[Pelham]

Look, nopardons wants to feel ‘special’ and we should let him. Unlike those of us whose families once owned slaves nopardons’ forebears had nothing to do with creating this country. They just bought a boat ticket at some point. We should applaud that with the same enthusiasm we show for someone who buys a plane ticket today and announces that he’s special because he has no connection to America’s history.

Americans who can trace their family trees back to the colonial era are pretty much guaranteed to be cousins. There were only two million people total in British North America at the time of the Revolution and those families had been intermarrying for generations. And like every single Presidential family up to the time of Lincoln, excluding the Adams, many of them owned slaves.

[EternalVigilance]

Yep.

[wardaddy]

Well said

Cogent

Nice use of words

[nopardons]

No, no, YOU and ET want to feel "special", using "stolen glory", whether your ancestors actually here of not in colonial days and for having someone who owned slaves. You're the only "true Americans" and everyone else, who came afterwards, never did actually add to the greatness that once was America, because after all, their ancestors only bought passage on a ship, after the Revolutionary War. Right ?

Would that make anyone vaguely related to Benedict Arnold "superior" to Ronald Reagan, because his ancestors didn't arrive on these shores until later?

Look, all I was posting about was the fact that not every American, who lives here today, can trace their ancestors to people who owned slaves, nor to Tidewater, Virginia! I'm correct and your snide, smarmy, puerile post only reflects badly upon you.