Don't let this cute video placate you. The Charleston area Gullah Geechee culture is being gentrified and pushed off the land that they have inhabited for over a hundred years. If you think these traditions should be preserved then please get informed and active as to how you can help.

@sandychick94

5 жыл бұрын

I don't even live there but find their culture fascinating. What can we do?

@jaxsonpierre2363

5 жыл бұрын

That is so true I just saw a documentary about that big land developers are pushing those people off their land

@atlantabrooklyngal

5 жыл бұрын

@@sandychick94 maybe you should take a trip down there to see it for yourself and then maybe the answer on how you can help will come to you. The ancestors will speak to you. I am going to head down there when the weather gets better. Also, I think there might be some organizations that you can look up.

@toianders986

5 жыл бұрын

@@atlantabrooklyngal keep me in mind too. Although my family is from Edgefield, SC, I find that I am drawn to the Gullah culture. Maybe it's the ancestors calling.

@atlantabrooklyngal

5 жыл бұрын

@@toianders986 Yes 😊 I felt that way about New Orleans. I went on vacation, left, but kept thinking about it.

I’m creole, my people are from New Orleans. I appreciate how Gullah people own their culture unlike creole folks who give French people credit for African dishes. So many of our dishes in New Orleans are entirely African like dirty rice, jambalaya, gumbo and meat pies. Thank you for keeping the culture as pure as possible.

@kikikareema5912

5 жыл бұрын

Gumbo derived from the word "nki gumbo" meaning "okra" in some African languages.

@carolyngardner4999

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this information. There a guy on KZread from NOLA says that our food come from France. I told him he put of his mind. Still in slavery.

@queenzhavonne2044

5 жыл бұрын

We have NOT handed over credit to France. N.O. has a strong French influence but we are very aware that our gumbos ,jambalaya, crawfish dishes, etc. come from our black heritage. We are a majority black city. We know.

@wlynyoung

5 жыл бұрын

chgosyndicate My folks are Haitian, I’m from Bahamas. Every time we see videos or pics of New Orleans. We’re mind blown how much it looks like Haiti, specifically jacmel the art district part of town. But in the Haitian culture Gumbo is okra but the dis is, shrimp, stewed beef, okra served over a bed of white rice

@jerraethomas2378

5 жыл бұрын

@Conscious One79, my family is from Villplatte Louisiana and our African/Creole culture is very well preserved! I think the entire south has preserved a stronger African culture, the funny thing is from state to state, region to region we have different versions of Afro culture that still exist because of cultural isolation, and family traditions passed down. Let's keep on the tradition by passing down languages, cooking, etc.

Black culture is so broad, diverse, and beautiful! So proud that the ways of my ancestors are being preserved!

@dogeyes7261

5 жыл бұрын

Sangodele Olodumare it took an anthropology class for me to learn the obvious: Africa and the diaspora are the most culturally and genetically diverse population.

@Silkk_The_Chakra

5 жыл бұрын

@@dogeyes7261 Agreed. Can I get a like though? Lol

@MrLee198018

5 жыл бұрын

ha ha

@GullahGeecheeFarmer

5 жыл бұрын

*African culture* we are more than just a color.

@jaxsonpierre2363

5 жыл бұрын

@@GullahGeecheeFarmer that's why I call myself African instead of black because black is easier to deny

My maternal heritage. This also shows that Southerners, Caribbean’s and West Africans are not different from each other. We may have ‘lost’ our mother tongue but we can recognize it and our people.

@Chen-my1ks

3 жыл бұрын

Speak Sis!

@respectknuckles428

2 жыл бұрын

facts!!

@mbandrade5262

11 ай бұрын

Good point … 🙏🏽

I'm a white guy born in California, having lived half my life in Oklahoma. All that being said, I grew up watching Gullah Gullah Island and was fascinated by the dancing, language, and food! Now as an adult with my own kids (watching Gullah Gullah Island with them), I started looking into this region and culture. I love it and I wish more people knew this history. I hope activist groups band together to preserve this culture.

@TheQueenOfGreatness

10 ай бұрын

Come on over to South Carolina. Nothing like visiting. Come to Charleston 😊

@AriessunvirgomoonlightLibraise

5 ай бұрын

I'm born and raised in SoCal an remembered the Gullah from an episode on Martin when I was a kid an learned the people an culture from that point on. I'm proud u an I know about this culture even though we were born on a whole different coast 😊💪🫵🫶

I'm African American, born and raised in NYC. Last week I got a chance to meet my husband's family from SC. I was mind blown. I always thought of them as "Southern Black"... But the more that I learned about Gullah Greeche culture the more I am amazed. His family have their own land, they cooked, shared stories. Its amazing how I've been with someone for 10 years and it never dawned on me that his culture is different although we are both African American. Lol I have so much to learn. I did make red rice last night for dinner! 🙌🏾 lol I think I killed that. Lol Now I have to learn how to make some of these dishes for my husband. ❤❤

My Geeche used to be so strong, my mother could not even understand me. When we moved to NJ when I was around 6 y/o I had to go to a Speech Language Pathologist in elementary school in Mt. Laurel. The students thought I was speaking Spanish and Speech Pathologist advised them I was speaking Geechee.

