Posted on 06/19/2023 9:48:08 AM PDT by KingofZion
Hundreds of years ago, two men named John boarded ships to America to seek opportunity. One worked onboard as a barber; one was an indentured servant.
But when they landed in East Coast port cities hundreds of miles apart, their lives abruptly diverged. When John Greene, believed to be an ancestor of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, got off a schooner from Trinidad in Charleston, S.C., he was immediately enslaved and dispatched to a plantation, according to family lore. When John Howland, the 10th-great-grandfather of Jackson’s husband, Patrick Jackson, disembarked the Mayflower at Plymouth, Mass., he was given housing and several acres.
Thus were two newcomers to America cast into racially predetermined roles. Today, as new genealogical research illustrates, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Patrick Jackson are left with a historical subject in common: enslaved people. His ancestors owned them, while her ancestors were them.
*** The Jacksons met in a history class at Harvard, but the familial paths that took the couple there could not have been more different. Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the country’s nine most powerful legal arbiters, tracks her family history through generations of enslavement and coercive sharecropping. Patrick Jackson, a gastrointestinal surgeon in D.C., counts among his ancestors King Edward I of England, four Mayflower passengers and a signer of the U.S. Constitution.
*** The genealogists also found a well-documented link to slavery on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s paternal side. Her great-great-great-grandfather was Olmstead Rutherford, who after the Civil War lived with his wife and their seven children in Houston County, Ga., on a 700-acre plantation owned by John H. Rutherford, probably their former enslaver.
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Can her husband define a woman?
The biggest beneficiaries of slavery in America are the descendants of slaves. Without slavery bringing their ancestors together, the descendants of slaves never would have been born. Slavery was a terrible institution but it is the reason these people are alive today. Out of bad can come good. How much is a life worth ???
“Can her husband define a woman?“
Does he still have great-grandpappys’ whip?
Without slavery they would still be in Africa.
Obama’s mother’s family owned slaves.
Judge Ketanji has probably spent much of her academic life telling people how to ‘properly pronounce’ her unusual name.
Once you hear it, all is clear, but I’ve never heard of anyone else having that name. They would have to meet her and listen to her corrections, delivered with a snippy attitude.
The Jacksons intermarried with the Cabots and Lowells and became millowners, then got into railroads and the phone company. Others have been doctors generation after generation. The mother of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, the once famous justice, was one of those Jacksons.
So her husband owes her reparations
I have ancestors in Virginia and Tennessee who owned slaves. I have seen the census records and the wills. I have other ancestors who moved from South Carolina to Illinois because the had a moral opposition to slavery and they probably saw slavery as detrimental to them as white farmers and working people. None of that has anything to do with me personally. It’s Just history.
“Without slavery they would still be in Africa.”
They would not be in Africa, they never would have been born at all since their ancestors never would have met each other to procreate. Each of us is a unique product of every one of our ancestors. Take any of those ancestors out of the mix and we would be a totally different person.
Slightly Off Topic..
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan and Judge Ketanji Brown have quite a strong bond. They’re related by marriage. The judge’s husband is Patrick G. Jackson, the twin brother of Ryan’s brother in law William Jackson.
Liberals love the word enslave and it’s variants, enslaver, enslavement etc…
And, of course, in Africa they would still be enslaved - by other Africans.
Descendant of slaves marries descendant of slavers. Proves that slavery isn’t the issue but rather the race of the slave holder.
No. He was already enslaved - by other Africans.
Indeed.
Our moral worth depends on what we do, not what our ancestors did. We are individuals, not just a member of a group.
Placing people in artificial groups based on where their ancestors came from is unworthy of a civilized country. Penalizing some and rewarding others because of where their forbears came from is criminal.
Unfortunately the whole structure of law in this country is based on where a person’s ancestry can be traced back to.
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