As Michelle Obama now finds herself in the public eye, as the first African American First Lady, and in a predominant position to constantly beat up anyone who will listen with the ‘slave stick’, she and the president have suddenly found the time to trace her ancestry back to the slave trade of the 1700’s.

On all accounts her great, great grandfather was a slave on a rice plantation in South Carolina who toiled in the relentless sun from dawn to dusk.

And to think, a guy up the road cant find out where his father was buried after he died in 1984 on a Caribbean cruise!

But Mrs Obama now knows her great, great grandfather, Jim Robinson was one of 350 black slaves working on a sprawling rice plantation and living in a tiny white washed hut, surrounded by swamps infested with alligators and snakes.

As CNN followed Barack Hussein Obama and his wife on their visit to Africa the US news channel, along with giving President Obama the right to  use the media for his own agenda, also felt it necessary to inform the American people of Obama’s heritage.

America’s First Lady, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama’s great-great grandfather had apparently told his family that the last point they arrived at before being forced onto ships headed for Virginia, USA as slaves, was the British Cape Coast Castle.

And although it was 300 years ago, grandma Obama, Mrs Robinson managed to show emotion as she approached what is known as the ‘Door of No Return’ at the Cape Coast Castle in the Central Region of Ghana.

According to Fritz Baffour, Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ablekuma Constituency, who acted as a tour guide to the US First Couple, noted, “For Michelle Obama, the trip was an educational boost for the children who had never been to Africa but knew their ancestors were brought in as slaves to work on America’s sugarcane farms centuries ago. Michelle expressed the wish to come back to explore other slave routes should the opportunity arise.’

Baffour also noted that even though the Obamas were unable to locate the exact part of Ghana or West Africa their ancestor came from, “the Obama family was visibly touched in body language” during the tour.

Maybe Michelle should be grateful for her grandfather’s trip across the Atlantic, as, thanks to him, she and her family now has the pleasure of living in their own white washed White House, surrounded by political alligators and snakes, with copious trips around the globe on Air Force One at the expense of the tax paying American public, and returning to the country her great, great grandfather left behind which remains a third world country, unlike the world she was born to!

Although Barack Obama was not descended from slaves with his father being from Kenya and his mother from Kansas, he still feels the need to carry the legacy of the African-American experience with him as the country’s first black president.

Is Obama now going to address the slave trade that actually currently exists in countries like Haiti or while in Africa maybe visit Somalia or the Sudan where his wife’s ancestors are killing each other. A new survey says over half of the top 20 countries in the world where people are most under threat of genocide or mass killing are in Africa.

After all, when Obama was a mere senator back in 2006, he had a meeting with Chadian President Idriss Deby, when he said the international community must move quickly to deal with the crisis in Darfur. Not waste time tracing back his wife’s connections to slavery!