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There is no significance. Might be if they were also smart, and leading the country. As it is, they are just running it into the ground. They couldn't care less about America. They want to destroy it.
You love making utterly asinine comments don't you.....
[quote=camping!;11105216]I think its cool and extremely relevent. After all, it wasn't that long ago that the Obamas would not have been able to stay in certain hotels in the DC area - and now they live in the white house.
To me, this is an example on how great our country actually is ----- lets see this happen (without a war) in most other countries.
My heart did break though when I heard of little Marvina(?) -- what kind of monster could sell a six year old girl?![/QUOTE]
I too have been thinking about poor little Marvina and all the other little ones that were sold like cattle. And I've also been thinking about the parents of these little ones. Just take a look at your own children and try to imagine the horror of having your child taken and sold away from you...frightened...calling for you...and there is nothing you could do to keep your precious baby safe. What evil, evil people these owners of human beings were.
I do know from personal experience that tracking that slave ancestor down to a proper name is a feat in itself. Slaves were considered chattel and many times were listed on invoices, inventories, and census rolls simply as "female, 18 yrs." or something similar. And if it is not your personal story, it's hard to imagine what it feels like to have that history that's peculiar to you. Yes, the media is making a big deal of it, but then it's a piece of Americana that many Americans are not even remotely aware of---the historical void of having no ancestral tongue or cuisine or costume that is your very own, passed down through generations.
My own family could tell me about 3 generations back and I was able to go a couple more to 1850 and then...the wall of commercial human trafficking.
In the case of Edward Ball, his family had a trove of records of 170 years in the rice plantation business that helped HIM find the descendants of his family's slaves (and found some relatives in the process). He was able to make connections in many cases when he met the people due to oral histories on their side. Many of the people still in South Carolina knew the names of the plantations their ancestors had served on, for example.
It was a fascinating book, plus he gives a lot of history that I didn't know. For instance, at the end of the American Revolution about 12,000 black people ran away from the South Carolina plantations and the British took them on their ships in Charleston Harbor. Some went to Jamaica and others all the way back to England. Some of those who went to England formed a group and left and established a settlement in Africa.
I think its cool and extremely relevent. After all, it wasn't that long ago that the Obamas would not have been able to stay in certain hotels in the DC area - and now they live in the white house.
To me, this is an example on how great our country actually is ----- lets see this happen (without a war) in most other countries.
There was a war of sorts, with casualties, plus federal intervention.
The meaning of this is that there is a descendant of black slaves in the WHITE house. That very fact is anathema to some and just unacceptable to others. It also means we value individual talent more than skin color.
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Whose Her Daddy!?!?!?
