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Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane
EVERY group has their righteous grievence against other groups. The Irish dispise the English, the Poles the Russians; and the French, well, just about everybody. Greeks should be demanding free money from the Italians because the Romans held Greeks as slaves. And why not? We are all victims if we choose to be.
My Cherokee ancestors certainly deserve free money from the Iroquois, Catawba, Chickasaw and especially the Shawnee. It is common knowledge that Shawnee wealth had nothing to do with their personal accomplishments, but instead it came to them through what previous generations secured.
Perhaps the answer is for EVERY group to give free money to every other group that they have offended. If your ancestors were members of an African tribe that sold their African enemies to Dutch slave merchants, then your money goes to African Americans whose African ancestors your African ancestors sold. Mormans will line their pockets with the cash of those other Christians who chased them out of Missouri and into the deserts of the West. If you happen to be of mixed Cherokee and Irish desent, you will get a check from dozens of groups because everyone knows your ancestors got screwed by just about everybody.
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Don't forget my English ancestors who were enslaved by the Romans, and my great, great, great grandparents on to my parents who grew up in Appalachia.