The professional genealogists, who work for Ancestry.com, found that Sharpton’s great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond’s great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.
Here we go again. It is 2007 and still we are supposed to be shocked, shocked, that a black man in America can trace his roots back to a slave. Yes, we know already! Pretty much anywhere in the Americas, or in Europe for that matter, a black person can trace back to someone that was once held in slavery. Heck, in the town I grew up in, (Pickens, SC), at least one entire family of black residents can trace themselves back to slaves once owned by my family. They even took our family name when they were freed. They know it, we know it. I even went to school with kids from that family. Want to know the real shocker?
None of us, neither black nor white, were/are in the least bit concerned. Especially the blacks.
Guess that is because none of us have sought public office and therefore have no need to play the race card.
Al Sharpton needs to get a real job and a life to go along with it.
Bull, out.
That is all.