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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Keep in mind, most ethnic groups, kept pretty much to themselves ( re intermarriage ), for quite some time.
If they REALLY cared about blacks and poor people they would, with their own millions (as opposed to voting the government takes our money) give money, of which they have more than they know what to do with, to true hardship cases, poor but trying to succeed kids, disabled and sick people in poverty. They would actually DO IT, not take to the media to spout off.
A race hustler like Gates couldn’t bring himself to expose a “megastar” white guy’s ancestry.
The same arrogant and racist Gates who brought on the Beer Summit
The same suckazz Ben Affleck who defended Islam to Bill Maher
This is what I don’t understand. Americans are supposedly individualists, not in a class because of who their ancestors were, or what their race is, etc. So why should anybody give a hoot if someone’s family member in the past owned slaves? My father’s family were mostly gangsters in the thirties and I am not shy about telling the stories because it’s not me.
You’re just wrong. Most people in this country have some lines that come from slave holders.
Shucks, I have an ancestor who was a sea captain. He hauled slaves. Ancestry is what it is.
Some do, but "most" don't !
Just as the "new" immigrants stuck to the same neighborhoods, until they managed to not only assimilate,but climb the class ladder, many still had enclaves, as they rose, in better sections of the city/state, even other states! They also didn't marry outside of their "group" or religions until fairly recently. Add to that, though there were slave holders in the North East, at one time, there weren't all THAT many of them!
There isn't a single person in my family, on all sides, who has an ancestor who was a slave holder and I can saw the same for most, I have ever known.
You are the one who is wrong and very much so!
Maybe if you’re counting all the way back to the Roman Empire...
Not my ancestors. They came from Denmark in 1850 straight across the plains to Utah. Too busy running from mobs of people who did own slaves to get any of their own.
He didn’t want to be on the hook for reparations.
Now that our Hero knows the truth, he’s obliged to give all his dough as reparations.
No, nor does any liberal. I worked with liberals that thought it was perfectly fine to change a letter, memo, or numbers in financials if it would help their case in a current issue. I wouldn’t let them get away with it, including my boss.
Again, you’re just wrong. I’ve done many years worth of research on genealogy, and most Americans are going to have at least one line, if not many, that lead back to places like Tidewater Virginia where slavery was intrinsic to the culture.
The chances that your family has not intermarried since the 1850s with others with lines back to slaveholders is almost nil.
Or prior to that era.
Even blacks owned slaves. There were thousands of blacks who owned slaves.
I didn’t realize that Ellis Island was required passage for Tidewater, VA folks.
I’ve done extensive research into my family history and I’ve found out a lot of things. One third great-grandfather owned slaves. One second great-grandmother was a young widow and gave birth to a child in between marriages, to a father unknown to me. I found one great-grandmother on the 1940 census as a resident of the Alton State Hospital, a mental institution. That was never talked about by the family, and when I asked my father about it he said that she always had a lot of problems.
One second great-grandfather served the Union for the entire duration of the Civil War, and evidently walked away at the end. I do not see him being officially mustered out. Heading back to Illinois, he met and married a Tennessee girl, whose brothers and uncles had served, valiantly I must say, in the Confederate Army. She was the grand-daughter of the slave-owner mentioned above. She was also the young widow.
It is what it is, and I find it all fascinating.
The narrative is more important than the facts ...
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