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Emmitt Smith was on the TV show “Who Do You Think You Are” and found out about his heritage. Through DNA records and wills, marriage licenses and other documents the producers of the show traced Emmit Smith’s lineage back to slavery, where he found out his ancestors were bred by a family that also bred horses.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/odoggz/ odoggz

    and this is why I HATE these stupid DNA specials like the one with that angry black guy who broke into his own house at Harvard, is doing. We WE blacks get up on these shows, they want to connect us to white slave masters who beat, raped or bred us like this. What did you EXPECT to find, if you’re African American straight from USA? I hate it! I hated that one that MSNBC did with one David meeting the other David with the same name. Why do I want to trace back to being OWNED by some white? Fuking dehumanizing!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittytva/ smittytva

    odoggz,thats the the way i felt for years i don,t understant, what black people are looking in they,re slave owned past for,why would anybody want to know about that time,they already know whats there,they all know about slavery,it seems like they,re thinking that if they find some of their so called white ancester they will some how become accepted by whites because they can always say some crazy crap like i have white family members so i,m half white, with that we,re all brothers trash,i wouldn,t even won,t to know about that period in time because, i don,t care what they claim to have found if someone did trace my roots because i,ll never ever accept any white person as being no ancester of mine,ain,t no way in the hell.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    look at these kats in the NBA & NFL

    alot of us were ‘bred’ to make us stronger so we could harder and make massah more money.

    slavery still got us all f**ked up and crazy out of our minds, traumatized and stuck on stupid….

    but ummmm….

    we had a glorious history BEFORE slavery !!!

    we so damn stuck on 1400s-1800s, as if we dont have any history.

    go to a f**king library and read something other than magazines and porno-novels……

    we built civilizations ALL OVER THE GLOBE

    North & South America, Afrika, Arabia, India, Asia… they all have our ‘footprints’ there….

    we sailed the 7 seas while the europeans were still figuring out how to cook their food & bathe

    the Greeks sat at our feet as OUR students

    we marched with elephants against the unholy Roman empire

    we brought Europe outta the dark ages & gave them a portion of our secret sciences, wearing OUR Fez/tarboosh and wearing OUR sacred symbols

    then we fell asleep….anddddd here we are today….

    still groggy n 1/2 sleep :)

    ps- quiet as its kept, we had europeans as OUR slaves first. (not that it makes it right)

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/carol1218/ carol1218

    @odogzz, It’s not your humanity (or your ancestors) that is lessened by slavery. It’s the humanity of the slave owners. They and their descendants are the ones who are lessened by slavery. I see myself as a descendant of strong survivors who did what they had to do to live through the middle passage and the most brutal form of human slavery in the history of the western world. My “American” ancestors gave the term “survivors of the fittest” real meaning and I only honor their memory by learning more about what they went through.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WindChimes/ WindChimes

    So sad, but he knows his truth in America. Just like Chris Tucker and Oprah learned they have no European-white in their blood line. It exposes the evils against Blacks and puts names and faces to the African Holocaust. For example, it’s been linked that African Americans are more likely to have hypertension because of the “ocean” water (clean water was only for the captors) Africans were given while chained on the slave ships across the TransAtlantic.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ihateinteracial/ ihateinteracial

    SO U TELLING ME THIS DAWK A.S.S NICCA NEEDED A BLOOD TEST TO KNOW HE IS AN AFRAKAN?

