Angela Davis having European ancestry came as no surprise to actual Black people, but it was a shock to Europeans who changed their last name to Americans, so they could get to be stupid a New World away.
A clip is going viral of Henry Louis Gates doing that thing that he always does and reveals that some of us have sh-tty ancestors on his show, “Know Your Roots.”
It was recently revealed that Angela Davis is surprise—a light-skinned Black woman. The surprising part is how many dumbasses don’t know how that could possibly happen. Matt Walsh, of the often loud and even more often wrong Matt Walsh Blog, shared the clip of Angela Davis finding out that she was, in fact, the descendant of someone who was on the Mayflower.
Yikes on bikes.
But honestly, I’m just a bit more shocked that they were able to trace back that far. Usually, Black people don’t get the privilege of learning where we come from or, as of late, how we got here. And while Black griots will still keep the history going, people who happily passed down their family’s racism like a European family crest have all but forgotten what got their great great great granddaddies’ dicks wet. Matt’s exact dumbass tweet read, “It gets better. She’s also descended from a slave owner. On her father’s side is a pilgrim. On her mother’s side is a slave owner. Looks like Angela Davis owes some reparations.” Somehow according to Matt Walsh, rape is the gotcha moment he’s been waiting for.
I mean, this is the same Matt Walsh who tweeted an anti-abortion tweet that basically stated that if a 12-year-old got pregnant by her father that she should keep the baby so that there would be evidence of the father’s crime. I mean, but here we are, Black people, most of us descendants of at least one of our forefathers’ crimes and our foremother’s cries. Our mothers’ were also left without a choice. There should be no shock that the pain of the past is lost on those who refuse to hear about it, but this narrative that moves the goal post to exclude Black people who, somewhere down the line, are a product of rape is nasty, cruel and plain ole dumb as f-ck, especially when slavery didn’t exclude Massa’s slave quarter babies from still being enslaved.
While some of Massa’s children may have received a reprieve from brutal labor, they were still not exempt from slavery. Often the biracial daughters of slave owners were subjected to a cruelty of being passed on to the next man who couldn’t keep his hands to himself or at least in his own dirt, picking his own crops. I mean, it kind of clocks that this would be Matt’s take because the general population does not have a problem with financial payouts as settlements for victims of some sort of negligence or abuse, except when it comes to rape or reparations, so he’s massaging the sexist and racist audience at the same time. Oh, we love a good intersectional king.
Matt Walsh is vile and he tweets like a man who pisses on his balls.
The worst part about Matt’s tweet is the number of followers who liked it unaware or just too cruel and callous to care that Black people come in different shades on purposeful accident. In high school, I was asked where I came from because I didn’t “look like the people in Africa.” High schoolers get a hall pass for their lack of tact and critical thinking skills, but these are adults. The same adults in PTA meetings yelling about why learning facts is bad but also dunking on a woman who survived a hellish childhood in racist-ass Birmingham, Alabama and was the product of rape, even if not immediately.
They never have a problem with inheritances or the fact that the current U.S. economy was boosted by the slave labor of the past. Their forefathers worked hard to give them a better life, but they are never responsible for the lives their forefathers destroyed along the way.
According to his own cruelty, a baby is evidence of a crime, so then Matt would have to admit that not only do Black people exist, but there was a legit crime involved in why and how we got here, but he won’t do that because racists don’t like logic and facts—they like Matt Walsh instead.
