Wheal
Regular Member
- Messages
- 373
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- 87
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- Location
- Illinois
- Ethnic group
- a true mutt
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- Pat-U106-H11a10
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H5a1b
We are all proud of our ancestors, but that does not necessarily make us racist. We are all searching for that one ancestor that gave us our desire to learn. We probably all have an ancestor that was a slave at one time or another to another culture. It doesn’t really matter what the color of their skin was. They were mistreated and probably worked to death. The descendants of these people tried to make a better life for their children.
Yes, in the ‘60’s we had many race problems. On streets, in schools, and the effect was to give some children prejudices against other cultures. How close would one girl have to stand next to another girl to have hair flipped over their shoulder and cut the face of the other girl? Hair? Really? Over-reaction was most probably the cause.
In grade school in the late 50’s and early 60’s I grew up learning that all races were equal and should equally be treated with respect. I was horrified when I heard a person from one race make a derogatory remark to, or about, a person of another race. I never knew anything about racism until I went to a public school in 8th grade.
Genealogy is my haven of racial equality. How privileged we are, that our ancestors were able to survive, and gave us life. Our ancestors ALL survived the plagues, the horrors of being conquered and conquering, the horror of being subjected to unimaginable punishments, starvation. We are here. Yes, this is a sophomoric comment. But sometimes the most simple answer is the right answer.
Yes, in the ‘60’s we had many race problems. On streets, in schools, and the effect was to give some children prejudices against other cultures. How close would one girl have to stand next to another girl to have hair flipped over their shoulder and cut the face of the other girl? Hair? Really? Over-reaction was most probably the cause.
In grade school in the late 50’s and early 60’s I grew up learning that all races were equal and should equally be treated with respect. I was horrified when I heard a person from one race make a derogatory remark to, or about, a person of another race. I never knew anything about racism until I went to a public school in 8th grade.
Genealogy is my haven of racial equality. How privileged we are, that our ancestors were able to survive, and gave us life. Our ancestors ALL survived the plagues, the horrors of being conquered and conquering, the horror of being subjected to unimaginable punishments, starvation. We are here. Yes, this is a sophomoric comment. But sometimes the most simple answer is the right answer.