    BWHAHAHAHAHAHA

    ALSO THE DNA TEST HAVE BENE PROVEN TO BE FALSE

    DONT WATSE UR MONEY ON THESE THINGS THEY ARE MONEY WASTERS

    LOOK AT UR FACIAL FEATURES AND ANYONE IN AFRAKA CAN TELL U WHAT TRIBE U LOOK LIKE

    I.D.I.O.I.T.S

    BROTHA LOOK LIKE HE FROM GHANA

    NUFF SAID

    THOSE WHO NEED A DNA TEST ARE WEAK

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/colts30/ colts30

    I’m like others how can one not know they have WHITE BLOOD in them? NO black who can trace their roots a few generations is PURE african here in the USA…

    ( http://www.ThyBlackMan.com – Brotherhood at it’s best… )

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    you know…here we go again…with oprah and this slave s**t!!!…’how did knowing about your past make you FEEL about yourself’..and he breaks down…you know i really wasn’t gonna comment because i’m just too through with oprah over precious…but here we go again…she has a major black superstar athlete on nationwide t.v. BREAKING DOWN over lineage that is PROBABLY not accurate…because we were separated from our families from the time we got here!!!!so how in the s**t do they know who was linked to who? i’m sorry but i will be so glad when they take her off the air…like lee daniels, i just don’t understand her anymore….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    Weak azz nlggers

    look at this bufoon crying on national telievision
    effemanite azz nlggers and the biches that xpose them

    lmao…he crying cause they bred his folk…..the nerve of the clown

    2 piggyback off SFlarez
    We didn’t really have them in Slavery bruh
    they guardians GAVE THEY CHILDREN 2 us! 2 be civilized
    the whites given 2 us was literate, clean, well behaved, socially spondent

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    i’m just waiting for someone to go on oprah’s show and say that during their ancestor’s slavery days this person was beaten and raped and what family member molested who in the slave days….i mean she goes from one extreme to the next…if it’s not someone in the inner city who was beaten or raped by a family member it’s a slave story of who was bred like ‘animals’ or beaten or raped by the massa!!!! I mean WTF is her problem??????!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    I could trace my families to 1855;My father’s side semi-free; working on farms owned by whites, but wasn’t allowed in the towns in Gainsville(near Missisippi) Alabama, and the Mom’s folks were from Virginia (which was free, but segregated), but my granfather was in the Spanish American War as a corporol (highest ranking in 1898), can do most any job despite being illiterate. and I believe there was some om my people were slaves on my dad’s side…..Emmett isn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last to know that out forefathers were NOT free……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    can’t believe i’m up this late but…

    that’s all i’m saying…like he’s in shock at the ‘horror’ that our forefathers were enslaved and sold off like ‘property’….all i know is that my grandmother on my mother’s side were descendants from ethiopia…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SexyKeeva/ SexyKeeva

    Wow,
    The nerve of you people! I can’t believe some of the comments that I’ve just read. Yes we know that white people dislike Blacks. That’s cool! I cannot stoop to your level because I am Black. Its too bad that a man can’t cry over the wrongful treatment that your white &**&(*%$## of *&&^%$ did to ours. You wonder why you got a Black President. You must bow now and what can you do. Ain’t it funny how life goes around. The same Black people that you have mistreated, you have to answer to now. LMAO! Mr. Smith, I feel your pain and I know how things happen. How could people be so inconsiderate? I know y’all white people love sports. Keep watching and see how the Blacks have handle their business and making MILLIONS of Dollars! Remember when sports was only for white people? See how times have changed! Change! Change! Change! White people, stop hating Blacks. Oh, I forgot. KARMA!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    @jazzwatch

    that’s what i’m saying…like this is new to him?like he didn’t realize that our forefathers that were enslaved were beaten and sold off like property? I mean that’s my point…i’m not racist in either aspect of the word…but it’s these subliminal messages that piss me off…here she goes again…she has a highly respected BLACK MAN with A BLACK FAMILY on nationwide damn t.v. up there with crocodile tears over dna tests that are probably not accurate!!!! i mean is she serious? all we know is that we came from africa…hence MALCOLM X….our language, religion, and names were robbed…hence MALCOLM X!!! i’ll just never understand her hang ups with the black man…sorry…and this obsession with slaves, and physical and sexual abuse…i mean and then they say..’so we won’t forget’ SO YOU WON’T FORGET WHAT??!! You didn’t experience anything like slavery or the emancipation!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    I mean seriously…He needs a DNA test to tell him that his forefathers…basically we are from mother Africa and that our forefathers were sold, and bought like property???? seriously???? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE????!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Butterfly9481/ Butterfly9481

