Now, there is a story being reported that Biden's 19 century ancestors owned 3 slaves.

[imanamerican63]

I am lost for words. It was not Joe’s family who owned slaves. The GOPers are trying everything they can think of! If someone say that about Trump, well I hate to hear the repercussions from that? I had a distant relative who beheaded people in England in the 1800’s, so I am bad person for that? Give me a break!

Of course, the story from Business Insider

[Hoyt]

1. So GOPers, trump's dad was a klansman and bet so were dads of folks spreading BS.

[Klaralven]

2. Hardly surprising if he had Maryland ancestors

Biden's great-great-great-grandfather, Jesse Robinett was listed as owning two slaves in Allegany County, Maryland, in the 1800 census, Bannerman found.

Records from the 1850 Census and slave schedules also show that Biden's 3rd-great-grandfather, Thomas Randle, owned a 14-year-old male slave in Baltimore County, Maryland, Bannerman said, with the 1860 Census still showing Randle owning one person after the family moved to a different part of the county.

https://www.businessinsider.com/genealogist-finds-evidence-that-biden-ancestors-owned-slaves-politico-2021-9

[LakeArenal]

3. Not sure what that implies about Joe.

[Texaswitchy]

4. Big deal

So did mine.

What would that have to do with me.

[Ocelot II]

6. So? We aren't responsible for the sins and crimes of our ancestors.

I am the descendant of Vikings, who infamously owned and trafficked in slaves, as well as of a family of smugglers and god knows how many other reprobates. I did not inherit those crimes. Many Americans had ancestors who owned slaves in this country, and very few of them are slavery advocates or apologists.

[brooklynite]

7. WHO is reporting this story?

[Treefrog]

28. This is the only place I've heard it.

[DBoon]

8. So are they criticizing his ancestor for only owning 3 slaves?

Because if the ancestor had any ambition, he would have owned more?

[RockRaven]

9. TFG's grandfather ran a brothel in the Yukon in the late 19th century. If you want to tell me that

those women were happy independent contractors in a libertarian paradise and not de facto chattel, you are out of your goddamned mind. And the GOP has nothing to say about that matter, except to get righteously indignant if anyone brings it up. And as with a stopped clock, they happen to be right if only by accident of circumstances.

TFG is a repugnant piece of shit, but he has nothing to answer for when it comes to Frederick (Friedrich) Trump's actions. Answering for his own actions would be enough -- if anyone ever actually held him to account, that is.

And as it turns out, despite being only two generations of lineal descent apart TFG never personally knew his grandfather because -- and here's a little ironic Trump-virus tidbit -- he died from the 1918 flu pandemic.

[ColinC]

10. Are they asking him to apologize for the past?

I thought the right wing were against that

[NH Ethylene]

14. He'd better not!!

We are not at all personally responsible for the sins of our ancestors.

[Aristus]

11. My ancestors owned slaves, too, and fought the Civil War in order to keep them.

If they knew their descendent was a far-left, pro-diversity, pro-civil rights, pro-LGBTQ, pro-socialism liberal, they'd turn over in their graves.

So the only question here is: So what about Joe Biden's ancestors?...

[orleans]

12. and to that i say YAWN (not to you posting this but to those who want to make it a "thing") nt

[left-of-center2012]

13. I had ancestors who owned slaves

Someone did a history of my mother's ancestors.
One family living in Kentucky around 1820 owned three slaves

They never got around to checking my father's ancestors,
but he told us they were all horse thieves

[Moebym]

15. Not this again

Some on the right (and far left) tried to smear now-VP Harris by pointing out that she likely had white plantation owner ancestors on her father's side.

So what?

[ananda]

16. Mine did own slaves in Tennessee..

before they came to Texas.

Ugghh

You can probably guess that some
of my current relatives are racist
Magats.

Double uggghh

[Retrograde]

17. Mine didn't, mainly because

they didn't show up in the US until about 1890. My siblings like to claim that we're descended from a wealthy east European landowner, but I think it's more likely we're descended from his many serfs. The Constitution actually forbids corruption of blood -we're not responsible for the sins of our ancestors. If Biden's were slave-owners - well, they don't seem to have passed any of that wealth down to him.

[DFW]

18. Well, I guess if Tara Reade didn't work, and Biden has no great personal wealth

They don’t have much left, do they?

I’m always terrified that some day I’ll find out that one of my ancestors was cruel to a mastodon as recently as the last Ice Age.

[yellowcanine]

19. Well we should impeach those ancestors of course.

Have at it, Marjorie!

[pwb]

20. I heard he use to use leaded gas too.

When it was all leaded.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. Barack Obama's ancestors owned slaves too, on his...

... mother's side.

It was prevalent enough in this country's past that it can be a challenge to NOT find a few slave owners among the numerous ancestors who lived on this land, pre-Civil War.

[cinematicdiversions]

24. Obama is a descendant of Jefferson Davis and a cousin of Dick Cheney.

I mean he is actually only one of the few recent presidents whose family wealth can be tied to slavery. (Most recent ones are from post Civil War immigrants or northerners.)

[whathehell]

22. Even if it was, how would this be HIS fault?

They are getting desperate, to say the least.

[fescuerescue]

26. That's exactly what the right says about reparations.

Fault isn't the point.

[whathehell]

29. Fault is the point when they attribute it to Biden's family.

My understanding of Reparations, which I support, by the way, is that it would be a collective effort undertaken by the country as a whole.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

35. To which I reply, "Then anyone who inherited wealth...

... from past slaveowners don't deserve that, either. They can't keep the benefits while absolving themselves of blame too."

The focus is more on the present that way.

[Generic Brad]

23. And TFG's grandfather was a human sex trafficker

[fescuerescue]

25. Hopefully that's not true. But if it is

A heartfelt apology from Biden would probably be a good boost to his approval numbers.

Maybe also make a donation to BLM.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

27. Sounds like a great opportunity to talk about how generational wealth gets passed in some families

and not others, reparations, the complicated and ugly history of this nation and other CRT topics!

[StarfishSaver]

30. Mine did, too.

And I'm Black.

So what?

[vercetti2021]

31. Ladies and Gentlemen

DESPERATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who's fucking ancestors that were white didn't own slaves?

[myccrider]

32. So what!?!

90% of my ancestors are from the South starting around 1635. Some of them were slave owners. More than half of my great-grandfathers fought for the Confederacy (the others volunteered for the Union even though they lived in TN & TX). As much as it pains me to know about the slaves, it’s NOT.MY.FAULT!!!!!!!

What a ridiculous thing to go after Biden about, but idiotic misdirection is all the Repugnants have left.

[pnwmom]

33. Obviously, no one is responsible for his ancestors. However, the first Biden who came to the US,

who died in 1849, was a stonemason in Baltimore. Not likely to be a slave owner.

https://www.findmypast.com/blog/discoveries/joe-biden-family-history

[Spazito]

34. Business Insider, owned by the German version of Murdoch...

Axel Springer, whose publishing house just bought out Politico. Same trash as Murdoch's rags, imo.

[Ellipsis]

36. And Trumpies ancestor owned prostitutes....

Just sayin".