[quote=alexiademaio;5294709] ~LOL~ Be reasonable I never said  Everyone  who is here has contributed to it; but if you are a decent taxpaying citizen who commits no crimes then I don't see why you shouldn't feel entitlement.   Black people have most certainly contributed to to this great Country of ours.    Where would this country be without the slave labor that helped build it and with all the Black taxpaying and working citizens that have lived here for all the years? It wouldn't be much of anything in my opinion.   Yes there are ghettos and crime concerning Blacks; but the same can be said of Whites or any other race living here.   Blacks did not have to go anywhere because when they were brought here as slaves and had children; those children were Americans and each generation born here is American also.   It's odd because by your arguement that Blacks aren't true Americans; then that would mean neither are Whites wouldn't it?  This is afterall a big chunk of land stolen from the Native American Indians. Not to mention that there is also evidence that Blacks were here as early as the White settlers. [/ quote]    The original  United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790  (1  Stat.   103 ) provided the first rules to be followed by the  United States  in the granting of national  citizenship . This law limited naturalization to aliens who were  free white persons and thus left out  indentured servants ,  slaves , free African-Americans, and later Asian Americans.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790     Abe Lincoln's thoughts on Blacks being Americans:     I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races  - that  I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people;  and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which  I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality . And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.   -- September 18, 1858 - Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois    My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,  and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it,  and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.  What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union;  and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.   -- August 22, 1862 - Letter to Horace Greeley   http://www.topicsites.com/abraham-lincoln/quotes.htm     No, the slaves and their children were never intended to be Americans, there was no anchor baby loophole for them like there is for the spics now.:rolleyes: They were supposed to be repatriated to Africa upon being emancipated. They set up a colony for them, Liberia. The Blacks upon being freed refused to go, so rather than round up 5million people and force them on ships to Liberia. They settled with segregation and just left it at that. And made them second class citizens, not real citizens. Sorry Blacks were never ever ever intended to be citizens. Nor was anyone else who was not White. Sooo yeah, Whites are true Americans, really. I always have to explain this to people on here.    Whites not true Americans? Whites created the USA! Before Whites showed up the entire continent of North America was not the USA, it was just a big hunting reserve for indians.   :rolleyes: For the millionth time.......Whites did NOT steal America from the indians. They conquered it, they purchased it as well. When the Dutch landed at Manhattan they bought the entire island for some pots and pans and liquor, it's not their fault the indians were dumb enough to go for such a crappy deal. As the Whites settled further and further inland they of course met resistance from the natives, they fought, Whites won. They did battle and Whites won fair and square. They won America, and purchased America, not stole. They conquered it.     Slaves didn't do much to help build America. What did they do?? They mostly just worked picking crops on plantations all day. Big deal, that wasnt' exactly a huge contribution to America. America would still be here today if the black slaves had never been brought here. It would make no difference, in fact I bet America would be much nicer today if we had never brought them over here. The crime rates would sure be alot lower that's for sure;)