Posted on 06/18/2012 8:41:54 AM PDT by IbJensen
Matching DNA samples, scientists and historians have identified first lady Michelle Obama's family history, which traces back to Northern Georgia.
According to the New York Times, her ancestors were both slaves and the slave masters because of interracial couplings through the years. Now, Mrs. Obama's distant white relatives, descendants of the slave masters, are grappling with these facts.
The bloodlines of Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Tribble extend back to a 200-acre farm that was not far from here. One of their common ancestors was Henry Wells Shields, Mrs. Tribble's great-great-grandfather. He was a farmer and a family man who grew cotton, Indian corn and sweet potatoes. He owned Mrs. Obama's maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields, who was about 8 years old when she arrived on his farm sometime around 1852.
The DNA tests and research indicate that one of his sons, Charles Marion Shields, is the likely father of Melvinia's son Dolphus, who was born around 1860. Dolphus T. Shields was the first lady's maternal great-great-grandfather. His identity and that of his mother, Melvinia, were first reported in an article in The New York Times in 2009, which also indicated that he must have had a white father.
Melvinia was a teenager, perhaps around 15, when she gave birth to her biracial son. Charles was about 20.
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Scarlet O'Hara might be her great-great grandmother. Obozo's father was a WWII hero who liberated Auschwitz.
Like I give a smelly Obama.
Michelle, take your idiot hubby and start a business.
(As if there’s anything either of you two could do to earn an honest buck.)
The assumption is that all white-DNA is from slave masters.
However, most whites were not slave owners. I would not be surprised if white laborers and black slaves got together more often than owner-slave.
You have GOT to be kidding me.
Who can read this crap without laughing?
So why can't the same be done for O???
Obama could be towel-boy and Moochelle could be hostess.
This is the only thing in which they could demonstrate proficiency. Screwing America is the name of their game.
Ah, the trouble with tribbles.
Is that Dolphus or Dufus?
“As if there’s anything either of you two could do to earn an honest buck”
E A R N!
That’s a foreign concept to these two!
I am certain that neither one of them knows what WORK is!
Chashing checks from ‘community organizer’ groups ain’t WORK. It only shows that you know how to ‘game’ the system, and boy do they know how to do that!
There was once a heiarchy among blacks (and still is, according to some accounts) that lighter skinned blacks occupied a higher social status than those with darker skins.
Booker T. Washington discusses this in some depth in his epic autobiography Up From Slavery. One of the quickest ways to ensure better social status for your offspring was to bed one of the field bosses or other day laborers if the opportunity arose.
New Orleans, which was the largest port on the Gulf of Mexico until near the end of the 19th century, was ground zero for a system which had a whole heiarchy of classifications and blood laws on whom could marry whom which lasted almost 100 years after the Civil War ended.
Is she claiming to be 1/32 white?
My question is.... When is SHE going to apologize to ME for the long lasting repercussions of the slave trade that HER ancestors benefited from?
If her evil ancestors never had slaves then my children would not be subject to state sponsored racism in the form of affirmative action.
I am waiting for that apology....
“New Orleans, which was the largest port on the Gulf of Mexico until near the end of the 19th century, was ground zero for a system which had a whole heiarchy of classifications and blood laws on whom could marry whom which lasted almost 100 years after the Civil War ended. “
LOL. Who sold you that baloney?
“Is she claiming to be 1/32 white?”
She would if she could get an affirmative action preference for it.
Ohhhhh.....that is a good one. Her family had slaves. Watch the old media go into overload.
What part.
a sizeable percentage of black AND white people have ancestors of the other race of whom they are unaware.
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