Obama isn't the only one whose ancestors owned slaves (DOESN'T EVERYONE???)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | March 4, 2007 | MARK BROWN Sun-Times Columnist

[Chi-townChief]

This is the third article in today's Sun-Times where a liberal columnist attempts to defuse Barack Hussein's slave ownership crisis. Pretty impressive showing by the lefties of their unquestioning support for Obama even at this early date.

Here are the other two articles:

Relatively meaningless (HITLER'S RELATIVES AND OBAMA'S SLAVE-HOLDING ANCESTRY)

Bill Clinton is Hillary's best bet to bridging her racial divide (VS. SLAVE-OWNING OBAMA AT SELMA)

[Smedley]

Yet somehow GWB is a NAZI because his grandfather did business with the German gov't in 1939.

[Tax-chick]

They're right - it doesn't matter. Next controversy?

[Jeffrey_D.]

I wish everyone would just leave it alone and get on with it..........at one time it was legal, now it is not!


It was wrong and it was corrected......by Republicans!!!

[bmwcyle]

My family were PA coal miners and railroad workers. My German grandfather that was in the mines fought against Irish in their small town. Life was different in the 1920s.

[Quick or Dead]

This is as stupid as the Virginia legislature wasting time with the "apology for slavery" nonsense, as well as my own state of Missouri. If you, at some point in your life, have owned slaves, then you should apologize. If you haven't, then go on about your business. If you have been forced to pick cotton while in a legal state of involuntary servitude, then you deserve an apology (from the person to whose service you were in). If none of the above applies to you, then shut up and get on with your life.

[Jeffrey_D.]

Not that it matters who corrected it............

[perfect stranger]

Only liberals get that pass.

Strom Thurman and Trent Lott are still as bad as Hitler when they use their special sunglasses that make them blind to U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd's past.

The charade of the MSM becomes even more transparent as time passes.

[Mr. Mojo]

"And it is a true measure of progress that the descendant of a slave owner would come to marry a student from Kenya and produce a son who would grow up to be a candidate for president of the United States." - Obama spokesman Bill Burton

Spare us, Bill. Being a candidate for President doesn't mean squat. Need evidence? Kucinich, Nader, Sharpton, Jackson, etc.

[TRY ONE]

Which is worse, having ancestors who owned slaves, or being a KKK Grand Dragon like Sen. Robert Byrd and stringing a few up from the nearest white oak tree???

[altura]

So, now it's okay to own slaves???

I'm hoping they will go to the next step and decide it's okay to smoke and get those d--- smoking nazis off our backs.

Anyone who has long-time antecedants in the south will run across a few slaves. One didn't have to be particularly wealthy to own a few. My GGGG (some number of G's) was a Baptist missionary/preacher in South Carolina and his will showed 3 slaves.

It's kinda like being able to afford a cleaning lady today -- wish I could.

I mean, forget it already, it was another time in a galaxy far, far away. It should never have been brought up. (thank you, Hillary)

[Chi-townChief]

Quite a problem for Obama and the reparations crew (which Barack Hussein says he's against; now we know why)

[Tax-chick]

LOL - I hadn't thought of that!

[TommyDale]

"(DOESN'T EVERYONE???)"

No, actually my ancestors were slaves to the British in Ireland. We demand reparations, by the way.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

"....Baltimore Sun reporting that it appears one of Sen. Barack Obama's ancestors on his mother's side was a slave owner...."

Yeah.....and it is also entirely that Obama's daddy the elite foreign-educated kenyan has some slave-sellers/owners in his own ancestry....

nonetheless, the race-pimps ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS avoid the fact that America threw slavery off in less than a century after America was formed

[hadaclueonce]

mine were too poor to have slaves in Indiana, where is my check? where is my daughters free education?

If you are looking for a handout, jodie has your girl.

KMA!

[berdie]

Soooo.. Your point is most excellent. We can all be judged by our ancestors actions..not our own? This whole thing about looking into the distant past is a little bit koo-koo. My grandfather wasn't someone I would like to be a compadre with either.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Yeah.....and it is also entirely that Obama's daddy

Yeah.....and it is also entirely POSSIBLE that Obama's daddy

Sorry....phone rang

[GSlob]

"or being a KKK Grand Dragon like Sen. Robert Byrd "
well, if memory serves, he never rose to a grand dragon and was merely a kleagle or something similar. do not mistake a lieutenant for a lieutenant general.

[AnAmericanMother]

But the poor Welsh and Scots that were kidnapped away to slavery in Ireland (like St. Patrick) just called. They want reparations too.

Give it up, guys! It's too complicated. Given the prevalence of slavery in EVERY culture back to the dawn of time . . . until the Brits started the ball rolling on abolition back in the early 19th century . . . we all have slaves and slaveholders on the family tree.

This writer was so worried he might have a Confederate soldier on the family tree. Sheesh . . . I've got 8 or 9 of them, and I still live.