It might be a good idea to remember that most white people in the US can trace their ancestry back to the human garbage (criminals, debtors, starving Irish, the lumpenproletariat) various European nations (especially Britain) dumped on the east coast of North America because public hangings just weren't profitable enough.
Our ancestors are mostly trash, we're mostly trash, and our descendants are likely to be mostly trash too.
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@generica I wouldn't be surprised if you were proudest of those who bought their way free. I would be, too.
Some of my ancestors settled in upstate New York. AFAIK, they didn't have slaves, and one of them lost an eye fighting for the Union, but they weren't above hiring black servants.
One of my ancestors eloped with one such servant, so if racists had their way and brought back the "one drop rule", I might just pass for white. My mother probably wouldn't, though.