Asclepias
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Yes I would say that. Nothing would have been done without the income generated by cotton.What did whites do that was significant to build the country? The country became a global economic power due to the work of my ancestors not white people.Oh, Asclepias, why are you so racist? Of course whites helped build the country. Blacks did too. Stop with this all or nothing attitude.Your white ancestors did nothing. My ancestors built the country.You neither founded nor built this country. You would have died if no one was here to help you.
My white ancestors did. Your ancestors helped, using the tools rules and, laws set up by the white Europeans.
Would you say that 19% pf the country or even less than 10% of the country was 100% responsible for global economic power! Hardly.
1800 - blacks were less than 19% of the population
1850 - blacks were less than 16% of the population
1910 - blacks were less than 11% of the population
1920 to 1950 - blacks were less than 10% of the population
Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003, and We, The American Blacks, U.S. Census Bureau, 1993
So, all of these people that worked in manufacturing, inventing, construction, ship building and leading this country had nothing to do with it???
Tobacco and cotton were important not important all by itself. It took a country to be what it is and we are n ot a country of just blacks.