“Do you know what you’re looking at? That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.”
Our researchers discovered #AngelaDavis’s ancestors traveled to the US on the Mayflower and here is her reaction. #FindingYourRoots pic.twitter.com/G2HhA9BSrT
— Henry Louis Gates Jr (@HenryLouisGates) February 22, 2023
And no, it’s not what you think.
Communist domestic terrorist Angela Davis should be in prison, but since the Left took over America, she’s instead a prominent academic and black nationalist figure. And she’s never stopped calling America racist.
But her own ancestry is as mixed as the history she’s exploited in her long life. And I don’t just mean racially mixed.
Davis’ mother’s father was a white Alabama lawyer named John Austin Darden.
Looking at a photo of Darden, Davis says that the family resemblance is undeniable. “He has my mother’s lips. It’s so funny, I can see her in him,” she notes.
The “Finding Your Roots” team follows the paper trail back to Davis’ fourth great-grandfather, Stephen Darden, who was born in colonial Virginia and served in the Revolutionary War (and played the drums).
Davis then grapples with learning Stephen Darden became a slave owner after moving to Georgia.
“I always imagined my ancestors as the people who were enslaved. My mind and my heart are swirling with all of these contradictory emotions,” she says.
Later in the episode, Davis learns the identity of her paternal grandfather. Gates explains that her father, Benjamin Frank Davis, grew up in a small town in Alabama with his mother Mollie Spencer.
Spencer was once married to a man named Edward Davis — but Edward Davis was not Frank Davis’ father.
The couple separated long before Frank Davis and many of his siblings were born. Frank Davis’ sister told Davis stories of his white father.
Turns out Mollie Spencer lived near a white man named Murphy Jones. With the help of DNA evidence, the “Finding Your Roots” team discovers that Murphy Jones was, in fact, Frank Davis’s biological father.
So the symbol of black nationalism has two white grandfathers. She’s descended from dead white men, one of whom was a slaveowner. And her descent goes back to the Mayflower.
‘At the end of the episode, Davis also learns she’s descended from William Brewster, one of the 101 people who came to the colonies aboard the Mayflower.
“No. I can’t believe this. No, my ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower,” Davis says, laughing.
Davis, who fought against structural racism in the U.S., says she “never” expected to learn that she was descended from one of the nation’s white settlers. “That’s a little too much to deal with right now,” she says.
That’s the whole point. Reparations in a country this mixed are absurd. Which part of Angela should pay reparations to the other part? America’s racial legacy is a complicated mix and has been for a while.
Like a lot of leftists, Angela Davis came from a middle-class background. And, like a lot of black radicals, a racially mixed one.
To some, Angela Davis’s rather bookish upbringing seems an improbable background for the fierce revolutionary cause she espouses. Notoriety, people point out, was something thrust upon her in 1970, when she was dismissed from her post on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. But to Miss Davis, her radical beliefs are a natural outgrowth of her past–for the most part, one of scholarly pursuits and the evolution of an ideology that animated her later activism.
Angela Yvonne Davis was born Jan. 26, 1944, into a teaching family, although her father, B. Frank Davis, left teaching shortly after her birth to open a service station business.
Her childhood in Birmingham, Ala., often described as contented and serene, was a period of piano and dancing lessons, membership in the Girl Scouts, diligent work in school, a wholesome family life and economic security. In a letter introduced at her trial, she confessed to some misgivings about her background. “My mother was overly protective of her sons and daughters,” Miss Davis wrote. “I could never forgive her for forcing my brothers, us too, to take dancing lessons.”
Behold the oppression.
The Soviet-backed symbol of black supremacy and revolution was a descendant of slave owners whose ancestors came here on the Mayflower who grew up having to take dancing lessons in a middle-class home before getting a position at UCLA. This is the Left’s radicalism in a nutshell even when it dresses up in blackface.
Has there ever been a more hateful American than Angela Davis? Her record speaks for itself.
That look when you realize it’s true you murdered another human being and spent your entire life hating people much like you.
My ancestors were abolitionists, some of which ran with John Brown and other’s homes in Missouri were stops on the underground railroad. None of them were slave owners.
The dirty secret is that more black Americans have slave owner blood in their ancestry than white Americans.
If we are all indeed guilty of the sins of our ancestors (which is preposterous, but that’s their belief so…) more blacks owe reparations than whites.
