In a revelation that will stun the nation, the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of America's most powerful black leaders, has unearthed a shattering family secret - his ancestors were slaves owned by relatives of the late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond.
It is an ironic twist of fate that inexorably links one of the most vocal civil rights activists and an icon of Deep South segregation.
Keep digging. I got a hunch the serpent in the Garden of Eden was a Republican.
I have a friend who was one of very few Afro-Americans in the Nevada Highway Patrol. One day he was at the Washoe County Jail and noticed that one of the inmates had the same slightly unusual last name as his. He went to see the guy, who was white. In an explanation of how they might have ended up with the same name, my friend told the guy, "Maybe your great-grandfather owned mine".
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