Posted on 04/06/2016 10:43:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We've been doing that since 1965, Bernie.
“With more than 35,000 slave voyages, human cargo, as they were oft times referred, were imported into the Western Hemisphere during the Atlantic slave trade. A total of approximately 600,000 slaves were imported into the Thirteen Colonies and the U.S, constituting 5% of the estimated eleven million slaves* brought from Africa to the Americas. The majority of African slaves were transported to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil. As life expectancy was short, their numbers had to be continually replenished. Because life expectancy was much higher in the U.S. and the slave population began to reproduce, the enslaved population grew rapidly, reaching 4 million by the 1860 U.S. Census. From 1770 until 1860, the rate of natural growth of North American enslaved people was much greater than the growth of the population of any nation in Europe, and was nearly twice as rapid as that of England.”
http://www.thomaslegion.net/americancivilwar/usatlanticslavetradeunitedstates.html
Blacks are as much as a part of America as whites and Native Americans. They didn't swim across the Atlantic and sneak into the country, you know.
It’s the deal I propose for payment of slavery reparations. One million dollars, tax free, per individual and a one-way flight to any other country that will accept you and you turn-in your passport and citizenship when you get there.
More police?
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