[Dilbert San Diego]

There seems to be a presumption that all black people are descended from slaves.

A few million immigrants from sub Saharan Africa have come to America in recent decades. Clearly none of them are descended from slavery in America.

I don’t have numbers in front of me, but there were significant communities of free blacks in America before the civil war. If we want to say any black people who have ancestry in this country, not recent immigrants, that would not be correct because some are descended from free blacks.

[Islander2]

“There seems to be a presumption that all black people are descended from slaves.
A few million immigrants from sub Saharan Africa have come to America in recent decades. Clearly none of them are descended from slavery in America.
I don’t have numbers in front of me, but there were significant communities of free blacks in America before the civil war. If we want to say any black people who have ancestry in this country, not recent immigrants, that would not be correct because some are descended from free blacks.”

Thanks for inserting this. Enough of this reparations crap. It is about time we got back to reality and away from feel-goodism.