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Dr. Runoko Rashidi: Africans in Antiquity and around the World

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and then this is the king Ramses the Great videos King Tut the boy King he became can you eat when he was 9 years old died when he was 19 we don't know what killed in a drive-by turn famous simply because his tomb was the only one that wasn't broken into an ancient times they broke into and then they found it to him and it wasn't open to get until the 1920s and what it was open it just sounded everybody what's popping in the world when he was a little boy  and then you just see images of the people  this is from the kingdom called the land of kush in and out about it because I know you're not thinking about an ancient Kingdom in Africa when I talk about Crush we won't go there and just show you I know you like to and we won't just to show you the nut off of African history confined to the no Valley but it was a man wholesale Mansa Musa even Sultan of the Mali Empire in the Divide 800 years ago and according to Economist he was the richest man that ever lived wealthy and gold and I think that's the perceptions dated Africa so poor but at one point you could boast the richest man in history this is a Mazda help develop and literature that he passion iced promoted some of that say literature I'm in a country called with what are call Dani Shay America's written in what is now Today Show think this may be the man edible and this one takes us to West Africa civilization called Siri is the most populous country in Africa anywhere from 150 to 200 million Africans relation of nearly a billion people for the whole continent  this is from a country call Zimbabwe and then you have the enslaved problem is a lot of people talking about it  this is not the beginning slavery is not African history slavery interrupted African history it's so it's important to start at the beginning but it was an important. did say the slaves didn't come from Africa Africans were captured in Africa they weren't slaves and husbands and wives teachers and Farmers and Merchants and they will cash it and these are the dungeons that were placed in before they were put on the floating coffins cost this is where the Africans were able to take a last back they will cash it in the interior in March to the coast and it displaced away can you take a bath and even here they have the shackles and chains and in one of the countries that I visited a country called the fridge a difference to you had a dungeon for the women you can imagine how those women were treated in those dungeons yeah damn it's dungeon but you also had a dungeon for children not have one child I was blessed to have a child late in life my daughter 9 years old she lives outside and I want you to try to imagine for a moment dungeon dark stinking hole with no air conditioning no toilets no electricity people dying to the left of you people which of the you're incapable of doing anything about that your daughter or your son or your grandchild or your cousin or your niece or your nephew is in the endless dungeon and I can hear a child saying I'm cold I'm hungry come get me I heard and this one for so long and became a way of life and this is what Africans were subjected to fact or chips like these imagine a ship with 300 captured people in Chains  since play over the ocean for 6 weeks or 3 months imagine each one of those imagine two standard toilets the feces and the urine and the blood of the rats on the bottom of that this is what African people were subjected to and then hear something from a country called Brazil that was probably using other movie American and there was one woman in order Punisher you have a special mass designed to fit over her face to fit over her mouth so she couldn't speak and she was forced to wear this died classrooms this is the greatest of those people this is the one we know the most about from a country called Angola my name is inzinga and what we don't see on TV images of African royalty name in the first from Ghana he has so much gold actually meet somebody to help him lift his arm up and down so again bling I guess it's called now but again Africa for Africa natural beauty of Africa big is the biggest at a place called the waterfall is 41 miles long in the water drops 1500 and then if you want to understand the history of Africa these are the highways of Africa things are the rivers for example this is the Nile River I'm 200 miles of the Mississippi the longest river in the world and then this is the Niger River and this is the Congo River farther than I used to do is Morocco as we get here about 3 or 4 in the afternoon and camp out under the stars stars and be so bright be like images stop them from the sky and then in the morning at Sunrise we would take a string and camels and ride to the top and look out on the other side and so Africa has a tragic history a beautiful history but it's also an extremely beautiful place  no let me take the rest of what time and I'll see how quickly I can go through this still have a lot of pictures to go so fast I can do it but it's just show you images of Africa and African people in various parts of the world will call this part unexpected faces in the unexpected places the mother continent that's where he married again but soon the rest world with people the best clue look at this is my most Play app 399 Pages book is published in London and it talks about