Ben Affleck Breaks Silence on PBS Show Controversy (Throws Skip Gates Under The Bus)

E!Online ^ | Natalie Finn

[Texas Eagle]

Zackly. There’s nothing for Been A Flack to be ashamed of. Other than his movies.

[bmwcyle]

Spoken like a real idiot. The sins of the father will be visited on the son but an individual does not have to embrace the sins of the family. Ben only needs to live a better life. Ben’s guilt might be deep from his own actions.

[presidio9]

witness this scenario: what if you are an average white American, and you decided to go play around at Ancestry.com. And to your shock you found out that your great, great, great grandma was a black slave.

Even if you are an “enlightened liberal”, you would do everything in your power to hide that information. That’s just human nature.

Um, you do realize that if you trace anyone's ancestry back far enough, we all came from Africa? Right?

[presidio9]

I watched a show on NBC called “Who do you think you are.” One episode profiled Bill Paxton, who found out he had an ancestor who owned slaves, but he said you can’t apply contemporary points of view to what happened 300 years ago, and he said you have to take the good with the bad in you history. He seemed very intelligent.

By today's standards, everyone who ever lived before 20 years ago, male or female, was guilty of subjugating women -including Jesus Christ.