OK - I’ll bite. I owe a debt because of the misdeeds of all white people? Now, do I get royalties for all the good things that white people had done as payment for white contributions to the world - like democracy, the vast majority of our medicine and science, religion, art and music and the like? Not to be a race snob, because I believe this race-responsibility is absurd and we are all individuals and only responsible for what we do and control - but, on balance, where would the world be if there never had been a white race?
Time for the Royalties Movement.
Well, I’m disqualified from this thread because I had a
peanut butter, banana & honey on toast this morning. (A
black guy making an effort formulated a lot of stuff with
peanuts.) - Anyway, my great great grandfather fought as a
Rebel at Shiloh; told my grandmother when she asked that
Shiloh was, “Lord, Lord, Izora, Shiloh was the biggest
mess I’ve ever seen in my life, so much confusion I
couldn’t tell if I killed anybody or not - but can’t see
how I could have kept from it!” - He was a Southern farmer,
dirt poor, fighting Yankees because ya’ll were down here!
I did have one fifth or sixth great grandfather who kept a
few slaves down in Georgia Territory back in the 1700’s.
His son married a Cherokee woman, his mother had a
case of conniption vapors and he & his wife departed on
a barge going up the TN River (after his daddy gave him
his inheritance in gold), disembarked at Perryville, TN,
and that’s how I ended up in Tennessee with my name
besmirched eternally for having Indian blood AND having
ancestors who kept slaves.