How ‘bout descendants of black slave owners?
How ‘bout blacks that arrived after slavery?
How much ‘black’ do you have to be to qualify?
“How ‘bout blacks that arrived after slavery?” Pretty sure somewhere on here it was stated that possibly 5% of AAs in the US today have any ties to slaves. But a lot will claim to.
How ‘bout descendants of black slave owners?
How ‘bout blacks that arrived after slavery?
How much ‘black’ do you have to be to qualify?
Excellent questions.
A little personal look @ #3:
How much ‘black’ do you have to be to qualify?
We have been told 1% DNA might qualify you/me/anyone.
My African DNA was at 6% before thousands of German ancestors were added to my DNA pool. That, brought me down to 3% African DNA.
My family’s African DNA %’s are all over. A sibling has 2%, and her children were also 2% and her grand kids 1-2%.
Amazing, how they can measure African DNA down to 1%, yet with over 100 ancestors documented by the old fashioned paper way to be Cherokee or Creek ancestors don’t show up as DNA ancestors.
A cynical cousin and also, one of my direct heirs, both feel that this was pre planned re even 1% African DNA showing and zero Native American DNA showing, making that individual eligible for payments.
Being realistic cynics, they feel that Biden and his progressive thugs will just pass retributions down to 1% to receiving payments as so called descendants of slaves.
Then, you get into some other sticky issues. I have a handful of African relative ancestors, who were documented on per early censuses, listed as “Free Blacks”. More are showing up.
So if, my/our black ancestors were “Free Blacks”, Are we still eligible for reparations?
They or their ancestors were slaves at one time, probably or maybe. Did they own slaves?
Then, do we get reparations for our Irish and Scottish ancestors, who were indentured servants, (Brit legalese meaning white slaves).