Posted on 02/23/2023 5:34:41 PM PST by Twotone
Angela Davis is a Marxist University of California professor who won the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize and was once accused of supplying weapons to a black supremacist who went on to murder Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and two inmates.
The 79-year-old identitarian, one of the founders of critical race theory and a former Black Panther, was shocked to learn on Tuesday's episode of PBS' "Finding Your Roots" that she is the descendant of a slave owner as well as of one of America's first settlers.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of the documentary television series that explores guests' genealogies, provided the geriatric communist with a list of the passengers on the Mayflower. Among the 101 people aboard the ship that sailed to the colonies in 1620 was one of Davis' ancestors, William Brewster.
Davis appeared unwilling to process the information, saying, "No, I can't believe this. No! My ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower. ... No. No, no, no, no. ... Oof. That's a little bit too much."
Gates interrupted Davis' protest to ask, "Did you ever in your wildest dreams think that you may have descended from people who laid the foundation for this country?"
Davis previously suggested that "racism is embedded in the fabric of this country."
"Never. Never. Never. Never," Davis told Gates.
According to Gates, on her mother's side, Davis descends from a Revolutionary War soldier, Stephen Darden, who was a drummer for the 4th Virginia regiment in the 1770s. Darden reportedly moved to Georgia and became a slave owner.
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There’s probably a lot of people that wished they hadn’t gone on that show lol
Well Chuck Connors d8d pay a lot for Kizzy....so.
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