President linked to first US slave

[moss20]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07 ... t-us-slave

"Two of the most historically significant African Americans in the history of our country are amazingly directly related," said Ancestry.com genealogist Joseph Shumway in a statement. "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."

[FiremanBob]

I smell BS.

[OakRidgeStars]

Too bad neither one can provide a single legitimate document to prove it.

[zerodown1]

Right, and his brothers were Mo, Larry, and curly.

[DWinter]

Too bad neither one can provide a single legitimate document to prove it.

LOL

[VBshooter]

BUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL$$$$$$$$$$$$$HHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[allingeneral]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Its unbelievable, the extent that these people will go...

Would you have ever thought before that the President of the United States is a descendant of the very first slave ever to be brought to the American colonies?!

ME EITHER!!! (5 out of 5)

[Mindflayer]

"Today, Ancestry.com genealogist Joseph Shumway announced that gun rights site Vagunforum.net member 'Mindflayer' is descended from the Montauk Indian tribe of what is now Manhattan. According to his findings, the original purchase by the Dutch is invalid and as such, he properly owns the Brooklyn Bridge.
Contacted for comment, Mindflayer issued a statement that the bridge is for sale."

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[GeneFrenkle]

The timing is superb, isn't it?

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[Sensai]

The timing couldn't have been better if someone had planned it. Heh, wait a minute........

[Reverenddel]

RRRRIIIGGGHHHTTT! And I'm related to Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, and Solomon!

[TacticalMom]

Technically I am loosely related to the Prince of Japan. I am like a 32 cousin removed, and would have to probably knock off 1000+ or so other claimants to the title, but hey my own irradiated island. Yay!

Problem is they don't like half breeds like me. Shucks

[Riposite]

Technically I am loosely related to the Prince of Japan. I am like a 32 cousin removed, and would have to probably knock off 1000+ or so other claimants to the title, but hey my own irradiated island. Yay!

there's actually a Neil Gaiman short story "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" about someone who is 1000 or so spots away from the crown of England that is based on that premise- doesn't end well but these things never do



I am suprised by how much myth making the big O gets;a peace prize without making peace, this mythical link to the first slave, the whole "Audacity of Hope" conceit, my god it's almost liek the man has no real merit or achievements and they need to fabricate some larger than life fiction..but that couldn't possibly be true.....

[dorminWS]

Be interesting to see if the same yo-yos that dismiss the Obama birth certificate issue as all moonshine and mulefeathers will believe this as if it were the Gospel.

[TacticalMom]

Technically I am loosely related to the Prince of Japan. I am like a 32 cousin removed, and would have to probably knock off 1000+ or so other claimants to the title, but hey my own irradiated island. Yay!

there's actually a Neil Gaiman short story "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" about someone who is 1000 or so spots away from the crown of England that is based on that premise- doesn't end well but these things never do



I am suprised by how much myth making the big O gets;a peace prize without making peace, this mythical link to the first slave, the whole "Audacity of Hope" conceit, my god it's almost liek the man has no real merit or achievements and they need to fabricate some larger than life fiction..but that couldn't possibly be true.....

Ohh really I have not read that one by Neil Gaiman. I will have to read it. =) Yeah I have no interest in the throne... even if I did it would wrought with peril to try to get it, and well as I said before Half breed. Or Hanbun, or Hafu/Haafu Japanese. So I am lesser.

[Rich]

Probably a decendant of Thomas Jefferson too

[TheGodfather]

My favorite comments on Yahoo:

• Tomorrow's headline will be: "Crack Yahoo Staff Discovers That Mitt Romney's 11th great grandfather was the first slave owner".
  
  im sure if you go further back, you will find he is the spawn of satan.
  
  I don't buy it for a minute. Of course I couldn't if I wanted to. Unemployed for over 3 years.
  
  "The website's records say she had ancestors who were white landowners in Colonial Virginia who descended from an African man, Punch."
  Now, you got me all confused.
  
  But Obama has no link to Bill Ayers or Frank Marshall Davis...
  
  hold on a minute, they have been telling us that he was born in Hawaii ! I guess that would actually make him a "Hawaiian Punch " !!!
  
  Kevin Bacon..... I'll bet he's related to Kevin Bacon......
  
  FUNNY that THEY CAN FIND THIS information AND THEY CAN'T DIG UP his Columbia University transcripts, Columbia thesis paper, Harvard University transcripts, Occidental College Transcripts, Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007, Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups... SHALL I GO ON?
  
  It also says that his ancestors became successful landowners in the slave owning state of Virgina which means they also most likely owned slaves themselves.

[Reverenddel]

HAWAIIAN PUNCH! ROTFLMAO!

[Kreutz]

Swing looowwwww, sweeeet chaariot........

[OakRidgeStars]

Since this is Virginia, this might be more appropriate.

Carry me back to old Virginny.
There's where the cotton and corn and taters grow.
There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.

There's where I labored so hard for old Massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn;
No place on earth do I love more sincerely
Than old Virginny, the state where I was born.

Carry me back to old Virginny.
There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow;
There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There let me live till I wither and decay.
Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered,
There's where this old darkey's life will pass away.

Massa and Missis have long since gone before me,
Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore.
There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow,
There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more.

Carry me back to old Virginny.
There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow;
There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.