On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 17:42:38 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 7:18:15 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>> On 6/8/2021 1:27 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> > On 2021-06-08 10:42 a.m., Snag wrote:
>> >> On 6/7/2021 10:43 PM, Snag wrote:
>> >>> Since some have their panties all twisted up about my sig line ,
>> >>> here's a challenge .
>> >>> Find one , just ONE instance where I have made a "racist" or "pro
>> >>> slavery" remark . Post that remark AND THE UNEDITED CONTEXT .
>> >>
>> >> <crickets>
>> >> C'mon , if I'm such a racist slaver that y'all gotta find at least
>> >> ONE remark !
>> >> BTW , my ancestors probably DID own slaves ... they were Europeans
>> >> though . When Leif and Eric went a-Viking , it was rape loot kill
>> >> destroy - except for those buxom young Anglo and Saxon girls , they
>> >> went home with them . <I recently found out I'm a direct descendant of
>> >> Leif Ericson ... no wonder I sometimes want to go Berserker !>
>> >
>> > For a lot of Americans with roots going back to the colonial days, the
>> > chances are probably higher that an ancestor was subject to a form of
>> > slavery than of owning slaves.
>> You make a good point, Dave. I've mentioned many times my Scottish
>> ancestors were captured in battle in Scotland in 1679 and transported
>> (sentenced) by the English to plantation owners in Virginia for a term
>> of 7 years indentured servitude. They'd have been treated exactly like
>> any other slaves until they worked off their "debt". Once in the
>> American colonies the plantation owners could work them until they died,
>> and lay claim to any children they might produce as their property. We
>> got lucky. The captain of the ship died and the man who assumed command
>> changed the course and they didn't wind up in Virginia.
>>
>Yep, you're lucky that your ancestors weren't Black. They didn't have to endure
>generation after generation of abuse that included beatings and yes, rape.
>Aren't *you* the Scottish princess? It's a ****ing joke that White folks minimize
>the horror of centuries of Black slavery by pointing out White indentured
>servitude. Did Scots-Irish experience Jim Crow? A hundred years ago, after
>your ancestors had assimilated, Black folks in Tulsa were finishing burying their
>massacred dead loved ones.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
>
>Look at this, princess, if you have the stomach for it.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett..._Till_body.jpg
>>
>> Jill
>>
>--Bryan
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
--
Not Dave Smith