My sister is a culinary arts major and dressed up as a Sioux Chef ... No one got it.

If you want to carry that guilt, go for it, but I don't have to feel bad about shit that happened hundreds of years ago, after my ancestors immigrated to the U.S. fwiw.

Funny how every white person says their ancestors immigrated to the US afterwards. None of them are responsible for slavery or Native genocide, how lucky we all are!

So you can trace back every person on your mom's side of the family all the way back, eh? You're totally not basing that off of one immigrant are you? You realize your family history doesn't just follow a name, it follows your parents, and their parents, and so on. Of which there are always two. Your family history isn't just your dad's dad's dad.

Let's say your "family" got here around 1900, just to make it easy. That'd make the people who immigrated here your Great-Great grandparents, right?

Well every generation you go back doubles the amount of "parents" we're dealing with. Right? So there's

You

Which came from

A-Parent / B-Parent

So how many grandparents did you have?

A1-Grandparent / A2-Grandparent B1-Grandparent / B2-Grandparent

Meaning you had (GGP for Great-grandparent to shorten this):

A1a-GGP/A1b-GGP A2a-GGP/A2b-GGP B1a-GGP/B1b-GGP B2a-GGP/B2b-GGP

We're already up to 8 individuals. They ALL came over after the Native American genocide? How convenient. And that's only at great grandparents. Keep in mind, we're actually extrapolating back one more generation, which would double this. Just to get back to about 1900 or so we're dealing with 16 individuals, minimum.

And every time we go back we double that number. The next step is 32 individuals. Then 64. And so on. And you're telling me that NONE of them, anywhere along these lines immigrated here prior to 1900? How lucky for you.

EVEN if that were the case, it's pretty irrelevant. Our society is built upon the blood and bones of the Natives that were slaughtered to get here. It isn't just on the heads of the people who killed, it's on every one of us for living in splendor upon their land and their carcasses that were left out to rot as the foundations of our Empire.

Oh, and unlike 99.99999999999% of white people, I don't pretend my ancestors didn't live here prior to me. I have followed a lot of family genealogy and I am directly descended (on my mom's mom's side) from this monster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sevier He was later requoted after the Sand Creek Massacre when he said that it was fine to kill Native American children because "Nits make lice."

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