good as that down in bonavista ♪ ♪ hip yer partner sally thibault hip yer partner sally brown ♪ ♪ fogo, twillingate moreton's harbour all around the circle everybody these days is talking about how divided the country is. left versus right. black versus white. stark versus lanisters clearly i get news have a variety of sources. in this episode we are talking to the gullah geechee people of south carolina, people who learned a long time ago not only do you survive but you thrive. now if only the people had written a song about that. and if only that song was so famous that we played it now it would sound cheesy. >> kumbya my lord. kbyah my lord.

>> if only. >> if only. ♪ oh leader, kumbyah ♪ my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian i made a living finding humor in parts of america i don't understand. now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper reaping to understand all the kurts and beliefs adding color to this crazy country. this is united shades of america. if there is one thing that united shades of america is about it's the idea that black people are not a monolithe. this is about a lot of things. inclusion. me nodding my head a lot. me looking bad on television. and then it's the idea that black people are not a monolithe. exit admittedly sometimes that's lost when me and my people stand up together whether for the

common good, black lives matter or why haven't they brought back living single in come back they brought back all the white shows. but if there is one group of black people who absolutely prove we are not moan lithe it's the gullah people oh or the geechee people. or the gullah geechee people. concentrated on the sea islands of the coastal areas of south carolina, georgia and florida. the beginning of their story is much like american black folk. come on you heard the bob marlie song. brought to america stole fibrin africa. it's not until they were free from slafrly that they cemented a culture all their own. by that time the black wayout if you meaned the white on the sea islands. as more white people left black people did what we couldn't do anywhere else in america, spread out and get comfortable. >> ♪ trouble will be over

♪ >> it not only helped them keep west african traditions but invent their on. inventing their own music, art, food and most importantly language. a language which was a mix of englishing with west arken languages and good old southern drawl. >> while it's hard to pin down a specific number of population it's estimated there are 200,000 to 500,000 people that identify at gullah. but today this wholly unique american culture is in danger of disappearing for good. thanks to the opposite of what formed it in the first place. outsiders are moving in and buying up the land and remaking the landscape. i wonder what the gullah word for generate fisks is. >> it's a this is a three-day

festival to celebrate gullah culture. food, music and pint size power rangers. >> and free candy. can't miss out on the sucker. ♪ >> my god getting us ready. ♪ >> i've never felt so funky being judged a sinner. >> love, peace, happiness. family. unity. we love each other. >> there goes my president, patrick, blowing kisses, preaching unity and happiness and looks good in sunglasses. bye, my president. i'm happy to see happy black people what are we celebrating. >> celebrating family, community, heritage, that's what we come back home for. >> with everything going on in the world and all the problems and divisions, this is good out here outside, people having a

good time, right, yeah. >> if you notice it's diverse. it's not just black people but everybody comes out. >> yeah, yeah. >> we celebrate everybody. >> i've seen like three white people. >> you see more than that. stay more awake is there i brought the other ones. >> all two of them. >> those are all my whites. >> so how would you say that the gullah culture is different than black culture than the rest of the country. >> oh it's very different. >> yeah. >> you say that like i don't have enough time to go into it pull up a chair, sit down. >> it's not just the language, the food, mannerism. >> customs. >> things you don't raeltz you do that's what part of gullah culture. when you go somewhere else you're like, i don't get it. >> exactly. >> like i come from -- live in california on the other side of

the country. i feel like i don't hear a lot about gullah culture out there. tell me, what makes -- what is it? what makes you proud about it? what should people know about it? >> you notice a lot of other places where it's a lot of black people it's kind of like there is no togetherness. you come here everybody knows each other. and so it's kind of like a club. >> this is like black people are the big club and the gullah is the vip room in the black club. >> look at this. >> hey! >> that's nice. that's nice when you have a coun like this everybody kns everybody. >> it really is. >> really trying to hold on it because it's such a tourism area has a people try to change it up when they come in. this is real important to us. it really is. try to maintain this. >> yeah. is it -- is it hard to maintain

in toufl like it's slipping away. >> i think to a certain degree. >> especially like in hilton head, that whole beach area is black people. now you got a bunch of resorts and townhouse z and stuff like that. >> what tends to happen it people come in and buy up the land then actually you get priced out because of the high tax rate of your own land. >> wow, you can't afford the taxes you used to own it but can't afford the taxes. >> can't afford the taxes because they build a resort over here. >> wow. even though you own the land, your family owned it hundreds of years. >> yes. >> suddenly the taxes go up and can't afford to own your own land. >> exactly. >> yup just a bunch of brothers standing around talking property taxes. my dad would be so proud. ♪ >> everyone here is fighting to preserve the gullah culture.

