WASP: Finding My Family’s Truths | Jenny Watts | TEDxPasadena

[@annieseaside]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 A real WASP familt lines are people who arrived in the 1600’s, sometimes 1700’s from Scotland and England. They were Puritan or Quaker and morally opposed to Slavery. They settled Massachusetts, RI, CT, VT and Maine. They NEVER owned slaves. They owned books, they treated everyone as they wished to be treated. They values Education and hard work. They did not whine. They took personal responsibility. They came to this land so they would never again be judged by their family, east their Father or Ancestors did. Hate was the chance to make your own way, become a land owner.

[@richmrstonestone]

🙏👌

[@richmrstonestone]

This lady is just trying to be woke....so petty/ ridiculous

[@skelly9381]

dam talk about privilege.

[@katelynnehansen8115]

The term refers to specifically wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

[@katelynnehansen8115]

Also, it’s simply not accurate to say that Quaker’s, across the board, were abolitionists. Some were, some were mixed on the topic.

[@celestialoutcomes1742]

She's not a WASP. You can tell how she talks. Middle class at best.

[@bubbag8895]

But her ancestors were warriors and kings. Now she is just a communist

[@WhitneyDahlin]

Yeah exactly. Maybe she grew up wealthy but never became financially successful herself.

[@matthew-dq8vk]

You speak as if being middle class or lower is a bad thing.

[@superstonerboy8670]

Where's the P in wasp

[@eugenehiggins3478]

Is this going to help blacks feel better or improve their lot? Or all wasp feel guilty? And why personally is she feeling guilty for the sins of her ancestors? They will bear and answer for their own.

[@margaretm.seiler7972]

Wonderful TED talk, Jenny!

[@peteradaniel]

you obviously didn't listen to a word she said.

[@hylomane]

She feels guilty because she didn't have to work for any of what her father had. A lot of these modern leftists are like that. What's that saying? You don't know what you have until you lose it? An entire generation of spoon fed babies, whose parents sacrificed so much to provide for them, now throwing it all away. I guess they deserve what they get. Just leave the rest of us out of it, just because we share your skin color. You don't speak for me.

[@bryanbradley6871]

Why should WASP feel guilty? They're the ones who outlawed slavery... Should Arabs feel guilty for having slavery long after US (up until the 1970s and even today)

[@bryanbradley6871]

@@hylomane why should she feel guilty? Should rich Arabs feel guilty for profiting from slavery long after the US ended slavery (1970s and even a little bit today) Should Jewish people feel guilty for controling over half of the media and large amount of global wealth even though they are 0.3% of global population?

[@bryanbradley6871]

Imagine saying Jewish people have too much power

[@lovecraftianwalrus4490]

What do you mean?

[@bryanbradley6871]

@@lovecraftianwalrus4490 Bro it's 8 words imagine saying that Jewish people have too much power in a country founded by Jewish people who created the whole foundation of the country or heck saying Jewish people have too global power and influence...

[@sh1pme2themune9]

Oh, i bet she wouldn't.

[@sandothemando8924]

She never even mentioned the word WASP or WASP culture and ethnicity.

[@Adam-bq2vw]

I’m a WASP he grew up in a place where men did NOT wear pin striped suits; they wore bib overalls, or a work coat if the weather was cold. They DID, however, get up at six a.m. I get sick of people acting like all white people come from a background like hers. Most do NOT. p.s. Everyone’s ancestors did both good and bad things. p.p.s. She’s melodramatic.

[@mrsvirginiamissouri]

WASP does not describe all white people. Being WASP is about privilege and being a member of upper class. Just being white, anglo and protestant does not make you WASP.

[@celestialoutcomes1742]

She's not actually a WASP. You can tell nu how she speaks. She was the help.

[@katelynnehansen8115]

The W stands for wealthy, not white. Anglo-Saxon Protestant is what signifies that they are white, mostly of British descent.

