Reuters Spends 7,000 Words Digging Up Which Politicians Are Related To Dead Slaveowners And Demanding You Care
Reuters Spends 7,000 Words Digging Up Which Politicians Are Related To Dead Slaveowners [b]And Demanding You Care[/b]
The ‘great guilting’ demands that millions of Americans — especially white Americans — must shoulder pay for the crimes of generations past.
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The idea that someone’s ideological future is defined by the actions of their ancestors is utterly absurd, yet that’s exactly the kind of connection Reuters tried to make in a recent report that focuses on tying hundreds of elected U.S. officials to slaveholders of centuries past.
After sifting through “tens of thousands of pieces of information contained in thousands of pages of documents,” Reuters found that 100 Democrat and Republican members of Congress, two Supreme Court justices, and every living president except Donald Trump have familial ties to slave owners.
[b][i]Slavery ended a long time ago.
We're sorry - get over it.[/i][/b]
The ‘great guilting’ demands that millions of Americans — especially white Americans — must shoulder pay for the crimes of generations past.
The idea that someone’s ideological future is defined by the actions of their ancestors is utterly absurd, yet that’s exactly the kind of connection Reuters tried to make in a recent report that focuses on tying hundreds of elected U.S. officials to slaveholders of centuries past.
After sifting through “tens of thousands of pieces of information contained in thousands of pages of documents,” Reuters found that 100 Democrat and Republican members of Congress, two Supreme Court justices, and every living president except Donald Trump have familial ties to slave owners.
[b][i]Slavery ended a long time ago.
We're sorry - get over it.[/i][/b]
