Posted on 04/17/2015 5:02:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Ben Affleck asked the producers of PBS’ Finding Your Roots television show to edit out details of an ancestor who owned slaves, according to a Sony internal email exchange leaked this week.
In an email sent to Sony CEO Michael Lynton shortly before the show’s second season premiere, Harvard professor and Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote that an unnamed “megastar” had asked producers to “edit out something about one of his ancestors – the fact that he owned slaves.”
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Very interesting.
Don't you have enough relatives, that you know of, already?
Oh I'm more than well qualified to JUDGE you and yours; ET, and I don't have to brag about whom I'm related to, tenuously or otherwise, nor do I post utter, blatant codswallop as you do.
You’re sure qualified to throw around juvenile insults about things and people you know nothing about, that’s for sure. You have a long history of doing that on this site. You’ve been pretty quiet for a few years though, thankfully.
Mine owned slaves
Some just a few
Some a lot
I don’t apologize
No remorse
I don’t claim Affleck
I’d prefer to be related to anyone else
As to my "quitetude", it hasn't been as long as you claim; you've just missed my posts.
You're the one who dishes it out, lies, and posts puerile impugnations of others, self-aggrandizment, and banalities.
Grow up, ET !
lol...
As always, that’s the best you can do. Pity that........
1/4 of my ancestors were Georgian slave owning plantation owners. I have no shame in that heritage whatsover.
Look, nopardons wants to feel ‘special’ and we should let him. Unlike those of us whose families once owned slaves nopardons’ forebears had nothing to do with creating this country. They just bought a boat ticket at some point. We should applaud that with the same enthusiasm we show for someone who buys a plane ticket today and announces that he’s special because he has no connection to America’s history.
Americans who can trace their family trees back to the colonial era are pretty much guaranteed to be cousins. There were only two million people total in British North America at the time of the Revolution and those families had been intermarrying for generations. And like every single Presidential family up to the time of Lincoln, excluding the Adams, many of them owned slaves.
Many a New England fortune was made from the triangular slave trade. Newport, Rhode Island being the epicenter.
Yep.
“Virtually everyone in America has slave-holding ancestors.”
I like to put it this way:
If you walk the earth you are descended from both
slaves and slave masters.
That’s right.
I know my ancestry on both sides all the way back to the 1600’s. Danes and Norwegians and not a slave owner among them. Those Mormon ancestors were pretty much isolated from slaves out in the Utah territory from 1850 until after the civil war. Perhas an isolated brother or cousin could have married a descendant of a former slave owner but my direct ancestors did not. While in Europe they were too poor to own slaves (if any existed in Europe then), they were more likely to have been slaves or indentured servants themselves.
Well, I never said all. I said most. And fact is, the family trees of most Americans are not as insulated as your own.
My father’s lines were either late German immigrants, 1830s and 1840s, or Northerners of mainly English descent. It would be hard to find slaveholders among them, and it’s easy to find abolitionists and Union Army soldiers.
But as soon as he married my Mom, the picture changed. Her side is full of Tidewater Virginia lines, folks who came west with Daniel Boone and stayed on the forefront of the American tide moving west. And the wills and such documents from the 1600s and 1700s, and a handful all the way up to 1860s, contain human “property.”
Auntie Dem, do know the status of your ancestors in
1600 BC? That is a serious question. The idea that
slavery is a bad institution is relatively new.
Yep, and in fact if I remember correctly it is mentioned about 24 times in the bible. AND none in the abolitionist context.
I have no documentary proof, but I think my ancestors were slaves to the Egyptians. It is a common belief the early occupants of Europe were from the lost 10 tribes of Israel. The Bible seems to acknowledge slavery after the exodus as a more or less benign reality of life, and not nearly so cruel as our antebellum edition is depicted.
Well said
Cogent
Nice use of words
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