WHO ARE WE
FROM JUDAHLYFE FLIMS
Transcript
00:00This is King Judah 23 of the Judah Life Podcast and you're watching the Empire Network.
00:24Take the land from.
00:26This is where we begin to receive clarity of who we are.
00:30But before we get into it, let's just summarize where we are in this reversal of history.
00:35Remember we started at the transatlantic slave trade.
00:38Now going back in time before the slave trade, the people that were taken came from the Songhai
00:44Empire, which the slavers labeled Negro land.
00:48The Songhai Empire became dominant in the 15th century after the fall of the Mali Empire.
00:54The people of Songhai took back their land from the Mali Empire.
00:59The Mali Empire was before the Songhai Empire and started in the 13th century.
01:05What we want to learn is who were the people that the Mali Empire conquered when taking
01:10the land of Gao?
01:12Who was there before the people of Mali took it as their territory?
01:17That's where we're going right now in this reversal of history.
01:20So what we're going to understand right now is who the people were who Mali conquered.
01:24I want to make sure that's clear.
01:27When Mansa Musa returned from his pilgrimage to Arabia by way of Gao, he accepted the surrender
01:33from the King of Ghana and its nobles.
01:36Among these prisoners were Ali Kulon or Kulon and his brother Selmarnar, the sons of Zaa
01:42Yasebi.
01:43So here's the answer of who controlled the land before Mansa Musa.
01:48Those who controlled the settlement of Gao before Mansa Musa took control were those
01:53of the Zaa Dynasty.
01:55Write it down.
01:56Zaa Dynasty.
01:57And it was this same people from that Zaa Dynasty that Soni Ali, the one who started
02:03the Songhai Empire, it is this same people that they descend from.
02:09So if you're following, those in the transatlantic slave trade descend from the Songhai Empire
02:15who are just descendants of the Zaa Dynasty who later reclaimed their land back from Mali.
02:21The Songhai Empire is often referred to as the Zaa Soni Dynasty after Soni Ali.
02:30So who are the people of the Zaa Dynasty?
02:34This is where it gets really interesting.
02:36This right here takes us back many centuries to the 4th century AD.
02:41This man that I'm illustrating is Zaa el Yemeni.
02:45He came to Kukya, what we also call Gao.
02:48He came around 300 AD, around that time.
02:51He established a line of kings known as the Zaa, Zaa, or Diya Dynasty.
02:57The Zaa Dynasty.
02:59He was the founder of the first Sudanic dynasty in Western Africa.
03:04This man was a Yahudin, the actual Hebrew word for Jew.
03:09Zaa el Yemeni was a Hebrew.
03:12His name is sometimes written as Zaa al Ayaman.
03:16Zaa el Yemeni came to the Niger country by way of Rogla in Central Algeria today, written
03:22like this, Rogla.
03:24Rogla was a great trading center of the Yahudin.
03:29In Dr. Alan Godbey's book, The Lost Tribes, A Myth, in his book he writes,
03:34The founder of the first Yahudin dynasty established his capital, later at Gao, on the eastern
03:41upper Niger River.
03:43Nahum Schlautz, author of Travels in North Africa, he writes,
03:48The Arabs, Moors, and the Sudanic writers attribute to the ancient black African Hebrews
03:53their establishment of the first empires.
03:57The erection of the first public buildings in the country, the construction of the first
04:01canals and irrigation systems, and the institution of a social-economic regime which still survives
04:07in all Saharan communities.
04:11So let me go over something.
04:13After the fall of Jerusalem, the Hebrews migrated and scattered all around the world.
04:19We know of their history in Europe, which I will tie in later.
04:22We know about their travels throughout Asia, but they also scattered in Africa and established
04:27themselves outside of the land of Cush, Misraim, and Put.
04:31All of this area right here was not their land.
04:34They had no rights to it.
04:36This land of Canaan that Canaan forfeited, this land of West Africa, they migrated into.
04:43The Yahudin came into the western Sudan from northern and eastern Africa as a result of
04:48a series of migrations due to persecution.
04:52Please note that the word Yahudin is the actual word for Jew.
04:56These Yahudin migrated, they adopted new methods from other people, and left their material,
05:01educational, and moral imprint among the people with whom they resided.
05:06For instance, as an example, in America, we, who they call black people, even in an
05:11oppressed land, though we have adopted many of their methods, we still have an imprint
05:16on their culture, and that's from a people who had no identity.
05:20These people who were migrating knew who they were.
05:23For many centuries, these Hebrews had to use great physical and psychological initiative.
05:28They could not afford to be complacent or show no concern about their surroundings and
05:32where they were.
05:33They were hated, so if they got too comfortable or complacent, that could mean cultural stagnation
05:39or death.
05:40The Yahudin imported into the western part of Africa a superior material, educational,
05:46and moral culture soon after 300 A.D., and this cultural advancement was not duplicated
05:52or exceeded until the ascendancy of the Mohammedan leader Mansa Kankamusa of Mali in 1312 A.D.
06:00The Yahudin had an advantage over the African tribes.
06:04They carried their culture, their history, their laws, and written records with them.
06:08This assured them a constant precedent for the development of a higher social organization.
