I ' m criticizing the absurdity of your line of thinking . I don ' t believe that the sins of the father pass through any bodily fluids . In fact all eight of my greatgrandparents came directly from the HungaryPrussian area , so no part of my DNA had any role in America post 1880 s . Therefore , even if guilt did pass by body fluid , I am as exempt from the Trail of Tears as someone living in Poland right now . I don ' t owe Native Americans anything , any more than they owe my people for World War I , the dissolution of Prussia , World War II , and Polish jokes . But because I have fair skin somehow I ' m guilty and should reflect on that . It ' s such bullshit . All of humankind has suffered since Homo sapiens first picked up a stone to throw at another . It benefits no one to dwell on it and , furthermore , to try to ruin everything by tying it to misery . People like you think truth can ' t hurt anyone because it ' s true but that ' s not true . Dwelling on Native American problems hurts Thanksgiving . Let ' s say a woman was raped at Christmas . Should people remind her about it every year ? Why not ? It ' s the truth . It happened . Let ' s pause to reflect on it every year . It ' s real . And maybe all men around her should feel guilty she was raped , as it was a man who raped her . That ' s the essence of your argument . And it ' s absurd .