    And he is shocked???????Or do these people ‘that have made it in society’
    forget they are still Black, were bred like dogs for profit, sold and separated from each other, and still considered beneath whites? This is all for show. Surely he can’t be that stupid??????????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AWV68/ AWV68

    It is an incredible thing to me to hear the many opinions of black/or African American people who carry the attitiude that learning about yourself being dehuminizing or not is a bad thing. The Funny thing that if you take the attitude that you dont care about the past, then how can you know where your going. Smith and others who out from whence they came, have a sense of closure and tap into the incestory that gives you the strength to overcome the very obstacles that confront from the white protagonistic point of view. To the person who said you do not need DNA to know your African, for your info every race started in Africa and migrated and adapted to their surroundings. An example Chinese people and Africans share the same DNA yet Chinese people are extremly racist against blacks due to white media sensationalism. Now this hip hop generation x, the me generation who does’nt known history, for that matter what happened last week, is coming up uneducated, violent, illiterate. Over 40% of the american culture are functional illiterates who don’t know or care about anything a large percentage, my own people because all they care about is money, hip hop, being a thug, rapper, video vixen, and having sex, anything else is irrelevant and that is why whites have been able to divide and conquer, and keep blacks with the same mentality, still acting like cattle. you need to wake up, educate yourselves, find out who you are, and you will find that blacks are the original people look back to the pharoahs, Affonso I, Imhotep, Hannibal, Tutenkaman, Rameses II, before slavery we were kings, you would’nt know it by what slavery has done and still doing is why you have bloods, crips, pimps, hoes, ex cons, thugs rappers, baby daddies & momma’s etc, what is wrong with you people. read a book!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    But you know what? most of us know that the human race started in Africa…I actually had a professor one time…stand in front of 100 students and said ‘he didn’t believe it’…i don’t need a DNA test to tell me that i come from kings and queens..i don’t need a DNA test to tell me that my forefathers once ruled the Earth…I don’t need a DNA test to tell me how strong my bloodlines are…I don’t need a DNA test to tell me the atrocities that my ancestors endured not only in Africa…which some tribes sold the ‘strongest’ to the whites for labor…but that’s a whole other story…but the atrocities that they endured while here in the states and continue to endure with this ‘slave mentality’….that even some of us want to continue to hold onto like it’s the last meal we will ever have!!!!! all i’m saying is why have this strong black man get up on nation wide damn t.v. and start boo hooing over something that was evident for years…i have my opinion…i think oprah has this issue with black men…i’m sorry…and i know the vast majority won’t agree with but it’s just the way i feel…she has made a fortune on exploiting stereotypes and negatives of the community…before this didn’t she do a study about how most black men that are incarcerated have aids and that’s why black women are at risk for aids…A DNA TEST…GTFOH!!!! I would want to know the actual tribe…I would much rather take an actual trip to Africa…like Jay Z and Chris Tucker did to really find my out my actual roots to the motherland…not some damn DNA test…i mean WTF??? and excuse my french but it pisses me off…sorry.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fitnessman05/ fitnessman05

    Emmitt Emmitt Emmitt…..I don’t know where this brotha is from but where i’m from i was compelled to learn my history,the Brotha’s & Sista’s in my hood made sure the information was relayed to me,i got literature from the brotha with the bow tie,the barber shop,the local black store everywhere man,it was a little overwhelming sometimes but i got the message.

    By having that knowledge at a young age it wasn’t really hard to imagine what Slaves went through in that dark time in African American History,every demoralizing thing imaginable did happen to Slaves,Knowledge is Power,history tells us advance civilizations will always rule.

