Maybe we can stop reliving slavery through our children, recognize the mistakes made as well as the incredible cost of eliminating it, and treat each other as Americans. pic.twitter.com/vych8XT6hl
— Steve613 (@TheRealSteve613) February 27, 2023
Thursday, March 2, 2023
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"My people" emigrated to the US from the Eastern Baltic, the area around Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad). It's a safe bet they got screwed (in some cases literally) by the Germans, the Russians, the French, the Poles, and even the Swedes. Yeah, that damned Swedes.
ReplyDeleteIt's one of those Godforsaken corners of Europe where the national past time is waiting for the next goon with an army to march through, rape all the women, burn the villages, confiscate the crops, and beat up the men before dragooning all of military age to join the stupid army and get killed invading some other place. Incidentally, that territory was one of the very few places in Europe subject to an official crusade, by the Teutonic Knights (the other, of course, being the Albigensian Heresy in Fwance).
My great grandparents weren't dumb, shaking the dust or Europe from their feet and decamping to America. And so it fills me with grief to see us today, hellbent on recreating the most disastrous blunders the idiot Yurpeens have made through history.
On the other hand, it does make European history so entertaining to study. At a distance. I doubt living through the history was as fun as reading about it.
On the other hand, it does make European history so entertaining to study. At a distance. I doubt living through the history was as fun as reading about it.
ReplyDeleteWords to live by, Skubinna. It's too bad that more people don't take to heart the wisdom of Thomas Sowell.
My own family history, as I'm slowly learning, has been something of a surprise to me. I have recently learned that, like the loathsome Communist bigot Angela Davis, I am descended from a person who was on the Mayflower (Mary Chilton). Well, me and some several thousand other people. I always knew some of them came to America in the late 1600s, which I maintain makes me indigenous (how many centuries does it take, anyway?). Some were opportunists (my mother's remittance man ancestor from Scotland and the Border Lands), some were fleeing religious persecution (Mary Chilton), some were ordinary farmers, some were plantation owners, thus owners of slaves, some lived in Appalachia in log cabins, at least one was a Jewish peddler in the Smokey Mountains, one was Native American (we think) and possibly there might have been one or two passing for white. It all makes me an American mongrel, and that's the part I take most pride in. Not because I had anything at all to do with any of it, but because I'm here because of them. Everybody alive can say that.