My grandparents came here from Norway and Sweden. Despite having viking ancestry, they were the sweetest, most caring left wing people on earth… My mother’s side was from Texas. I don’t communicate with them at all since I was a teenager and a cousin tried to seduce me. I’ll take the Vikings over the cousin fuckers. One side has distant slavery over 1000 years ago, and were violent raiders for several hundred years. The other side is currently racists and historically recent slave owners, and incestuous assholes that back a fascist. I will side with the Vikings all day, every day over that.

A lesson? Take all the time I need?

Please don’t condescend. This is not news to me. Many of the yts that I grew up around were openly racist AF.

My grandparents on one side were absolutely destitute native Americans living on the reservation, so poor that one of their 10 children rolled off the bed and froze to death, and on the other side my grandparents were the child of one of the co-founders of AIG and lived on millionaires row in New York and a psychopathic Alabamaian girl who fired a shotgun at her own father because he wouldn’t take her into town to get her ice cream and after she missed when he grabbed her and said, “Do you know what they would have done to you if you would have killed me?” she responded with, “They would have taken me into town and gotten me some ice cream because my dad had just died.”

Which sounds funny in retrospect, and it kind of is, but then imagine being the grandchild of a woman raised by this woman.

Bernie Sanders disagrees with your 2 Groups hypothesis

…have tried to hand down their values.

My Grandma was running away from the Marcos regime in the Philippines.

There’s more than two stories in America.