Floats to the top of the bowl when she finds out descended form Mayflower...Black Panther communist Angela Davis - who teaches that U.S. was built by racist colonizers - faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her white puritan ancestor arrived in America on the Mayflower
Angela Davis, 79, learned that her ancestor came to the US on the Mayflower
The former Black Panther also discovered she had two white grandparents
She appeared on PBS's Finding Your Roots in an episode that aired on Tuesday
That was beautiful. She was astonished into silence, a real reaction. At least she allowed the response which seemed to upend her very foundation, unlike when Ben Affleck learned he was descended from slave-owners and had the show shelved.