ABORIGINES: WE LOVE ALL AFRICANS

This uplifting video highlights a bond between Aboriginal people and Africans. It was shot by YouTuber, Jouhzu, in Darwin and the Tiwi islands, just off Australia’s north coast. He asks a simple question: What do Aborigines think of Black people? And the warmth of their answers might surprise you.

It’s widely thought Aboriginal Australians descend from a ‘single wave’ of migration that left Africa 50,000 years ago. Sadly, they also share a brutal colonial history. European powers arrived in Australia at the end of the 18th century, stole ancestral land and killed tens of thousands of Aborigines. Even today, they still face persecution and are up to 20 times more likely to be arrested than non-Indigenous Australians, according to a 2009 Australian National Council of Drugs report. History connects Aborigines and Africans, and this small clip reveals the strength of the connection.

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