Native Hawaiians and the Gullah people need to move on a massive class action lawsuit.

Who builds a resort in a graveyard?! That’s just sick!!

Property taxes should be outlawed.

As a Gullah Geechee descendant this breaks my heart. What can I do to help.

That horrible woman who told the people who lost their land "sarry it didn't work out the way you expected but I am glad you are here" is so typical of false American niceness masking hypocrisy and the abuse of anyone who gets in the way of American greed.

It was heartbreaking to watch the auction proceedings. It’s almost like what’s the point of claiming your property if there is a large chance of it being purchased by someone else. People don’t care, as long as they can make money. I feel for this beautiful community.

I never understood why my people and our land couldn’t be listed as a historic area but then I realized what we looked like and then I remembered what country we live in.

Commercial development is coming to ever major city, leaving the poorest people literally trapped in rental units and completely unable to afford housing.....it's happening not only in the US but the whole world. It legit scares me

Shout out to that old TV show Gullah Gullah Island back in the 90's. That show introduced me to the Gullah people as a child.

Truly heartbreaking..they hear you say hier property but still want to buy ...evil evil

It never seems that African-descent & indigenous peoples “are forgotten”, it seems as though government systems very much remember them & want them eradicated.

These people are Demons!!! They don’t want the Geechee people to keep they land… this is sad! They take over everything & don’t care & this is why they are all facing they Karma right now 🙏🏽

Americans aren’t taught Black history… many kids in schools (no matter what race) never learn about minorities, their struggles, what actually happened to Native Americans, the horrible things that happened to enslaved people (before and after 1865), the Chinese Exclusion Act, and as a history major in college- my professors put a primary focus on it, and I wish we could shout it from the rooftops. This information, along with the legacy of the Gullah Geechee (and their continued struggles) all deserve to be in history books! In order to teach kids love and compassion, they have to understand the struggles of the people around them. As a white kid from the Midwest, I can guarantee my school (and many schools) never taught any of this. There are so many changes that still need to happen in the US!

It’s heartbreaking, Im a Stewart raised in Atlanta and have always had a connection to the island spiritually. I don’t want my family’s history colonized, it’s literally the closest ancestral land we have left.

This is happening everywhere. May God put a stop to this robbery

Property tax needs to End as your home will never be yours.

Just a 79 year old white native South Carolinian. Spent spent many summers at Bluffton growing up and Hilton head before the bridge. Met many Gullah’s and they and their culture was great. What happened was a culturural and environmental tradgery. I wish that the past could come back.

I think a fund should be set up to help these people pay back taxes and get their land back!!! This is heartbreaking 💔

This is the golden rule of capitalism: "He who has the gold, makes the rules."

"I do want that tradition to remain here" Sure, Jan

Money is the most deadly product of mental illness

What type of Heart must a person have to bid on land after knowing it's Heirs Property? GOD IS WATCHING✝️

This is so wrong, but it is happening everywhere. My family has been on the same farm land for 7 generations, but every farm around it has been sold to developers. 200+ houses to the west, 300+ to the north, and 300+ now going up to the east. These latest homes are being sold for 500-7-00 thousand each. It is a matter of votes as well as tax base. Our little farm does not produce the amount of income that all of these other people do combined, that's for sure. Also, we have 3 voting adults vs. how many adults living in these developments?? We don't stand a chance, and eventually ( in the not too distant future) my mom will be pushed off of land that she and my dad worked all of their married life 62 years together.. They milked cows, tilled the fields, and raised 6 kids. They paid their taxes, were never in trouble with the law, helped everyone that they could and would give the shirt off of their backs, while doing without themselves. Why should they push her off of the farm??Because they are rich and she is not. The developers have an army of lawyers and politicians in their pocket and they know just what to do to take it away. My Aunt and Uncle had their home taken away by Emminent Domain. It was a home that my Great Grandfather built by hand and had been in the family for 4 generations. They said it was to widen the road. Road has never been widened, but the house was torn down. Stand your ground!! Hold on to every inch that you can and find a smart, savvy lawyer who will back you. Praying that you stand strong, and are victorious!!!!

I grew up watching Gullah Gullah's Island and I had no idea that today it is known as Hilton Head Island. I feel super ignorant, glad I know now.

I see this, and I feel like it's the same story here in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. I feel for them and it's infuriating. Had to struggle to finish the video. The advice at the end for turist and people interested in moving to a new place is the right one. Hope there's a solution for them!

