Ping.
"Bernhard Goetz, who shot some black youths"
Bernhard Goetz, who shot some criminal savages in self-defense.
There, that's better.
/sarc
So, should the Thurmonds demand a refund? /sarc
The story I read on this earlier led me to believe he was descended from one of Thurmans relatives.
Now they say his antecedents were merely owned by a relative of Strom Thurmond.
This is no big deal. So what?
My gut tells me this is contrived. I'm sure Al Sharpton's family must have been owned by Al Gore's great-great-great-grandfather. Just look at the similarity of the first names.
Y'know, some people just go around looking for trouble. Thurmond's alleged slave-owning ancestors are dead. Sharpton's alleged slave ancestors are dead. So what. He should get on with his life and get over it. But nooooooooo ... just more fuel for his victim-mentality poor-me, I'm-oppressed-because-my-ancestors-200-years-ago-were-oppressed, fire. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this.
Barack Obama and Vice President Cheney are cousins. I think Obama is also related to President Bush and President Truman.
Sharpton was a marginal figure in the Democratic Party, until the Clintons sought him out.
He's too dumb to realize it, but he's still on the "Plantation".
The Thurmonds did not own much.
Actually, Sharpton should be grateful that his relatives were slaves. Today, Sharpton claims to be a Christian Minister. That would not have happened had his ancestors been left on the shores of Africa, worshiping false gods in idolatry. God very well may have been judging those people by enslaving them, just as Israel was enslaved to the Babylonians for the soul purpose of judgment of sin, followed up by a restoration of the heart back to God.
I'm not saying that the early American slave owners were right and justified in their treatment of the slaves, (the Babylonians were a wicked people but God used them anyway to rebuke Israel), but they did end up being led to salvation of the soul here in America.
For that, Rev. Al should be grateful.
Obviously my opinion will not be a popular one since the term slavery in American has a very bad connotation. But in reality 'slavery' is very popular. Many of us are 'slaves' to these computers. Or to the TV's. In the Mosaic Law, if a person committed a crime and got caught, his punishment was that he had to pay 'restitution' to the offended. This usually was more than the actual value of the crime. Sometimes it was twice the value, sometimes seven fold. If the offender did not have the means to pay the fine, he became the 'servant' (slave) of the victim until his debt was paid off. This was God ordained as a punishment for sin. The offender was to be treated fairly and all his physical needs met. God even had a provision that if a slave had purchased back their freedom but enjoyed being a servant to their master, the master could enter a contract with the slave to keep the relationship going. The slave would have a mark placed on the earlobe with an awl signifying the contract.
Try teaching that in a public school during Black History Month.
I have to wonder if they are insinuating with this, that if Strom's ancestors were like he was that Sharpton and Strom might be related by blood.
I have Winfrey ancestors and I assume they were slave owners. I've always thought that if my ancestors owned Oprah's ancestors, then they got the last laugh through Oprah. I'm not an Oprah fan, but she's earned her money in the American ssytem and she's a lot wealthier than all my descendents will most probably be for decades to come all put together.