Scandinavia and the World
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Innanna

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Fun for the whole family 14 6, 6:29am

@Karen Are you serious? You really think that just because a person is black, his/her ancestors were slaves? America is well known for immigrants and believe it or not, some people actually come here willingly. Did you know that the first person to own slaves in the US was a black man named Anthony Johnson? He wasn't kind to them, either.
The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states.
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
Prior to 1655 there were no legal slaves in the colonies, only indentured servants. All masters were required to free their servants after their time was up. Seven years was the limit that an indentured servant could be held. Upon their release they were granted50 acres of land. This included any Negro purchased from slave traders. Negros were also granted 50 acres upon their release.

Anthony Johnson was a Negro from modern-day Angola. He was brought to the US to work on a tobacco farm in 1619. In 1622 he was almost killed when Powhatan Indians attacked the farm. 52 out of 57 people on the farm perished in the attack. He married a female black servant while working on the farm.

When Anthony was released he was legally recognized as a “free Negro” and ran a successful farm. In 1651 he held 250 acres and five black indentured servants. In 1654, it was time for Anthony to release John Casor, a black indentured servant. Instead Anthony told Casor he was extending his time. Casor left and became employed by the free white man Robert Parker.

Anthony Johnson sued Robert Parker in the Northampton Court in 1654. In 1655, the court ruled that Anthony Johnson could hold John Casor indefinitely. The court gave judicial sanction for blacks to own slave of their own race. Thus Casor became the first permanent slave and Johnson the first slave owner.

Whites still could not legally hold a black servant as an indefinite slave until 1670. In that year, the colonial assembly passed legislation permitting free whites, blacks, and Indians the right to own blacks as slaves.

By 1699, the number of free blacks prompted fears of a “Negro insurrection.” Virginia Colonial ordered the repatriation of freed blacks back to Africa. Many blacks sold themselves to white masters so they would not have to go to Africa. This was the first effort to gently repatriate free blacks back to Africa. The modern nations of Sierra Leone and Liberia both originated as colonies of repatriated former black slaves.

However, black slave owners continued to thrive in the United States.

By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves. By 1860 there were about 3,000 slaves owned by black households in the city of New Orleans alone.
http://conservative-headlines.com/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/
Maybe you need to get off of your moral high ground and do some research.
I have black blood and so, by law, I could be considered black because of the 'contamination'. If your skin is black, you are black. Big deal. If you truly want to be called 'African-American,' you can inform me of that but unless you do, if your skin is black, I will call you black. The same goes for gender. If you have a penis, I will call you male unless you tell me you wish to be called female, non gendered, fluid gender, cis-female, cis-male or whatever the hell else you want to be called. If you specifically make such a request, fine, I'll most likely honor the request. I have gay and transgendered friends of different colors. Not one of them has made the request but if they did, I would comply. I'm not a mind reader.