[snip] "No, I can't believe this," she said, laughing through her surprise. "My ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower." [/snip]
If we could ask *them*, they'd deny it too.
Posted on 02/22/2023 8:45:51 PM PST by bitt
Angela Davis was shocked to learn that her ancestors came to America on the Mayflower, making her descendants of people who helped found the country.
The civil rights activist learned about this news during the Feb. 21 episode of PBS’s Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gates shows her a manifest of names, eventually revealing that the document had the names of the Mayflower passengers.
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“No, I can’t believe this,” she said, laughing through her surprise. “My ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower.”
When asked how she felt about the news, Davis said, “…That’s a little bit too much to deal with right now.”
Watch the clip below. The full episode is available for streaming on PBS.
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[snip] "No, I can't believe this," she said, laughing through her surprise. "My ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower." [/snip]
If we could ask *them*, they'd deny it too.
Notice how the language changes when it is melanated peoples reporting. When referring to her ancestors on the Mayflower ( which I don’t believe for a second) is “who helped found the country” and not the CRT 1619 garbage of “conquering BIpOC, bringing slavery and misery for the most racist white supremacist nation in world history.”
I recall seeing this documentary years ago.
“There are no genetically-pure-African blacks in the US. Most are a mix. The lighter ones are mostly white, but feel they have to be radically black in order to be accepted.”
The feeling of having to be “radically black” is an outgrowth of the Black Pride movement. Prior to that white people were saying that even one drop of Negro blood meant you were a Negro. Trying to “pass for white” was very much a “thing” up to the mid 1900s when I was a child. Since racial mixing was legally unacceptable up until around that time, at least in some states, it made for a lot of romantic pain and drama, until mixed marriage was finally legalized for the country.
As a teen my father told me about a group of people in northwestern New Jersey, and probably in parts of adjacent Pennsylvania and New York, called the “Jackson Whites”. This was a racially mixed group of people who combined Negro, Indian, and white Hessian soldiers (stayed after the American Revolution) blood who formed a cohesive community of mixed blood. I don’t know wheather they still exist as a community as they were identified when I was told about them.
BWAHAHAHA! Oh, golly! I had a good laugh over that! Especially since my own ancestors came over on the Mayflower!
I’m sure she thought she was pure slave material. I’m trying to decide if I want to torture myself by watching all of the clip or not.
Dang, but that’s funny! I remember her from back in the day, the rising commie at UC Berkeley, protesting the opening of another police station.
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The very same! What a laugh she was and is. I don’t suppose she was ever tried for murder or anything else, so the SoL doesn’t mean a thing in her case.
She’s probably the president of the Communist Party by now, in any case.
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Ohboy! I’ve gotten several weeks’ worth of laughter out of this thread, and I’ve only read three posts! Thanks, you!
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Goal; rewrite history. In all the mention of the Mayflower from notes and logs there is no mention of slaves.
She was the Community Party USA’s nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1980 and 1984.
:^) My pleasure!
Thanks for posting this.
My ancestor tree for William showed zero children.
Someone apparently sanitized the list.
Where did you get this excellent data?
Thanks
Dave
“As a teen my father told me about a group of people in northwestern New Jersey, and probably in parts of adjacent Pennsylvania and New York, called the “Jackson Whites”. This was a racially mixed group of people who combined Negro, Indian, and white Hessian soldiers (stayed after the American Revolution) blood who formed a cohesive community of mixed blood. I don’t know wheather they still exist as a community as they were identified when I was told about them.”
Decades ago we owned a home in the NJ Erskine Lakes area and lived in about a year.
At that time the hair on my head was coal black as my moustache. I tanned brown (hispanic looking and not one).
More than once I was asked if I was Jackson White, and I replied not that I know of.
My Dad was supposedly part Indian. Turned out he was part black and the Indian DNA, (if there is Native American DNA) has never come through.)
Davis, who grew up in Birmingham, also traces back, through her mother’s side, to a Revolutionary War soldier, Stephen Darden, who played fife and drums for the fourth Virginia regiment in the 1770s, but then moved to Georgia and became a slave owner, Gates said.
Hey Angela, perhaps reaching for your checkbook and writing a reparations check will help you start dealing with it. And make it a big one, child: Ye are after all a descendant of charter members of the motley Mayflower crew that hath wroth the mayhem of which, it seemeth, ye lamenteth day and night.
The issue of slavery undoubtably pre-dates recorded history. And, it's ugly history in this country is not quite the clear cut case that most believe.
History is riddled with little known, but inconvenient to some, facts.
1. And then there's the issue of blacks who were slave owners. Ten's of thousands of blacks owned slaves by the mid 1800's. Think of all the blacks in this country who are descended from BLACK slave OWNERS.
2. And then there's the issue of the first "legal" slave owner in the colonies (i.e. this country). Hint, he was black.
1654/1655 Virginia, John Casor (black) became a slave after having been an indentured servant. His "owner" was Anthony Johnson, a free black man of African descent.
Then, “About seven years later, Virginia made this practice legal for everyone, in 1661, by making it state law for any free white, black or Indian to be able to own slaves, along with indentured servants,”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/horrible-fate-john-casor-180962352/
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/court-ruling-on-anthony-johnson-and-his-servant-1655/
3. And then there's the issue of the blacks in Africa that were key in the slave trade.
‘Africa’s Role in the Slave Trade Has Been Deliberately Forgotten… They Created a Myth That We Were Innocent,’ African Historian Says
https://caldronpool.com/africas-role-in-the-slave-trade-has-been-deliberately-forgotten-they-created-a-myth-that-we-were-innocent-african-historian-says/
The marxists/communists/progressives/racists in this country best not re-open that wound and pour salt in it by "giving" black people a taxpayer funded cash payout simply because of the color of their skin.
If by "founding fathers" you mean, 100% under patent (i.e. permission) from the English monarchy, then yes.
If you mean, the first group NOT to be 100% under patent from England, and who created their own, first in the land patent (now known as the Mayflower Compact), then no, the settlers of Virginia were not the founding fathers.
Of course, most would argue that our true founding fathers weren't even born for nearly 100 years more.
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