What it means to identify as Melungeon

Melungeons are mixed-race people with origins in the Appalachian Mountains. VPM News Focal Point asked Andrew Harris Jr to reflect on his background.
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Пікірлер: 17

  • @lindaedwards9756
    @lindaedwards97562 ай бұрын

    I love that !! Can’t erase history, there is good and bad….can’t change it by ignoring it. I am so glad this gentleman was kind enough to give us his perspective. All people are beautiful.

  • @Questioner6969
    @Questioner696929 күн бұрын

    I am melougeon. I might look white but I am glad I am melougeon. I am glad I was place by God this heritage.

  • @malindawilczynski2774
    @malindawilczynski2774Ай бұрын

    It was so important to my GM to keep the heritage hidden, including not displaying and later destroying family pictures. However the DNA tells the truth.

  • @SoldierOfJah
    @SoldierOfJahАй бұрын

    Do all melungeons also defy the laws of aging?! Cuz when he said 70!!!!

  • @Anewme92142
    @Anewme92142Ай бұрын

    I love learning this is amazing everybody not just black or white,you must know your history

  • @AjWard-nh5tp
    @AjWard-nh5tp2 ай бұрын

    Everybody mixed up, it's pointless to worry about it. 🙂

  • @NaturallyGifted77

    @NaturallyGifted77

    2 ай бұрын

    True! We are all humans that is what matters

  • @Based_Gigachad_001

    @Based_Gigachad_001

    2 ай бұрын

    No. Many people are pure.

  • @AjWard-nh5tp

    @AjWard-nh5tp

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Based_Gigachad_001 pure what

  • @ashley1919100

    @ashley1919100

    Ай бұрын

    @@Based_Gigachad_001 no

  • @afromystik4365
    @afromystik43656 күн бұрын

    I’ve been doing my genealogy and I have dna matches with the names Mullins, Williams and Goins! Interesting!!

  • @cynthiapickett7403
    @cynthiapickett7403Ай бұрын

    Very interesting; I have partial Melungeon ancestry (only recently discovered) myself.

  • @PinkTorpedo909
    @PinkTorpedo90928 күн бұрын

    For Gods sake man change the batteries to the smoke alarm!!!

  • @514Exc
    @514Exc24 күн бұрын

    I don’t believe there is a dna group for Sicily, the south shares more African ancestry than northern Italy. He may be Sicilian ancestry, historical darker skinned, prior to losing independence

  • @broadwaydebut1
    @broadwaydebut1Ай бұрын

    I’m sorry to say and shameful that Italian used the word melogean as a slur. In Italian melongean is an eggplant

  • @ryancreech7253
    @ryancreech72534 күн бұрын

    Not a real thing