Posted on 08/13/2012 11:43:30 AM PDT by Brown Deer
For many of us, our main understanding of the American South, slavery and the Civil War derives from countless viewings of ‘Gone with the Wind.’ New research has revealed that Michelle Obama’s forefathers include Charles Shields, a slave-owner of Irish descent, who lived in the very same county in Georgia State where the fictional Scarlet O’Hara’s family lived. This is the remarkable story of how Charles Shields and a slave girl called Melvina became ancestors of the first African-American to become First Lady of the United States.
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lol
total BS
Nearly all of Europe was enslaved by the Romans, so nearly every white person has slave ancestors. I am tired of the lie that black people were the only ones enslaved.
Hum?
I just verified my sixth great grandmother was an African slave.
My Grandmother always told me we “was black” on my grandfather’s side.
So do I get to be the first lady or reparations?
Where in her lineage did Michelle pick up mooching, this is the question.
You are correct. Every people group at one time or another became part of the slave class, it just seems only certain people groups are able to move on.
Well Whoop Dee Doo and Hot Damn.
We can go all the way back to 1864 when some white kid had sex with a slave ,and track all of Michelles ancesters. They obviously kept great records back in those slave days of which slave owners had sex with which slaves and where their progeny went.
Hawaii cannot even send us the record of one Mulatto and certify where he was born.How about a DNA test for Frank Marshall Davis and Obama the little boy who’s mother didnt have time for him.
Funny how we can go back to 1800’s and track the origin of slaves and cannot go back to 1961 and find what hospital Obama was born in, much less his real daddy, and a formal Birth Certificate uncounterfeited.
Who the hell is buying this BS?
True. When Africans were enslaved here, people all over the world would have (still would, in some places) gladly let themselves be enslaved instead of enduring the lives they DID lead.
No other group since 1600 was uprooted grim their homeland in the millions, no other group had their slavery justified on the basis of race, no other group, even after being freed was denied participation in society, restricted and denigrated because of their race.
The only event that comes close is the holocaust, and that lasted only five years. Black slavery lasted three hundred years.
Really? To be branded, sold at auction like an animal, have your children taken from you and sold, have your wife or husband taken from you at whim, to be beaten, to be mutilated, if your owner chose...yes, I’m sure there were people longing for that life.
I thought Michelle had some Irish in her. Troll or Ogre, I couldn’t really tell for sure.
Wow! Just in time for the election these geneologists can spin a yarn about Mooch going back centuries!
Let’s unleash this vast body of talent to span the current generation, and find out about Zer0’s daddy
Yo, who’s yo daddy??
“no other group had their slavery justified on the basis of race”
You forgot No other group was sold into slavery by their
own race. African slaves were sold to buyers by African
masters.
You mean blacks enslaved by whites lasted 300 years.
The incredible brutality practiced on people who were not called slaves or held as slaves is well documented throughout history.
THAT is what I was talking about. Go grind your ax somewhere else.
All anyone has to do is read the Old Testament. If Jews were unable to pay their debts, they became slaves of their lenders. In addition, Jews also held Gentile slaves.
In Africa today, Christians in Southern Sudan are captured and made slaves of the Arabs of Northern Sudan.
But we are talking about the Mooch here. So whatever she claims about her ancestry must be true. Could it be that the white slave holder was a crook as well? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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