[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."

[PJ-Comix]

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

I don't even know most of my CURRENT second cousins.

[ichabod1]

Did you notice how they used the terms "ancestor" and "descendant" referring to Sharpton, to emphasize he's no slave, but when it came to Thurmond they were "relatives." I thought "relatives" implied current family, not deceased.

I wish they'd leave poor Strom's memory alone. I wonder who his peer Bobby "white n!&&er" Byrd's "relatives" enslaved.

[nuconvert]

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


Guess that's why the headline says relatives

[Enchante]

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

Exactly. This is an absurd thing to make a big fuss about. Can we now look at the ancestry of every promintent Democrat for the past 150+ years, and make a big fuss over any 2nd, 3rd, or 4th cousin anywhere in the family tree who did something bad?? I'll bet Al Sharpton has more than a couple of criminals in his family tree (himself most of all, but that's another discussion). For every Demagogue who has a murderer, rapist, embezzler, etc. anywhere in their family tree, let's have a big MSM fuss with press conferences, apologies, etc.