Matching DNA samples, scientists and historians have identified first lady Michelle Obama's family history, which traces back to Northern Georgia. According to the New York Times, her ancestors were both slaves and the slave masters because of interracial couplings through the years. Now, Mrs. Obama's distant white relatives, descendants of the slave masters, are grappling with these facts.
<blockquote>The bloodlines of Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Tribble extend back to a 200-acre farm that was not far from here. One of their common ancestors was Henry Wells Shields, Mrs. Tribble's great-great-grandfather. He was a farmer and a family man who grew cotton, Indian corn and sweet potatoes. He owned Mrs. Obama's maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields, who was about 8 years old when she arrived on his farm sometime around 1852.
The DNA tests and research indicate that one of his sons, Charles Marion Shields, is the likely father of Melvinia's son Dolphus, who was born around 1860. Dolphus T. Shields was the first lady's maternal great-great-grandfather. His identity and that of his mother, Melvinia, were first reported in an article in The New York Times in 2009, which also indicated that he must have had a white father.
Melvinia was a teenager, perhaps around 15, when she gave birth to her biracial son. Charles was about 20.</blockquote>Read more at the New York Times.
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Matching DNA samples, scientists and historians have identified first lady Michelle Obama's family history, which traces back to Northern Georgia. According to the New York Times, her ancestors were both slaves and the slave masters because of interracial couplings through the years. Now, Mrs. Obama's distant white relatives, descendants of the slave masters, are grappling with these facts. [/quote]
grappling??
why the grappling??
as if this is something new....maybe breaking news... in american!
they all want to believe that their white ancestors (the masters) did not have sex with black slave women!!
wat happen Helma...the white in mrs Obama piss yuh off? yuh think the historians and the geneticists with deh DNA testing are dem wrong :grin:
it pissin' yuh off dat white and blac so tight in america Helma?
well you better piss fully now because there is a whole lot more of dat up in there. if yu get piss off fh this you go be piss orf for a long time to come... ::rofl:: ::rofl:: ::rofl::
they used to quote some silly percentages of white and blac and vice versa..80-85% one way and not much less the other.
yes there is deep intermingling between those 2 peoples in that american hell hole... indeed so much that they cannot be seperated. too late fuh dat now.
deh have a tragic case of racism but by now racism against blac is racism against demselves. by now only very small minorities of white and blac can trace their roots to pure sources.
to observe whites and blac americans outside of america is to observe people who look out for each other. at the end of the day deh are american. and anyone fooled into belivieng deh are not in a lot of trouble
So now Michelle knows she is just as bi-racial as her hubby is, big deal! I am kind of suprised this even makes the news, must be a very slow news day indeed! :grin:
wat happen Helma...the white in mrs Obama piss yuh off? yuh think the historians and the geneticists with deh DNA testing are dem wrong :grin:
it pissin' yuh off dat white and blac so tight in america Helma?
well you better piss fully now because there is a whole lot more of dat up in there. if yu get piss off fh this you go be piss orf for a long time to come... ::rofl:: ::rofl:: ::rofl::
they used to quote some silly percentages of white and blac and vice versa..80-85% one way and not much less the other.
yes there is deep intermingling between those 2 peoples in that american hell hole... indeed so much that they cannot be seperated. too late fuh dat now.
deh have a tragic case of racism but by now racism against blac is racism against demselves. by now only very small minorities of white and blac can trace their roots to pure sources.
to observe whites and blac americans outside of america is to observe people who look out for each other. at the end of the day deh are american. and anyone fooled into belivieng deh are not in a lot of trouble
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mapz, wha a goan?
leeme say this
In Africa there are tribes who have an yellowish skin competition, and some of them have brown hair no less! And they are nomads, which means they have not had any real contact with the outside world and thus are not mixed with anything.
Now with that said, unto blacks in America! Well... However not to leave out the Native Americans, because many black slaves and Natives got together out of necessity and at times due to their struggle and what was formed through such times. So many blacks have native in their blood.
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