Holger Dansk wrote:
Your ancestors were definitely black

We have no idea what color anyone's ancestors were.

Yes we do. Black people in America have relatives who are descendants
in Africa of the relatives of the black people in America at the time
they were captured by black savages in Africa.

That sentence makes no sense. But how do you know what color their
ancestors were? And how do you know what color their ancestors'
ancestors were?

and were and had been savages for
thousands of years hunting with spears and they may have even had bows
and arrows. They ate wildebeest, antelope, monkeys, guineas, hyenas,
wild dogs and each other, etc., etc., etc.

That is true for all of mankind.

Not at all. Haven't you ever heard of the Greek and Roman
civilizations, for instance?

Yes. And the Greeks and Romans had ancestors who were uncivilized
savages who lived by hunting and gathering, just like all other human
beings, and most of the evidence indicates that all of these people
ultimate had ancestors who lived in Africa. But we don't know what
color those ancestors were.

They were captured by black savages and sold to white savages who took
them across the ocean, primarily to Brazil, but they brought your
ancestors to America.

You seem to think that everyone who disagrees with you is descended
from black slaves.

What an absurd remark.

Your statement appears to be addressing someone whose ancestors were
captured by black savages (no evidence of them being savages BTW), and
there is no one in this conversation, that I know of, who fits that
description.

Although slavery is very wrong, and
should be abolished all over the world, look how fortunate you are to
be living in America instead of living like your relatives do today in
Africa.

I have no relatives in Africa, except those that are your relatives
too.

My ancestors did not live in Africa.

How do you know? Do you have a complete family tree back to the first
human being, and proof that none of them lived in Africa?

Hint: by most current theories, homo sapiens originated in Africa,
and therefore, if you are a human being, your ancestors lived in
Africa.

However, you do not owe anything to the descendants of the white people
who owned you after you came here.

No one you are talking to was owned by white people (or anyone else),
and indeed probably most of us were born here.

Of course, you were born here. And, your ancestors were originally
black savages in Africa.

Why would you think that mine were, and yours weren't?

lojbab
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