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(2,109 posts)Id prefer the option to register the angry, red face I made when I read about this.
Botany
(77,708 posts)Don't let black people vote.
purr-rat beauty
(1,375 posts)...this world will be a better place
angrychair
(12,434 posts)Is knowing that McConnell will go into his final days a mindless and broken old man.
ChicagoTeamster
(1,174 posts)Two of Mitch McConnells great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, were slave owners in Limestone County, Alabama
electric_blue68
(27,132 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(1,174 posts)A 2023 Reuters investigation identified that 119 of the United States' top political leadersincluding five living presidents, 100 members of the last sitting Congress, two Supreme Court justices, and 11 governorshave ancestors who enslaved people.
Prominent Political Figures & Families (Recent & Historical)
Joe Biden: Descendant of slaveholders.
Barack Obama: Through his white mother's side, he is a descendant of slaveholders.
George W. Bush & Bill Clinton: Both are descendants of slaveholders.
Jimmy Carter: Descendant of slaveholders.
Mitch McConnell (Senator): Ancestors owned slaves.
Elizabeth Warren (Senator): Great-great-great-grandfather enslaved 14 people.
Lindsey Graham (Senator): Great-great-great-grandfather Joseph Maddox was a slaveholder.
Tammy Duckworth (Senator): Ancestor Henry Coe enslaved people.
Nancy Mace (Representative): Great-great-great-grandmother Drucilla Mace held slaves.
Amy Coney Barrett & Neil Gorsuch (Supreme Court Justices): Both have direct ancestors who enslaved people.
The study identified 100 members of the last Congress with such ties, including Rep. Julia Brownley, Sen. Tom Cotton, Sen. James Lankford, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, and Sen. Maggie Hassan.
NoMoreRepugs
(12,197 posts)H2O Man
(79,201 posts)Thank you for this.
