I don't know which month is "Hispanic History Month" or "Caucasian History Month" or "Asian History Month".
I say we go with "American History Month" and bring this country together again instead of always dividing it into different groups with their own agendas.
In all this, the Native Americans were more screwed over than blacks brought here as slaves. In 1492 the native population of North America north of the Rio Grande was seven million to ten million.
In the entire slave trade between 1525 and 1866, 10.7 million Africans were shipped to the Western Hemisphere. How many of those people were shipped to North America? About 388,000. Another 60,000 to 70,000 Africans ended up in the United States after touching down in the Caribbean first, so that would bring the total to approximately 450,000 Africans who arrived in the United States over the course of the slave trade.
Of course, largely as a result of natural increase, the United States went from being a country that accounted for 6 percent of slaves imported to the New World to one that in 1860 held more than 60 percent of the hemisphere’s slave population. By 1860, the nation’s black population had jumped from 400,000 to 4.4 million, of which 3.9 million were slaves.
So, at peak, four million slaves who were all emancipated versus seven to ten million Native Americans treat horribly. Who should have the bigger beef?
Regardless of the numbers, we are poorer as a nation for constantly picking at these scabs. We are never going to let them heal.