On 4/23/2021 4:23 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-04-23 3:28 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>
>>
>> I encountered a number of black people who were racists when I lived
>> in Tennessee (Memphis).Â* In the 1990's there was an older woman named
>> Pinkie who worked at the breakfast/lunch counter at McLemore's market
>> who was downright rude to me all the time.Â* Her co-worker Louanne
>> (also black) was not.
>
>
> Now we have a significant black population, most of which are immigrants
> from the Caribbean. A lot of them have a chip on their shoulder about
> slavery, though the slavery of their ancestors several generations
> happened in their home country.
>
> If you want to see real racism, go to an Indian reserve. You are
> guaranteed to hear a rant about residential schools and how you stole
> theirÂ* land.

Despite all the rhetoric, I refuse to feel "guilty" or take any sort of
blame for something that happened centuries before I was born. I have
no idea whether or not the first McQuown's who arrived in the US in 1680
forced "Indians" off their land in Pennsylvania. They were given a land
grant by William Penn. I don't know if there were still natives living
there or not. Maybe they lived side by side in harmony. I wasn't
there. I do know none of my ancesors owned slaves of any race.

The McQuown's were caught up in a religious war back in Scotland and
were captured and transported as indentured servants. It was pure luck
the captain of the ship died and the man who assumed command was
friendly towards the Scots. He dropped them off in Amboy, NJ, rather
than handing them over to plantation owners in Virginia.

It bugs me that people try to tar all white people with the same brush.
It simply isn't true.

Jill