- 12 hours ago
https://buymeacoffee.com/kappelloartist
Ko-Fi Page - https://ko-fi.com/kappello
Instagram:- - https://www.instagram.com/kanycarts
https://www.n1m.com/katherineappello
https://www.facebook.com/kappelloartist
Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealGirlsRevival
Etys which includes ancestral art - https://www.kappelloartist.com
⚡ VidChapter AI generated these chapters, try it out https://vidchapter.com/?affiliate=yayadiamond
Recommended podcast platform get 10% off: https://podopshost.com/register/?ref=yaya
Tools and Services I use:
Appsumo has the best lifetime deals ever!!! I love this site.
appsumo.8odi.net/yayadiamond
The easiest way to make your graphics: https://buff.ly/2RTQLn0
Best website for musicians. Try it for free on me: https://buff.ly/2GMYugG
Make money with Fiverr.com: https://buff.ly/2KjTVvV
Our Amazon store: https://buff.ly/34RYNlm
DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. My affiliate links usually provide either a free trial or discount so go try them out on me! Thank you for supporting DreamChasersRadio.com so I can continue to provide you with free content each week!
Privacy Policy: https://buff.ly/2XSrflS
™Yaya Diamond
Red Hot Reality Ent. LLC
Ko-Fi Page - https://ko-fi.com/kappello
Instagram:- - https://www.instagram.com/kanycarts
https://www.n1m.com/katherineappello
https://www.facebook.com/kappelloartist
Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealGirlsRevival
Etys which includes ancestral art - https://www.kappelloartist.com
⚡ VidChapter AI generated these chapters, try it out https://vidchapter.com/?affiliate=yayadiamond
Recommended podcast platform get 10% off: https://podopshost.com/register/?ref=yaya
Tools and Services I use:
Appsumo has the best lifetime deals ever!!! I love this site.
appsumo.8odi.net/yayadiamond
The easiest way to make your graphics: https://buff.ly/2RTQLn0
Best website for musicians. Try it for free on me: https://buff.ly/2GMYugG
Make money with Fiverr.com: https://buff.ly/2KjTVvV
Our Amazon store: https://buff.ly/34RYNlm
DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. My affiliate links usually provide either a free trial or discount so go try them out on me! Thank you for supporting DreamChasersRadio.com so I can continue to provide you with free content each week!
Privacy Policy: https://buff.ly/2XSrflS
™Yaya Diamond
Red Hot Reality Ent. LLC
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00I want to welcome you to Dream Chasers Radio with me, your host, Yaya Diamond.
00:04What's up, people? How you doing? It is a great day and I'm so very excited to be here.
00:08We have a documentary for you today and I wanted to go ahead and talk about this a little bit.
00:13And I wanted to get with you guys on this documentary. It is something special to me.
00:19It's a trace. It's a lineage. It's not recorded. It's an adventure. It's wonderful, really.
00:28And I want to talk to you guys about that. So before borders were drawn and before names were written
00:33into records, before people even thought about that, people moved.
00:39You know, they moved. They moved everywhere. They moved all over the world. They moved country to country.
00:44There were ice bridges. They moved everywhere. OK. And this was not even recorded.
00:48OK. Not as a conquest, though. Not like I'm going to conquer this land. No. As survival.
00:54Like, literally, they had to move. If they didn't, they would die.
00:59Put that in your brain. OK. So this story is not about a single origin or single people.
01:05It's about lines of movement, ancestral paths carried through memory, language, blood.
01:13OK. From Middle East to Europe, from settlement to diaspora, these histories were not always recorded, but they were lived.
01:22What you're about to hear is not a conclusion, but what it is, is a listening.
01:30There are moments in ancestral research that feel like discovery.
01:36And then there are moments that feel like recognition.
01:40This is one of those moments.
01:43As I've been learning more about my ancestry, one particular thread has come into clearer focus.
01:50A Romani ancestral thread, woven through both maternal and paternal lines.
01:56What I want to share here is not an identity claim.
01:59It's a story of movement, survival, and connection, held with care.
