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Post by bamagatr on Feb 26, 2007 8:14:18 GMT -5
so Al Sharpton's ancestors were "owned" by Sperm Thurmond's ancestors??
and it's a news headline?!?!?!
while you're doing such deep research, Al...take a look at Robert Byrd's personal history, and tell us about HIS ancestors...
if you're going to open that "reparations" can again, then open the WHOLE can...not just the little pieces you like, and then run to the fawning media...
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Post by blondie on Feb 26, 2007 9:50:27 GMT -5
so Al Sharpton's ancestors were "owned" by Sperm Thurmond's ancestors?? and it's a news headline?!?!?! I think that's pretty interesting. Sure don't want you editing my newspaper.
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Post by killer on Feb 26, 2007 10:39:22 GMT -5
Reparations? We already do that.
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Post by dixiepixie on Feb 26, 2007 10:52:15 GMT -5
Actually, the whole things is interesting. It's amazing how far back and how easy it is to track back where you come from. www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/26/sharpton.thurmond.ap/Professional genealogists, who work for Ancestry.com, found that Sharpton's great-grandfather Coleman Sharpton was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.So Julia Thurmand was the grand daughter of Strom's great great grandfather...So that makes her his..What? Great Aunt? His father's Aunt, right? And she freed Coleman Sharpton, or at least he WAS freed.... I wonder, since she is listed as the owner was she a maiden aunt, or did she marry into the family. I would like to read more about this.
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