but this woman. >> you got my skinny side. >> yeah. >> just make sure you got it. >> is helg her story on the national stage. at a time when the culture is diminishing anita single ton is doing what she can to keep it alive. >> peace in the right. >> and anita is a story teller and a kirk. literally. known as aunt pearly sue her one woman show aires on pbs nationwide. >> so first of all, tell me, where are you from. >> right here. buford. >> i went way to college to howard. graduated. >> you've seen the big sfwlee oh, yeah. >> why did you come back here. >> i always wanted to be back home. there was never a time i didn't want to be here. >> okay. >> buford is a unique place because we were the first settled blacks to be free. right in the beginning of the civil war, november 7th, 1961.

african-american history as we know it started in south carolina. >> wow. >> when we talk with blacks coming to find out out who they are and how they fit you start here you home, boa. >> i'm glad to be home. >> how come i don't know about that. >> it's not in the books. that's why you have to come and find out. you have to keep telling the story because part of our story is so painful we don't tell it. but if we don't tell it we can't truly be free. because our young people need to know if our foreparents could make it through the middle passage voyage and 50% of us perished at sea we made it on the plantations and swamp infested rice fields with mosquitos and water moscowens and alligators and didn't give up. we are african king and queens and that royal blood flows. that's the message we have to give to them.

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while the gullah culture can be found in georgia and the lowcountry of south carolina, st. helena island is known as the center for the gullah culture and language. and for some the heart, soul and sound are the renowned giannecchini 'gullah ring shouters. get ready. . the ring shout is a religious ritual of song and dance that can be traced back to west africa and believed to be the oldest surviving african tradition in north america. [ chanting ]. >> they asked me to meet them in here in front of the praise houses. after had a hard day of working for free black folks would gather here to hang out, get their groove on and of course praise jesus.

>> all right! so basically and at first it was just that when the plantations owners we would be back out near the woods and we would have church as time progressed they allowed us to have a place of worship. we put together a board slab building like you have now. >> was it back in the woods and not marked so it could be zbleerkt it was back in the woods. this was our moment to escape from reality. and for that brief moment we would shout all night long. and it was a moment that we could feel like we're not enslaved. >> um-hum. and what does this music mean to you all. >> you know, heritage is something we teach. we are embracing because we are not ashamed of what we have accomplished and where we came from. we are preserving. we have fun but try to educate our young folks. and all of us are from the church. snaft we missed service this is morning to come and share with you a little of our culture.

but all of us in the church. this is the mother of our church. our church is 195 years old. >> i hope i didn't get you in trouble with the minister because you missed church. >> she is his mother so she will straighten him out. >> the gullah fighting to preserve the culture. and like all marginalized groups in america it's always a fight. >> unfortunately people would say to me, boy, you're too geechee. and the reason why why they said that because you need to change, you know, you came from plantation. you can't get ahead. but we were losing our own culture, to learn about these people that talk funny come here, that, hey, we carry on the traditions. if we don't kerr it out on it's die zblog i remember like i remember like it was like

yesterday. how you doing. >> going to the schoolhouse. >> the yard i have no car. >> crawling across the yard going down to the soo one was fat like me and one was skinny. >> that's the language we teach. >> it's important to let them know that they don't have to be ashamed. and that's what we tell them. we say differentwards. we have developed and we let them know it wasn't bad english. it wasn't eubonics. when we say the words we let them know that a came before rp you don't pronounce the r .. the young folks didn't understand. this is a part of what we do wsh teaching sfl thank you for doing. that was amazing. thank you for being here for the gullah impaired. i appreciate that.

