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You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument

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Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument - The New York Times

According to the rule of hypodescent (the social and legal practice of assigning a genetically mixed-race person to the race with less social power) I am the daughter of two black people, the granddaughter of four black people, the great-granddaughter of eight black people. Go back one more generation and it gets less straightforward, and more sinister. As far as family history has always told, and as modern DNA testing has allowed me to confirm, I am the descendant of black women who were domestic servants and white men who raped their help.

It is an extraordinary truth of my life that I am biologically more than half white, and yet I have no white people in my genealogy in living memory. No. Voluntary. Whiteness. I am more than half white, and none of it was consensual. White Southern men — my ancestors — took what they wanted from women they did not love, over whom they had extraordinary power, and then failed to claim their children.

What is a monument but a standing memory? An artifact to make tangible the truth of the past. My body and blood are a tangible truth of the South and its past. The black people I come from were owned by the white people I come from. The white people I come from fought and died for their Lost Cause. And I ask you now, who dares to tell me to celebrate them? Who dares to ask me to accept their mounted pedestals?
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good read
 
Citizen said:
Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument - The New York Times



good read
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Excellent read.

I don’t just come from the South. I come from Confederates. I’ve got rebel-gray blue blood coursing my veins. My great-grandfather Will was raised with the knowledge that Edmund Pettus was his father. Pettus, the storied Confederate general, the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, the man for whom Selma’s Bloody Sunday Bridge is named.

Poor woman. Imaging having that nasty bloodline.
 
They reason the South made sex between the races illegal is that slave owners often didn't want to see their children enslaved and slave owners would try to free their children.
 
You beat me to it, Citizen.

This is a must read for everyone.
 
trouble13 said:
How do we know her ancestors were not willing participants?

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When someone owns you, you have no will
 
Drawdown said:
Another black woman trying to be the next Maya Angelou. She needs to up her skills.
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Another racist demonizing a truth speaker
 
tres borrachos said:
Excellent read.

I don’t just come from the South. I come from Confederates. I’ve got rebel-gray blue blood coursing my veins. My great-grandfather Will was raised with the knowledge that Edmund Pettus was his father. Pettus, the storied Confederate general, the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, the man for whom Selma’s Bloody Sunday Bridge is named.

Poor woman. Imaging having that nasty bloodline.
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It's a shame you still have so many Southerners all gung-ho about the Confederacy and it's "nostalgic" legacy.

I, as a proud Texan, can say that the Confederacy can go **** itself.
 
tres borrachos said:
Excellent read.

I don’t just come from the South. I come from Confederates. I’ve got rebel-gray blue blood coursing my veins. My great-grandfather Will was raised with the knowledge that Edmund Pettus was his father. Pettus, the storied Confederate general, the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, the man for whom Selma’s Bloody Sunday Bridge is named.

Poor woman. Imaging having that nasty bloodline.
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I don't have to imagine it. I could write about it, but won't.

It's part of almost every African-American alive today who can trace his ancestry back to slavery. Some more than others. But all, nonetheless.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Cant be willing if you don't have a choice
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How do you know he/she didn't or that he/she wasnt the one who initiated things. Without evidence, we only have her assumptions. Dont you think forbidden live existed back then?

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trouble13 said:
How do you know he/she didn't or that he/she wasnt the one who initiated things. Without evidence, we only have her assumptions. Dont you think forbidden live existed back then?

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We are talking about slaves here. Do you know anything about slavery...Geeesh:doh
 
trouble13 said:
Not all slaves were unhappy.

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Yeah, being a captive, forced to work for free is a blessing.. You should try it sometimes
 
Citizen said:
We are talking about slaves here. Do you know anything about slavery...Geeesh:doh
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I know they are capable of being attracted to other people.

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Citizen said:
Yeah, being a captive, forced to work for free is a blessing.. You should try it sometimes
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Some slaves were treated very well and were endeared to their owners.

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trouble13 said:
Some slaves were treated very well and were endeared to their owners.

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Just like your puppy dog...Right?
 
trouble13 said:
I know they are capable of being attracted to other people.

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I think you are being silly at this point.
 
I think I'm missing something. If her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents are all black then how did she end up being half white?
 
Citizen said:
I think you are being silly at this point.
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Whats silly about proposing the possibility that she is wrong that she is a descendant of rape. She hasnt offered any evidence to support her supposition. Its just as likely that she is the product of a consequential affair.

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armycowboy said:
Why the desire to demonize her?
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I am not demonizing her. I am saying her piece is a pedestrian knock off of Dr. Angelou. She needs to find her own voice.
 
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