True, people are more important than things.

juan santiago l love that. God bless you & your grandma. very wise.

juan santiago Good motto to live by

Never heard that one...That's a real good one...

A very nice saying.

What happens is that many of us don't get interested in what they had to say until long after they are gone. So many questions I wished I would have asked my grandmother who passed at 95 yo in the mid 80's.

All older people are not the same. You miss out when you don't seek God. He can lead you to the right people.

Me too

You sholl right cause my grandparents were born in 1923 and 1932. I wish I would have asked more questions. They come from a struggling time and are some of the strongest people. This is amazing to be able to hear. God bless our people.

So true.

Rite i can't even imagine going threw sum like that

omg. that makes me cry! ! I cant even imagine. it was a halucast in my opinion. 300 year one!!!!!

@@Fefe559 I believe that as well but everyone wants to diminish the black experience

@@RockstarLove I don't think that people do diminish the black experience and it of course should NOT be diminished. That doesn't mean that the other wasn't bad... both can be terrible and we can support survivors of all trauma.

It reminds me of things my Great Grandmother use to talk about. This Documentary brought back good memories of my Great Grandmother.

NENA Rodway xxxxxx

how come she saying she got paid i believe her of course but thought they didnt get nothing

diane, she would have been growing up about 50 years after slavery ended. she was paid next to nothing, but she wasn't a slave.

Love her happy stories and could listen to her for hours. It's sad about how her granddaddy lost his mom being sold off when he was a young boy. I can't imagine watching my baby from afar knowing he was mine.. it'd kill me.

NENA Rodway yess she looks like she loves telling stories lol

dee Sully we're not useless at all, atleast we love ourselves ya weren't shit back then😐 we take more pride in ourselves then y'all ever will, not to mention the number of black kids FINISHING school and the number of black women graduating college, you ignorant as fuck💯

@Kimyhatta Pankey in the 40-50's Black kids had higher Test scores than White's thanks to George Washington Carver Book Mobile

@@tawnyrae4612 and you are a prime example of the vulgar disrespectful generation of today.

I know. Like bruh it wasnt gonna happen nohow

Paul Strength yet you didn’t notice any other ignorant comments..ok.

Back then, you'd Never hear, 'I'm bored'! ..Oh, if you want something to do, I CAN SUGGEST A Whole Lot of Things!

Beautiful 💛💛💛

his.great not great great yes I agree with yu.

juel johnson Really? Why? So jntj slipped up on "great great grandmother", was it necessary to correct his comment? WOW

Perfect. Ankh Ujah Senb Neb. Peace and love of the all living elements of life.

Tiffanie R juntj was the one trying to correct the video.

Yes, she brought tears of joy to my eyes. The happiness she found in the simpleness of life. Now people will get immediately bored with anything.

In Jesus Holy Name, Amen!

Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏.

HalleluYAH in the name of Yashuah Ha'masiach

@Jay McBride so will there children and the children of them today according to the bible.

She is obviously Beautiful !!!

You are royalty Naga serpent kings nd kweens. They made you hate who you are. Melanin magic pharaoh If someone ever calls you the n word, just smile you are about of something greater

And also the white people slaughtered and enslaved for centuries by Africans mainly white European Christian woman was there favourite why whites joined in all started by black people

Show you're Right! A Beautiful, Blessed, vivacious lady, secure in Christ! Loved This. ♥️

No lie !!!

Don't forget she said, she had to milk two cows befo' she left for school." I'm loving her...she the granny I didn't have. ❤

The kids will never learn because of idiot parents don't teach them. Stop blaming the kids. The LORD hasn't been with us since slavery! Wake the fuck up!

Amen to that!

My grandmo always complain about us being in the bed lol it will be only 10 in the morning and she’ll be saying the day almost over

@@EliteSports217 the LORD has been with the black community forever and more and every community every home every person and being that calls on him he will be with ALWAYS. It may not look the way the world wants it to look but you'll know when God is with you and the peace will be so worth it.

Official Alonzo facts! 💪🏽

@Official Alonzo strength and vulnerability are two different things.

All people can be strong if they can use their obstacles as a means to keep going and to never, ever give up. HALLELUJAH 🙌 🙌 🙌

This has nothing to do with strength. This was a no choice situation.

@@kidjustice7945 ...... and when you have no choice, the strength of God will get you through it.

Facts my brother

This prompted me to make ours! Granny is 100 this year! 1921 and time is of the essence !

