@GuyDudeman @housepanther @selzero

OMG! This is just horrible. I'm so sorry!

I can honestly, and thankfully, say, my family didn't own plantations or enslave people. Too recently immigrated here. The one side that came right before the civil war actually worked with and loved the Indigenous people. Enough so that one tribe deeded a great deal of land to my great*4 grandfather. The city stole it. Any money in the family was lost fighting the city of Chicago

@GuyDudeman @housepanther @selzero

I'm glad you got out. That has to be difficult.

My mom, a #Union teacher then professor. My Dad, owned a real estate company but was the village president, the president of the Chicago suburb mayor's and Manager's association, worked with the Democratic caucus and was asked to run for the Senate by the governor. My mom wouldn't let him 😂

@GuyDudeman @housepanther @selzero

I'm much older and have always been left, way left, of many. I won't say most because I believe most are left of anything that is reported in the media in the US.

My parents, both gone now, life long progressives. Campaigned for McGovern with enthusiasm and never changed