@Regrann from @life_forever7 - "According to "Slave Statistics" by Hugh Thomas published in 1997 by Simon and Schuster somewhere around 500,000 Africans were transported to North America between 1619-1865. But because of the horrible conditions the Africans were packed in on the slave ships half of them died during the journey. This means that the actual amount of Africans that made it to North America alive was between 250,000-300,000 over a period of 240 years. If so few Africans were brought over to North America why are there so many African Americans living here today? In 2013 US Census Bureau estimated 45 million African Americans in the United States. No other group in the US had a growth rate this high! Statistics state less than 1% of all Indigenous people of North and South America are in existence as a result of European conquests. Ninety-five (95%) percent were massacred by Columbus and his European crews shortly after 1492. That quickly huh??? Around 1900, it was thought Native Americans were on the brink of extinction with only 250,000 left. Yet, there is actual physical evidence in the form of artifacts of dark skinned, curly hair texture natives. There are written accounts of the Native Americans being called Ethiopians by the European explorers and described as having the same features of the modern-day African American." Our African brothers and sisters were brought over, but not by the millions, not millions of militaristic warriors forcefully taken across the Atlantic, understand we were all over the world as a majority why would it be any different here? If they could bring us here by the millions, they would send us back too but that cost money they didn't want to spend then or in the 1800s (Frederick Douglas Folly of Colonization). Colonization is real and Europe hit America just like they did Africa, just like Australia, just like South America, and the list goes on.. #transatlanticlie #prisonersofwar #allovertheworld #dumdiversas #lieseverywhere #babyloneverywhere #colonizationeverywhere #Regrann
