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Originally Posted by Sistermadly
Well, there were Scotch-Irish slaveowners who owned my ancestors and gave me my last name, but it's not like I celebrate Robbie Burns and St. Patrick's Day. 
(My father's side of the family can trace its roots back to early 1800s Georgia. Even though we're not white, I'd say that makes us pretty darned Southern.) |
My family name is possibly Jewish-Irish-Cherokee(?) whose slaveowners were of the Bruce Plantation in Alabama and migrated to Quincy, Florida. And that's my father side. My mother's side is Georgia and her genetic father is full-blooded Irish, but that is not what is stated on her birth certificate.
Hayle my birth certificate states "NEGRO" for definition of race.
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Originally Posted by SoCalGirl
I agree with your point that skin color ultimately wins out. 'Cause just cause you're black it doesn't mean you don't have European roots and just cause you're white it doesn't mean that none of your ancestors came from Africa. 
Plus with being black in America I honestly think that there's an even quicker tendency to assume an undefined African slave history. My best friend's father's side of the family is from Antigua so there's no American slave history there. Two guys I work with are black but their fathers are from Panama. Again, no American slave history. I think it would suck to grow up in the US learning "all your ancestors" came from slavery when you know full well they didn't! |
To EVERYONE:
Some of that is correct. If a "darker hue" with African features says all their family comes from Central and South America with
some Carribean roots possible arrived from Africa as slaves nearly 500 years ago. The issue is most of these countries WON their freedom from Slavery in the 1750's--i.e. Haiti... And their whole culture is that of freedom.
Slavery in the United States ended theoretically in 1865, but there was a issue of Jim Crow laws with segregation that theorectically ended in 1968 after Martin Luther King was assassinated.
So when we start talking about getting along while there are those who lived during this ugly chapter and history of the United States that was evident after Hurricane Katrina, suggests we have a very long way to go...
Should we be done with this after 40-odd years? Really? Or are we all being impatient with this instant gratification?
Rather than slamming me because you disagree and decide to deride and debase me, can you argue your points as to why you disagree?
Given that we have young people on GC and we have been asked to present ourselves accordingly, internet hatred with race wars are rather useless and does not increase our knowledge on this discussion.
Simple-minded logic...
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