re: The Roots mini-series is gonna make work aqward af tomorrow

well that's quite easy to say when most of you can trace your history back 5-10 generations.


A few years ago I tried to get on ancestry.com and ended up crying becuase after 2 days i just couldn't find anything on record past my great grandmother.


I'm not a race baiter, my father is mixed, i'm mixed but i'm sorry if black people learning about their ancestry makes you feel uncomfortable or awkward 4 days out of 365 a year.


There are African Americans, and by African Americans, I mean at least 90% of them, that don't even know what part of the biggest fricking continent on earth, they came from. And you want them to "not watch roots" becuase "the need to get over it" frick off.


This, this here, is white privilege. Not you getting a job that i think i should have gotten. You taking for granted shite like, your ancestry. Knowing where you came from. Knowing where you came from, who your great grand parents are, where they came from, rather or not they were even slaves to begin with, is not a privilege afforded to African Americans, at least the vast majority of them, especially the ones from the south.


Maybe more African Americans would get off their fricking arse collecting EBT food stamps if they realized just how hard their ancestors worked, what they had to endure and go through just to put them in a position to where they didn't have to worry about getting whipped with a barbed belt if they didn't feel like going to work that day.


White people, think everything is about them. Everything isn't about you. Black people, at least they shouldn't, look at Roots and think about how much they hate white people, that's your white guilt talking. They should look at roots and appreciate just what their great great great great great grandparents had to ensure to put them in a position they are in today.


Imagine living a life knowing that the only silver lining in your life, the only possible thing you can live for that's worth a shite, is that one day one of your grand-kids can not be a slave. Imagine being relegated to cattle, watching your women get raped, your brothers killed and worked to death, and the only thing you can look forward to is that one day, maybe 5 years, maybe 25 years, maybe 50 years form now, one of my grand-kids won't have to endure what i'm enduring now. That's pretty heroic and fricked up at the same time and something I can step back and appreciate. so frick you.

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Maybe more African Americans would get off their fricking arse collecting EBT food stamps if they realized just how hard their ancestors worked, what they had to endure and go through just to put them in a position to where they didn't have to worry about getting whipped with a barbed belt if they didn't feel like going to work that day.

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This doesn't appear to be the message they are getting.

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well that's quite easy to say when most of you can trace your history back 5-10 generations. A few years ago I tried to get on ancestry.com and ended up crying becuase after 2 days i just couldn't find anything on record past my great grandmother. I'm not a race baiter, my father is mixed, i'm mixed but i'm sorry if black people learning about their ancestry makes you feel uncomfortable or awkward 4 days out of 365 a year. There are African Americans, and by African Americans, I mean at least 90% of them, that don't even know what part of the biggest fricking continent on earth, they came from. And you want them to "not watch roots" becuase "the need to get over it" frick off. This, this here, is white privilege. Not you getting a job that i think i should have gotten. You taking for granted shite like, your ancestry. Knowing where you came from. Knowing where you came from, who your great grand parents are, where they came from, rather or not they were even slaves to begin with, is not a privilege afforded to African Americans, at least the vast majority of them, especially the ones from the south. Maybe more African Americans would get off their fricking arse collecting EBT food stamps if they realized just how hard their ancestors worked, what they had to endure and go through just to put them in a position to where they didn't have to worry about getting whipped with a barbed belt if they didn't feel like going to work that day. White people, think everything is about them. Everything isn't about you. Black people, at least they shouldn't, look at Roots and think about how much they hate white people, that's your white guilt talking. They should look at roots and appreciate just what their great great great great great grandparents had to ensure to put them in a position they are in today. Imagine living a life knowing that the only silver lining in your life, the only possible thing you can live for that's worth a shite, is that one day one of your grand-kids can not be a slave. Imagine being relegated to cattle, watching your women get raped, your brothers killed and worked to death, and the only thing you can look forward to is that one day, maybe 5 years, maybe 25 years, maybe 50 years form now, one of my grand-kids won't have to endure what i'm enduring now. That's pretty heroic and fricked up at the same time and something I can step back and appreciate. so frick you.

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Uh...go look at twitter

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Why?

I don't feel any semblance of guilt or regret for something I didn't have a part of...to people 4 (or more) generations removed from slavery. If that makes me "racist" then so be it

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A few years ago I tried to get on ancestry.com and ended up crying becuase after 2 days i just couldn't find anything on record past my great grandmother.

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Well that sucks

my parents even got the DNA test.

My mom traced her side back to County Durham in England and my Dad side goes back to Ireland.

I am one hell of a fricked up mix.

It's a little easier for those who have found wealth and happiness to tell others to forget the past. I don't disagree with him. His perspective is valuable because he is standing on the other side having successfully crossed, others can benefit from hearing him.

"Roots" is a fictional story of some events which may or may not have some basis in reality. Life was hard for everyone back then and justice was hard to find. While many slaves were mistreated there were many who were not treated inhumanely.

Racism is the real issue. The Europeans knew that blacks were being shipped to the new world but they didn't hop on the bandwagon. This country needed the labor to build so they were brought here, otherwise the races would have continued to be separated. Somehow, long before the USA was a dream the races chose to be separated. The fact that we all coexist as well as we do today in this great country which our ancestors built for us is actually progress for humanity.

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African Americans, I mean at least 90% of them, that don't even know what part of the biggest fricking continent on earth,

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Asian lives matter