Don’t bill me. My ancestors were digging potatoes in Ireland.
If Danny can prove he picked cotton as a slave, more power to him.
As where mine, Patrick did not arrive on these shores until 1866, two years after the end of The Civil War.
Slavery has existed for as long as there have been people. Only America, in her first century as a new nation, abolished slavery out of the decency and compassion of the American people, and the inherent thirst for justice in our brilliant founding principles and Christian governing ethos.
Stop running around with your hand out, people will think you're not a black-privileged Hollywood millionaire.
Same here.. Neither side of my family arrived in the US until the 1900s.
Don’t bill me my kin were fighting johnny reb for your freedom. Then again, if danny’s kin folks hadn’t been brought here he probably wouldn’t be alive. Pestilence, disease, tribal warfare.
Irrelevant. Even if all of your ancestors of military age in 1960 fought for the Confederacy …
YOU DON'T OWE DANNY GLOVER, OR ANY OTHER LIVING BLACK PERSON, ANY AMOUNT OF "REPARATIONS".
The whole business is BS.
This is America, land of opportunity. The Danny Glovers of the world need to man up and quit blaming other people for their lack of success.