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Michchamp
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Now everyone knows he has a slave owning ancestor.
I actually saw the episodes on Anderson Cooper & Ken Burns. both of them accepted the news. It's certainly horrible news to learn (well, for most normal people, at least...), but I'm not sure how burying it helps race relations in any way, and who - other than the relatively small number of Americans that actually watch PBS instead of crappy sitcoms or police procedurals on CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. - would even find out, but for this?
I find Henry Louis Gates' excuse less than compelling, given the emails the sony hack revealed.
I actually saw the episodes on Anderson Cooper & Ken Burns. both of them accepted the news. It's certainly horrible news to learn (well, for most normal people, at least...), but I'm not sure how burying it helps race relations in any way, and who - other than the relatively small number of Americans that actually watch PBS instead of crappy sitcoms or police procedurals on CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. - would even find out, but for this?
I find Henry Louis Gates' excuse less than compelling, given the emails the sony hack revealed.