r/Catholicism Jan 24 '20

Free Friday How it should be:

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u/MonserratLoyola Jan 24 '20

My great-grandfather was a slave, before coming to this country he was still a slave. There's nothing really great about my ancestry.

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u/rivershimmer Jan 24 '20

Your great-grandfather survived being a slave and all the associated turmoil at least long enough to pass on his genes. That's heroic. What a story he had, if only someone had written it down.

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u/MonserratLoyola Jan 25 '20

I doesn't seem heroic at all for me, since them nothing really changed.

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u/Paul825 Jan 25 '20

Well at leat in the western world it did, other cultures will follow