My Mamma always used to say, “You gotta leave the past behind before you can move on.”
Weird headline.
Uh oh. Heels up Harris is in trouble now.
Joementia / Hoementia 2020
Will it know which of my ancestors fought in the Anion army?
(Here’s a hint: Three)
So what is the conclusion? There will be a massive database on everyone that lists whether someone’s ancestors “owned” slaves? (you can’t own another person.)
And what will it be used for? Three guesses in today’s USA. Will they use it to decide if they should send you a bill for reparations or a check?
And those who were adopted? Does guilt pass through the adoption decree? And those whose ancestors were born in Europe? Do they get a bill based on their skin shade?
There was once something called privacy. Too much to ask nowadays that something, anything, should be kept private.
Here is a possibly interesting take on the victim/victimizer idea from Breitbart the other day”
My take on the entire thing is that we just get on with present day business.
Complete lunacy from Zerohedge.
Although there are some parts of the south (East Tennessee, for example) where a Negro housekeeper might actually have been hired help rather than a slave.
Slaves were very expensive by the 1840s. Housekeepers and hired hands, not so much.
Some of the states in the deep south (Alabama, for example) were so paranoid about mixing slaves and hired help that they passed laws that forbade Negros who weren't slaves from even residing in the state. The law was particularly difficult to enforce in some regions such as Huntsville as it was too close to Tennessee where hired help and slaves often mixed.
Even more interesting was the fact that Tennessee, particularly the eastern part, wasn't paranoid at all because their slaves were often treated better than the hired help. A similar attitude prevailed in large parts of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and the more developed parts of Missouri.
Not so in Jackson County, though. The Mormonites got their newspaper in Independence, Missouri burned down in 1836 because an editorial suggested the area would be a good place for newly freed slaves to settle. The remainder of the Mormonites were driven out of the country shortly thereafter.
Slaveholders were very, very sensitive about letting their human chattel see free Negros.
Bottom line is this new information, unless the slaves were financed on credit or used for a loan collateral, is going to be of minimal use.
It’s how Communists roll.
After the Revolution, offspring of the landowners and business owners, were put at the bottom of society in terms of getting an education and good jobs.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they find that most of the blacks today are descendants of slave owners.
Kamala’s family owned hundreds of slaves.
Even traded them. She comes from a prominent and wealthy plantation-owning family.
(Her dad is nominally black, but looks white. She gets her color from her Indian mother.)
Good to see she’s keeping up the family business of using blacks. So many kids don’t honor their heritage.
(Yes, sarcasm.)
I control many slaves now.
I work for Fed.gov
Both sides of my grandparents migrated to the US in the early 1900s. Does that mean I don’t have to contribute to the so-called reparations?
Many folks with ancestors that were in the U.S. prior to the mid 1860’s might have owned slaves, including today’s Democrats. According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database, it is estimated that 10.7 Africans were captured and sold into slavery. Of those, about 388,000 came to the U.S. You do the math. Since then many folks emigrated here from around the world to escape hardship and tyranny. It is my understanding that 2.4 million Africans have emigrated here in the last 15 years. This is only one continent. Think about the rest. The left appears to be moving to the area of finance now. Could it be that they only want people who have ancestors that have little connection to the founding and have arrived in this country since 1900 to have a say? Only people with a European or world view would be heard in that case. Just sayin’.
Amazon DNA tests are known to be wildly inaccurate
I don’t see where in the press release they talk about slave owners.
Dinesh D’Sousa found by studying the data for several decades back into the 1800s that as many blacks owned BLACK slaves, if not MORE than white slave owners. Not only that but only 13% of the population of US blacks are really descended from slaves, while the rest came from the West Indies, Jamaica, Africa (after slavery was ended) etc. For example, Obama was NOT descended rom slaves. And, his wife, was a free black from the north.
I grew up among many blacks who were never descended from slaves, but their families had always lived in the north where slavery did not exist, essentially. The unfortunate thing was that the north had already been infiltrated by Marxists and when a lie is repeated often enough, it becomes fact in the minds of those who are either too simple to think for themselves, or they have never thought it through for themselves, they just go along with the mob mentallity. Now we have the mob mentality where certain spokespeople can never be called out as liars without setting off tyrannical protests.
If we are going to pray for our country, then pray for real Christians, who actually believe the Bible to be true, to get down on their knees and repent for our own, as well as our national sins...for a reference, you only have to look at the book of Daniel. This humble servant of God who was probably one of the most righteous men in the Bible, understood that he was a sinner and needed to pray for his own sins as well as those of his country.
The whole Bible is given to us as a testimony as to God’s way of dealing with His creation and all the OT is just as important as the NT! Sorry Andy Stanley, but throwing out the OT is not the answer!
As far as I’m concerned, my gg Grandfather paid that debt with the life of one of his children in 1863 with another severely disabled and sent home early... so... they owe me.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t see where the press release references finding out who owned slaves and who did not. Also, what is to be done about the descendants who did. (My answer: Nothing).
About 13 generations back my Dutch ancestors in the Albany Valley area held about six slaves in their family. By two generations later they had disappeared from any records. Wills no longer included them. There was not census yet so wills were all we have to work with. These same people fought the British as Militiamen and Union soldiers so anyone who wants money from me can pound sand.