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....is Go Daddy gone yet? Mel I'm assuming this stands for "Foundational Black Americans" and ADOS American Descendants of Slaves? Correct What is the difference? Pretty much the same ideology that focuses on us as Black Americans having a separate and distinct identity and culture from other Blacks in the Diaspora. Yvette Carnell who is a staunch proponent of Reparations started the ADOS movement to establish a separate identity for us as Black Americans separate from Africans and West Indians so that IF and WHEN we do get Reparations, supposedly they'd only go to US and not other Black people who didn't descent from U.S. slavery specifically. The FBA movement was started by Tariq Nasheed because he liked the idea of AfroAmericans having our own separate identity and promoting our culture, but he did NOT like Yvette Carnell and didn't want to join HER organization....lol. So he started his own. Both groups are similar but many of those in the FBA movement don't believe that they or most Black Americans descended from slavery. They believe most of us descended from Black people who were already here in the Americans. Many of them don't recognize any ties to Africa what so ever. So I'm not sure how that will work in favor of their argument for Reparations. Many of the followers of both groups are so ignorant, they don't realize that most Caribbeans and Black South Americans also descended from slavery. The fact is, there were many Black people already here through out the Americas for hundreds if not thousands of years before Columbus. While that is true, the vast majority of us are descended from the Black people who were brought her from Africa during the Middle Passage. So both sides are correct. I guess it depends which history one wants to put the most weight on. But like I said, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If a Black American wants to hold on to the claim that they didn't descend from slaves and have no connections to Africa, then they won't be entitled to any Reparations money or benefits.

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I have to disagree. Some Africans were reported to be sold because they were imprisoned or had debts. But the Portuguese literally built a fort at what is now Ghana's shoreline because they had already invaded West Africa and had to fight other invading Europeans who headed to the continent to get goodies. But we are talking about the 1400s. This was just the beginning of what historians call the Atlantic Slave trade. Elmina Castle "In 1482, Portuguese traders built Elmina Castle (also called São Jorge da Mina, or Saint George’s of the Mine) in present-day Ghana, on the west coast of Africa. (Mack 1.1 Portuguese Exploration..") But the millions of enslaved Africans wasn't sold by Africans, that was the British, French, and Spain until they finally got out of the human trafficking business. Then the newly minted Amerricans started a second middle passage - and imported a few million more. By the time of the Civil war there were four million Africans in the southern states (also why they lost) ...Africans selling Africans is white propaganda to deflect from the truth of the slave trade that harmed so many lives. The reason why historians know they trafficked all those Africans to various Carribbean islands and the Americas is because of the hubris of the white man who kept-effing records. Like Thomas Jefferson who had a list of his 600 slaves, they kept records everything!

Mel Now wait a minute...... I wasn't ready for all of THAT.....shit, lol. Some women can live a lifetime alone and men can't imagine a life without someone in it. Facts. I noticed pretty early on, either as a teenager or my very early 20s......that psychologically speaking, men need women far more than women need men, lol. I've been to many parties and clubs and I've routinely seen groups of women sitting a table with no men around laughing and having a good time or on the floor dancing with eachother partying it up. "Ooooo........go on girl." "Yall is crazy.....I can't take yall nowhere!" I have YET to see a group of men at a club or party all crowded together dancing with eachother oblivious to the women in the area. But then again....I've never been to a gay club. Maybe that's normal there.....lol.

O@TroyI appreciate and admire your dedication and sacrifice. Always have. Wish I was about the future, instead of the past. Needless to say, I wish you well.

I haven't. Thank you for sharing! I probably won't. I am working on my first screenplay but it's historical fiction.

@Troy....thanks again for everything you're doing to maintain this site.

I forgot there will almost certainly be MORE problems in the short term, so lease grant me some grace, as it is the nature of these things. It is still just little 'ole me running the beast of a website

Mel OMG! Do you know that my ex-husband said the same exact thing LOL! Maybe I'm subconsciously auditioning for the same exact role. But then again, maybe saying shit like that is one of the reasons WHY he's your "ex"....lol. ProfD There should be no confusion among FBA/AfroAmericans about where our birthplace stands as it relates to the original sin of slavery & acknowledging it through a series of actions including recognition, apology & reparations to name a few. Both FBA and ADOS have made it crystal clear that ONLY descendants of American slavery are entitled to Reparations from the United States. If Ghana and other African nations had a SERIOUS shot at somehow FINESSING some money and resources out of the West and even the United States in Reparations payments...I wonder would the most outspoken representatives of these movements eat humble pie and get behind their program, lol. That's why it's not good to burn bridges.

Awesome gesture introduced to UN by the West African nation of Ghana. There should be no confusion among FBA/AfroAmericans about where our birthplace stands as it relates to the original sin of slavery & acknowledging it through a series of actions including recognition, apology & reparations to name a few.