I recently sold my slaves on Ebay.
Got a good price too.
40 acres and a mule.
This is so hilarious.
He let them broadcast non-slave relatives.
And Obama’s friend, Gates let Affleck do it so he’s involved too.
Lord help us if he ever becomes president. We have so many fools as voters!
I wonder what percentage of Americans are not only descendents of slaves but are also descendents of slave owners?
What an Amature at suppressing his slave owning ancestry. He got caught, he should take some tips from the democrat party. They managed to suppress their slave owning past better than anybody.
Pay up!
It smells like an attempt to revive the concept of “bills of attainder.”
It’s really all about publicity isn’t it Ben. You get a whole bunch more this way.
I’ve never owned any slaves and I don’t know anyone who has ever been a slave.
I can understand someone trying to scam/game the system for “reparations”. Folks are always looking to get more out of a given system. That’s basic greed. I get that. It’s one of the basic motivations. So, while I may not agree with their premise or point of view, I don’t really have a problem with them making the attempt.
What I *do* have a problem with is when they cop an attitude simply because I tell them “No” and expose their scam for what it is.
OMG...his ancestor was a SLAVE OWNER!! PBS SUPPRESSED this info.
Not only did Perffesser Skippy Gates act “stupidly” on this - his bosses at PBS went along with it so long as “it didn’t get out”
This hacked material is a goldmine......waiting for more nuggets to surface.
I thought the whole idea of researching your ancestry was to find the truth.. good or bad. I will give a huge kudos to Anne Heche. I don’t agree with her politics or when she was with Ellen but I will say she had some courage when dealing with her hidden ancestry. Long story short.. a great, great Granny of sorts murdered her husband with a hatchet to his face. She went to prison, was raped and impregnated by the warden, and the warden’s wife tried to murder her and the baby. A very sordid and sad story.. but she not only divulged it but wanted to know everything. I remember her saying, “family holiday dinners are going to get a lot more lively now”.
Do not hold children responsible for the sins of their parents.
The sins of people five or more generations back certainly don’t apply.
If it did, everyone in the world is guilty because nearly every society had slavery - including Africans and Native Americans.
One of my g’g’g’g’ grandfathers owned fifteen slaves.
Oddly enough, I don’t feel a sense of guilt or debt - mild interest, yes.
And regret that Americans participated in the slave trade and economy at all.
To my knowledge, Ben Affleck has never owned slaves.
It is not a sin that I cast at his feet.
OTOH, his blistering stupidity as a leftist more than justifies the disdain I have for him.
It actually says more about the PBS show that they went along with it.