sister. A correction needs to be made in this video. You attributed the word Negus to mean a negative racial epithet. It actually means king. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negus

  • ramazone2 August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    For those who want more context about the full truth, read The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. I'm not part of the Nation of Islam. However, as a Black man, the truths in the The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews and related info cannot be denied. http://noirg.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/TSR.HighlightsKeyPoints1.pdf

  • A Mitchell August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    been telling people this for years…. and america tries everything in the book to down play this

  • Larry Johnson August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    How can this be true if only approximately 4% of the population owned slaves???…hmmm. Also, did you know that out of the 15 million slaves that were transplanted, only about 6 percent, about 400,000, came here to the US? The rest went to South America. Now, if about 400,000 slaves are responsible for making this country what it is today, why couldn't the millions upon million of slaves headed to Brazil keep that country from being pretty much third world in many areas. Slaves are slaves right? Did american slaves have some special talent, or propensity to building things?? You need to answer that question for yourself. The logic simply doesn't work.

    Another fact I will throw in about slavery. Did you know about 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves which is a greater number than whites at certain times? Here are a few names for you to Google, Anthony Johnson, Antoine Dubuclet and Justus Angel to name a few.

    Another fact..There were white slaves and hundreds of thousands were kidnapped and brought to America; their middle-passage death rates were comparable to those of black slaves; they were sold at auction and traded for livestock, they were routinely beaten—sometimes to death—and an estimated one half of them died before gaining freedom. It's possible that more whites came to America against their will than blacks. Historians from both ends of the political spectrum say that white slaves were treated worse than black slaves.

    So, this whole.."this country was built on the backs of slaves", is utterly ridiculous.

    Research for yourself to seek the REAL TRUTH..if you dare.

    Btw…I'm black.

  • Mike Blake August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    What about Irish slaves, don't they count.

  • Tre05Awall August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Great Video!!!

  • Sterlyn Carroll August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    i've never left a messagoe on youtube, but the way ya'll made that was tiiiiight

  • AFRAKANSUPREMIST August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Negus (Ge'ez: ነጉሥ, nəgūś IPA: [nɨguːɬ]; Amharic: nigūs?; cf. Tigrinya: ነጋሲ? negus) is a royal title in the Ethiopian Semitic languages. It denotes a monarch such as the Bahri Negus of the Medri Bahri in pre-1890 Eritrea and the Negus in pre-1974 Ethiopia.

  • AFRAKANSUPREMIST August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    NGS are uraeus symbols of divine energy. The "N" and the "S" are sn waves of a magnetic field. at different frequencies. The "G" is a arc/arch/dark symbol representing the oneness of 3. If you want to see if a word is fit to describe you look within the word at the symbols that give it meaning. Thank you my NeGuS.

  • AFRAKANSUPREMIST August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    It came in the guise of business but it has always been personal. You know it's personal when you get shot 16 times in the street. Is that good for "business"? Sure. but it's definitely personal.

  • Patrick Charles August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Truth!!

  • Neferu Re August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Thank You!!

  • Daniel “Knowledge” Detweiler August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    One other thing the Brown Brothers Harriman has some interesting partners Prescott Bush, Aviril Harriman n more were all skull and bones members from Yale

  • Daniel “Knowledge” Detweiler August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    I don't think America could pay reparations to all the blacks, why? Well Canada can't pay back the Natives, yet we are "recognized" given a number and a card with our pictures on it…. The difference in population as well The U.S has 320 million people while Canada with a bigger land mass but only 30 million people I think would have a factor

  • Ravonn Moten August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    How can America be one of wealthiest countries when America has trillions of dollars of debt?

  • Shroom Sorcerer August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    tbh

    Up to the people who support the Confederates to take down the flag.

    Blacks shouldn't be playing the fool and saying that they should take the flag down.

    (I know it happened a few months ago but still…)

  • Shroom Sorcerer August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    AIG and The Rothschild family?!?

    I …. AM… SHOCKED!!!!

  • Shroom Sorcerer August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am
  • Brandon Frederick August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    so much money is owed to blacks it ain't funny we talking billions of dollars Queen

  • Brandon Frederick August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    so much money is owed to blacks it ain't funny we talking billions of dollars Queen

  • Brandon Frederick August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    so much money is owed to blacks it ain't funny we talking billions of dollars Queen

  • Brandon Frederick August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    so much money is owed to blacks it ain't funny we talking billions of dollars Queen

  • Brandon Frederick August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    so much money is owed to blacks it ain't funny we talking billions of dollars Queen

  • Theo Nero August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    KEEP LEARNIG EVERY DAY

  • day of reckoning August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    So what do we do? We enforce our human right to be repaired as declared in the Durban Declaration and Program of Action. Become reparations enforcers. https://www.facebook.com/ReparationEnforcers

  • StoneThug Music August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Great job

  • LooseLeafLegend August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    You Go Girl! (Martin voice)

  • Obey Amma August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Lmao that ending was perfect "not that one!" 

  • arronnov August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    I co-sign this video 100% but I still know we as black still must build today for tomorrow for ourselves. That being said this video should put to rest any notion of the propaganda of white supremacy saying slavery had nothing to do with the prosperity and wealth of America but the hard work innovation and intelligence of whites that came from Europe. This video by Dr Arthur Lewis – White Economic Domination Worldwide will bring the economic picture even more clearer.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwWGgCLvok

  • zheahra August 16, 2016 - 4:30 am

    Excellent vid on why it's inportant to fight for what is owed to us! Hmmmm…Their beneficiaries sure don't mine living in the "past". Although their quick to tell you. "I've never owned any slaves." While we've got present day negros who say, "black folk need to stop living in the past." Your master sure taught you well.