Owning slaves was like owning a tractor. Your ancestors werent rich they were just lazy. Like you and your dad, who's a Wendy's manager at 57.
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When people call you a coloniser because you’re English, but actually your ancestors were relocated from their subsistence village life to big cities to work for pennies in textiles mills to make the landowners wealthier than ever.
Least racist /b/tard.
You know, often in these green text posts I have a takeaway that at least attempts sympathy toward the anon.
Fuckin nope, not here.
I would say its so hilariously pathetic that its a bit, but I've met people that are unironically like this.
Anon, you only exist because Sherman didn't finish the job.
He should have.
Here, a song for you before you meet your God:
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
while God is marching on.
Oh, imagine a world where that describes current day 'Republican Jesus'.
My idea of a 'white man's burden' is that its our job to rid the planet of all these melanin deprived slavers and 'ante bellum nostalgics'.
Its really the least we could do, at this point.
EDIT:
... you know who I can trace my lineage back to?
Father's father's father's... etc, was a goddamn miscreant, some kind of petty criminal that got shipped out of I think somewhere in or near Wales, to Vrigina, in the 1720s.
His sons fought in the Revolutionary War, some died in it, some didn't.
One of those sons had his own sons... one of them... a Reverend.
A Reverend that moved out of Vrigina, out to Kansas in the 1850s.
Where he founded an anti-slavery Baptist church.
Around which, he helped to build a small town.
A small town where an escaped slave from Missouri was able to purchase his own land, work his own land, and from the proceeds of it, buy the official freedom of himself and his family, before the Emancipation Proclamation and/or 13th Amendment would make that last step unnecessary.
Now I can't say with 100% complete certainty that this Reverend ancestor of mine ever met John Brown... but uh, given a fairly small number of anti-slavery Reverends running around this particular part of Kansas, in the exact same time frame as John Brown... and that they were both part of the general Free-State movement...
... seems more likely than not.
I thought it was a joke. Rephrase it a bit and it would be a funny standup routine. I guess anon should have emphasized that they didn't support slavery (if they did) but it is a funny concept to ask how they fumbled the bag so hard.
Well, if they'd actually made clear that they are, you know, ashamed of the family history, that they are lamenting having basically 'fallen' from... that'd be one thing.
But, I really have met people who are unironically this pissy about how their family used to be wealthier, slave owners.
... and that... ... that brings out the fire and brimstone that apparently runs through my blood.
I'd done a massive mapping out of as much of my lineage as I could, maybe a month or so ago.
But I hadn't actually looked too far into much of the details.
So ironically, I guess I have anon to thank for spurring me to look further into that, entirely to be able to make a heritage based rebuttal to slavery, out of spite.
But anyway, no.
No you do not joke about owning people, as a white person in the US.
That is vile, full stop.
Oh wait till you hear about my family.
My family was French Aristocracy that faked their deaths and moved to America to avoid the French Revolution
Then they owned slaves, but the deeds to their plantations and land and shit were burned in a slave revolt and they lost it all.
Then they helped found the Klan and became poor white trash.....
We could have been rich and not lived in America. But no we had to become poor AND racist.
I don't suppose you work on the AI tech field?
I do not, I'm a fucking janitor
Don't think they weren't racist before moving....
I hear that. My grandfather was descended of German nobility. Nothing major, but he was the son of a prince. To be clear: a complete nobody even when German nobility was still a thing pre-WW1. After the war, they pretty much abolished all that in a revolution.
But basically, if I go back four generations, we owned a ‘castle’ somewhere. Meanwhile, I’m solidly in the peasant class.
Good news, I hear you can probably get a castle for fairly cheap. Only problem is you have to maintain it.
AFAIK, in 1860 about 20% of families in the slave states owned slaves. Lots of those were probably relatively poor farmers - slaves or no, small farmers in the 19th century weren't that wealthy. Also, since when does the Christian god condemn entire family lines? Is slavery even forbidden by the bible?
Is slavery even forbidden by the bible?
No its encouraged, as is your daughter marrying her rapist
Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighbouring nations
In the US they do this with Mexicans now but not Canadians... yet.
Exodus 21:7. says its ok to sell your daughters into slavery
as examples, working on the Sabbath ??
Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death.
In the Jewish part of Bible there are passages about kinda inheriting sin as something you need to do something about (e.g. Cain and his lineage). But even there its not straightforward inheritance. With the New Testament in mind the post is even more bogus.
Punishing descendants is absolutely a part of the bible. Women experiencing pain during childbirth is supposedly a punishment for Eve eating the forbidden fruit.
Shit, if that's the case, I'm surprised Christians haven't tried to outlaw epidurals.
Yeah, she really shouldn't have listen to the snake. Women could have been giving birth like a giraffe: Just standing there, muching on a snack while the baby just falls out.
Anon sounds entitled AF. Has he tried not relying on nepotism for getting ahead?
Is probably one of those who screams DEI = Didn't Earn It...but is also pisses he wasnt born into advantages
Yeah...
I was robbed of my white privilege
Uhh, I'm pretty sure you're still white. Sounds like you don't know what white privilege actually means.
Any wealth inheritance has been divided amongst an unknown number of heirs for the last, what 5 generations? 7? That shit's long gone.
Wealth has a way of multiplying, though. Assuming the family is above a certain threshold of wealth, second sons still receive an education and typically get lucrative jobs, expensive gifts etc. that should set them up well.