Oy! CNN, Puhlease!!

CNN offers a quick look, all the details aren't being made public, at Michelle Obama's Great, Great Grandfather, born in 1850 and believed to have been a slave in South Carolina. Many Americans might take exception to CNN's word choice below. I thought we did away with a "ruling class" a revolution, or so, ago.

It makes Friendfield Plantation a symbol of something more than servitude. It's the symbol of something that's never happened before: One important segment of an American family's journey from the humiliation of slavery to the very top of the nation's ruling class.

Comments

[MarkJ]

Historical Note to CNN: Traditionally, when enough members of an overtaxed, increasingly well-armed, and radicalized peasantry decide they've had enough of a nation's "ruling class," said "ruling class" doesn't remain a "ruling class" for very long.

[Ran]

"Ruling" class implies, er, a "ruled" class...

There's an old saying that goes something like "One who lives in class houses shouldn't bestow thrones."

[Meta]

"It makes Friendfield Plantation a symbol of something more than servitude."

As if plantations in the south were only about servitude. Morons.

[Rich K]

Looks like CNNs Freudian slip is showing.

[apodoca]

They meant to say 'elite'.

[seekeronos]

One socialist's "rule of the proletariat" is another socialist's ruling Politburo.