The First Black President of the US did not descend from Slaves...
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
September 20, 2011 6:29am CST
But from Slave Owners.
In fact, America is much more a "melting pot" than we suspected. The genes of most Americans are so mixed that it's hard to say what race we hail from.. much less what race we are.
Using modern technology, people are using their genes to find out their true heritage. This high tech geneology has lead to a lot of surprises... and not all of them the fun kind (at least not from the point of view of the person).
Black people, hoping to find their slave ancestor, like Obama, learning that they come from a long line of slave owners. White people learning they are as Black, or Tribal as they are White (or even more so).
Tribal leaders are being contacted by people who look more like Gen. Custer than Sitting Bull... and people who thought they had tribal heritage that don't have a drop of tribal blood in their bodies.
I know my heritage because I know my family history back to the days of 3 digit years... but who knows, they may have been someone in the ol' family tree that wasn't quite legitimate enough for paperwork. ;~D
Read the article, it's pretty surprising.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jul/15/usa.genetics
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@opalina143 (1240)
• Morristown, New Jersey
20 Sep 11
Please give proof and cite a source that says that Obama had a relative who was a plantation owner. You claim that Obama's ancestors owned slaves, and that his great-great-however many great grandma/grandfather was a slave owner. Do you have any proof or did you just pull this out of thin air? it's a pretty major accusation. I would like to see the proof. Show me Obama's family tree with the specific individuals who were slave owners in it. If you can't, please don't lie.
@opalina143 (1240)
• Morristown, New Jersey
20 Sep 11
Ok, I read the whole article and I see the citation now. I admit that this information is very upsetting and disturbing, and must have been devastating to Obama and his family. But it doesn't really matter. We are who we are because of what we do and our character, not who are ancestors were. We should not be judged or punished because our ancestors did something bad. Its jarring and upsetting, but its hardly his fault. If I were descended from Nazis, for example (I am part Jewish) it would really upset me but it wouldn't really change who I am or my value as a person. So although it has an emotional impact, it doesn't really matter who our relatives were, if we are good people, we deserve to be treated as good people, not judged on the basis of what our ancestors did. But I admit it is upsetting to hear.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
20 Sep 11
I don't know how he reacted, I hope he reacted the same as a friend of mine and I. She found out that her ancestors were among the mobs who raped and murdered Mormons back in the Mormon Extermination Act days in Missouri. We laughed. Not that it happened, or that her ancestors were involved, but at the thought of how they would react to learn their great great great great grand daughter became a Mormon. ;~D
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
21 Sep 11
I think many people would be surprised at their true heritage if they really did some research. Someone I know just recently found out that he had a relative a few hundred years ago who had a very lesbian relationship. Since the rest of the family consisted of very devout Christians, he was quite surprised.
My son's father's side has some Asian blood which was very evident in our son when he was a toddler. And not so much now.
@RebeccaScarlett (2532)
• Canada
20 Sep 11
I am as "white" as I could be: skin so light you can see most of my veins from a distance, freckles, white-blond hair that changed to strawberry blonde as I got older, and blue eyes.
But I have Cree blood! My maternal grandfather looked like a full-blooded native American (although he was only half.)
