Actually it was the ocean. What kind of fish were your ancestors? http://www.pbs.org/your-inner-fish/home/
It's one of the big problems .... she (and others) refuse to move forward in life. They want to bring up the past as if it's the present. Just like a week or so ago when she was at the school in Kansas or wherever and she posed by the "Whites" and "Blacks" signs.
The very essence of what keeps Race Bating Inc. alive is to stay as far back in the past as the current political climate will allow. This is not static, but most fluctuations are minimal. It's as if Jim Crow was just last weekend and when needed they will take a set of completely different circumstances and call it the "new Jim Crow". It's a no win situation and they know it.
here you go , knock yourselves out. . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could you be cousins with Barack Obama? What about Gwyneth Paltrow or Albert Einstein? It's entirely possible. Find out why we're all more connected than you might think. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tedtalks/watch-hes-related-to-obam_b_5641977.html
We were in Greenville SC recently. Went to the museum there. They had a section devoted to racial equality, with a picture of four black men, wearing suits, being refused service at a lunch counter. The year was 1960. I was five years old. It was an eye opener to be reminded how recent this was.