i loved hearing the language. but before we go let's talk about that song. you know the one. >> it is called kumbyah but few people know the history. it came out of our culture. most people around the world know it at kumbyah. but the original is come by here. and goes like this. ms. marsha if you will. >>. ♪ . come by ya, my lord. come by ya, oh, lord, kumbyah ♪ >> this was made on the plantation. we didn't bring it from africa. we just put it together, the ring shout came from africa. this special rhythmic beat came

from of course a. but the sounds we couldn't not supposedly read and write but we can remember words. so we are keeping it alive from one generation to the next generation. and now to this generation. >> growing up, my only other exposure to gullah culture was when i saw daughters of the dust, a round breaking film by julie dash. it's a tribute to her gullah roots. in 2004, the library of congress added it to the national film registry as she was the first female african-american director to have her film released before yet too excited, remember this wasn't 50 or 60 yearsit came out in 1991. and even though back then hollywood didn't really know what to do with a powerful black female director but now she works with other famous for me

make zbleers down the road and john's island we meet at the angel oak tree. >> i feel like i'm in a special place. >> this tree has secrets. it has memories. >> i wet it does. >> it was here in the 1600s. and when did we arrive? about 1619 with the early colonials. >> seen a lot of things. >> yes. >> that makes you feel like it might start walking, might just get up. i've seen everything i can zblee it has legacy and people like to be able to reach out and touch something big are than themselves. and this certainly is. >> this culture here goes way further back than most black culture in this country. you know. >> it goes way, way back. >> yeah. >> you could reach out and touch the past here. it's history that's important because you could trace pieces of traditions and mores and

religions and a lot of that is missing in the larger urban areas after migration. >> is there fear that -- that you know in effort to make things more tourist friendly that you sort of clean up some of the history? >> absolutely. >> okay. >> it's not easy to go and this is where the slaves lived. >> yeah, so it's up to us to remember. and in many ways it's our ellis island. this is where we came through. >> this is our ellis island. >> um-hum. >> that's funny you say that because a friend of mine years ago took me to ellis island. a white guy he was like let's go to ellis island. >> i'm like, i don't really get it. he was having a moment. and i was just like not really having that moment. >> these islands are our ellis island. this is where we came through. >> wow! >> yeah. >> people who don't come here, people who may not have seen your movie, what would you like them to know about this part of

the country? we don't represent what people were used to seeing in film and television. everything here was very different. it was more west african. and that the reason we were still very west african off on these islands because of the isolation. before the 1920s and 30s. there weren't bridges. generations held on to west african ways with religion, food sfluf daughters of the dust had a resurgence because you got invited in or subsumed by the bay hive? with the proper word for that? >> i'm now a member of beyonce's bey hive. >> it's like being knighted by the queen. >> lemon aid was a beautiful piece. she took it to another level which was wonderful. she is a true artist.

thank you, beyonce. >> i say that every morning when i get out of bed. thank you to mama knowles and the knowles family.

there is perhaps no better place to get an education on gullah culture and language than at the penson. established in 1861 lo 2. the penn center is living history.

it was the furs school for freed and slaved africans. it was a popular retreat for martin luther king jr. and others. being surrounded by black people made them feel safe. he wrote part of his i have a dream speech here. in his last week in office. president obama named it a national monument pmt i wonder why none of the previous presidents did that. it is filled with gullah advocates working to protect heritage and preserving language is critical. victoria smalls is the director of history alert and culture at the penn center and serves on the gullah geechee corridor commission and working to bring the language back. >> we're working with school districts in charleston and helping to bring the language within the school system. >> so it can be taut the way other languages. >> that's been my personal mission.

