Let this sink in - A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist

[rustysgurl]

100. Offensive doesn't begin to describe it

As an amateur genealogist, I've learned that my German and Irish ancestors came to America from the 1850s to the early 1900s. I always thought that this time in history was the earliest my ancestors appeared in the U.S. I was wrong. On my mother's side I am related to Jonathan Hager, one of the settlers of Hagerstown, MD in the 1760s. By birth (and by marriage -- yes, my husband I are 10th cousins -- the horror!) I am related to one of the fathers of the Virginias, Thomas Farley, who settled in Virginia in the 1620s. I am also related to settlers of the first Swedish colony in the US (in Pennsylvania) c 1638.

Does my more recent immigrant ancestry make me less American? Does my earlier immigrant ancestry -- i.e., having "forefathers" -- make me more American? It's all absolute and complete b.s. I am here thanks to those that came before, but in no way does this entitle me to more than my Brazilian daughter-in-law who just passed her citizenship test and interview and is awaiting her swearing in ceremony. I am sick nigh unto death of these entitled separatists who think because their "daddies" and "granddaddies" did such and such they deserve more than anyone else. That these words came out of the mouth of a high-level elected official is shocking, but not surprising. These beliefs have been around for a long time. The orange dictator just made it ok for those of Schmitt's ilk to crawl out from under their rocks and spew their racist filth.

God, I hope the midterms happen.