[edcoil]

No native blacks in the Caribbean? Surly you jest. I have been there - they are actually the majority. Australia, is the same size as the United States with a huge and vast population and you must include the entire region.

Blacks are one of the two largest populations on earth. They have never been a minority except to achieve anything in a modern world.

[mamelukesabre]

I’ll say again this time v e r y s l o w l y

C A R R I B B I A N B L A C K S C A M E F R O M S L A V E S.

This from wikipedia:

Barbados has a population of about 279,000 and a population growth rate of 0.33% (Mid-2005 estimates). Close to 90 percent of all Barbadians (also known colloquially as Bajan) are of African descent (”Afro-Bajans”), mostly descendants of the slave labourers on the sugar plantations. The remainder of the population includes groups of Europeans (”Anglo-Bajans” / “Euro-Bajans”) mainly from Britain, Ireland, Chinese locally known as Bajan-Chiney...