I have a German friend whose grandfather was a general in World War 2. Not a doctrinaire Nazi, he despised Hitler, but "my country right or wrong". Kind of like that asshole who claims to be "keeping Trump under control from inside the Cabinet" today.
Anyway, my friend was so ashamed of this that for most of his life he told people his grandfather was Jewish.
My ancestors weren't slave owners as far as I know, because they colonised India rather than the Americas; but they certainly didn't treat their "native" servants with any respect. My family decided it was time to get out of India when a mob beat my great-grandfather up in the street. I have no doubt he was asking for it.
Instead of "reparations", which is what a defeated nation pays to the victor as part of the spoils of war, call it "restitution", which is what is paid to the victim of a crime as compensation for any losses they suffered as a result of the crime.
Who cares? You know he'd be very polite and jovial even. If he's weird enough to think up such a thing as having a thing in common with Barack, and being all underhand, tho it's lame-- he's not going to be put out by such an obvious sort of thing as black cousins.
I dunno; the Black Panthers around here (East Bay Area) seemed to be mostly about feeding schoolchildren and stuff.
Hoed to Death is the name of my next death metal band!
I have a German friend whose grandfather was a general in World War 2. Not a doctrinaire Nazi, he despised Hitler, but "my country right or wrong". Kind of like that asshole who claims to be "keeping Trump under control from inside the Cabinet" today.
Anyway, my friend was so ashamed of this that for most of his life he told people his grandfather was Jewish.
Ha ha, to the extent that the Haitian slave rebellion was inspired by the US revolution, maybe T. Jefferson really IS its baby daddy
My ancestors weren't slave owners as far as I know, because they colonised India rather than the Americas; but they certainly didn't treat their "native" servants with any respect. My family decided it was time to get out of India when a mob beat my great-grandfather up in the street. I have no doubt he was asking for it.
Instead of "reparations", which is what a defeated nation pays to the victor as part of the spoils of war, call it "restitution", which is what is paid to the victim of a crime as compensation for any losses they suffered as a result of the crime.
They can do what they want to do, they can do what seems right to them.
I just hope no one forgets the time there was a sexual assault of a student at Barack Obama Middle School!
They couldn't lay a glove on him in 8 years and they couldn't get under his skin and he never fell down the stairs of a plane. It was so hard on them.
He won't do it though. So...
Who cares? You know he'd be very polite and jovial even. If he's weird enough to think up such a thing as having a thing in common with Barack, and being all underhand, tho it's lame-- he's not going to be put out by such an obvious sort of thing as black cousins.
The brown mustard on the tan suit was their coup de grace. Barack wins, again.
I'm not sure that a 13 year old boy doing the pee pee dance qualifies, but they can run with it if it helps them sleep.
I dont' remember that one.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Dry. With a cactus.