Jared @mathbook.cafe · Jun 23 You know, that was some trick. I knew the facts, I lived down the block from the man, but the truth never dawned on me. The exalted first black president wasn’t a descendant of the Atlantic Slave Trade. At least not in his black side. Americans quickly ignored this to declare post racial victory.
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according to Wikipedia, there was an ancestry dot com study in 2012 that traced Obama’s mother’s DNA to a man captured into slavery around 1630. Honestly, this sounds like a manufactured origin story, much like the Julian family in Rome claiming descent from Venus. Could be true, but politics say…
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