The Story of Black America
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Date: 2025-09-01
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skullheadwater9839
I am not sure about some of the genetic statements. I few years back I read about a black geneticist who has done extensive DNA testing of modern African Americans. He made statements like the average black American has 25 to 35% European DNA and there was very little Native American DNA in Moden African Americans and that is more so assumed by modern people that there was extensive mixing with people with slightly lighter skin and high cheekbones claiming that was due to the native American ancestory. I don't know myself as I did not do the research I just read the supposed results. I am going by what a black doctor claimed his DNA testing results were, not sure about the sample size etc. Also, some of the figures like poverty I think you say 20x more likely in black communities. Not sure what that means or how you would calculate that exactly but if you take poverty rates(11% for white and 20% for black) by race vs population demographics of the whole country (340, 000, 000 approx) there ends up being 3 to 1 white/black in the USA living in poverty. There are whole swaths of the country where there are poverty-stricken whites as far as the eye can see but no one seems to notice or care. We see the black poverty as it is concentrated in the cities and caught by news cameras. Do the math yourself, take the populations of different races of the whole and multiply times the poverty rate, there are almost triple the whites in poverty.
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I am not sure about some of the genetic statements. I few years back I read about a black geneticist who has done extensive DNA testing of modern African Americans. He made statements like the average black American has 25 to 35% European DNA and there was very little Native American DNA in Moden African Americans and that is more so assumed by modern people that there was extensive mixing with people with slightly lighter skin and high cheekbones claiming that was due to the native American ancestory. I don't know myself as I did not do the research I just read the supposed results. I am going by what a black doctor claimed his DNA testing results were, not sure about the sample size etc. Also, some of the figures like poverty I think you say 20x more likely in black communities. Not sure what that means or how you would calculate that exactly but if you take poverty rates(11% for white and 20% for black) by race vs population demographics of the whole country (340, 000, 000 approx) there ends up being 3 to 1 white/black in the USA living in poverty. There are whole swaths of the country where there are poverty-stricken whites as far as the eye can see but no one seems to notice or care. We see the black poverty as it is concentrated in the cities and caught by news cameras. Do the math yourself, take the populations of different races of the whole and multiply times the poverty rate, there are almost triple the whites in poverty.
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whatifalthist
It is not taboo to discuss the differences within groups in science because ethnicity along with race are real anthropologically and socially. Race is real in the sense that there are different human species but let me be clear no human alive today is a complete Neanderthal or Denisovan as both of these human species are extinct. We are modern Homo Sapiens the only surviving human species.
Race is not real biologically because when we look at the DNA of different races we see a roughly 99. 9 % similarity genetically between humans regardless of how you identify racially and ethnically. This is because all modern humans trace back to the Out Of Africa event when groups of tropical Africans intermixed with Neanderthals and Denisovans while migrating outside of Africa at different time periods.
If you are someone who denies the Out Of Africa theory because you desperately misconstrue scientific findings from actual scientists in support of a multi-regional origin of modern humans I will gladly show you how you do not understand what the scientists you quote are actually saying as you think you do.
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It is not taboo to discuss the differences within groups in science because ethnicity along with race are real anthropologically and socially. Race is real in the sense that there are different human species but let me be clear no human alive today is a complete Neanderthal or Denisovan as both of these human species are extinct. We are modern Homo Sapiens the only surviving human species.
Race is not real biologically because when we look at the DNA of different races we see a roughly 99. 9 % similarity genetically between humans regardless of how you identify racially and ethnically. This is because all modern humans trace back to the Out Of Africa event when groups of tropical Africans intermixed with Neanderthals and Denisovans while migrating outside of Africa at different time periods.
If you are someone who denies the Out Of Africa theory because you desperately misconstrue scientific findings from actual scientists in support of a multi-regional origin of modern humans I will gladly show you how you do not understand what the scientists you quote are actually saying as you think you do.
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almy-qy1lf
Around the 33rd minute, you make the claim that African Americans have crime rates similar to Africans.
While there are some hotbeds of crime, like South Africa and literal war zones, most of the African countries that I have lived in have relatively low levels of crime, partly because the police, justice system, and even populations are tough on crime (blue collar crime, at least. So I am curious what data on African crime you based that statement on.
