African Americans are too good too good to trace roots.

Olownwa, I don’t understand your comment. Do you mean that AA’S will not want to trace our roots?

DAM!!!.THAT WILL BE SOMETHING IF IAM A COUSIN TO THAT OLD TIRED ASS B^TCH ..’OLOUNWA”!!. BUT IF IAM WHAT UP CUZ!! I DO HERE THAT YA ‘LL DO HAVE A..’ LITTLE HANKY PANKY”.. WITH IN THE RANKS. I JUST MAY CLEAN OUT YOUR COB WEBS!!

to olounwa-?????huh? “too good” to trace roots. I dont get the point of your comment. I am grateful to finally have a chance to one day be aware of the full extent of my family tree. Most people, whether black, white, hispanic or asian have the need to know who they are and where they came from (its human nature). Think before you pass judgement. Based on your name alone I can stereotype lots of things!!!Lets be mature and respectful!!This is one great stride toward African Americans taking back what we were robbed of in the 1st place.

I hope it won’t be hard because some slave names were constantly changed the reason was because the master will to sale there slaves to different plantations. Although this took place if a slave were sold to another slave owner they would change that slave name to it’s present owner and the slave would lose there former slave name. Not to mention i don’t even know my ancesters slave name. I do know i have a last name that is German and my biological father name is french but still i’m proud to be a black women of color forever i will be proud. But i would like to know what ship my ancestors came off of , what tribe they came from which will let me know where i am in the database.

African Americans should be glad they had an ancestor on one of those ships. They enjoy a much higher standard of living than Africans.

Olownwa, You don’t know how it troubles African Americans to be hated by the world. You don’t know how it feels to not know exactly who you are. You don’t know how it feels to have your title changed from $*?%@% to Colored to Negro, to Afro American, to Afircan American. We have always had pride in Africa and our connection to it! I would love to know who my blood relatives are in Afirca my best Friend at work is from Gana and you know what when we first met she treated me like ~???! When I was simply trying to be a friend. As a child it ment somehting to me to take my shoes off to have a foot race with someone. I would say I got African blood in me watch me!! And I would smoke boys and girls running. Just having that pride made me feel like I was unstoppable. You don’t truly know our struggle. We are kind people by nature. Yes we have lost some of our ways from the motherland in order to survive in the country. Remeber we were sold into slavery for rum,and spices!!!

I’m very curious shoot i might have some rich relatives out there, and oluonwa stop the hating, it’s ugly.

Really people, think about it! What makes you think the information is accurate? Also, where do you think the information is coming from? It’s very hard to trace, I could imagine, but I really don’t know. I just find it hard to believe that it would be accurate. I know for sure those white folks didn’t carry any records or paperwork on slaves, not unless they made it up as they went along. How accurate is that? Why is all this coming out now? WHat difference will it make what ship your ancestor was on, are you gonna look for the captains family? Black people let’s focus on today and the future, we still have a long way to go. I’m intitled to my opinion not to taint others.

Olownwa, Africans sold their own into slavery for rum. All of Africa was colonized and exploited by Europeans for centuries, (except for Ethiopia) resulting in a devestating and traumamatic burden which Africa has yet to recover from, yet some Africans have the nerve to harbor resentment aganst us African American decendents. Africans don’t need to hate us because of what they themselves did. At some point in time we need to learn to love and help one another.

Some people hide behind screennames and spew ignorance and hate. Hate takes years off your life and makes you old and bitter.

WHERE’S DAVID WHEN YOU NEED HIM!!! OLOUNWA, DAVID SHOULD BE A WAKE UP CALL FOR YOU!! THEY SEE ALL OF US THE SAME. SO WHILE YOU TRY TO SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM US, DAVID WILL QUICKLY LET YOU KNOW THAT TO HIM (AND OTHERS LIKE HIM) BLACK IS BLACK NO MATTER WHAT PART OF THE WORLD/COUNTRY YOU ARE FROM!!!

I had the honor to sail 2007-2008 on the Freedom Schooner Amistad (which was not a slave ship but intercoastal cargo carrier out of Cuba in the 1800?s it never sailed to African) for the Atlantic Freedom Tour which retraced the triangluar slave trade…we were invited to the UK for the 200th anniversary of the signing fo the Wilberforce treaty which abolished international slave trade in 1807…I sailed as chef and griot…we visited over 14 ports and last January I rejoined the schooner in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the 53 captives were taken from and bought off the Terco in Havana and then put on the Amistad for transport to the east coast of Cuba when a revolt insued, which was on of the only successful revolts…

One of the honors I had was to participant in a ceremony for the Ancestors that were lost in the “Middle Passage”…I was able to chant Nam myoho renge kyo for all of the souls that were lost and those that made a way for myself and other to become who we are today…

It was truly a honor to be part of making history…and proud to be few of black women who sail…I hope that more Black Americans take the time to trace their history many will be very surprise…another fact I learned that “Sullivan Island in Charleston, SC. was the Ellis Island of the Slave trade…it is said that 40% of enslaved Africans were brought to America through this stopping point and that 60% of blacks born in America of desendcants of those enslaved Africans…also Carolina Rice has it?s roots in Sierra Leone, by way of the Slave Castle on Bunts Island…learn about our history…

I had the honor to sail 2007-2008 on the Freedom Schooner Amistad (which was not a slave ship but intercoastal cargo carrier out of Cuba in the 1800?s it never sailed to African) for the Atlantic Freedom Tour which retraced the triangluar slave trade…we were invited to the UK for the 200th anniversary of the signing fo the Wilberforce treaty which abolished international slave trade in 1807…I sailed as chef and griot…we visited over 14 ports and last January I rejoined the schooner in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the 53 captives were taken from and bought off the Terco in Havana and then put on the Amistad for transport to the east coast of Cuba when a revolt insued, which was on of the only successful revolts…

One of the honors I had was to participant in a ceremony for the Ancestors that were lost in the “Middle Passage”…I was able to chant Nam myoho renge kyo for all of the souls that were lost and those that made a way for myself and other to become who we are today…

It was truly a honor to be part of making history…and proud to be few of black women who sail…I hope that more Black Americans take the time to trace their history many will be very surprise…another fact I learned that “Sullivan Island in Charleston, SC. was the Ellis Island of the Slave trade…it is said that 40% of enslaved Africans were brought to America through this stopping point and that 60% of blacks born in America of desendcants of those enslaved Africans…also Carolina Rice has it?s roots in Sierra Leone, by way of the Slave Castle on Bunts Island…learn about our history…

well, this is interesting. someone is using my moniker to put out stupid posts..!! hahahaha must be jffnnlynnredneckhunter… am not interested in african americans tracing their “roots” . that doesnt do anything to stem the tide of black on black crime or the export of the b h and gangsta culture to youth in black africa.. who ever put up that stupid braindead post is just pissed cos they know , like thelma i speak the truth. bring it… jffnnrednecklynn.. its on…. hahahahahaha!!!