Ella Al-Shamahi

I think religious communities are warm.

They engulf you.

They embrace you.

Your hot water goes off.

Everybody offers you their place.

Somebody ends up in hospital and people get angry with the hospital administration because they're like, what are you talking about?

Only two people during visiting hours.

And what's this visiting hours?

This person needs us all around the clock.

And it's just crazy.

kind of oh my god i feel i'm raising kids right now and i'm not raising them in the mosque that i grew up in and it's like it's sad it's i i i yearn it's so difficult it was like it was like i i didn't know who i was anymore and the people that were around me that would normally love me and and knew who i was they were all new to

I think it is no surprise that having gone through what I've gone through, that when I look at our story, the science of our story, that I feel something.

Like I feel something.

We know that everybody from outside of sub-Saharan Africa, and even some people within sub-Saharan Africa, have some Neanderthal DNA in them.

And that can only be explained by, basically, one of our great-great-great-great-grandparents having sex with a Neanderthal.

So there's a scandal in the family, basically.

Now, usually, the way this would be presented is, oh, there's some Neanderthal DNA, so that means that there was some kind of intercourse, blah, blah, blah.

We take a moment

And instead it's like, hold on a second, right?

That means that one of our ancestors, not like a theoretical, one of my and your ancestors was half-half.