" the market will correct itself "... in this case at the expense of the Gullah Geechee

This saddens me but it happens so many times. I remember a video I watched from a few years back talking about how the Gullah have to fight with descendants of other Gullah people who have moved from the area and come back home to sell the land to developers instead of keeping the rich history and family land.

Same is happening in Cumberland Island in Georgia.

This should be a Historical community!

*"All shut-eye is not sleep."* Damn, that was deep.

2:00 Its weird how AJ+ put English caption when the black guy speaking, but he speaks perfect American English.

This deserves more views.

It needs to be a territory with autonomy, and the same for Hawaii.

We need a website so we can help them pay their taxes.

God bless protect the Gullah Geechee people! 🙏🏾❤️

3:40 he should tell them they're golfing on graves!

Not the “liaison” blaming them for not trusting…why would they. Useless.

Gotta love good ole colonialism

Good advice at the end. Unfortunate how people can just take, take, take without a care of who it affects.

Just watching this was devastating. More light needs to be shined on these. Our people. 😪

This is so heartbreaking!!

This is truly heart breaking and pisses me off

This is absolutely disgusting! What kind of people would buy this land. There is wrath that is coming and it will consume these heartless beings that have purchased these taxes. May they truly eat their own vomit.

Award all the properties to the native people. Charge rents to the visitors... the money goes to fund an education and healthcare system for the native people. Let them own it and govern it how they wish.

Wow. Not only sad but angering.

Government must compensate real owners in a justified way and make them part of development for good future don't rob there ancestor home , let them live in peace and dignity... Stop racism

I was there at beginning of covid. Just before we were locked down. (From Canada) drove down to visit my sister & family who gad just moved there for work. My Boyfriend & I WENT TO THAT GRAVEYARD!!! It was INCREDIBLE!!! I wanted to cry when I saw it tbh. I want to ho back & drive all through the southern states someday, seeing all those gravesites. It blew-my- mind. The history was on the island seemed like the only interesting part to me. The rest looked like upper middle class upper class, gated communities & expensive boats

Why can't they just leave us and our things alone, literally smh

Black People need to get back to practising group economics or this will forever keep happening, I don't care if other people think it's racist because other ethnicities practice self preservation too as they should...

When they were talking about fried fish with mustard and oysters nostalgia, when they said all shut eyes ain’t sleep and said Binyah yea I miss home. And oyster dressing (we don’t saying stuffing in Georgia) is so delicious.

I'm 75 and I would be glad to pay Rent to visit for a month. I'm so tired of Chicago it's terrible and I worked 42 year's I'm a Retired Registered Nurse. I heard a lot about the Island but never been there. My Parents were from Natches Mis. My Mom used to visit her Cousin on the Island many years ago.

It is so F'd up. My heart goes out to the community

“If youre able to get in, or be trusted by ‘them’’ consider yourself lucky” DuBois spokesperson for “The Town” when asked about lack of trust by the Gullah community.. Spoken as an outsider, hired by the town. Gee, sounds as if no communication of value or depth has occured. Why wasnt someone hired from wothin the Gullah community?

I worked on Hilton Head some dispicsable ignorant pple visit. God will give it back or take it away.

I'm grateful that AJ makes these docs, even if it's for their own benefit

Oh my God those people trying to outbid rightful owners/heirs should wake tf up! The fact that the people have to try defend their property is pathetic..so immoral. (bidder #110 and the rest all should be ashamed) they have some nerve 👿

Please, let's start a GoFundMe for these Gullah families, NOW (7/5/23)!!!!

God please wake up the spirits that are sleeping in that golf course may they wake up and cause so much havoc to the people who have stolen this land

The same is happening to St. Simons, Jekyll, and Sapelo island in Georgia.

Property tax needs to end as your home will never be yours

They have so much and we have so little yet they want ours 😢

This hurts my heart. This very much so upsets me.

When you own land, you still have to pay taxes, forever.Why?

This is the truth, everywhere we are. So sad. Thank you for showing our truth.

Praying for you guys!

Money is the grossest thing on earth and so are the heartless soulless beings😢

We be Geechee. Praise be Creator. Praise be Ancestordem.

Conquer or be Conquered is a game played out throughout time and that will never change.

They need to get a Go Fund me page to get these properties back , within that year. Too bad relatives, even living outside of Hilton Head should pay the property taxes.

Keep rising my black people. We are the original people, we CANNOT BE ERASED 🙌🏾✊🏿👊🏾

Nothing is ever enough for the greedy. Curses on all their houses! May the takers have theirs taken. May they end up in powerless shoes and be on the receiving end of the same injustices they took part in.

