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It was ever a political fight. That's what happens when you end up neighbors with the great great grandson of the bloke your great great granddaddy paid to hav
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
It was ever a political fight.
That's what happens when you end up neighbors with the great great grandson of the bloke your great great granddaddy paid to have kidnapped and shipped to the country as a piece of equipment.
Sure you can argue over the details about what their family have been like to be around in the intervening time, but don't be surprised if the conversation gets back around to the question of who exactly kidnapped who in the first place.
Is pretty pointless to winge about it being political.
- peterfirefly 12y agoPlenty of people in my family emigrated to the US 1840-1890. They didn't bring any slaves over from Africa. Lots of people emigrated from Scandinavia and Germany/German states in that period. Don't overestimate the original sin of current white Americans.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI'm not, it was Americans with Europeans with Africans, against the Africans, Irish and Scottish concerned. Besides, the original sin of white Americans is probably either cannibalism, or hanging Quakers. But even after slavery was agreed as wrong, the idea that the freed slaves and their descendent's were actually real people with equal political rights took a very long time to take hold, and has still only had a limited spread.