Great observation/comment This is a great lady.

Loved your words. Thank you...

Perfectly said

😂

Black don’t crack!!

I thought he said great grandma not great great grandma..

@@poledancejustice5516 lol I'm so jealous of that too lol you all stay beautiful

She is Beautiful such a blessing to still have her here 🥰🥰🥰🙏🏽

My great grandmother lived to be 100. She was born in 1902. Amazing history!

Nessa I am 74, so listen to: Judi Grace StoryCorps.

Nessa ...Amen to that!

Hnmm

Sure does! What a classy, fun lady ✨💯

Unseen but Well Heard ouch lol... I must say no.. I'm black people my family friends average 0-3 children ) respectively

Angie's Doing It BESIDES OUR CREATOR MY MOTHER RAISED 9 KIDS BY HERSELF👈🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Yeah with the help of millions of hard working taxpayers money smdh

@@talleneagle1974 you must be mad or somehing smh get happy

@@talleneagle1974 if that last part makes u think that way, i disagree but its ur comment

Me to🤣🤣🤣

THREW My WHOLE DAMN PHONE!! 🤣🤣🤣 MY RIBS ARE FRIED!!

Having good memories 93 idd a blessing in this day and time.

J Carey Amen

When she started talking about her grandfather not being able to see his mom I literally cried. Can’t believe white men used our women to bare their children just to snatch them away from us. I wonder how many siblings he had and never knew about all because his father sold his mother! 💔

@nate nick 🎯Beloved.

@enlil enqi West African Bantu's were never depicted in the bible. Only the fake hebrew israelite cult spouts that discredited nonsense. Plus this lady is most likely Christian.

You make no sense! The Lord should have prevented this then leaving a fucking message and the people of your bullshit most high must have been a sacrifice. Wake the fuck up!

Amen!

@enlil enqi shut upppp nobody deserves slavery and god did not give us this ailment

Thank you! You too!

God bless you dear one! John 11:25-26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Amen 🙏🏽 you too 🙏🏽

Thank you so much your kind words gave me a reason to not give up 🥺

🙏💖🙏

Stupid dumb slave masters wife.

Look like someones triggered your words are meaning less and it didnt even get to me you defenerate try again.

Jasmin Santos Haha your dumb triggered whit man and just so you know i responded because you may think those pityful words got to me.

Jasmin Santos lol

King Joash hey dumbass it's pitiful not pityful lol can't even spell what you toss out!!! The good lord didn't bless you with brains, it sure shows

Ain't that some real shit💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💞💞💞

My mom picked cotton with her mom in the 40's. It was something you did. She was a child. Think about it, a long time ago but not really. But her story sounds like my mom's recollection. God bless her.

Shiii, imma living testimony. They don't know bout cooking on top that wood heater and heating up water to take baths. Killing hogs to feed all the families. That lady have plenty knowledge. Bless her heart 💯💞

Why REPARATIONS MATTER in her lifetime; not empty slogans.

WHAT? SHOOT I WAS BORN IN SELMA ALABAMA Y'ALL WHO DON'T KNOW!!! LOL WE HAD TOO LOL WE'D BEAT THE CHICKENS GETTING UP❣ LOL

I think she might have misspoken at one point. I doubt she earned fifty cents or a dollar per pound of cotton. More likely, it was that much for a hundred pounds.

AMEN

I came up in the 70s and early 80s and I didn't realize I was poor until I went to foster care and the state gave money to my foster mom ..the kids at school was like "What happened? you got new clothes" -Newark NJ1985

Wonderful.. Gem She's so happy telling story's.

Yes we do!💔

Amen absolutely 🙌 🙌🙏🙏🙏.

Me too

I'm so grateful for my mom still being alive also even though she's completely bedridden, completely blind, can't do anything at all for herself but, thanks be to God she still has her sound mind and I love to hear her tell abt her childhood also. My moms dad was also a white man and her mom was full blooded Cherokee indian. Out of that my mom who is a beautiful black woman.

And ask them as many questions as you can without driving them nuts!😅 I had a good relationship with my maternal grandparents, but now, the only thing I wish I would have done, is ask them more questions. About themselves, life in general, the changes... At least they KNEW I loved them, and that is what matters most, I suppose.

Anice Hood yes she is

Anice Hood right i claimed her

Anice Hood i agree. now erbody can go visit & listen to these amazing stories....u kno how we do. love my black ppl granny looks gr8 btw.