@gailjones7044

3 жыл бұрын

Cute 🥰

@Chen-my1ks

3 жыл бұрын

You think you would have widened your speech access if they had left you to it? Can you revert by choice now?

@livefree1111

3 жыл бұрын

That’s sad. I’m Geechee and was sent all white schools for this reason. A lot of our elders felt it was best for us to leave our culture behind to make a better life. I would code switch for a long time but funny thing is, my friends who are not from here would point out that my accent would come out when I would get excited. 😂 As I get older, I realize that my accent gets stronger just like my mom who wanted me to hide it. I love it. Our Gullah Geechee culture is strong. I’ll never abandon my ancestors or be ashamed of my culture ever again.

@DorianKYounger

2 жыл бұрын

Yep -- had the same experience

@reginasmith6276

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you can still speak it fluently ?

I'm from the Bahamas and love to learn more about the Gullah Tribe cause we really have the same culture. Lord have mercy

@Koolkid4CHRIST

2 жыл бұрын

I know this was a post made two years ago but I have ancestral ties to both the Gullah Geechee and Bahamians-we are in both a literal and spiritual sense-close cousins our cultures.

@honeyrayen3549

Жыл бұрын

My great grandfather was from the Bahamas and his daughter was Gullah gee her

@dinglelm

Жыл бұрын

Hey Bahamian family!!

@honeylamour1

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather’s grandmother was said to have fled from South Carolina to The Bahamas to escape slavery and a lot of first Bahamian settlers are from Carolinas they may have been freed slaves or the 1st or 2nd generation children/grandchildren of freed slaves

@michellejean-baptiste

Жыл бұрын

They are the same culture bc our ancestors originated in Africa but some of the Gulla Geechee people were in the Bahamas before landing on the sea islands. Same with Louisiana creole. That’s why it’s referred to as the corridor…. We’re all connected. 😊

This is amazing. I am from Trindad & Tobago. A lot of the foods of the Gullah-Geechee tradition resembles African-Caribbean food. The red rice looks exactly like our Pelau. Browned rice, meats and vegetables. A national dish in T&T from our slave ancestors. Looks like Jollof rice. Callaloo with either salted meat, okra, coconut milk, seasonings, crab or seafood resembles your gumbo. This is also West African. We eat coo coo a cornmeal dish which is also West African and is eaten in most Afro Caribbean islands. Pounded plaintains or foo foo is mainly still made in Tobago where our African presence is strong. The more we look is the more we see how similar the children of Mama Africa are.

The Gullah Geechee culture is similar to my Jamaican culture in speech, dress , food and burial traditions . Listening to the singing at a Gullah wake, I thought I was in Jamaica.

@thebutterflygarden1138

6 ай бұрын

What part of Jamaica are you from? I'm from Georgia. Many people from the Caribbean are moving to what is referred to as the deep south. Is there a particular reason why they're choosing this region?

@Gullahbae-xm6ms

5 ай бұрын

Like everyone else, they are coming due to cost of living. Unfortunately it’s driving the natives out.

Watching this has made my heart so full. I'm so proud to be Afro/African American.

@greencarolyn03

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@selendriamuganogo7077

5 жыл бұрын

nikki me too 😩

@teenatchie2235

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to be melanated

@divinediva_

10 ай бұрын

Yes.❤

The red rice dish is very interesting. In Africa the dish original dish is called “Jollof.” In Louisiana the version of it is called Jamabayla.

@carlaj322

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! Half of my child hood I grew up right there in the low country I'm half African American bo I do I miss some good ole red rice my grandfather use to make

@QueenOfNY10

5 жыл бұрын

So interesting of how much we have in common as African Americans and Africans ... I’m open to learn more about my brothers and sisters

@atlantabrooklyngal

5 жыл бұрын

@@QueenOfNY10 it's interesting, because when I meant someone from the gullah community I thought she was from the Caribbean, but she wasn't. She sounded like she was from the island.

