Keith Rushing

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How to Be a Better Human · How to understand your family history (w/ Keith Rushing) · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

This is actual real.

This is likely a cousin that I have some ancestors from this place.

Yeah, so I went to Ghana in 2016, I believe, 2016, 2017.

And yeah, I'd like to travel extensively in West Africa because I find it, for me, it's intriguing to see

experience the culture, how people talk, how people relate, even, you know, and kind of comparing that to African-Americans here, Gullah Geechee people, Caribbean people, like there is kind of this whole diaspora of people who are here and in the Caribbean or South America that happened through the slave trade.

Okay, I can't point to because the thing is, if you are African American, you're probably descended from like, maybe 30 different ethnic groups, like there's hundreds of ethnic groups that were brought here and people are into married.

So there's no one, I'm going to go find my tribe, you know, I'm going to go find this one group, like we're kind of an amalgam of different ethnicities.

But I also want to kind of like not think of it as

or you're African-American and they cut off your culture, your religion, your language.

So, okay, that's done.

It's like, it's a lot more, I think, layered than that.

It's not just, it's kind of like binary.

It's more like there are aspects of our culture as African-Americans and you see it in the church, you see it in music, you see it in dance, right?

That are African expressions, like the expression, like the polyrhythms in music, in black music,

are a direct link to Africa.

And this is because your ancestors, not only because they were Gullah Geechee, but if they're African-American, were holding on to their sensibility and their way of seeing and being the world in whichever way they could.

And so it's in our culture.

So I think for Black people to look at it as, what will I learn when I go to the past and where will it take me?

And yes, there's DNA analysis and you can see where those origins, what shows up for you.

I mean, I think you go from what speaks to you and what calls to you.

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