[philled]

Obama isn’t the descendant of slaves. If they offered reparations to all blacks, would he take it?

Or, would he be expected to pay them?

Beckwith posted this in an earlier thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035814/posts

Anna Dunham's forebears were slaveholders, one of Obama's great-great-great-great grandfathers, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves who were recorded in the 1850 Census in Nelson County, Ky. The same records show that one of Obama's great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves. Dunham Family Genealogy and Information
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gamcinto/dunham-genealogy.html

[esquirette]

I do not know if this fact has been posted, but there were black slave owners too, a tidbit well understood and documented in my small southern county. In fact, a local black contractor apparently ‘mortgaged’ his black family in the 1850’s to engage in real estate speculation and the city fathers paid the note rather than foreclose on the family.

[Beckwith]

I would like some reporter to publicly ask Obama what his position on reparations is?