Revealed: George W. Bush’s great-great-great-great-grandfather was a slave trader

The Daily Mail ^ | 20 June 2013

[MinorityRepublican]

Researchers claim that a brutal slave-trader who brought captive slaves from West Africa to Colonial America is the same man whose descendants produced two U.S. presidents. George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush.

Historians already knew that the Bush family was directly connected to Thomas Walker, yet they were unable to figure out which was the ancestor of the Bush's.

Records show there was a Thomas Walker who was a merchant from Baltimore who was in Great Britain in 1758.

Archives also show Thomas Walker was a slave merchant and captain who bought and sold West African slaves in the late 1700s.

However, it was only recently that a retired genealogist and a historian in Sierra Leone finally figured out the two Thomas Walkers are actually the same person.

[cdcdawg]

Then maybe a lot of it really is “Bush’s fault”, but I doubt that is what’s intended by this supposed revelation.

[jeffc]

I never cease to be amazed at the info the “news” media can and do dig up on Repubs and conservatives, but there’s always, ALWAYS, a dearth of info on Dems and liberals.

[Slyfox]

They are happy to harp about 200 years ago, when the guy in the White House right now is happily working to enslave as many people as possible.

[cdcdawg]

Headline: “Bush’s Fault That We Didn’t Pick Our Own Cotton!”

I assume that’s the point of this piece. It’s at least a fair inference.

[old school]

Oh, Sh-t!

[SatinDoll]

That’s exactly my take on this “expose`”

[DoughtyOne]

Revealed, we have a traitor in the White House, and instead of addressing that, we are now addressing everything but, and a decade or more late to boot.

[sickoflibs]

Who gives a ..?

Is he running for something?

[Slings and Arrows]

I hope that the Left tries to make hay of this. I truly do.

[Jack Hammer]

So I guess that makes the Bush family a bunch of racists, eh?

Lamestream press smear that’s lame even for the lamestream press.

[Rummyfan]

So what?????!!!

[schm0e]

when does the reparations suit commence?

[AdaGray]

Oh, horrors. And Barry’s Great Great Grandfather was, no doubt, a great wise king.

[laweeks]

He was a black muslim?

[freedomfiter2]

Yes, and it was W’s fault.

[central_va]

I just say a move called "Untamed Youth" 1957. It was about female county jail cotton pickers. All white.

[Colofornian]

(And Romney's Great-Great Grandfather was a polygamist)

1856: Fledgling Republican party decides its social agenda: Take on the "twin relics of barbarism": Polygamy and slavery...

And for the rest of the 19th century, it did exactly that!

['Twas the Dumbocrats who wildly promoted BOTH of the nefarious institutions]

[USS Alaska]

I knew it all along, GWB hates blacks, caused cancer, was the father of all slave trading, hates latinos {even his family}, hates Asians, hates mooselimbs, caused AIDS, caused heart problems, hates wymen, hates himself and is the devil.

If I missed any problem, just remember, Bush did it.

[Pollster1]

One of Bush’s 32 great-great-great-great-grandfathers was a slave trader? I guess that means slavery and thus the Civil War were Bush’s fault.

[PubliusMM]

Five generations back? Let’s see...that’s 32 family trees (assuming no direct inbreeding), 250 years ago, converging in one person.
And, the character of a person in one of those family trees back then, engaged in reprehensible but generally accepted endeavors, is supposed to taint the present day character?
Sounds like the same stretch of imagination that drives the ‘fight’ for reparations, the lame logic that drives LaRaza, and the DNC.
Get over it.