Yes it’s clear that you did not understand my post, if that’s what you think it meant.
How can you blanket statement accuse an entire race for an issue that is 200 years old?
What you are implying makes no sense. Genealogically speaking, my Father is a first generation American. My grandparents and my family on my dads side fled Europe around the time of/after WW1. All my relatives on that side of the family AKA uncles, aunts, etc... are Nationalized American immigrants from around the 1920's. That entire side of my family wasn't even in America for the civil war. They never owned slaves. What apologies or reparations do they owe?
My mothers side can be traced back to the original 13 colonies (1732) in Baltimore Md, never owned slaves, fought in every historical engagement known from the war of independence to current day Iraq. In fact, my Mothers direct bloodline would have ended if it wasn't for an unborn child; seeing that both of his brothers were killed in action while facing confederate forces. Again.. What apologies or reparations do they owe?
As for me, the soles of my daughters feet are darker than most blacks I know. My 'whiteness' was definitely a recessive trait considering my Haitian wife Tanisha, because my baby girl Keisha is black. She is so dark you would never even know she had a white father. Yet I'm called racist, and need to pay reparations for something I would have fought and gladly died/killed in pitched battle to oppose. What apologies or reparations do I owe?
This is a punishment for being white, if individuals will not hold blacks to the same standard.
Anthony Johnson Was the first black slave owner in America, and it was his case against John Punch that Historians consider to be one of the first legal distinctions between Europeans and Africans made in the colony, and a key milestone in the development of the institution of slavery in the United States.
John Punch (
fl. 1630s, living 1640) was an enslaved
African who lived in the
Colony of Virginia.
[2][3] Thought to have been an indentured servant, Punch attempted to escape to
Maryland and was sentenced in July 1640 by the
Virginia Governor's Council to serve as a slave for the remainder of his life. This was the groundwork laid and the case law used to substantiate owning slaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Punch_(slave)
In 1862, William Ellison was one of the largest slave owners in South Carolina as well as one of the wealthiest. He was born a slave and was given the name April, after the month in which he was born. He was luckier than most and was bought by a white slave owner named William Ellison, who took the time to educate him. When he was 26 years old, he was freed by his master and began building his expansive cotton plantation. As a free man, he had his name changed to William Ellison, that of his former owner.
Ellison was known to have made a large proportion of his money as a “slave breeder.” Breeding slaves was illegal in many Southern states, but Ellison secretly sold almost all females born, keeping a select few for future breeding. He kept many of the young males, as they were considered useful on his plantation. Ellison was known to be a harsh master, and his slaves were almost starved and extremely poorly clothed. He kept a windowless building on his property for the specific purpose of chaining his misbehaving slaves.
https://listverse.com/2017/06/06/top-10-black-slaveowners/
