10 Sep 2023 7:27 pm
I am grateful for your ancestors.Bruce » 10 Sep 2023, 7:06 pm » wrote: ↑ Every Scottish Christian immigrant male ancestor of mine, from 13 to .68 years of age, volunteered for service in the United States cavalry after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
I mean distant uncles and cousins and all, my ancestors.
White privilege means this:
At the age of approximately 107, having abandoned his third blind wife to the care of his sons, my great great great Scottish grandpa may have been poisoned in 1904 by his fourth wife who was only 42 years old in 1904 when she donated his body to science and pissed off my grandmother born in 1897 who told me the story when I was a child.
My family were wealthy farmers and stone masons, and were all fox hunters, to the saddle born,
But we only served the Master and were never served.
Not to say we didn’t have our own troubles about women.
300,000 white boys died to free the slaves.
But none of my ancestors got even a saddle sore.
My grandaddy was lynched in 1879 two years after the **** compromise of 1877 when Republicans abandoned southern Black folk for the pursuit of power.
I guess some things never change.