Do you think if Africans had not been pulled apart when taken from home land....?

Question

would current African American families be in crisis?

Answer 1

There would be even more people living in the most heinous form of poverty.

Answer 2

Black families are in crisis because they were not given land and property like white indentured servants who served masters before them. Since they were enslaved and worked for no money, they obviously didn't have any when slavery was abolished and they had to start out from nothing. We still see the effects today.

It is really stupid to say that blacks put themselves in poverty and blacks encouraged slavery. Native Americans and Whites were the first to be enslaved, but their social networks and grouping made it hard for the white masters to keep them. Native American groups would threaten the white masters in accords of trade for enslaving their members. Africans were stripped from their home land and were forced to work out of contact with families in order to break social networks and encourage fear and assimilation of white rules. Africans were giving their people up to white settlers because they were promised better lives after x-amount of years in debt, like the white indentured servants. However, the white masters didn't stick to the plan after their agriculture successed and the black labor was free, allowing them to make huge amounts of profit. Also, you have to remember that not all Africans came over here as a trade from other Africans. Many were caputred beyond their will and forced to live over here and fend to the white mans rules.

To answer your question, I feel that if African Americans weren't forced from their motherland initally, and immigrated on their own, they would have probably still dealt with discrimination and problems. The Irish, Scottish, English, Jewish, Italian, etc immigrants all faced problems and stereotyping and maul-treatment upon arrival. They were only accepted as white after they assimilated to American white culture, before then they were known by ethnicity, not race.

I think that African American families would probably have had their cards dealt to them differently and maybe got more ahead then they were at the end of slavery, but you can not tell for sure. A lot plays in to that.

Answer 3

Well lets look at the Africans who are still in Africa...................................... OK, yes, Africans anywhere in the world former slave and former kings are all having family crisis' wherever they are. The problem with Africans is Africans.

Perhaps you could rephrase the question" If Africans hadn't sold their brothers and sisters in to slavery would African Americans have ever been slaves" NO. Africans not whites were the vital link to make slavery possible, for they were the ones who hunted down their fellow Africans their fellow brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and their own children and sold them to the slave traders. The first link in the slave chain was the "BLACK LINK"

put that in your baby daddy crack pipe and smoke it.

don't believe me" Do the research.........

Maybe the white Americans should be getting reperations from Africans for selling us so many criminals that fill our jail cells!!

Answer 4

Probably not. We are are very disenfranchised and and unconnected because we don't understand ourselves. The main reason for that, I believe is because we don't even know who we really are as a people. If we did we would not be in crisis.

Answer 5

Sure they would. Blacks still come here from West Indies and Africa and nothing changes.