when i startedorking with gullah geechee and promoting, preservingt i said i want it to be taught like any other language. >> um-hum. >> i want to be so fluent in gullah that flish is my second language, yeah. >> you got to think in gullah and translate it back. >> wouldn't that be beautiful. >> yeah. >> i love my culture. >> i can tell. >> i love it. >> i can tell. what was live like growing up here. >> it was different because my father is white and my father is full gullah. my mother and father had children from previous marriages and got together created us and we had 14 growing up. >> you have the full rainbow coalition. >> we do we work throughout the corridor promoting and prevc the culture. economic sustain ability. help people with land issues. heirs, property all of the things that are the issue of any

community but that are actually even more of an issue within a gullah community. >> those land issues victoria mentioned are at the heart of the fight to protect the culture. because on these lands they have resorts popping up everywhere, like yoga studios in poor neighborhoods. as we heard earlier this raises property taxes and forces people from homes families have owned for generations. it's classic generate fisks. instead of pushing out of the land you rent. it's pushing you out of the home your family owned for hundreds of years. janice and jenna are weather around the clock to preserve land owner. ship. heirs property is. >> i know what heirs property is. i can do this myself. because i know all this stuff inside and out. you all know that. i'm at the heirs property meetings all the time. >> we saw you yesterday. >> yeah, i was there.

>> in the meeting. >> why don't we go over it. >> heirs property is land that has been passed down without a will. therefore the family ends up owning it joently. they had wills but therl oral wills. . it's like shares in a corporation whatever one member does can upset the ownership status for remaining members. they don't a piece but a share, a percentage. >> yeah. >> like say some foremother has this lan. and then she has six kids. and she on her death bed said sony you get that corner. magg you get that cner there. junior you never liked you you get tt little bit. >> or nothing. >> or you get nothing. >> yes. >> okay. and then they all sort of had this idea that they own different parts of the land. >> um-hum. >> and so then what happens? through the generations. >> that may be honored for two or three generations. >> each successive generation will be this is what i was told our part of the lan was. >> but then they die.

>> they die too. >> and their spouse and their children now step into the picture. >> and they find out that people who aren't blood related to them now also have an ownership. >> this just seems like it couldn't be more complicated. >> sometimes it can be. >> okay. >> because junior may have had a different daddy. >> why did you bring that up? this is how we do it. junior is more real than you like to believe. >> i can see the look on your face. got to talk to some juniors. >> you. >> that's okay. >> if you get with in complicated family group ownership but the real problem is the property is a american loop hole. any one of these people can decide to sell without the group consent. if one of you guys sells out to the resorts then you lost your family land. good job, junior. >> we focus on helping families

keep their land and resolve the issue. >> okay. so it seems to me that the more land gets lost the more people leave from here. and don't -- and don't have a place to come back to. the more resorts set up. >> or gated communities. >> or gated communities set up, the less that is a unique part of the country. >> right. >> i don't like seeing injustice. and so i get to put on my superwoman cape every morning. >> yup, yup. >> and go to work. >> that's big work you are doing. >> thank you. >> yeah. and also it's -- i just want to hang out with you two. this is fun. >> for a comedy show. >>s it a show. >> take it on the road. >> like an '80s buddy cop movie. (vo) we came here for the friends.

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i'm leaving st. helena island and heading back to the mainland to visit the charleston city market. back in berkeley the words open air market has a different meaning. but in the heart of charleston gullah artisans have been selling goods over a hundred years keeping the culture alive. i'm here to meet carly and ar leohner who have beeneaving baskets for jerks. >> did this technique come from

africa. >> yes. most will from the sierra leone or west coast of africa. >> this is one of the oldest arts for african-americans. one of the ways you can visualize pieces or patterns that are older is the simplicity. during the time of enslavement there was no need for beautiful pieces. this is a waste of time because. >> you needed to get it down. >> right. >> this is like you're making tools not art. >> correct. >> you've done something i try to remind myself to do. you are specifically saying enslaved. not slaves. i try to remind myself that a person is not a slave. >> correct. it's out of respect. >> so you can't teach me how to do this, can you? >> colleen, go ahead, get him, colleen. >> get him. >> i'm ready to be got. >> it's yes and no you're a come

here. we've a been here. >> i'm like a dark skin white man. >> yes. >> you can look at it like if it's not shone shown out it's not out of disrespect to the person who wants to do it it's respect to the culture. >> that's the politest i've been got before. i feel got but you did it very gentle. >> yes. >> thank you. >> you have to use your own. >> it's there are for sale would you like some. >> how much are they. >> i'm going to say that one $200. >> we're going to add $65. >> i don't work here. it's $500. it's -- >> it's $1,000. >> but it's normally a thousand but irk get it to your $265. >> you suck. >> i think i ruined a sale. >> no, you did. >> also he told me i sucked.

