I truly appreciate Dr Kittles. I took my African Ancestry test and I found out I’m Cameroonian, from the Bamileke people. If he and Dr Gina hadn’t created this company how would I know what woman survived the transatlantic ocean ride, so to speak. I now know a STRONG woman from the Bamileke tribe was a Survivor. So am I 😊

So much power and knowledge in that room

This was a great lecture and gathering I love Dr. Kittles he's a beast!! And will be going through African Ancestry to take my DNA test.

Hi guys, i'm a new subscriber. This is so very interesting to watch & you're all such amazing, interesting, intelligent & beautiful human beings. I loved listening to you all, as each one of you, had such interesting info to share. Also & on a different note, i first saw Dr Rick Kittles & Gina Paige talking genetics, via the entertaining Rock Newman Show, you tube & this is when i first found out about them. I really love listening to Dr Rick Kittle's & Gina Paige. Their discussions are always very interesting to listen to. When i think of the Transatlantic slave trade & America's history, specifically since African's were forcefully transported there, through no fault or wanting of their own, it makes the yearning to know ones roots, even more profound. Most African-American's, unless they take their own DNA test, do not know exactly what parts of Africa, their ancestors hailed, so a DNA test is critical. African Ancestry DNA testing, is so very important & such a wonderful company, for it's owned & operated by African Americans. This is great, because you know that your own DNA test, will come back with much more conclusive & reliable results. It's amazing to think, that via ones DNA, they can even work out, which tribe/s a person is most connected to, genetically speaking. I love African history & i'm interested in African American history, as there's such stories to learn from & even grow from. The African peoples, lost so very much. They lost their communal, familial & cultural structure, their stability, their families, their identities, their many & varied cultures, their livelihoods/homes, etc; when they were taken from their homeland. In ref to the "one drop rule", it's so interesting to note, that "only" in the US, is this noted. Within other countries, you are who you know yourself to be. You are who you are and "not" what Govt stated that you are. If you know you're of mixed ethnicity, you can state this & no one can or will tell you otherwise. There's no law against it, which is great. There's no formal rule book, at the centre of hierarchy, telling people who they are. In Australia, Europe, South Africa, South America, Asia, wherever you head in the world, "you" state who you are & everyone simply listens to what you know yourself to be, without question or judgement. You are free, for the most part, to talk about yourself and your own personal ancestral lineage. The one drop rule is ridiculous, bec essentially it's telling all African Americans, who pretty much all possess some European ancestry & possess ancestry from other global regions too, that they're not regarded as possessing genes from the "other" regions. It's a though, if you possess genes from those other regions, the US Govt didn't always acknowledge this & it's pretty much saying, they're all only African & this is what we see & present them as. I know the imposition of identifying race/ethnicity is different now, bec it's up to the individual as to how they see themselves and describe themselves to be ethnically/racially. This then makes me think, if we're to go back in US history, that the opposite must have also been true. Meaning, so if a fully European person possesses 1% or 2% African ancestry, this must mean they they'd have been African/black, even if they don't look outwardly African, or don't know of any ancestors from Africa, within their more recent ancestry. In truth, i doubt any person of full Caucasian/European ancestry, would have ever admitted that they possessed any African roots. That admittance in & of itself, would have been criminal & would have led to hostile judgement and punishment, etc;. It was surely a scary time for African Americans, because you just never knew what the negative outcomes would be. I do know however, that light skinned Creoles, had somewhat better life opportunities than those who appeared fully African & more dark skinned, but of course, this certainly was not always the case. It's such a shameful history and a blight on European Colonizing history. Back to the one drop rule. It's so strange/weird to outsiders, but we do understand the serious complexities of US history & the negative issues that countless African American peoples have faced there. Just as an add on, there are many ethnic groups, possessing very mixed ethnicity. My South African, Brazilian & Mauritian Creole friends, all possess over 18 ethnicities each, from just about every continent on earth. It's truly amazing to see global genetic structures/inheritances & i always tell them how jealous i am of them! haha Thank you so much for sharing & my best wishes sent to you all.

Fascinating

This was very interesting.

We are all one big family.

This is a tough crowd... I think he was very funny lol.. he has off beat comedic timing like I do. basically common sense funny.

Very interesting

I understand that many AA who’s lineage takes them back to Spain, on the male side, almost seems common. But why do we assume that it makes them European, didnt the black Arabs rule Spain for 700 years, from approx. 700-1400? There’s plenty of African blood running through Spain.

Both my maternal and paternal DNA Line go back to Europe, Scotland. How do I find my African tribal affiliation

My bad I misspelled your name.

Can test those woman that are asking questions

The woman wearing green is either Delta or Igbo in Nigeria

yaaaaaas

My haplogroups were E-P252 and L3e1

My interest about Africa just increased as my sister done test and we found she is 1/4 Wesr African We thought we might be a bit Spanish but not African. Our dad was a bit dark but not half black. I m going to have to do mine. As we are English most beople have fair eyes and skin but we have brown eyes and hair like half of Europeans

I'm 74% sub saharan african 20% European 6% native American

Our stepmother is I dian Irish afro American and assortment of other ethnics.

Dr. Kittles, looks a lot like, Michael (former professional basketball player)Jordan.

