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WHITE PEOPLE...WHAT DO YOU...


THINK about this film and slavery in general? Do you really feel bad for what your ancestors did to blacks, do you care or do you feel it has nothing to do with you?

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I have never and will NEVER have guilt for something that I did NOT do. Asking a person to feel guilty for a crime that he/she/zhee/it didn't commit is demented, insane. Nucking Futs.

If you the OP of 13 years ago or anyone now wants to actually help real people in slavery TODAY. It still exists. If you actually want to help people, go do it. Research it. Help people. There are plenty of slaves in the world. GO HELP THEM. Stop shitting your pants over what happened a couple hundred years ago. That isn't helping anyone.

GO HELP THEM.

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I'm a white guy from eastern europe.

What do i think about my ancestors doing whatever to blacks? My ancestors did nothing to blacks.

Maybe you should ask me what do i think about PoC enslaving us for centuries (read about the Ottoman empire).
Maybe you should ask yourself what do you think about the 800 years of Moor conquest and enslave of the Iberic peninsula.
Maybe you should ask yourself what do you think about the European invasion by the Persian Empire.
Or by the Mongols led by Genghis Khan.

Human history is full of people enslaving others ...

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My ancestors fought on the north side and gave their lives...so f off.

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To answer the OP's question....NO!

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My ancestors on dad's side of the family didn't even come to America until 1900, when slavery was illegal. My ancestors on my mother's side lived in the North and hated slavery so much, they helped in the Underground Railroad. To lump me in with all whites, demanding that I feel bad about something that my ancestors didn't do over 150 years ago, and fork over cash to people who never worked a day in their lives, is not what I'd call "justice."

So no. I don't feel guilty about what my ancestors didn't do years ago. Heck, I don't even feel sorry for my Viking ancestors who raped, murdered, and pillaged villages and towns all along the coasts of mainland Europe. Nor do I feel guilty about having German ancestors, Irish ancestors, or Russian ones.

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My ancestors didn't do anything to any black people. I was born a century after slavery ended, and I have never done anything to any black person. Take responsibility for your own life and leave me the fuck alone.

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What my ancestors did to Blacks? You mean civilize them, free them from slavery, give them 20 times higher living standard that they would have had living by their own and give them all the civil rights, affirmative action, NAACP, congressional Black caucus, MLKs, diversity quotas and all the wokeness?

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Yawn... I'm white but it wasn't my ancestors. Did you pose the same question to Romans, Greeks (which I am half anyway), Egyptians, etc.? Guilt is just a bag of bricks - you just have to let it go and not be a thundercunt on the web.

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