We're so glad you enjoyed this segment featuring Jesse Williams, Mabel! Thanks for sharing

Don't we all? Williams' reaction is very touching and very relatable once you've been reunited with your ancestry. www.ancestry.co.uk/

@@AncestryUS SHOW BOTH HERITAGES NOT JUST 1...we mixed race take pride in our MIXED roots...show his MOM and DAD smh!

​@PsychicMedium4747 why when that's not what he asked them to do???

Truth.

Not just deep, but so very complex

Yep! I think I have a ton of slaveholders - if not as ancestors, as siblings of the ancestors. Crawling all over North Carolina. I wish I could get professional help like this with some of my brick walls.

I know right 😢

You should of seen him in his Broadway show! 😳😳😳🤤

Yeah, he is

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Amen!

He is supposed to be as a man and former teacher

Toni, african features are the Blueprint.

he looks nothing like Issac...completely different features...Jessie looks like his white mom @@PHlophe

@@PsychicMedium4747 I could see resemblance of Isaac. If you don’t see it doesn’t other people cant.

It really is a spitting image! We're big fans of when that happens.

I promise I'm no celeb....it would be nice to be one, but I'm just not.☮️

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He was also on Grey’s Anatomy for a long time and a hot topic on the Wendy Williams Show during his divorce.

That game was fun 😅

Me tooo!!!!

We couldn't agree more, Gailann! Thanks for stopping by and watching this segment of Finding Your Roots.

He asked them about his dad side. 🙄

There's no AmericaS. The continent is called AMERICA, which includes North America, Central America and South America. The AmericaS is something the U.S. invented so that they could appropriate the name of a whole continent and use it for themselves 😢

@@nillyk5671it just rolls off the tongue. “America”.

All the Gringo Chacales snatched it from him .

Chulo, she is not half swedish.

He can trace those without all these resources

No.

No one cares about colonisers 🤮

He digs into actual facts through research. Going back to the Kings and Queens is harder because there’s no records. Just guesstimates. So much has been stolen from Black Americans. So, here this is what he does…. If you’re looking for more you won’t have accuracy. DNA can give us regions.

Not quite the same. Irish were indentured servants. Also no such thing as Scotch Irish it is Scots Irish.

Indentured servants weren't slaves. Indentured servants were to pay debts or recieve something in the end and it lasted less than a decade for the most part. They weren't born into a system that kept them in servitude for centuries. Their children/loved ones were not sold away from them. Indentured servants were not property like the enslaved. Indentured servants still owned their own bodies and lives.

Maybe he wanted to know more about his fathers side first

I bet it was researched and found years before this one. Maybe Jesse had the documents already

There are people who are simply very mixed and if light color well from a 1 grandparent

​@@QueenK88 Maybe his father's side was the only missing. To hide "uncomfortable" sides (slaves, prostitutes, convicts etc) was common but thank God science figured how to find it

@@ronny-lb1crwhatever makes u feel better 🙄

I hope you're not proud of that fact....

@@MrsBrit1doesn’t matter. That’s how it was back then. If you could afford a slave then so be it. Would be nice for all the slaves to have nice owners though. Not many of them got so lucky.

​@@milaevropa People should not have owned slaves. Reparations are still owed.

​@@solitarymaninblackblack people also owned slaves both in the Americas and in Africa. It was a way of life. You cannot use 20-21st century principles to judge people of the past.

@8 read books. Africans did not owe slaves. You need to stop educating yourself with movies.

Mass incarceration puts everyone in prison ie slavery so no

obviously

Yes. His dad is African American. His mom is white (Swedish).

He is mixed

he's mixed ..his ancestors were black...he is obviously mixed race smh black AND white@@user-pq2nv7lt8n

NO...he is mixed...black and white

Sus

@@evilkhamzat Some people hate history and they want to deny it . One of the greatest educators of our time is “Thomas Sowell”, an absolutely brilliant black man who I wish had been our first black president of the United States and I wish he was my next-door neighbor. I’ve learned so much from him and his books and writing. Extremely well investigated/researched and presented. Lots of lies have been told over the centuries and he exposes many of them.

Sadly, it’s not surprising that his wife is not known or mentioned. Black women in that day and age weren’t high in status. Of course, since this is only a portion of the episode, we can’t be sure she wasn’t mentioned. I’d like to see the complete episode.

@@pattywilliams788its on pbs, you can watch on your computer or app on tv

​@@pattywilliams788 ⚜️ The wife's name is literally listed right there on the document under the husband's name. " - Frances, Wife"

Easy for you to say. My Great great grandfather was the son of a white man with four white brothers and sisters. He married 14 to a woman who was also the daughter of a white father. Without looking any of the other factors it certainly does prove people were oppressing and discriminating against their own relatives. And this same situation is on both sides of my family. Throughout the photos of my relatives are non-black faces. So it's not something we should just forget about and that doesn't even touch on how the system has privileges and benefited some while penalizing others based on skin color which is such a ridiculous way to attempt to categorize PEOPLE.

So maybe you’d feel different if you lived in a country that were still actively oppressing Irish people, a country who wouldn’t allow you to know what country you came from, what language you spoke, wouldn’t let you name your own kids or have your family last name instead having to take names from people who owned you, who forbade you from learning to read or write, who actively kept your forced labor in tact by having the entire community monitoring to make sure you didn’t escape, if your people were lynched and victims of government violence today solely because you’re Irish, if you were forced out of living in certain communities until recently just because you were Irish, if your people for the last 100 years or so lived as second class citizens just because you were Irish or rather because of the way you looked, were taught you were ugly, your hair, complexion and features, maybe didn’t have access to home loans and financial resources which is how most people have wealth from inheritances you couldn’t hope to receive, were limited in your employment choices etc etc etc Just saying. When I was a kid I met a lady, this was in the 80’s, who’s mother was a slave. We think of American slavery as being so far away but we’re really only one generation removed often times. For us, this history hasn’t been always forthright so it’s painful that it happened and that it’s covered up and before you’ve even processed it happened you’re told to get over it. I understand the Irish didn’t have a walk in the park with the potato genocide and indentured servitude but it’s still a lot different.