[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?