Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ancestors were enslaved. Her husband’s were enslavers.

The Washington Post ^ | June 19, 2023 | Sally H. Jacobs

[KingofZion]

Yet another demonstration of why reparations are idiotic. Brown has both slaver and slave ancestors. And any offspring would be at least 50% slave owner ancestors. So do they get reparations too even though they half benefited from slave labor?

[yldstrk]

Can her husband define a woman?

[XRdsRev]

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 ???

[joethedrummer]

“Can her husband define a woman?“

Does he still have great-grandpappys’ whip?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

She needs to get a real name. She's too old to be sporting a goofy childish handle.

[Seruzawa]

Without slavery they would still be in Africa.

[mass55th]

Obama’s mother’s family owned slaves.

[lee martell]

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.

[x]

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.

[gibsonguy]

So her husband owes her reparations

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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.

[XRdsRev]

“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.

[lee martell]

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.

[ifinnegan]

Liberals love the word enslave and it’s variants, enslaver, enslavement etc…

[17th Miss Regt]

And, of course, in Africa they would still be enslaved - by other Africans.

[Bonemaker]

Descendant of slaves marries descendant of slavers. Proves that slavery isn’t the issue but rather the race of the slave holder.

[17th Miss Regt]

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.

No. He was already enslaved - by other Africans.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[I want the USA back]

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.