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Milestones in Tom Joyner's ancestry:
1790 Tom Joyner's great, great, great grandfather Tony Dumas is born in Africa, a member of the Balanta people from the country of Guinea Bissau. Tony Dumas is brought to America as a slave between 1790 and 1808 after which the importation of slaves to the United States was prohibited by Congress.
1834 Obadiah Dumas, the owner of Tom Joyner's great, great, great grandparents Tony and Clara Dumas, dies in the same year that the state of Alabama passes a statute prohibiting owners from manumitting slaves in their wills. Obadiah had provided for their freedom upon his wife's death, but Tom and Clara are refused manumission and die slaves.
1909 Oscar Joyner, Tom Joyner's grandfather, graduates from Meharry Medical College, one of only 3,000 black physicians in the U. S. (two percent of all doctors in the country).
Between 1910 and 1925, 1 in 10 African-Americans move out of the rural South to seek employment opportunities in Northern cities, an exodus called "The Great Migration."
Unlike the majority of African-Americans during this time, Tom Joyner's maternal grandparents, Nettie Lavinia Stanback and Isaac Lafayette Dumas, go south to Alabama where he works as a farmer and she is a teacher in a mission school started by the Presbyterian Church.
1913 Tom and Meeks Griffith, great-uncles of Tom Joyner, are charged with killing a white Confederate soldier named John Q. Lewis in South Carolina. Their family leaves South Carolina after the brothers and three others are found guilty by an all-white jury and electrocuted in 1915. Of the 47 people who were put to death in South Carolina between 1912 and 1920, 44 were black.
1949 Tom Joyner is born in Tuskegee, Alabama, home of the Tuskegee Institute and airmen program.
This guy looks mixed, especially with his blue eyes, I saw this full documentry and it goes on to tell him of his white great great grandfather and shows him a picture of him. He looks a bit like him too considering it's his great great grandfather. I doubt that his great great grandfather was the only white forefather he had, he looks like he may have a white parent
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By Sahbisun [Affiliate User] 1221954460 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveWe get a lot on every little detail except: did the great uncle kill the guy or not? More importantly, who cares? Like white families never picked up and moved. Latvian families. Chinese families. My white grandmother was dispossessed of her birthright. If I were African American* I would be encouraged to boil inside constantly over my stolen inheritance. But I'm not. So I don't. Grow up. Live now.
*Is a white man from Soweto who moves to Detroit an African American? If not, what?
how blunt and boring would American be without Africans.
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My library gets brand new dvds. LOL, it's funny cuz you see the librarians at Wally World buying dvds.
where did u rent them from?
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By notlqueen [Affiliate User] 1220037985 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeok, I am African-american, and I agree with the "bigtuffguy" a person from Sweden, really shouldn't be talking like this. I mean seriously bro, Have you ever been here? I am in the US Army, my unit is mixed with everything from white to black to hispanic to asian. And just so you know, Black history is taught all school year!
By HarlemGetMoney146 [Affiliate User] 1219367227 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewhat da hell does bronx have to do with this?? U didn't have a good answer back thats why u wrote like that. I'm not a dude u idiot. One of ur friends are black and u just called me "a N****r "...u must realy like ur friend! We have alot of etnicities in sweden, but it lives rasicist here to(one more time im not swedish, u have problems with reading?) In no other country are there so much double standards as in America, trying to teach other people about democracy....bullshit!!
By Aramaic88 [Affiliate User] 1219339124 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removedude you sound very stupid like a guy who never met a black person, to be honest in America blacks are the most racist F**ks there are, although one of my good friends is black. he would agree. only a swedish guy who never seen a black dude would say something so stupid. so just shut up and go back to yur cave in Sweden. that must be fun!
By bigtuffguy111 [Affiliate User] 1219327452 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHAHAHA!! woow...first u call me a "dumb N****r " even though I've said I'm not black, and then u call me a swedish F*g but I'm not swedish either. I guess ur one of those stupid white trash who still thinks america is the white people country(ever heard about the native americans with dark skin who white europeans killed??who bytheway are ur ancestors)seroiusly, irish month?? thats white history that ur schools teach, open a book man! all u read is about ur presidents...interesting!!!
By Aramaic88 [Affiliate User] 1219318862 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeand im pretty sure where i live is mostly black and hispanic. i bet you never even met a black person, dumb swedish b itch
By bigtuffguy111 [Affiliate User] 1219285039 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeyou're not even black. Should've known, a black person wouldn't say what you've just said Swedish F*g .
By bigtuffguy111 [Affiliate User] 1219284953 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeanother ignorant N****r what about what the Irish went through in NY? Is there an Irish history month? dummy.
By bigtuffguy111 [Affiliate User] 1219284888 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removei really want to know about my family geneology but to honest and said to say both my grandma and granddad had lots of sister and brothers and i don't know any of them i don't even know my great grandma i don't know her name or how she looked or anything i don't know any of my great grandparents i don't know any outside family accept my grandma and granddad childrens and their childrens thats it we have tons of family out there and i don't know any ofem, could be dating one wouldn't know, scary
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