A Little Bit About Slavery

Every so often a member of the Black community will bring up the subject of reparations; giving away money to Black Americans for our history of slavery. Other than it's absolutely a stupid idea I wonder how the give away would be ministered. Every person applying for funds would have to give a blood sample to determined what percentage of black blood was coursing through their body. Talk about problems.

Slavery, if you didn't know has been around for thousands of years. Two sides battle and to the winner go the spoils.

But the reparations crowd is only interested in the North American continent. First, we know the slaves were brought from Africa. But Whitey didn't set up shop on the shores of the Dark Continent. Other blacks did this for profit. It was the white traders, ships captains and their crew, who brought them to this side of the Atlantic.

Did you know, and I find this fascinating, only around 336,000 slaves were brought to this continent. Doomsayers will say 20 million died in the passage but I find this to be a magnificent exaggeration.

Think about this, please, while you contemplate the figure I just gave you. In history around 10.8 million blacks were shipped off to South America. That's a goodly number. I'm not privy to this information but I wonder the demand for reparations in the continent below us, Caribbean Islands included.