ElephantintheRoom

 

Over the past 400 years, immigrants have had different reasons to come to America. Some came to escape war, others for freedom of religion. Still others came for the opportunity to escape poverty.

For example, the threat of starvation brought a large portion of Ireland’s population to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s. Almost 20% of Ireland’s population came to the United States.

Immigrants from China were fleeing severe drought and starvation. They helped build the railroads of America.

Between 1882 and 1914 approximately twenty million immigrants came to the United States from Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Russia.

Africa is not on the list of nations from which immigrants came to America (current statistics which list immigrants as a percent of U.S. population, show every African nations as negligible/no data), yet 12.6% of America’s current population is traceable to Africa.

Q: If African people did not immigrate, how did they get here? Duh.

A: Africans were forced to come here as slaves.

How many Africans were brought to North America as slaves? According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by professors David Eltis and David Richardson, the number is 388,000.

That group of 388,000 has grown to about 40,000,000 today.

As 12.6% of the population Blacks should represent a similar percentage of certain social statistics like: criminal arrests, welfare participation, and incarcerations. The actual numbers are; 28%, 26%, and 38% respectively. These numbers are double and triple what they should be.

What’s wrong?

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