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Title: Researchers Trace Obama’s Family Back To First U.S. Slave
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RAWSTORY
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/ ... amily-back-to-first-u-s-slave/
Published: Jul 31, 2012
Author: Arturo Garcia
Post Date: 2012-07-31 11:57:37 by Brian S
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Views: 1627
Comments: 2
Researchers at Ancestry.com say President Barack Obama is the 11th great-grandson of the first African man to be declared a slave in America, according to CBS News. The findings were released Monday after researchers spent two years tracing the family tree of Obama’s late mother, Ann Dunham, who was born Stanley Ann Dunham in Kansas in 1942. Dunham’s roots can be traced to a family, the Bunches, descended from a Virginia slave named John Punch. Dunham died in 1995. Obama’s father, Barack Hussein Obama, was born in Kenya. In 1640, Punch, who had escaped to Virginia from Maryland, was caught and sentenced to a lifetime of servitude. Researchers say the discrepancy in names is common – record-keepers of the era wrote names down according to how they sounded – but that DNA testing of the Bunch family led them to make the connection. “We sort of stumbled across it,” lead researcher Anastasia Harman told The New York Times. “We were just doing general research into the president’s family tree, and as we started digging back in time, we realized that the Bunch family were African-American.” The Bunch family would come to span seven generations across a group of states including Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kansas. Obama’s family background has been a point of political contention during his presidency: earlier this year, reality TV show host Donald Trump was one of several Republican figures insisting the president was actually born in Kenya, an allegation a slight majority of Republican voters still seem to buy, even after he released the long-form birth certificate proving he was born in Hawaii. The findings come just over a month after DNA testing also revealed that the president’s wife, Michelle Obama, is related to members of several white families, including some who fought for the South during the Civil War. Watch CBS News’ report on the discovery, aired July 30, below:
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
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Sounds fake, I bet they don't even eat dogs. How many of them are whores like Obama's mother? DNA testing could prove that Frank Marshall Davis was O's father, although he'd still be ineligible because he was born in Kenya. But at least he could claim that he has slave blood.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Oh please, now the democrats are trying to paint the kenyan as descended from american slaves, give me a friggin break. I guess he's hoping for "reparations" since like all the thousands of americans he put out of work, he'll soon be out of a job.
DNA testing of the Bunch family led them to make the connection
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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