Anansi is an African trickster god as well as being the god of stories. Being a god of stories, he has ALL the information.

@castbet9183

3 жыл бұрын

Who doesn’t like a good story? I know me and him would sit and tell stories all day and I’d probably roam all over America seeking something to give me what everyone wants in our existence…direction.

@SinsiAlpha

3 жыл бұрын

Shame they got rid of the actor. The character was great

@vernonhampton5863

3 жыл бұрын

Not just that but, being the god of stories, which come from people, imagine what it would be like if the prisoners of war were then taken away as slaves and forced into servitude and had their kids sold off. All of the stories would become bitter and harsh. He embodied all of that misery in this one scene. Orlando Jones found a way to go super saiyan on camera.

@neciebooyaw

3 жыл бұрын

People say its Loki too

@aaronbecker667

3 жыл бұрын

Our lives are just stories but Mr Nancy tells stories with style

The greatest show suicide ever, was the idea of firing this man. Never should have done it, how many actors can get your blood pumping from a monologue in a show?

@mariorodriguez8045

3 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest monologue ever. Stop watching after they fired him.

@calebokum-mitchell9961

3 жыл бұрын

He wasn’t fired. He just isn’t in that part of the book. A lot of these prevalent characters in the show are just supporting characters in the book

@mariorodriguez8045

3 жыл бұрын

@@calebokum-mitchell9961 Oh okay. Thanks. I take that back. Then someone needs to make a series based on Anansi.

@nadirmuhammad9357

3 жыл бұрын

@@calebokum-mitchell9961 he was fired actually and there are a butt load of characters who aren't in the book at all that are in the show now.

@theprobester6034

3 жыл бұрын

@@mariorodriguez8045 there’s a book sequel to American Gods called “Anansi Boys” I just hope they let him be an executive producer, writer and reprise his role as Anansi

"I like him. He's getting angry. Angry gets shit done."

@essencemanuel1954

Ай бұрын

Dead ass

That was the Igbo Language. Anansi is common to the West African Coast. I was born in Jamaica to a Nigerian father and a mother from Louisiana. I grew up in Sweden and England hearing about the African Gods. The reason this scene gets me is because it is TRUE. I have 6 degrees in different fields. From Economics to Biochemistry to Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. 16 years of experience earned from working in 25 countries globally. I am in Minnesota and finding it impossible to find work as an Engineering Manager. I finally had enough and quit after the third person I had trained was promoted to Principal Engineer while I remained a Senior Engineer. I know it was because of the color of my skin. The reluctance to promote a person of color to lead white folks is real. Deny all you wish. The Manager of the Chemistry Department quit and they dumped the position on me, because I’m also a Chemist. So, I worked as the interim supervisor for a year, while also doing my job as a Manufacturing Engineer without any adjustments to my pay. After 4 times of asking, I just had enough. My partner who is Caucasian said most white folks wouldn’t believe what Black folks endure if they didn’t live with one. I applied at a place and was told most of my experiences were from overseas. So what? Science and Engineering are some of the most transferable skill sets in the world. It’s just demoralizing that we do what they tell us to do and we are still denied opportunities. Like Anansi said!

@julianaansah6367

8 ай бұрын

Anansi is from Ghana and all the stories the Akans of Ghana worship him and it was the Ashanti’s of Ghana who are also Akans that told his tales first I don’t know why he was speaking Igbo and this isn’t a Igbo god

@bakenator7420

6 ай бұрын

​@@julianaansah6367she's black and said it so it's true.

@sensationalvibrations6832

2 ай бұрын

U need to do a eeoc lawsuit

@Itsyaboy89KamaL

2 ай бұрын

From Ghana

The dialogue Anansi has with 2 other African gods later on is also very powerful.

@EmbracingNihility

2 жыл бұрын

Denonu: Yeah it was.

@jelanitarik7423

Жыл бұрын

Snatched.......and another one gone.

