a PBS documentary called american lives 2 reveals black celebrities and well known figures in society ancestary. it also gives the historical context surrounding their grandparents. Most of the time they are really concentrating around slavery and the emancipation. well in one episode that I saw they were talking to morgan freeman. Skip gates was the host (for the lack of a better term) of the documentary told Morgan that his great grandmother "married" a whiteman after slavery and they were together for 35 years. he stated that it was common for IR marraiges between the slave owner and the slave woman. if you go to PBS website you will find the people they are profiling and get their story. I didnt watch it on the site just on TV. anyway, what was not stated was the WWBM relationship.....HMMMMMM I wonder why ? I wonder why there is no really history talking about IR and especially WWBM. there is a book called " dont bring home a white boy" and she gives some stories of wm wifing up bw around slavery and up till now but I have yet to see WWBM. HMMMMMMM
Henry Louis Gates is piss weak as an intellectual. I find him intensely boring and if you want to mount a compelling take on black genealogy start with real black people, not celebrities. Don't they already get enough attention?
I saw one part and you really had to fill in the gaps but they alluded to the fact that WW got with BM alot. so much so there was a law that if a ww birth a black child then it could not be enslaved (if I heard it right). that is where you filled in the gap when they stated that
I saw it. I wasn't so impressed with the fact they were doing celebs, because I don't care about them, but learning what technology is out there that can help you find exactly where you came from. Celebs were probably used to get the average person interested in viewing.
yeah, exactly. why should they get more free shit. i guess they do it because they would need the ratings. think on it would you really watch if it was the crack-head down the street