>> oh, man. >> just down the street is gadsens whav which is getting a reclams. it's not well-known now but this place played a major role in american history. it's the future site of a $75 million complex called the international african-american museum. the founder is michael moore. not that michael moore. this michael moore is the great, great grandson of robert small, a former enslaved african civil war hero with the best escape story ever. just wait zpl this is the epicenter of the trans-atlantic slave trade where almost half of all enslaved africans arrived. the space where the capitalization of the united states economy occurred. the former gadsen whav.

>> where around 100,000 africas were brought here and sold directly into slavery. in 2014 an archaeological dig found remnants of the whav where the ships arrived. originally built in 1767, the whav could hold up to six ships at a time. and the ships held upwards of 600 africans apiece. >> and then if you just kind of look out you can see ft. sumter where the civil war began. a couple years ago that likely that boat could have been a slave ship. the ships would come in and land here. this is the largest wharf in the colonies. you can still see boats coming in along the same path that the 800 plus slave ships took in bringing enslaved africans here. >> 800 plus slave ships it mess was my head believing it was

here. >> we believe my great, great, great grandmother was deposited here. the fact that we build this museum on the spot where so many enslaved africans landed and will be able to pay homage, spec ancestors and their contributions. >> the one thing america has never done is confronted the history of enslaving africans. and how that act and those acts are still affecting the current day. and i think that museums like this are hopefully a big part of saying don't be afraid, don't be scared. let's just talk about it. >> you're absolutely right. and slave labor built this city, this country and half of that labor kind of landed right here. and so even just from an american history the standpoint this is really important. >> yeah. >> an important space. >> it turns out the wharf is not only part of gullah culture but

an underexplored part of american history. it's more than 90% likely that everyone african-american has at least one relative landing here. while that fact fills me with you a i'm disgusted with the fact of which they were brought here in the first place. . the other thing i know about this area is the gullah still hold a lot of the african cult here. >> it's a very powerful cultural phenomenon. my great great grandfather was called a gullah statesman. i'm a the great great grandson of a statesman. he was born about hour and a half south of here worked on a boat called the planter. oenga the morning of may 13th 1862 he saw an opportunity to seize freedom. he got his crew, their families and took off right for ft.

sumter there. he knew there was a federal block oid aid outside the mouth of harbor. if he could get there he could be free. 3:00 in the morning it's dark in the distance he made a break for it. >> wow! where is that superhero movie. >> i agree. after the war he went back to buford, bought the plantation and the bighouse that his master owned. was elected to the legislature. and went on to congress and served there five terms in congress. >> once you finish with this museum, we're pitching that to hollywood. i think it's needing to be a trilgy. that's a lot of story. and i mean those are the kind of stories need to be told. i know ryen coogler a bit. after "black panther" maybe i'll pitch him that movie. .

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we've talked a lot about preserving the culture of the gullah people, the food, music,

language. but one thing that see to be overlooked abo them and black people is th ingenuity we used to build this country into what it is today. ingenuity and invention. these aren't words you hear about from american slavery. but a story from sophia jackson is someone will tell but that. >> at one time georgetown was the number one producer of rice in the world. >> what? >> that's unheard of it. >> yeah. >> georgetown? do you see, no, georgetown south carolina. >> west african rice farmers were enslaved and brought to america specifically for the complex knowledge of the complex process of harvesting rice. and that knowledge made charleston the weltiest place in the country. their rice was dubbed carolina gold and apparently known as best rice in the world. but once the slavery ended the

profit margin wenta away and so did the rice. funny how that works. this feels like something you go to gym and sort of like. >> it's not light at all. >> something thor would use. >> use this in the pestle and like churning butter. pound the rice. this loosens the hull from the rice. once you grin finish that they would put the rice inside here and shake it and throw it up. and that motion would allow the wind to blow away the chaff. what you have left inside the basket just the rice. >> who came up with all this? ah-ha. and that is the great thing about actually getting into this conversations of everything that they did on the plantations. and how they would be able to innovate, you know, all these things. because i think somewhere along the way people lost the pride in that.

