GeneaBabble

We recently heard that Strom Thurmond’s ancestors owned Al Sharpton’s ancestors. Now it appears that Barack Obama’s white ancestors also owned slaves.

For anyone who has been living in a cave recently, Obama’s mother is a white American woman and his father is a black man from Kenya. According to a researcher, William Addams Reitwiesner, his mother’s ancestors owned slaves:

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 research shows.

The same records show that one of Obama’s great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves. [Read more]

While this is interesting from a genealogical and historical perspective, all I can say about it politically is:

WHO CARES?

No, really. Why get your panties in a twist over things that happened 150 years ago? This will certainly be used against Obama, though. Politicians are great at using the past to destroy a person’s credibility and reputation. It doesn’t matter that he wasn’t even alive back then. Just imagine if he were a Republican!