BEN AFFLECK HAS ANOTHER NINE SLAVEHOLDER ANCESTORS FROM THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH (214 slaves total)

Big Government ^ | April 27, 2015

[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.

[dfwgator]

If Ben hadn’t tried to suppress it in the first place, nobody would have cared.

As Nixon found out the hard way, it’s always the cover-up that winds up getting you.

[Tennessee Nana]

OH NOOOOOOOOOEZ

when will the horror end ???

Surely little Benny was adopted ???

Yeah that’s it...

[Savage Beast]

The Left hates nothing more than the unvarnished truth. Nothing strikes fear into their hearts like truth does.

[Paine in the Neck]

Good thing he got that hushed up. Now, no one will ever know.

[Savage Beast]

What these dolts don’t seem to understand is that no one is responsible for someone else’s misdeeds.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Refiling those tax records as we speak... oops, that’s another Democrat.

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] 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. [/snip]

[Forward the Light Brigade]

The question is—did his people treat the slaves well or not? Was he like Washington or Simon Legree? Some masters were better than others.

[ansel12]

It’s a good thing he squelched the first story, when it would have only been one.

I bet he regrets that effort.

[Vinnie]

Ben was foolish to try to cover this up. Simply brought it to everyone’s attention.
Personally, I think his ancestors owning slaves is a yawner. So what!

IMO the big story is Gates being ‘bought’ to cover it up.Destroys the credibility of him and his show.

[BillyBoy]

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

Heh. It would actually be hilarious if there was some law requiring direct descendants of slave owners to pay slave reparations. I read somewhere that only 5% of modern day white Americans have an ancestor who was a slave owner. Most are descended from people who came here after the civil war or from places where it was illegal to own slaves, or (most likely) from families that couldn't afford slaves.

I'm guessing the remaining 5% of white people come from privileged families that have had power and influence for generations in America -- the Frelinghuysen and Rothschild types.

In short, probably a bunch of RINO country-clubbers & limousine liberals. There's also the pesky fact that Obama is most likely the descendant of slave owners rather than slaves.

[BillyBoy]

http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/21/10-celebs-whose-family-owned-black-slaves/

Yep. This article pretty much confirms my theory. Examples of modern day celebs whose ancestors owned slaves include Anderson Cooper (related to the Vanderbilts), David Cameron (related to British royalty), the Bush family (WASP new england clan), Richard Dawkins (direct descendent of Henry Dawkins who owned 1,013 slaves in Jamaica), John McCain, and of course, Barack Obama.

Time to pay up, boys!

[Verginius Rufus]

There must be a lot more than 5% of white Americans who have one or more slaveholders in their ancestry. Anyone with white Southern ancestors probably has at least one slaveholder in the batch, perhaps someone who owned just one slave, since each generation back you have twice as many ancestors (unless some of your ancestors married their own cousins), and Southern whites are largely of pre-1776 English, Scots-Irish, Irish, German or French Huguenot ancestry.

Until they can show us how anyone can have any choice in who his ancestors were, no one should have to feel guilt over any ancestor (unless, of course, one of them was a Democratic office-holder).

Obama had slaveholding ancestors on his mother's side. When is Henry Louis Gates going to do a program on them?

[Verginius Rufus]

There must be a lot more than 5% of white Americans who have one or more slaveholders in their ancestry. Anyone with white Southern ancestors probably has at least one slaveholder in the batch, perhaps someone who owned just one slave, since each generation back you have twice as many ancestors (unless some of your ancestors married their own cousins), and Southern whites are largely of pre-1776 English, Scots-Irish, Irish, German or French Huguenot ancestry.

Until they can show us how anyone can have any choice in who his ancestors were, no one should have to feel guilt over any ancestor (unless, of course, one of them was a Democratic office-holder).

Obama had slaveholding ancestors on his mother's side. When is Henry Louis Gates going to do a program on them?

[Steamburg]

That and his desire to hide the truth, pretty well sums up why he is such a strong Democrat.

[Da Coyote]

If: Actor
Then: Strong suspicion of inadequate IQ, serious moral problems coupled with inability to reason and tell the truth.

If: Liberal Actor
Then: Suspicions confirmed.

[Inyo-Mono]

Until they can show us how anyone can have any choice in who his ancestors were, no one should have to feel guilt over any ancestor (unless, of course, one of them was a Democratic office-holder).

Some of my ancestors had slaves, but I most ashamed of my Great-Great-Grandfather who was a Democratic state rep in the 1860s.

[minnesota_bound]

Slave Master Ben Affleck!

[Secret Agent Man]

There goes Ben’s political aspirations. No longer an aspiring democrat pol.

[LeonardFMason]

Ben Afleck prospered on the back of black slaves. NOW it is confirmed. He owes them millions. Pay up heir of Slavers!