Ben Affleck suppressed slave owning ancestors..

[franksterr]

The film star Ben Affleck asked television chiefs to hide the fact that one of his ancestors was a slave owner, according to a newly published batch of hacked emails involving the media giant Sony.

The Oscar-winning director and actor, star of the forthcoming movie blockbusterBatman v Superman, asked producers of the public-television show Finding Your Roots to leave some details out of the story of his heritage. The host of the show, Henry Louis Gates, a prominent Harvard history professor, appeared upset by the apparently unprecedented request but the sensitive facts were nonetheless left out of the show, which aired last September.
The emails were published online by WikiLeaks. It is not clear how the pro-transparency group acquired the emails, which it published with up to 30,000 others involving Sony that are believed to be part of a huge batch stolen last summer in a cyber-attack blamed on a group affiliated to North Korea.
On Friday, Gates issued a statement in which he said: “We are very grateful to all of our guests for allowing us into their personal lives and have told hundreds of stories in this series including many about slave ancestors – never shying away from chapters of a family’s past that might be unpleasant.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015...ry-louis-gates

[lonewolf]

The film star Ben Affleck asked television chiefs to hide the fact that one of his ancestors was a slave owner,

What an idiot. Who cares? Now I suppose he will apologise for being born...I say we all should stone him to death.
How dare him be related to people that were born and lived over a hundred and so odd years before he was even thought of...The audacity of such a thing.

[blugiant]

mi respekk dat imm showinn imm natt proud aff im enslaver ancestors. now imm fe cum out ann support reparation.