Bootney Lee Farnsworth
Diamond Member
I was the first person on either side of my family all the way back to homo erectus to attend a university.
I received NOTHING in inheritance from any parent, grandparent, or otherwise because there was nothing.
I had no connections or relationships for job opportunities.
I had no insiders and no legacy status.
I worked my way thought college and grad school.
No relative has ever loaned or gifted me any money other than minuscule amounts for birthdays or graduation.
No ancestor of mine owned or benefited from slavery. In fact, my great great great grandfather was a poor white farmer from Louisiana whose father was a poor immigrant from Scotland. He competed against slave-owner farms and was conscripted into the army by the CSA to defend an institution of which he not only did NOT benefit, but which was to his direct detriment.
My other ancestors were poor white cajuns or Irish immigrants who arrived here long after the NA's had been moved to reservations and paid for their trouble. My ancestors weren't exactly treated fairly.
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I am willing to listen.
I am not interested in arguing. I will not respond. I am just listening.
Just tell me how I have benefitted from any form of racism.
I'll hang up and listen.
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I received NOTHING in inheritance from any parent, grandparent, or otherwise because there was nothing.
I had no connections or relationships for job opportunities.
I had no insiders and no legacy status.
I worked my way thought college and grad school.
No relative has ever loaned or gifted me any money other than minuscule amounts for birthdays or graduation.
No ancestor of mine owned or benefited from slavery. In fact, my great great great grandfather was a poor white farmer from Louisiana whose father was a poor immigrant from Scotland. He competed against slave-owner farms and was conscripted into the army by the CSA to defend an institution of which he not only did NOT benefit, but which was to his direct detriment.
My other ancestors were poor white cajuns or Irish immigrants who arrived here long after the NA's had been moved to reservations and paid for their trouble. My ancestors weren't exactly treated fairly.
.
I am willing to listen.
I am not interested in arguing. I will not respond. I am just listening.
Just tell me how I have benefitted from any form of racism.
I'll hang up and listen.
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