EDIT: A similar point can be made about fatherlessness. Apart from (again) South Africa, and maybe 2-3 African countries, I don't think fatherlessness is significantly more pronounced on the African continent, than anywhere else, especially if we're talking about orphans, but father absenteeism. Could be true for some countries, due to particular sociocultural context but not something you can generalize as something Blacks do, regardless of cultural nuances.
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Around the 33rd minute, you make the claim that African Americans have crime rates similar to Africans.
While there are some hotbeds of crime, like South Africa and literal war zones, most of the African countries that I have lived in have relatively low levels of crime, partly because the police, justice system, and even populations are tough on crime (blue collar crime, at least. So I am curious what data on African crime you based that statement on.
EDIT: A similar point can be made about fatherlessness. Apart from (again) South Africa, and maybe 2-3 African countries, I don't think fatherlessness is significantly more pronounced on the African continent, than anywhere else, especially if we're talking about orphans, but father absenteeism. Could be true for some countries, due to particular sociocultural context but not something you can generalize as something Blacks do, regardless of cultural nuances.
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artphotognh
I was raised an uber-liberal in the greater Boston area, but started shedding the naive liberal dogma soon after entering the work world. I'd watched Roots as a kid & never questioned how Kunta got ambushed in the jungle & kidnapped by White slavers. Then one day, it hit me: if you're sailing a ship to another continent to collect slaves, there's no way you'd randomly SURPRISE Africans who lived there. You either dock off a settlement, where you'd meet resistence, or anchor in a less settled area where there might be 1 or 2 Africans to catch, if any. It wouldn't be worth it! The West must have bought groups of slaves FROM other African tribes who enslaved them, to have systematic trade with the number needed. It stunned me that nobody else had ever questioned the scenario described in Roots, despite endless discussion on the news & in print after the book & movie were out.
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I was raised an uber-liberal in the greater Boston area, but started shedding the naive liberal dogma soon after entering the work world. I'd watched Roots as a kid & never questioned how Kunta got ambushed in the jungle & kidnapped by White slavers. Then one day, it hit me: if you're sailing a ship to another continent to collect slaves, there's no way you'd randomly SURPRISE Africans who lived there. You either dock off a settlement, where you'd meet resistence, or anchor in a less settled area where there might be 1 or 2 Africans to catch, if any. It wouldn't be worth it! The West must have bought groups of slaves FROM other African tribes who enslaved them, to have systematic trade with the number needed. It stunned me that nobody else had ever questioned the scenario described in Roots, despite endless discussion on the news & in print after the book & movie were out.
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5starCA
Young boomer here (not my rapper name) and I’ve been a fan for a while. Have to say that this is one of your best and most important videos. It used to be we would only let a black person say these things only to see them shunned in the black community as an Uncle Tom and worse. Now it’s important that everyone learn these facts snd say these things because black culture has been dragging the bottom for decades. What a waste of humanity that the left has created with an entire mixed-race of Americans. I think it’s fair to say I hate all forms of victimhood based identity politics and it’s foremost bastard, black culture while regarding any single black person as an individual worthy of distinct judgement and worthy the same courtesy and consideration as any other human. Geez, I hope this gets better finally.
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Young boomer here (not my rapper name) and I’ve been a fan for a while. Have to say that this is one of your best and most important videos. It used to be we would only let a black person say these things only to see them shunned in the black community as an Uncle Tom and worse. Now it’s important that everyone learn these facts snd say these things because black culture has been dragging the bottom for decades. What a waste of humanity that the left has created with an entire mixed-race of Americans. I think it’s fair to say I hate all forms of victimhood based identity politics and it’s foremost bastard, black culture while regarding any single black person as an individual worthy of distinct judgement and worthy the same courtesy and consideration as any other human. Geez, I hope this gets better finally.
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emcoulter4459
It’s obvious you don’t know much about the Reconstruction era, so I’d recommend you read the Dunning School. The origins of the Jim Crow era are tough to research and are heavily propagandized, but I’d recommend C Vann Woodward’s 'Origins of the New South' and 'The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ' You need to brush up on that topic a bit better too.
Edit: I did enjoy the video, but I keep finding things to criticize. You failed to mention that the Civil Rights Movement was indeed a communist fomented color revolution. Dr. George S. Mitchell, Paul Robeson, James E. Jackson Jr, Howard Fast, Dr. Max Yergen, and Louis Burnham are some examples. MLK was also well known to be associated with American communists.
