Well, I have to go back to my 6th great grandfather to find a slave owner. I’m one, my parents are two, grandparents four…and at that generation level, I have 128 ancestors. That slave holding gene is pretty damn diluted by the time it gets to me. Now that guy’s son manumitted his slaves, but assuming his line kept them until Emancipation, I still had 16 ancestors at that generation level, so you can see allocating blame and reparations gets into some very interesting math and genetics.
On the issue underlying that Reuters foofaraw, and the rush to blame, grift and reparations by certain folks:
I never owned a slave and you never picked cotton.
STFU. I don’t owe you nothin’.
My family is closer to being slaves than slave owners.
On the Italian side you’d have to go back to some Roman to find a slave-owner, the Irish side probably were slaves at some point.
im not i’d want to argue on this particular point considering fred is much closer than any “ancestor”
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Well, I have to go back to my 6th great grandfather to find a slave owner. I’m one, my parents are two, grandparents four…and at that generation level, I have 128 ancestors. That slave holding gene is pretty damn diluted by the time it gets to me. Now that guy’s son manumitted his slaves, but assuming his line kept them until Emancipation, I still had 16 ancestors at that generation level, so you can see allocating blame and reparations gets into some very interesting math and genetics.
On the issue underlying that Reuters foofaraw, and the rush to blame, grift and reparations by certain folks:
I never owned a slave and you never picked cotton.
STFU. I don’t owe you nothin’.
My family is closer to being slaves than slave owners.
On the Italian side you’d have to go back to some Roman to find a slave-owner, the Irish side probably were slaves at some point.
im not i’d want to argue on this particular point considering fred is much closer than any “ancestor”