02:06I want to say this clearly at the beginning.
02:09This reflection is not about claiming Romani cultural identity.
02:14It is not about speaking for living communities.
02:17And it is not about romanticizing hardship.
02:21It is about acknowledging ancestral presence and honoring it responsibly.
02:28On my paternal side, one lineage stands out strongly.
02:32A haplogroup known as H1-M82.
02:37This lineage originates in South Asia and is carried by a large percentage of Romani men across Europe.
02:44It is one of the primary genetic markers used by researchers to trace Romani migration from South Asia into Europe.
02:53Alongside this, another paternal lineage appears.
02:58E-Dash-Vyth-13, a major Balkan haplogroup.
03:03This reflects Romani settlement, movement, and integration through the Balkans before wider dispersal across Europe.
03:11My maternal lines also reflect Romani population history.
03:16Several maternal haplogroups associated with Romani founder lineages appear, including U3 and rare X2 subclades.
03:27These maternal lines are documented at higher frequencies in European Romani populations,
03:33particularly among Balkan, Central European, and Vlax Romani groups.
03:39This reflects something important.
03:42Romani history is not only a story of movement by men,
03:46it is also a story of women carrying continuity across generations.
03:51One question that naturally arises is this.
03:55Where do South Indian or Dravidian signals, including Tamil ancestry, fit into this picture?
04:03The answer is simpler than it might seem.
04:07Romani origins trace back to South Asia, and South Asia has always been internally diverse.
04:14Romani ancestors did not come from a single village, region, or group.
04:19They emerged from multiple South Asian population streams, which later moved together.
04:25The other, Dravidian-related ancestry reflects this depth, not contradiction, but complexity.
04:34Alongside South Asian and Balkan layers, Turkic and steppe-related ancestry also appears in my genetic profile.
04:42This is historically coherent.
04:45Romani migration routes passed through regions shaped by Turkic peoples, steppe empires, and trade corridors linking Asia, the Middle East,
04:55and Europe.
04:57These layers reflect contact, exchange, and survival, not replacement.
05:03For reasons I didn't expect, recognizing this Romani ancestral thread brings a sense of happiness.
05:11Not because it gives me a new label, but because it confirms something I've always felt.
05:18Not because it gives me a new label, but because it confirms something I've always felt.
05:25A comfort with movement.
05:27A resistance to rigid authority.
05:30A preference for ethics over institutions.
05:33A life shaped by adaptability rather than control.
05:37These are not abstractions.
05:39They are inherited patterns.
05:42This joy does not erase history.
05:45Romani communities faced persecution, forced assimilation, and violence across centuries.
05:51Recognizing ancestry does not mean speaking over that history.
05:56It means honoring it.
05:58Without appropriation, without appropriation, and without silence.
06:02I share this not only as a personal reflection, but as an educational one.
06:08Romani history is often misunderstood or erased in formal education.
06:14Genetics, when used carefully, can help restore complexity.
06:18Showing that European history has always been mobile, layered, and shared.
06:24To be a keeper of the ancestral flame is not to claim ownership of the past.
06:30It is to carry memory with responsibility.
06:33This Romani ancestral thread does not define who I am, but it helps explain how I move through the world.
06:43My ancestry is not linear.
06:45It is braided.
06:47South Asian, Balkan, European, and step-shaped.
06:50A story of movement, survival, and continuity.
06:55Remembering this doesn't change who I am.
06:57It helps me understand why I've always known how to walk between worlds.
07:03Movement does not mean disconnection.
07:07Okay?
07:08For many communities, migration was not an abandonment of roots, but a way of protecting them.
07:15Romani history is often described as wandering.
07:19Yet, that word hides intention, adaptation, and continuity.
07:27When we trace these paths backwards, they don't dissolve.
07:33They converge into older regions and older cultures and older ways of understanding the world.
07:43To move forward in this history, we must look deeper.
07:48Let's do that.
07:50This is one of the hardest truths I carry.
07:53I am descended from both colonizers and the enslaved.
07:58That means my ancestry includes people who were harmed, and people who may have caused harm.