Africans in Asia and sell let's look at some of the images from that book example this is the African man for the ancient Iraq and Arabia the father of chivalry a dashing Knight and a poet who lived before King Arthur who live a forward to the lionheart  this is from ancient Persia and you also have black polka live in these parts of the world today are calling the invisible people cuz you don't see him on TV this the man from Kuwait  in Israel in Palestine myself doing fuel research in Turkey a country call omanas of the countries called the Middle East Saudi Arabia Iraq  Jordan Palestine Palestine and that's Barack President Barack Obama with lids Miss Israel very beautiful woman and I'm fairly certain Michelle Obama had a order to to discuss with the president that evening because he looks like he's having a very good time in the country that has the largest no black people in any one country in the world original people just go through these quickly I love being around Lil peep boost my self-esteem a tremendous amount so I searched them out in my face I'm just kidding with you I don't know what they're looking at in India what the blackest person I've ever seen in my life at that time I wish I look like that I stared at him for 15 solid with could take my eyes off I need a pictures taken by me on sent to me from India  and then Nepal in Pakistan it means I would just take us to Southeast Asia ancient images from Cambodia to cover my first book in French Thailand and Vietnam in Vietnam and Cambodia at the Philippines in the Philippines one of my students doing field research Malaysia the Philippines of the Philippines in this ancient China ancient China this the black man in China 500 years ago collecting taxes this is bodhidharma suppose he took martial arts Indians of the Far East from Japan I figured call fudo myo one of the five wisdom Kings in Japanese mythology and a patron of the Samurai a black girl in China today these images take us to Australia Google Australia looks just like my daughter Australia the South Pacific looks like what's a with clothes on guinea a place called the Solomon Islands natural blondes in the Solomon Islands Jimmy Graham  all these are Pacific Islanders a picture I took at a place called Bougainville play the 50 Cent t-shirt on South Pacific at calling no sense in Fiji that place. East New Britain please call New Caledonia Natural blondes and unusual very very normal day off play into the community a little kid making a face for the camera boys-will-be-boys myself or the South play bake surrounded by the security at an airport they shut the airport down in order to take a photograph with me never met an African-American before and I mean little boy got to scare me there  off for the Pacific Islands and then the same mean looking little child I wanted to go up and say you need a hug or something how does a praying mantis from Fiji colleague of mine in a place called West Papua who look the heck of a lot like LeBron James you be the judge  what is the LeBron Jeremy a check from the South Pacific who looks like Bill Cosby in the South Pacific Micronesia and Micronesia and New Zealand Hawaii play The Great king of Hawaii and there isn't an Amana unify than one on its a couple of years ago this is my work on Europe this is one of my new quotes to a river energy  this is what scientists say the first people in Europe look like you can figure out who the signs and see who the first person is ancient Greece ancient Rome and African Imports in Rome and an African African Martyrs in ancient Rome Don & Shop Switzerland and doing the European Renaissance was, to portray the youngest of the three kings located pay homage to the Christ child in the major Beverly M as in Ethiopian another African king and zapor the wife of Moses in the European Renaissance painting  these are images for the people call them Forest ejected civilization into Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and these are more than Spain in the 12th century playing chess you can find this in a a huge Monastery outside of Madrid these are images of the people called horse Gavin throughout Europe and Slovenia in shining armor a man named Satan Maurice that same knight in shining armor with the German Imperial Eagle I photographed this in Berlin about 3 months ago the father of Russian literature a man of African Heritage name Alexander Gammage Pushkin and this is the father of Alexander Doom II his son Hill you see before you is a famous author in French history he wrote books like The Count of Monte Cristo play the Iron Mask The Three Musketeers here and that is your work maybe finish but your education is never completed and he said something that I really really like my favorite expression that is man's mind is elevated to the status of the women with ob Associates neck this idiot Charles Barkley and that black people live in France today in York today this is my daughter  Denarius issues with our favorite historian finally the Americas this is important to finish with this this is what poorest people in the Americas look like rats 30,000 years ago this is not me this is science and this is the person I depiction of the person they are supposed to add in California after Co-op you this is written in a novel in Toledo Spain and 15/16 that it is scribes California's populated by mostly black women in Spanish Literature and then you have ancient stone heads from a civilization look at this black man clearly