If you found out that you had ***** blood in you what would be your very first thought, this would mean one of your parents was of African descent and never told anyone, what would you do.
2007-11-10 12:31:06 · 9 answers · asked by foxy_blue00 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
MY EX-HUSBAND HATED BLACKS. I WAS BROUGHT UP DIFFERENTLY. AFTER OUR DIVORCE, MY FATHER IN LAW AND I WERE GOING THROUGH SOME OLD FORGOTTEN PICTURES THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND BY MY MOTHER IN LAW WHO PASSED AWAY. LOW AND BEHOLD THERE WAS A PICTURE OF HIS GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER. SITTING NEXT TO HIM IN THIS VERY FORMAL PICTURE WAS A BLACK WOMAN AND THEIR CHILDREN. EVEN MY KIDS THOUGHT THIS WAS A HOOT. MY EX WAS MORTIFIED.
2007-11-11 11:36:39 · answer #1 · answered by SATANSX 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, they (Liberals) claim that everyone came out of Africa. Earlier this evening, a Yahoo! answerer claimed that the DNA company told him his ancestors came out of Africa 40,000 years ago. Hmmm? He should read the "Neanderthal's Necklace"!
By paper trail, I have traced my ancestry to all five races: red, yellow, black, white and brown. Through DNA, to islands in the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Carribean, the British Isles, Greenland, and all the continents except Antarctica.
So?
By the way, the ***** ancestry had nothing to do with raping or the Old South: It had to do with Ancient Rome!
2007-11-10 22:20:12 · answer #2 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answer #1 nailed it. If you read a lot of wills from slave owners, you run across the phrase "treat with special kindness" as in "I give my ***** man Moses to my son John, and ask that he be treated with special kindness". It is code for "He's your half brother, stupid. Don't sell him down the river." The (carnal) relation between slave owners and slave women was sometimes rape, sometimes what would today be called 1st degree sexual harassment (You be nice to me, sweetie, and you can be the upstairs maid instead of a field hand"), sometimes (1 times in 10,000) consensual, just to see what the master looked like with his clothes off. It happened. It happened a lot.
If some KKK member found out his GGG Grandmother had been a slave, one wonders. I doubt anyone settled would drop out of law school and start playing the banjo and eating watermelon, so to speak. (Change from listening to Mozart to Rap, stop waltzing and start break dancing . . .)
People who find out major things - GGGF was an illegal immigrant, their daughter is a lesbian, they have (Black / Indian / Catholic . . .) ancestors sometimes get more liberal, but their lives don't change.
Mark Twain's "Pudd'n Head Wilson" and Sinclair Lewis' "Kingsblood Royal" both have people discovering they are 1/32th Black as their central themes.
2007-11-11 00:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't matter, we are what we are. Researching genealogy, I think we all find something we hadn't quite expected. But we are here because of our ancestors and they are our heritage. It perhaps makes for a more interesting tree, although the circumstances are maybe unknown and perhaps best left in the past.
Best wishes..
2007-11-11 07:38:39 · answer #4 · answered by ♥zene purrs♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely nothing. You would be shocked to learn how many white Americans have black blood in their veins. The "owners" freely and frequently raped their "property" during legalized slavery. Don't sweat it.
2007-11-10 22:08:58 · answer #5 · answered by joker_32605 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
well if i was racist i would do a revaluation of my life if not then go with number 1
2007-11-11 01:38:47 · answer #6 · answered by raskochesslnikov 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What could you do? You are who you are and you can't change that.
2007-11-12 11:36:47 · answer #7 · answered by qtpie831 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my first thought would probably be, "i knew it!!!"
2007-11-11 00:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by kaffy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get on wellfare right away.
2007-11-10 23:17:44 · answer #9 · answered by gary h 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