I feel its a slap in the face when i am told i am a racist and have white privilege and owe reparations when i was raised in poverty that may of started when the breadwinner of my family was killed fighting for the north and led to a cycle of poverty i grew up as part of.
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I know of at least one of my ancestors who owned a slave. The slave's name was Jan and he was bought for 50 beaverskins in the Mohawk River Valley. I'd have to look up the year. I guess he was probably black, there were black slaves in the North. It's sad, but sad things have also been done TO my ancestorsl. Everyone can say the same. We just need to move on.