Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 7:14
#TeachSwell | Black and Brown History Everyday: Know Your Family History its Very important.📖📚
There is so much to learn about our history, about what we've been through. So ask questions. It does not hurt to know where you came from. And if you do, that's wonderful. But for a lot of us, because of the civil war and all the paperwork that got destroyed and all the fires, we'll never know where we come from. But if you can get a little nugget, a little tidbit of information, maybe you can find out something else
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:33
And so I think something like ancestry.com would be very helpful in helping me to find out more about my father's side of the family, especially, and to see how far back our roots go. So thank you so much for sharing
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 0:32
Thank you so much. You're absolutely correct. Medical history is crucial. And that's why I was saying we need more geneticists and people that deal with the dna and genome because we need to know more about that as African Americans, because we slack off. A lot of us don't even know anything about our history and we don't say anything. Like you said, due to embarrassment, some people don't say anything about what's going on with their history
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:51
And I'll say, Nigeria. I got to watch myself because the few people that I've told that to, they're like, well, what tribe or what? Start getting down into the nitty gritty. Like, this is information I got from a genealogy test. Listen, you're going way too deep. I don't know. Thank you again so much for sharing this. Swell. Bye
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 1:00
And then a lot of people from the north, the soldier from the north, would set things on fire so the houses would burn to the ground, and so would the records. But to be able to know what country you come from, that's amazing. I wish I knew. I wish that we knew what country we came from, what tribe, but we're going to find out. And I'm so pleased that you shared that story. I was listening intently, too
And now they have a shared communal language so they can at least communicate with each other. They will know what the orders are so they won't get beaten or physically hurt or harassed or whatever. Right? So that's a big difference. But then also about the culture that was passed down. Do you know we're living in 2024, we're on the 9th day of the new year, and there are people today who are still recipients of african culture
And when we start doing a lot of research and we're going to the library, we're learning how to actually find the proper books to teach us about our history, those credible sources, and everything. Understanding the history around the time when those authors wrote these books. Because we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of years ago, right? We're talking about all of this time ago
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 0:59
And now with DNA and genetics, we can pretty much pinpoint where in Africa we come from. So all of these things are a correlation of good things that we can use in order to further our discovery and our presentation of our actual black and brown history in America every day. And that's why I post it. Thank you so much for telling us more. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Bye
