Be careful in looking up your families history

I'm pretty sure if you go back that far in your family line you're not any more related to them than you are to a random stranger.

 

white devil I am not afraid of you.

 

one of my best friends and I figured out a while back that my people probably owned his people in central Georgia some time ago, near a town called Plains.

in lieu of reparations, I let him kick my ass in tennis, but not in basketball.

 

I attempted to explain to you why someone you get the opposite impression than what you apparently had intended.

Apparently, you were disgusted by your past, but some here believed that you sounded kinda proud.

Do you think they were just going out of their way to bust your chops?

You could be the most intelligent person in the world, but you will never be a writer, and that's what I tried to explain to you. To give you a sobering reality, in the same way that you apparently came to grips with your ugly family history.

Ironically, you seem more hurt by MY comments, than you do about your own family's plantation owner past, which I find disturbing. Quite frankly.

 

I think finding these sorts of things is good for you. People like to view the world in very linear terms - good guys and bad guys. Reality isn't that easy. One person can be both a sweet loving gentle patriarch and a cruel slave owner.

I know a number of Germans who grew up having to reconcile the gentle grandparents they knew, with the people the records show they were in WWII. Nobody is totally clean.

 

funny Newhart episode similar to this.... a group of women are coming to the Stratford to hear Dick talk about their ancestors who stayed at the Inn back in the 1700s. Sadly, Dick realizes he has to tell them all that their ancestors were nothing more then tramps that gave the men in the service a good time during the nights they stayed at the Inn. hilarious episode... i'll post a link if anyone wants to watch it:

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Well this post is absolutely obnoxious.

 

Meh, who cares what your ancestors did, that doesn't effect you in any way.

Just enjoy the story.

DD

 

Great christmas thread. There was a time we'd take a guy like you out back and beat you with a hose, now you got your ******* unions.

 

This reminds me of wright Thompson seeing pictures of his uncle protesting James Meredith.

 

What some dead relative of yours did 200 years ago has nothing to do with whom you are or what you believe in.

 

Every time you felt that a wave of white guilt gushing over you, just open up YouTube and type " polar bear hunting", watch a few of those clips and I guarantee the white guilt will leave you.

 

I don't get it.

 

I think it's cool that you can actually read about your ancestors. Doesn't matter if they murdered thousands or saved thousands from dieting. The fact that it's al documented is really cool.. I know I'm related to Alice Cooper and an old professional baseball player from the 20's. That's abt all I know lol.

 

I seriously don't understand why What is still on this board. Anytime he posts something, so many people call him out. what...let me show you the door you grizzly fan

 

Yea if you barely have any family left it doesn't, but ancestors are the foundation for most people

 

everyone is related to everyone else.

also, you got a real pretty mouth.

 

Hug it out and then squeal, piggy!

 

When we write our history, some of us will have the greatest stories being "I went 35 and 0 on COD TDM HARDCORE NO SCOPING STR8 PWNING NOOBZ". "Life's a journey, not a destination" - Tim Donahue