@mern2974

10 ай бұрын

Well both of the other Gods are so much older. So they have seen it all..a few Hundred years of misery mean nothing . Really ...white,brown black Egyptians followed them. Even Anasi wouldn't care that much. Trickster god. Plus all ethnicities of humans have been persecuted over time. Therefore black issues in America will resolve over time unfortunately black Americans are becoming racist too right now. West Africa is an interesting lace with thousands of differing cultures.Neil Gaiman shouldn't allow extreme modification of his intellectual products.

The people brought their god, Anansi, with them through their beliefs. Such an epic scene, bare naked truth. It's beautiful.

This is amazing, growing up in Jamaica i heard a lot of ananci stories. This just shows us that our African connection is stronger and well alive.

@mern2974

10 ай бұрын

West African.

@julianaansah6367

18 күн бұрын

@@mern2974Ghanaian

Anansi is the best character in that show and the casting was perfect. As much as Ryan Reynolds IS Deadpool, and Ron Perlman IS Hellboy: Orlando Jones IS Anansi.

“Oh, you don’t know ya black yet” was powerful

@whitneyrobinson8922

Ай бұрын

Right!?!! I mean it made me ask myself, “have I ever looked at myself and thought, “I’m just a person.” The sad answer is no, I’ve always been aware, sometimes painfully, that I was and am black first , in the eyes of certain entities and sadly myself included, before I am a person 😳. Although I’ve desperately fought to be seen and judged on the basis of my character rather than my race.😔

Every reaction to this clip: - Playfull excitement begining to watch - Completely silence and astonishmente during the actual speech - A couple of minutes mumbling while trying to diggest the blunt reality - Actually reacting/reviewing That scene is too amazing

@whitneyrobinson8922

Ай бұрын

It really was🖤.

Anansi knows what happened, because he has ALL the stories.

@bakenator7420

6 ай бұрын

Yet couldn't help.... good god

Sad things is they fired Orlando Jones from the show. I stop watching it because of that.

@Peacekeepa317

3 жыл бұрын

They really hurting for doing that. They got a storyline this season with the Orisha and its janky as hell. They had the African seities singing "We Shall Overcome" with slaves in the field. It was cringe as fuck and you can tell some white people wrote it.

@GuiFerreira674

3 жыл бұрын

@@Peacekeepa317 Not cringe, fucking revolting, talking TO SLAVES about wait a better day. GTFO with this soft ass speech. Angry gets shit done!

@Peacekeepa317

3 жыл бұрын

@@GuiFerreira674 You told no lies. That shit was some bullshit for real for real!

@theambiance1815

2 жыл бұрын

But why did they fired him?

@Sam-jp2lu

2 жыл бұрын

Because he was speaking truth.

One if the truest speeches ever made about the fate of Black people in America.

@mern2974

10 ай бұрын

It's boring and not specific to dark skinned Americans.suffering is global not specific to one group.

@nerdyafrican1185

8 ай бұрын

Whatever fool.

@mern2974

8 ай бұрын

@@nerdyafrican1185 the truth hurts..lots of people have been slaves,or indentured servants throughout history.. Just think you self lucky to been born in a modern western country.

@mern2974

8 ай бұрын

@@nerdyafrican1185 I understand someone like you has no other choice but blame others for under achievement. But really right now what can't black Americans do??? They can do anything the put their minds to . Alot try many things , some do nothing, some become criminal . Slavery is still alive and well in African countries..A class system exists everywhere. For America it's money for other places it's actual Class distinction.