@iayyam

5 жыл бұрын

@@QueenOfNY10 thats because we are Africans too

@QueenOfNY10

5 жыл бұрын

@@iayyam yes I concur

Hailing from Wadmalaw Island, I love seeing my culture acknowledged and celebrated! Though I am concerned about its erasure and the possibility of it being stolen as everything in black culture ends up stolen. I remember growing up, people outside of the community spoke of us like we were ignorant for speaking geechee. It was during college when I learned to keep my language/dialect limited to when I'm at home or in the company of "home" folks. I was made to feel ashamed. As I grow older, I uberappreciate my culture, lessons and the stories told to me by my ancestors. I'm no longer ashamed of my accent or offended by being called geechee.

@gsignaturemessage

5 жыл бұрын

I can relate..I went to through the same thing. People kept saying they couldn’t understand me and I felt how I spoke diminished my perception of intelligence in college. I’m not holding back anymore lol

@francinedozier8508

5 жыл бұрын

I stumbled upon this video and I'm so happy that I did. I have deep roots in Charleston SC and cousins on Wadmalaw Island. Hey cuz!!

@slyfox1983

5 жыл бұрын

CocoaKissesSC no I love you guys! Dont lose it. Document, document, document!!! Start a tour company and offer authentic experience. I’ll be the first one to sign up. We have to protect the culture!!!

@Synchronite

5 жыл бұрын

🖤

@sheem.2450

3 жыл бұрын

My husband's family is from wadmalaw island!! Went there a week ago! Its so beautiful out there! 😍😊❤

And that clap is most definitely used in many black churches.

@martinsmith2258

5 жыл бұрын

Jadea Campbell yup it is😂👏🏾

@lynnharr3911

3 жыл бұрын

It also mimics the African drum, which was banned in America.

WELCOME TO WEST AFRICA 101.. I’m Yoruba from Nigeria and have been to Sierra Leone ,where I found out we are nothing but the same people .Is super crazy to know what we have in common is huge..Love y’all my Gullah fam❤️

I'm from West Africa.bit was Soo exciting to recognize the dishes you were preparing. Blood is definitely thicker than water. Love you.

We must teach this in the schools. I am 74 and I am just learning about the Gullah. If the good Lord willing I will come and learn all I can about the people and the traditions. Thank you for being on KZread.

I feel another South Carolina trip in my bones 😍😍

@zhoxzalabrique5749

5 жыл бұрын

Mercedes Desere’ Yae-boh!♏👑

@plizo69

5 жыл бұрын

@@zhoxzalabrique5749 me too never been

@idread1104

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@latarshablack2808

5 жыл бұрын

Come on down...

@originalme8595

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, agreed. My grandmother was Geechee and my grandfather was from Batesburg, South Carolina. I have many relatives there but have never met them. It's past time.

Red Bays in North Andros, Bahamas was settled by the Black Seminoles in the 1700 or 1800's. The Black Seminoles were runaway slaves from South Carolina, Georgia etc. In Red Bays, the hand-woven baskets made locally are exactly the same as those in the video made by the Gullah geechee. The Geechee language, however, is spoken prevalently throughout the Bahamas

@howardconyers7623

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing such useful information. i am going to dig into this more.

@dareal410

5 жыл бұрын

What a lot dont know is these are the folks the government waged war against but mask them by calling them Indian aka native American war when it was really a war against gullah and geechie i for one know based on family history

@TheVuduYuDu

4 жыл бұрын

@@howardconyers7623 Please do! it is fascinating because the research always leads back home (whereever home may be for you) and helps dispels the myth that Blacks in bondage never resisted that bondage in anyway other than prayer or waiting for deliverance.

@chuckbrooks2271

3 жыл бұрын

Barbadian, Blacks came to sc and settle there in 1670, landed on the Ashley river with John Drayton .

@randibee2185

3 жыл бұрын

Letitia my father is from Andros and his great grandmother was a Red Bay Indian. It's amazing how close our Bahamian culture is to that of the Gullah people.

The west African culture is so strong. They tried to get rid of it but it is literally engrained in us. The rythm the lady was clapping is literally the rythm Haitian people use for most of our music. Clap 👏🏿 1,2 clap 👏🏿 clap👏🏿!

@deaneawilliams2272

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed sis

@thebridge5483

5 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed

@Mackandal-

5 жыл бұрын

4 Sho!

@foxybill1836

5 жыл бұрын

Moors were on this continent over 250,000 years before any other people's. See rvbeypublications. com A good way to steal a people's land, make their descendants think they came from some where else.

@fitawrarifitness6842

4 жыл бұрын

@@foxybill1836 There are no 250,000 year old human remains found anywhere in the western hemisphere. Please don't make up stuff.

I was born in Trinidad & Tobago. Same. Same culture. Wow.

@iayyam

5 жыл бұрын

Im Trini too and for sure this is identical to ours.

