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jmcquown[_2_]

On 4/26/2015 6:53 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-04-26 6:21 PM, wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:02:11 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-04-26 5:54 PM, sf wrote:
>>>> Racist Brits and Aussies seem to do that. Americans are proud of
>>>> their roots, but they have divided their populations into us vs them.
>>>
>>> Are they?
>>
>> Why even dignify that stupidity with a response?
>>
>>> Many of anglo ancestry seem to want to disassociate themselves
>>> from the nation that spawned an empire that spanned the globe. Then
>>> there is about 10% of the population that are descendants of slaves who
>>> seem to want to blame their current woes on the institution of slavery,
>>> which went down the tubes 150 years ago... 6 generations.
>>
>> Indeed. At what point do you cease with playing the racist/guilt card?
>> It's just part of human nature to exploit or abuse political
>> correctness (for want of a better term) and sadly a vocal minority do
>> exactly that. And the naive suck it up like candy. Objectivity has no
>> place in this topic
>>
>> Almost every race or culture is guilty of displacing another culture
>> at some point in their history anyway. But let's just keep it highly
>> selective who we demonise...
>
> I trust that you realize that is not a politically correct attitude.
> Many of my fellow Canadians seem compelled to feel guilt over the
> treatment of the natives, or "first nations" as they are called these
> days. I live in a part of the country whose indigenous people were wiped
> out 500 years ago in a conflict between other warring tribes.
>
> As an Australian, you might appreciate that many people in North America
> think of it has having its origins as a penal colony from back in the
> days when the standard punishment for criminals was "transport", but
> they seem not to realize that the criminals were only transported to
> Australia after the revolution. Before that, they used to transport
> their criminals to the American colonies.
>
Not just criminals. Two of my McQuown ancestors were "transported" to
the American colonies because they were captured at the Battle of
Bothwell Bridge. That was around 1679. If it had been later we might
have wound up in Australia.

Jill