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It’s obvious you don’t know much about the Reconstruction era, so I’d recommend you read the Dunning School. The origins of the Jim Crow era are tough to research and are heavily propagandized, but I’d recommend C Vann Woodward’s 'Origins of the New South' and 'The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ' You need to brush up on that topic a bit better too.
Edit: I did enjoy the video, but I keep finding things to criticize. You failed to mention that the Civil Rights Movement was indeed a communist fomented color revolution. Dr. George S. Mitchell, Paul Robeson, James E. Jackson Jr, Howard Fast, Dr. Max Yergen, and Louis Burnham are some examples. MLK was also well known to be associated with American communists.
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Thecompactrepublic
I enjoyed your lecture on this very important issue. A few things you might want to reconsider.
The so called Jefferson Hemmings affair you mentioned is most likely a myth. There is no written record of an affair, and even the dna test they did was flawed.
You focus on the racial issues in the South, and rightly so. You mention the beginning of the 20th century being the most racist time, and I agree with that. But you failed to mention the race riots and the red summer of hate in northern cities. Moreover the KKK was exceptionally strong in northern states. Mention the South if you want, but remember that the North is really no better. In fact Jim Crow was invented in the North before the Civil War.
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I enjoyed your lecture on this very important issue. A few things you might want to reconsider.
The so called Jefferson Hemmings affair you mentioned is most likely a myth. There is no written record of an affair, and even the dna test they did was flawed.
You focus on the racial issues in the South, and rightly so. You mention the beginning of the 20th century being the most racist time, and I agree with that. But you failed to mention the race riots and the red summer of hate in northern cities. Moreover the KKK was exceptionally strong in northern states. Mention the South if you want, but remember that the North is really no better. In fact Jim Crow was invented in the North before the Civil War.
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bennettbullock9690
So there's a problem with your argument. You say that the influx of African Americans to the Rust Belt was instrumental in that region's decline, but in another video you give (to me) a more plausible explanation. There, you say that it was the Catholic working class and their strong unions that eventually scared away investors. In other words, Catholic workers demanded more and more, using their organization and political clout to do so, but not quite realizing that eventually companies would look overseas to build their factories. African Americans joined the workforces of these regions right around the end of this process, and therefore were hardest hit when the money left. You can do better, Ruyard.
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So there's a problem with your argument. You say that the influx of African Americans to the Rust Belt was instrumental in that region's decline, but in another video you give (to me) a more plausible explanation. There, you say that it was the Catholic working class and their strong unions that eventually scared away investors. In other words, Catholic workers demanded more and more, using their organization and political clout to do so, but not quite realizing that eventually companies would look overseas to build their factories. African Americans joined the workforces of these regions right around the end of this process, and therefore were hardest hit when the money left. You can do better, Ruyard.
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winkwink2u
NOT THE SOUTH. NOT EUROPEANS >>> The jews ran the slave trade to New York City, Wall St. where jews had their slave markets & closed on jew holidays. 78% of slaves were owned by jews. Blacks owned the 2nd largest number of slaves, some owning their own families. Over 3700 Blacks who moved South owned slaves around New Orleans alone.
Indians were the 3rd largest slave owners in the thousands.
When the slave trade got down the East coast to DC area is when Blacks bought most of their slaves & moved & bought farms in the South.
The jews were kicked out of the South, Louisiana, Caribbean many times. Code Noir first order is to remove the jews.
NOT EUROPEANS. NOT THE SOUTH.
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NOT THE SOUTH. NOT EUROPEANS >>> The jews ran the slave trade to New York City, Wall St. where jews had their slave markets & closed on jew holidays. 78% of slaves were owned by jews. Blacks owned the 2nd largest number of slaves, some owning their own families. Over 3700 Blacks who moved South owned slaves around New Orleans alone.
Indians were the 3rd largest slave owners in the thousands.
When the slave trade got down the East coast to DC area is when Blacks bought most of their slaves & moved & bought farms in the South.
The jews were kicked out of the South, Louisiana, Caribbean many times. Code Noir first order is to remove the jews.
NOT EUROPEANS. NOT THE SOUTH.
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kevinfromsales9445
35: 55 This is by far your worst take.
If Black Americans had more in common with Africans culturally speaking then we would have dozens, if not thousands of different ethnicities, languages and even tribal beliefs in the United States alone.