@tehutimes1

5 жыл бұрын

@Cynthia Dickerson Certain entities/groups want to keep us separated as much as possible in any form.

@LanceDa510

5 жыл бұрын

no, we have a different culture. respect that.

@wildwoman2520

5 жыл бұрын

Because it's ancient American culture, we've always been here from Canada to south America including the islands

@fitawrarifitness6842

4 жыл бұрын

@@wildwoman2520 no it's African. Keep that made up Aboriginal nonsense to yourself.

I'm geechee Gullah and Creole Seminole and I was taught I'm native to this land

@islandgyal5269

5 жыл бұрын

Sara Lee yes sister we are the Aboriginals Indigenous to these Americas....I'm still doing research on my parental they are all from South Carolina: Sullivan's Island,Beaufort,and Lauren's

@adangbe

5 жыл бұрын

So you Seminole too! Geechee cousins.

@xenonblaster9240

5 жыл бұрын

me too my drandad tried to hide it but the truth came out what gave him away was the red rice

@cakelady9291

5 жыл бұрын

adangme yes 😘😘😘

@queendragin

5 жыл бұрын

@@islandgyal5269 my family is from St. Johns Island

Our African roots seem to always appear in Our Food🍛 & Music 🎶

@neetw596

4 жыл бұрын

AND our dance

@youtubetears1076

4 жыл бұрын

Hair too.

@inreallife767

4 жыл бұрын

That's Love.

@janiceasante55

4 жыл бұрын

African food is not all the same there’s 54 countries in Africa

@youtubetears1076

4 жыл бұрын

Janice Asante We are referring to West African culture influencing African American culture, especially in the south. We know Africa is diverse.

I am from Senegal. I live in the US. I have diverse food cooking experiences. It will nice and so beneficial for all of us to reconnect. Let's work on events which can reconnect the diaspora in large.

@LilliLamour

Жыл бұрын

I love you for this...

@omsarr02

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I’m from SC born and raised, and that at red rice, grits, okra soup, fried fish, and allat be hittin man🤪😋😍

@soulrebel223

4 жыл бұрын

Be bussin something different fasho!!!

Nothing but pride! Being from New Orleans myself, seeing this just reminds me of how important our rich culture is!..........it also shows just how much colonial whites who are called “Cajun” are relabeling black culture of Louisiana!

@iayyam

5 жыл бұрын

@Right Cha you are so right, we allow everybody to take our stuff.

@AandP4dummieslikeme

5 жыл бұрын

@Right Cha We don't seem to see the value in what we produce until it is validated by whites.

@thebridge5483

5 жыл бұрын

justcallme... so true

@Nola504

5 жыл бұрын

Whites didn't want be apart of our culture until it started getting recognition around the world. I laugh every time I see a watered down second line or taste unflavored creole food

@shirleygolden7740

5 жыл бұрын

Daisy Sauce! Bill Cosbys Quaalude Cocktail! O

Gullah Geeche also ran as far down as St Augustine Florida. SEMINOLE means "run away" many run away Slaves ended up in Florida fighting alone side the Indians.

@solsoul6449

4 жыл бұрын

Gee Foo Yep, Second Seminole War. Led by John Horse.

@fosterelston1704

3 жыл бұрын

Facts

Heard my mother speak of Geechee people even in Texas.

@ladyof5304

5 жыл бұрын

Me too I'm from Texas also, but my mom always spoke of the Louisiana geechee she grew up with. I guess.

@ep6768

4 жыл бұрын

I heard my dad speak about a man we grew up around. He had a strange language. We had to make out what he was saying . The grownups all ways call him Geechee. So my GOD. There was a people called Geechee. This is so amazing. But he passed a way bout 10 yrs ago. I wish I new his real name.

@KtotheG

3 жыл бұрын

The Gullah Geechee is rooted in the SC/NC/GA coasts and a little bit of the North FL coast... anywhere else would be transplants... the Gulf states (TX, AL, LA, MS) would not be Gullah Geechee culture... maybe Creole and some other cultures.

So proud of my people...born and raised in south Carolina .our tradition is so strong!!! The south 💪💪

My family's from Santee, Elloree South Carolina........when my Dad or family speak it is totally another language. You would think are these really Americans. Whole nother culture.......Gullah Geechee's we do exist.

As a West African I just want to clarify that Thieboudienne IS jollof rice, it’s the real and original jollof rice coming from the Wolof people from Senegal. It is nice to see that Okra soup is still being enjoyed because it is too good!

Say it loud! I'm Black and I'm Proud!

@teenatchie2235

4 жыл бұрын

I'm black and I'm proud to be

@sarahmoore1448

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Black and I'm Proud!! ❤😁

I'm from cold northern Europe and will probably never go to these places, but it's very interesting to see and learn about culture, history and delicious food. Thanks for making this content!

