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🌍: I uncover the stories they left out.
🛫: Truth-Telling | Travel | Culture He is currently the CEO of Ethno Records.

Henry Johnson Jr is a Liberian-American travel influencer, entrepreneur, artist, author, social activist and filmmaker. He graduated from Colorado Film School (The top 25th film school in the world) and the University of Colorado Denver. In 2017, his short Thai film "Mother's Home" won Best Thai Short and Best Actor awards.

12/06/2025

THE REAL STORY OF RELIGION… AND THE FUNNY LIES WE NEVER QUESTIONED

Can you blame folks who think religion feels suspicious sometimes?

Be honest.

You wanna tell me that these dudes literally sat in a hot room, looked at a dark-skinned Middle Eastern man named Yeshua,
and said something like:

“Fellas… what if we lighten him up a bit?
Just a pinch.
Like… twelve shades.”

Next thing you know, they created a version of Jesus who looks like he just finished a violin recital in Switzerland.

Then they mailed those paintings across the world like spiritual Amazon Prime…
and Grandma hung it on the wall like it was her nephew from Monrovia.

Now hold up, because here’s where the comedy turns into truth:

A sound mind cannot say they worship a dark-skinned Yeshua on Sunday…
and then discriminate against dark-skinned people on Monday.

That’s not religion.
That’s a logic error.
That’s spiritual WiFi with no password.

It makes no sense.
None.
Zero megabytes of sense.

How you gonna worship a Messiah with melanin but treat melanin-rich people like they’re the problem?

That is one of the most delusional inventions since creation. If confusion had cousins, that would be all of them.

And the funniest part?
Some of the same people doing the judging will scream “devils are attacking!”
Bruh… it’s not demons.
It’s the contradiction.
Your theology is glitching.

Let’s get into the real history now that we’ve laughed:

Every major religion on Earth is a remix.

• Judaism grew among Afro-Asiatic people

• Christianity was shaped in North Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia

• Islam spread through African trade routes and inherited Jewish and Christian traditions

• African spiritual systems were already doing astronomy, ethics, and psychology before Europe learned how to spell “Europe”

• Indigenous belief systems carried environmental science and generational wisdom modern society still can’t explain

Humanity has always shared ideas.
Trade routes were basically ancient social media. Everybody was borrowing from everybody.

But then… somebody rewrote the script, painted the cast, and sold it as the final version.

And here we are centuries later still arguing,
still confused,
still worshiping the picture instead of the truth.

Because at the core, here’s what they never taught us:

You can’t claim the faith
if you refuse to claim the humanity.

You can’t praise brown-skinned prophets
and then mistreat brown-skinned people.

You can’t talk about love
and then weaponize the same book to justify hate.

You can’t tell a child God made them in His image
and then spend the rest of their life convincing them that image is wrong.

And you definitely can’t solve society’s issues
with Sunday-only compassion.

If your love expires on Monday morning…
it was never faith.
It was weekend entertainment.

So maybe — just maybe —
it’s time to stop worshiping the edited paintings
and start honoring the unedited truth.

Because when you peel back the artwork, the rewrites, and the colonial Photoshop…

You find something beautiful:

Humanity has always been connected.
Always learning from one another.
Always influencing one another.
Always part of the same story.

Now that is a truth worth preaching.

And yes — it’s OK to laugh while learning.
Wisdom hits even harder when the truth comes with humor.

12/06/2025

Sometimes the lesson isn’t how to win; it’s how to rise with grace after losing.

12/06/2025

The Rise and Misuse of DNA Ancestry Culture

(And What It’s Quietly Doing to Our Sense of Belonging)

Every time someone announces, “My DNA test just dropped!” I brace myself like it’s a mixtape release. Next thing you know, they’re claiming twelve tribes, three kingdoms, and an island they’ve never visited.

Now pause with me.

What happens when identity becomes something we buy…
instead of something we understand?

Because here’s the part people don’t talk about out loud.

DNA culture has become entertainment.
A guessing game.
A roulette wheel.
A marketing product dressed up as self-discovery.

Companies are promoting ancestry like it’s a Black Friday sale.
And so many of us are trying to find ourselves through a barcode.

But let me bring some wisdom to the table.

You cannot measure belonging through percentages.
You measure it through memory, lineage, and lived culture.

A swab can tell you where your cells traveled.
It cannot tell you:

Who held your grandmother when she cried.
What your ancestors survived.
The values they carried.
The languages that shaped your spirit.
The stories whispered at night so you would know who you were.

A test can tell you migration routes.
It cannot tell you the migration of your soul.

And here is the deeper truth.

Identity is being gamified.
Turned into amusement.
Turned into bragging rights or debate fuel.
And we are forgetting that ancestry was never meant to be entertainment.

