One side of my family is from Scotland.
The Scots were brutally subjugated by the English for a good long time.
Wars were fought.
A sort of independence was won, but they remain part of the UK.
Some Scots were treated in a manner tantamount to being slaves.
Do I deserve restitution for this?
No.
It didn't happen to me.
It didn't happen in living memory.
It didn't even happen to anyone I've met.
My family kind of got it from both sides, having aligned with the wrong side in one war and ending up exiled in England. At least the Sassinak kept their word and granted a small holding near Staffordshire in exchange for the loyalty.
It was such a good deal that five of six brothers left for America.
They put it behind themselves and started over from nothing.
The Italian side of the family did much the same, at a time when it was better to be a CENSORED than a papist fucking WOP.
It's always interesting to see the race bait industry forget that the Irish (three times) and Italians were treated worse than blacks at a couple of places in history.
Places in history that are still in living memory, unlike slavery.
The entire town - men, women, children - of Baltimore, Eire was taken as slaves by mohammedens. Those slavers made it to Iceland to do the same. Of course, the U.S. involvement under T. Jefferson. In fact, the very origin of the U.S. Navy was to protect from the barbaric zeal of you know who.
ReplyDeleteMore whites were slaves in America than blacks. A black woman had the largest number of slaves in America. Those are but a few of examples of the truth about slavery in America.
The modern day revisionist history is utter BS.
I'd like to see your citations.
DeleteI've been ranting about revisionism for a while, but there's a lot of bigotry and false narratives to sort through.
I strongly believe - and will willingly admit I have no documentation for it - that everyone alive on Earth today is related to someone who was a slave. Go back far enough, and you'll find it, it's just that not enough people could read and write that far back. Slavery was that common. I'm descended from a long line of people who lived in the Mediterranean area, and my mom's side were Ashkenazi Jews. Far enough back I know some great-great (keep repeating) grand-something or other was a slave to the Egyptians. Nobody is due reparations. I don't care whose ancestors were slaves to whom. People are responsible for what they've willingly done. Period.
ReplyDeleteMy Viking ancestors were enthusiastic slavers. Towns like Hedeby, Jorvik and Kaupang had large, well-patronized slave markets. And on my mother's side, about one in ten people in 1066 England were slaves. I KNOW I have slaves in my family tree, and probably slave-owners. BFD.
ReplyDeleteThe root of Slave in Germanic languages comes from Slav because so many were enslaved.
ReplyDeleteI've been a wage slave... But that's probably the point of unfettered immigration.
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