Link to Anderson Cooper's Coverage of Michelle Obama's Ancestry

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/16/michelle.obama.slaveroots/inde...

one comment - in the interview I said that slavery was brutal and oppressive but families and communities emerged strong and solid, but the comment they included was when I said slavery left a terrible wound in our society because it was so "unpleasant." Well that was an understatement. Cutting room floor, what can ya do? ---toni