Tue
Jun 27 2023
09:01 am
By: CE Petro
Interesting investigation by Reuters. More than 100 US politicians are direct descendants to slave holders.
Included are living Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, Governors and Legislators.
From Tennessee:
Sens Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty
US Reps Tim Burchett, John Rose, and former Rep Jim Cooper
Gov Bill Lee
Reuters did try to get a comment from each of the 118 political elite. Of the TN descendants of slaveholders, only Jim Cooper gave comment.
Take from this what you will. We can't change what our ancestors did, but we can't ignore it either.
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