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The First Men
The show was created with inspiration from Alex Haley’s television series, “Roots,” in which Burton starred as Kunta Kinte in 1977. But during the evocative 52-minute episode, host Henry Louis Gates informed Burton that his great-great-grandfather was a white man named James Henry Dixon.
‘I’d a fought you five minutes ago if you told me that I had a white great-great-grandfather. What!” he continued before yelling out “Kunta got white ancestry, what? Come on now.”
Burton was shaking as he learned that Dixon became a junior reserve soldier in the Confederate Army at 17 and his occupation was a farmer. “As a young man, James served to protect slavery but as an adult, he fathered a child with an African American woman who had been born into slavery,” said Gates, who then showed Burton a photo of Dixon, a white man with smooth hair.
Burton said his mother, Erma Gene Ward, “never wanted to share any of her history” with him or his sisters, therefore he was unaware of his family’s lineage. The PBS episode also revealed that his great-grandmother was a woman named Mary Sills, who was raised by a man she thought was her father as listed on her birth certificate. He said he was told she was of native American ancestry, but DNA testing was unable to trace his lineage to a man named Louis Sills.
Connecting the dots, Dixon was later found to be Mary’s biological father. Dixon also had a white wife and kids at the time. “And she was the other family on the other side,” Burton said in shock after learning he had a white ancestor. “Nooooo, I had no idea! So granny was half white?”
‘I Would Have Fought You’: LeVar Burton Claps Back at Troll After Learning His Great-Great-Grandfather Was a White Confederate Soldier
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about having "native american indian" in your blood is just that.... 
