jimnyc
07-31-2012, 05:43 PM
I don't even know how shit like this becomes news. All it will serve to accomplish is fan more racist flames. I'm getting sick of it. White folks, other than some rednecks, have been fairly tame out Obama and race. But blacks? From citizens to fellow politicians, they try to play the race card every step of the way, as if it somehow makes him deserving of a free pass or second term. I've never seen more racism from blacks than in the past 4 years. Anyway, this article might not be about all of that, but it'll sure as shit get some of the talk going again. The comments alone at the bottom are hilarious!
Funny though, how he has so many connections from the past, likely dependent upon who he may be speaking with that week.
Oh, and don't forget, he's also related to GWB too!
A study from Ancestry.com has determined that President Obama is related to John Punch, the first black African enslaved for life in America--which would make Punch the 11th great-grandfather of Obama.
The connection is made through Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunhan. The website's records say she had ancestors who were white landowners in Colonial Virginia who descended from an African man, Punch.
According to the site's press release, Punch tried to escape indentured servitude in colonial Virginia in 1640 and was punished by becoming enslaved for life. The records show that Punch had children with a white woman, and her status as free was passed on to her offspring. Punch's descendents became successful landowners in the slave-owning state of Virginia.
This would mean that the first documented slave and the first African American president have a shared lineage, claim researchers. Said Ancestry.com's genealogist Joseph Shumway, "John Punch was more than likely the genesis of legalized slavery in America. But after centuries of suffering, the Civil War, and decades of civil rights efforts, his 11th great-grandson became the leader of the free world and the ultimate realization of the American Dream."
Genealogists seem to be fascinated with the current president's family tree: The site has also traced an Irish branch of Obama's family. And researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society claim he is the distant cousin of movie star Brad Pitt and six past presidents, including George W. Bush.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/president-obama-related-country-first-enslaved-man-220215114.html
Funny though, how he has so many connections from the past, likely dependent upon who he may be speaking with that week.
Oh, and don't forget, he's also related to GWB too!
A study from Ancestry.com has determined that President Obama is related to John Punch, the first black African enslaved for life in America--which would make Punch the 11th great-grandfather of Obama.
The connection is made through Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunhan. The website's records say she had ancestors who were white landowners in Colonial Virginia who descended from an African man, Punch.
According to the site's press release, Punch tried to escape indentured servitude in colonial Virginia in 1640 and was punished by becoming enslaved for life. The records show that Punch had children with a white woman, and her status as free was passed on to her offspring. Punch's descendents became successful landowners in the slave-owning state of Virginia.
This would mean that the first documented slave and the first African American president have a shared lineage, claim researchers. Said Ancestry.com's genealogist Joseph Shumway, "John Punch was more than likely the genesis of legalized slavery in America. But after centuries of suffering, the Civil War, and decades of civil rights efforts, his 11th great-grandson became the leader of the free world and the ultimate realization of the American Dream."
Genealogists seem to be fascinated with the current president's family tree: The site has also traced an Irish branch of Obama's family. And researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society claim he is the distant cousin of movie star Brad Pitt and six past presidents, including George W. Bush.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/president-obama-related-country-first-enslaved-man-220215114.html