An explosive new report on American politicians and their ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade has shocked many across the country, revealing names of U.S. presidents, senators, and members of The House of Representatives whose families owned slaves.
Of all the living people to hold the office of president of the United States, only one has no ties to American slavery. It is not the first African-American to assume the office, Barack Obama, but his successor Donald J. Trump.
After getting wind of that historical factoid, the immediate past commander-in-chief could not wait to share it with his followers and package it as a campaign to attract Black supporters.
He posted an excerpt from the report on his social media platform Truth Social, writing, “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.”
However, he tacked on at the end a message for Black people, “I hope that every African American in our country is reading this right now. REMEMBER!”
People took to social media to comment on the idea that Trump’s family was not involved in the American slave trade, digging deeper into his family tree to show there still was a history of exploitation of the vulnerable and possibly human trafficking.
While the family did not benefit from slavery after arriving in the country, his father did engage in the anti-Black terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan that emerged after the end of the institution.
According to MSNBC, Trump is a descendant of European immigrants. His German progenitors came to the country after slavery…
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