different cultural cultural and as we were walking down the student people wouldn't look twice but people are waving at&t and smiling acknowledging our presence and like in the town. >> when i landed here for the first time looking out the window wow. i've made it. >> no way to express how it feels to come to a community or a country where everyone looks like you and you go that's my cousin that's my uncle and brother because the people we're from here in some way. >> (singing)

you bring the element they love one another and love each other's kids a guy a tour guide and he walked up to the kid and gave them a big hug and he's like i love him, i that why, why do you say that he said it is beautiful i love all the people that is my family this missing my cousin and brothers i said with wow. and it was awesome he lot of that anyone like me, i'm scared to tell my mother on the daily basis i love her. >> i see shopping carts no shopping bags things on their heads they'll carry their manufacture and a lot of kids always doing the same thing it was young people doing that.

>> just like you. >> just like you. >> this one check your oh. >> oh, yes.

>> (bongos). >> i didn't like the people like bread soup they have obligate soup i liked that a lot of rice like white and red rice that was spicy the pin apples and oranges apples were good it was good overall i was scattered to try it. >> i didn't know that african had like the beautiful parts it is very green i don't know that was like that thought that would be like dirt shacks, not to be rude but that's what i pictured from what the media said. >> i thought like african would

be like a desert or something like making people naked people walking around and a lot of villages and stuff now that i came here that is like a regular city just like a foreign neighborhood or something not how people make that seem the people are nice nothing like the people in the united states here they talk to you like they've known you, your whole life. >> like at home there is the good parts and the bad. >> i think it is beautiful and respectful they were always you know looking at us and waving they were welcoming. >> my highlight was going to the village and seeing all the

little kids they're so happy and friendly even the adults were friendly like loving with open arms i didn't expect that because in san francisco you know people are kind of mean and they don't speak to you on the street i was taught to not talk to people but i try to do that. >> the green ones not ready for habit they'll turn from green to yellow soup

and soup we used the part we call that the black soup this is the soft jam so get our protein and so who want to have a track first, you have to try like the - >> don't drop it. >> what does it taste like. >> you want to feel it? >> like. >> here. >> two people can have alternatives one outside of the

other. >> if you like - >> you see that baby. >> take it with you. >> you decide which of the symbols are familiar you want to make in your strip. >> this is the symbol across town it is you know color. >> from there we moved to

where we visited a village when they make things and this experience alone is something that is worthy a million dollars in gold. >> i'll give the history of the club how it came to be in the older days i'd like to show you please this is - since the entry it was actually amazing i'm thinking off the clothes is made by knitting and i thought i knew and when i got there this was a slap in the face i'm thinking wow. those handy men they're sitting here working back and forth and fix it is like a whole

process to the making of the clothes that i thought i knew i didn't so i had to rethink everything and reconsider but like i said you get brainwashed and think you know everything you don't know everything. >> everything is made from china i'm seeing recently on one of the trips the cloekt is not made in china but handmaid like everything is of bamboo and wood they've created and that is a unique structure and they will have woodal around atheism handy men. >> i see a lot of it -

>> this is crazy seeing how everything is made you don't look at how things are made and how the process goes into like making the cloth and they have to do so much work like when i'm an honor role they give us cloths it is so quiet a whole bunch of people to make the cloths so just interesting seeing the process. >> you see those people working very hard with little means to build those beautiful innovating indicate patterns on the cloths and the machinery they use is not anything modern with electricity it is hand and feet and eye coordination to make pattern after pattern they're doing it with honor. >> and my icy say only

thinkers. >> and this experience he had so for was in the vitamin and seeing like how the people had so timely but acted like thai had the world in their village person like humble. >> i've never seen so many black people in one place it was like welcoming. >> one of the worst things

giving stuff out to the kids in the first village they were so anxious to get it they didn't know how to act when receiving it like they were like running to us and i start to run for a minute i didn't know like they were like rushing me. >> they were fighting over pens and pencils and jackets and pan pants. >> if it has to come down to them fight over like that we need to find a better way to give them the things they need in a getter way that is more sufficient to their well-being.

>> the first village we went to when we gave out the clothes to see how happy the people was this was a great experience. >> one young lady broke down because kids were having a tug a war match over a book they especially\care about the books but over a book she said this was so humbling when they gets

back she's going to change her way in san francisco we're fighting over shoes and worried about materialistic things and working to feed their families and get the things they need tools firing sheds and businesses and keep them alive they're trying to stay alive and everything that is new when you see that it is like you think about what you need to do. >> e-mail that to me okay. >> no problem.

