THAT is what I LOVE about Louis Gates doing this to these self-righteous, pontificating POSs!!
I would bet 80% of blacks who have ancestors in America before the Civil War have slave-holders in their lineage!
Just like I would bet 90% of whites who owned slaves have blacks in their lineage!
Each of their ancestors can hate on each other all they want, but they are both just stupid hypocrites!!
The lingering outrage for many of those African-Americans who find out they had a white anestor is their suspicion (and the likellihood) that black women were coerced or raped by their owners to produce even more slaves after the U.S. declared a moratorium on importing slaves. So they continue to hate the white part of themselves.
It is a sad condition to be fixated on a past that no one can change; meanwhile, no one can know by looking at a white person, either, the grinding poverty and abuse many poor whites experienced in those same days, because human organization is heirarchical.
Even today, when DEI blowhards are trying to erase all stepladders of accomplishment, there are new heirarchies. It’s just that today’s heirarchies are based not on any measure of worth, but on hatreds.