@gennadicole7102

7 ай бұрын

@@mern2974 Yes! slavery has existed throughout time. However, black Americans endured chattel slavery…the worst form of slavery known to mankind. Not only were my ancestor slaves but their children and their children were born to be slaves! Sold and bought like livestock. Worked literally to death! Not even considered human beings but three 5th of a person! Treated lower than animals! Couldn’t learn how to read or write, and if we did we were murdered! just bred to be worked into early graves. Beat, raped, murdered, tortured and worked to DEATH! over and over again for 400 Fn years…the evil and depravity my people went through at the hands of demonic white Supremacist was something unfathomable. You can never compare indentured servitude to the united states chattel slavery. My people blood, lives, sweat and tears built the very foundation of this Fn country. We went through HELL! and it didn’t stop there. How dare you try to use that everybody did slavery card, when america literally tried everything in its power to break my people physically, mentally, and spiritually. The fact that after so much evil, depravity, and hopelessness we have endured we still managed to prevail through it all. We aren’t playing the “victim” card! The effects of slavery had a PROFOUND! Affect on my people…severe psychological damage of generational trauma that have been passed down through hundreds of years. Don’t you EVER compare our story with anybody else! We Fn SUFFERED in this country. The US will reap what it has sowed and that’s a fact…..

Listen ! This was 1 of the GREATEST scenes EVER in the HISTORY of TV!!!! This scene was SO POWERFUL it got Olando Jones FIRED!!!!! He will be remembered FOREVER for writing and acting this scene out to PERFECTION! RESPECT!

@instinctprevalence4486

Жыл бұрын

true

The minute Orlando said Anger is good, Anger gets shit Done is the minute he was fired. Give me a show where this is the premise starring black ppl and I’ll watch the hell out of it.

“Angry is good. Angry gets shit, done.”

Anansi lives out of time, trickster/god of war. He takes on the form of a spider in the physical, his true form is so fking awesome!

I love how is accent changes while talking it's so well done.

I loved the book and when i heard it was going to be a show i lost my mind. This part was the moment I knew a show could make a real statement. Anansi is so good and the later shadow moon stuff with him is amazing.

@EmbracingNihility

3 жыл бұрын

Jolly: Yea I actually listened to the audio book that had some of the cast playing their parts it was amazing.

Nancy has all the stories. Even the ones that haven’t been told yet.

The dude Orlando Jones had Twitter Beef with is Ricky Whittle. He played Shadow Moon. He was the same dude on CW show The 100. He’s just one of many Black/biracial British actors that has issues with Black Americans. I’ve seen him in an interview with other actors from the show mocking Black Americans AAVE. I’m glad Idris Elba isn’t on that b.s. though.

@sifamuzimbe4266

Жыл бұрын

Lol trust me Idris thinks the same...but is clever enough not to say anything...

havent seen anyone mention this yet, but in the show most of the gods are pretty self-serving and selfish, and belief and sacrifice are what give them power. It's heavily implied that Anansi the trickster god here deliberately got all those guys to burn the boat and take their own lives in a sacrifice to himself. Don't get me wrong, in the rest of the show and book he's shown to be furious about the way his people have been and continue to be treated, but he is also just as opportunistic and self-serving as Wednesday (one of the main characters in the story, a con-man and god), and gods getting power from 'technical' sacrifices is definitely a theme in the story as well, so i think it's pretty safe to assume he wanted that boat to burn.

@EmbracingNihility

3 жыл бұрын

Jolly: That is a great point. As the show goes on that is the obvious thing where they are just using followers as sacrifices to gain power. Thank you for that insight.

@Deerych

2 жыл бұрын

He used the truth as a tactic to get what he wanted. It still was harsh truth though.

@jamessikes6214

2 жыл бұрын

Smart my guy! Glad you caught on. Nothing but great deception is upon us.

@NiilJJ

2 жыл бұрын

In the book? U realy read It? Mr Nanci in the books dont give a fuck for the cause

@williamchase3200

Жыл бұрын

That's why he is a trickster god.

This is a scene that you kind of have to digest and comment on afterwards. It has weight. They removed Orlando Jones because he was "too angry"

I'm a middle-aged white guy and this scene haunts me all of the time. This segment tells it like it is. I'm ashamed and horrified, and everyone that suffered as the result of Black slavery in America, and Blacks today, have every right to be enraged and never, ever, let go of that anger.

@bakenator7420

6 ай бұрын

That's not true, the only way we can overcome is to help one another. Rise above.

