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#1 Feb 27 2007 at 1:54 PM Rating: Excellent

Demea

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http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/national/MI40544/

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Rev. Al Sharpton didn't appear to have much in common with the late Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Thurmond ran for president in 1948 as a segregationist. Sharpton ran for president in 2004 calling for racial equality.

But last week Sharpton learned the two did have a connection after genealogists found he was a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of Thurmond in South Carolina.

Oh, the irony. Smiley: laugh

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#3 Feb 27 2007 at 2:01 PM Rating: Good

Nobby

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You and I don't share the same connotation of 'Irony'

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#6 Feb 27 2007 at 2:17 PM Rating: Good

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Family Guy already did this episode.

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#7 Feb 27 2007 at 2:49 PM Rating: Default

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to rich.

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#8 Feb 27 2007 at 3:26 PM Rating: Good

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It must be interesting.. being African American..

White people... from the small corner of Eurasia calling each other Poles, and Germans, and Brits, and Wops, and Micks.... and we're all about it with our heritage fairs and our family trees....

Black people.. from this GIGANTIC continent can say that they are African.. and they have to stop there. I have met people who can say that their ancesters wer from the Carribean and such... but can you imagine not having that history-class/nostalgic direct ethnic identity...

I think that for this reason is why black people have the prominent "black culture".. no matter where you go, black people in general talk alike and dress alike and share that culture... in which even white people participate in.
They cannot say that they are from here or there... they know that back in time.. they all shared the same fate and roots....

It's not the same amongst blacks in the Carribean.. for the most part they were able to preserve a but of their customs and identites.. however here.... we did all that we could to utterly de-Africanize them and as such... and new African culture created; totally removed from it's origins (save some subtle ones, no doubt).

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