08:04In colonial America, including sites like Avery Rest, slavery was not only economic, it was intimate.
08:14Enslaved people were denied consent.
08:17Sexual coercion and violence were common.
08:21Children were born into bondage through abuse.
08:24To be descended from colonizers does not mean I approve of their actions.
08:29To be descended from enslaved people does not make me defined by trauma.
08:34It means history passed through bodies and now lives in mine.
08:40I cannot erase what happened.
08:43I cannot justify it.
08:45And I will not deny it.
08:46But I also refuse to flatten human beings into monsters or saints.
08:51I carry responsibility.
08:54Not guilt.
08:55Responsibility to tell the truth.
08:58Responsibility to honor those who survived.
09:01Responsibility to refuse repetition.
09:03From this ancestry, I learn, power corrupts when unchecked silence enables harm.
09:10Survival is not consent.
09:12And dignity persists even when denied.
09:15These lessons are not abstract.
09:17They shape how I live.
09:19This is why I believe these stories belong in education.
09:23Not to shame, but to mature us.
09:27A society that can hold complexity is harder to manipulate and more humane.
09:32I am here because of endurance and because of injustice.
09:36Both truths exist.
09:39And honoring both is how I choose to move forward.
09:44As I continue this journey of ancestry and memory, one truth has become increasingly clear.
09:52My roots run deep in the Middle East.
09:55Not as a single story.
09:57Not as a modern identity.
09:59But as ancient presence.
10:02When we talk about the Middle East,
10:04we're not talking about a point on a modern map.
10:07We're talking about one of the oldest human crossroads on Earth.
10:12A place where civilization itself took shape.
10:16Through language, ethics, agriculture, trade, and faith.
10:22And my ancestry keeps returning to this region.
10:25Again and again.
10:27On my maternal line, I carry a haplogroup known as R0A.
10:32This lineage is strongly associated with the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea Corridor.
10:39Regions shaped by ancient movement, trade, and exchange long before modern borders existed.
10:46These were women connected to southern Arabia, the Horn of Africa, and Near Eastern trade routes.
10:54Women who carried life forward through continuity rather than conquest.
10:58On my paternal side, one lineage traces back to J1,
11:03a haplogroup deeply rooted in the Arabian Peninsula and early Semitic populations.
11:10This lineage predates Islam by thousands of years,
11:14and later became shared across Jewish and Arab lines.
11:18It speaks to pastoral life, oral tradition, and lineage carried carefully across generations.
11:26Alongside this, another paternal lineage emerges, J2A.
11:33This haplogroup is associated with the Fertile Crescent and the Eastern Mediterranean,
11:38with early farming societies, cities, law, and trade.
11:42Where J1 reflects movement across open land, J2A reflects settled life.
11:50Fields, towns, ports, and written tradition.
11:55Together, these lineages tell a story of balance, desert and city, movement and settlement,
12:02oral tradition and written law.
12:04They are not opposites.
12:06They are complements.
12:07These Middle Eastern roots help explain later chapters of my ancestry.
12:13Moriscos in Iberia, Jewish continuity under pressure,
12:18and Mediterranean crossings into Italy and Sicily.
12:22They speak to coexistence that once existed,
12:25and to survival when that coexistence was broken by force.
12:30This isn't about claiming a modern identity.
12:33It's not about politics, religion, or ownership.
12:37It's about context.
12:39About understanding the deep foundations beneath the surface of history,
12:44and honoring them without distortion.
12:47For me, these Middle Eastern roots help explain why I'm drawn to bridge building rather than borders.
12:54Why I resist rigid institutions, but value ethics.
13:00Why I feel at home in cultures shaped by exchange rather than dominance.
13:05These are not abstract traits.
13:07They are inherited patterns.
13:10To be a keeper of the ancestral flame is to carry memory without turning it into a weapon.
13:15To recognize shared origins without erasing difference.
13:19To let truth be complex and still human.
13:24My Middle Eastern roots are not a single story.
13:27They are many stories, layered across time.