Gosh yes maam i dont know her but she reminds me of my mama...i love her

Agreed! I fell in love with her like she’s my own!

Cookie C Dig it!

But you do need the father to raise children so don't get it twisted

Danny Solo i know right...been on that i dont need a black man shit since before time

Talk about the so called husband/man who left her w/ 7 children...Not that ppl been on that dnt need a man sh*t...Put the blame where it needs to be...She didn't even talk negatively of him to her children...

Danny Solo ...yo, hold your horse...slavery were kidnapped, RAPED BY WHITE MEN TAUGHT NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR CHILD N STOLE THE CHILD TO ANOTHER MASTER. SO DON'T TELL ME DON'T NEED A LOVING FATHER. THOSE SLAVE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN STRIVE FOR LOVES AND CARES WITHOUT MONEY THAN BLACK PPLS IN THIS 21ST CENTURY IS BACKWARD N REFUSED TO RESPONIBLE FATHERHOD N NOT PAY CHILD SUPPORT. YOU TALK LIKE N BRAINWASHED LIKE A WHITE MAN. STFU STOP COMPARING!!

Please keep these memories alive! So much nonsense about it being so long ago.

Augustuex82, please tell some of the stories she told you. Put the stories in a book. They are valuable!! God bless you.

MelaninBarrGoodness lol not rlly

@@David-cz7rf stop it david. Don't be that guy, please. Just stfu

Right, black don’t crack.😏

I’m A girl 😂😂😂

She's beautiful, I love grandmas 💜🤗

@Law Dawgg PREACH THE TRUTH❣

@Law Dawgg exactly

Mine as well beloved....

🤣🤣🤣 STRONG, SMART, BEAUTIFUL WomaN! WE ALL NEED THIS ENERGY! WE HAVE THE STRENGTH. WE NEED TO USE IT AND LET GO OF THEM WEAK EZZ NINJAS!! 💯💯✊🏼🤣

Record it while you can 🙂

Yes please record I’m from nc we have native indigenous people. Please record and I would watch.

Yes please do record it. I would absolutely LOVE to hear what she has to say. Hurry and do it while you still can. God bless you and yours 🕊️💛🕯️🙏

Do that video

Hello, please record and kindly post. Thank you.

Jupiter Stars lol real shit 💯💯😂

Jupiter Stars lol exactly

Hmu MA

@Yalondi Supherfon did she say that it was because she was black maybe you should stop think so negative bitch

I bet so too

Just lost my grandma...87 years young 💔 July 27 2020. I miss her sweet voice so much.

Me too 2020👎🏽

Praise his name

I just lost my great grandmother last week. She was my rock and me and my brothers children made it 5 living generations. This is very beautiful and helps

💭 @Isolated Beauty: *Hi..* 💭

My grandma passed the same way wish I could have met her

I use to comb my grandmothers hair also! It was long and white! She was a very light skinned woman! Funny how memories stay with u forever!!!!

Sorry to hear that. That is tragic. Sending you love, peace and healing. #MissChristineChronicles

That is so sad. I have tears thinking about my grandma/mama now too. I remember getting scared at night and asking if I could sleep in her bad. She always said to go to the bathroom first lol. And laying in the bed on weekends watching westerns

@@reneejohnson9256 sorry about ur lost but the light skinned comment hit me wrong as I'm light skinned girl

AMEN

PREACH THE TRUTH ❣

I for the life of me don’t understand how white people try to portray black people as being lazy!!????!!! Like, never understand it.

@@picalojen3549 My grandmother, who would have been the same period as this lady, told me very similar stories. However, please, hear me out. This is my understanding, not my truth. I believe that the "Lazy" comes from the number of blacks on welfare. However, I found it very interesting and sad, when this past spring, when everyone was layed off and receiving government money ( unemployment and and extra $600. ) I didn't know a white person who wanted to go back to work. All I heard was, I make more staying home. Why should I go back?. Now, the shoe was on "their" foot, and it seemed, the whites liked it a lot. However, if any of them ever said ill words to a black person for being on welfare, they were NOT looking to apologise for their harshness, now that basically, they were in the same situation. Nor were these whites seeing the similarities. Sad. Calling names. Pointing one finger at a person, while you are pointing four more at YOURSELF.

@@picalojen3549 they project themselves on us.