>> i'm going to hold myself up for more powerful levels and going to appreciate myself more i never feel bad about being an african-american i'm still going to be trying my hardest to be successful. >> a lot of people from the town came in to watch what was going on i felt disappointed like a plan but a lot of people that weren't not necessarily invited by like weren't settled to come came in and started recording us i felt disappointed

like we were very welcomed. >> clapping. >> there was a lot of people clapping and dancing with us. >> chanting. >> overwhelm has been my word for this friend i've been so overwhelmed with the whole process and seeing the culture and seeing the people that live in georgia ma and - i've been

speechless and trying to take in everything. >> that was fun they probably know they've gotten our dancing quickly but they're a dance was marry complicated that he accident a lot with their hands and feet at the same time with the recidivism that was hard to us to capture but everyone tried so that was - >> it like makes me feel for connected our are combined not stuck with justice americans culture. >> but the group - >> because we are part of you

people we also have for you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you so much. >> georgia in a. >> so in the forests is three hundred and 50 kill warts today it is 7 up in our national park. >> the city the second time in the year most of planets are drop their leafs when the leaves drop they form a top on the first floor we call the layer emerge out of this. >> hello it was hot oh, like thirsty and sweating is he sticky i did it.

>> i'll be listening to the best sirens just because on the bridge walking across the bridges i liked that i seen a lot of trees and heard the birds and a they have big ants crawling on the trees like spiders their peaceful and quiet. >> working in the middle it is less dense and work on the sides. >> the bridge is laying on top of the canopy about 14 meters.

>> i we have microwaves they only have a caulk board those are small they sweeshd not as clean no windows like that like we have ventsz or anything self-is a big difference i think their way happyier i don't want to go to school i wish i didn't have to be here he want to go to school unlike me they want to be there and get their education. >> i'm going to try it is not that i can't say i'm going to yet when you get back home your mindset changes like that but like i say i'm going to try to not take money for granted and everything no matter i'm going to think appreciative on things

that's what i'm going to do and try my best to like give because after i seen those kids after we gave the makers and pencils and pens after i seen the smiles on their faces like my heart is better and starting feeling so when you give it is like are receiving at the same time. >> people take school for granted i don't want to go but the drive the kids had to go to school makes me want to have that same drive. >> you guys are beautiful and you're asking me a question okay.

>> i don't have to pay for school they're paying for it so i feel like even if i was paying for school right now i'd have more of of a drive to go but wouldn't be the same i don't know. >> going to the school the middle school the people in the middle schools are not having a real like school in the u.s. the kids didn't have windows or doors in the building like a big shed and like school supplies and stuff like that the look on the kids faces it was priceless and oh, there's is very like event full and go to the school i don't know just talk to the kids like they didn't seem depressed or anything like that

so - >> they were always happy and thankful kids in my community you barely get a thank you or give them something they'll hold out their hand for more their super thankful for everything that's great to see how thankful they were. >> (singing). >> simon says you put your hand on your foot. >> i'm definitely going to love me and any culture and take up thing that are negative in any culture and try to change if

i like being american i want to own it know - first, i was shy to show any culture i'm definitely ready to go back and show my culture how great i am i work think loving any culture for more and make some of the foods and remember the time and then about the culture and more positive images of africa and bring it by a, to the states. >> do any own thing just like you. >> just like you. >> i learned that i'm greeder than what i should be i'm greedy in general that's woke up me up

to show i can't be like that that is no good. >> it is changed me when i go home i'm anxious to go home and share with my parents i'm tired of being greedy now that i've experienced something that people are not greedy it makes me want to change and being here has rubbed off i can't wait to get home to show i really changed. >> that's mire steadfast what i believe is sad versus they're not sad that is peace and happiness and content time if they look at us in america they 0 probably would be sad we're always trying to obtain more and more and more and more not satisfied with what we have the

late gathers and the latest tv and dress our kids in the best of cloths they're happy how they are and so i have to recondition myself that is not sad this is peace it is happiness their content. >> how wonderful living here came all the way in the 14 and 15 century

i will hold any head up.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> into four or five hours to get to a doctor it operationally is not easy and money is your life you see your children the food is we eat rice rice rice. >> and now yet should i say this we're poor yes, we have all the resources but we're poor think about the bad governors well, i didn't say how are we're going to - >> that made me wonder why i'm down and those people will have nothing and are or are so happy

going into the village it was a whole different sceney kids walking around not as school those like why aren't you at school but after talking to them it was like they don't have teachers they're most of the time. >> it was a lot of worn down wood and a lot of people not well-nourished. >> they didn't have any school the school didn't have a teacher so they couldn't go to school had to travel to go to school if they wanted to and don't think each other like family to take care of each other.