"it get's shit done"

I agree, that it’s the realist’s description of the history of Afro Americans history in America. Those that can’t understand or agree with what the Anansi character is saying are deeply delusional. You can’t hide the truth, it always raises to the top sooner or later.

Y’all should do his other scene in the funeral home

When Orlando Jones interviewed about this scene, he give credits to the Bryan Fuller and Michael Green for this script. No improv, just straight from the script. As well as his co-star in the scene for reacting so convincingly to his performance that he did well as well. The scene Jones wrote himself was in the second season. It was an epic level speech as well. The first season was very good. The second season quality drop dramatically. The third season (current one) is an improvement and a letdown... There is a scene that, I personally, felt was an anti-thesis of this scene.

@EmbracingNihility

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! Also what is the episode in season 3 so we can talk about it? We also reacted to his Parlor speech as well.

@Wotantech

3 жыл бұрын

I believe you are talking about the episode where the Orisha's were introduced. Episode 3 I believe. They went with some cringe line clearly written by a white dude

@EmbracingNihility

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wotantech Yea we def gonna check that out

@Blue_Lunacy

3 жыл бұрын

@@EmbracingNihility It was season 3 episode 4. Prepare yourselves because it's a whiplash from this and the previous Orlando Jones' scene.

@charlesneely

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the gas started his careers a writer and he's also a writer on in living color

Key word in that scene is sacrifice

So fucking powerful and so completely spot on.

@WaitAMinute1989

7 ай бұрын

Yet Denonu kept on speaking over his dialogue

He is a God, they can obviously see the future!!!...its not a hard concept to grasp!!!

I love this show. Seeing Orlando Jones acting on this, I want to see more from him and more of his previous works.

@EmbracingNihility

3 жыл бұрын

Jolly: I recommend 2001 Evolution and Double Take. When you look at his old work you see how even more great he has become.

@mrdexs

3 жыл бұрын

@@EmbracingNihility I stop watching after they fired him.

@Dan-qx8sn

5 ай бұрын

He was also excellent in the time machine remake from the early 2000s

Anansi is the god of stories, wisdom, knowledge and trickery of the Akan people. Akan people were very often the main participants and leaders of slave rebellions in the Americas so this scene was very apt and resonant.

The man should have been speaking Twi since Anansi is from Ghanaian folklore. I heard Igbo instead of Twi.

Its sad when the man was praying....sooo sad!!!

Some people that are in power could not understand why he would write this scene but, you have to remember that he is a trickster God. He told them that raw truth only to get them to commit suicide in his name. He could have told them all types of ways to defeat the system or get themselves back home but, since he's only about prayer and sacrifice which is most of the old gods it was beneficial to him for them to go out that way therefore, he wasn't helping them. He was only helping himself. Basically, he tricked them into killing themselves to empower him instead of teaching them to be better than the situation there in or just turning around once they were dead. He should have never prayed to a trickster God but, they didn't know at that time that he was a trickster God. It's actually a perfect scene if you look past what's going on in America and looking at the actual dialogue of the show.

Here's the reason why I love this show. This God has all the stories past and present. If he wanted to he could have changed the course of history with just telling them what they needed to do but, they prayed to a trickster God and he doesn't work that way so, what did he do? He told them enough to have them sacrificed himself in his name. It's actually beautiful writing if you can get past the trickery and look at the writing of the story.

They fired him right after this performance. They destroyed the show after that season. Now Neil Gaiman blowing up Black guys in Sandman. The hate was real.

Real Blackness expressed and media was not ready. Still not ready! Quality performance by Orlando J .

@One_Black_Panther

10 ай бұрын

The media will NEVER be ready so best to do ur pen shows and build ur own media

Commentate his one other speech in the funeral parlor season 2 episode 4

@EmbracingNihility

3 жыл бұрын

We commented and it is up now. Thanks!

It bothers me that he has never heard of Anansi.

@proudblackandagnostic2226

3 жыл бұрын

IKR! It’s crazy how we’re always interested in the Eurocentric deities over the Afrocentric deities that actually look like us.