i guess it's kind of hard to be proud of being a slave. it's hard to be proud of. >> innovation when you'r innovating as a person who is a slave. >> you don't look att for the brilliance of what they were actually doing. >> it's always the narrative is oh, swing low, not something like this. >> totally the contrast of that. and even that it lives on here is all what back then was called the slave quarters. >> yes. >> can we go inside? >> sure, want to check this one out? >> all right. >> so here we are in the cabin, one of the slave quarters and this would have housed anywhere from two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, whatever the number of people was that was assigned to this home, they would have been in this house.

>> would this have been one family primarily? >> usually. >> wow. >> uh-huh. uh-huh. yea yeah. >> i like to, when i'm in these spaces like this, just kind of take some time to be silent and reflect on, you know, what it would have been or what it was and really what it really means to have lived in this time and to have dwelled in this exact space. ♪ ♪ >> just take in the whole experience, just come and be quiet in the space, you know, and take in actually what happened here. these people's lives. could you imagine the stories that these trees could tell? actual real things, you know, that occurred in these places and to really sit there and

think about it. imagine somebody not doing their task for the day, right? >> uh-huh. >> being tied up to a tree. and you looking at that out the window. that's what you waking up to, you see somebody out there tied up to a tree. it can be overwhelming sometimes. >> yeah, it's -- ♪ ♪ >> yeah.

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before i leave the islands, film maker julie dash invited me to hang with her family and make authentic food. >> uncle johnny is treating us to a crab crack. >> you in here doing a tv show. i'm on your show now. [ laughter ] >> cooking with uncle johnny. all right. come in after my show. we got the next show. oh, here they are. >> there they are. >> sorry, fellas. [ laughter ] >> ut oh. >> wow. please take a seat. >> thank you. >> yes. are you excited? >> i am. i'm just looking at the fancy table clothes.

[ laughter ] >> this is the south. >> oh, yeah. >> you always have to have newspaper on the table. won't taste right without newspaper. >> not going to taste right. you want that news print after taste. one of the things about this that is so interesting to me is that people think that black people are the same no matter where you go but this part of the country for black people, black people's life here and culture is so different from the rest. are you hopeful for the survival of the culture? >> we've been surviving for a long, long time so yeah, absolutely. >> so no matter what happens, as we do, we'll survive it. >> uh-huh. >> absolutely. we lasted this long, that language survived all these different centuries and is still here today. gulla isn't going anywhere.

[ laughter ] >> the only thing going somewhere is these crabs. >> that's right. >> to my stomach. >> that's right. >> you're learning fast. >> i try to pick up quickly or at least -- you know what i'm good at, uncle johnny? faking it. i may not make it but i'll fake it. thank you for inviting me. i appreciate it. and thank you for making daughter's of the dust. >> thank you. >> i remember when i saw it back in the day and i got to be honest, i was like 18 years old and i was like what is going on here? >> all of this was going on. all of this plus more. [ laughter ] >> you did a good job because it certainly resonated. >> that's great compliment. >> i'm sure i left a lot more meat on the bone than i should have but i did my best. >> you'll get there. you'll get there. >> you'll come down and go to the bathroom at 3:00 in the

morning, i'm almost done uncle johnny. almost done. fade to black, i'll be here for awhile. ♪ down to the river where john baptized three ♪ ♪ walked the devil in hell where johnny baptized me ♪ >> truly, i had an amazing time this week. the gulla people welcomed me to a home i didn't even know was home and the gulla proved yet again black people in america are not one thing. true, there is areas of the country that identify as black like oakland, detroit and harlem but have you been to those places recently? they are changing fast. with the rich history of language and unique american

culture and this country being the roof of so many black people in america, in my humble opinion, this is one black neighborhood we absolutely cannot afford to lose. ♪ this is an american farm. this is americans paying no taxes and japanese pickup trucks with confederate flags and women in yoga flags that will never do yoga. this farm has been owned by the same family for four generations. let's meet the american family that owns this american farm. not what you're expecting. we're