Of Course He Is: Obama Descended From First Slave

[alxone]

Alex, let's not forget that it was their fellow Africans that sold the slaves to the white men in boats...

your only half right . there are plenty of documented cases of both happening .(sold and caught)

[TFOGGER]

I guess in context Ronin. We're not talking about Scottland or 1930's Germany. We're talking about the United States of America. Slavery in the United States was a big deal and has shaped who were are as a nation now. If you don't learn from your mistakes you are destined to repeat them. Maybe we could pull a Japan and just rewrite history. And I think your wrong again Ronin...people do care about other atrocities committed throughout the world.

1930s Germany is one of but a long line of attempts at exterminating the Jews. Pretty much everyone from the Pharaohs to the Crusaders to the Inquisition took their shot, long before the Nazis. My people are more oppressed than your people...nyany nyany nah nah...

[RMAC757]

Not arguing anyone's oppression. I've got heritage on both sides. My point is...America is was and always will be the land of the free. Atrocities have been commited since the beginning of known time. The US is and has to be better than that. Honestly I don't hear many if any Black Americans crying about slavery. You must watch too much TV if you think that's the case.

[TFOGGER]

And the likelihood of BHO being descended from the FIRST African slave brought to America is about the same as me being descended from the British Crown(a probability somewhat less than zero), and it's utterly irrelevant anyhow.Given that his father is a citizen of Kenya, the possibility of his having ANY U.S. slave heritage is vainishingly slim. American Slavery is no doubt a black eye for the "Land of the Free", but it ended 150 years ago. It's time for folks to get over it. I don't give a rat's ass who his ancestors were, I look at what he's done and where he's going to go if we give him the chance, and I don't like the man.

[alxone]

Not arguing anyone's oppression. I've got heritage on both sides. My point is...America is was and always will be the land of the free. Atrocities have been commited since the beginning of known time. The US is and has to be better than that. Honestly I don't hear many if any Black Americans crying about slavery. You must watch too much TV if you think that's the case.

no i grew up in the inner city . iv heard it all a lot .

[Ronin13]

And the likelihood of BHO being descended from the FIRST African slave brought to America is about the same as me being descended from the British Crown(a probability somewhat less than zero), and it's utterly irrelevant anyhow.Given that his father is a citizen of Kenya, the possibility of his having ANY U.S. slave heritage is vainishingly slim. American Slavery is no doubt a black eye for the "Land of the Free", but it ended 150 years ago. It's time for folks to get over it. I don't give a rat's ass who his ancestors were, I look at what he's done and where he's going to go if we give him the chance, and I don't like the man.

Touche! Yes... who gives a damn about his ancestors? HE is the one who has totally effed this job up, not them. Besides, wouldn't that only prove that Barry O Sr. isn't his pa? What else is false then in his past?

[RMAC757]

We all have one in the wood pile. If your from the south you may get this.

I'm not and thats some racist b/s. I bet your bravery ends on message boards. If not.....lets meet for coffee

[SuperiorDG]

I'm not and thats some racist b/s. I bet your bravery ends on message boards. If not.....lets meet for coffee

I guess it depends on how you read it. Wood pile represents family tree you have cut down and are about to burn, family you want to deny. But the truth is if you have family that has been in the south more then 3 generation then there is something like a 99% chance you had a family member that was a slave. I don't deny my past and embrace that history. I just think it funny and sad that others use it to further their agendas. I think it more racist to use this history as a way to get ahead in life. Buy selling yourself as a descendant of a slave you are having others judge you not by your character, but by the color of your skin.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[RMAC757]

Who do you know is selling theirselves as decendents of slaves to get a head? And for the record...I know the context of that statement and the offer for cup of joe still stands

I guess it depends on how you read it. Wood pile represents family tree you have cut down and are about to burn, family you want to deny. But the truth is if you have family that has been in the south more then 3 generation then there is something like a 99% chance you had a family member that was a slave. I don't deny my past and embrace that history. I just think it funny and sad that others use it to further their agendas. I think it more racist to use this history as a way to get ahead in life. Buy selling yourself as a descendant of a slave you are having others judge you not by your character, but by the color of your skin.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[SuperiorDG]

Who do you know is selling theirselves as decendents of slaves to get a head?

Not necessarily as slaves, but as minorities. It happens all the time. Hell the president changes his way of speaking at time to promote this "heritage."