More than 100 political elites in todays government have slaveholding ancestry.

[Twilight Hue]

More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery

Reuters explores what the ancestral connections to slavery mean to presidents, governors, members of Congress and Supreme Court justices -- and to Americans themselves.

www.reuters.com

That includes Presidents,

Biden 1 slave

Bush 25 slaves

Carter 54 slaves

Clinton 1 slave

Obama. 2 slaves


There's a slew of house and senate members, governers and representatives also listed along with the number of slaves owned

Many had declined to comment on the history of their slaveholder families.

It's quite an eye opener.

 

[sun rise]

There's a slew of house and senate members, governers and representatives also listed along with the number of slaves owned

For uncounted generations, slave ownership was considered not only acceptable but the proper order of things. Too often we judge people in the past by the morality of today.

Many had declined to comment on the history of their slaveholder families.

They should have the courage to own their history.

 

[Twilight Hue]

For uncounted generations, slave ownership was considered not only acceptable but the proper order of things. Too often we judge people in the past by the morality of today.



They should have the courage to own their history.

There were a few who commented on their family history with some in mild denial about it. That shows character by those who didn't deny their ancestry but used it as a lesson to improve things going forward.

Bush Jr and Elizabeth Warren were among those who commented.

Carter was in hospice, but his family responded as well.

It's still sad to see that most refused commentary like Obama, who one would think would have commented, but he clearly instead refused to do so.

 

[Revoltingest]

It's quite an eye opener.

It is?
I figure that everyone has malefactors in their ancestry.
It's a near statistical certainty, not just cuz so many
people are involved, but also morals have evolved.

 

[McBell]

Um...

So what?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery

Reuters explores what the ancestral connections to slavery mean to presidents, governors, members of Congress and Supreme Court justices -- and to Americans themselves.

www.reuters.com

That includes Presidents,

Biden 1 slave

Bush 25 slaves

Carter 54 slaves

Clinton 1 slave

Obama. 2 slaves


There's a slew of house and senate members, governers and representatives also listed along with the number of slaves owned

Many had declined to comment on the history of their slaveholder families.

It's quite an eye opener.

Many of these US politicians are descended from old money families from New England and the South, so what do you expect.

 

[Kfox]

More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery

Reuters explores what the ancestral connections to slavery mean to presidents, governors, members of Congress and Supreme Court justices -- and to Americans themselves.

www.reuters.com

That includes Presidents,

Biden 1 slave

Bush 25 slaves

Carter 54 slaves

Clinton 1 slave

Obama. 2 slaves


There's a slew of house and senate members, governers and representatives also listed along with the number of slaves owned

Many had declined to comment on the history of their slaveholder families.

It's quite an eye opener.

Why am anyone supposed to care about this?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Why am anyone supposed to care about this?

Ask Reuters.

Also it's explained in the article as well as a learning opportunity by Prof. Henry Gates Jr.

Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr calls the Reuters examination “a learning opportunity,” not only for members of Congress and other political elites but also for their constituents and “the American people as a whole.” REUTERS/Demetrius Freeman/File Photo

 

[Twilight Hue]

Many of these US politicians are descended from old money families from New England and the South, so what do you expect.

I think it was to illustrate on how pervasive and widespread slave owning was in this country..

 

[Estro Felino]

Trump's family: zero.
Because his grandfather is from Germany, where slavery was abolished after the fall of the Western Roman Empire;
by the end of the X century and with the birth of the Holy Roman Empire, slavery had completely disappeared in Central Europe.

In his blood there is not that elitist blue blood that runs in the veins of the Bushes...

 

[SomeRandom]

Trump's family: zero.
Because his grandfather is from Germany, where slavery was abolished after the fall of the Western Roman Empire;
by the end of the X century and with the birth of the Holy Roman Empire, slavery had completely disappeared in Central Europe.

In his blood there is not that elitist blue blood that runs in the veins of the Bushes...

So what’s his excuse for acting like one?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery

Reuters explores what the ancestral connections to slavery mean to presidents, governors, members of Congress and Supreme Court justices -- and to Americans themselves.

www.reuters.com

That includes Presidents,

Biden 1 slave

Bush 25 slaves

Carter 54 slaves

Clinton 1 slave

Obama. 2 slaves


There's a slew of house and senate members, governers and representatives also listed along with the number of slaves owned

Many had declined to comment on the history of their slaveholder families.

It's quite an eye opener.

So? They themselves aren't guilty and we all have that and far worse in our family tree somewhere down the line.

 

[Twilight Hue]

So? They themselves aren't guilty and we all have that and far worse in our family tree somewhere down the line.

The article has more than enough information in it to answer your question.

 

[McBell]

The article has more than enough information in it to answer your question.

The article seems to be trying really hard to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The article seems to be trying really hard to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

It's a Reuters article. You obviously didn't read it as it's intended as an educational piece.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Trump's family: zero.
Because his grandfather is from Germany, where slavery was abolished after the fall of the Western Roman Empire;
by the end of the X century and with the birth of the Holy Roman Empire, slavery had completely disappeared in Central Europe.

In his blood there is not that elitist blue blood that runs in the veins of the Bushes...

Yes. Trumps ancestry came after the majority of the slave trade moved to the prison industry.

 

[McBell]

It's a Reuters article.

So what.
It still seems to me they are trying real hard to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

That is not to say that the information is not interesting.

I would be most curious how many non government persons also have the same ties to slavery.

You obviously didn't read it

Except I did read it.
It reads like the author thinks they are revealing some deep dark forbidden secret that will somehow change the world as we know it.

 

[Estro Felino]

So what’s his excuse for acting like one?

My point is that Trump is not considered "one of them" because he descends from those Europeans who migrated to the US, worked hard, contributed to the scientific and spiritual progress of the American Nation.

Imagine how much contempt they feel towards him...I mean...those whose ancestors were on the Mayflower.

They look down on Trump.

 

[SomeRandom]

My point is that Trump is not considered "one of them" because he descends from those Europeans who migrated to the US, worked hard, contributed to the scientific and spiritual progress of the American Nation.

Imagine how much contempt they feel towards him...I mean...those whose ancestors were on the Mayflower.

They look down on Trump.

And yet he still acts like the very jerks who would shun him for his brethren.
Sorry but he just largely comes across as a rich entitled jerk (to put it mildly.)
Even during his tv days he was constantly mocked by my friends as he was acting like a rich entitled jerk lol

 

[Estro Felino]

And yet he still acts like the very jerks who would shun him for his brethren.
Sorry but he just largely comes across as a rich entitled jerk (to put it mildly.)
Even during his tv days he was constantly mocked by my friends as he was acting like a rich entitled jerk lol

I respect your opinion.
But after the nightmarish eight years of Obama... I guess any president would have looked incredibly good and charismatic.

So Trump was the rainbow after the storm.

If you think Obama is somehow better than Trump, explain me why. Since...as we can see from the article, he still descends from a very elitist family, by the motherly side.