@@loriboufford6342 its statistically proven there are more white people on welfare than blacks

@@muezzathestray750 But there's also more whites in America than black people.

She was so funny when he asked about his great grandfather, looked real confused for a moment .

I geeked when she said that! I'm like me and Granny on the same level of petty. 😂😂

iii I 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lol 😆

Ok Granny is on it what WIFE I didn't sign no Divorce

signed nothing she said!

Yes Jesus🙏🙌

That's dumb. Why did god create man. To be with wo-man. So god contradicts his own creation. Men are now obsolete. Damn. Animals seem to have more sense than so-called human beings. The higher species. Lmsolllllllll

@@skyjack8541 if you read the bible. It contradicts itself quite a bit.

Amen.

....and who were the spiritually sick ppl who gave her 37 thumbs up and said Amen. They are lost.

Same here. Raised on the tail end of segregation. I volunteered to pick cotton ONE time, just to see/get the experience. All day, made .25. Me and my aunt, who was around my age, had to combine our bags of cotton to get a weigh...lord have mercy !!

God bless her she's so vibrant and her memory is better then 75 percent of generations decades younger.love her

Wow!!!! I’m just blessed to hear/read stories from you guys

He is such a beautiful woman. Is she still with us? I love her personality ❤️God bless her

There remnants of Jim Crow are still left the in banks discriminate, schools, churches, health care. Just look around racism is still strong in America.

YesTRULY HEARTBREAKING AND HORRIFIC

As she was explaining that I kept thinking I can't imagine how horrific that was. We have it so good now

Tragic not to be Allowed to be with his Mom n the dad keeping him Away n asking What Race He preferred to Go with His Moms Race or Stay with His Race..

@@mdluz410 absolutely horrid and horrific

That made me cry

Lol

Get up out that bed!!!🤣

My mother who passed away in 1975 was born in 1910 . Born of Europe ( Ruthian) parents went through a lot of things your Grandmother went through when she was young.

Girl that how them old ppl is as soon as the sun come up . You get up and put clothes on ,eat and clean up . My grandmother will say you sleep you life away if you stay in the bed all day

Man

😂😂

Neo SoulZ ...Truly Blessed :-)

Blessed indeed

Same with me, I am a christian, with 2 children and seperated from my husband since 1986, never had a man. Some one asked a doctor about it, thinking I wasn't normal. the doctor told them, If more people were so, there wouldn't be so much sickness in the world, :) Praise God.

I'm 27 and never known any man in my mom's house

@@spalmer500 Good for you. Children are more secure to see their parent's aren't run arounds.

Talaya 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 This

Talaya that’s what I do now. I’m divorced and my kids will never see me bring someone into our home until we’re married and they have a thorough background check. 😂

That’s true though slavery was long over by the time she was born. My grandmother was older than her and even by the time she grew up ...slavery had long been over. Slavery would have been my grandmother’s grandmother’s time. My grandmother’s parents may have been born by the time it was ending.

@@lisacox3750 In South Carolina Jim Crow is fine and STILL going STRONG!!!!!!!!

@@lisacox3750 The sentence said, "And some think slavery never existed!!" emphasis on existed. Not that she was a slave. We know slavery was over by the time she was born but she has first hand accounts of relatives who were enslaved.

They didn't mix the cultures up.. When she spoke of schools and white kids... Ppl who didn't think they was slavery is just ignorant.. But the way she talks... About white boys and all that.... Socially they didn't !mix cultures. Slavery . The first African sold was 1444...however harsh slavery was about 300 years.. Slavery is a state of mind now.. Now.! In this era however it was a reality physically ,mentally and very much reality... Also..look at Irish..Irish people have endured many many forms. Not all "white" is the same. Like for example Jewish people.. If you research Irish slavery..they stacked those people in little cages .. In this country. In America. In the 1800s slavery was very Very! Real. For African Americans. Do not. Kid yourself if you think it wasnt

*physical* slavery has been dead in AMERICA for a long time, yes.. but slavery is still going strong all around the world. African slave trade is still in Africa, and very prominent in the Middle East. Child slavery in general is still rampant in eastern countries as well. As long as there is power, there is slavery. It is why people used to be so proud to be American- because of how we are a “free” country.

You r So right! A missed opportunity, but I was So busy back then, divorced, working and caring for my kids! Wish I would have taped them discussing their lives, Mother Rosie, Bright Star, and Big Mama! Beautiful ❤️ Ladies of God!