Black Americans share the same culture as White Americans, the American culture. The difference is that America has a history of segregation and racist laws which led to both groups stay mostly seperate and form different sub cultures.
Meanwhile other European groups didn't had to deal with these laws and therefore had an easier time to mingle with the Anglo majority and eventually assimilate in the white category.
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35: 55 This is by far your worst take.
If Black Americans had more in common with Africans culturally speaking then we would have dozens, if not thousands of different ethnicities, languages and even tribal beliefs in the United States alone.
Black Americans share the same culture as White Americans, the American culture. The difference is that America has a history of segregation and racist laws which led to both groups stay mostly seperate and form different sub cultures.
Meanwhile other European groups didn't had to deal with these laws and therefore had an easier time to mingle with the Anglo majority and eventually assimilate in the white category.
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BeastPodOfficial
Incredible video. As a Black man who’s conservative, I relate deeply to this. I grew up in a strong nuclear familyparents married 46 years, my dad’s best friend was a white man, and race was never the lens I viewed life through. But as an adult, I often feel like an outliernot fully belonging in either world: too conservative for Black culture, too stereotyped for white culture. It’s a strange in-between. It makes me wonder where Black culture will be in 100 yearswill there be more free-thinking, independent voices, or will the same patterns keep repeating
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Incredible video. As a Black man who’s conservative, I relate deeply to this. I grew up in a strong nuclear familyparents married 46 years, my dad’s best friend was a white man, and race was never the lens I viewed life through. But as an adult, I often feel like an outliernot fully belonging in either world: too conservative for Black culture, too stereotyped for white culture. It’s a strange in-between. It makes me wonder where Black culture will be in 100 yearswill there be more free-thinking, independent voices, or will the same patterns keep repeating
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jayfaisa3171
I'm black and a writer. I finished a novel where the main character is a black nun living in Europe. People call her Sister Africa. She accepts the label, shrugs it off, but as you read the novel, you start to wonder, Why do people call her that Why is she okay with it and What is her name And that's the point. People don't see her as her. They see her as a black woman. It's dehumanization. Personally, that's been my experience being black. I'm not saying it's all good or bad. It just is what it is, almost like people don't even know my name.
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I'm black and a writer. I finished a novel where the main character is a black nun living in Europe. People call her Sister Africa. She accepts the label, shrugs it off, but as you read the novel, you start to wonder, Why do people call her that Why is she okay with it and What is her name And that's the point. People don't see her as her. They see her as a black woman. It's dehumanization. Personally, that's been my experience being black. I'm not saying it's all good or bad. It just is what it is, almost like people don't even know my name.
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winkwink2u
At 26: 10 the map shown indicates Blacks were traded on the EAST COAST not the South.
As the slave trading reached the area of DC, Blacks began buying Black slaves & moved South. There were very few Blacks in the South, it was Europeans who despised the Blacks for bringing in slaves.
But the jews owned 78% of Black slaves NOT WHITE EUROPEANS. Stop blaming Whites for what the jews did!
IF YOU ARE NOT A JEW THEN QUIT ACTING LIKE ONE. Always jews blame everybody else for their evils & crimes.
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At 26: 10 the map shown indicates Blacks were traded on the EAST COAST not the South.
As the slave trading reached the area of DC, Blacks began buying Black slaves & moved South. There were very few Blacks in the South, it was Europeans who despised the Blacks for bringing in slaves.
But the jews owned 78% of Black slaves NOT WHITE EUROPEANS. Stop blaming Whites for what the jews did!
IF YOU ARE NOT A JEW THEN QUIT ACTING LIKE ONE. Always jews blame everybody else for their evils & crimes.
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derek4412
The only thing I wish you would’ve added was the welfare reform of the mid-1990s cratering black birth rates. If the welfare state in the 1960s destroyed the black family, destroying the welfare state in the mid-1990s destroyed any reason for a small subset of black women to continue to have large families. Birth rates in the black community are now below that of the white community, and a full half child lower than the Hispanic community.
Otherwise, a really great video. Thank you for making it.
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The only thing I wish you would’ve added was the welfare reform of the mid-1990s cratering black birth rates. If the welfare state in the 1960s destroyed the black family, destroying the welfare state in the mid-1990s destroyed any reason for a small subset of black women to continue to have large families. Birth rates in the black community are now below that of the white community, and a full half child lower than the Hispanic community.
