I'm kinda emotional finally knowing my ancestry. It's not that big of a deal but growing up I remember all my friends (usually the wh*te ones) would say things like "I'm part German, Irish, Native, English, etc" and i'd just be like "um i'm black".
For those of you playing dumb most African Americans do not know their family ancestry due to the Atlantic Slave Trade. Our family history is American as far as we know. And it's stupid to claim the entire continent of Africa due to how diverse it is.
I can finally say what countries my ancestry originated from and I feel at peace. I'm so happy I did this.
oh and i'm 11.5% WHITE.
ONE OF Y'ALLS WHITE FAMILY MEMBERS RAPED MY SLAVE FAMILY MEMBER.
and no one owes u reperations hun. My country was invaded multiple times over the past hundreds of years and im not demanding reperations from anyone. Ur crazy
akeria baby girl i'm not gonna argue about reparations but know that every group of people mistreated in early days of America got them except African Americans. I don't think black people should be handed a pay check but the the way blacks were thrown into "freedom" from slavery but still discriminated against created a snowball effect of poor. Which is also why parts of Africa are so poor. Not because they are lazy but because all their goods were stolen from them and their people were enslaved & removed from the land causing modern warns of today :).
akeria black people didn't get any. There's was basically "ok slavery is over here you can go move to the slums and we won't give you any jobs because we still hate you" until segregation was abolished which was literally only in 1954 (my parents were born in '67 for context).
I was joking earlier telling the girl "GIVE ME MY REPARATIONS" I hope you know that. Same with the "wh*te" thing it's just an internet joke. There's so many LAYERS as to why the black community has so many struggles today but it truly dates back to how the country was started unfortunately.
Anyways to answer your question Native americans received land, don't have to pay taxes.
Japanese Americans were treated horribly after Japan bombed Hawaii and they received reparations in form of 20k per person (but it got iffy when government tried to keep it quiet)
