The (sometimes moronic) UK Daily Mail,
is also taking a swipe @ Free Enterprise
I refuse to use the word, Capitalist..a term, Karl Marx used.
Posted on 07/28/2014 7:41:23 AM PDT by C19fan
Exploring his family's past for the first time, Richard Roxburgh uncovered a darker history than he anticipated- finding out his forefathers were enthusiastic supporters of the slave trade. The 52 year-old actor says he'd originally hoped the search would find his relatives 'lived good and rich lives, and contributed something.' But participating in the SBS series Who Do You Think You Are turned up a very different history.
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'Thomas was the ultimate capitalist,' the actor says. 'To my mind, it’s about the choices that you make in this life, and he made his choice. And they wouldn’t be my choices. He was a cog in the corporate machinery that presided over one of the ugliest periods in human history'
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I’m sure his ancestors would be proud of him, too. /s
He should liquidate his assets and give them all to the reparations fund for penance, and quit his posturing.
In my genealogical research I found a Klan member in the 20s and I found 2 who were captured and enslaved by northeast indians in the 1500s.
((shrug))
Oh, big deal! I used Ancestry.com only to find out my great, great grandfather was a NYC copperhead who wrote cringing letters to the government to try to get out of fighting for the Union. Yes, I was hoping my great, great grandfather was an upstanding soldier who received the first medal of honor but life has a way of throwing curve balls. Get over it, Ricky!
Wouldn’t that be in the 1700s?
I have one that came over in 1640, probably as an indentured servant.
“Guess what? 90% of them would have been right there in the crowd shouting ‘Sieg Heil.’”
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Just like we’re doing today with this jug eared, Marxist, punk we call President.
Late 1560s to early 1600s.
I had an ancestor who was, literally, a carpet bagger. Went down south and made his fortune and then went back to VT where he lived out his days as a gentleman farmer. In fact, I am the last family member to still own a piece of that property. I think I will give it away to make up for my shame.
Not.
He could always become informed about modern slavery in Africa and the Middle East. Then he could use his celebrity status to oppose it.
Mine were among the earliest settlers in New Hampshire.
What a sanctimonious wanker.
Bing Bing Bing........... Very first post and we have a winner!
You know, at the most basic level slavery is where one person is forced to labor for the benefit of somone else.
Nowadays we call that “taxation”.
Wait until his decendents, assuming he can have any, learn about him. Causing people to watch him on an electronic source that was largely supplied by “non-renewable energy sources”, sold little plastic discs (DVDs) also made from evil hydrocarbons, or that people watched his image preserved on celluloid, another hydrocarbon product, flew around the world in a pollution spewing plane to make and promote these evil products for his own self aggrandizement and profit.
Pure evil.
Several decades back I visited the site of the Battle of Culloden in Scotland. A depressing place. After the defeat of the Highlanders the British government sold a lot of them into slavery in the colonies.
When I did ancestry research back in the 70s and 80s pre-internet, I discovered that my g-g-g-grandfather on my father’s side was a plantation slaveowner, but that two g-g-grandfathers on my mother’s side fought for the Union, one of whom was one of four brothers, with two each fighting on each side of the war. Over 200 years earlier, the slaveowner’s g-g-g-g-grandfather came over as an indentured servant, worked his seven years, and got his 100 acres. I am proud of my indentured servant ancestor, not proud of my slaveowning ancestor, but I am not defined by either, but by my own actions, and by my own opposition to all forms of worldly slavery.
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