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| Topic Started: Apr 19 2015, 04:25 PM (284 Views) | |
| James | Apr 19 2015, 04:25 PM Post #1 |
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Historian Henry Louis Gates researched actor Ben Affleck family history, and he found out that one of Affleck ancestors was a slave owner. Ben Affleck asked PBS not to show that part, because he didn't want the world to know that his ancestors owned slaves. PBS cut that part of the show out, this was the first time that they ever did that for any of their guess researching their roots. News http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/04/18/ben-affleck-demanded-pbs-program-hide-his-slave-owning-ancestor/ |
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| kennyinbmore | Apr 19 2015, 04:26 PM Post #2 |
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Doesn't really matter, everyone else now knows |
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| James | Apr 19 2015, 04:30 PM Post #3 |
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Kennyinbmore it mattered enough for Ben Affleck to want to hide it. |
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| Doctor Magnus Warlock | Apr 19 2015, 04:39 PM Post #4 |
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I find it funny that he would not want that public. A common phrase used is "I never owned slaves", and since he did not, it is funny he would try to keep a shameful family secret that had nothing to do with him. It would have made the disclosure of his mother marching fr civil rights in 1964 all the more relevant, imo. |
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| James | Apr 19 2015, 04:42 PM Post #5 |
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Would PBS have hid that information for a black person, who didn't want something found out about their ancestors?
Edited by James, Apr 19 2015, 04:43 PM.
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| Doctor Magnus Warlock | Apr 19 2015, 04:44 PM Post #6 |
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It will be interesting to see if this story will catch fire. Ben has a history of bad press. |
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| PurveyorOfTruth | Apr 19 2015, 04:52 PM Post #7 |
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Who cares. We spend the most time worrying about shit that doesn't matter or stop the world from spinning. |
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| cisslybee2012 | Apr 19 2015, 04:52 PM Post #8 |
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The REBEL
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I think that slavery whiners deep down, really wish that we were still enslaved now. They really want slavery to come back.
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| Hood Boy | Apr 19 2015, 04:54 PM Post #9 |
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Most of these white people ancestors in America probably owned slaves. |
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| cisslybee2012 | Apr 19 2015, 04:55 PM Post #10 |
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The REBEL
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You're a slave owner of yourself.
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