06:14Because of the stability of their Hebrew culture, the Yahudin were not absorbed into the indigenous
06:19population.
06:20They had rules, they had laws, they had a Torah.
06:23They made use of every opportunity.
06:25They were an industrious and skillful people.
06:28From the Yahudin Ghanian states were found kings, princes, governors, generals, secretaries,
06:34treasurers, revenue agents, judges, architects, engineers, doctors, historians, etc.
06:42They set up shop there.
06:44And when they migrated, we know they formed the Zaha dynasty.
06:52In his book on his map on page 256, Professor Godbey says that 22 Hebrew kings reigned in
06:59Ghana before the Hegira in 622 A.D. and 44 had reigned by 790.
07:06It is said that all the kings of Ghana were called by the title Kayamaga, which is said
07:11to mean king of gold.
07:14Kumbi was the ancient capital of Ghana.
07:17It was located in the southern part of the present country of Mali.
07:21During the Middle Ages, understand the name Ghana was not used to designate this country
07:26that we know today.
07:28Ghana was just the title of its kings.
07:31Ghana means strong warrior king and was the title accorded to the kings of the medieval
07:37Ghana empire in West Africa.
07:40This empire was a Hebrew empire, the Hebrew empire of Ghana kings.
07:46The foundation of the Ghanaian empire was based on the affluence of gold and iron.
07:51The use of iron in Africa, especially Ghana, revolutionized the social and military systems.
07:57Ghanaians fought many wars against their neighbors who did not use iron, but fought with bars
08:01of ebony.
08:03The Ghanaians could destroy their enemies because they fought with lances and swords.
08:08The king's revenue agents levied taxes on imports and exports and the medium of exchange
08:12was gold.
08:14This was the Zha dynasty and it held sway in West Africa for over 1000 years, this segment.
08:22Either way, who I am addressing right now, specifically, are you who are the descendants
08:27of family who was taken in the transatlantic slave trade.
08:31Those of you who are in the United States, the Caribbean, and also South America.
08:36This includes you Jamaicans who were later taken to England when they opened up access
08:40to you in the 60s.
08:41I am talking to those of you of the Windrush generation.
08:45All of you are who I am talking to.
08:48Those who are descendants of the transatlantic slave trade.
08:51Again, those in Africa and in Europe and Asia, I am talking to you as well, I just am not
08:57dealing with your specific history yet.
08:59I hope that makes sense.
09:02It is all of us who are labeled black people by the world while we don't know who we
09:07descend from.
09:09In America, they call us African Americans.
09:12In the Caribbean, we just go by the island that we come from.
09:15In South America, they call you Afro-Brazilians or Afro-Venezuelans or Afro-Colombians, etc.
09:23You know, for many of us in the United States, many don't actually know that the same
09:27troubles that we have had in the United States, you all face the same struggles in your country.
09:33The world system all calls us black people, but they also label us Afro-whatever, which
09:39doesn't mean very much except that they say that we are taken from Africa.
09:43All of us within these two continents and islands that descend from slavery, all descend
09:48from the same heritage and we are from the same people.
09:52We are not black people.
09:54Now to prove this to you, like I said, I am going to be doing some reverse engineering
09:58of history.
09:59So, let's get to it.
10:02So this is where we will start.
10:03We are in North and South America and the islands of the Caribbean.
10:08By the way, this does include Cuba.
10:11All of us should know that our ancestors did not originate here.
10:15What I am saying is that wherever you are is not your land and you do not have any rights
10:19or history with this land that you live in now.
10:22But over the time, throughout our generations, the governments and the system have worked
10:27to assimilate us in.
10:29So basically, after they enslaved our ancestors and then gave some fake type of freedom that
10:34was tied to cruel oppression that they labeled about our skin color, they then tried to assimilate
10:39us.
10:41The slave trade ended at different points in time depending on where you were, but for
10:45the most part it ended in the 19th century.
10:48Around the year 1830, but again, it's different depending on where you were.
10:52I'm speaking specifically about the slave trade, that's the gathering of slaves from
10:56Africa and bringing them to these locations.
10:59Not the ending of forced free labor, just to be clear.
11:04Anyways, I'm not going to discuss slavery, but just that this is the starting point of
11:09where we are going to reverse engineer this history from.
11:12So we see these locations right here, the United States, the Caribbean, and all areas
11:17of South America.
11:20All of us that were taken to these locations came in slave ships.
11:24So what we'll do is reverse history and go backwards in time and take these slave ships
11:29back to where they came from and started from.
11:32When we do this, we get to this area right here, the slave coast in the area of Guinea.
11:39Now what I'm going to do is go back to information I introduced in part one, but I promised that
11:43I would get to.
11:45In part one, I mentioned the slave maps.
11:47So now in our reverse engineering of history, it's time that we can go back to them.
11:53So understand please that this is not an easy subject to break down.
11:56If it was, you would have heard all of this before, but I'm going to do my best to make
12:00a difficult subject easier to digest.
12:04I'm going to start here.
12:06Here are three maps.
12:08They are all maps from the 18th century.
12:12This one is from 1747, charted by Amon Bowen.
