Condoleezza Rice Crushes Critical Race Theory: “White Kids Shouldn’t Be Made To Feel Bad For Being White”

How long ago does something have to be to say "that is history, but it does not control who you are and who you will be"?

Well...

If you go by a century, 100 years divided evenly by 4 equals 25, or 4 generations. (Divided unevenly by 3rds yields 3.3 generations.) Using 25, there have been 6.3 generations since 1863 when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

A pedigree is usually plotted out to the 5th generation, with the first generation being the two parents. By that method, there are 64 great-great-great-great grandparents in the 6th generation. A person shares only 1.56% DNA with their 6th generation antecedents (depending on calculation method). Were all 64 of those people slaves? How many and which ones?

There obviously are no Americans alive today whose parents were slaves in the pre-1863 US, but it's not impossible for someone alive today to have had grandparents who were slaves. The odds are very, very small though. Average life expectancy in the US approximately doubled since 1863, but not steadily. Also, there are some examples of men who married a much younger woman late in life and had children by that younger wife. Then those children also had children late in life. An example of this is a grandson of President John Tyler who is still alive at the age of 92, but the story of the Tyler family is unusual.

Bottom line: the overwhelming majority of people alive today who descend from US slaves would be a 5th or 6th generation, or more, descendant -- meaning they have only negligible remaining DNA relationship to those slaves.

Always preferred Condi to the deceased Powell.

She put up with a lot of open racism from the activist Left for being a single black Republican woman in a position of power. She didn’t fold in light of their attacks. These statements are her speaking Truth to Power and from the comments, things haven’t changed on the Left.

Anyone who believes you must denigrate current and future generations of any race to talk about slavery is a racist trying to keep Black Americans on a mental plantation for purposes of political control and self-enrichment.

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