Quote Originally Posted by maladroit
huh? if your mom's ancestors were slaveowners it's ok but if your dad's ancestors were slaveowners it's bad? cool! my relatives on my mother's side did some nasty stuff and now i don't have to feel guilty anymore...too bad for my cousins - they're going straight to hell!
I did not mean that it mattered whether the slaveholders were from his mother's ancestry, or his father's. In Obama's case, he has no known ancestors that were slaves - from either side. I was just giving the facts concerning his ancestry - it could just as well have been that his mother was Black and from another counry, and his father an American descendant of slaveholders. Some people have slaves/slaveholders on both sides, all kind of combinations, or neither. In any case, Obama does not owe himself an "apology".