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Whereas, Europeans kept my forebears in bondage some three centuries
toiling without pay,
Whereas, Europeans ignored the human rights pledges of the Declaration
of Independence and the United States Constitution,
Whereas, the Emancipation
Proclamation, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments meant little
more than empty words,
Therefore, Americans of European ancestry are guilty of great
crimes against my ancestors and their progeny.
But, in the recognition
Europeans themselves have been victims of various and sundry human
rights violations to wit: the Norman Conquest, the Irish Potato
Famine, Decline of the Hapsburg Dynasty, Napoleonic and Czarist
adventurism, and gratuitous insults and speculations about the
intelligence of Europeans of Polish descent,
I, Walter E. Williams,
do declare full and general amnesty and pardon to all persons
of European ancestry, for both their own grievances, and those
of their forebears, against my people.
Therefore, from
this day forward Americans of European ancestry can stand straight
and proud knowing they are without guilt and thus obliged not
to act like damn fools in their relationships with Americans of
African ancestry.
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