Every single black, or negro, person anywhere outside of Africa was imported historically, as a slave, indentured servant or even as a paid laborer. There were no black, indigenous peoples in any of the Americas.
There are few if any indigenous peoples from the Caribbean islands that survived the white invasion. They (the Caribs) were also Indians (certainly NOT native Americans any more than the Incas or Aztecs were), I believe.
I never said the first black people of the Caribbean weren't 'imported'.
I said that many have closer ancestral ties to the Caribbean than they do Africa, as in the most recent home of their ancestors outside of the US is the Caribbean. So using terms like African American can be misleading or inappropriate. I mean, if you trace all our heritage back far enough, we're all African-something or other. 'Black' is a better term.
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Every single black, or negro, person anywhere outside of Africa was imported historically, as a slave, indentured servant or even as a paid laborer. There were no black, indigenous peoples in any of the Americas.
There are few if any indigenous peoples from the Caribbean islands that survived the white invasion. They (the Caribs) were also Indians (certainly NOT native Americans any more than the Incas or Aztecs were), I believe.
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I never said the first black people of the Caribbean weren't 'imported'.
I said that many have closer ancestral ties to the Caribbean than they do Africa, as in the most recent home of their ancestors outside of the US is the Caribbean. So using terms like African American can be misleading or inappropriate. I mean, if you trace all our heritage back far enough, we're all African-something or other. 'Black' is a better term.