It was meant to be anchoring.

It was meant to remind us that we come from people who endured storms we cannot imagine.
People who built civilizations.
People who prayed, fought, created, taught, birthed, traveled, and dreamed us into existence.

That kind of belonging cannot be simplified into 23% this and 12% that.

DNA tests can be helpful.
They can open doors, reconnect families, heal wounds, and spark curiosity.

But if we use them wrong…
they can also confuse us, divide us, and trick us into believing that identity is a percentage instead of a path.

Here is the whisper that stays with you.

Your roots are bigger than a test.
Your heritage is older than science.
And your belonging is deeper than anything a company can calculate.

If you want to know who you are,
Study your people.
Study your history.
Study your stories.
That is the kind of ancestry they cannot monetize.

12/06/2025

History shows us something powerful. When people choose to stand together, even the broken pieces of a nation can form something stronger. That’s how progress works. That’s how a mosaic is made.

12/06/2025

How Africa Spiced Up México — Literally and Historically 🌶️😅🌍

12/06/2025

Africa’s Future Superpowers

(The Story Nobody Is Ready For… Yet)

Let me start with a little humor.

Every time someone says, “Africa will never rise,” I imagine a hundred million African youths stretching like, “Hold my jollof. Watch this.”

Now pause with me.

What if the next global superpower isn’t being built in a boardroom…but in classrooms, tech hubs, and crowded city streets across Africa?

Because something is happening on the continent that most of the world is not paying attention to.
A quiet shift.
A demographic earthquake.
A generation waking up with ambition in its bloodstream.

Peep 👀 game. 🙌🏿👇🏿

Let me show you what the future already sees.

Nigeria has more people under 25 than the entire population of many European countries.
They are coding, creating, building fintech companies, producing music that circles the globe, shaping culture without asking permission.

If you don’t believe it, just fly to Manila, Bangkok, Tokyo, or Seoul 😂✈️.
Asia’s youth are vibing to EVERYTHING African — music, style, slang, the whole vibe. Their closest friends? Africans.

They don’t see Africa through the Western lens at all.

And Manila? Bruh…Tala already has two beautiful mixed babies 👶🏽👶🏻, been to Abuja twice, and now she’s out here speaking Pidgin better than some Nigerians 🇳🇬🤣. That’s cultural love right there — not delusion..

Peep another game 🎱.

Ethiopia is becoming the industrial heart of East Africa.
New railways.
New highways.
One of the fastest growing economies before the pandemic.
A history measured in millennia, with a mindset moving toward tomorrow.

Kenya turned Nairobi into the Silicon Savannah.
Mobile banking.
Startups.
Innovation labs.
A country turning tech into a survival tool, then into a global export.

Rwanda rebuilt from ashes and now runs one of the cleanest, safest, fastest-growing cities on the continent.
Drones delivering medical supplies.
Smart city planning.
Leadership with long-term vision.

Ghana became the door of return.
The bridge between diaspora and home.
A nation rising through tourism, culture, education, and a generation unafraid to build what their ancestors only dreamed of.

And then there is Liberia.
A country with scars and stories, yes…
but also a young population ready to turn those scars into strategy.
Agriculture.
Tourism.
Tech.
Education.
A place where potential is not just a word, but a spark waiting for the right oxygen.

Here is the part people overlook.

Africa will hold the largest youth population in the world by 2050.
The youngest workforce.
The most energetic labor market.
The greatest reserve of creativity, innovation, and resilience on earth.

While other regions are aging, Africa is getting younger.
While others shrink, Africa grows.
And with every child learning to code, every startup launched in a small café, every university graduate walking out with an idea, a new future is forming.

Not a future of poverty.
A future of power.

Because young people do not inherit the world.
They rebuild it.

And Africa’s youth are about to prove that the world’s next chapter will not be written in fear.
It will be written in talent.

Here is the whisper at the end of the story.

The future is not coming to Africa.
Africa is becoming the future.

12/05/2025

In a diverse country, leadership is not about lifting the folks who look like us. It’s about lifting everybody. Because when power serves only one group, the whole nation shrinks. But when it serves all of us, we rise together.

12/05/2025

Roatán Changed My Whole View of the Caribbean… Here’s Why.

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12/05/2025

THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF IN*******AL LOVE

(Older Than Racism, Older Than Borders, Older Than All Our Modern Arguments)

Before you start screaming, “What’s up with this Henry guy writing about things that never happened?”

Relax.
Breathe.
Put your sandals back on.

Race is one of the most confusing inventions ever created. None of us selected our skin tone like a phone case. It came pre-installed, whether you liked the color palette or not.

So judging people over it is wild. It’s like arguing about your neighbor’s curtains.

