Or Obama’s mother’s family. I bet AOC’s family owned slaves, too.
Aside from that, many families of various races that have been here awhile had family members who owned slaves, while others in the same family tree helped destroy the institution. Same is true of the Revolutionary War: Tories and Patriots. Some were conscientious objectors due to religion.
It is how humankind has always been.
“... had family members who owned slaves, while others in the same family tree helped destroy the institution.”
Ulysses S. Grant - from an abolitionist family who freed the one slave his father-in-law gave him, fought to preserve the Union, then worked to normalize the lives of newly freed slaves after the Civil War
Julia Dent Grant - from a slave-owning family who didn’t favor abolition and did favor the secession of the Confederacy