So, you agree Blacks built this country not whites. Nice. So, you are all for reparations, I take it?
BS. Men and women of multiple ethnicities contributed to the construction of this great nation. How dare you conflate your petty bigotry with the making of a nation built on greed, theft, prostitution and booze. Reparations for what? For stealing black people from the cauldrons and killing fields of other black people. People betrayed by their own, long before being sold as slaves to other Africans, Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Turkish, British and Belgian slave traders. 12.5 million Africans were sold into slavery destined for Central and South America. Less than a half million landed in North America, including Mexico and Canada. By 1860 more than 100 million northern Europeans had migrated to North America, another 10 million Iberian Europeans to Central and South America. Some 85% of African slaves were brought here from the Caribbean, brought there mostly by English, French, Belgian and Spanish slavers. During the same period more than 100k free African men and women migrated by choice to North America.
The schooner Clotilda was last American ship to ply the Atlantic from Africa to the US, from an entire fleet of 11 American slaver ships to do so from colonial days until 1859. Comparatively the British had more than 200 slaver ships during the same period, the Spanish more than 300, the Belgians 200, the French 150. Slaver ships allowed their passengers 5.5 sq ft of space, compared to the plight of later European immigrants in the holds of freighters, who had all of 4 sq ft of space allotted for each passenger.
More than 40% of north Europeans who migrated to North America were forced to do so against their will, deemed criminals by their governments, exported for the labor they could supply the colonies. 30% sold themselves into indentured slavery for 7 years, to escape extreme poverty, especially common among English, French and Dutch immigrants. Less that 10% were fleeing oppression, whether political or religious. The remainder, the bastards and youngest sons of the nobility seeking fortunes.
Reparations to who and for what? Exactly. Today's Africans who remain in Africa, along with relatively recent voluntary immigrants look down on African Americans as not being real Africans, diluted by white, Asian and indigenous American lineages. Sit down with some recent immigrants from Nigeria, or some of Sengalese, and hear their disrespect for African Americans who preceded them.
Your BS about comparing the north American history of African Americans to the purposeful genocide of Jews by Nazis, inclusive of all of Germany's people, along with their Polish and other eastern European counterparts is bogus.
Do not tell me what I think.
