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This has to be a planted story right from his media team, right..? Because this is perfect rage bait. Trying to blame the great great great great great grandson for the sins of his slave owning great great great great great grandfather.
Aside a right wing PR team, only the most up their own ass liberal would write this shit, much less publish it.
I hope it's the former, but I'm betting it's the latter. JFC Reuters.
was thinking along these lines as well. who the fuck cares. hes earned his right to be called an asshole. he didn't inherit it.
I don't understand this mentality. Is it OK to have pride in one's ancestors and their accomplishments? Why does pride get passed down while shame washes away?
People who say their ancestors didn't immigrate until after slavery and therefore are innocent should sit the fuck down when the national anthem is played because your people weren't here for the war of 1812 either.
You take pride in your great great great great great grandfather..? Cringy flex but whatever.
Okay, let's say you do. Why should any of his accomplishments 200 years ago matter in how I judge you?
Speaker Johnson is a little weasel rat fucking religious zealot. Trying to shame him for something so far removed is dumb, bad politics, and worse, terrible journalism.
As for your rant about immigration arrival dates, national anthem, and the war of 1812... are you well...?
I love how for your argument to work you have to ignore all of history since then and the fact that the disparity created by those slave owners doesn't only still exist today, but is still actively perpetuated and maintained by some of those same people who now have power to make laws or at least enough wealth to influence those who do, because of and under the influence of the wealth, privilege, and systemic racism they inherited directly from those ancestors.
Pathetic deliberately ignorant racist.
One of my ancestors was Lord High Chancellor of England. It doesn't make me proud; that would be silly.