i feel like holding anyone personally responsible is wrong, but there is such thing as systemic and institutional privilege, which people whose ancestors weren't slaves or native americans still benefit from.
my entire family immigrated to america in the twentieth century -- none of my ancestors were involved in either the native american genocide nor slavery. but i'm conscious of how my ethnicity affords me privilege, privilege whose origin is the enslavement and slaughter of other groups.
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Date: 2012-06-21 03:59 am (UTC)my entire family immigrated to america in the twentieth century -- none of my ancestors were involved in either the native american genocide nor slavery. but i'm conscious of how my ethnicity affords me privilege, privilege whose origin is the enslavement and slaughter of other groups.