Pedro here. As my first post I decided to introduce a cool show which i came upon by luck on saturday afternoon. I found it interesting and coincidential that it aired just as we were hitting the
whiteness and race topic. Just to wet your beaks a little it is hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., if i recall correctly is a harvard professor, who is on the journey to find his ancestry. He is joined by a cast raging from comedians, actors, athletes and bussiness elites, who also want to track their African roots.The show goes on to demonstrate many genealogical techniques used to find African ancestry before the civil war, where there was no detailed record of African-Americans. Also it goes to show the circumstances and standards of life a slave would be held to. It also goes to debunk many myths and assumptions about the period.
I posted up the link which goes straight to the thirteen section of the show. I tried to embed some videos from youtube but they are too short to embrace the content of the show, plus the
quality of picture is incomparable and even jolting for thirteen. Thanks guys, hope you enjoy the videos.Click the title of this post and also check out the Chris Rock segment
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