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Hope you're not talking about a wife because you'll probably be paying reparations for life!
Hell, no. My wife has complete freedom. I don't own her bank account.
Now my daughter..... She must do the dishes or get the whip! I no longer have to threaten with her any longer. She does her jobs around the house now, without asking or telling.... My slave and I love her to death.
Everyone on this forum has a slave owner in their family tree. Just not all of us have had it recently enough or in the right country to be documented.
What the hell is the big deal? You had about 1,000 great-ancestors living in the year 1800. What are the chances that one of them was a slave-owner? You had a million different ancestors living in 1600, when slavery was common in almost every country in the world, so no matter where you came from there was a slave owner in your family tree.
In my case, I know for a fact, through DNA evidence, that I am descended from a man whose will is online for everyone to read, naming the 27 "negroes" that he left to each of his heirs, when he died in 1802.
The only thing to be ashamed of is the fact that I owe allegiance to the last country in the western hemisphere in which free people finally abolished slavery -- a country whose citizens took up arms twice in wars to defend slavery in its last gasp.
Americans think it is shameful to be of Mexican ancestry, yet the US went to war against Mexico, which had abolished slavery, in order to re-introduce slavery into Mexican territory. How much do you wanna bet that Affleck wouldn't want you to know if he had Mexican ancestors, either -- something one should be proud of, if slavery is an issue in your background.
I bet a lot of people have slave owners in their family if their ancestors are from the South. The celebrities who are on this show have a problem if they want to hide that.
I would bet anything that if Ben affleck was a conservative they NEVER would have took out the fact that his ancestors owned slaves, in fact they probably would have emphasized even more. More prof that the left wing media in this country is corrupt.
Why is he ashamed of his past, it's his grandfather's past, not his. Seems Affleck thinks his fans won't understand it wasn't Ben who owned slaves, you must know how confused the left gets things.
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Originally Posted by FallsAngel
Heck, Thomas Jefferson, who some think of as God, owned slaves.
Everyone on this forum has a slave owner in their family tree. Just not all of us have had it recently enough or in the right country to be documented.
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Speak for yourself! I have went back in my family tree and my family comes from hard labor workers, since 1789........not one slave has shown up!
Why is he ashamed of his past, it's his grandfather's past, not his. Seems Affleck thinks his fans won't understand it wasn't Ben who owned slaves, you must know how confused the left gets things.
He didn't try to rewrite it, as Affleck is doing!
Agree. Most people wouldn't have thought anything of it if he had openly admitted it. It's not his fault.
However, his efforts to cover it up with him being such an antiracism crusader raises an eyebrow. He's not very smart if he thought this information would never get out.
I believe my ancestors were too poor to own a slave.. they were a slave for a dollar to exist.
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