Pharrell Makes a Harrowing Discovery About His Ancestors | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®
Pharrell Makes a Harrowing Discovery About His Ancestors | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®
Producer and Grammy winner Pharrell Williams reflects on the depth of his family ties to enslavement after reading an excerpt from an interview involving his ancestor on Finding Your Roots.
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Slavery exist for thousands of years nothing new Go to Muslim countries and ask them if they show you some records about how many African slaves they have 😂
Man it suck everytime you see a black celebrity is on here, you know exactly where its going to lead to😖 how disgraceful america is, and still is.
Live every day for your ancestors. Make them proud… please. Achieve things they could never achieve…
Pharrell grandpa was a rat in the sewer
Even now there is slavory in the middle east. Black slaves. Don't be angry over the past. Be angry for what's going on now.
I will pray for the Interviewers, who made this great Archive Interviewing the Slaves. Hope you enjoy Heave, when it exists.
How shocking for him.Would have loved to hear more about the daily lives of Pharrell 's ancestor Jane,as the detail brings to light just how much they endured.
Howabout Sunny Hostin next… lol.
Pharrell is a vampire
What happened in the americas is such a small part of who Black americans are, you need to go before slavery not just during and after.
3:04 what an incredible response
Everybody's saying how enabling it was for him to say I don't want to cry and I'm trying not to be angry but for me the vivid raw emotion comes when he says what kind of people,, what kind of people it is different for African-Americans or people of color because this unjust is still in his resurrection for us, we have no Union we have no justification we have no laws we have no protection even now
So beautiful , incredible video, made me cry.Could feel the emoyions of Pharrel, I have lot of respect for Pharrel and his music.
Yes, lets pick at scabs, that will end well..
🤦♂️ so tired of hearing this 🙄 why don't yall ever talk about how yall got here 🤔 what about all the other people around the world that was slaves 🤔 yall act like you was the only one 🤔 and FYI real black slavery still going on in Africa to day.
Don’t correct the English bro
The tears bless you and link you.
The anger strengthens you with pride and the warrior spirit to endure and conquer no matter what.
The knowledge of the past and their names, stories, places ties you to their blood you carry and pushes you to look forward, achieve, care, understand, have charity, honesty, integrity in their name.
The history we carry and pass to our children places them firmly balanced on this earth.
Head up, shoulders back, strong backed and willing to survive and thrive. Unbowed, unbound, unrestricted.
Gratitude to that survival despite bitter odds holds us to the promise of life.
Humility holds us to our promise to thrive.
This was real…wow…”What kind of people? What kind of people?”
Pharaoh and Pharrell, I can hear how the name came to be
Ironically one line of my family has the surname May and they were enslaved by Louis May. I need to catch this full episode
American slavery is unique in the long history of human slavery in that it targeted a specific group of people…and kept its boot upon them even after it was legally ended.
Im trying to figure out how you get a better in-depth check like these
This episode truly gives hope that despite the horror of slavery and white ancestors in your dna, you could be a great human being like Pharrell… it’s a tough episode though
The host and Pharrell are the same age
Like the holocaust this needs never to be forgotten. Do not forget man’s inhumanity to man lest it be repeated.
Yes he is ❤ ikr love him
3:22 is the part where they renew the truma to keep the flame on going, or do you find the real culprit who benefited out of it.
i love stuff like this
And to think, we still have people are out here thinking that this was great.
This crazy cuz I’m related to him
There's a lot of things that probably should be explained to to him so he just doesn't blame the white population because there is a lot of African Americans that were slave owners probably about 25% or so there was one African-American Gentleman by the last name of Smith lived in Louisiana I believe it was New Orleans but he received the slaves off the ship and sold them that was what he did and he finally found a a young lady to his liking and bought her for himself they lived in what you could consider a mansion really nice home was slavery wrong yes most definitely was
Pharrell and family, as hard as it is to grasp the cruel and harsh existence of your ancestors, realize how gifted you are as a result of it. Their hardship allowed for you and all the other family members to grow up in America. You and your family members were exposed and had opportunities you may not had were you not brought to this country. Consider now all the family members now and those to come who are blessed by the hardship they endured.
The man never ages
How can we contact yall. I need to trace roots. Outside of DNA. I believe my great grandmother who is still alive but refuses to speak about her past is related to Hagar Brown another brown person interviewed by the government in the 1930s who was enslaved. My maternal family is from SC. The exact area where Hagar Brown was born and lived and enslaved. She even resembles my great grandmother. She had 40 acres and a mule. In the interview she talks about grandkids and the names match my family. I wish the older folks would talk about life during that time, even as hurtful as it was because these CAUCLUSIONS refuse to help us identify where we are from. I'm trying to close the gap Ancestry before my great grandmother departs this world. Can yall help?!
So heartbreaking. I would love to see the entire show.
Can u help, me find my roots please. I need this to thrive . Don't know how or where to start
Yet, after all of this hardship, this is the guy who gave us the song "Happy".❤
I call shenanigans….Pharell does not age, and is clearly not human
"I don't want to cry, and I'm trying not to be angry!" what a line. My heart broke right there…
Pharrel is his ancestors wildest dreams .Thank you for sharing.
Sun up to sun down, with no days off, for the rest of your life
you should be angry.
God bless you all