Posted on 07/28/2009 4:22:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Harvard Prof Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him Two Men at Center of Controversy Linked by Irish Heritage By NIALL O'DOWD IrishCentral.com Publisher
July 28, 2009—
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.
Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.
In a PBS series on African-American ancestry that he hosted in 2008, Gates discovered his Irish roots when he found he was descended from an Irish immigrant and a slave girl.
He went to Trinity College in Dublin to have his DNA analyzed. There he found that he shared 10 of the 11 DNA matches with offspring of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fourth century warlord who created one of the dominant strains of Irish genealogy because he had so many offspring.
Ironically, James Crowley, whose name in Gaelic means "hardy warrior," is also descended from the same line as Gates, having very close links to Niall of the Nine Hostages.
So the two men who took part in what is now an infamous confrontation outside the Gates home near Harvard this month are actually related through common Irish lineage -- one of the more extraordinary aspects of the incident that has sparked worldwide headlines.
Gates is one of many famous African-Americans with Irish heritage, including President Barack Obama and award-winning author Alice Walker.
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And?
Does it change the fact that Gates is an elitist academic and a bigoted racist who calls himself an African American and not Irish American?
Who in the hell would want to be related to Gates?
ABC complete bogus news story of the day.
And now I have another one.
So he was drunk at the time of the incident? That explains his behavior.
Get two Irishmen together and you get:
A) Drinking
B) Fighting
C) Drinking and Fighting
D) Eating potatos
Probably 1/2 of all people of Irish descent could trace their descent back to Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Whatever....pure unadulterated Irish BS here folks, served up by Obama spinmeisters...
I’m done...
Everyday it seems there more BS and it gets piled hire and deeeper....
Yo! B’Gosh and B’Gorrah!
Nice try MSM. Gates is still a racist. Pathetic that the lib media want to sweep this under the rug.
I do remember in the 50’s black people would give me their Irish/German/Dutch connections, and admitted or acknowledged that they had blood common to the rest..... I don’t ever hear them do this much anymore.
I’m of O’Hallaran lineage. I hope we’ve been spared his kinship.
Next they’ll tell us that O’bama is Irish.
Tracing your geneaology can be a 2-edged sword. In an attempt to see if I was related to Sarah Palin, I discovered that 0bama and I both have ancestors with the same last name living in the same part of colonial Virginia at the same time. I didn’t see any direct verifiable relation and decided to forego any further research for the sake of my self-esteem.
Great. Next thing we will find out is that they are both totally queer for each other and have applied for a same sex marriage license. Which would make Obama happy because he is without a doubt gay as gay can be.
I knew there was joke here somewhere.......
Two Irishmen meet......
Gates is shanty Irish.
I don’t care what O’bama is. I just want him to go away.... he can take Gates with him
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