13:31These roots remind me that long before we were divided by names and borders,
13:36we were connected by trade, care, and shared survival.
13:41That is the inheritance I choose to honor.
13:45And that is the flame I carry forward.
13:50This is one of the hardest truths I carry.
13:53I am descended from both colonizers and the enslaved.
13:57That means my ancestry includes people who were harmed.
14:02And people who may have caused harm.
14:04In colonial America, including sites like Avery Rest,
14:10slavery was not only economic, it was intimate.
14:14Enslaved people were denied consent.
14:17Sexual coercion and violence were common.
14:21Children were born into bondage through abuse.
14:24To be descended from colonizers does not mean I approve of their actions.
14:29To be descended from enslaved people does not make me defined by trauma.
14:35It means history passed through bodies and now lives in mine.
14:40I cannot erase what happened.
14:42I cannot justify it.
14:45And I will not deny it.
14:47But I also refuse to flatten human beings into monsters or saints.
14:52I carry responsibility.
14:54I carry responsibility.
14:55Not guilt.
14:56Responsibility to tell the truth.
14:58Responsibility to honor those who survived.
15:01Responsibility to refuse repetition.
15:04From this ancestry I learn,
15:07power corrupts when unchecked silence enables harm.
15:10Survival is not consent.
15:12And dignity persists even when denied.
15:15These lessons are not abstract.
15:17They shape how I live.
15:19This is why I believe these stories belong in education.
15:23Not to shame, but to mature us.
15:27A society that can hold complexity is harder to manipulate and more humane.
15:32I am here because of endurance and because of injustice.
15:37Both truths exist.
15:39And honoring both is how I choose to move forward.
15:44When we hear the word nobility,
15:47we often think of titles, castles, and power.
15:51But nobility, at its best,
15:53was meant to imply responsibility,
15:56not entitlement.
15:58In this segment,
16:00I want to reflect on my ancestral connections to Slavic nobility,
16:04not to claim status,
16:06but to ask a more meaningful question.
16:09What did they build?
16:11And what can still be learned from it?
16:14Slavic nobility across Central and Eastern Europe
16:18were not a single group.
16:20They included regional elites in places like Poland,
16:24Hungary, and surrounding borderlands,
16:26often shaped by shift in empires, invasions,
16:30and political instability.
16:33Their influence came not just from wealth,
16:35but from administration,
16:37defense,
16:39land stewardship,
16:40and cultural continuity.
16:43Many noble families contributed to
16:45early legal systems,
16:47protection of regional cultures,
16:49patronage of learning,
16:51faith,
16:51and art,
16:52stabilization of borderlands during turbulent periods.
16:55But these achievements existed alongside
16:58inequality and exclusion.
17:01Both truths matter.
17:03What interests me most is not rank,
17:06but stewardship.
17:08In societies without modern institutions,
17:11noble families often carried responsibility
17:14for land, people, and continuity.
17:17When that responsibility was honored,
17:20communities survived.
17:21When it wasn't,
17:23harm followed.
17:25Knowing I descend from people who once held power
17:29doesn't make me proud in a simple way.
17:32It makes me accountable.
17:34If privilege existed in my lineage,
17:36then the lesson isn't entitlement.
17:40It's responsibility without arrogance.
17:45As you can see,
17:46ancestry is not static,
17:49to say the least.
17:50It travels,
17:51it transforms,
17:52and it survives.
17:54Even when history refuses to name it,
17:57what remains is not just where people come from
18:01or where they came from,
18:02but what they carry,
18:04their belief,
18:05their resilience,
18:05and their memory.
18:08These stories are not relics of the past.
18:12They live in language,
18:13in ritual,
18:14and in the lives of their descendants today.
18:20To remember them is not to look backward,
18:23but to understand how we arrived here.
18:29I want to thank you guys so much for tuning in.
18:31Don't forget to dare to be different.
18:32And don't forget that what you've seen today,
18:34you can always see again.
18:36And don't forget that your history
18:43is moving as well.
18:45Until next time, guys.
18:47Bye.
Comments