Posted on 04/18/2015 5:23:52 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Ben Affleck insisted on censoring the fact that one of his ancestors owned slaves from PBS show “Finding Your Roots,” the Sony email hack has revealed.
In a hacked Sony email from July 22, 2014, now available on WikiLeaks, the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., writes to Sony USA chief Michael Lynton asking for advice: “One of our guests has asked us to edit out something about one of his ancestors–the fact that he owned slaves. Now, four or five of our guests this season descend from slave owners, including Ken Burns. We’ve never had anyone ever try to censor or edit what we found. He’s a megastar. What do we do?”
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LOL! Sure he is.
He’s a Megastard.
That’s a portmanteau of mega bastard.
Oh My Gosh!! He’s a Star!! What Do We Do??
This isn’t just any star!! This is frickin’ Ben Affleck!!
Well, it must be time to page Winston Smith and have him make Affleck’s ancestor an “unperson”.
I been watching Finding your roots from the beginning this first time I hear that star try censor PBS and Henry Lloyd Gates there some stars they feature like Ken Burns and somebody else they were sad I never hear a big star Kevin Bacon has some slavery in his family background he was cool about it
He mention you can’t choose your family and ancenstors
Maybe he should pay reparations from his Hollywood lucre.
Right away Massa Ben! We gets right on it!
This is the same Henry Louis Gates, Harvard professor, who was breaking into his own house when Officer Crowley arrested him, resulting in BO’s racist remarks against the police and the infamous “Beer Summit.” It was supposed to solve the problem of Blacks and the police in the USA. How did that work out?
Notice how it is leftists who always want to censor, and yet the right is the side accused by the left of doing this.
Projection in everything they do.
Nor mine. Some of my ancestors may have been slaves once though.
Mine did. So the hell what?
And? Did he? No? Then who gives a rip. What a leftist clown Affleck is.
A journalist with integrity would tell him to 'go pound sand'.
I'm not a big fan of "guilt by association".Assuming that *you've* never owned slaves the fact that your great,great (or great,great,great) grandparents did isn't important.And...unlike Ben Affleck,I assume that every other word out of *your* mouth isn't "racist".
He should give all his wealth to the NAACP to ease his troubled soul.
More like megaturd.
An old style hard bitten news man would have told Ben to pi$$ off and that not only would he broadcast the slave owner bit but include clips of every video review of Ben’s movie “Gigli” ever made.
Many blacks and a large number of the Indians in the South and North owned slaves. Slavery was sort of a given.
But there was a difference between the chattel slavery practiced in the British colonies (chattel means possession, which meant that a slave was not a human being and had no human rights) and the slavery that existed in Spanish colonies, where they were not slavers but had bought slaves from the Muslims and the British to provide labor in Latin America. The difference was that a chattel slave could never earn money and profit from his skills, never buy his freedom, and never marry or have control over a family or a property. There were laws in South Carolina and Georgia that forbade freeing slaves upon the death of the owner, teaching slaves - or even baptizing them, because this meant that their owners might have to treat them like human beings. Some counties in Georgia even had the death penalty for Christian missionaries preaching to slaves!
By contrast a slave under Spanish law had to be provided with religious instruction, permitted to receive all the sacraments and marry, be sold only with his family, be freed by his owner and be able to earn wages and buy his freedom.
Certain Indian groups were big slave-hunters, capturing other Indians to sell to the British, or recapturing fleeing black slaves. As life in the US got harder, these groups merged (the Spanish affiliated Indians and blacks had already fled to Cuba) and were reconstituted as the Seminoles, a mixed-tribe, mixed-race band located south of Orlando, to the Gullah Geechee on the South Carolina coast, most of whom are also a mixture of black and Indian.
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