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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Thu Jun 17 19:00:53 2021, in response to Re: Juneteenth All But Official, posted by pragmatist on Wed Jun 16 22:02:34 2021. I'm sure there are some traceable descendants, but any effort to figure out realistic numbers is futile. So many people have come into the country since then, and marriages across succeeding generations likely results in today's population having miniscule percentages of slave lineage. The greatest majority of the population have no traceable roots to that era, either as slave owners, or even as residents of the country.LMAO at this nonsensical conjecture!! It's crazy how misinformed sentiments like this prevail in an era where we all have access to devices that can give us lifetimes of knowledge within seconds at our fingertips. The first census took place in 1790. There were censuses done in 1870, 1880, and 1890 that most African-American descendants of slaves show up on. As long as one of your parents is an African-American descendant of slaves, then you have a claim for reparations. Anyone who doesn't claim their American ancestry can take that up with the government of whatever country's ancestry they do claim, it's that simple. No traceable roots? False. Plantation owners were actually really good at keeping record of their “inventory”, and those very same records are accessible to this day at libraries and museums across America. The Mormon church in L.A. has a whole section dedicated to helping African-American descendants of slaves find their ancestors. Mormon church to make available records of 4 million freed slaves Do you think people who may have had ancestors that died fighting against slavery should bear any financial responsibility. Lol! If a mother died with debt, America would come after her children or estate. America is one of the most frivolous countries in the world when it comes to collecting debt of all facets no matter old that debt may be, but refuses to pay what is maybe its biggest and oldest debt, and has every excuse in the book why it won't, can't, and shouldn't. Do we owe money to any of the other groups who suffered under racial and ethnic discrimination they endured? America felt that Jewish people, Japanese people, and Native Americans did, and they all got paid, now it's time for African-American descendants of slaves to get that same piece of the pie. |
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