| | I'm not sure this is true. In July 2012, Ancestry.com found a strong likelihood that his (Obama's) mother, Stanley Ann Dunham was descended from John Punch, an enslaved African man who lived in the Colony of Virginia during the seventeenth century. And anyway, Obama's a black American himself, surely his "bloodline' doesn't matter? We really shouldn't be talking about ethnic purity and things like that, considering we're all against racism here. I mean, they say mixed-race people always do well for themselves (look at successful policians like Donald Trump - part German, Scottish, Slovenian/Czech by marriage - and Boris Johnson - part English, Russian, Turkish, Jewish, American, French, German, Polish). | | I'm not sure this is true. In July 2012, Ancestry.com found a strong likelihood that his (Obama's) mother, Stanley Ann Dunham was descended from John Punch, an enslaved African man who lived in the Colony of Virginia during the seventeenth century. And anyway, Obama's a black American himself, surely his "bloodline' doesn't matter? We really shouldn't be talking about ethnic purity and things like that, considering we're all against racism here. I mean, they say mixed-race people always do well for themselves (look at successful policians like Donald Trump - part German, Scottish, Slovenian/Czech by marriage - and Boris Johnson - part English, Russian, Turkish, Jewish, American, French, German, Polish). |