My American ancestors were all Yankees with no slaves and some of them fought in the Civil War. Blacks owe ME reparations.
John Brown was mentally unstable and a murderer.
He was crazy as fuck. Look at that old photo and his eyes. Nutso.
Here’s a fun fact that you may not have known: Angela Davis was the one who started the narrative about Margaret Sanger being a racist.
“When Margaret Sanger severed her ties with the Socialist Party for the purpose of building an independent birth control campaign, she and her followers became more susceptible than ever before to the anti-Black and anti-immigrant propaganda of the times. Like their predecessors, who had been deceived by the ‘race suicide’ propaganda, the advocates of birth control began to embrace that prevailing racist ideology” – ‘Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women’s Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present’, p. 396
Yes, it was just baseless Communist agitprop all along, but it has now become a cornerstone of the pro-life movement and has somehow eluded fact checkers and simple common sense to be repeated by the likes of Dinesh D’Souza and Tucker Carlson.
Maybe Davis “started” that “narrative” because she saw the photos of Sanger speaking at KKK rallies? In other words, maybe the narrative was true.
Sanger did speak with the KKK, but only because she wanted to spread awareness about birth control to any interested party. She was never a member of the KKK or a sympathizer.
Many of Sanger’s quotes were ripped badly from context. I wrote an entire article on my personal blog about this, with sources and everything.
I never said Sanger was a member of the KKK. She spoke to them undoubtedly because she thought she would find common cause with them. She was a believer in eugenics. Her belief in that bogus metatheory continued long after American scientists, such as psychologist, Henry Goddard, had abandoned eugenics as unscientific. Sanger didn’t limit her efforts at controlling the black population. She believed those poor whites – they called them “jukes and kallikaks – had “bad genes,” which is why Goddard and others went all the way to the Supreme Court to have them sterilized. Not long after that some real scientists discovered that those retarded children were brain damaged because their mothers drank alcoholic beverages to excess while pregnant.
Both of which are controlled opposition.
Wow ! Never thought I could be shocked anymore. Whaaaat the Mayflower , She then represents the zenith of hypocrisy . Is there any truth to the resistance?
She claims to be oppressed and here she is the oppressor.
This is tantamount to moral murder.
The irony of this will be lost to the populace. she has lived in the unpardonable life and yes she does belong in jail . Where she can teach the history of consciousness behind bars as opposed to teaching that at a university . Forgive the cliché but just when your thought you heard it all.
Good article, Greenfield!
Thanks Jeff, agreed.
Will the History Books print this? or will left be gushing their praises for this leftists scum?
A Communist who got away with murder. My Aunt’s father was a highly respected judge in the courtroom where the crime took place. Fortunately he had retired before the event.
Really? It’s a small world we live in.
Yeah, definitely. George Jackson was Angela’s partner in crime, if I remember correctly.
Gators gotta eat, too!
I never said Sanger was a member of the KKK. She spoke to them undoubtedly because she thought she would find common cause with them. She was a believer in eugenics. Her belief in that bogus metatheory continued long after American scientists, such as psychologist, Henry Goddard, had abandoned eugenics as unscientific. Sanger didn’t limit her efforts at controlling the black population. She believed those poor whites – they called them “jukes and kallikaks – had “bad genes,” which is why Goddard and others went all the way to the Supreme Court to have them sterilized. Not long after that some real scientists discovered that those retarded children were brain damaged because their mothers drank alcoholic beverages to excess while pregnant – in other words, they discovered Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, which is why Goddard and others abandoned the inherently racist and unscientific belief in eugenics. Sanger’s racism was part and parcel of her belief that humans could and should be bred like cattle in order to improve the population.
Eugenics isn’t bogus science. It’s evil but it’s valid.
Sometimes good laughable news comes over the news waves as this one was a real hoot.
Che was also an upper class spoiled child that became a communist just like Mz Davis here.
Imagine being so oppressed to having to take Dancing Lessons…
Just how awful were those two black parent homes way back then.
“Got a sweet black angel.
Got a pin up girl….”
Sweet Black Angel by the Rolling Stones. She has many fooled back then. All these rockers who didn’t OD made millions and I doubt many of them have Socialist ideals still. Mick Jagger of all people singing this tripe.