CNN's Susan Roesgen looks at the history of African-American slaves in the White House, Doug Brinkley comments

[ultraman8914]

In fairness to Zachary Taylor owning slaves was a constitutional right during his presidency no?

[1hotdilf]

Michelle gotta big butt!

[mueygringo]

@1hotdilf Barryis a little ass.

[1hotdilf]

Obama's a liar. He promised to pull out the troops. It's Obama's fault!!!!

[masticaticachicle]

It would behoove user dude2222111111 not to skip his medication.

[critter505]

She's down with the BBC...

[TheyWillBanMe4This]

Owning a slave back then was no different than owning a Furby robot-toy-thingy now. I'll bet 150 years from now, artificially intelligent manufacturing robots will develop "synthetic intelligence," and be making a stink about people who have been long dead who mistreated their AI ancestors. You may think such a future is laughable, but the people 150 years ago probably would think the same of a black man, who still lives with his family, becoming America's president. Laugh while you still can.

[TheyWillBanMe4This]

This news reporter is a piece of work. It's a disgrace to see networks allow such filthy, and traitorous individuals to spread their banter like this. Why does it matter how many slaves our fore-fathers owned? George Washington owned slaves, but public schools fail to mention he freed his slaves to set an example to his fellow countrymen. Socialists like to demonize anything American, whether-or-not the target deserves such slander.

[dedseason]

The Schools dont mention that he also had sex with the slaves male children neither or that he was a Satanist. And by the way if are given freedom by the same people who enslaved you then do u really know what it is to be free?

i agree with on the the lack of reporting but u need to remember that yeah there so-called four fathers did right the constitution but they were some sick dudes behind closed doors.

Look Thomas Jefferson and the hellfire club.

[PISSMUTHA]

funny how your dumb ass can call someone else a racist! but you dumb ass nutcase have a username that says FUCKOBAMASMAMA! WTF! SO CAN I SAY THAT YOU ARE RACIST TOWARD A WHITE WOMAN?? Stupid ass retard!

[FuckObamasMama]

Hey!

dude2222111111,

You're cracked.

It started with the "new deal".

And every president since has done their part to destroy America.The only exception is Reagan.And now Obama wishes to drive the last nail.

Obama:"The final solution to strengthen the strain."

[FuckObamasMama]

True blacks are now a part of America.

But as a black man myself i'd like to know when blacks will start acting like americans.Instead of talking down to this nation,and destroying it.I think very few black folks know american history.

If they did,they would know that it's white folks who freed slaves,and went to war and died to free them.Instead we hear half the story.What about the democratic KKK.What about democrats fighting to keep slavory.What about the republicans

who freed the slaves.

[masticaticachicle]

Several of my comments have been removed, although I have not been contacted nor warned by the Anointed Suppressors Of Free Speech at You Tube.

What gives them the right to suppress other peoples ideas and speech? Answer: Their in-bred Stalinism and totalitarianism. They have a better and lofty vision. As the great Thomas Sowell wrote as the title of his book: The Vision Of The Anointed.

[masticaticachicle]

There is no Welfare, no Affirmative Action, no special treatment in college, universities, government jobs, etc that will make them progress. It is racism and societys fault .

[masticaticachicle]

Following their liberal masters, Blacks bitch and moan but none entertains ideas of migrating to Africa for a better life. Koreans, Mexicans, Guatemalans, Argentines, Hindu, Arabs, Chinese, the whole hodge-podge of multiculturalisms rainbow, (add freely) even African Blacks, have been immigrating en masse for the last 40 years, and all of them have made something of themselves.

Blacks have been in America some 300 years. They still cant hack it.

[masticaticachicle]

Political Playhouse doesn't like my comments because they are uncooperative reality to them. So they have been at their activism in removing them. Typical left wing intolerance. I have said nothing inappropriate, and I'll say it again: Slavery is the best thing that ever happened to Blacks in America. There is a living proof sitting in the Oval Office. Otherwise they would be in Africa suffering the fate of blacks in Rwanda and Darfur. They are hacking each other to pieces.

[twelvek4usukka]

people need to stop living in the past and move on and learn from the mistakes

[PoliticalPlayhouse]

No one wants to go "back to Africa" for several reasons:

1. They DON'T KNOW ANYONE THERE

2. They tried it already, didn't work

3. The problem is that when you have children in a new land, they become a part of that land and have no real ties other than their parents to the land from which they came. The more generations born in that new land solidifies their new roots (in America)

Currently, those ties are virtually non-existent.

Blacks are Americans, there's nothing else to be said about it

[PoliticalPlayhouse]

the "bitching and moaning" you see now comes from the fact that out of the 400+ years they've been in this country, they've only had equal rights (on paper) for a little over the last 40. Many of the people that experienced society's hatred of them are still alive

Things have changed today, but that living memory is still there

Of course, there is no use explaining this to someone such as yourself, so I guess I'll post it so any thinkers can catch it.

[PoliticalPlayhouse]

Oh reallly? Did you ever ask yourself why Africa is the way it is right now? With all of the infighting...

Could this not be do to the fact that a bunch of rich nations from the North decided to artificially divide up their land overlapping the boundaries of different social groups and raping the land of its natural resources forcing them to remain poor, while selling automated rifles to rebels to ensure government instability?