12:16This is a full map, and this one is more zoomed in on the area that I will focus on.
12:22Amon Bowen was a royal mapmaker to both King George II of Great Britain and Louis XV of France.
12:30His maps are in English, which for us, it helps greatly.
12:34Then there is this map from 1737 from Johann Matthias Hesse.
12:39He was a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer.
12:43A cartographer means a professional who makes maps to communicate spatial information.
12:49He's a mapmaker.
12:50This is his map.
12:52And then we have this map from 1710 from Hermann Moll.
12:56He was a German-born English mapmaker known for a number of influential maps.
13:02So we have these three maps right here.
13:04These are three slave maps from the 18th century documented in Africa.
13:08One from 1747, one from 1737, and another from 1710.
13:14Now I have placed these maps on my website for everyone to be able to have access to
13:18them and download them for yourself.
13:21If you're subscribed to my website, you should have received an email.
13:25For anyone else, the link is in the description box.
13:28These maps are an important part of understanding our history that was taken from us.
13:32So I encourage you to review them on your own.
13:36What I first want to do is highlight this region right here.
13:40This section along the coast is called Guinea.
13:43It is on all three maps.
13:45On Hermann Moll's map, above Guinea, he writes this.
13:50I am credibly informed that ye country about 100 leagues north of the coast of Guinea
13:55is inhabited by white men, or at least a different kind of people from the blacks,
13:59who wear clothes and have ye use of letters made silk,
14:03and that some of them keep the Christian Sabbath.
14:06So what he's saying is that this area of Guinea is colonized land of the Europeans,
14:12and it is still to this day.
14:14It is not controlled by the African people, but by the colonizers.
14:18This area of Guinea is conquered land of Africa that was used for trade.
14:23If you notice, it's broken down by what was traded.
14:26There was the Grain Coast, the Ivory Coast, which we still know it as today.
14:31There's the Gold Coast and then the Slave Coast.
14:34You can understand by their names what was traded in those regions.
14:38Now, there is an interesting point about the Slave Coast,
14:41but I will try to get back to it later.
14:44Just note that the Slave Coast is one point where the slaves were put into ships
14:48to send to the Americas and the Caribbean.
14:52What I'm explaining first is that this area is conquered territory.
14:55That's what I want you to get.
14:57I will not go over the history of Guinea in this video,
15:00but just know that the European colonizers began to trade
15:03and make arrangements and deals with the Hamites of Africa.
15:07They knew the difference and they did not come to Africa for them.
15:10If you ever watch movies like The Woman King,
15:12you see that the African king made deals with the European colonizers,
15:17which they traded slaves for silk and other fine goods.
15:22This is just an accurate depiction of history.
15:26What I'm saying is that the European colonizers knew the difference of who they were looking for
15:30and they did not come to Africa for the Hamites.
15:34I have this book called The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas.
15:37It's a very extensive, well-documented book.
15:40On page 45, he writes this.
15:43The racial mixture in West Africa was interesting.
15:47Before the Arab invasions, the land was principally inhabited by two peoples.
15:51In the Northwest, the Hamites, called Libyans or Barbary by the Romans,
15:56or Berbers by the Arabs, a word actually deriving from Barbary,
16:01and black people to the south of the desert.
16:03All the same, the Berbers retained most of their individual characteristics
16:08as highland tillers of the soil and lovers of freedom.
16:12They were rarely moved by religious enthusiasm
16:15and were able, on the whole, to preserve their purity of race.
16:19But in the South, there was much mixture.
16:22Thus, the people of Timbuktu had black skin, but much Berber blood.
16:27They thought of the black Songhai in the middle Niger Valley as savages.
16:32I highlight this excerpt to show that this information goes back to what I presented
16:36in parts three through five.
16:38Understand the world was not originally separated by skin color,
16:42but by tribes, and this was how the world was viewed.
16:45The Hamites had known regions.
16:47They were known in the Northwest and the East.
16:50They were known as Libyans.
16:52These were the sons of Put.
16:53Then in the Northeast, we already know Mizraim in Egypt.
16:57And then South, we have the people of Timbuktu,
16:59Mizraim in Egypt.
17:00And then South, we have the people of Kush in Ethiopia.
17:03This land was all accounted for.
17:06This was the land given to them.
17:07If you look at these slave maps, it confirms this.
17:10But this land West, that South of the Sahara, was land that was originally for Canaan.
17:16But Canaan did not take his land, but he occupied Israel's.
17:20And therefore, as they warned him, his people were displaced.
17:24Now, you see that upper part of Africa.
17:26It shows the Barbary, the barbarians, as the Greeks call them.
17:30Then you see Ethiopia.
17:32You see, the slavers, they knew the difference in the people and the lands that they occupied.
17:37These were their slave maps.
17:39But there was a territory that they knew of, and this is what we will focus on now.
17:45If you remember in part one, I said I would much rather be called a Negro.
17:50I said that because with just a little research,
17:52we are able to go back and gain understanding of who we are.
17:57In these slave maps, there is a part of these maps that validate the statement.
18:01It's this land right here.
18:03It's called Negro land.
18:06They took the Negroes from Negro land.