DNA Testing Could Help Make a Case for Reparations as More Blacks Trace Their Roots to Africa

The Atlanta Black Star ^ | January 25, 2016 | Manny Otiko

[jmcenanly]

I keep thinking of those Ancestry.com commercials where the person taking their new DNA tests finds out that they have been mistaken about their heritage.

[T-Bone Texan]

That deserves a repeat:

NO REPARATIONS WITHOUT REPATRIATION.

[sickoflibs]

I would love to see a Dem candidate propose racial based Reparations.

[John S Mosby]

Hey, thinking of white slaves— do you think there’s any potential payout for the descendants of the Oglethorpe Debtor’s Colony— also known now as the State of Georgia.

In which: The British used colonial North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude. Merchants would transport the convicts and auctioned them off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the 18th century. The State of Georgia for example was first founded by James Edward Oglethorpe by using penal prisoners taken largely from debtors’ prison, creating a “Debtor’s Colony”. The English also would often ship Irish and Scots to the Americas whenever rebellions took place in Ireland or Scotland, and they would be treated similar to the convicts, except that this also included women and children.-— Women and Children, FRiends. Scots and Irish— that is to say— WHITE people were indentured slaves who were enslaved for over 20 years to pay off their debts— which were constantly re-upped with new debt.

So— where’s OUR reparations? Hmmmm? Should we ask the UK for some dough?

[Smokin' Joe]

This may indicate tribal subgroup and relations, but that does nothing to indicate who was a slave, who was free, whether those genes had a stopover somewhere else on their way here.

In the instance of those descended from slaves, consider that someone sold these people to traders (or they were captured by force) before being taken to embarkation points and sold to go west, where they were sold again, maybe more than once.

Chances are good that many of those hands were not 'white'.

[kathsua]

I don’t claim to be a DNA expert but I still realize that the chance a black American only had ancestors from one small area of Africa is zero. Many slave owners fathered children by their slaves so many black Americans had slave owning ancestors.