And before someone says,
“Henry promoting fetishes!”
let me stop you right there.

Listen… black men have been loving them, white women, since Moses had Wi-Fi.
Sistas been crossing lines and falling for white men since long before TikTok trends.
Arab, Latinas and Asian women too — everybody’s ancestors got at least one romantic plot twist that started with:
“Well… oops, there it is.”

This isn’t new behavior.
This is ancient human nature.

Now step into the real story schools never told.

Long before the word “in*******al” existed, humans were already doing it.

Peep game…

Nubians married Egyptians along the Nile.
Moors married Iberians while sharing math, music, and medicine.

Africans married Indigenous Caribbean peoples long before Columbus got lost at sea.

East Africans married Arabs along the Swahili Coast, creating cultures with two heartbeats.

African sailors connected with communities across Asia, leaving behind language, rhythm, and stories.

Afro-Indigenous families formed in the Americas centuries before anyone invented racial categories.

Here’s the part that wakes people up:

Racism is young.
Love is ancient.

Human beings have always traveled, traded, argued, celebrated, laughed, and yes — fallen in love with whoever made their heart skip a beat.

The world was mixing long before borders existed.

Humanity has always been bigger than the labels that try to shrink it.

Maybe that’s the lesson.

Love crossed oceans before fear built fences.
Families blended before textbooks learned to separate them.

We belonged to each other long before anyone tried to argue we didn’t.

And if this speaks to you,
tag an in*******al couple and pass it on.
That’s how you help erase racism — not by debating it, but by outgrowing it.

That’s not fantasy.
That’s history.

12/05/2025

Every person you meet carries a country inside them. Listen before you speak.

12/05/2025

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DIVISION AND HOW CIVILIZATIONS HEAL

Have you ever noticed how people can live on the same street… breathe the same air… but swear they’re from different planets?

Fear will do that. It can turn neighbors into strangers and strangers into enemies.

So here is the question that should make all of us pause for a moment:
What happens to a civilization when fear spreads faster than truth?

History answers every time.

When fear rises, people stop talking and start assuming. When communities isolate, imagination takes the wheel and invents enemies that were never there. When media radicalizes, loud voices drown out wise ones.
And when empires forget humility, they forget humanity too.

Rome fell that way.
So did the Ottomans.
So did the Soviets.
Great power crumbled not because outsiders were stronger, but because insiders became strangers.

Division does something dangerous to the human mind.
It shrinks our world.
It convinces us that only “our kind” deserves safety.
It tricks us into believing that listening is weakness and compassion is surrender.

But here is the part textbooks never teach.
Civilizations do not heal through force.
They heal when people remember the oldest truth on earth:

No society ever fell when its people chose to see each other.

Healing begins the moment curiosity replaces assumption. Healing begins when people talk across their fears instead of inside them.
Healing begins when the loudest voices saying “fight” are finally challenged by quiet voices saying “look closer.”

Every empire that rose again learned the same lesson. Humility is not the end of power.
It is the beginning of wisdom.

So before we decide who is right or wrong, superior or inferior, chosen or forgotten, maybe ask yourself this: What future would we build if we stopped fearing each other and started understanding each other?

History has already shown the pattern.
Our choices decide the ending.

12/05/2025

One of the oldest lessons in our democracy is this: dignity isn’t measured by skin. It’s revealed in our actions, our choices, and our character. When we remember that, we rise—not just as individuals, but as a society.

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Henry Johnson Jr is a Liberian-born American 🇺🇲️🇱🇷Freelance Writer, Musician, Actor, Filmmaker, World Traveler, Humanitarian, Social Activist, and Producer; he's also a graduate of the Colorado Film School and the University of Denver, Colorado (CU). He's the writer of two well-published books, Liberian Son Vol One and Two. Henry Johnson Jr grew up in Aurora, Colorado, and spend most of his life there, and has traveled the world, from Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Germany, Belgium, Japan, The Philippines, Hong Kong, and to Thailand. In early 2013 he founded 1847 Films to help promote Liberia's Film Industry. In 2014, he graduated (Colorado Film School) CFS with an Associate Degree in General Studies of the Arts.

Colorado Film School is one of the top 25th Film Schools in the United States and the world. In early 2017, he founded Ethno Records, an international record and film production company. On May 13th, 2017, he graduated from the University of Colorado Denver with honors (Cum Laude), with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications and a minor in Political Science. In November of 2017, a short Thai Film (Mother's Home) that he acted in won the best Thai and Japanese Short and also earned him an award for BEST ACTOR. While in Thailand, he was invited to the Thai parliament to have a sit-in on Thai Tourism and Film Industry. For more info, please contact HJ. 🇺🇲️🇱🇷️️

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