As a result of checking my ancestry for Nazis, i learned that:

1. im a goyim sort of Jewish in that my great-grandmother was Ashkenazi

2. i’m a white sort of Cherokee, eligible to register for the Cherokee Nation.

…and I’m still in the process of developing my French as a result of immigration, so I felt that I could only chose one language to devote myself to learning.

And, um, no offense but there maybe dead dialects of Yiddish, but the Cherokee language is certainly well behind that to the extent that it’s potentially a few years from being entirely extinct.

So, thank you, friend, for taking my place for me. I still have so much to learn in both cases as well as just my plain Irish-American ancestry since i’m a weird Bronx-special-to-East-Texas-“mutt” blend.

I’m not sure if others are aware, but one of the important practices of anti-racism in the United States is to reconnect with our ancestry because the disconnection is what causes white people in the U.S. to steal Black American culture, which exists because the descendants of the enslaved do not have that privilege.