Posted on 04/17/2015 5:02:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Ben Affleck asked the producers of PBS’ Finding Your Roots television show to edit out details of an ancestor who owned slaves, according to a Sony internal email exchange leaked this week.
In an email sent to Sony CEO Michael Lynton shortly before the show’s second season premiere, Harvard professor and Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote that an unnamed “megastar” had asked producers to “edit out something about one of his ancestors – the fact that he owned slaves.”
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“Blacks were usually enslaved by other blacks in Africa before being sent across the ocean.”
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Makes you wonder how often whites were enslaved by whites.
His descendants will want his lousy movies to be whitewashed from their history.
I don’t.
I have researched my ancestry in the past few months. They came from Germany in the early 1800’s and were mostly grain farmers until global warming caused a drought in Montana in 1934 and my grandfather moved to Oregon.
The amazing thing is that looking through the census data, the census forms asked as to whether the citizens could speak and write in English. My ancestors could. Most of the others that were immigrants could also. Looks like they came over here prepared to live in a free society and did their best to adapt to become Americans.
Something that shows you how our society has devolved.
How thoroughly have you looked at your family tree back to all the first-comers to this country?
I was completely shocked by what I found when I did it. Wasn’t what I expected at all.
Ben’s just trying to skip out on paying those reparations.
I’m not proud to write this, but my great grandfather owned Ben Affleck’s grandfather. He used him to pick cotton in Norway. My family owned a huge cotton plantation in Norway.
We have many songs that started in those cotton fields.
“Oh, the herring is a tricky fish
But he makes an awfully tasty dish
Lutefisk is stored in lye
Drain it off or else you’ll die
Do-Da, Do-Da”
Winner !!
WAKE UP....MOST PEOPLE CAME HERE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR ENDED AND DIDN'T INTERMARRY FOR GENERATIONS, FOR DIFFERENT REASONS; USUALLY RELIGIOUS ONES!
My family has had one member who was the "family historian" and I was trained, from early childhood, to be the next one. A few decades ago, many of my older maternal cousins ( second, third, and farther off ) got together and updated the family tree, so unlike YOU, I have been heavily involved in this topic for almost my entire life.
You are thoroughly ignoring FACTS, because they don't fit your rather peculiar agenda.
Tell me, please, how it is that you, though ignorant of/ignoring hard. cold facts, can keep on repeating the same old tired, inaccurate, patently FALSE statements.
Since NOBODY in Hungary, especially NOT my family, ever owned a black slave, nor married anyone with ANY ties to any American, from Virginia or some other place ( prior to coming here ) and then it took several generations for someone to marry someone without any Hungarian heritage, how am I supposedly have a connection to a Tidewater, Virginia slave holder? You don't even know me, my family, its history, yet you have the temerity to make such egregious statements!
Neither do you know my friends, whose backgrounds and family history you also know nothing at all about!
Your banal statements completely ignore the differences between certain ethic and religious groups.
You've always been a pompous, arrogant, benighted poster and it looks as though you've gotten much worse!
I bet you found lots of thieves, crooks, degenerates, and frauds.
Leave my family out of this.
You’re related to Eternal Vigilance, or is was your post a joke?
I hope that it’s the latter, because then it’s funny.
Several blacks ought to approach Ben and ask what he tinks about Mike Brown.
Not really. MANY immigrant waves came after the civil war. And many before that went to states that never had slavery, like the germans and the midwest.
It depends. Is he rich?
Turns out I’m related to a bunch of rich people who have never heard of me.
They were given land by the crown to settle Canada with whites (and replace the properties seized by the revolutionaries).
He loves to see the expressions on their faces when he tells people that they have slave-holding ancestors. I wish someone would snap back at him and say, “Of course there were slave holders in my American ancestry.....why are YOU surprised?”
Almost anyone with ancestry going back to early America has considerable slavery in the narrative. We don't have just one ggg+grandfather, we have MANY. The slave system is simply the way it was at that time, has been throughout history all over the world, and what is still going on today before our very eyes in many areas in the world.
Many of us, black or white, would find that we are descendants of at least one slave if we went back far enough in Europe, Africa, ...everywhere. Enough already.
If you go back far enough, most people also have lines that came from slaves.
This is why studying (and understanding) history is so important. Slavery, was universal and unremarkable through all of human history and in every culture before the Enlightenment.
That revolution in human thought in Europe through the 17th and 18th centuries lead directly to the American Revolution where the ideas of the Enlightenment were first brought in to practice and where the first organized opposition to slavery on moral, intellectual and even religious grounds first appeared.
But don't expect a pampered over paid tinsel covered idiot like Ben Aflac to comprehend that.
Crispus Attucks was one of the colonists killed in the Boston Massacre. He was black or part black/part Native American, but I don’t think he was a slave. One of the militia men wounded in the battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, was Prince Estabrook, a slave born about 1741, who was later emancipated by his owner.
Didn't the shipping industry in Massachusetts thrive by being involved in the importing of slaves?
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