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re: Do any of yall actually have possible ties to slavery?

Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:17 pm to
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
136852 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:17 pm to
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GRTiger


Look at my last name.

My family probably invested in some labor force.
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
66982 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:17 pm to
Your mom is my sex slave.

Because I bang her.


Uhh uhhh uhhhhhhhhh.

That's me banging your mom
Posted by Peazey
Metry
Member since Apr 2012
25418 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:18 pm to
It isn't about accepting personal guilt for slavery. That's a strawman. It's about recognizing the legacy of slavery and the lasting effects that it has had on people in this country. You live in a country that has consistently treated a certain group of people like they were a lesser, more animalistic version of humans on the basis of skin color for hundreds of years, and it has never stopped.
This post was edited on 6/12/20 at 1:20 pm
Posted by floyd of pink
Metry
Member since Nov 2011
3270 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:18 pm to
I liked you better when you were self banned.
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
66982 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:19 pm to
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liked you better when you were self banned.


I liked you better when you took long walks in the rain. Long trips on a plane. Long naps in Spain. Long faps on a train. Deep scrubs on a stain. Hard leans on a cane.

Me and you man. Coming up with a plan. I know we can. Let's use a pan. The horizon we scan. Forever tan. Don't wish for my ban. You're hot use a fan. Come jump in the van.

Any way I apologize. Look in my eyes. No need to despise. The leader he cries. They ask their what's and whys. They look to the skies. They beat down the shys. They climb up the thighs. They sort through the lies. And they scarf down the pies.
This post was edited on 6/12/20 at 1:29 pm
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
63226 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:20 pm to
You son of a bitch.
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
19316 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:21 pm to
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the lasting effects that it has had on people in this country

Such as?
Posted by ElRoos
Member since Nov 2017
7227 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:22 pm to
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possible ties to slavery


I'd gather a lot of peoples' ancestors were involved as slave owners one way or another, even those of african decent. Half of my family is from Italy/Sicily and the other are French/German. Pretty sure the latter half owned some slaves. Guess I'm fricked
This post was edited on 6/12/20 at 1:23 pm
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134887 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:22 pm to
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My family came from Westover plantation in WBR on one side

I've also got roots in a WBR plantation on one side
Posted by FuzzyBearE
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2016
451 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:22 pm to
My mom's side of the family had a few way back.

My dad's grandfather came from Prussia as a baby and had been traded to the family that brought him to 'Merica for a cow.

I owe some - I'm owed some....I'll call it even
Posted by vistajay
Member since Oct 2012
2513 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:23 pm to
One side of my family owned a plantation in central Louisiana that had a couple hundred slaves at its peak. In fact, we still own the plantation and someday I will inherit a very small percentage of it.

My wife allegedly has ancestors who were slaves in the River Parishes area, until one decided to head to the big city and pass for white about 150 years ago.

I guess I owe my wife some reparations. I'll cook dinner tonight.

Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
25455 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:25 pm to
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It isn't about accepting personal guilt for slavery.


For a significant amount of people, thats precisely what it's about.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67214 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:25 pm to
I have one ancestor on my mothers side who fought for the Confederacy (I believe at Vicksburg). He carried the bullet in his body until the day he died. I don’t know if he had owned slaves prior to the war or not, but it wouldn’t shock me if he owned some. I don’t know anything else about him besides the fact that he had a metric f$&k ton of kids after the war, and that all of them eventually ended up leaving the family plantation in CenLa and moving to Shreveport, New Orleans, or California by the turn of the century. It took a lot of digging to even learn this much.
This post was edited on 6/12/20 at 1:26 pm
Posted by drdoct
Atlanta, GA
Member since Oct 2015
1609 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:26 pm to


Ummm yeah. One of my great, great, great, great, great grandfathers had a bill of sale for an 7mth old boy named Bob. He sold him for $80.

I happened to find this when researching my family tree. Do I think this is cool and funny? No. It's honestly sad and unconscionable that people were bought and sold back then. However it is what it is or was. I could no more change that than I could anything else in history. I don't have a delorean I can run back and fix things. History is history.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20934 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:26 pm to
Confederate slave holding planters on both sides, going back to early French Louisiana and English South.

I ran across letters from my family to Grant/Sherman's provost marshal claiming damages to the farm during the war, and letters of receipt from the US govt itemizing goods "procured" and then paid for 4 years later.
This post was edited on 6/12/20 at 1:29 pm
Posted by tigergirl10
Member since Jul 2019
10323 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:27 pm to
My family is straight off the boat from Germany. I found great grandma’s family history notebook, and she had all of the family’s birthdays handwritten and cousin Adolph was listed.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134887 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:28 pm to
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One of my great, great, great, great, great grandfathers

Once you start going down the genealogy path, you realize just how much you're not really related to these people in your family tree.
Posted by Clames
Member since Oct 2010
16639 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:29 pm to
I have an ancestor who was a cavalry officer at Wounded Knee.
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
39703 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:30 pm to
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My family is 100% italian.

Your family is NOT 100% Italian; no one's is. Too much invading and raping going on for thousands of years. But your main point is valid.
Posted by eScott
Member since Oct 2008
11376 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:32 pm to
Yes, but so what.
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