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9 White Celebs, World Leaders Whose Families Owned Slaves
http://atlantablackstar.com ^ | august 21, 2013

Posted on 01/17/2014 5:23:34 PM PST by lowbridge

Anderson Cooper

A rule of thumb is: where there is old money, you will find some connection to slavery. So of course it wasn’t hard to determine that Anderson Cooper was connected, in a familial way, to slavery.  His bloodline is tied to the Vanderbilts, one of the richest families in American history. Cooper’s great-great-grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt – who was also Cooper’s cousin through inbreeding – was a tycoon who built his wealth from shipping and railroads. He also owned plantations: one in particular was in Georgetown, S.C., where Michelle Robinson Obama’s ancestor Jim Robinson, who was born a slave in 1850, worked.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: andersoncooper; corneliusvanderbilt; jimrobinson; slavery; vanderbilts; whiteguilt
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To: lowbridge

Jim Robinson was born a slave?!?

I got to start reading the articles and not just the snips.


21 posted on 01/17/2014 5:55:19 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: lowbridge

“who was also Cooper’s cousin through inbreeding”

I didn’t realize Cooper’s problems went back so far. Explains a lot, though.


22 posted on 01/17/2014 5:56:23 PM PST by Politicalkiddo (Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -M. Twain)
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To: ETL
Imagine if it turned out that he was descended from slave owners on both sides!

No need to imagine it. Obama's Muslim Luo ancestors were slave traders during the time of Queen Victoria. Evidently they were some of the biggest slave traders in the country.

23 posted on 01/17/2014 5:59:09 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So what? How about a list of people who read Little Black Sambo to their kids?


24 posted on 01/17/2014 6:04:55 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: ETL

Thank you for posting this.


25 posted on 01/17/2014 6:07:20 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: bboop

You’re welcome. The page has since been updated. I put that excerpt together a few years ago. I need to re-do it.


26 posted on 01/17/2014 6:10:05 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: lowbridge

Wish I had a few, color is unimportant but the yard work and house work is hard to keep up with. (sarcasm for those who couldn’t actually tell).

I’m sick of all this slavery BS... Who sold who to whom is where the anger needs to be pointed and don’t forget indentured servants.. yeah white slavery it happened too but the kicker is it didn’t happen in my lifetime, lesson learned for America but enough is enough.


27 posted on 01/17/2014 6:11:37 PM PST by maddog55
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To: lowbridge

My great great grandfather cheated at poker.


28 posted on 01/17/2014 6:12:19 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Reparations were paid in the form of one slaughtered white man for every five black slaves freed.

What about the thousands of BLACK slave owners?

29 posted on 01/17/2014 6:14:31 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: WorkingClassFilth

“My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin’ on the porch with my family, singin’ and dancin’ down in Mississippi...”

/LOL


30 posted on 01/17/2014 6:33:21 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: lowbridge

Fascinating!

Here we can go back centuries to find bloodlines and ownership lines in generations of slaves, whilst we can’t even find out where or when Zero was birthed; or even what he was doing the evening that Benghazi was being torched!


31 posted on 01/17/2014 6:48:11 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: bboop

How about a list of people who read Little Black Sambo to their kids?
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I had that book when I was a kid in the ‘40s.

Amazing, isn’t it, that the racists have banned such books and great movies like “Songs of the South” with Uncle Remus telling stories about Brer Fox, Brer Bear, Brer Rabbit, Tar Baby, etc., all in animation.

I had ancestors who owned slaves. I also had ancestors who immigrated into the Colonies as indentured servants.


32 posted on 01/17/2014 6:51:23 PM PST by octex
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To: lowbridge

My ancestors were Union soldiers. I expect a “thank you” every time I talk to a descendant of a slave. I also demand a “handling charge” for any reparations.


33 posted on 01/17/2014 7:12:18 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: lowbridge

There is slavery still going on in the Caribbean

In Haiti, poor families sell their young, usually daughters, to better off families....these children are called “Restaveks”. These children basically do all the housework, do not go to school, are abused (incl sexually)...and during the earthquake a few years ago...the families that fled did not take their Restaveks with them...left them in the rubble...where some of them died

Blacks enslaving blacks in the Caribbean


34 posted on 01/17/2014 7:26:09 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Amnesty And Not Ending ObamaCare Will Kill GOP In 2014)
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To: lowbridge
All skin colors dealt in the slave trade. Native American tribes had slaves. (other tribes, whites, AND Blacks). Inconvenient Truths get in the way for the "race baiting" crowd. The "race baiting" crowd forgets whom did the capturing and enslaving/selling/trading in Africa to the Americas. The "forgotten" slaves.
35 posted on 01/17/2014 7:29:39 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: lowbridge

To all of this I say, ‘FU Jessie, Al, Opraha, Barry, Mooshelle, and all of the Dim race baiters. Just go to hell, and give me back my great grandfather, who fought and died in the civil war to end slavery in America.’


36 posted on 01/17/2014 7:35:49 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: lowbridge

How can Anderson Cooper even show his face on TV?
He should be so ashamed...;)


37 posted on 01/17/2014 7:48:28 PM PST by libertarian27 (FreeRepublic Cookbooks 2011 & 2012 - Click Profile)
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To: lowbridge

Now, let the authors travel to Africa so that they may find the descendants of those tribesmen who enslaved and sold into offshore slavery the ancestors of the authors and the “poor Black folk” of America.


38 posted on 01/17/2014 7:57:48 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: lowbridge

Obama’s White ancestors owned slaves, and his Black African Muslim ancestors SOLD other Blacks INTO slavery. So he is worse than any of the Crackers on the list!


39 posted on 01/17/2014 7:59:50 PM PST by montag813
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To: lowbridge

This is so stupid. Cooper is a moronic leftist, but it is just beyond silly to go on about something his ancestors did.


40 posted on 01/17/2014 8:02:39 PM PST by Bigg Red (O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
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