[@matthew-dq8vk]

@@katelynnehansen8115 Why are you so interested in this? You do not look like you are of british isles descent

[@katelynnehansen8115]

@@matthew-dq8vk that’s a very weird question. First because I’m over 1/3 Irish. Second, I’m simply clarifying the definition of WASP. Do I need to be Hawaiian to explain what Aloha means? Russian to explain what the Red Square is? What a strange stance you have.

[@karenmeador6667]

Thank you! And watching this for the first time in 2021, I'm struck by the related material on the sugar and rum trade in the expanded 1619 book. Thank you for sharing the letter and these feelings.

[@NarrowShouldersOpenMind]

My family are actually Baptist Rhode Island old money (descendants of Richard Smith, for example) and I just have to note that technically Rhode Island colonists weren’t WASPs.

[@anthonydedeeeeeeeee7524]

They'll never apologize or even acknowledge how they treated Irish/Polish and Italian Immigrants through the early 1900s In America.

[@bubbag8895]

They can't.. they're dead

[@bryanbradley6871]

Dude Arabs do the same thing in ARABIA... Every country/people do these things. I know people in China who do the same thing

[@Arishapiro9940]

I’m a proud WASP and you can’t change my mind

[@dani3078]

Are wasp have family tree to 1000 year?

[@Arishapiro9940]

I don’t understand what your wrote

[@dani3078]

@@Arishapiro9940 can wasp trace there ancestors to 1000 years ago Family name Tribe name

[@djc2990]

No actual WASP would ever have a ridiculous profile icon like that.

[@Arishapiro9940]

@@djc2990 ok I’m 75% Anglo with the rest being Scottish, Dutch, French, and Scots Irish. My family dates back to the mayflower and Puritan migration(mostly), colonial Virginia(and the Carolinas), and colonial New York. I’m a descendant of several American politicians. My family is upper middle class and I’m a Episcopalian.

[@mrdompaul]

Wow this was really powerful!

[@noorclean2915]

Wow she got that Karen haircut 🤣🤣

[@MauriceCharles]

With that anti-Karen Spike “message”.

[@KittredgeRitter]

Who sold them? What race and religion? Muslim Africans by any chance? Yup! Who ended slavery? That’s right WASP!

[@themadlad8540]

I think wasp community's are welcomed right now.

[@thirtythree4575]

All the world is a stage.

[@DaneStolthed]

Oh boy, identity politics...

[@brandonwardmotivates]

Very courageous!

[@brianc9374]

how so? It seems more like virtue signalling than anything else

[@sh1pme2themune9]

What if Im WASP, irish, welsh, scottish, german, cherokee? Do i pay myself reparations? Because I will. You can't stop me.

[@joshcagle2395]

You can't be a wasp if you are Cherokee. White Ango Saxon Protestant.

[@sh1pme2themune9]

@@joshcagle2395 Woah! You can be Anglo AND Saxon?!

[@matthew-dq8vk]

​@@joshcagle2395Lots of old stock Americans have some percentage of Indian blood way back.

[@joshcagle2395]

@@sh1pme2themune9 Apparently.

[@OhLookItsJonBoy]

She's upset over a deceased relative from hundreds of years ago who was a product of his time.

[@katherinealbee7501]

Why do I hear crunching?

[@NarrowShouldersOpenMind]

Unsettlingly dry mouth

[@liam.4454]

Why do wasps feel guilty? They've had it just as tough as anyone else, check out the shankhill road in Belfast if you want to see working class non entitled wasps who've lived through war

[@annieseaside]

We do not. We didn’t own slaves. This apologist is welcome to her guilt. 🤮🤮🤮

[@raffaojeda]

@@annieseaside She tries to trace her gulty past.

[@rudyardwalker9113]

It's ridiculous

[@bryanbradley6871]

Idk... Because most other people would brag about it if it was their people and use their success to prove God favors them.

[@matthew-dq8vk]

Shankhill road is in ireland and full of celts. Not wasps or germanic people

[@daniellewis9616]

Great job, Jenny; very moving and thoughtful talk about very complex matters.

[@sunfire5790]

So y’all gonna cough up all that old money to the descendants of those slaves 👀

[@_d0ser]

Get over it.