Opinion | When Black Marxist Angela Davis found out her ancestors owned slaves WashTimesOpEd
learned she was a descendant of Puritans who came over on the Mayflower, men who fought in the Revolutionary War — and others who owned slaves.
That’s not all. Direct ancestors on Ms. Davis’ mother’s side were slave owners. Her white Southern ancestors didn’t rape their slaves; they married free Blacks and lived happily with their mixed-race families. But at another level, those who have listened to the fiery revolutionary rhetoric of Ms. Davis for decades have to smile. She was often in the headlines in the 1960s and 1970s spewing hatred of the country that, as it turns out, her direct ancestor helped found.
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