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What is everyone's nationality?
Erica:
--- Quote from: Zvulun ben Moshe on September 23, 2007, 08:18:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Erica on September 23, 2007, 07:16:06 PM ---
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--- Quote from: Sarah on September 23, 2007, 05:08:38 PM ---Surely your great grandparents must of come from a certain country in Africa, ask around.
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Sarah, there were no countries in Sub-Saharan Africa when the Blacks were sold into slavery. The more appropriate word in this case would be a tribe and not a country, and that is a thing that would be almost impossible to trace back, unless Erica compares her physical features with such of typical member of existing tribes.
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They have a way of determining what tribe blacks in America came from (in Africa)... DNA. I don't think I should have to pay close to $400 to find out though. I want to be able to trace my ancestors back from slaves who were 'taken' to America, to the tribe they came from. Its not fair for the records to have been burned and erased like they were.
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There is no question, Erica, the Blacks should not have been taken to America. It was a shame and disaster for both sides.
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I wasn't born in Africa before slavery but if America was better then than Africa was...I'd surely have voluntarily hopped on that ship. Its a shame that both places weren't fit to raise anyone, or any THING (cats, dogs, rats) then.
newman:
--- Quote from: Erica on September 23, 2007, 05:01:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: newman on September 21, 2007, 10:45:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: Erica on September 21, 2007, 10:40:30 AM ---African American.
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Where you born in Africa?
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My heritage began in Africa, Newman. They are the only people I look like. I certainly don't look like YOU, do I.
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So what?
What's with all this hyphenated American BS?
I don't see 'Italian-American', 'Slavick-American' or 'Nordic-American' anywhere except by a few liberal idiots.
If you're American then that's it. If you're an african, move to africa. You can't be both without duel citizenship.
Erica:
--- Quote from: newman on September 23, 2007, 08:59:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: Erica on September 23, 2007, 05:01:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: newman on September 21, 2007, 10:45:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: Erica on September 21, 2007, 10:40:30 AM ---African American.
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Where you born in Africa?
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My heritage began in Africa, Newman. They are the only people I look like. I certainly don't look like YOU, do I.
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So what?
What's with all this hyphenated American BS?
I don't see 'Italian-American', 'Slavick-American' or 'Nordic-American' anywhere except by a few liberal idiots.
If you're American then that's it. If you're an african, move to africa. You can't be both without duel citizenship.
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I didn't type AFRICAN(-) American, you dolt! Africans are the only people I identify with because of my skin color and the hisory of blacks in America.
newman:
--- Quote from: Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim on September 23, 2007, 09:01:11 PM ---I'm an American Jew. American should go first because the noun should be your ethnicity, not your nationality.
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"American Jew" is not like "african-American". Saying that you're an American catholic or American Jew in context is fine. No Jew calls himselfe Ashkenazi-American or Semitic-American. No negro should call himself 'african-American'.
newman:
--- Quote from: Erica on September 23, 2007, 09:03:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: newman on September 23, 2007, 08:59:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: Erica on September 23, 2007, 05:01:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: newman on September 21, 2007, 10:45:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: Erica on September 21, 2007, 10:40:30 AM ---African American.
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Where you born in Africa?
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My heritage began in Africa, Newman. They are the only people I look like. I certainly don't look like YOU, do I.
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So what?
What's with all this hyphenated American BS?
I don't see 'Italian-American', 'Slavick-American' or 'Nordic-American' anywhere except by a few liberal idiots.
If you're American then that's it. If you're an african, move to africa. You can't be both without duel citizenship.
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I didn't type AFRICAN(-) American, you dolt! Africans are the only people I identify with because of my skin color and the hisory of blacks in America.
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Really?
You identify with savages who rub do-do on themselves in africa but not a middle class American like yourself if she happens to be white.
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