wana know why there is so many blacks in the west & not so many indians?
609215
The Indians (Native Americans) either got killed off by diseases brought over by the Europeans, shot and killed, or gathered up and moved to OK or reservations. The Cherokees, Navajo, and others were forced off their native lands.\n\nThe Blacks had the freedom to move about and settle unlike the Native Americans. Plus, they didn't have historic and cultural land connections in the Americas that Native Americans have. This can be seen in their different oral histories and folklore.
192989
I presume you mean Native Americans.  As someone with both Native American and European blood in them, I can answer with a little less bias.  Humans have been spreading around the globe since we left Africa About 74,000 years ago.  We took the land from the Neanderthals.  If they still existed today, they'd be complaining as much as the Native Americans do.  And, to some extent, they have the right to.  The Europeans thought they were the civilized ones, and instead of learning what the Indians had to teach about living with the land, they just took it away.  The Europeans went about things in the wrong way.  Like bullies taking over the school playground.  I think the Indians took it far better then I would have. I have more European blood than Indian, but I have to side with the Indians on this one.  Some Indians take things to far, but the vast majority do not.  As to Kenwick man ... irregardless of how old he is, he was here before the Europeans, therefore, must be Indian.  I think, however, they are foolish to obstruct scientific investigation.  Don't they want to know about their ancestors and where they came from.  I hope this helps ... the question is rather vague.
342289
Man... some of you people have real issues!  My wife is black and I see none of any of this crap some of the answers have been spewing!\n\nSome of you need to wake up, throw away those stereotypes and look at reality.\n\nWhere I live you see more and more BF/WM couples.  Like another answer said, this is the fastest growing IR relationship type.  \n\nWhen people start to realize people are people, regardless of race, then, this country can really start to do great things!
1029108
It is more culturally acceptable to be gay in the West. If enough people are in a group then they do not feel so much like outcasts, you have to find your compadres, I'm sure they are out there and you are not as alone as you think..
306477
Excellent topic. I also wrote a paper on this and showed the EXTREME disparity in scholarships available to minorities in detriment of so-called "mainstream" individuals. Like older white males, for example.\n\nBut your question is puzzling as there is a TON of information on this in any public library, and it's decidedly one-sided in favour of blacks (who benefit the least) and should favour Asians (who benefit the most and become more productive members of society when they are the recipients of scholarship benefits.)\n\nAmerican Indians have very few sources of scholarship dollars available as their political presence is quite mundane. Hispanics have progressed and have a large following in scholarship donees. Blacks have tremendous private and public funding in response to political benefits associated with their so-called oppression, but when given the opportunity (money) they don't stay in the programs to completion and have large loan-default numbers. In a vicious cycle, they again complain of their political and social oppression.
55518
Well, in the grand scheme of history, we've barely batted an eyelid since Dr. King's time.  However, pointing out one statistic to prove your point is statistically flawed and border-line misleading.  Many more blacks are addending university and obtaining graduate degrees, starting businesses, earning comparable wages (to whites), voting and otherwise become active citizens than they were in the 1960's.  Further still, this particular problem is the result of many black families not having a strong lineage of educated, successful family members to build supportive communities.  Had the black college attendence rate been in 1966 what it is in 2006, then we would be talking about a very different story.  Give it time.  Why are Americans so impatient ;)
633607
I am not sure of all four, but I know there are a lot of Africans in parts, there are obviously Hispanics, and there are Europeans.
711231
there are quite a few on here i suppose but the vast majority of whites are not racist.  don't let the few give all of us a bad name or they have won their little game.  Personally i generally skip over racist questions, so i would think alot of people do and therefore you would never hear from us.  maybe its time to get alittle more involved.
12546
have you never seen a black and white with black people in em? there are a lot out there
524705
I wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayfair, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots.\n\nst
149585
Because they're Egyptians (or Egyptian-American if they become naturalized).  Blacks are called African-Americans because they don't know from which african culture their ancestors were forcibly removed, so froma social standpoint, they're basically orphans.  Du Bois said the same thing (sort of).
310467
well instead of jumping all over you like other peoplei will assume you ment why were blacks slaves in america. well they were the easiest euroians tried to use indians but they knew the land to well and could run away. and white men could easily bland in to a crowd. but a black man could stand out he was different and didnt know the land well at all. on the wester half of the country the asians population was almot as bad as slaves but were given a very small wage . idk how much this willhelp but hope it does
169448
I asked this question recently myself. I have faith that they are out there, and we will see them someday. Some of the blood of these tribes probably got mixed with regular people. There is some evidence of this with Africans, particularly Ethiopia.
1120826
Native Americans were never banned from the Major and Minor Leagues like blacks were, so there were some (such as Louis Sockalexis and Jim Thorpe) in the major leagues.  Indeed, it is believed that a few black or partly black players appeared in games by claming to be Indian to account for their skin tone.
1026340
It will never be clean, because blacks won't let it. My grandfather came from Hungary, and my father was the first one born here. So I have absolutely no ties to what happened, yet I have to get glared at by blacks (as if I owe them a food stamp because I am white). The real kicker of it all is that if they would tap into their intelligence just a bit, they would realize the real focus needs to be on AFRICA. AFRICA sold these people to the Americans, AFRICA made a handsome profit from the slave trade. AFRICA pulled these people out of their homes to collect a commission. Slavery did not last long in America until the majority of the whites said, this is wrong!, and chose to fight... to the death.... to free them. Where was AFRICA when it was time to fight for their people?! AFRICA sold them, got rich from their misery, abandoned them, and did not fight for them. Thousands of white men fought and died for their freedom, I think the part of "penance" has been paid. America has bent over backwards catering to the blacks, bending the laws to accomodate them, making things like black radio stations (although white radio stations would be a hate crime), the black expo (although the white expo would be a hate crime), and banning the use of the N word (although if they could not call us honky or craker that would be depriving them of freedom of speech and expression). The white people have done more than enough to say sorry for what happened, but sorry is not what they want. They want to sap off of the misery that people suffered 200 years ago. It is too inspiring to be a victim. Being a normal person isnt fun, you have to work and you get no special breaks. I am glad that my roots are in Hungary, because I seriously doubt the Hungarians would tolerate this kind of ignorance that we are tolerating. Its time to ask AFRICA for some answers.
479001
no because the bones of black people are more dense than other nationalities, therefore it takes more effort to get them moving.....more power to be faster..
827088
That is a good question.  Most of you are looking at it wrong.  Yes there are racist people all over.  He just asked about one group of people, white people.  In your opinion why are white people so racist?  In my opinion most of the racist white people I have met are that way because of history.  History teaches us that the white man or Caucasian or what ever they want to be called accomplished everything.  Even to the discover of America, but how can you discover something that was not lost.  The Indians where there to greet them.  If society stop asking about a person race it would be a step toward stopping racism.  What does the color of my skin have to do with the knowledge I have.  I don't like being called an African American, because what do you call a white person from Africa, they are African descent but now lives in America.