[Bringbackthedraft]

Johnson said white Americans shouldn’t feel guilty for what their ancestors did, CNN cut the feed. Interesting. ..................................... My ancestors were fighting Bismark on one end and the Italian Gov’t 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 1890’s and early 1900’s 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?

[Ancesthntr]

“My ancestors were fighting Bismark on one end and the Italian Gov’t 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 1890’s and early 1900’s 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?”

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Ditto from a slightly different perspective. My ancestors in Russia and Poland were being oppressed by the Czar of All the Russias while slavery and a good part of Jim Crow were going on here. The came - mostly between 1905 and 1923 - and also went right to work, not being on the dole, paying taxes, obeying the law, becoming citizens and raising their kids and grandkids to be good and decent Americans. They also suffered from discrimination, both as immigrants and as Jews, but they didn’t complain - in fact, my grandfather volunteered to fight in WW2 at age 35, when he could easily have stayed home and made more money, not placed himself at risk, etc.

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!