@rabrams4778

5 жыл бұрын

I have been to cold Northern Europe,the people and the scenery's were wonderful.Norway .

@sonikku956

Жыл бұрын

I hope you get a chance to visit one day.

My people and my home! Gullah boy til i die!

The African diaspora is beautiful. We all come from Africa and have developed our own story from her love.

South Carolina man born and raised here and I'm still here..I love my roots

That red rice tho 😍😍

@KtotheG

3 жыл бұрын

It's good, especially with the onions and bell peppers. I can have it with or without the sausages, but no onions and no bell peppers and I won't eat it.

That red rice could be a main dish itself! And the those grits...I almost had a foodgasm seeing that butter melt in slow motion. I have to visit this area.

im a Pacific islander & i must say deep pit cooking is changing. we here in the islands still do it the traditional way. 1. dig the hole. 2. line black stones in the pit. 3. build the fire in the pit over the stones. 4. let it burn until charred. 5. wen charred, use long stinks to spread the burned charred woods all over the pit & also take some stones out for topping. 6. place leaves in pit & start laying food items that needs to be cooked this way. 7. cover with leaves again & place the rest of the hot stones on top of the leaves. 8. place more leaves to trap in heat & to cover the inside the pit. 9. after its all done, bury the pit carefully & fully with the dirt u dug out of the pit. 10. enjoy!! ✊🏽✊🏽✌🏽✌🏽

@howardconyers7623

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. The style of pitcooking you are referencing is a different approach to pitcooking that was done in the American South in the late 1700s and 1800s, until the 1970s.

@faanengaaw7357

5 жыл бұрын

Howard Conyers your welcome🤗

@OlObuffalo

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this :o)

We BUILT THIS MFN COUNTRY ‼️💯

I love these kinds of videos. African-American culture is very rich, so it´s great to be able to know more about the culture of my cousins across the pond!

We are a very diverse people of African Americans

@kikikareema5912

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, we are thats why I hate when they just bring up rap.

@yahsgracemercy1676

5 жыл бұрын

We are HEBREWS! Not AA

@kikikareema5912

5 жыл бұрын

@@yahsgracemercy1676 stop

@nubiannile4606

5 жыл бұрын

SheLearnsLife Thank you....they always bring up the rap/hip hop culture and just music. There are many aspects to our diverse culture.

@kikikareema5912

5 жыл бұрын

@@nubiannile4606 We have Gullah culture, zydeco music, jazz, blues, R&B, Rock and Roll. Black poets and authors like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker who wrote things like Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, Sounder and Raisin in The Son, The Color Purple. We have Folklore like Highwalker, Why We say Umhmm, Brer Rabbit, The Buzzard King, but all we are known for is rap lol

In West Africa Rice is the most staple food, Rice with Beans Cook together, is another typical West African. And I see many of these food, among the Haitians, Guyanese, Jamaican, and many other Caribbean. We are the same families, but with different experiences. I am happy, despite the long separation, our People across Atlantic, still keep the tradition, in Music, food, hair style and many more

As a Bahamian I truly would love to visit these people. They speak just like me

My grandmother LOVED rice, she had rice w/ EVERYTHING!!! Tomatos and rice

How beautiful and important! Thanks for showing me (I´m from Brazil) your culture and magical cuisine.

@ameliavanderveere8708

5 жыл бұрын

Cont'd: NIGERIA, GHANA, CONGO, ANGOLA, GUINEA, SENEGAL, CAMEROON, SUDAN, GAMBIA, COTE D'IVOIRE etc..................

@pimpiniseasy2778

3 жыл бұрын

@@ameliavanderveere8708 this has nothing to do with anything

@ameliavanderveere8708

3 жыл бұрын

@@pimpiniseasy2778 What u mean, it has nothing 2do with the issue @t hand? Ru that dense, that u can/will not connect the dots? I just wanted 2 show the connection2 &correlation with All diasporan Afri- cans. The cuisine is basically similar in All those countries &islands, bcz of the African cultural influence. Does THAT clarify &placate ur lack of deductive/ inductive reasoning???

@ameliavanderveere8708

3 жыл бұрын

@@pimpiniseasy2778 Incidentally, I shdnt expect any scholarly reasoning, from somebody who wd ignorantly glorify the un- ethical &exploitative sub -culture of 'pyimpin'??? Pssh!!!

@pimpiniseasy2778

3 жыл бұрын

@@ameliavanderveere8708 The connection is very little Most of it was innovated in America by us

I used to could catch hints of that accent in the older folks in conway ,sc. They are gone on to heaven now.....but yeah..... ......its beautiful.

