That's how I feel about it. Lying is normal for the Left.
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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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!
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