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This year, 2019, represents four hundred years since black people were brought to
America to set up permanent residence. Unfortunately, the news media have not given
much coverage to this event. Why? Why do things that affect black people are never
given the same consideration and respect in America as things that affect white people?
African-American history provides a view of the history of Afro-Americans, or Black
Americans, in America. 450 thousand were sent to what is now the USA from the 10.7
million Africans who were sent to America before 1860. Many African Americans originated
from Blacks who were taken straight from Nigeria and into slavery. Throughout African
battles or attacks, the potential captives were first seized and shipped in the Atlantic slave
trade. African-Americans come from different ethnic groups, mostly from Western and
Central African ethnic groups, including the Sahel. A smaller number of African Americans
originated from Western and Southeast Asian ethnic groups (Alexander, 2017).
The appearance of 102 travelers at Mayflower in 1620 is the beginning of many
Colonists to American history. Yet 20 black Africans, a year before, were taken against their
will to the British colonies. In a letter in 1619, John Rolfe found out that a Dutch vessel took
"20 and odd degrees" to the newly formed colonies of the British and now resides at the Fort
Hampton, the then Point Comfort, in Virginia. While Africans were in slavery culture
throughout the Americas, Portuguese, Spanish, French and British since the 16th century, the
prisoners who arrived in Virginia were the first slaves to join what the United States was to
have 150 years later (Reich, 2017).
The topic of how to resolve 250 years of slavery in financial debt has emerged on the
political agenda since the publication of the Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates in
2014. Those who support a financial settlement for slave descendants claim it's meant to
counter the racial inequality in the US. In a 2017 Pew study, the average revenue of white