so, flipping through NATIONAL NEWS............

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GregV814

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Ben Affleck is self loathing because it is rumored that his family owned slaves several hundred years ago......oh the drama!!!!


and,...

Paris Hilton is greiving over the loss of her dog............





in othe news, not quite as noteworthy, hundreds have died fleeing Syria, Obama is doing something and the Isis militants killed thousands...

Poor Paris...
 
LibertyBeacon

LibertyBeacon

Unto dust we shall return
PsyOps said:
The story on this is, PBS was doing a documentary on slavery and they were going to feature Ben's ancestors as slave owners. Ben lobbied to PBS not to include his ancestors.

'Embarrassed' Ben Affleck Admits to Asking PBS to Hide Slave-Owning Ancestor's Past
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:thumbsup: to wikileaks for publishing those Sony e-mails.

I don't much care about Ben Affleck, but a good perusal of that e-mail dump is eye opening with respect to the relationship between government and Hollywood -- the Sony chief and Valerie Jarrett exchanging e-mails about hanging out on the Vineyard.

Good stuff. A+ Highly recommended reading.
 
Vince

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Why does he even care about his ancestors and that they owned slaves? :confused: It has nothing to do with him or anything he's done. :shrug:
 
This_person

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Vince said:
Why does he even care about his ancestors and that they owned slaves? :confused: It has nothing to do with him or anything he's done. :shrug:
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It's called "white guilt". See, no one else is responsible for any crimes of the past except whites and Christians, so all whites and all Christians should feel guilty and embarrassed by things people they never met did that has nothing to do with anything in the current day. Josh Earnest thinks it's wrong to go back 20 years and quote Barrack Obama's opinion on a certain matter because that's ancient history, but go back 215 years when it was still legal to import slaves, and you damned white christian Americans had best feel guilty enough to do something today for people who in no way are harmed or injured. Never mind who sold those people into slavery, or the fact that there is no discernible difference in the rate of slave ownership between white southerners and free black southerners, or the fact that 208 years ago the importation of slaves was banned (less than a decade after the ratification of the Constitution), or that as many as 600,000 white people died in the Civil War to END the idea of Slavery in America, or that a huge percentage of us have ancestors that didn't come to the United States until AFTER slavery was ended here - none of that matters at all!! If you are a white, Christian American, you are (by definition) GUILTY of a horrendous crime and need to be shamed and need to PAY.
 
Hijinx

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This_person said:
It's called "white guilt". See, no one else is responsible for any crimes of the past except whites and Christians, so all whites and all Christians should feel guilty and embarrassed by things people they never met did that has nothing to do with anything in the current day. Josh Earnest thinks it's wrong to go back 20 years and quote Barrack Obama's opinion on a certain matter because that's ancient history, but go back 215 years when it was still legal to import slaves, and you damned white christian Americans had best feel guilty enough to do something today for people who in no way are harmed or injured. Never mind who sold those people into slavery, or the fact that there is no discernible difference in the rate of slave ownership between white southerners and free black southerners, or the fact that 208 years ago the importation of slaves was banned (less than a decade after the ratification of the Constitution), or that as many as 600,000 white people died in the Civil War to END the idea of Slavery in America, or that a huge percentage of us have ancestors that didn't come to the United States until AFTER slavery was ended here - none of that matters at all!! If you are a white, Christian American, you are (by definition) GUILTY of a horrendous crime and need to be shamed and need to PAY.
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That lays the truth right out there. All except you didn't cover the white privilege we are supposed to pay penance for.
 
PJay

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This_person said:
It's called "white guilt". See, no one else is responsible for any crimes of the past except whites and Christians, so all whites and all Christians should feel guilty and embarrassed by things people they never met did that has nothing to do with anything in the current day. Josh Earnest thinks it's wrong to go back 20 years and quote Barrack Obama's opinion on a certain matter because that's ancient history, but go back 215 years when it was still legal to import slaves, and you damned white christian Americans had best feel guilty enough to do something today for people who in no way are harmed or injured. Never mind who sold those people into slavery, or the fact that there is no discernible difference in the rate of slave ownership between white southerners and free black southerners, or the fact that 208 years ago the importation of slaves was banned (less than a decade after the ratification of the Constitution), or that as many as 600,000 white people died in the Civil War to END the idea of Slavery in America, or that a huge percentage of us have ancestors that didn't come to the United States until AFTER slavery was ended here - none of that matters at all!! If you are a white, Christian American, you are (by definition) GUILTY of a horrendous crime and need to be shamed and need to PAY.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
mamatutu

mamatutu

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Homesick said:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ditto! Great post This_person

Also, it should make us question PBS who operates because of public funds/donations, and how often they change info in their programming to appease Affleck or anyone else? I think their integrity should be in question. Also, I guess Affleck is one of the progressive left that has no problem rewriting history. Ben brought more attention to himself on this than if it had been included in the documentary. No one would have said a word. But, thank you Ben! Good job!
 
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PsyOps

PsyOps

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This_person said:
It's called "white guilt". See, no one else is responsible for any crimes of the past except whites and Christians, so all whites and all Christians should feel guilty and embarrassed by things people they never met did that has nothing to do with anything in the current day.
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You do realize that there are a lot of black Christians?
 
Dondi

Dondi

Dondi
Here's a story of one of the first slave owners in America:

Anthony Johnson "..developed a successful farm. In 1651 he owned 250 acres, and the services of four white and one black indentured servants. In 1653, John Casor, a black indentured servant whose contract Johnson appeared to have bought in the early 1640s, approached Captain Goldsmith, claiming his indenture had expired seven years earlier and that he was being held illegally by Johnson. A neighbor, Robert Parker, intervened and persuaded Johnson to free Casor.

Parker offered Casor work, and he signed a term of indenture to the planter. Johnson sued Parker in the Northampton Court in 1654 for the return of Casor. The court initially found in favor of Parker, but Johnson appealed. In 1655, the court reversed its ruling. Finding that Anthony Johnson still "owned" John Casor, the court ordered that he be returned with the court dues paid by Robert Parker.

This was the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who had committed no crime could be held in servitude for life.

Though Casor was the first person declared a slave in a civil case, there were both black and white indentured servants sentenced to lifetime servitude before him." (Source - Anthony Johnson - Wiki)




The kicker: Anthony Johnson was a black man.
 
terbear1225

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see, I can sort of understand his desire to be left out of the documentary. Average joe has slave owning family in his past, and everyone just kind of goes with it. Big famous movie star has slave owning ancestors and he spends the next several months dealing with press interviews turning it into a big deal.
 
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