I love how they're arguing over Jollof lool

We must all stick together and save our Black people land!! If not, next year, there will be a white man making a video talking about how to make red rice and declaring that he is a Gullah Geechee!

@gemeni3000

4 жыл бұрын

Yep it really really sad.

@blaquefaerie8201

4 жыл бұрын

He will probably say it's a French dish.

@dlr_rosa254

4 жыл бұрын

We Chicanos eat red rice too actually, we make it similarly except we don't usually mix meat into it

@elbob248

4 жыл бұрын

I am a white man who is fortunate enough to have family residing in Beaufort. My son in law is stationed there. We visit as often as we can. I have come to love and appreciate the Gullah culture. I have gotten to the point where I can make a pretty solid red rice, but I would never claim to be to be Gullah Geechee. All I can do is honor the culture as best I can. The history is real.

@Chastidee

3 жыл бұрын

Right. That's right up they alley.

Wow, what insight. My grandmother spoke of an island off the coast of Georgia were gullah geechee people lived.

@mayaj291

4 жыл бұрын

I know I'm a year late, but which island. We may be kinfolk

I remember growing up ppl would speak of the Geechy in a negative way as if they weren't a part of us!

@jaxsonpierre2363

5 жыл бұрын

It's because they were self-hating and running away from the African culture heritage so they didn't want no remembrance of it

@Createshareandgive

5 жыл бұрын

Divide and conquer #willielynchletter

@TheEnigmaticBM39

4 жыл бұрын

@tureal jones same

@pimpiniseasy2778

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaxsonpierre2363 has nothing to do with africa is black american

Nice video. My uncle via marriage was a Gullah Gee Chee . Growing up, I used to think he was from the Caribbean islands, but he wasn’t. He was born and raised in South Carolina! The African diaspora is amazing and they should not be division among the cultures (African American, Cape Verdean, Afro-Carribbean). Someone in this video said that food is the binding agent that brings the culture back together, reminding everyone where we came from. Amen.

My friend is from Senegal, who does similar dishes. I finding out more from her and our cooking culture. Example, I was making for breakfast, rice, skinned milk, sugar and nutmeg, and simmer my rice cereal. My friend said that is Sombe in her Wolof language. I'm from Baltimore, Maryland, and finding out that a lot of traditional African cooking is all ingrained in the american culture, some people may call it soul food. I also lived in Savannah, Georgia for a year and know about the low country boil, which is fish stew in Senegal. By the way, the rice cereal, in the south or some people say the country, is called Sugar Rice. 🤗

Never heard of this culture before. Needs to be better known. As always, thanks Doc for the insight and the good food.

@PBSNourish

5 жыл бұрын

Rich culture - and good food too!

@jayjdietrich

5 жыл бұрын

Check out "The Water is Wide" by Pat Conroy. Good book to get your soul thinking.

@southernindigo1973

5 жыл бұрын

@@jayjdietrichI worked with some of the people who Pat Conroy wrote about in that book. It was very interesting.

@OlObuffalo

5 жыл бұрын

@@jayjdietrich "Check out 'The Water is Wide' by Pat Conroy. Good book to get your soul thinking. " Watched this on KZread: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lplsyLeMktqtn8Y.html

Very interesting. My beloved grandmother was from the sea islands of South Carolina. I never, never, never heard Grandmother or any of the relatives use the term Gullah. Instead, they always used the word Geechee to refer to themselves and their wonderful culture.

Don't leave the NC Gullahs out, love the video family

Wow we've GOTTA PRESERVE....... Some of THESE historical ways....

Love this! I’m proud of my Gullah/Geechee culture. I have roots in Charleston as well as Beaufort S.C. ❤️

I love how they never lost their Flava.

@Gullahbae-xm6ms

5 ай бұрын

🖤💚💙💛✊🏾

@diodelvino3048

4 ай бұрын

And dudes well versed in the food history

I appreciate the Gullahh Geechee culture. My father and his family lived on James Island when he was young. My family has always had a connection to the low country though we live in the Midlands. Please continue to preserve this.

Dr you should go into Georgia, McIntosh county and Sapelo Island. Low country here! I love my people.

@gaboy3778

5 жыл бұрын

Riceboro, Harris Neck all in those spots.

@zelmadennis8435

5 жыл бұрын

Wow. Not many people know about Sapelo island.

@mayaj291

4 жыл бұрын

@@gaboy3778 yaaasss Harris Neck, Cannon Bluff, Meridian, all them areas

@mayaj291

4 жыл бұрын

@@zelmadennis8435 at all and it's untouched still (thankfully)

@johnlewis7333

4 жыл бұрын

MayaEJa'Nae Jo even Eulonia

There was a fairly recent episode of the show "United Shades of America" about the Gullah Geechee culture that was very fascinating. This adds to that and makes me want to try some recipes from these.