>> if i were living like that i was like i don't know. i wouldn't be as happen like i would feel like same day why was i put in this progression position that was like regular, normal. >> open this trip i potentially discovered most about myself was my roots tide to african or africa. >> some of us don't want to talk about that. >> we talk about the seniors activities involved some this is complex story that

africans are telling to get sympathy not true that was real it happened it happened. >> but how are we able to get us to easily it was because there was - in africa that we call the domestic living the only time was exist and existers see what happens here and see how we have perhaps a river that our for bears was built in before they walked from here to the castle. >> i remember there were no shoes at that time, they came

here barefooted all them was on barefoot and being out of respect you have the experience of having to walk bare footdz. >> we're first hit with the last bath. >> come with me, please. >> going to the center for the last bath and knowing what those people went through they're walking hundreds of miles across african chained together no cloths some are sick some old and some don't make if it you don't make it they throw you to the side before they go to market to the slavery castle

their taken place e taken to this last bath and the river is kind of divided naturally and have sores all over the body and cuts on their feet and get into the water and being calendar with leaves that give off an oil that stinks sores maybe bleeding and die in the river and then it goes down to the others they making may be marked with the blood of people bleeding and many died and this is just an unbelievable thing and people die along the route and continue on to the slavery castles. >> to see where mire ancestors were dragged and shipped to america that shock that he a

little bit made me release that everything my ancestors went through just knowing that is where they were was like taking themselves and cleaning themselves off with bamboo leaves i was thinking i was wondering how scattered and kids commitment water like being that environment and take off our shoes man that is getting real we got to feel how they felt not worried about that stuff and get that experience that deep. >> something he said made me think we wouldn't bleed wouldn't that in america in f our ancestors didn't come from the best to not act like the best it is disrespectful.

>> it was here to the last path the buyers were here to make the selection so the grooming had this bath as part of if it you think about the leaves think about grapes because it wouldn't be like you died alone no, no, no man's grave even in the castles graves for captures that lost their lives if you work just patch it that's it. >> this water is fresh and sweet and good but the way it is you can't drink it no (laughter) you can't drink it now but it is

cool the river but because of activities that happened here this area has been named the slave river the slaves and it is water whether you are here or there we have the same problem as a mother well, your black. >> we need to unit but know your potential and know within yourself i'm an american but i'm an african people without the history are not worth living.

>> when you have this you can go up to one of these. >> (clapping.) you have the north, the south, the west and the east there was a pool in the center with a sundial to tell time this is the center of the pool to tell time. >> wow. the slave castle i wanted to start crying. >> when you see the fortress. >> it was so powerful. >> and about the door is for the deutsch western company are heart wrenching as well as to hear our guide tell us about

the women and the men that endured. >> that portrait from 16 to 7 on the british in 1872 then two cells the first one was in the crossbones was a condemned soul when you're there you don't come back alive so none survived. >> so the caved in concrete wall i was how did they endure how did they manage only a little bit of food just a little bit to give them just enough strength to survive i just it was so powerful that i was left with no words when we left we were speech also. >> they were rebellious

if you were a par rot. >> what our people endured just shows the strength and heart that we have as a group of people. >> one of the captures captives was indian and rebellious there were fighting for their freedom. >> but they were condemned to death the lower part of ground floor was used as an auction hall at the auction all the females were master this way to the dungeons because of somebody's greed you

were captured and brought in here where 200 of you stated in this room 200. >> according some were brought out into the open they were partied so that whoever called themselves the governor could pick and choose any of them for his bed. >> standing up in that balcony if you were selected by the governor, of course, water from the ground in the system can be used you to have a bath. >> going to the castle i have so many different visions and vibes.

>> wisp like any older person and anything that anyone can own you were denied the right forgot about rights. >> be able to feel and touch it it really blew any mind on what our ancestors went through. >> as we talk if we allow ourselves if we allow ourselves we might be used the is that you. >> recuse our height and step down one of the doors. >> when he said that i realized that was recently had been and how people treated other people because of color of their skin. >> you can get up and step down one of the doors. >> don't think that it as a bad way the ancestors made it

and the struggles didn't make it i felt like a little bit happy about that but sad that a lot of people died and mistreated. >> the door of no return. >> when you got in here you said goodbye to africa if the ship left today you arrived today then certainly for two reasons so come is with only month going another month. >> i never learned it in high school so learn and not taught in the under any circumstances was like wow. >> and car back to europe they're bringing commodities from europe and those are room

from caribbean where they kept kept the captives the place was busy always busy even when it was in british west africa they were smolik they were smuggling over all period of time from the castle and during the 17 to 18 hundred 10 thousand captives were shipped from only the castle in all it's been estimate about 60. >> the carrier of no rupture. >> main. >> man. >> made the passage.

