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Treeman
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A Reuters story is called “America’s Family Secret” but of course it’s no secret that the horrible scourge of slavery afflicted America and so much of the world in centuries past. Even today, the United Nations says that tens of millions of people around the world suffer from a modern version of this abomination.
But the team from Reuters is focused specifically on U.S. history and its impact on politics. Reuters reports:
But the team from Reuters is focused specifically on U.S. history and its impact on politics. Reuters reports:
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...
That last paragraph suggests that even the country’s race-obsessed media will quickly lose interest in this particular story.President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president – except Donald Trump – are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and – through his white mother’s side – Barack Obama. Trump’s ancestors came to America after slavery was abolished.