I love the culture I love the food! I moved tho charleston sc when I was 15 absolutely fell in love my hole life I felt like charleston is my home! Can't wait to move back!

Thank you for making this. With your channel, I feel like I'm back in the South eating my grandmother's food and spending time with my cousins agin.

@PBSNourish

5 жыл бұрын

Keep watching, more to come!

@francinedozier8508

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly!! So do I. Those were the good old days for sure!

@antarjohnbrown1802

4 жыл бұрын

Geechee man from Richmond Hill Georgia...We still out there !!!

Red rice is the daughter of Joloff rice. I am of Afro Caribbean and the Gullah like most Southern cultures are very similar to ours.

Now I feel bad that I've been singing Kumbaya wrong all these years

As she was singing something deep down in my soul was moved

Wow, this is fascinating.... I learned something today. Being Acadian, the concept of cultural survival is very dear to my heart. all the best to the Gullah Geechee

Some legends around those tables. Rodney Scott and Bryan Furman are two of the best in the game to go along with BJ's amazing approach to honoring and promoting Lowcountry heritage. That's one dinner where I'd love to just sit back and listen.

@PBSNourish

5 жыл бұрын

It was an incredible event. Lot of talent in the food world, and fun too!

@rickycoker5830

4 жыл бұрын

Rodney did pretty good for a poor boy from Hemingway, South Carolina.

LOVE this thank you! My grandma is Gullah Geechee from South Carolina.

@BarFit4Life

4 ай бұрын

🩵🩵🩵🪶🪶🪶🪶

My grandmother spoke the dialect when she was a little girl. Her dad was from Florida and they migrated to NC, her momma was from SC. When the family came to NC she was ashamed at school to speak because they would poke fun. She wouldn’t talk. Suppressed it so much so to where it was lost. I wish she would have embraced this . I would have gladly carried this culture.

Im a caribbean american and I love the Gullahs man this food looks amazing

The Bahamas has 100%Geechee culture

@CocoaKissesSC

5 жыл бұрын

Lol, yes. It is said Bahamians are the closest in dialect and culture to the us. People who hear the accent want to say Jamaican, but its Bahamian.

@janicemckenzie7932

5 жыл бұрын

So true.

@kas3583

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely I'm a gullah boy, i grew up walking distance from this very farm and the owner Joseph Fields is a distant cousin of mine. I live in Miami now and whenever I speak people ask me if I'm bahamian

@iayyam

5 жыл бұрын

To me the short brother sounds like he was from the Bahamas.

@kas3583

5 жыл бұрын

@@iayyam correct the short brother is from a gullah community the taller one is not.

I wanna thank you for posting this segment. My family is from St. Stephen SC and i'm currently living in Myrtle Beach SC. I grew up out there and the same history existed back then. Black People up North need to experience this. Maybe they would stop the killing if they knew the love of our culture. I love everyone and it's because of the old school upbringing. I pray that way of life will return. Once again thank you. Lots of love from your brother, Preacher.

Red rice is the Liberian daughter of jollof rice. That’s very similar to Liberian Jollof. We make ginger beer and okra soup!! We love seafood as well and fresh fruits!! The gumbo dish is very similar to what we call Palava Saice in Liberia. Fun fact: We have a tribe in Liberia called the Gullah.

@rachelyoung1023

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@slspn2

Жыл бұрын

Could this be due to the fact that the American Colonization Society sent Free "African-Americans to Liberia in the early 1800s?

@kaywisseh

Жыл бұрын

@@slspn2 Yes! Absolutely!

@wordsbymaribeja1470

Жыл бұрын

@@slspn2 No, black americans didn't introduce Jollof to West Africa.

This is why I want to move out of Miami and learn my real culture. My grandparents raised me like this in Miami, they’ve passed on, but I still hold to the things I’ve learned as a cook.

@pimpiniseasy2778

3 жыл бұрын

Gullah people are in Florida also

@Gullahbae-xm6ms

5 ай бұрын

Not in Miami tho

Charleston born and bred. I’m actually making greens for dinner tonight. I remember in church, we would start with a one clap rhythm and then transition into the low country clap. Unfortunately, like someone said in the comments, it’s true that gentrification is happening. They’re also forcing the Gullah people off their land that they’ve inherited after slavery by raising the taxes. I grew up in an all black neighborhood where my grandma still lives and they’re moving in slowly but surely. They keep trying to buy her house and she refuses. It’s quite annoying.

@cherylleech785

3 жыл бұрын

God bless and strengthen you!

