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Ben Affleck wanted his slave owner ancestor 'censored' from Finding Your Roots PBS documentary
London Daily Mail ^ | 17 April 2015 | Daniel Bates

Posted on 04/17/2015 11:54:24 AM PDT by Sergio

Ben Affleck persuaded the producers of Finding Your Roots to edit out details of how his ancestors were slave owners even though it was a breach of PBS editorial rules.

The new Batman star, who supports a number of liberal causes, objected to the ancestry TV show airing how his distant relations were racist, leaked Sony emails reveal.

Instead viewers were shown heartwarming stories of how his third grandfather was a mystic in the Civil War and how his sixth grandfather was a patriot who fought in the American Revolution.

Daily Mail Online has reviewed a transcript of the show and watched the video and there is no mention of slavery in the part featuring Affleck.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Borges

I don’t care. He’s still a pansy in my book.


21 posted on 04/17/2015 12:06:42 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Sergio
DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM???

Of course, Benny Boy might have simply been afraid of a certain demographic beating his @$$ if they ever found out.

22 posted on 04/17/2015 12:11:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Celebrate Holy Week by flogging a banker. It's what Jesus would have done.)
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To: Sergio

Yeah, yeah, his ancestors were sinners, just like the rest of us. So?


23 posted on 04/17/2015 12:12:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Celebrate Holy Week by flogging a banker. It's what Jesus would have done.)
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To: Sergio
how his third grandfather was a mystic in the Civil War

So he's not ashamed of the charlatan grandfather who exploited grieving families during the Civil War?

24 posted on 04/17/2015 12:13:36 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Resolute Conservative
I would argue that being a slaveholder does not equate to racist

No need to bring race into it when "evil" will suffice as a description.

25 posted on 04/17/2015 12:16:26 PM PDT by gdani (No sacred cows)
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To: Sergio

Isn’t this buffoon already known for being stupidly liberal?


26 posted on 04/17/2015 12:32:40 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Borges; Gaffer

So!.....John Travolta is married and had 3 kids.

Need I say more.


27 posted on 04/17/2015 12:34:57 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Sergio

I suggest he move to Liberia, and do his penance there.


28 posted on 04/17/2015 12:42:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Guenevere

There’s no evidence whatsoever that he’s gay.


29 posted on 04/17/2015 12:43:45 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Sergio
Ben,Ben,Ben,.....now how can you sleep at nights. Ancestor slave guilt on top of white privilege guilt. Liberalism is pain!
30 posted on 04/17/2015 12:48:03 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Fifteen two,fifteen four and a pair is six.)
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To: ozzymandus
stupidly liberal

That's redundant.

31 posted on 04/17/2015 12:51:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Borges

Who?.....John or Ben?


32 posted on 04/17/2015 12:51:31 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Borges

Indeed... and I actually liked Jennifer Garner. So wrong.


33 posted on 04/17/2015 12:53:26 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Sergio

LOL! Just what I was going to say


34 posted on 04/17/2015 12:54:00 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 16 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Liberty Valance
We need to get the Obamaphone girl to protest in front of his mansion, and bring that crowd along as well.

"YO! WHERE IS MY REPERATION?"


35 posted on 04/17/2015 12:56:10 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 16 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Sergio

What did this doofus expect? That the account of his ancestors lives be similar to those “ancestry.com” commercials, where no one has had a relative who was a drunkard, thief, or ne’er-do-well?


36 posted on 04/17/2015 1:08:50 PM PDT by PallMal
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To: All

I’m just waiting for the day that someone debating Mr. Afleck responds with: “Oh yeah? Well at least my ancestors did’t own slaves.”

If you look far enough back, we all have kings and slaves in our past.


37 posted on 04/17/2015 1:16:06 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: gdani

So many of the founders of the US were evil in your book.


38 posted on 04/17/2015 1:17:57 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: DonaldC

Censor history when it becomes inconvenient...that’s libs for you.


39 posted on 04/17/2015 1:23:08 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Sergio

Sorry Ben. But if your ancestors owned slaves, it means you are the equivalent of a slave-owner. How could you be so cruel, heartless, evil and backward in this day and age??? Its time for a boycott of his movies.


40 posted on 04/17/2015 1:30:04 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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