>> couldn't stand up kneeling down. >> only 20 percent. >> it was beat neat. >> come closer so let's stay off store and get can news i touched one time i seen our ancestors gastroundergo the door and journey yeah, that was i could see not talking about it right now that slave mentality is throughout period you know the with only way to break the chain break our mentality your invisible chains of slaufr. >> i was having a moment the slide we were on the door of no

return i was looking at how high and how do our ancestors get down to the ship that was docked and i said how is that young man playing bought and when i got closer i seen they made it themselves a makeshift basket court are brick and shelves actually very exciting being africa shooting a basketball how big is that. >> i'll not separate middle-income from africa bring attention this trip thank you didn't identify microfilm are africans but now that i'm here i see that the people here look like me i'm going to try to like unify

might have with the people here in africa i'm so used to being a minority in the room but see a whole continent being in rooms with people like me i enjoyed it was fun. >> in the u.s. i'm known as dr. whitaker a ph.d from cleveland and i have a law degree from mash college of law and josh tells me from the bay area we got lebron but it's all good as you guys say i'm a chief in a village about a mile from here since 2004 the name of vinyl is at tone that translates i've purchased

life i've purchased my life so i am free because you have an opportunity your experiencing right now that most of your peers will never understand when is is you're doing right now but you'll have something in our heart you can take back and differentiate between the things you see going on in the hood or in the school or someplace else and especially on scandal and empire eyes and ears and those trash shows you can differentiate within between those things that are not important. >> i enjoyed in castle i have germy like african dr. murase and being in africa and the slave castle and being taught how to play the drums that create and innovated that music

armed me to work harder at any play. >> yeah. >> the shante and petty tribe the port geese fight against each other it is like the recycle like happening again like how in the bayview people are fighting because of street names or where they're from everyone tells them back then they that fought against each other and not trust each other and it is happening again. >> so i potentially will want to tell my family that. >> they wanted us to feel comfortable they gave us their nicknames that close for us to give us a nickname that experience we learned about their ways we didn't teach them how to dance like that and then

we got our performance we went through that a couple of times and got in practice thirty minutes and it was showtime's at one practice it was fun to it was wasn't like i didn't want to do this i was like oh, well. >> i seen a lot of me inside of those kids and didn't have anybody to tell me what direction to go or give me information how to be successful or know but or about my culture i was imposed to that and got the finds that was great i changed when i got around the kids having that same intelligence it inspired me to change and not glow the things i went through when i was young.

>> because they feel like we're all equal here or we're the same people we're all that so they feel like they're our family we should care. >> me and my sister and i learned to which the culture is amazing how much people smile they're going through like all the no jobs, no clean water, no, like no shoes, no books and pencils by the way, people are still smiling. >> you have to give to receive and nothing leads to nothing we have to come together and create something as people of america as african-americans we have to come together and make stuff happen and not - stop the violence where we come from a

lot of violence and they need to turn that circle around we're the same people. >> it was just the most greatest trip i've been on like i've not been anywhere more beautiful they looked it as poverty and no housing but people smiling everyday that's what i seen and that is just beautiful. >> you never see that. >> about working together a don't lose sight when you go home that is not the end keep it going. >> stay in contact with

everything everybody. >> i mean, i on the impact that we have on our kids and be able to change their lives and hopefully, the kids will touch and which was samoans lives all the kids if in bayview should be beating down the door to see this this is you're going to center applications that the officer johnson and jackson are going to be overwhelmed with the amount they'll have i think expand and it being a movement for change especially hsa as a relates to bayview and hunters

point. >> we face east more west we fast-forward >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil,

general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be here. and been practicing since for the competition. all the best casters in the world come here. my fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man. >> it's unique. will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the world.

competitions in ireland, scotland, norway, japan, russia each year, the facilities here in the park are second to none. there is no complex in the world that can touch it. >> i'm here with bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line.

we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a season day like this, it

was the perfect spot to be. i find fly casting very relaxing and also at the same time very challenging sport. takes me out into the nature. almost like drawing art in the air. and then i can make these beautiful loops out there. >> even though people from across the globe come here to compete, it's still a place where locals in the know relax and enjoy some rely unique scenery. until next time, get out and play! .

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