As the elders say when proud, "Us Chil'rens be learned they ancestas' ways". From my paternal heritage in the Carolinas/Georgia/Alabama where this food ,brought from Africa and her diaspora, sticks to your soul; to my maternal Mississippi/Louisiana Creole seafood, but my love is my grandmother's Texas Afro-Tejano fusion of spicy hot tamales, fried tomatoes & onions; pickled green peppers, cucumbers, & carrots served over brown rice with a side of mixed greens collard/mustard/turnip greens-yes greens, simmered for hours in fatback(now turkey bacon) and salt-hot water cornbread-see now! I'm hungry.

@thebutterflygarden1138

6 ай бұрын

I'm from Georgia. Those dishes sound very interesting. I'll have to look up a recipe and try them.

I was born in Charleston South Carolina. We later moved to Johns Island S.C. I currently live in California and has been here for 26 years...South Carolina will always be my home!

Their missing spiced crawfish, crab cakes, and corn fritters. They go so well with the red rice, lamb, and grits.

Really impressed by the chef. He really knows the history and culture behind all these dishes!

I can not explain my natural joyful response to the sound and rhythm of the sister singing Kumbaya. I know that sound.

@cherylleech785

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Lord!

Who would thumbs down this video about this beautiful African culture?

Food & Music are the 2 things that bring people together with love

Reminds me so much of Louisiana

As I am watching this I am things about Africans coming to an unknown land and substituting food to preserve there African food/ culture. Its obvious red rice is a substitute for jollof rice. We are all one people. It is amazing how the Gullah culture survived. Great people may the culture continue to be taught and stay preserved.

Very interesting we of African American decent have so much in different dishes that have not been experienced, this was great hope more is shown. We are so much more diverse in culinary dishes passed down generations.

i love all of that FRESH food. it's all beautiful.

Im in Philly dis make me wanna move back to SC so bad. I love my culture. Im going straight to James Island

@jacksonernie484

5 жыл бұрын

There are dishes served in this part of Pennsylvania , our heritage isn't dead . We must pass this on to our children , what a gift .

@shirleytarrant8851

5 жыл бұрын

too tall mccall I spent my whole childhood living in NY Brooklyn but we never left the old traditions in SC food and all pig head and pig feet

My late mother is from St. Mathews, SC and I have family through out Charleston, Orangeburg, St. Helena and Buford. I have told many Jamaican friends of mine that my uncles, cousins, and my late grandfather sounded like them and they wouldn't believe me lol. So proud to be of this culture and heritage.

@shirleytarrant8851

5 жыл бұрын

imari2305 people from SC go to Buford to see Dr Buzzard the voodoo root man

Nothing like some good ole Gullah dishes. I am a Geechie myself from Charleston. I love the history of how the food, dishes so influenced. New Orleans as well. Folks always think Louisiana folks and Charlestonians sound alike. We share a strong link.

My grandmother is from St. Helenas Island Sc, which will become my home in two more months. She always cooked red rice on holidays. I'm so looking forward to connecting with my roots. Such a beautiful place 🦋👁💖💫🍃 #Gullahroots

You can here the geechee accent on the chef. I love it!

I am a Cumya not a Benya, which means I came here I am not from here, but my husband and his family can trace their roots back to slavery days On Frogmore Island (St. Helena Island) When I first came here I talked to many elders to learn of the Gullah culture. It is slowly dwindling away because as with many cultures our young people are leaving and very few come back, or they just aren't as interested in the history. There are some young ones that are trying to help keep the culture alive but as finances are cut, they are trying to survive. Such a same.

Red rice is definitely Jollof rice from West Africa. The basket making style orginated from Sierra Leone. We call it kushew blai

I wish I could go to visit the Sea Islands ... my ancestors came from over the Ashley River long, LONG ago.

I just got educated... the song makes more sense now...

Red rice in Gullah Geechee is Jambalya in Louisiana.

@africasfinest52

5 жыл бұрын

Michelle On Chef and in my country 🇬🇭 it’s straight jollof rice 🍚

@godprovides1727

5 жыл бұрын

definitely a universal dish and it shows us just how connected we truly are.

@tashapatillo1461

5 жыл бұрын

They're not the same. they dnt taste the same. One is sweet & one is spicy.

@MissMeMe343

4 жыл бұрын

@@tashapatillo1461 At all. I recently tried jollof and was so disappointed. It is a lie that it tastes like jambalaya!

@thegigadykid1

4 жыл бұрын

@@MissMeMe343 depends on the country. You should try Liberia it's the best

I LOVE THE DEEPNESS IN THESE PEOPLES VOICE AND SOUND!

I just had dinner but at 3 mins into the video I’m salivating at the food! Love your content Dr. Conyers! Kudos!