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silas777 the op starts a troll thread and skirts around his objections, his fishing hooked nononesenseguy who said it all for him. I hope they both live long enough to see that america will still be free when obama leaves office in 8 years.
silas777 the op starts a troll thread and skirts around his objections, his fishing hooked nononesenseguy who said it all for him. I hope they both live long enough to see that america will still be free when obama leaves office in 8 years.
He'll be leaving in 3 more years... don't worry ! And it's the freedom that will be lost AFTER he leaves office due to the damage he is doing while in office that people are worried about. Why do you think he doesn't want the HC BS enacted until 2013 should it get smashed down our throats ? Because it will be AFTER he is gone or as he would like to think re-elected for his final term. He knows it is going to be a train wreck...
I have trouble believing that most, if not all, black people in America are not descendants of slaves in one form or another. How could they not be, barring immigration from other countries post-1865? It's widely-accepted that tracing the roots of African-American's is one of the more difficult tasks in genealogical circles because last names were often taken from slave-owners. As the slave-trade progressed, families were separated, and documentation was scarce, the issue of tracing one's roots is further compounded. Its interesting that this linked story speaks of Michele Obama's ties to slaves, but I'm personally not surprised at all and don't consider it a significant discovery other than the fact that a lot of time was probably dedicated to tracking down all the pertinent family information to make the connection.
Having gotten the wiseazz remark out of my system, I will go to the article to answer your question. The significance of the story is this:
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“She is representative of how we have evolved and who we are,” said Edward Ball, a historian who discovered that he had black relatives, the descendants of his white slave-owning ancestors, when he researched his memoir, “Slaves in the Family.”
“We are not separate tribes of Latinos and whites and blacks in America,” Mr. Ball said. “We’ve all mingled, and we have done so for generations.”
Actually, most of the articles on this today are not making the big deal about her having SLAVE ancestors (I mean, I'm not saying this prejudicially, but wouldn't almost every African-American person be descended from slaves? (Not Obama himself, since his dad came here from Kenya in the 1950s, but for the most part)), but that she has a WHITE ancestor.
Now honestly, this is a lot more common than it sounds too, and from the articles I see is where Michelle Obama's ancestor came from. Most African-Americans have a white ancestor or two because of the sad fact of slave owners raping the slaves, etc. Again, not trying to sound like a racist here, but if you look at the average black person in the U.S. vs. one in Africa, often the skin tone is slightly lighter, suggesting some small amount of non-black ancestry in the past. There have been a lot of articles on this if you look around.
False....northern - eastern africans tend to be much lighter than central/western/southern africans...just depends on your ancestry...her family could of been descendants of moors (common day britain, france, italy, sicily-you didn't think that olive skin came from sun tanning over the years did you?)...
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Originally Posted by 7 Wishes
Actually, most of the articles on this today are not making the big deal about her having SLAVE ancestors (I mean, I'm not saying this prejudicially, but wouldn't almost every African-American person be descended from slaves? (Not Obama himself, since his dad came here from Kenya in the 1950s, but for the most part)), but that she has a WHITE ancestor.
Now honestly, this is a lot more common than it sounds too, and from the articles I see is where Michelle Obama's ancestor came from. Most African-Americans have a white ancestor or two because of the sad fact of slave owners raping the slaves, etc. Again, not trying to sound like a racist here, but if you look at the average black person in the U.S. vs. one in Africa, often the skin tone is slightly lighter, suggesting some small amount of non-black ancestry in the past. There have been a lot of articles on this if you look around.
It was an interesting article for those of us who like both history and geneology.
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