    I personally will like to track my Ancestors into African so i can get my proper title like algerian,sudanian,kenyian or what ever part of Africa my blood line comes from,i would like to see a dedicated African American place of Records/History dealing with this issue,so those who want to know can have i vast amount of information at there disposal.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    @ fitnessman05

    on point!!!!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kevanj/ kevanj

    the truth, it’s all over the bible… check these scriptures out and maybe you will understand who you really are… you def not african, those are the children of Ham… We are the children of Israel, the chosen of the Most High

    Deu 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. {this shows we came on the ships to slavery again as slavemen and slavewomen, Egypt means bondage/slavery}

    Exo 13:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten. {this shows you egypt means house of bondage/slavery}

    Deu 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: {this shows you because we didn’t follow his commandments in the wilderness we fell and the curses came upon us, one of those curses being brought over to america as slaves}

    Deu 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.{this shows we came on the ships, hungry, naked, in thirst and in want of all things with a yoke of Iron upon our necks as we were being sold}

    Joe 3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. {this shows you who we were sold to by the Africans from the Ivory Coast to the Grecians… we are not children of Ham(Africans)}

    Rev 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. {here is Christ himself calling out the imposter jews that are in Israel right now, they are the synagogue of satan, that’s why the six point star is on their flag… we are the true Jews, the chosen of Israel}

    Psa 83:1 A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
    Psa 83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
    Psa 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
    Psa 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
    Psa 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
    Psa 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
    Psa 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
    Psa 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
    {This shows you that all the nations in the earth have come together to keep hidden that we are the children of Israel… the so called negro is Judah, the same tribe Christ came out of, you can read that in Hebrews 7:14}

    I hope you all understand what you have just read… it’s the truth being revealed by the Holy Spirit in the last days… bless you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NYCsmoove/ NYCsmoove

    What a surprise Emitt…I now pronounce you a black man.

    @Kevaj

    You Israelites are so far from the truth. You are definitely lost and confused.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Bornn2winn/ Bornn2winn

    I have done genealogy research since 1997. I have found some of my ancestors in wills and inventory lists. It didnt make me cry. I knew that they were slaves, I just wanted to find the doc**entation for my own research.

    I dont know why anyone would cry about it unless they are living in an imaginary world where they think they have all of a sudden arrived because they have money, fame, and power. Emmitt and Oprah need to quit with the dramatics.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jay_dre55/ Jay_dre55

    We all know our ancestors were slaves. If u want to cry about it then go ahead. We also know of people that have had crackhead mothers and gangster father that have been successful.Its aight to want to know about ur past. Just don’t let it define u.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/aaronaroc/ aaronaroc

    BLACK PEOPLE PLEASE WAKE UP. YOU ARE NOT AFRICAN YOU ARE THE JEWS OF THE BIBLE.

    1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
    Psalms 83:1-8 (KJV)
    The curses for disobedience
    15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. 27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
    45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: 46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. Deut 28:15-68 (KJV)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mallymizzle/ mallymizzle

    aaronroc is correct! Just because your are Negriod does not mean you are from African. Black people are a global people found on all continets. Especially the middle east.. Read Genesis…Nimrod the ruler of ancient babylon was a descendant of Kush(black or negro). That means that yes…the so called middle east was settle by blacks. Black culture can be found all across the globe. That is what they do not want you to know. The curse in the bible do fit the characteristics of the american blacks or the tribe of judah. The Isrealites are lost. Who are more lost than the american blacks. Know this. what ever name whites or the system gives you, you must believe the opposite. If they are calling you african, it’s b/c they dont want you to know who you are!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BossCupid/ BossCupid

    You people who believe that the Negro Race is a curse upon the land better get your heads out of that conmans manual and wake up . The bible is the book of the long con pure and simple . Because it’s been played so long and will continue to play on as long as fools spout with conviction from the fables that is written in it …
    Wake up …