JUST BEFORE MY MOM PASSED SHE SHARED AN EXPERIENCE OF HER BEING RAPED BY SEVERAL WHITE MALES. I THEN RECALLED HER DISCLOSING SHE DIDNT RECEIVE MILITARY BENEFITS FOR ME. AFTER I WAS BORN MY FATHER''S SIDE SAID I WAS NOT BLACK (BORN WHITE WITH FRECKLES) WELL I RECEIVED MYHERITAGE DNA RESULTS RECENTLY. EUROPEAN 13.1% CAN I PUT THE ANXIETY OF MY FATHER NOT BEING MY FATHER TO REST?

Nice! I hope they find an old skeleton remain in Africa with U6a that's older than U1a in Europe. Then they have give U to the African continent as its origins. The nomenclature will probably change. Mankind is moving from the South to the North (Africa to Europe), Out Of Africa, that's what's up since the Moors landed in 711 AD-1492 ; since Hannibal from Africa went into Europe w/ war elephants during 2nd Punic Wars of ancient Rome 218 BCE; since his father in 243 BCE from Carthage, Tunisia, Africa. North Africa's Carthage was founded in the 9th century BC on the coast of North Africa, in what is now Tunisia. It developed into a significant trading empire throughout the Mediterranean, and was seen as home to a wealthy and brilliant civilization. All AFRICANS mixing with Southern Europe bring Y-chromosome DNA Macrohaplogroups E, A, M, J, R is old in Africa. There before 1528! Guanches People Y-DNA of Canary Islands go back to the Tuareg Tribes of Northern Nigeria like all other Amazigh(pl. Imazighen!) who the Euro scholars call by the misnomer, Berber! it is said that the original inhabitants of the island, Guanches, used to worship dogs, mummified them and treated dogs generally as holy animals.[24] The ancient Greeks also knew about a people, living far to the west, who are the "dog-headed ones", who worshipped dogs on an island.[24]Some hypothesize that the Canary Islands dog-worship and the ancient Egyptian cult of the dog-headed god, Anubis are closely connected[25] but there is no explanation given as to which one was first. Other theories speculate that the name comes from the Nukkari Berber(Amazigh) tribe living in the Moroccan Atlas, named in Roman sources as Canarii, though Pliny again mentions the relation of this term with dogs Gene flow got to go with the written historical record, right?

Funny dude

I'm a ordinary African American guy. My DNA test revealed I'm L3e1e on my mother's side AND I'm m E-M4254 on my father's side. Basically East African...

NEVER ANY MENTION OF COLOR NOR ANCESTRY IN MY FAMILY. AT 70 I'M CURIOUS

As a Baptist pastor, my husband used to say that everyone can trace their roots to a drunk sailor. (Genesis 9:18-21)

All Hair, Is Good Hair

wow

It is a misinformation that most slaves were from Ghana which is mostly untrue. Ghana is in the Gold Coast, and the slave port in Ghana were just slave holding facility only for slaves that were brought from interior Africa and were not Ghanaians. Most slaves were taken from what was known as the Slave Coast/Bight of Biafra/Gulf of Guinea and not from the Gold Coast Ghana. These Ghana myths was just street talk before DNA testing came around and has completely disproved the most slave from Ghana myth. DNA testing today of descendants of former slaves, mostly points to Cameroon/Congo/Angola Southern Bantus and Nigeria these are the countries where most of the slaves were taken from and these countries are located at the heart of the Slave Coast and not Ghana which was in the Gold Coast according to DNA. Very few Ghanaians were taken as slaves because at the time, the Ashanti Kingdom was already an established kingdom with a massive standing army, in fact they were hosting these slave holding facilities in the Gold Coast for a price that was being paid to them by the slave buyers and the slaves were brought from the slave Coast and put there before boarding the ships. The slaves were not from the Ashanti Kingdom. In fact, the Ashanti’s even helped hunting the people from the slave Coast and sold them to the buyers at the ports in Gold Coast/Ghana for these are historic facts. One thing that most people must understand is that, 70% of all slaves brought to the Americas were of Bantu Origins and the Ghanaians/Ashantis, are not of Bantu origins. So people in the Americas should do their research about slavery and stop believing in this most slave from Ghana MYTHS. It will also interest you that there’s a slave port of Bimbia located in Cameroon today that was much bigger than that of Ghana and at that time Cameroon and Nigeria was basically one country and these two countries are at the heart of the Slave Coast. Research the Slave Port of Bimbia...

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(27:00) Dr. Kittles Chromosome 15

You never defined me meaning of non African and the first non Africans.

Interesting - we Asians don't have these issues.

Northafricans belong to the same group as the arabs. Also by language - its just maybe 15000 years ago when they split. With the islam expansion they got a few percent arabic admixture again. the amount of sub sahara admixture increased only during the last few centuries. Same in egypt. The ancient egyptian skeletons show a very clear near east ancestry only in the last 4 millenias the african influence increased more and more.

Why it always gotta be a hater ?

Why is it that every time this man speaks he has to take shots at our grandparents for telling us we are indigenous

You are interested in your ancestors but anyone of you are interested in to move back to your ancestor land?

The way the Guy was talking u could tell his ancestry came from Europe.I wish he would of did someone results who actually gives a dam about being African

He looks Hausa, no doubt

That good hair bad hair terms is a shameful terms mainly used by ignorant individuals there are no such thing

What a shame!

I'm White I just lost interest when I read: Duke University