Report: Trump Is the Only Living President Not Descended from Slaveowners

[mystery-ak]

Report: Trump Is the Only Living President Not Descended from Slaveowners

Wendell Husebø 27 Jun 2023

President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president, with the exception of former President Donald Trump, are descendants of slaveholders, a report by Reuters revealed Tuesday.

Former presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama are reportedly direct descendants of slaveholders. Obama is reportedly a descendant of a slaveholder through his white mother’s side.

The report determined that Trump was not a decedent of slaveholders because his ancestors came to the United States after Americans abolished slavery.

Reuters reported:

    In researching the genealogies of America’s political elite, a Reuters examination found that a fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people.

    Among 536 members of the last sitting Congress, Reuters determined at least 100 descend from slaveholders. Of that group, more than a quarter of the Senate – 28 members – can trace their families to at least one slaveholder.

Over the course of Biden’s political career, he issued a number of dubious statements about race.

Joe Biden declared in 2020 that if black Americans are unsure whether to support him over Trump in the 2020 election, “then you ain’t black.”

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    Those lawmakers from the 117th session of Congress are Democrats and Republicans alike. They include some of the most influential politicians in America: Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and James Lankford, and Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.

[mountaineer]

This is big so what. I'm descended from Virginia slaveholders - one or two. Not my problem.

[Polly Ticks]

The report determined that Trump was not a decedent of slaveholders because his ancestors came to the United States after Americans abolished slavery.

Is it just me, or is this a tacit implication that the United States is the only country that had slavery.   

[Kamaji]

So?

[Smokin Joe]

This is big so what. I'm descended from Virginia slaveholders - one or two. Not my problem.

Same here, from Maryland.
But I look at it this way.
f that ancestor had been black or American Indian, what percentage could I claim?
1/16?
1/32?
Not enough to get into the tribe.

[corbe]

   I would bet that the Drumph Family in Germany financed the whole thing.   

[Wingnut]

Orange is the new black.

[berdie]

I have a hard time giving a darn about what someone's ancestors did.

[sneakypete]

@mystery-ak

That is supposed to mean something?

[Wingnut]

I have a hard time giving a darn about what someone's ancestors did.

Unless they grew their fortune off the backs of common folk. You've got to remember that these were just simple immigrants. These were  people coming to a new land. The common clay of New York. You know… morons who trusted Trumps Daddy.

[mystery-ak]

I don't write em...I just post them...

[PeteS in CA]

There haven't been any slave owners in the US since mid 1865. Are any former slave owners still alive? Children of slave owners? Grandchildren? How many, if any, great-grandchildren?

At what point will people - regardless of skin color - bring themselves to admit that US slavery died in 1865 and any guilt pertaining thereto died with those who owned or controlled slaves? It's ironic that the President Reuters (and other MSM-folk) most wanted to tar with having a slave-owning ancestor is the one who has none; Dems LIEden, Carter, and Obama do.

[Kamaji]

There haven't been any slave owners in the US since mid 1865. Are any former slave owners still alive? Children of slave owners? Grandchildren? How many, if any, great-grandchildren?

At what point will people - regardless of skin color - bring themselves to admit that US slavery died in 1865 and any guilt pertaining thereto died with those who owned or controlled slaves? It's ironic that the President Reuters (and other MSM-folk) most wanted to tar with having a slave-owning ancestor is the one who has none; Dems LIEden, Carter, and Obama do.

[sneakypete]

At what point will people - regardless of skin color - bring themselves to admit that US slavery died in 1865 and any guilt pertaining thereto died with those who owned or controlled slaves?

@Kamaji

When  there is no longer any political points to be scored,or no money in it.