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Genealogist finds Obama's ancestors owned slaves
New York Daily News ^ | March 3, 2007 | Helen Kennedy

Posted on 03/06/2007 10:02:55 PM PST by orchidyellow

NEW YORK - Barack Obama has been criticized for not being "black enough" because he isn't descended from slaves.

Another genealogist, Bruce Harrison, traced Obama's roots and found:

“The Family Forest® shows Senator Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, having a number of her ancestral pathways leading back to early colonial Virginia and New England, and some extend back for many centuries into Europe,” Harrison points out.

http://www.familyforest.com

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: familyforest; obama; presidential
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For more on his ancestry please refer to the entire Press Release at http://www.familyforest.com
1 posted on 03/06/2007 10:03:01 PM PST by orchidyellow
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To: orchidyellow; monkapotamus; LUV W; All

OH OH Busted it


2 posted on 03/06/2007 10:04:48 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: orchidyellow
Obama wrote in his autobiography that one of his great-great-grandfathers was a decorated Union soldier, but family rumors said he was also distantly related to Jefferson Davis, head of the Confederacy

Other then his book .. I have yet to hear him mention that

3 posted on 03/06/2007 10:07:13 PM PST by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: orchidyellow

Makes you wonder how many places removed from the publishing of these clinton hit pieces the source must be to cover Rodham-rodent's butt.


4 posted on 03/06/2007 10:07:30 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Mo1
but family rumors said he was also distantly related to Jefferson Davis, head of the Confederacy

Oh wait that's wrong .. in Obama's book he says the wife of his great-great-grandfather (Christopher Columbus Clark) was rumored to be related to Davis

5 posted on 03/06/2007 10:10:12 PM PST by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: orchidyellow

RACISM!!!


6 posted on 03/06/2007 10:19:18 PM PST by Dallas59 (AL GORE STALKED ME ON 2/25/2007!)
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To: orchidyellow

Why isn't it that all these geneology checks don't take one all the way back to a monkey? Evolutionists say they should.


7 posted on 03/06/2007 10:34:32 PM PST by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: orchidyellow

I thought the headline was refering to his African ancestors.


8 posted on 03/06/2007 10:43:45 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth shall set you free))))
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To: orchidyellow

It is indeed ironic that the first black person with a halfway decent chance to reach the top of US politics is not the descendant of slaves, did not even have any family member suffer under Jim Crowe, but did have ancestors that owned slaves, that owned the ancestors of those who marched in Selma.


9 posted on 03/06/2007 11:17:52 PM PST by Defiant (Hillary's 2008 slogan: Because America needs a nude erection in the White House.)
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To: orchidyellow

How odd this comes out right after Obama upstages Hitlery in the south.


10 posted on 03/06/2007 11:30:40 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: orchidyellow

It doesn't currently reflect the shallow being that he is now in my opinion. I'm sure one of my ancestors was a real POS as well.


11 posted on 03/07/2007 1:31:48 AM PST by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi
Good point. There is no significance unless he was in the process of claiming some positive significance in his heritage.
12 posted on 03/07/2007 1:36:22 AM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: orchidyellow
I'm almost convinced that the Clintons were once slaves owned by Obama.
13 posted on 03/07/2007 1:49:09 AM PST by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: highlander_UW
From the look of the website , this "news" exists to sell the website's services.
14 posted on 03/07/2007 1:52:32 AM PST by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

they still own slaves


15 posted on 03/07/2007 4:11:23 AM PST by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: orchidyellow

So what? Of all the reasons that there are to oppose the Obama candidacy, this isn't one of them.


16 posted on 03/07/2007 4:13:13 AM PST by Clara Lou (Go Fred!)
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To: bdfromlv

Yes, they do. Right now, somewhere in Africa, Osama Obama's relatives might be slaves or slave owners.


17 posted on 03/07/2007 10:32:49 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth shall set you free))))
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fedora; Fred Nerks; ...
Ping!
18 posted on 05/20/2007 2:53:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 18, 2007.)
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To: MaxMax
I'm almost convinced that the Clintons were once slaves owned by Obama.

Shhhhhh. That article is coming out in July. The Rodhams were found to have a black great-great-great-great-grandfather who indeed was a slave on a plantation in early Virginia. Some say that the slave-owning family indeed were the Davises. Don't rain on Hillary's parade. She is practicing every night to get the dialect just right for the announcement.

19 posted on 05/20/2007 2:58:19 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SevenofNine

Somehow, I do not think we want to disqualify from the office of the Presidency any person whose ancestors once owned slaves.


20 posted on 05/20/2007 3:01:05 PM PDT by trumandogz
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