Posted on 07/31/2012 12:41:59 PM PDT by TopDeadCenter
A study from Ancestry.com has determined that President Obama is related to John Punch, the first black African enslaved for life in America--which would make Punch the 11th great-grandfather of Obama.
The connection is made through Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunhan. The website's records say she had ancestors who were white landowners in Colonial Virginia who descended from an African man, Punch.
According to the site's press release, Punch tried to escape indentured servitude in colonial Virginia in 1640 and was punished by becoming enslaved for life. The records show that Punch had children with a white woman, and her status as free was passed on to her offspring. Punch's descendents became successful landowners in the slave-owning state of Virginia.
This would mean that the first documented slave and the first African American president have a shared lineage, claim researchers. Said Ancestry.com's genealogist Joseph Shumway, "John Punch was more than likely the genesis of legalized slavery in America. But after centuries of suffering, the Civil War, and decades of civil rights efforts, his 11th great-grandson became the leader of the free world and the ultimate realization of the American Dream."
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Looks like Obama is a decendant of the first dead beat! ;-)
Except Ancestry.com can’t prove it. There are several generations missing and the name isn’t Punch.
so his Slave Blood comes from his white mother!
The irony just keeps on giving with this guy.
Ancestry.com wants to drum up publicity - for Ancestry.com. Take all “whaddayanow” statements from that site with an enormous grain of salt.
This is so much crap....guess that gives him street creds huh?
We are desperately in need of an ‘eyeroll’ emoticon...
His Luo ancestors sold his “negro” ancestors to his white ancestors.
Obama is the manifestation of John Punch’s curse.
Interesting, his slave blood comes from his white mother and his slave dealer blood from his black father’s Arab side.
Sounds like another BS story to give the Bamster some street cred - I don’t believe a word of it.
Did Elizabeth Warren start running his campaign?
“Punch tried to escape indentured servitude”
He agreed to work to pay off the cost of him coming here. He tried to run and get out so it makes him a liar. That is how he is tied to the current generation I guess.
He is also not the “first enslaved man” - that goes centuries before him but, he is not the last, slavery is alive and well in Africa, Asia and Middle-East.
Elizabeth Warren is green with envy! If she was even 11 generations removed from a real Indian, she would be so happy. Meanwhile, Obama 11 generations removed from a real slave, still has nothing much in common with every day American darkies.
And another tsunami of BULLSHIT crashes on America’s fair shores!!!
When I was a baby, I lived in Bunch’s Hollow in Claiborne County TN. My dad ran a mine there producing zinc for the war effort. It was just a couple of miles from Goin, Tennessee.
Both Bunch and Goin are Melungeon names and many Claiborne county folks have Melungeon surnames.
It would seem Huessien is not only related to the Karbela immam of old but to American Melungeons as well.
I have said it before... these libs are desperately trying to find Obama a bloodline to Mary Magdalene.
all of this is conjecture.
The fact is that most indentured servants in those days were white.
What a coincidence! I related to “Punch” too!
That's how I feel about it. Lying is normal for the Left.
So next week the story will be that Mittens is the descendant of the first slave owner, right?
Well, but of course! He’s not just descended from African slaves, he’s descended from the very FIRST African slave.
Good heavens, this guy’s AMAZING! What are the odds?
/s
Regards,
So Obama’s ancestors were slave owners?
yeah, sure he is. first everything, this guy.
O is looking for a meme to help him out...
Slavery is when someone else receives 100% of the fruits of your labor. Total freedom is when you receive 100% of the fruits of your labor. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness is when you get to keep, say, approximately, 70% of the fruits of your labor (the value of which is up for discussion), 30% used to allow you to keep the other 70% in relative safety.
Federal cut: 25%+
State cut: 5.1% (MA; others vary)
Local cut: ~5% (may be tied to real estate, etc)
SS: 12% (6.25% you, 6.25% employer)
HI: 1.5%
Sales: ? 2% (hard to say, but trying to estimate as % of gross pay)
Oh wow, we're all the way up to 50%!
What were we saying about slavery????
Thought I read here, some time ago, that the first slave owner was a Black man!
Heck, I am related to Adam and Eve but you don’t see me taking out an ad in the NYT to brag about it.
Last night I spent a couple hrs reading the comments after this story on yahoo.
It seemed like I was in FReeper-land. They all hate him.
Last night I spent a couple hrs reading the comments after this story on yahoo.
It seemed like I was in FReeper-land. They all hate him.
John Punch has competition from John Casor for the title. Of course John Casor’s story is not so PC as his owner was also black.
I can’t wait for the new book,
“Uncle Barry’s Cabin” by Elizabeth “Granny” Warren.
(and an un-named ghostwriter because she couldn’t do it by herself)
Forward by Jesse “Cotton” Jackson.
Afterword by Joe “Flopsie” Biden.
Throwing the BS flag on this obvious attempt to get publicity and to give Teh Won some black slave cred. This clown doesn’t have to campiagn. He has a army of sycophants who will do anything and say anything to get him re-elected...so they can all become slaves of his Marxist utopia.
I mean, really, do they realize that Ancestry.com is not exactly essential in a planned economy? Where do they think they fit in his First Five Year Plan? Once he finishes his destruction of the economy, a frivolous web-based company like this will cease to exist. Only a free economy with lots of discretionary income can support something like their company.
What a coincidence. I call B.S.
I signed up at Ancestry and they wouldn’t let me unsubscribe and they spammed me for 3 years!
Not only did ol' Stanley Anne get around, apparently so did her forebears. What a family.
Those don’t look like “O’s.” They look like something far more appropriate for Obama.... triangles.
Wasn’t Clinton related to the first slave.
What a convenient, pleasant smelling, bow ribboned, elegantly styled crock of shit.
He was convicted of trying to run out on an obligation--indenture was a contract exchanging future servitude for passage here.
He was, to be frank, a convict, a crook.
Considering the apple often falls close to the tree, they just might be related.
...that goes centuries before him but, he is not the last, slavery is alive and well in Africa, Asia and Middle-East.
Also true.
Setting aside the fact that the lineage can't be proved, it sounds like Punch came over as an indentured servant, not aboard a slave ship. He was enslaved when he tried to escape his servitude. BIG difference.
Very interesting, that the name Bunch is Melungeon.
Weren’t (aren’t) the Melungeons a mixture of native american, white, and black? If so my guess is that the descendants of the white woman and Bunch/Punch joined the Melungeon group, but of course Ancestry.com has no real connection.
It’s alive here as well. We work 1/3rd of the year for our Massa govment.
Anthony Johnson
It is little known and not oft remembered that blacks were not always slaves in America. It started right then, with Mr. Punch. Then, bit by bit, it expanded from indentured servitude to the forcible kidnapping and export of human beings. And we all know who the slave catchers were, don’t we. Brock’s people from the OTHER side of the family.
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