You didn’t mention that she went to that village in Sierra Leone and the women started shouting “Welcome home!” over and over and when the translator told her she started crying 😭
2025-06-20 17:42:57
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N5050 :
Don't let the "we're Native Americans" crowd see this. It's honestly sad that more couldn't have been done to preserve language and culture, but it's mostly cruel because it was intentionally done.
2025-06-21 02:40:50
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Tebogo🇧🇼 :
but they are Native Americans😔 ..
2025-06-21 07:44:56
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Isi.tx_real :
The song says:
"The grave is not yet dug.
The grave is not yet dug.
My heart is heavy.
You must come home.
The grave is not yet dug."
2025-06-21 08:58:16
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k :
they were singing mourning songs while they were put to work? songs that would help them move onto the other side??? oh my god
2025-06-20 23:32:52
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ComfyMiMi :
I’m Mende. Sierra Leonean
2025-06-20 21:25:50
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chiadikaja :
don't let FBAs see this😂😂
2025-06-20 18:24:04
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S4GU4R0 :
It's painful that it survived likely because it was so practical and needed as a hymn for the deceased.
2025-06-20 20:52:57
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Music_Guy :
This is sad. These people were living in their own home and the devils came from across the ocean and took them to hell. That is the most likely feeling they felt at that moment. Imagine seeing hell while alive.
2025-06-20 19:19:11
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Jalisa :
And whose fault is thatttttt
2025-06-21 21:14:23
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Misha_j_writer :
I'm black American. I took an ancestry test and I have Mende roots too 🤯
2025-06-21 14:43:13
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MILFdoriya :
God that is so brutal to me. Imagine being taken away from a place you don’t know your family or your culture or who you are but you just have a song. And it survived. God I gotta lie down
2025-06-21 02:44:02
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See :
FBA and pretendians won’t like this!!!!
2025-06-21 04:01:44
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Cam ✡︎ :
This so incredibly beautiful
2025-06-20 15:57:13
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Solidude :
Thats sad.
2025-06-20 15:24:49
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Aaron :
Happy juneteenth
2025-06-20 18:48:45
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Say less :
Mende is spoken between Liberia and Sierra Leone border
2025-06-21 06:00:49
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iskandar🇩🇿 :
that's so touching and sad
2025-06-20 18:08:34
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TheQuestion :
that's so tragic damn
2025-06-20 15:12:12
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DIRI IJETA :
We will never forget never forgive
2025-06-20 18:31:49
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Wild West Enjoyer :
When you want to enjoy content but the "intelligent" comments simply won't let you
2025-06-21 00:45:30
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user90177307412733 :
I think it’s interesting even up until the 1930s & 1940s there were people who remembered their ancestors were “Mollygassers” aka Malagasi from Madagascar
2025-06-20 17:51:24
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Fred :
So sad but glad they found the village 🥺
2025-06-21 00:45:40
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