White guilt free, everyone from my grandparents up lived in northern Europe.
white guilt is funny as shit
[editline]3rd February 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=InUndenial;43774941]White guilt free, everyone from my grandparents up lived in northern Europe.[/QUOTE]
Same :v:
Aww I was really hoping the nerdy Facepunch-looking guy was going to get a song
[editline]3rd February 2014[/editline]
Oh geez we're already on to whinging about white guilt
[QUOTE=gudman;43774910]This is too good to cause a shitstorm.[/QUOTE]
wasn't intending to start one. it's a SNL skit, not that weird bald guy who sits in his room with wine and a cigarette talking about how much he hates women.
Let me just scroll down an-
[T]http://i.imgur.com/3dhMiTX.png[/T]
[T]http://i.imgur.com/mMBmxxV.png[/T]
[T]http://i.imgur.com/j6mc0Hl.png[/T]
Oh.
[QUOTE=InUndenial;43774941]White guilt free, everyone from my grandparents up lived in northern Europe.[/QUOTE]
My ancestors were all too poor to afford slaves, no white guilt here.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;43779306]My ancestors were all too poor to afford slaves, no white guilt here.[/QUOTE]
The vast majority of ancestors in the American south would be poor rural farmers, most of which themselves owned either just enough land to subsist or no land at all (tenant farmers).
White guilt doesn't exist though so the point is moot.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;43779332]The vast majority of ancestors in the American south would be poor rural farmers, most of which themselves owned either just enough land to subsist or no land at all (tenant farmers).
White guilt doesn't exist though so the point is moot.[/QUOTE]
not necessarily true
while it is true that only a handful of farmers in the south had the money to afford slaves, there was a significant population of slave owners; that being said, cotton kings did own a majority of slaves in the south, and the rural, small-scale farmers that did own slaves, owned one or two, and treated them more as helping hands or indentured servants/family than they did property (though mind you, this does not justify slavery nor argue that slave owners were tolerant of treated slaves with dignity or equality)
though yeah, white guilt is pretty stupid
[QUOTE=InUndenial;43774941]White guilt free, everyone from my grandparents up lived in northern Europe.[/QUOTE]
I know for a fact my maternal ancestors had slaves. I even have some of the coins they used on the plantations after the war as a way of paying their former slaves without actually having to give them federal wages.
And now that same side of the family has some interracial couples. We have come a long way as a family and as a people.
I have a black roomate, when I showed him this he burst out laughing. I think most people are ok with this.
[QUOTE=Loriborn;43779380]not necessarily true
while it is true that only a handful of farmers in the south had the money to afford slaves, there was a significant population of slave owners; that being said, cotton kings did own a majority of slaves in the south, and the rural, small-scale farmers that did own slaves, owned one or two, and treated them more as helping hands or indentured servants/family than they did property (though mind you, this does not justify slavery nor argue that slave owners were tolerant of treated slaves with dignity or equality)
though yeah, white guilt is pretty stupid[/QUOTE]
True, I just looked up the numbers and "vast majority" seems to underestimate just how many slave owners there were in the South.
I really don't like the woman who plays the teacher. She just isn't funny, and I've seen her in a few different things now.
Implying you should only have white guilt for the racism that existed "back then", as if everything is hunky-dory now.
Expected this. The true, one and only black history anthem.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_sKx4OZEqA[/media]
It's always cool to think that your grandparents knew people who fought in the civil war/former slaves.
The last civil war veteran died in the 1950's.
Being from the UK, the idea of black history month seems really bizarre. Makes more sense for the US with your history, but i think over here it'd be seen as offensive to everyone more than anything.
My ancestors were still living in some shitty village in Eastern Europe when the slaves were freed. In fact I don't think we even stepped foot on American soil until the turn of the century so I can safely say my family were not slave owners.
[video=youtube;MSrTnWDTdwI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSrTnWDTdwI&feature=share[/video]
When they got the white people to put their hands up.. the follow up was brilliant.
Ha, it was very catchy and ironical.
The guy in the yellow shirt looks like Tim Schafer.
The thing I don't understand about White Guilt was the fact that most of the nation is second or third generation immigrants that came during the 20th century, and the slave trade in this country was crushed within the first decade and they were freed within literally two generations.
My Grandpa Grew up in Louisiana and my great Grandpa did own slaves. Oh well, not like i'm going to feel guilty for my ancestor's wrongdoing.
fuck niggers
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[QUOTE=deckief;43789833]My Grandpa Grew up in Louisiana and my great Grandpa did own slaves. Oh well, not like i'm going to feel guilty for my ancestor's wrongdoing.[/QUOTE]
To be honest, most of the shit that Black Americans have to deal with in the modern age was from the rush urban migration that followed.
They didn't have the knowledge of how to run or work business and left the only trade that had been known to them rather than work through migration.
Most immigrants came then went west during the reconstruction era, lots of time former slaves just went north and into the cities or into the cities in the south, effectively trapping them in Brick without employment.
the thing is, even if your ancestors never owned slaves, if you're white in america you still benefited from slavery and racism. if you're black in america you're still fucked over from slavery and racism
If my ancestors were slaves, I'd be thankful. It meant my ass wasn't born in Africa
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