Originally Posted by
pinguino
There is no place in the world with more blacks than in the Americas. Between 50 to 100 million people in the Americas are blacks or partly blacks, according to the definition of black, anyways. The total population of the Americas is circa 1 billion people, counting together the whole hemisphere. There are places in Brazil, Northern South America and around the Caribbean that seems happy copies of Africa, and full countries like Haiti where there aren't even mixed peoples at all.
That permanent demographic change of the Americas was a result of the genocide on the American Indians and the continuous importations of slaves to produce sugar, tobacco, cotton and mining products, all of which benefit Europe and was a decisive source of revenues that developed the Old Continent.
Now, there are still masses of blacks all over the Americas, which has become in a Second Africa. Starting from that repetitive tam-tam jungle music which many associates with "Latin" rhythms (gimme a break). I wonder what should be done with them, if we got a choice. One idea is to ship them to Europe, where they belong, given Europeans bought it to the Americas in the first place.
Just your opinion.
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