Posted on 01/18/2024 8:42:01 PM PST by Mafe
LeVar Burton got a glimpse into his lineage in “Finding Your Roots” and discovered something about his ancestors that shocked him.
The former “Reading Rainbow” host, freedom-to-read advocate and actor knew little about his lineage. He’d been estranged from his father, Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, since he was 11, and his mother, Erma Gene Christian, had been tight-lipped about her own history. Burton said it was “impossible” to get her to open-up about her upbringing.
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“ where are my reparations?”
You already got your reparations.
Exodus chapter 3- verse 21 “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. 22 Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”
Exodus Chapter 12- verse 35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. 36 The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
“ My grandfather was a Yankee. I demand restitution!”
Here’s your free tickets to the next Yankees baseball game and a coupon for stadium hot dogs 20 percent off.
Lets see, that is at least 1/16 of him. So the 1/16th has to pay the 15/16ths...
That also means he is 1/16th racist... Because we know that all white people are racist. The other race’s, creed’s and color’s are completely harmonious and non-racist but white’s... They have no choice. They’re just racist.
Welcome to the club LeVar.
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957)[2][3] is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994),[4] Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years -
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I never watched a minute of that Roots bs. And I was a liberal back then. It looked like mass brain washing and hype to me
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Regards,
Saves me the trouble of quoting it verbatim from memory!
Regards,
I’d like him to have to watch Thomas Sowell’s history of slavery and the slave trade - complete from what started it and ended it - and he can see that his “Roots” movie was a false narrative - and see how he reacts to that.
Lol
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