We’re witnessing the scrubbing of information on Obama’s slave owning family in real time.
The Chicago Tribune removed their story as fast as they put it up.
Here’s a mention of the research that uncovered Obama’s family legacy in the Washington Post–
When investigating Obama’s background, Mr. Reitwiesner found the future president’s familial ties to a Virginia slaveholding family.
Will this story be axed next?
Here is one from Baltimore Sun [March 2007]- A new twist to an intriguing family history.
Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.
But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records.
The records, which had never been addressed publicly by the Illinois senator or his relatives, were first noted in an ancestry report compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner, who works at the Library of Congress and practices genealogy in his spare time. The report, on Reitwiesner’s Web site, carries a disclaimer that it is a “first draft” –one likely to be examined more closely if Obama is nominated.
According to the research, one of Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfathers, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves who were recorded in the 1850 census in Nelson County, Ky. The same records show that one of Obama’s great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves.
The Baltimore Sun retraced much of Reitwiesner’s work, using census information available on the Web site ancestry.com and documents retrieved by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, among other sources. The records show that Overall, then 30, owned a 15-year-old black female and a 25-year-old black male, while Mary Duvall, his mother-in-law, owned a 60-year-old black man and a 58-year-old black woman.
ht/ all too much
Think of it like carbon credits, the fact that he’s half black outweighs anything the white side of his family did or ever will do. He’s covered.
Obama’s racism and white privilege are showing.
And the left will say you can’t judge him by what his ancestors did, and most of them won’t see the irony of it.
The motto of the Left:
When running an agenda, pick and choose the “Truth” that is convenient for yer audience.
The link for Chicago Tribune doesn’t work. Think they’ve already been “disciplined” ?
What about the his fathers side of the family? Muslims still keep slaves.
Yep, the Tribune already scrubbed the article. Can’t have people reading about that part of Obama’s ancestor history.
And now Ozero has a transgender as a wife which makes up for his moms transgressions of being white.
The Chicago Tribune illustrates are how the press in Illinois works. Whoever was foolish enough to print facts will be scrubbed. Happens in po-dunk papers all over the State. There IS an agenda, and you must not stray.
This is what the Chicago Tribune’s link shows.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703020128mar02,1,1921179.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Here is preezy’s family tree research on the genealogist’s now archived site.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070302121047/http://www.wargs.com:80/political/obama.html
Baltimore Sun’s is still live. Grab it while you can, if you like.
George Washington Overall
I’m speechless.
The media scrubs negative history, and Hollywood will re-write it later.
I just don’t get it. The slaves worked their asses off so that their descendants wouldn’t have to work a day in lives. What’s the gripe?
Fake lies! Obama descended from heaven, untouched by earthly sins.
Were they sex slaves?
I dinna know George Washington wore overalls.
famous quote from Obama’s grandfather – “Slavery Today! Slavery Tomorrow! Slavery Forever! Vote Democrat!”
No statues for you
Obama’s family in Africa sold slaves to europeans. Obama’s family in America owned slaves. Hypocrisy at its finest. I wonder now if Obama has white guilt since he is biracial?