@JGoldman10,
JGoldman10 wrote:
My mother is an African-American. Legally in the US you are considered black.
I was referring to black Americans whose ancestors came to the US as slaves, not the black immigrants who are coming here now.
Black/negro is a race.
I understand what you are saying.
I do.
And yes, in america you are black. ALL over the planet black colored skin is called black. Its only in america that they insist on being called african american ... even when they have not set foot in africa.. know what i mean? That makes NO sense for someone to do that.
BUT...your general statement meant that even back THEN, people were brought here by the '
only option' of being a slave and that is not true. There were black settlers all over the coast of north and south america. Not all black people who were in america were brought here to be slaves. Not all slaves people who were brought here were from Africa either.
There were black slaves from Australia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka... Not to mention the droves of white slaves too. Irish being one of the biggest white slave population here. In fact, most of New York ( if I remember correctly ) was constructed by 'white slaves' ..
The black skin color is not limited to africa.. there for you can not deduce that all 'blacks' are africans. And slavery was not limited to blacks. But the white population of slaves is not made very well known either.. sadly enough.
Everyone, every where, at any time has enslaved another person based on skin color, family name, location.. or any other simple base across the entire planet since the beginning of time. Humans are racist. We hate based on what we see. Thats a given and not limited to the black color at all.
You are aware of the asian 'concentration camps' that were here in america right?
At one time it was the new fad to hate them too. Judge them, deny them, kill them and treat them as less than too. And at that point it was all due to 'war precautions' ... sort of like what we are doing to the Indian race now.. calling all dark brown people possible terrorists.. enforcing and creating homeland security laws based completely at them..
bah. dont get me started on this subject. its one of the things I hate about this country frankly.
but....Your general statment though meant that all blacks whos ancestors were here were ONLY products of slavery FROM africa.
that is not true.