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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9484)6/7/2001 3:11:25 PM
From: Lazarus_Long   of 59480
 
My mother was from Canada; Canadians involvement in slavery was pretty much restricted to running the underground railroad. My great-grandfather was a Union soldier; he fought to free them and spent two years in Andersonville Prison for it. That destroyed his health and he died in 1867. I fail to see that I have slave blood on my hands.

As for the rest of us native born who had ancestors in this country in 1865: No living American ever owned a slave. Why are they responsible?

And what of all those Americans whose ancestors arrived here AFTER the war? Are they responsible too? And how about the guy about twenty feet from me? He wa born in Vietnam. Is he responsible for what some Americans did 140 years ago? If so, why?

This is the stupidest idea that has been put forward since the Civil War.
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