@franciscastle1815

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah my weirdo meter went off when he said that

@LiquidSoul06

2 жыл бұрын

It bothered me when he compare him to Loki, different motivation different personalities

@bobbybewoke631

2 жыл бұрын

@@proudblackandagnostic2226 I ain't know til I heard about the show but then again idk any African gods or deities so 🤷🏾‍♂️

@sifamuzimbe4266

Жыл бұрын

American and all...

This scene made me watch for real, I was like I am hooked.

Anasi just got a mass power boost with those guys killing themselves like that. Tricksters being tricksters I suppose!

@sammendy138

3 жыл бұрын

I know if all the other black people knew what was waiting for them and their dependents on the other side of the shore,they too would make the same choice, I know I would.

@SR77736

2 жыл бұрын

that's what y got from this? I felt you missed the point. these slaves were gonna an shameful death anyway. at least they stood up for themselves and didn't allow that to continue. as a black person I am glad they did. suicide back then in these times was honorable versus being a slave. GTFOH.

@SR77736

2 жыл бұрын

@@sammendy138 exactly. they totally missed the point of this. no trickery.

@bobbybewoke631

2 жыл бұрын

@@sammendy138 frfr why would u want your kids or ancestors being raped and torture til they die at least die with honor 🎖

What that guy is true, but I loved the show I heard they are coming back but I don’t know how true it is.

@michaelking2449

3 жыл бұрын

Who’s coming back

I love this show ❤️👍

What a great character was Orlando Jones as Anansi if they don't bring him back I ain't watching this show no more

Good series

awesome scene great acting 👏

In the book, the people carry their gods with them. So the slaves carried there concepts of Anansi to a America, so consequently there are other Anansi in other nations where Anasi Worshipers god. This is why there were so many versions of Jesus in the show. This is a very interesting mechanism in Neil Gaiman's world building... I hated the Casting of Orlando Jones for the part, until I saw this episode. Now no one can ever Play Anansi for me again... He KILLED it!

Anansi is from Ghana only worshipped by the Akans of Ghana and came from the Ashantis (Akans)

I liked the part where they talked over everything.

On the off chance there is nobody here who has seen the show or read the book - the gods only have power according to how much people believe in or worship them. Anansi will just fade away otherwise. So the 'Old Gods' are fading, while some of the 'New Gods' have become very powerful very quickly. Neil Gaiman said that Technical Boy had to be very enhanced over the book, because everything he represents has grown much more powerful.

Is a true life story after all.. Igbo Landing, an ethnic group from the present day Nigeria. The sad thing about this people is that till date.. they are still fighting to be free even in their own land

@cosmicdiasporapoems2916

2 жыл бұрын

Nonsense unrelated to content.

this shit blew my fucking mind when it aired

Who do folks make a review and talk thru the important parts?

💣 If Any Man Have An Ear, Let Him Hear. 👇🏿 He that LEADETH Into CAPTIVITY Shall Go Into CAPTIVITY: 👇🏾 He That KILLETH With The SWORD Must Be KILLED With SWORD. 👇🏿 Here Is The Patience And The Faith Of The Saints.

When they FIRED him…I was done watching that show. 😒

2020 Omen. Floyd was on that ship. RIP.

Now u understand why kanye was says slavery was chos

Nothing worse than people talking and chirping during scenes

I've always wondered if this was inspired partly by the Amistad.

Truth has an acquired taste

I did not know Jones helped write that. Yeahhh that makes more sense.

He scribed the whole season..

Taking away his character just killed the series for me smh Orlando was the guy that made this worth watching

No they go (or are brought) anywhere they are prayed to

@EmbracingNihility

3 жыл бұрын

Jolly: Thanks for the correction

I thought his character was interesting too. He would motivate people to move in anger and sacrifice themselves for him, usually black people. Part of this scene that I found interesting is when he says they get to be worked to death “for a purple shirt” and then pops the collar of his full purple suit. He exploits his own people for his own gain and they die and he always survives and comes out stronger in the end.

