White history is not everyone's history.
A white person decided to speak on my ancestors (which, I mean, wtf? Is this what we're doing out here now?) in trying to talk shit. I won't share the post or user because they don't deserve the attention and I'm not interested in my name being tied to theirs in any way, shape, or form. I do, though, want to touch on some things quickly, because such a post does bring up some important points:
Firstly, it takes a certain kind of audacity and sense of entitlement to think you're in any position to talk on anyone else's ancestors, dictate anyone else's ancestry, or project your white history on other people's family trees or on their ancestor work.
Secondly, I feel like using the talking point "unless you're Indigenous/Native, you're the product of immigrants and your family immigrated here" really erases the fact that so many Black Americans are, actually, in the US due to their ancestors being taken from their homelands, brought forcibly across the world in chains, and enslaved. That's the root of how my Black ancestors came to the US, as is the case for so many others. That's not quite the same as being an immigrant, and the continued insistence that all non-Indigenous people are the product of immigration is a disgusting and willful act of erasure of Black history, of US history, and of the lived experiences of Black and Mixed Black POC. White history is not everyone's history.
