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Posted on 07/13/2026 8:48:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress, are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people, representing at least 8% of Democrats in Congress and 28% of Republicans.
The group includes Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and James Lankford, and Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.
President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president except Donald Trump are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Governors of 11 of the 50 U.S. states in 2022 were descendants of slaveholders, as were two U.S. Supreme Court justices.
The Congressional slaveholding ancestors were among the richest in America before the Civil War; three-quarters were among the richest 10%.
In researching America’s political elite, Reuters found names of more than 700 people enslaved by ancestors of the leaders.
Some 23% of respondents to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll said knowing that a candidate’s ancestors enslaved people would make them less likely to vote for that candidate, and white respondents who said they’re aware of having a slaveholding ancestor were more likely than other white people to support paying reparations for slavery.
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It should br noted that Lindsay Graham is no longer on the list.
I want to see the polling on how people feel when they find one of their ancestors broke one of the ten commandments.
I wonder if the author, “Lawrence Delevingne”,
has looked into his own ancestry.
We all have to pay for that as the socialists and communists push the weepy crap.
My great, great grandfather volunteered and fought in several major battles with the Michigan Volunteers. He made it out alive and is buried in Port Austin, Michigan under a Grand Army of the Republic marker on his tombstone.
Paid our dues. I owe no one reparations.
My immigrant ancestors came from similar to Trump’s in the 1700s and more in the early 1800s from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England including the place where much later Stonehenge was built. Ancient Aliens said that group arrived
long before the Druids. Does that explain some things?
Lieawatha’s ancestors probable enslaved other Indians. Indian capture and slavery was common.
As was scalping.
Trump is a 3rd-gen American (paternal side) and 2nd-gen American (maternal side).
“As was scalping” — now outsourced to Somalis.
I have searched for and can’t find when the last white slave was freed or died as an Indian slave.
But at least they didn’t tolerate shallow, bigoted slaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB7MichlL1k
Jimmy Carter died a year and a half ago.
Why should the living have to atone for what their long dead ancestors did?
“Donald Trump was the only living president identified
as not having slave-holding ancestors, as his family
immigrated to the United States after slavery was abolished.”
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Surprised they did not look into his European ancestors...
I’ve often wondered if Melania’s ancestors were slaves.
Cromwell Cruise Lines descendant here.
“ indentured” is just a fancy word.
Cry me a river.
😄
I have searched for and can’t find when the last white slave was freed or died as an Indian slave.
= = =
Late 1800s still had some white women captured and held by indian tribes, best as I can recall.
And cannibalism. .
LOL...funny skit. Never saw that before.
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