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jaws5204/ jaws5204

    by reading some of these comments, wow there are some heartless people here. at least emmitt smith showed he had a heart. so many black people dont even know about their history, some black people say they aint even from africa. black people we are loseing ourselves…we worried more about getting paper then our history..we are letting music dumb down our brains,our black women are dressing like the women on music videos.and our black men/boys thinks being a thug is a good thing and making bad grades in school is something to laugh at. we are doing what society want us to do and that is act like some NIGGAS wich means a ignorant fools….WAKE UP NIGGAS and be the proud brothas and sistah we use to be and hold yourself to a higher standard

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    okay so if we are not african-americans or africans…call me nubian then!!! :)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alphamarz/ alphamarz

    AARONAROC-
    Man! you shine like a lightning bolt splitting the sky! That kind of truth can make people internal combust. do not cast your pearls before swine! Be as cunning as a snake, but as humble as a dove. You already see how the truth can be used for selfishness. SHALOM

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/literati_edmonton/ literati_edmonton

    Wow, some of you are really harsh.
    Not everyone knows the details of their ancestry. Our ancestors went through hell living in America and it’s understandable that if after a generation or two no one wanted to talk about the horrible past.
    Don’t forget there were also a lot of secrets that were kept and sometimes going back through history answers some of those nagging questions when your genealogy doesn’t quite make sense.
    I’m glad to see a black man who isn’t afraid to show healthy emotions. Tears are safer than guns. If more men weren’t afraid to cry I bet there’d be a lot less domestic violence in our world.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BLESSMAY/ BLESSMAY

    BOSS CUPID -

    Thank you for telling these mental slaves!
    They cry foul about everything yet still live life by the same laws that enslaved them!

    Yo my friend is blond haired and blue eyed white guy that can walk on water do you believe me?

    Of course not you idiot! Then why would you believe whitey who bred you like horses and treated you as dogs!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/OrbitalFlow/ OrbitalFlow

    You all do realize that it is proven that ALL people have originated from Africa, right? To be more precise, most researchers agree that mankind spread out in a single point in Africa 50, 000 years ago, quickly establishing Stone Age cultures throughout Europe, Asia and Australia.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kevanj/ kevanj

    all who don’t believe we are Israel will see with their own eyes that we are at the judgement… and I’ll leave this scripture with you all… Rev 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: IF you deny that you are Israel (Negro=tribe of Judah) you straight up denying the Kingdom… why? Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. And what knowledge we are lacking? Jer 17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. We don’t even know who we are because our true Israelite heritage was taken from us, stop believing you are African, we are the true Jews… and this is what Christ said to those who in the land now claiming they are the true jews… Rev 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Now who else you know that hast he six pointed star on their flag? WAKE UP PEOPLE!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gin21/ gin21

    @ Kevanj, I wish all of the other brothers out here were on the same page as we are, then we could turn things around and stop being blind and ignorant. Not knowing who you are and the lack of wanting to know is our major problem. Stay strong and always remember who you are.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/uche1/ uche1

    We africans, either here in the USA or elsewhere are not from israel. Israel just happens to be the place where the latest and most popular story of human origins started. This story too will pass just as the story of Isis, Olodumare, Abassi, Zeus and others have. As we acquire more knowledge of our surroundings it will come to pass for we will see clearer, further and more truthful. Be mindful young brother that this belief of christianity was forced on your ancestors for a purpose. The purpose of subjugation of a people. Your people. All people have these stories. They have never been very truthful or accurate for we as a people are just emerging from the darkness of ignorance. what could java man or the cro-magnon know of what we know now? In our early development we explained things with limited understanding thus with limited truth for understanding is truth.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    Nagas/Negus 4 Life :)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/odoggz/ odoggz

    @uche1
    What’s up with all these African tribes claiming to be jews lately? I’m not understanding this. I hear that many are going out and getting DNA tests to prove this, some have been linked to jews, but many others who wanted to be down are found NOT be to jewish, in blood. WTF is going on with that crap in Africa?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    back in the day all our energy was used as THEIR labor, building up THEIR s**t, and embarrassing ourselves as THEIR entertainment….

