Posted on 06/17/2012 6:14:05 AM PDT by Cronos
Joan Tribble held tightly to her cane as she ventured into the overgrown cemetery where her people were buried. There lay the pioneers who once populated north Georgias rugged frontier, where striving white men planted corn and cotton, fought for the Confederacy and owned slaves
The settlers interred here were mostly forgotten over the decades as their progeny scattered across the South, embracing unassuming lives. But one line of her family took another path, heading north on a tumultuous, winding journey that ultimately led to the White House
The white men and women buried here are the forebears of Mrs. Tribble, a retired bookkeeper who delights in her two grandchildren and her Sunday church mornings. They are also ancestors of Michelle Obama, the first lady.
...The bloodlines of Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Tribble extend back to a 200-acre farm that was not far from here. One of their common ancestors was Henry Wells Shields, Mrs. Tribbles great-great-grandfather. He was a farmer and a family man who grew cotton, Indian corn and sweet potatoes. He owned Mrs. Obamas maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields, who was about 8 years old when she arrived on his farm sometime around 1852.
The DNA tests and research indicate that one of his sons, Charles Marion Shields, is the likely father of Melvinias son Dolphus, who was born around 1860. Dolphus T. Shields was the first ladys maternal great-great-grandfather.
Melvinia was a teenager, perhaps around 15, when she gave birth to her biracial son. Charles was about 20.
..Contemporary America emerged from that multiracial stew, a nation peopled by the heirs of that agonizing time who struggled and strived with precious little knowledge of their own origins. By 1890, census takers counted 1.1 million Americans of mixed ancestry.
All four of Mrs. Obamas grandparents had multiracial forebears.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
If an issue can be exploited the Marxists will exploit it.
Probabaly looking to clone him. ;-)
It’s his DNA the interests me, not Moochelle’s. Odd, how the Slimes concentrates on hers, not his.
“Dreams of my wifes slave family anscestry” another fiction book, this one to relate to the struggles Michelles family went through recovering from slavery and how they overcame racism first hand.
Oh, so it’s not just vactions and lobster but reparations that we’ve been paying to Moochelle.
So Mrs. Obama is more white than Mrs. Warren is Native American.
Sooo, Michelle has white blood in her.
Guess Zer0 now has to one up her.
‘Obama is related to Alexander the Great’ /s
>> the Slimes concentrates on hers, not his <<
One step at a time. If enough people get interested in hers, the MSM may eventually get interested in his.
I also have researched my family, no slaves.....ever. So why am I still paying reparations?
I really tried to be interested in this....I’M NOT! WTFC
Only a few of them. Everyone else was dirt poor and mainly subsistence farmers.
And how do I know that?
Because my ancestors settled North Georgia, and yes, some of them were named Shields. They came from North Carolina, as a quick glance at the map will show you why.
And they are still there, and yeah, a lot of them fought for the Confederacy. But most of those men did that because that was what their State voted for - in my case, my GG-Uncle was against secession but voted for it in the NC State legislature when he reluctantly concluded that this was the will of the people.
Glad to know Michelle is a distant relative. Always nice to have friends in high places...maybe I can hit her up for an interest free "loan" on a soon-to-fail solar cell company.
Like the movie “Multiplicity”. BHO has been watered down so many times his IQ is near Zero. Thus the nickname.
Frank Marshall, it was all just too convienent. nobama1 was just a beard.
The ruskis have nothing of value to hold over our head.
No other possible reason for State of Hawaii to hold the original BC so closely. If the babydaddy was the kenyan, it would automatically throw NBC out, but if it was Marshall, nobama meets NBC, as it does not specify “legitimate birth”.
Who knows why they wanted to hide Marshalldaddy. The whole damn liberal family was in on this.
Moochelle's DNA:
It's easy to tell one from the other.
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