Originally Posted by
tony
This right here is proof of what I am talking about, how people take for granted the abilities they have and do not understand what it is to be black. Blacks can't trace their lineage because Census records only date back to the early 1900's for black families, or did you not understand that when you asked if anyone can prove they're descendants of slaves? I guess going by your rationale black people just started showing up in the United States spontaneously when they heard they were being treated so well here.
It's a building block, typically if you can trace your family back to the southern states like South Carolina, Virginia, and other states that were in deep in the Jim Crowe era somewhere in your blood line will lead you back to Africa, but you're talking about 300 years of undocumented ancestry so you can attribute that to putting pieces to a puzzle together in the dark.
This whole thing is funny to me really because it is exactly what I explain to people, the lack of understanding or the care to understand. I don't even use the term African American but I can understand those who do.
And about your South African friend, you wouldn't understand the tension between blacks from America and Africans but your friend is entitled to his opinion either way.
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