How was he a descendant of American slaves by way of an African father and a white American mother?
Please make that make sense for me
That's not how at all chattel slavery worked back then champ
Whoever this so called slave was, was most likely a white indentured servant
I’m well versed on Black American history. At least better than most. I’m also a bit of an amateur genealogist and have a pedigree on my maternal side going back to 1670. I say this only to say that you not talking to a joker. Obama is a descendant of the Bunches on his white mother side. Those of us who know anything about genealogy and colonial black history would recongnize the Bunch name instantly because that was one of the earliest colonial black families.
This is what the ADOS movement need to understand. Many of the earliest enslaved blacks (not talking about those whom were under an indenture), whom maybe gained freedom whether through their owner, or through escaping, many of the earlier African slaves married natives and Europeans. And so, because they have been in this country longer, their descendants had more time to get mixed all up, and is why many of their descendants do not look like them today. Obama’s white mother is one of them.
This is not debateable and there are a chain of genealogical record that proof this out.
There a lot of white people that are descendants of colonial Africans and if the thought process behind reparations is payment for unpaid negro labor and historic federal and state sanctioned educational and economic disenfranchisement, some of these white people can lay a valid claim to wanting a cut because they have direct ancestors that were negro slaves that were not paid for their labor. This is why paying reps based off of being 1) American and 2) Descendant of a *Negro* Slave, will be challenging because it a whole bunch of other folks, who are not “Black” today that can lay claim to that fact and support it with records.
Which is why the ADOS movement, in their talks of reparations, whether that is ever going to happen or not, need to tighten their criteria on who gets what. Because if we’re being honest, colonial 1600 and 1700 African families were in this country enslaved and/or disenfranchised longer than the bulk of African slaves that came closer to the beginning of 1800, which means those folks and their descendants are the FIRST to be entitled to anything. My whole point is you have a number of white folks that are descendants of these earlier Africans. Obama’s mother is one of them and therefore on paper Obama can claim ADOS and even get reparations with as broad of a definition of what that is.
