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Angela Davis Learns She Had Ancestors On The Mayflower In Recent ‘Finding Your Roots’ Episode
news.yahoo.com ^ | 2/22/2023 | monique jones

Posted on 02/22/2023 8:45:51 PM PST by bitt

Angela Davis was shocked to learn that her ancestors came to America on the Mayflower, making her descendants of people who helped found the country.

The civil rights activist learned about this news during the Feb. 21 episode of PBS’s Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gates shows her a manifest of names, eventually revealing that the document had the names of the Mayflower passengers.

The post Angela Davis Learns She Had Ancestors On The Mayflower In Recent ‘Finding Your Roots’ Episode appeared first on Blavity.

“No, I can’t believe this,” she said, laughing through her surprise. “My ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower.”

When asked how she felt about the news, Davis said, “…That’s a little bit too much to deal with right now.”

Watch the clip below. The full episode is available for streaming on PBS.

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To: bitt

Oh, the horror!!!


61 posted on 02/23/2023 4:19:42 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: bitt
Those Johnny Come Latelys up in New England were not the first English settlers to North America and in fact, most of the Founding Fathers came from Virginia. They were in fact descendants of Jamestown. The key founding ships from England to North America were the

Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery.

62 posted on 02/23/2023 4:22:31 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: bitt

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Anybody here at FR remember the “beer summit”?


63 posted on 02/23/2023 4:35:06 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

so did one of mine. John Howland. A few million others in the USA can say the same.
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Yup.

/ me too.


64 posted on 02/23/2023 4:59:29 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

—yep—likewise-—and to my utter disgust, I am also related to the Roosevelts and one Barak Obama—


65 posted on 02/23/2023 5:01:51 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: bitt

Oh no! Angela Davis is my cousin? Gee! Who would have guessed?


66 posted on 02/23/2023 5:14:41 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: cuz1961

Do you have a Salem witch or two in your ancestors? My bet is that you do.


67 posted on 02/23/2023 5:16:57 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Fai Mao; bitt
This could be a funny twist to the reparations movement. Most US blacks are more white than I am.

And a significant number of them are descendants of slave owners. Black and white.

68 posted on 02/23/2023 5:22:55 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: bitt

Her reaction after discovering slave owner ancestors was delicious.


69 posted on 02/23/2023 5:27:02 AM PST by Kolb (Compone Accomoda Supera)
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To: Brown Deer

From those stats, she is more likely related to people that sold slaves.


70 posted on 02/23/2023 5:27:35 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: wintertime

Do you have a Salem witch or two in your ancestors? My bet is that you do.

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Good memory.

As I have stated here before, mine was the “ wrong” mistaken Parker that was executed.


71 posted on 02/23/2023 5:27:51 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: bitt

So....... no reparations for Angela.

She already got white genes


72 posted on 02/23/2023 5:29:50 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: bitt
Voice of Maury Povich: "Angela Davis - you owe reparations!" :)
73 posted on 02/23/2023 5:43:22 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: waterhill

Vivica Fox.


74 posted on 02/23/2023 5:43:23 AM PST by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: bitt

Poor Angela, she’s White and didn’t know it!!


75 posted on 02/23/2023 5:46:07 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: bitt

I traced my ancestry back to the 1100’s and found that Elizabeth Woodville (The White Queen) was one of my ancestors. For real. That was so interesting because my family came over from France, Ireland and Scotland back in the early 1800’s. Tracing your ancestry is a lot of fun.


76 posted on 02/23/2023 5:52:27 AM PST by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: bitt

My 6th GGF had many slaves but his Grandson (my 4th great Uncle) sold much of his inherited land to freed slaves for a pittance of its value. He was the first in the area to sell land to them and in honor of him, they named the area their Church was built on after the family. In fact, one of the women had a document drawn up (I don’t know for sure but suspect she was very ill) that should she pass, her minor children should not be “bound” to anyone but my 4th great Uncle. You’ll never find that narrative being taught in the government schools.


77 posted on 02/23/2023 6:02:02 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: JoJo354

Hello cousin. Elizabeth Woodville is my 17th great grandmother.


78 posted on 02/23/2023 6:32:19 AM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Quite a few millions. The first male Pollard showed up in what’s now Boston in 1630 and within a couple of generations, moved South to the Plymouth area and married into the Pilgrim clan on more than one occasion/generation so we have 12 lines back to the Mayflower passengers via marriage - female genetic lines.


79 posted on 02/23/2023 6:40:38 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: bitt

For those unfamiliar with the case, SHE bought the guns to use in this Marin County Court breakout!

https://www.sfgate.com/news/slideshow/1970-Marin-County-courthouse-shooting-144014.php

The FBI had her nailed but then they screwed up the case and she walked.

A Communist dairy farmer in California posted bail for her. LIFE magazine carried a big spread about him at the time. when he received death threats he bought himself an AR-15 for protection. Page 73 “Parting Shots” of this issue with Brando on the cover.

https://books.google.com/books?id=d1IEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false


80 posted on 02/23/2023 7:01:30 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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