Sure.
The Stradford Family for example. The earliest members were African royals (this is documented). They were captured, sold, and enslaved to America and within a few generations C. Francis Stradford founded Stradford Bank and the Stradford Hotel to become a Tulsa Black Wall Street millionaire. Whites rioted, burned his businesses down, stole his assets, tried to kill him, however, he narrowly escaped to Chicago with nothing and within two generations, his grandson John W. Rogers is one of the wealthiest black men in America being the founder and chairman of Ariel Investments.
Other quick examples were Olaudah Equiano, a slave that rose to prominence, later for it to be found out that he came from African royalty.
It turns out that a lot of early African American mighty men and men of renown were men of esteem or royals back on the continent that got captured by warring tribes and sold to Europeans or were stolen outright.
Compound that with another perspective-
Many colonial slave-owning families were American branches of English and French aristocracy. The black families that quickly rose to the top of the black community after emancipation were negro offshoots of these slave-owning families via placage or rape. It’s the idea that these families thrived, not only because they may or may not have received inheritances from their white slaver fathers, but also because they inherited white (and maybe even black) aristocratic genetics.
Whats even crazier to think about is the fact that Europe has been ruled by the same family for hundreds of years. Essentially all of the royal European houses are related to each other through Hapsburg blood (the main branch having died off because of rampant incest.)
There are many examples but it’s the idea that people with the best genetics rises to the top. You put someone who was bred to have good genes and good intelligence in any environment and they will eventually dominate that environment.
It’s the reason why the English held onto their rigid class system for so long because of a belief of some individuals having better genes than others.
I’m always struck at how some blacks hit the ground running right out of slavery, and, here we are, many generations removed from slavery and some black people are still struggling (systemic oppression notwithstanding, the systemic conditions to oppress blacks were more harsh and pronounced right out of slavery than they are now). Even if you remove the inheritance factor of some of these families, many more early black families had nothing on paper and was able to rise very quickly during these early years, and yet, many of us are still struggling.
Most people also claim that black America would be wealthy if our black towns and commerce centers were not destroyed by whites. Yet you have people like the Stradfords, who were in the center of it all, stripped of everything, has since rebounded and reclaimed their family’s wealth and renown, while currently, we have blacks struggling talking about “shoulda, coulda, wouldas” and that if we had maintained our black wall streets, we would be good, not knowing that the “black wall streeters“ got their “black wall streets” back and passed us right on up, again.
I don’t know. There is a lot of evidence that point in the direction. I’m not saying that I’m entirely convinced that it’s all genetics but if we can breed animals to enhance certain genetic traits, there is the possibility that we can do the same with humans. And some humans been knew this and have been doing it for years giving themselves a competitive advantage.
Edit: I should have included, the Stradfords are cousins to Lady Kofo Ademola, the first black woman to graduate from Oxford and noted educator. Again, her family is very distinguished and of Egba royal blood. Her family and the Stradfords only separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade.
Kofoworola Ademola - Wikipedia
. I go home less and less because of it.
