tahirih said:

I find all of this really hard to believe when Prince said that they didnt know who his mothers father was so he is unsure what he his mixed with. He said on the Lopez show. This this is all assumption and speculation.

And you would be correct because the guy being called "Clarence Nelson" apparently has nothing to do with Prince or his family.

It's a picture of a man named James Henry Dumville according to this site.

http://www.dumville.org/photo_pages/jd1856_pho.html



Somebody, aka "private" is playing games, I guess.

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So there you are - it's optimitsic bullshit. The names might be real, but the photos are not. Then some of the names are not real either.

2elijah said:

paulludvig said:

John L Nelson looked black, so how come his father looks white? Also it has been stated by genealogists that six of Prince's eight great-grandparents were born into slavery. I suppose they were all black?

More than likely if they were born into slavery. Again, during the transatlantic slave trade there were many rapings and breeding of African girls/women by slaveowners, so the varied complexions on many Black families is not surprising.

Amen!

More information on Prince's family tree here:

http://www.huffingtonpost...38616.html

poisonmouth said:

I guess the main point is that Prince's family tree is pretty mixed, just like all of us. And for all those that continue to try and point out that he is one color or another..............

Adorecream said:

So there you are - it's optimitsic bullshit. The names might be real, but the photos are not. Then some of the names are not real either.

Why optimistic?

3rdeyedude said:

I guess the main point is that Prince's family tree is pretty mixed, just like all of us. And for all those that continue to try and point out that he is one color or another..............

But it isn't. Prince is black.

paulludvig said:

Adorecream said:

So there you are - it's optimitsic bullshit. The names might be real, but the photos are not. Then some of the names are not real either.

Why optimistic?

Because whoever did it, wanted to sell the message that Prince was whiter than we thought, by openly purloining a picture of a random White Englishman from another ancestry page. I mean why do that shit?

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Plus the Photo of Ed Nelson born 1862 shows a Civil war gentleman in uniform, it can't be Ed Nelson as the man in the photo looks about 20 and even if the photo was taken in 1865 rather than 1861, that man would have been born no later than about 1847 (Assuming he is mature looking 18 in 1865). So it has obviously been stolen from somewhere else.

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Whoever did obviously put more value on looking white rather than black by putting those photos there. Pullman porters was a stereotypically black job and I doubt a white man would have been one unless he was Mexican, Italian and the head of the train.