Otherwise, a really great video. Thank you for making it.
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whatifalthist
This video is the history of YAHSHAREL the true Israelite descendants that landed in America or modern day Babylon. The Igbo n horns tribes r the lost tribes of YAHSHAREL. We r all Israelites n we r in the period of Ezekiel 37 with the awakening of the dry bones. It is time for us to wake up see how our enemies was able to stack us due to our ancestors rebellion jr elect for our sins n the sin of our ancestors n return to the one thing Christianity hates the most. The laws n commandments of YAH
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This video is the history of YAHSHAREL the true Israelite descendants that landed in America or modern day Babylon. The Igbo n horns tribes r the lost tribes of YAHSHAREL. We r all Israelites n we r in the period of Ezekiel 37 with the awakening of the dry bones. It is time for us to wake up see how our enemies was able to stack us due to our ancestors rebellion jr elect for our sins n the sin of our ancestors n return to the one thing Christianity hates the most. The laws n commandments of YAH
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jasonsmith7345
After WWII Black veterans didn’t receive money that was guaranteed to them from the GI Bill when they wanted to purchase homes in the Suburbs. You can’t leave out details like that. Later on redlining prevented home ownership for many. Qualified applicants were denied because they were black. Home ownership is a known wealth builder in this country. Fair Housing wasn’t passed until 1968. Even after the law changed many communities still tried to exclude black people.
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After WWII Black veterans didn’t receive money that was guaranteed to them from the GI Bill when they wanted to purchase homes in the Suburbs. You can’t leave out details like that. Later on redlining prevented home ownership for many. Qualified applicants were denied because they were black. Home ownership is a known wealth builder in this country. Fair Housing wasn’t passed until 1968. Even after the law changed many communities still tried to exclude black people.
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TheWhitehiker
Regarding Hollywood, yes, black roles have been increased; however, very few crimes are committed by black Americans in these films. That's the white wash; white men, you may notice, are usually always committing the crimes. Moreover, most of the black characters are portrayed as positive, many of the whites, especially white men, are portrayed as having negative character traits. Part of the woke ideology as you point out. It's social and political engineering.
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Regarding Hollywood, yes, black roles have been increased; however, very few crimes are committed by black Americans in these films. That's the white wash; white men, you may notice, are usually always committing the crimes. Moreover, most of the black characters are portrayed as positive, many of the whites, especially white men, are portrayed as having negative character traits. Part of the woke ideology as you point out. It's social and political engineering.
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AlexPerkins252
Being born and growing up in North Carolina, once I saw and understood racism I realized that people from other parts of the country are wildly more racist than we are and yet we always get the stigma of being racist but I’ve met more northern and west coast people who would outright call black people the n word without even blinking and do so to be racist while everyone around them from this area asked them what was wrong with them.
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Being born and growing up in North Carolina, once I saw and understood racism I realized that people from other parts of the country are wildly more racist than we are and yet we always get the stigma of being racist but I’ve met more northern and west coast people who would outright call black people the n word without even blinking and do so to be racist while everyone around them from this area asked them what was wrong with them.
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joshuacollins5022
You'd be amazed by how enormous government intervention into our community has hurt us. Also the black community has an double edge sword of the burden of proof. If people know you for something you have to be ready to show it immediately or it's a massive insult to our honor. That coupled with our principle of by any means necessary gives you people capable of some truely amazing and awful things.
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You'd be amazed by how enormous government intervention into our community has hurt us. Also the black community has an double edge sword of the burden of proof. If people know you for something you have to be ready to show it immediately or it's a massive insult to our honor. That coupled with our principle of by any means necessary gives you people capable of some truely amazing and awful things.
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Lakoda26
I think two things can be true. That the civil war was about slaves and that the civil was war about federalizing northern hegemony. The later being, IMO, the proper way of framing that states rights argument. When phrased this way, I think it becomes obvious why we still debate this topic - likely many (if not most) people at the time didn't (or couldn't) see the difference between the two arguments.
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I think two things can be true. That the civil war was about slaves and that the civil was war about federalizing northern hegemony. The later being, IMO, the proper way of framing that states rights argument. When phrased this way, I think it becomes obvious why we still debate this topic - likely many (if not most) people at the time didn't (or couldn't) see the difference between the two arguments.
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