I don't want to be like the typical fake white liberal apologist, but I did some digging in my family tree and unfortunately it appears my great great great great grand father through my maternal line had enslaved about 10 people.

Bums me out and makes feel sick to my stomach.

  • berrytopylus [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah my great great grandmother's best friend's niece was married to a dude who went to the same bar as a guy who fought in a war involving a country that later came to be ruled by a leader who once engaged in diplomatic discussion with Hitler. I'm so sorry my Jewish and LGBT friends :(

    But seriously buddy, guilt doesn't drip down in blood, nothing does. Acknowledging things like white privilege and the benefits we get from generational advantages isn't the same as "inheriting blood debt", that doesn't exist.