> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Best Laugh I’ve Had All Week - URL: https://goodoil.news/the-best-laugh-ive-had-all-week/ - Published: 2023-03-10T22:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2023-03-09T20:56:44.000Z - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Politics, USA Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34 In these trying times, it’s important to find the bright side of life, now and then. To have a good belly laugh. To read something that just brightens your whole day. Such as, oh, I don’t know, finding out that **Angela Davis** is a descendant of not only the Mayflower but a Revolutionary War soldier and a slave owner. At the rate she’s going, she’ll end up having more white ancestors than **Lidia Thorpe**. In case you don’t recall, Davis is a radical, black power activist involved with the left-wing, anti-American violence of the 60s and 70s. It’s like finding out that **Rawiri Waititi**’s old man was a hood-wearing Klansman. Or that **Debbie Ngarewa-Packer**’s heritage is full of white folks… oh, wait… > Racial activist and former fugitive Angela Davis was shocked to learn she is a Mayflower descendent on Tuesday’s episode of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS. > > Davis is notorious for working with the Communist Party USA and the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 70s. Her involvement in the armed takeover of a California courtroom resulted in four deaths and her placement on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. In a neat mirror of the “white supremacist finds he has black great-great-grandparent” trope, Davis made the mistake of looking too deeply into her family history. No doubt hoping to turn up a Kunta Kinte, she turned up a gallery of Pilgrim Fathers and whip-crackin’ massas. > Near the end of the episode, after discussing multiple members of her family, the former Black Panther learned she descended from **William Brewster**, one of the 101 people who came to the colonies in 1620 aboard the Mayflower. > > [New York Post](https://nypost.com/2023/02/23/former-black-panther-angela-davis-learns-shes-a-descendant-of-the-mayflower/?ref=goodoil.news) Legend even has it that her 10th-great grandmother, **Mary Wentworth Brewster**, one of only four adult women to survive the winter of 1621, helped cook the first Thanksgiving dinner. And the whities just keep falling out of the closet: Davis’ paternal grandfather was one **Murphy Jones**, the white next-door neighbour of her grandmother. Davis’ grandmother had four children with Jones. It gets even funnier, though. Her maternal grandfather was a white Alabama lawyer **John Austin Darden**. His ancestors included Davis’ fourth great-grandfather, one **Stephen Darden**. > Stephen Darden, born in 1750 in colonial Virginia, fought in the Revolutionary War. After the war, he moved to Georgia, where he purchased a farm and had six slaves. > > [Western Standard](https://www.westernstandard.news/news/critical-race-theory-activist-revealed-to-have-multiple-white-ancestors-including-slave-owners/article%5F44269bdc-b6a9-11ed-b694-c3d9a38f195b.html?ref=goodoil.news) Can I get a *whomp-whomp*? Twitter wags were quick to pounce. After all, Davis has been heavily involved in demands for reparations for slavery. > “Angela Davis is a colonizer. Angela Davis owes me reparations,” one Twitter user said \[…\] > > “Angela Davis, an openly Marxist professor at the U of CA, just found out that some of her ancestors are the ‘white racist colonizers’ that she’s been teaching against her whole life! Not only that – she’s a descendant from a slave owner. Looks like she owes reparations,” tweeted another user. > > [The Post-Millennial](https://thepostmillennial.com/black-panther-angela-davis-asked-to-pay-reparations-after-mayflower-ancestry-revealed?ref=goodoil.news) Maybe there really is a God — and he has a wicked sense of humour. [If You Like What You Just Read,Click Here to Become a Member and Directly Support This Author.](https://thebfd.co.nz/subscription-plans/?ref=104) [If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.](#)