http://immigrationtounitedstates.org...ion-waves.html
1. The United States was established and became a country on Sept. 12, 1787! Period! Not the 1600s.
2. Slavery, IN THE US, was abolished December 6th, 1865! PERIOD!
3. The first blacks to come to the US were indentured servants from EUROPE not Africa and has no bearing on the term "nigger"! PERIOD! As IS the secondary subject of this thread!
Where did I learn this? AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (graduate level), PROFESSOR NELSON, OHIO STATE... and I got an A... and he as black as black can get! Look him up.
Originally Posted by Lacey Companion
So slaves didn't start coming here until 1787? Wrong...the slave trade began in the 1600s. Whether the first came from Europe or not, they descended from Africa and NOT just Nigeria...vast majority were from the West African coast. The overwhelming majority of black Americans have roots in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The term "nigger" was not about Nigeria.
And African slaves DID know about living as a colonized society, as it is the basis of tribes.
I too appreciate your earlier sentiments on your NBA choices and have no issue there. But the fact that you cited an immigration article to address slavery, as if those two things are even remotely similar, is enough to know we know longer need to have this conversation.