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[brivette]

Another case against importing blacks from Africa.

[andy58-in-nh]

"Well, to tell an old family secret, my Grandmother was Dutch..."

[org.whodat]

How many times is this non-story going to be posted today??

[cripplecreek]

What A load.

[starbase]

I heard that Michael Jackson's ancestors were slaves owned by Oprah Winfrey's relatives.

[nuconvert]

duplicate with different title. sorry. plz pull

[mylife]

How very interesting

[Past Your Eyes]

Reverend Al needs a better excuse than that.

[kcvl]

The Daily News said professional genealogists, working at the newspaper's behest

I wonder why they don't give these 'professional genealogists' names? With all the things going on in the country and world you would think they Daily News would have better things to spend time and money on.

[ElkGroveDan]

Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather.

That's really a stretch. None of Thurmond's ancestors actually enslaved Sharpton's ancestors. To put it in perspective, Thurmond's grandfather had a SECOND COUSIN (Julia Thurmond) who owned Sharpton's great grandfather.

Most people don't think of their grandparents' second cousins as "family."

[jerod]

How about the slaves that Al Gore's great grandfather used to own... Where did they go to? If you look up his autobio it starts with his grandfather who was born one year after the Civil War. Strange how all DemocRATs family bios start after the Civil War.

Not only should Al Gore and his DemocRAT friends such as Jimmy Carter, John Edwards and Bubbah Blythe (A.k.a. Clinton) find out who their great grandfathers slaves were, they should pay all their slave descendents the reparations that they surely deserve.

[Raycpa]

So Al owes his Christian faith to a republican.

[gathersnomoss]

I am certain that somewhere in Sharpton's lineage there was a proud citizen from the fine State of Virginia. And, now that the state has taken the liberties of apologizing for slavery, I believe that Mr. Sharton's ship has once gain arrived.

Your check will be in the mail real soon.

Regards, The Sucker State of Virginia

[alloysteel]

And nobody that was involved either as slaveowner or slave, is alive today.

We are not responsible for things that our forefathers may have done before we were born. We are only responsible for the deeds we do in our lifetimes, and for the attitudes we assume and hold to in the daily business of living.

Strom Thurmond has pretty much abandoned all the perceptions and actions he ever took part in. Whatever it was that Senator Thurmond did, or did not do, in his lifetime is already written on the books.

Al Sharpton, on the other hand, has all kinds of opportunity to adjust his attitudes and perceptions. Today's white people are not the problem, any more. Legal precedent and established law have made the exercise of ungentlemanly coercion upon others an undesired form of behavior, and white people, by and large, have accepted this state of affairs. The old Southern redneck Dem'crat stereotype is just about extinguished. In its place the soft racism of lowered expectations has been substituted.

Reverend Sharpton, you are better than that.

[Balding_Eagle]

LOL!

Sharptons ancestors were owned by the Right?

Now Sharpton is owned by the LEFT?

Ironic.

[Mr. Mojo]

"But nothing — nothing — could prepare me for this."

Just wait until he finds out he's a blood relation as well.

[Freee-dame]

Sharpton was later freed

[lilylangtree]

Yeah, and Mitt Romney's great grandpappy had 12 wives. Big Mouth Liar Monied Al Sharpton is an ugly piece of humanity.

[vavavah]

GOOD