On 4/23/2021 5:54 PM, jmcquown wrote:

>
> Despite all the rhetoric, I refuse to feel "guilty" or take any sort of
> blame for something that happened centuries before I was born.Â* 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.Â* They were given a land
> grant by William Penn.Â* I don't know if there were still natives living
> there or not.Â* Maybe they lived side by side in harmony.Â* I wasn't
> there.Â* 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.Â* It was pure luck
> the captain of the ship died and the man who assumed command was
> friendly towards the Scots.Â* 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

I have no guilt either. Sure, slavery was wrong but don't blame me. My
grandparents came from Poland in the 1890s and had nothing to do with it.

There is a reparations bill in Congress but I see no obligation to
contribute to it. The money for reparations should come from the people
that sold other humans into slavery.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53444752

My great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku, was what I prefer to call a
businessman, from the Igbo ethnic group of south-eastern Nigeria. He
dealt in a number of goods, including tobacco and palm produce. He also
sold human beings.