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What is everyone's nationality?
Erica:
--- 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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That's easier said than done, Sarah. You can ask your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents where your roots began and come up with a definate answer. Blacks in America are the only people who have no idea what tribe they originated from. After the slaves came to America, their identity was erased. There is almost NO record of where a lot of blacks here originated from.
Erica:
--- 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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And you speak as if my great grandparents are still alive. My grandmother was adopted...no one knew who her mother was...she died giving birth to her. No one knows who her father was either. The same for my father's parents. I know who they were but there are no records of their foreparents.
Sarah:
Then you seem to have an impossible situation, many people are able to gather even the slightest information on their ancestors. An uncle of mine traced my family roots back to a turkish tribe in the Ottoman Empire.
Erica:
--- Quote from: Sarah on September 23, 2007, 05:18:17 PM ---Then you seem to have an impossible situation, many people are able to gather even the slightest information on their ancestors. An uncle of mine traced my family roots back to a turkish tribe in the Ottoman Empire.
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Good for you and your family. Not many blacks have that luxury of knowing where they came from in Africa.
ftf:
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--- 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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Yes - I had asked that question...are all black people African American?
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I am the descendent of Africans.
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"the decendent", you're the only one?
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What does that mean? No, surely I'm not. Why is this such a big deal anyway. Everyone else is giving their nationalities and you're not asking them these pressing questions. I am a decendent of Africans. (sorry if "the" threw you off...I didn't mean to be so specific.)
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I wasn't trying to make a big fus, I just found the mistake in your writing rather amusing, to say you are "the something" means that there is only one of that "something" and you are it, I presume you meant to say that you are "a descendent" which would mean that you are one of many.
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