    thank God those days are over ;)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jahz_Lynx1/ Jahz_Lynx1

    @ aaronaroc_Some Africans are Jews, meaning they practice the religion or are part of a culture of traditions. Africans like Europeans are defined by their nationality which is different from religous labels. Some reformed Jews have abandoned taking issues w/the Torah as literal. The Hasidic want to preach being ‘chosen’ and those coming from descendants of the Halocaust want to reduce the teachings to political mythology. Even they turn their backs on some of the power and control issues being put out by controlling rabbis. The teachings fall apart at Mt. Sinai. Those there were the ‘chosen’ but didn’t want to hear Adonai, booming in their ears.
    God and Moses had that conversation that goes, “thems your people not my people, oh hell no I ain’t claiming them kvetching fools either.” If you look at the wholesale slaughter of those at Sinai by Moses’ thugs, there’s no way to make sense of that. The idea that poor Jewish slaves would give up all their gold to melt together is ridiculous. Goldsmithing requires conditons not commonly found in nomadic communities. What you’re missing is the Africans connection to the Creator and how the survival of humankind depended on the Africans building this personal relationship. The Africans were the first in spiritual development. That being so strong that every culture coming from it has seeked to destroy it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jahz_Lynx1/ Jahz_Lynx1

    @ aaronaroc_…look to the story of Cain and Abel to see how those most favored by the Creator are destroyed by the resentment of others. This occurs globally. So what are they afraid of and why aren’t we tapping in on what they fear the most?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SenorCafeDa2nd/ SenorCafeDa2nd

    @BossCupid Thats real talk my brotha.

    Negroes still taking massas religion and using it to keep themselves mentally enslaved.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gail_Brooks/ Gail_Brooks

    i think what shocked me the most with this story…is not so much that he got upset…because it is healthy to show emotion…but i guess what shocked me the most is that he was shocked that his ancestors were treated inhumane? i mean reading some of the stories it really was like an african holocaust…kinda like the aids epidemic in africa today…but that’s another conspiracy and story for another time…but i’m just baffled that he is shocked that his ancestors were ‘bred’…i mean most were killed, maimed, and sold off in front of family members at the time….maybe it’s just for publicity for that show…because i’m just really having a hard time believing that he needed a dna test to tell him he’s from africa and his ancestors were slaves that were abused!!! really it’s sad if this is some sort of exploitation of our history for ratings for a show…

    just my opinion.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/momono3/ momono3

    because i’m just really having a hard time believing that he needed a dna test to tell him he’s from africa and his ancestors were slaves that were abused!!! really it’s sad if this is some sort of exploitation of our history for ratings for a show…

    LOLOLOLOL!!! Things like this are sad but true. When I told a young black woman that George Washington owned slaves, she was floored. She said “but he was the president. Didn’t he know that was wrong”.

    All nationalities need to dig and find out their history, because it will never be told right if you get it from your high school text book.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez
  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mamacita101/ Mamacita101

    I watched the part of the show where he was looking for marriage licenses and he was shocked to see the books labled “whites” and “coloreds”. Then he was even more shocked when the woman told him that the records of “coloreds” were kept sporadically and he may or may not find what he was looking for. I was trying to figure out why he was so shocked at the “whites/coloreds” thing because Emmitt Smith is about the same age as my mama so I know he remember the separation from the 60′s. If my mama remember it, he gotta remember it.

    One day school books, history books, and historical television will show the realness of slavery and diaspora. I don’t mean the Roots version of slavery either – I mean just show how f**ked up it was. Go all Amastad “boat ride”. If they can show the realness of the Holocaust, like that is more important that slavery, then they can show what it was really like to be an African slave in this f**ked up ass country. Maybe one day everybody will learn what it’s really like to be black in america not just hear individual stories and chaulk it up to some “well just because it happened to you don’t mean it’s happening to everybody” bulls**t.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sbufford/ sbufford

    come on not just his family

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