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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Woah. No. Dixon was a defender of North Carolina - his home. There is zero evidence that he was a "defender of slavery" or that this motivated him in the slightest. Not just the majority but the VAST majority of Southern Whites did not own so much as one slave and had never owned so much as one slave. They fought for the same reason people fight whenever a hostile foreign army invades someone else's land.
How did they justify it Levar? They justified it in the same way that men in a more powerful position have always justified having relations with women who were much poorer or in an inferior social position. Think of the boss having an affair with his secretary or the rich old guy having a relationship with a hot young (and penniless) girl. That's a story as old as humanity.
Exactly what I've said to the PC Revisionists for over 30 years. What are future generations going to look back and condemn us for?
Eating meat?
Having pets?
(here's a way to REALLY piss off the Lefties) permitting abortion?
"Why if I'd been alive back then I'd have blown up a bunch of abortion clinics and shot dead a bunch of the murderers conducting abortions because I'm such a moral and righteous guy myself (pats self on back)............."
That's how myopic, ignorant, self righteous and arrogant these people are. They pretend the would have had the same views that they do now if they had lived hundreds of years earlier and never been exposed to all the things that shaped their views now. Somehow they would have come to the "morally right" position anyway......
Clown So he would be happier if it didn’t happen? SO WOULD WE.
I am descended from a guy clearly with Cavalier sympathies if not an actual soldier? who left Bristol and landed in the Jamestown colony in 1649. That’s my direct name bearing ancestor 11 generations ago.
His son was a land surveyor, Indian trader and militia captain for the Virginia colony. He was also a slave owner. As was his son.
Fast forward 2 generations later and nobody in the family was a slave owner (OK possibly some distant cousins). The family had relocated from Virginia to Tennessee, and they were ALL Confederates. My G-G-Grandfather was a captain in the Confederate Army. 5 of his brothers also served. 2 of them died. Another was left permanently crippled from a gunshot wound to the hip. From another line 2 G-G-Uncles also served in the Confederate army. Both of them died (one of measles). From another line one G-G-Uncle lied about his age and slipped over to the next county so he could join the Confederate Army....in all at least 10 of my ancestors served in the Confederate army.
At least two of my ancestors served on the Secessionists’ side in the War of Secession from the British Empire from 1775-1783.
3 of my uncles fought in WWII.
I’m not owed any reparations and I sure as hell don’t owe anybody else a damned thing other than common courtesy - which they also owe me.
My family comes from Kentucky (Mother’s side) and Pennsylvania (Father’s side). There were probably racists on both sides long ago. I’m not responsible for that, just as Levar is not responsible for a great-great-great uncle or whatever being a Confederate soldier.
the article didn't say his ancestor was a slave owner or was from a family that owned slaves - only that he was a Confederate soldier. Notice how the lying LA Times deliberately tries to conflate Confederate Soldier with "defender of slavery". These are two totally different things. They just FALSELY ASSUME everybody who fought for the Confederacy was "defending slavery". They were not of course. They were defending their home from invasion. The VAST majority of Southern Whites did not own slaves.
Exactly. Just take it far enough back in time. How many of us are the descendants of rapists, enslavers and murderers? The answer of course is ALL of us.
I had two great-great-great uncles who fought for the Union.
Guess he’s not on the list for reparations!
Disney will remake Gone With The Wind starring Le Var Burton and Beyonce and the maid will be Britney Spears.
No reparations for you!
Actually, that sounds more like something Netflix would do.
And who is going to but that debt? There is a delicious irony in there somewhere. In one sense, Barack Obama's distant cousins in Africa will be paying part of the bill, because his ancestors were among the Africans who captured and enslaved the Africans who ended up in America because the democrats didn't want to pick their own cotton.
Chuckle… he gots a whitey in the woodpile…
I’m a Jew. My ancestors were slaves in Eqypt. Where are my reparations?
The author of the article:
Emily St. Martin
Emily St. Martin is an entertainment reporter on the Fast Break Desk.
Before joining the Los Angeles Times, she contributed to the New York Times, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, NBC, Vice, Los Angeles Magazine and the Southern California News Group.
She also previously worked at the Hollywood Reporter.
In 2022, she won third place for best news feature with the L.A. Press Club.
St. Martin has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of La Verne and a master’s in creative nonfiction from UC Riverside.
Not saying what she wrote is untrue. But am calling attention to her background.
Of course I knew all of that. Poetic license.
Good one.
“And even farther back...one of millions of descendants of the infamous King MacBeth of Scotland.”
The real MacBeth of Scotland was well liked during his reign, was religious (toured the Holy Lands) and died in battle.
I read that Davy Crockett’s first wife was descended from Macbeth.
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