Some pigs are more equal than others
My ancestors owned slaves (in Massachusetts) and records show that they willed them to their children (sometimes one “Negro man” to more than one child) and also willed resources “for the maintenance of his Negro man”.
typical PC moron
What a low brow move.
Seriously, what leverage would Ben Affleck have over PBS? More than likely, Benny-boy asked sweetly and PBS replied, Happy to oblige, Mr. Affleck!”
They had one about Rachel McAdams.
It turned out that her ancestors were tories and had to flee to Canada. They were given land by the government because of their loyalty to the crown.
Virtually everyone in America has slave-holding ancestors.
That includes black Americans.
Before the Civil War anyone with a farm had a slave or two who today would actually be considered farm help. I have a g-g-g-g-uncle who owned three black slaves. Even Native Americans had black slaves. Ben really ought to read a little more good history.
Re-writing history,no more,no less.
It’s like Mark Wahlburg looking for a pardon for his vicious attack.
They truly think that they can erase the past.
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OHHH man what in the world Benny what were you thinking I did Ancentry DNA I know I about 27% irish and other half Eastern European mostly in Russia
If they REALLY cared about blacks and poor people they would, with their own millions (as opposed to voting the government takes our money) give money, of which they have more than they know what to do with, to true hardship cases, poor but trying to succeed kids, disabled and sick people in poverty. They would actually DO IT, not take to the media to spout off.
A race hustler like Gates couldn’t bring himself to expose a “megastar” white guy’s ancestry.
The same arrogant and racist Gates who brought on the Beer Summit
The same suckazz Ben Affleck who defended Islam to Bill Maher
This is what I don’t understand. Americans are supposedly individualists, not in a class because of who their ancestors were, or what their race is, etc. So why should anybody give a hoot if someone’s family member in the past owned slaves? My father’s family were mostly gangsters in the thirties and I am not shy about telling the stories because it’s not me.
Shucks, I have an ancestor who was a sea captain. He hauled slaves. Ancestry is what it is.
Now that our Hero knows the truth, he’s obliged to give all his dough as reparations.
I’ve done extensive research into my family history and I’ve found out a lot of things. One third great-grandfather owned slaves. One second great-grandmother was a young widow and gave birth to a child in between marriages, to a father unknown to me. I found one great-grandmother on the 1940 census as a resident of the Alton State Hospital, a mental institution. That was never talked about by the family, and when I asked my father about it he said that she always had a lot of problems.
One second great-grandfather served the Union for the entire duration of the Civil War, and evidently walked away at the end. I do not see him being officially mustered out. Heading back to Illinois, he met and married a Tennessee girl, whose brothers and uncles had served, valiantly I must say, in the Confederate Army. She was the grand-daughter of the slave-owner mentioned above. She was also the young widow.
It is what it is, and I find it all fascinating.
The narrative is more important than the facts ...
“Slave-Owning Grandfather”?
Imprecise.
His paternal grandfather, Myron Affleck, was born in 1918 and his maternal grandfather, William O’Brien Boldt, was born in 1917. You still have to go back two more generations to get to the right time frame.
(source is Ancestry.com)