I mean maybe its just me, but that would be my first guess.

[sugarlandp]

Hey Susan " I hate Fox News" Roesgen,

I know what Obama was thinking as he first toured the Whitehouse: "thank God women have the right to vote and are so fucking stupid."

[judeskiss]

why is this STILL an issue.  can't we move past this? lets move on to a little more pressing issues like the economy, the war that is still going on in foreign countries, the fact that Korea has dropped out of a promise with the UN to not use Nuclear weapons? is this not more important than whether or not someone had ancestry of slavery? it doesn't make you who you are TODAY. your actions right now is what makes you.

[onahorsewithnoname]

Make no mistake about it Susan Roesgen

is no reporter. She is there to help CNN cap free speech and tell us how and what to think.

[DobeDobyDo]

Is Susan Roesgen a reporter or a lobbiest? Hard to tell with her rants and tirades. She should NOT be allowed to report. She is an Elitest that expects everyone to bow to her views. REPORT the news. Don't try to CREATE the news. No Credibility Whatsoever!

[am60mo]

Make you a deal, I'll stop blameing Barack for the Bay of Pigs, and for Ayers bombings, and for Rev Wrights racism, if he'll stop blaming me and every other white person alive today for slavery.? None of us had anything to do with slavery. Get the chip off your shoulder and get your ass to work and stop blaming white people for all your problems. Deal? Now that would be the kind of change I could believe in.

[yumyumcat]

Like we were the only country that owned slaves. OMG!

[jaylowe6]

How long ago was slavery? I love how the media along with the rest of the world portrays the US as being evil on the lone act of a few presidents. The American People are good, in fact they are the hardest workers in the World, I believe. Stop degrading our cultures and breaking us into groups, this is a reinvention of slavery. Who cares what happened 300 years ago, youre stemming hatred to people that didnt have anything to do with the act of slavery. What about the Dutch? They invented it!

[armyofonerd]

Excellent point! How many countries had slaves and which country rid itself of it?? But somehow were are the evil ones.

[rockon1898]

Speaking of Plantation Slaves, its the Obamas and Holders with their subserviance to the Islamic Arabs who enslaved them that makes them the real house servants, no matter how their Pelosi clone girlfriend Roesgen tries to explain otherwise.

Roesgen + Pelosi + Obama + Wright = STUPIDITY.

[greengringo2003]

What's the story on Obama's father and HIS ancestry? Muslims practice slavery TODAY. Maybe that explains Obama's servile BOW to the Saudi dictator?

[Halo2100]

What a waste of air time to report that.

[BlueRidgeKat]

Apparently the only report Susan Roesgen can do is a Obama suck ass report. CNN Susie your man Obama is not the first black president. His mama is whiter than you are.

CNN Susie, get a real job, no one watches that network anymore.

[fjwjr]

Fine for his wife, but what is his relationship to slavery? What's the point of the story? Is it the assumption that ALL blacks came from slaves?

Hey, liberals, be careful that your slaves don't escape and become free republicans!

[dropforgedfilms]

Can we move forward now? How much longer do I have to feel guilty about something that I never did? Just let it go.

[ls1848]

Boohooo. I am so sad. Great, Great Grandfather???? Are you kidding me? I bet if you look far enough back into my families history you will find something that is bad. I mean, hell....I do have American Indian blood. CNN SUCKS. I can't wait until FOX NEWS blows them out of the water.

[Halo2100]

I have American Indian blood in me as well. They were made slaves, raped and brutalized. You don't see the few Indians today going around always bringing it up.

[rockon1898]

Bravo,

No one does bring THAT up. But God help us when the plantation slave mentality of a Holder or Wright or Obama do. Of course aided and abetted by the whore sisters, Pelosi, Susie Roesgen, and Barbie Boxer.

[Yereviltwin2]

Heres a real funny joke:

Q: What do you get when you and unwed hippy and an illegal immigrant

A: A President

Q: How do you destroy the most powerful thing on earth?

A: Vote for a black guy to do it.

[eksdem]

"Obama's ancestors on his white mother's side appear to have been slave owners. "

from UK Guardian, 4 March 2007

***Obama told of family's slave-owning history in deep South**

[eksdem]

Obama's ancestors, through his mother's family,  owned slaves.

[Italianlad69]

Believe me the LIBERALS LOVE SLAVERY!!!! Like us, the wage slaves who are constantly making money for them.

[lcr95]

Didnt this happen like a long time ago. Oh also Obama isnt related to true South Slaves his dad from from somewhere in Africa im pretty sure.

[CrossoverManiac]

Obama is related to the guys that sold their fellow Africans to the white men. Contrary to revisionist history, white people didn't capture blacks and made them slaves. In reality, they bought them from other Africans.

[thedecider1984]

enough with the white guilt.

[CRAPCANNONS]

what guilt?

no guilt here.

CNN is losing white viewers so they're desperate to tap into a new audience.

It's a gamble and I think they will lose.

[CrossoverManiac]

It's never enough with the white guilt. They'll beat that dead horse because they can guilt voters into support their steaming piles of bullshit.