Posted on 08/17/2017 3:21:11 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Al Gore. Despite the Slimes puff piece claiming his family never owned slaves, c’mon, rich Tennessee tobacco growers? You know they did.
Oh, how delicious the irony!
But of course, Anderson likes to take a penis up his rectum, so... he’s absolved. Sexual perversion trumps historical racism for today’s polit-elite. Tune in tomorrow for the latest version of What’s OK.
Add Ben Affleck to that list. He appeared on “Finding Your Roots” with Louis Gates, and managed to talk PBS into not including the fact that his ancestors owned slaves. After the secret was publicized, Affleck apologized profusely. Another liberal lying sack of $hit.
John McCain
John McCain is perhaps most well known as President Obama’s opponent in the 2008 presidential election. What is not as well known about McCain is that his ancestor owned about 120 slaves before the end of the Civil War.
The story of McCain’s family is significant, in that it teaches us about the ongoing legacy of slavery and racism in the U.S.
A Wall Street Journal article states that while descendants of McCain’s great-great-grandfather inherited and still own 1,500 acres of the original plantation land, the descendants of the Africans who were enslaved on the same plantation, “built a four -room school house with $1,750 they scraped together and $900 from philanthropy.” The black descendants also worked to save “enough to buy a small parcel of farmland.”
This is indicative of the inheritance of privilege: when it comes to wealth, white folks have been given a head start.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/21/10-celebs-whose-family-owned-black-slaves/4/
President Obama
According to research by the Baltimore Sun, one of Obama’s ancestors, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves who were recorded in the 1850 census in Nelson County, Ky. The same records indicate that another Obama’s ancestors, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves.
Note: We decided to add President Obama to this list despite the fact that he is not white. We made this decision based on the fact that the president’s mother’s ancestors owned slaves. Additionally, most African-American’s with white ancestors who owned slaves occurred as a result of unnatural relations between the slave and the slave master.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/21/10-celebs-whose-family-owned-black-slaves/5/
George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
According to researchers, a notoriously vicious slave trader, who brought captive slaves from West Africa to colonial America, is the same man whose descendants produced two U.S. presidents: George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush.
Slate.com reports:
“Twelve American presidents owned slaves, eight while serving in office, and at least 25 presidents count slave owners among their ancestors. But Thomas Walker a direct ancestor of George W. and George H.W. Bush was part of a much more appalling group: Thomas Walker was a notorious slave trader active in the late 18th century along the coast of West Africa. Walker, George H.W. Bush’s great-great-great grandfather, was the captain of, master of, or investor in at least 11 slaving voyages to West Africa between 1784 and 1792.”
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at least five Walker family households, George W. Bush’s ancestors by his father’s mother, owned slaves in Maryland’s Cecil County.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/21/10-celebs-whose-family-owned-black-slaves/3/
Somewhere in my and your history are slave-holders, slaves, peasants, war lords, merchants, soldiers, government officials and ditch diggers. Unless you believe in reincarnation or time travel, it all means nothing. Anderson Cooper isn’t responsible for what his ancestor did or didn’t do.
Just curious - is there any evidence of slave ownership in Donald trump’s ancestry?
Somehow, I’ll bet not.
Well, I’m here to say that my family owned slaves. I don’t know how many, but my grandmother had an obituary of a black lady in her scrapbook of family members. I never saw it till she died at 104, my dad said she was grandma’s nanny, a freed slave, and that my grandmother loved her like family. The nanny lived with her family until her passing.
NO! His show needs to be removed.
where Michelle Robinson Obama’s ancestor Jim Robinson, who was born a slave in 1850
Lol.. should have known someone would beat me to it ;-)
He honestly doesn’t even look real/human.. maybe alien (I was thinking more like a computer generated avatar :p)
They listed Obama-——which surprised me,and also John McCain and The Bushes.
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And a far-left a-hole to boot!
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