FOR HELPING BEN AFFLECK LIE ABOUT HIS SLAVE OWNING ANCESTORS
(Yes, a lie of omission is a lie)
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I didn't watch "FINDING OUR ROOTS" that often. But it was pretty cool when I did. More than that I learned something.
When I first started watching it, I THOUGHT, the black people had more Native American Ancestors than they do. You can't throw a stick in a room full black people and not have it hit someone that claims a Native American ancestor.
I have a great, great, great light-skinned grandmother in there somewhere with hair all the way down to her backside because she was mostly Native American. Don't you?
But DNA testing doesn't lie.
We have a lot fewer romantic, Indian lovers in our heirs --that would have taken great, great, great grandma as a young black slave girl away from the plantation if he could have when he ran for his life-- than originally supposed. DNA tests of several black hairs from several black stars revealed that we simply have a lot more white massa rapists in our collective ancestry than I originally thought.
Oh well...
I hope the show comes back. And I hope PBS screens everybody a bit more carefully. This shouldn't have happened.
Original Story:
http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2015/04/hiding-slave-owning-ancestor-is-sop-and.html
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