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BEN AFFLECK HAS ANOTHER NINE SLAVEHOLDER ANCESTORS FROM THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH (214 slaves total)
Big Government ^ | April 27, 2015

Posted on 04/27/2015 12:52:50 PM PDT by drewh

Movie star Ben Affleck has another nine slaveholder ancestors from Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia, according to publicly available Census records and genealogy research conducted by Breitbart News.

Last week, Affleck admitted that he successfully pressured Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates to edit his Georgia slaveholding ancestor, Benjamin Cole, out of an episode of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” that featured his family history.

This brings the number of Affleck’s known slaveholder ancestors to 12, who owned a total of 214 slaves. The relative ease with which Breitbart News was able to find these nine additional slaveholding ancestors of Ben Affleck calls into question the integrity of the genealogical research undertaken on Affleck’s behalf by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, executive producer of the “Finding Your Roots” series.

Gates certainly missed several dramatic reveals, including the fact that when Affleck’s mother, Christopher Ann Boldt traveled to Mississippi in 1965 to support civil rights (not in 1964 as a Freedom Rider, as Gates inaccurately claimed in the episode), dozens of her second and third cousins were living in Mississippi, some quite possibly members of the Democratic political power structure that supported segregation there at the time.

Either he failed to conduct basic genealogical research to discover these additional slaveholding ancestors, or he found them and chose to conceal them from the public, maybe even from Affleck as well.

Both Affleck and Gates have acknowledged, however, that he did disclose to Affleck that Benjamin Cole, his great-great-great grandfather, owned 25 slaves in Georgia, according to the 1850 Census slaveholding schedules.

Though the PBS “internal review” of the Gates-Affleck controversy is still in process, it is hard to see how, with these new revelations, the network can keep the series if Gates continues to be the host and executive producer.

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1 posted on 04/27/2015 12:52:50 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Yep, that left coast honky boy definitely has that ‘slaver’ look.

He’s a slaver for sure.


2 posted on 04/27/2015 12:54:11 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: drewh

Good, when reparations hit he can be put at the top of the list.


3 posted on 04/27/2015 12:55:51 PM PDT by AU72
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To: drewh

Choppers should have kept his mouth shut from the get go.


4 posted on 04/27/2015 12:56:32 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: drewh

To quote HRC: What difference does it make?


5 posted on 04/27/2015 12:56:50 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: drewh

Well, at least his ancestors weren’t big-time slave traders, like Obama’s were.


6 posted on 04/27/2015 12:56:51 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Hostage

7 posted on 04/27/2015 12:57:27 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Ben’s new nickname will have to be Massa!


8 posted on 04/27/2015 12:58:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: drewh

Ben owes some money to African Americans.

Does he go with monthly installments?


9 posted on 04/27/2015 12:58:24 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: drewh

LMAO!


10 posted on 04/27/2015 12:59:11 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: drewh

Imagine if prior to finding out about his own ancestors he had found out one of the republican presidential hopefuls had slave owning ancestors.

At the least he would have been highly indignant and critical!

Now he is eating crow.


11 posted on 04/27/2015 12:59:19 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Oh, yeah. A voluntary internal aWe may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Hostage

Cracker Aflack.


12 posted on 04/27/2015 12:59:42 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: drewh

Henry Louis Gates is probably descended from slaves himself. Most African Americans are, largely through the white slave masters. And the whiter the slave usually the more he or she would advance in the system. An evil system but one that has been around for millennia and is still going on today.


13 posted on 04/27/2015 1:00:21 PM PDT by Mercat (Release the HildeKraken)
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Hang him or draw him by quarters? Holy crap, no one is responsible for what people with tiny tiny amounts of his genes did.


14 posted on 04/27/2015 1:01:07 PM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way...")
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To: drewh

Marse Affleck be Rich cuzza he slaves work harda!


15 posted on 04/27/2015 1:03:27 PM PDT by Regulator
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Henry Louis Gates is probably descended from slaves himself.

Did you mean slave OWNERS?

16 posted on 04/27/2015 1:04:05 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Alas Babylon!

OOPS Yes, descended from slave owners. My bad. Nap time.


17 posted on 04/27/2015 1:04:53 PM PDT by Mercat (Release the HildeKraken)
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To: drewh

I will be interested in this story
only
if it can be shown that Ben Afleck’s ancestors held Michelle Obama’s great great grandmother as a slave.

Not to humiliate Michelle Obama, but to humiliate Ben Afleck and this ridiculous exercise.


18 posted on 04/27/2015 1:08:32 PM PDT by kidd
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To: drewh

What an idiot he is


19 posted on 04/27/2015 1:09:16 PM PDT by PGR88
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Ben owes some money to African Americans.

He owes anyone who watched Gigli 2 hours of their life back.

20 posted on 04/27/2015 1:10:01 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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