is because it was a big earthquake in the earthquake causes hits to roll around in the mud for a long time and they rolled and rolled and rolled and when they start rolling look like black people because I guess the features were flattened from the earthquake and they got dark from the mud so I wanted to compare those hands with that I know because these people around for an extended period of time have this one right here and I haven't rolled in an earthquake zup of a spitting image for that head these hands are important because I'll make civilization that they come from the first civilization of the Americas I'm not saying that all make symbolization was an African civilization I'm saying that Africans were apart an important part of the Olmec world that you can see more for example his one with braids in the back and you can compare that with this one right here  but these things are not taught in school it's so many African children grow with a sense of inferiority because they never hear these things about this is all I hear about is slavery they hear about the jungle can Europeans to this group with the sense of inferiority simply because they are given a one-sided view of history that is not correspond to reality you can see another friend of mine in front of Mexico does Shaquille O'Neal's prevention Mexico information bellies Canada in myself with that a black Christ in Panama black Christ and a black Christ in Guatemala a black Christ in Mexico a black crisis and Phil shows that one twice in just to finish just a few images of Africans and various parts of the Americas here I am with a woman in Berlin very mischievous children in Bolivia I really thought about taking that little boy with his father wasn't watching throwing him over a mountain in the Andes Daddy can look at them it was a funny little child but he made fun of the way I walked in front of the way I talk Columbia Ecuador what about this lady what lady  these are all children in Mexico a lot of people are not aware of an African presence in Mexico I said please  so all African people that I met during my lectures south of Acapulco Mexico even significant black population this is a freedom fighter from Mexico to end slavery girls named after his mother Karma Chameleon the Mexican Revolution this picture is from Haiti that Selene and I'll finish but just a handful of African-Americans a woman named Harriet Tubman conductor what a railroad Frederick Douglass This Woman's name is Mary Ann Shadd she published the first newspaper in North America that African-Americans time she's like George Washington Carver and Lewis Latimer with Thomas Edison and Ernest Everett just a marine biologist these are just images of African Americans in history Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Martin Luther King in Africa lot of people don't know that kingwin to Africa Rosa Parks  an educated a Mary McLeod Bethune images of African children you would a very short period of time is just to kind of go over some of the highlights and African history with this theme in mind our history did not get it changed 190 engine change hope you enjoyed it I hope you enjoyed the pictures even if you disagree with some of the things I had to say all this and the I don't know we'll have a few minutes to places but there's some other people in this school who need some of those as well some of these three racial incidents that happened young people certainly Council by the stuff changing things to say that we are doing and spend a few minutes acknowledging that incredible pirate the this is only one of the examples of it where they put together all these go, and put them in a jar  I want you to know that they reaffirm the humanity and dignity that exist on a camper weather I guess about a thousand years making the same story time to Seattle understand and that we have to put up the back into the curriculum in back into our lives at we must not continue to stereotype anyone and still he same because of that effort and I would like to to again acknowledge these extraordinary kindness of those teachers to have a explain to the youngsters what was going on and they said no we can't do that it came to my classroom pants with me in Brooklyn everyday because anything that you can do so what you can do is to continue to have us as a kind of study funny begin to understand that we have been lied to and that we will be the person who will be turn up to us to read and understand as much as possible and the beginning that process of are cell phone making a country hold  and so again thank you spell French classes with those people who came say and his plan to come to you have to know what's going on in the world you know when things are written that are not so and what is it if we have how many minutes left what's the weather play the one question from somebody how much how much is actually died African countries virtually all turn it off  yuc for Africa  and almost none of those resources are used for benefit of African we go to quick questions real quick the South Pacific 3035 Thousand Years they look like everybody in this room because African history and everybody's history Africa's the mother continent is One race and human race and the problem is it's the only the most negative things a lot of us instinctively put that's what science tells us DNA studies confirm  so thank you all for coming God bless you and I hope it's

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