“My ancestors were fighting Bismark on one end and the Italian Govt with Garabaldi on the other. Neither one fought here, nor did they ever own a slave. Why should I feel guilty what a small group of white folks did here? My relatives arrived here in the late 1890s and early 1900s with skills and went right to work. They never harmed anyone and they should feel guilty because they achieved the American Dream? Liberal socioeconomic-s 101?”
Yet, somehow, their great- and great, great-grandchildren (my kids), who were born here about 140 years after slavery ended, and 2 generations after the Civil Rights Act - THEY should feel guilty? THEY should be subjected to “affirmative action” (i.e. racist quotas) for something that NONE of their ancestors did, let alone they, themselves? Bull$hit!
The came - mostly between 1905 and 1923 - and also went right to work, .................... Yup, and they taught my mother to speak Yiddish fluently. She spoke Italian with a Yiddish accent, it was so bad her Italian was unrecognizable at times. LOL!