@One_Black_Panther

10 ай бұрын

Maybe so...but they were gonna die either way which is why he said to sacrifice for a purpose then just take ur fate in slavery

democracy in usa... the shortest joke

Omg such a powerful scene and to think what if they did that? We wouldn’t be here today we would be in the motherland 😢

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Should've watched the show and/or read the book before commenting on this. FYI, Orlando Jones didn't write the dialog for it either

Anansi just wanted a sacrifice for him

ah my guy is speaking igbo

The Guilt was on lightspeed.

Then he got fired... :(

@daron6616

2 жыл бұрын

After that, the show lost a huge following.

This dudes sacrifice themselves for a fallen angel demon

Anansi is the spider trickster God in an ancient african religious tradition...i think it's Yoruba.....so that's whay he knows everything....he's a God...

What episode is this one?

@EmbracingNihility

2 жыл бұрын

American Gods Season 1 Episode 2.

@LukeHSM

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmbracingNihility Thanks!

Have you seen season 3? What did you think of the Orisha?

Is it true he got fired for this scene

Bro in the red shirt cut ya mic down damn

Slaves had no where near that amount of space in the hold.

Guys.... Anasi is a specific God that certain west Africans worshipped...It's not where ever black people are.......because east africans,south Africans,north Africans didn't worship know off or care about west Africans deities..plus there are many west African gods or supernatural entities. Belquis the goddess of love is east African. Anubis,Thoth north African ..so the colour is irrelevant.

@julianaansah6367

8 ай бұрын

It’s from Ghana only the Akans especially the Ashanti’s

I wish he'd pause the video to talk instead of talking over the vedio

F this show for firing Orlando Jones

Denonu, word of advice let him finish his speech before talking over him.

The guy was supposed to pray in twi not whatever he was speaking. Just saying but good acting overall

@arsena1816

3 жыл бұрын

Disagree, Anansi is an Akan/ Ashanti word. Not Twi. And, yes, I've visited Accra and Cape Coast, the area where a large percentage of slaves in the Caribbean and America were shipped out of.

@theambiance1815

2 жыл бұрын

@@arsena1816 You confusing me. Anasi is from Ashanti folklores and Ashantis speak Twi, that’s the language the guy’s speech was supposed to be in!!!

Anansi is not GOD he is minor African god.

You boys are to young. Stick with Donald Duck.

- do they have him able to see the future at all later or did they give him a future sight thing just for the pander speech?

And this is why they let Orlando go. He was writing way too deep.

That guy on the left talks way too much…dithering intro .enjoy and let us hear it then comment…it would be more enjoyable. Thanks fork simmering down .also, it’s really nothing to smile about shoe watching because the real history is horrific

There commentary ruined this video, talking over the scene was horrible

@EmbracingNihility

2 жыл бұрын

Denonu: That is kind of the point when you show copyrighted material. Are you new to youtube? lmao

@LilySteph1949

6 ай бұрын

Thanks….

Lol now the show is over smh could've gone like 6-8 seasons what a waste I actually loved tr he direction it was going till season 4 I was like uh no

@EmbracingNihility

2 жыл бұрын

Denonu: Yeah all the bad news killed all the motivation I had to watch the show.

Y'all shouldn't be smiling brothas.

Yea,he jus got booted from show;@least m.manson had to s.assault peopl to get booted-k.y.a.b.d.n?...

Enwere m afọ ojuju ịbụ onye Igbo

@julianaansah6367

8 ай бұрын

Anansi is from Ghana

Nothing is funny my brothers.

First two seasons great show they fired him then they went LGBT route what a shame

@proudblackandagnostic2226

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t mind the lgbt route as long as they don’t dismiss black struggle.

@4pokketwalkerhomebaby153

Жыл бұрын

@@proudblackandagnostic2226 they did that when they fired Orlando

I would definitely say that this is confirmation that that was a demon false god that told them to do that mess. Is Jehovah mentioned in this series at all by any chance?

@harleyquinn5774

2 жыл бұрын

No.