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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (204312)	7/5/2021 11:51:18 PM
From: techtrader73	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362592

look trump conned all you right wingers.......he is mild left at best......he came in and passed anything the Dems wanted him to pass....couldn't even complete the wall in 4 years...

To: i-node who wrote (204312)	7/5/2021 11:57:54 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362592

You see no point in studying history? Cuz, it makes you feel guilty, and you feel you don't deserve to feel guilty? It doesn't make me feel guilty, and I may be related to this guy - Patrick Henry Anderson: lettersofnote.com

To: i-node who wrote (204312)	7/6/2021 9:19:56 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362592

But if you randomly pick 100 black individuals and ask them what slaves, from where, they descended, they cannot answer. You might be surprised about that. It's a mistake to think that black people are stupider than you. I know of some black people who came to IL after they were freed in VA. They gave their children's names inherited from whites in their own family tree. (Turner Brown, for example. The Turner name preserved a family connection to the Turner family.) If you ask me who my grandparents are I wouldn’t know (I could find their names somewhere). These connections just don’t drag out for long periods. I know who my grand and great grandparents were and many lines farther back. I know many of them back to their coming to America. There were farmers and black smiths and store keepers and wheat threshers and soldiers. Thank you, Internet. I know one of my ancestors who came to America as a mercenery soldier for the British, used land grants to compile an estate for his children, donated land to found a church and cemetery. This was all in the 1700's One of my ggrandfathers donated the land for a country school - the building is still standing and has been converted into a home. The school closed in the '50's. It is really had for most people to show that they have any substantial connection to four or five generations back,.

To: i-node who wrote (204312)	7/6/2021 10:52:41 AM
From: CentralParkRanger	Respond to of 362592

If you ask me who my grandparents are I wouldn’t know Poor kid... I feel pity for you...

To: i-node who wrote (204312)	7/6/2021 12:14:36 PM
From: combjelly	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway CentralParkRanger Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362592

Ah yes. Whataboutism. Right on schedule. Yes, slavery exists and existed in other places. No doubt, slavery has existed for hundreds of thousands of years in one form or another. But we are talking about the US and the entities that formed it. How good or bad it was in other places and other times is pretty irrelevant. But very few people alive today have real ties to slavery. A lot of wealth was created by slavery. Are you saying that all of it evaporated? Or was it laundered by time?