LeVar Burton shocked to discover he’s descended from a Confederate soldier
Actor LeVar Burton was in disbelief after learning he descended from a White Confederate soldier on Tuesday’s episode of “Finding Your Roots.”
The PBS documentary show uses written ancestries and DNA research to discover the long-lost family histories of prominent guests.
Show host and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed to Burton that his family had harbored a deep secret for generations. The man he thought was his great-great-grandfather was not actually genetically matched to him. His great-grandmother, Mary Sills, was actually descended from a White man named James Henry Dixon.
“Were you expecting that? Did you have any idea you had a White, direct ancestor?” host Gates asked Burton.
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“Are you kidding me? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I did not see this coming,” Burton admitted.
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The big question is will he have to pay reparations? Or will his share be pro-rated?
Just have those who support the party of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow pay the reparations.
They get nothing. It will never ever be enough.
How many Slave Holders were in the Family of Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton as well as Louis Farrakhan?
Almost all American blacks who had ancestors here since slave days have whites in their background.
They just don’t look.
When you look, you find.
Just give them a one way ticket to Africa.