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To: C19fan

Genealogy is one of my hobbies. I love history.

I tried to watch Finding your roots on Amazon. The first installment was with one of the Marsalis brothers and Harry Connick Jr. It was a PROPAGANDA filled episode with the usual “every single black person to ever come to the US was a slave”, “the Civil War was only about slavery.” This SJW program is a continuation of the lies.


23 posted on 01/11/2019 8:31:44 AM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: Jaded
"I tried to watch Finding your roots..."

I watched a few episodes the first season it aired on PBS. Held my nose because it was hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of "beer summit" fame. I don't remember exactly what caused me to stop watching it. I spent many years researching the black soldiers of the Civil War, met some of their families alive today, and shared research info with them, along with historians who were writing books on the subject. So, I probably stopped because I found the info they were providing wasn't exactly true. When the story came out that Ben Affleck's ancestors had been slave owners, and that he had coerced Gates not to include the fact in the show, then I knew I had been right in my feelings. You can't report history as fact, if you're going to leave out the important stuff, even if you don't like it.

30 posted on 01/11/2019 10:49:44 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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