re: LeVar Burton shocked to discover he's descended from a Confederate soldier

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Well, yea. This isn't exactly shocking. Slave owners raped their slaves. We knew this already.

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Re-read it. While trying to be as inflammatory as possible with the "woman born into slavery", they conspicuously left out if she was still a slave or a free woman at the time of the deed. I'm guessing since his great-grandpappy was off fighting a war up to the age of 18, it likely was a consensual pairing with a free woman.

This country has a long history of mixed-raced affairs. I'd bet that almost every black American outside the deep South (and not from Africa) and more than 85% in the south has partial white ancestry.