I don't recall having read about any large scale African immigration after 1865.
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I don't recall having read about any large scale African immigration after 1865.
A huge portion of the immigration to the U.S. directly from Africa started in the 1980s.
Let's take a look at post-1980 first...
"From 1980 to 2009, the African-born population in United States grew from just under 200,000 to almost 1.5 million. Today, Africans make up a small (3.9 percent) but growing share of the country's 38.5 million immigrants.
In 2009, almost two-thirds of African immigrants were from Eastern and Western Africa, but no individually reported country accounted for more than 14.1 percent of the foreign born from the Africa region. The top countries of origin for the African born were Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya.
Classes of admission for African immigrants who gained lawful permanent residence in 2010 were also diverse, with 48 percent having done so through family relationships, 24 percent through the diversity visa program, 22 percent as refugees and asylees, 5 percent through employment, and the rest through other means."
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/african-immigrants-united-states
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_immigration_to_the_United_States
From 1865 to the present day, numerous blacks moved to the U.S. from other nations for better economic opportunity. These individuals were held in slavery in the U.S., nor were their ancestors.
The most well known "migration experience" of blacks in the U.S. was the "Great Migration". From 1916 to 1970 more than 6 million blacks moved from the South to the North for better economic opportunity. Their numbers included blacks coming from outside the U.S. as well - many were from the Caribbean, Canada, and Europe. Much of the black immigration slowed tremendously in 1921 when the Emergency Quota Act was put into place which lowered the quota from Africa to approx. 1000 and placed further restrictions on blacks coming from other countries. Prior to this over 10,000 blacks on average came to the U.S. voluntarily each year from the 1870s until 1920. There was a large demand for labor in the U.S. during this time period as railroads, bridges, and many other structures were built. Many of the workers were blacks who were born outside the U.S.
I think blacks are about 13% of the population ~320 million ---> around 42 million total, so that's a small fraction.
Yes, it is... But the entire situation is about if an individuals ancestor was a slave in the U.S. or not. With the voluntary migration of blacks over a long period of time to the U.S. - most of the current black citizens in the U.S. cannot trace their ancestry to someone held in bondage in our country.
In the 1870s to 1920s period large numbers of blacks came to the U.S. - for example 26,000 of the black laborers on the Panama Canal chose to come to the U.S. for jobs rather than return home to Caribbean islands with no economic opportunity. These laborers got free passage too the U.S. where employers had confirmed jobs waiting for them.
is it possible that all american blacks are not all the same? I don't know, they all look the same to me. My son in law came here straight from Mali without speaking a word of English, his village didn't even have a written language. Day one he got a job as a dishwasher and five years later owns his own business. I aint going to lie to you, he doesn't really like American blacks and thinks they are to be avoided. The funny thing is almost 90% of his customers are jewish because that is the community he lives in. My grandson is chocolate and considers himself jewish but the father still considers himself muslim, even though he still sacrifices chickens and has never bowed down to mecca once in his life (but his ancestors had to at the point of a gun.) So you just never know.
How about your hommie Obama? That dude doesnt have slave blood.
There's quite a few but I don't think the numbers work to say most.
Nor can someone claim that having 380,000 ancestors (which is not true) means that blacks in the U.S. are inbred.
Inbreeding normally involves only 6 or less extended families consisting of under a thousand individuals.
The history and genetic diversity of blacks in the United States is much broader.
My family on both my mother's side and father's side was very easily able to trace their ancestry back to slavery in South Carolina and North Carolina, its not that hard to do. Many county records from the 1800s are still around.
As far as that crazy woman talking about killing Donald Trump...its just her bullshit desire, not every other black person's.
As far as that crazy woman talking about killing Donald Trump...its just her bullshit desire, not every other black person's.
Those able to trace family history usually can easily do it and prove their ties to ancestors who were slaves in the South. For the most part good records were maintained in many states from the late 1700s onward.
Many of the extremists loudly spouting demands because of slavery had ancestors who came to the U.S. voluntarily post-1865. To be fair the individuals who ancestors migrated from the Caribbean can still make some type of case about slavery in their background.