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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would someone prove eligibility? [/quote]

Robust genealogy research? Three of my ancestors were slaves - depending on how open the owner was about sleeping with his slaves, it's pretty easy to prove.  :cry: 
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First, I’m sorry your family experienced slavery. I do believe in generational trauma and the reverberation through the years.

I hope a follow up question isn’t insensitive. But, assuming bad records by the plantation, how would one prove this? It just seems like only a tiny sliver of impacted descendants could actually prove this history makes the bill unworkable. [/quote]

Why would you assume trauma? Its just an interesting family history is all - and proves this bill is moronic, since I'm white. [/quote]

?? It is a generational trauma for a majority of generational black American families.[/quote]

Sure, [b]and the reason I can't intimately understand it is because my half-white ancestor (the product of rape, in case that wasn't obvious) didn't wallow in his trauma. [/b]Others could learn from his determination. [/quote]

Did you read his diary? How do you know this? I have a lot of genealogical information on my ancestors from the 19th century, but I have very little idea of what any thought about their day-to-day lives because I've never read their diaries, letters, or anything else first-hand. They could have been saints or they could have been sinners, I have no clue.

Just because someone lived to old age, had a successful career, raised a family, etc. does not mean they didn't "wallow in trauma"--ask anyone who is the child of an alcoholic WWII or Vietnam vet, for example. [/quote]

We know he took of advantage of his ability to pass, ran multiple businesses, married, and had children. Trauma may have affected, but that's not wallowing by any definition. [/quote]

Okay, so he lived as a white man, married a white woman, had white children, and you think you know how he experienced that alienation from his heritage? He may have been economically successful, but that tells us nothing about his trauma. [/quote]

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