This just in
Mar. 3rd, 2007 08:47 amA researcher claims that Obama's Ancestors may have owned slaves.
Doesn't that make him even more qualified to be president? After all, some of our Founding Fathers owned slaves.
All kidding aside, though. Given the practices of certain slave owners, aren't some "authentically black" Americans related to people who owned slaves?
I mean, can you control who your great great grandfather was? Jesus, Mary and Joseph, people. Should it matter where you come from in America? I thought it mattered what you do and where you're going, here.
Doesn't that make him even more qualified to be president? After all, some of our Founding Fathers owned slaves.
All kidding aside, though. Given the practices of certain slave owners, aren't some "authentically black" Americans related to people who owned slaves?
I mean, can you control who your great great grandfather was? Jesus, Mary and Joseph, people. Should it matter where you come from in America? I thought it mattered what you do and where you're going, here.