More on the fallout from Paris

[archaeobob]

Uggh.

I know that this isn't the most uplifting of topics (although I will be posting something positive after this), but it is something I'm very worried about (and a subject that I know only too much about).

Talk2Action has an article about a proposed bill to create a Department of Judeo-Christian Values. Based on the people proposing it, I

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[archaeobob]

Yeah... people tend to forget "little" facts like that.

I think it's part political... like the Irish Potato famine. While Irish people were starving to death, there was a large food surplus in parts of England. I don't remember the reason why none of that food went to Ireland - whether it was politics (ethnic discrimination - also very common in England against Irish and Scots) or greed (not willing to sell the food for an affordable price - because people were starving and would pay more for food).

Some of my ancestors were in the Jamestown settlement - according to my grandfather they were "indentured servants" forced to come to Jamestown to serve the rich settlers (who were here to find gold - or get rich in some other way). Others were on the Mayflower... and I strongly suspect that those ones were not nice people (the Mayflower settlers were here for religious reasons - they were thrown out of Europe because they kept trying to take over countries - like the Dominionists today). I had a ship's captain as one of my ancestors - and at the time the main "crop" going from New England were Native American slaves!

Maybe it's an unwillingness to admit to the truth about a lot of one's ancestors - that they weren't all the pious, good people that so many wish they were? I for one find the truth to be more interesting - but I'm also very lucky in having such interesting ancestors!