This video reinforce me to keep my property in my family. Like I said before get a well & trust asap. Tell your family members to watch this video and please get a well and trust.

How can we help this community generations to come and preserve this great culture in the America???

This is so wrong by all standards. Why hasn't other African American organizations stood up and fight for these people. Even if funds was raised to purchase the prime real a state for them. Pay the back taxes in order for them to keep their homes and land. There's something that can be done. This is pure discrimination. Some attorneys should help them with this fight.

Is there a go fund me for the lady who was outbid on her property?? I would love to donate 😭

I'm...very white lets get that out of the way lol. But, my great-grandparents moved to the Island in the 1910's. I'm born and raised on the Island and I can (as weird as it is) speak a little and understand basically without problems the Gullah language. I was born in 1990. At that point there was plenty of Gullah still around. I remember growing up driving home to our house on the water and there would be entire areas of dirt roads and Gullah fields of crops and several people I interacted with weekly were very very Gullah. Didn't think anything of it to be honest. Slowly, year after year, the land was sold and the area of Gullah influence has been eroded. I moved away for college and have stayed away because well it's a retirement community and I'm not 60 lol. I don't blame in any way the Gullah families who made huge amounts of money and secured family security and wealth, I wish the developers were more like the original developers in the 1950's who respected the Gullah culture a lot more. Y'all gotta realize the island was successful and grew (in terms of popularity) because it was different. Because it was peaceful. Because it was definitely a different culture and vibe. We should be protecting the Gullah culture there like...way more than we do. End Rant.

We need to hold onto our land as best as we can ❤❤❤

They should go for a community class action lawsuit against the government. Why they don’t have the same city or state services? If they don’t get good lawyers to fight against those developers, they will keep their lobbyists in the legislature offices.

That's the story every where. USA stands for "Under Siege Always"

After watching this, I am thoroughly pissed off. My people were forced into slavery for free labor for over 300 years and they practically built the racist south. Leave us African-Americans alone and give us the reparations we deserved!!!!!!!

*Black Man* in the village says HI..... From USA now living in Leyte Philippines

I grew up on hhi and it is now a completely different town! There is no affordable housing what so ever! Most workers commute in awful traffic. A lot of stores and restaurants close 3 to 4 days a week because they cannot find staff anymore, unless they pay higher wages. My parents rent land from Gullah descendants and they are the kindest people you’ll ever come across, they’ve had many offers to buy but it’s a matter of principle for them to keep their land. The house I got married in was also owned by a Gullah family and the owner’s donated some of their property to be converted to a local park that educates visitors about slavery. So Many rich people want to live there my friend who lives in a neighborhood near a beach said people often knock on her door and make her offers for her house! It’s getting quite ridiculous! Yes it’s a wonderful place to live but when only million dollar homes get built there it becomes an under serviced overrated resort, instead of a diverse interconnected small town with a cultural rich background. There are talks of the town stepping up to preserve more and add affordable housing but I’m currently unsure that will happen in my lifetime 😅

I'm from here and this is literally happening. I can't afford to live at home

My family is from Bermuda, off of the coast of NC, same situation going on 😞 just sad..

For a few hundred dollars, I'd be willing to help someone save their property. Is there any organized way to do that?

Hahaha you are just tourist! Kanaka Maoli say.. Go Back Home! in Hawai'i. Really touching that there is other cultures with similarities.

These corporations and resorts are supposed to be paying y’all to be there!!!

people call me greedy when i say taxation is theft

Gentrification at it finest.

Man is born free but chained on every step.

Thank you for this information. I wish I had it before visiting HH. Now that I know. I will never return to HH.

Greed is destroying true American history and it's true identity...

I wish they had a go fund me and brought awareness I would’ve definitely contribute to help them keep their land but they do need some sort of legal assistance to put a temporary hold or some sort of payment plan option but that makes too much sense.

Sounds like the towns spokesperson was scared away from helping them and she doesn't,that's terrible.

One of my Grandmother’s is from St Helena Island, I hope this doesn’t happen there.

I've vacationed there a few yrs back didn't know the history until I researched it when I got back... and it's probably thousands of vacation spots with the exact same story

The auctioneer is Most familiar with the tradition amd continued to take bids without respect to the heir or the tradition. Someone should investigate whether taxes are due by heirs, or was it granted tax free like some granted land.

Something needs to be done, fundraising concerts...something.

5:46 Their food is so similar to what I’ve eaten (Nigerian). That rice looks like jollof rice

How are other people allowed to purchase those Geechee property? It would seem that the Geechee people need to get an attorney and national support to help their cause. This needs national attention.