The First Lady's Ancestry
by snowbird 46 Replies latest social current
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mrsjones5
I like this part because it is so true for many here in the US:
"While President Obama ’s biracial background has drawn considerable attention, his wife’s pedigree, which includes American Indian strands, highlights the complicated history of racial intermingling, sometimes born of violence or coercion, that lingers in the bloodlines of many African-Americans. Mrs. Obama and her family declined to comment for this article, aides said, in part because of the personal nature of the subject.
“She is representative of how we have evolved and who we are,” said Edward Ball, a historian who discovered that he had black relatives, the descendants of his white slave-owning ancestors, when he researched his memoir, “Slaves in the Family.”
“We are not separate tribes of Latinos and whites and blacks in America,” Mr. Ball said. “We’ve all mingled, and we have done so for generations.”
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snowbird
So very true.
When I first read it, I bawled.
Sylvia
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ShirleyW
I read the article in the NY Times.
Wow, a black family that has ancestors that were slaves . ! . ! . . . how unique that is !!!. BTW I'm black too, so nothing racial here, but I thought the majority of black folks in America all have ancestors who started out as slaves, unless you're Black and from the Carribean, etc . . .
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mrsjones5
Slavery is part of Carribean history too
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ShirleyW
that's true too Ms. J.
BTW trying to figure out the facial look on that emoticon you attached
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snowbird
I think it's her White ancestry that is causing the attention, Shirley W.
Although there's nothing new or unique about that, she IS the First Lady, and people ARE curious!
LOL.
Sylvia
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mrsjones5
I think of that look as quizzical
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ShirleyW
Hey Snowbird
I thought everyone kinda knew by now that the Massa couldn't keep his hands off those "fine young chocolate maidens" he had cookin' his food and scrubbin' the floors . . . !
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mrsjones5
Some folks are still in denial...reminds me of the big hoopla over Jefferson's black descendants...