As an Italian American I'm still waiting for my reparations check from Africa & the Middle East for enslaving my people during the Arab & Barbary Slave Trades.
I also need a reparations check for Italian internment camps during WW2.
OH and Italians were redlined against by both white and black banks so I'll take some money from both groups, too.
I also demand anyone with Irish, Slavic, Spanish, Armenian, Greek or Bosnian blood get $$
I'm part Lithuanian and my roomate is Romanian, we joke all the time about how slavic people were the original slaves. Slav is the root word of slave.
slave (n.) late 13c., "person who is the chattel or property of another," from Old French esclave (13c.), from Medieval Latin Sclavus "slave" (source also of Italian schiavo, French esclave, Spanish esclavo), originally "Slav" (see Slav); so used in this secondary sense because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.
Though we both know we came from slaves somewhere in our heritage (because every single person on the planet also probably has too) we don't build our personalities or lives out of that fact....we don't burn our own towns down, loot, riot and then blame others, cry about it and demand free shit. And we above all don't blame other random people for the crimes of their ancestors because that's just retarded.
So many people don't know this history. It's sad, really.