Posted on 07/08/2015 2:00:40 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Dear Senator Sanders,
I'd gladly apologize for anything my fat, rich, bourgeois, Kulak ancestors did.
But please, precisely, explain what I'll be apologizing for.
When Africans were being stolen from their country, my Irish ancestors were being told, "Either convert to the Protestant Church of Ireland, or just take your children and GET out on the road.
(BTW: I don't blame you for the fact that your surname seems English.)
Well, there is part of your misunderstanding...I've been married to an American woman for 45 years. You have been married to someone who apparently demands recognition of her FORMER country first. When that need goes away, and you are married to an American woman, racism will decline, guaranteed.
Former continent.
“When that need goes away, and you are married to an American woman, racism will decline, guaranteed. “
Well said.
A lot of attitudes must change before anything will happen.
Okay, former CONTINENT. But, I am still not married to a BRITISH ISLES (is that a continent?) American. And, that is because we are E Pluribus Unum...or are we?
Yes...a lot.
I’m busting your hump, AA designation where there is no nation. I’m guessing 17th and 18th century ‘Africa’ were no more homogeneous than the current Africa. As for ‘E Pluribus Unum’, that be white man talk now.
Good one— “rich, fat Kulaks”! When addressing a fellow traveler like “Boinie” it is brilliant to bring up a Soviet propaganda term used by Lenin and Stalin to destroy the Ukraine, and murder 20 million people through starvation.
A Kulak- was to Lenin and Stalin and the rest of the commie “reality writers” were.... “rich peasants”. Imagine that— rich... peasants. How could they be?
What they were, were able to feed themselves and therefore a threat to centralized communist police state. The story of the Holodomor is more horrific and on a larger scale than the systematic camps of the nazis— who murdered for racial existence and country of origin, any who again— got in the way of the State.
Brilliant reply to old a-wipe Bernie, another 60’s holdover of racist, Statist Leftists. Worse than hitlery, for different reasons on their “spectum” of diversity.
Bernie is of Jewish extraction, family from Poland most recently, with “Sanders” a made up name.
Darn shame, too.
Then, why pray tell, can she not be an American? Is that not the "conservative" view?
I’m third generation here. I tell people of all colors that my family was a bunch of share croppers, we didn’t do jack to anyone so take your prejudice and stuff it.
My Daddy, a soldier in the Army Infantry in N. Africa, Italy, & Germany during WWII, commented before he died several years ago that he did not understand why people couldn’t just live in peace in this bountiful world & quit killing & fighting each other. (He *thought* he’d been in the “war to end all wars”.)
C-Span3 last weekend was showing some artifacts connected with the American Revolution, including a bound volume of a Philadelphia newspaper. Just before the issue which announced the adoption of the Declaration of Independence there was a short notice of the vote in Congress for independence (on July 2, 1776). Adjacent to that news item there was a notice about a runaway servant—an Irish servant. It resembled the notices that are sometimes reproduced of notices for runaway slaves.
Thanks posthumously to your father for his service and his belief, as all soldiers do— in peace. Soldiers especially believe this because.. they KNOW.
Ware are profitable as is conflict, in the grand scheme of things. Finances must be directed to the war “effort”- an effort that cannot and rarely does produce devolved benefit to the general populace. A war against evil— as WWII became- is another matter. A war to free the oppressed, as in Korea, and Vietnam— a very high moral standard and much agony. Recently the wars have been for....other priorities, with window dressing for the moral imperative.
Your father was a wise man. Deo Vindice.
I suppose I come from a family of warriors. My great-great grandfather was a Confederate soldier & fought at Shiloh. My grandmother, when she was a child, asked him what it was like at Shiloh; if he had killed anybody at Shiloh. He replied, “Lord, Izora, I don’t see how I could have kept from killing people! It was such a MESS; worst mess I’ve ever seen in my life!” - We lived close to Shiloh when I was a child, and my parents took me to Shiloh more than once. - I think I’ve already said on here that the Bloody Pond WAS a lot bloodier in color 60 years ago when I was first there. It has evidently been diluted by rain & snow & time. - My great-great grandfather did not have slaves; he was practically a slave himself. He was defending his people & his home. - Daddy was shell-shocked all to hell. I’ve had all the war I want, God willing.
Maybe you'll get a partial exemption for your special circumstance. Of course you still have that white privilege thing going on.
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