XPost: rec.arts.tv, soc.culture.african.american   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2024-02-22 06:09:46 +0000, The Horny Goat said:   
      
   > On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:00:23 -0700, anim8rfsk    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Yeah, but what the author doesn't realize is that blacks also invented the   
   >> German polka and they invented the music of the vaqueros and they invented   
   >> the Irish reel as well. Blacks invented everything, dontcha know! (And even   
   if   
   >> they didn't, we have to pretend they did or we're raaaaciiist because   
   >> slavery.)   
   >   
   > While I know you're joking this is one I don't feel the least guilty   
   > on this ludicrous claim since (a) it's not at all true and (b) even if   
   > it were it wasn't part of things in any part of the United States (or   
   > Britain for that matter) where any of my forebears lived unless you   
   > count indentured servitude for 5 years to pay for the cost of their   
   > passage to America which several of my ancestors were.   
   >   
   > So should I be claiming reparations from Barack Obama? (none of whose   
   > black ancestors were Americans though some of his white ancestors had   
   > been slave holders)   
   >   
   > Or should I DEMAND reparations because some of my other ancestors were   
   > Royal Navy commissioned officers who fought the slave trade? (Some of   
   > them died in their service during the period of the battle against the   
   > slave trade though I haven't determined where they were fighting at   
   > the time of their deaths - and in the eyes of some of these black   
   > 'activists' that should be good enough without further evidence)   
      
   The first humans evolved in north Africa, so technically everyone on   
   the planet (past, present, and future) is actually African.  :-)   
      
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