U.S. Considers Asking Black Americans on Census if They Are Slave Descendants

[cornercommission2k12]

Not to mention the 3 bozos leading fba are unknown outside of their social media characters. Got 1 guy who won't even tell anyone his real name and no one can tell you who they hell he was before he popped up playing a pimp named slick back, and 2 dudes who won't even show you their face. How anyone had the trust to follow that is beyond me especially dealing with an issue that is based on specific payments based on lineage lol.

 

[Oatmeal]

I got my paperwork together on both sides of my family tree already for direct descendants, we been working on the extended family for a few years. If this is for reparations they gonna have to expedite for people that got receipts


There was so much jacked up stuff in old census records AND delayed birth certificates because they'd spell black folks names wrong on purpose because some folks weren't educated and couldn't write, guarantee they bring that up as a potential roadblock

 

[Samori Toure]

It needs to state enslaved within the USA. Otherwise people whose ancestors were not enslaved within the USA will claim to be African Americans.

 

[BobbyWojak]

400 fukking years mad late...

And that's no mistake

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

About damn time. This will be a huge step in the right direction to reparations.

Need to be precise about enslaved in the continental UNITED STATES!

 

[Samori Toure]

With the one-drop rule still intact, we gotta be absolutely specific to parentage and lineage from then to now.

They should use 60%. They use to state that slaves were only 3/5 human.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Good

 

[Amo Husserl]

They should use 60%. They use to state that slaves were only 3/5 human.

Two identified parents evidenced by census reports.
Truth be told, this whole thread remind me of what I read about Mexico and their census during the sistema de castas days:

The U.S. Government Is Reconsidering What Race And Ethnicity Mean

 

[Tair]

Good.

 

[ORDER_66]

 

[sportscribe]

They should use 60%. They use to state that slaves were only 3/5 human.

There are AfrAms with less than 60% native African DNA. You would be excluding them.

 

[Cobalt Sire]

Do yall not understand that there will be a legit claim by many white people that they are technically "foundational black americans" and "descendants of slaves"

The chains on that argument will always move because there is always a caveat. Negros just here more concerned with being divisive or indirectly trying to blame black immigrants for why their government hasn't given what they know they owe. Listen closely dumb negroes, you could call yourself the American pie red white and blue mayo eaters and it won't convince the policy makers necessary for reparations to budge on their stance. So some imaginary conditions of separating yourself from the "fresh off the boat " people as if it pushes you closer to any kind of restorative justice is just dumb. I mean are yall from America? Do you know the history of this country? When they are openly handing billions to Ukraine when they know what black Americans have been pushing for its them telling us kick fukkin rocks. Some imaginary idea that changing the package on the same old nikka progresses us is just further driving illusion of inclusion. They will fan the flames of this because it further kills our political position but we can't see the trees from the forest because we back to Jim crow thinking and too much in our feelings.

You can't be a Foundational Black American if you're not Black. FBAs are different from Black immigrants, because we built the country. Black immigrants weren't enslaved here, and most came after the 1960s, so they wouldn't be entitled to reparations. It's important to make distinctions about which Black people were here during slavery building the country, and the one's that came over willingly after it was built. That's not divisive, that's just fair. Nothing imaginary about it either. There's a world of difference between FBAs and Black immigrants.

 

[Cobalt Sire]

Not to mention the 3 bozos leading fba are unknown outside of their social media characters. Got 1 guy who won't even tell anyone his real name and no one can tell you who they hell he was before he popped up playing a pimp named slick back, and 2 dudes who won't even show you their face. How anyone had the trust to follow that is beyond me especially dealing with an issue that is based on specific payments based on lineage lol.

And if it wasn't for them, this reparations conversation wouldn't be going on. By the way, nouns are capitalized.

 

[Samori Toure]

There are AfrAms with less than 60% native African DNA. You would be excluding them.

True.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

The majority of black people living in the western hemisphere are descendants of slaves.

This question needs to be specific.