I will get in an ungodly amount of trouble for pointing this out, but the hell with it I'm bi-racial but here is a quote
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.
And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That's right: a tiny percentage.
In fact, the overwhelming percentage of the African slaves were shipped directly to the Caribbean and South America; Brazil received 4.86 million Africans alone! Some scholars estimate that another 60,000 to 70,000 Africans ended up in the United States after touching down in the Caribbean first, so that would bring the total to approximately 450,000 Africans who arrived in the United States over the course of the slave trade.
So people please tell me this why is it that a nation that had nothing to do with the starting of slavery, but lead the charge into abolishing it. Is still hug up on it? It makes no sense, It's time to move on. None of us living where affected by it and its time to let wounds heal and stop picking at them. Segregation still has some lingering affects but once again we need to let things heal.
People will always have hate in there hearts and you can never stop that but as a whole we need to stop acting like race means anything. Black,White,Brown, Purple it does not matter.
Well there I vented and painted a target on my back so people take your best shot.
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