McConnell likens himself to Obama: 'We both are the descendants of slave owners'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Tuesday confirmed that he is a descendant of slave owners and reiterated that he still opposes government reparations for descendants of American slaves.

At a press conference following a closed-door luncheon with Senate Republicans, McConnell was asked whether he was aware that two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners in Alabama before the Civil War and whether the revelation would cause him to reconsider his position on reparations.

"I find myself once again in the same position as President [Barack] Obama. We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners," he said, before moving on to another question.

McConnell did not say whether he knew that his two great-great-grandfathers owned slaves prior to an NBC News report published Monday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-likens-himself-to-obama-we-both-are-the-descendants-of-slave-owners/ar-AAE5v5G?li=BBnb7Kz

Except Obama's not an asshole. You are.

[spanone]

1. FUCK YOU mitch

you couldn't tie President Obama's sneakers

[Maven]

2. Except only one of you is a neo-Confederate snake who tried to take down the first black president

POS

[LakeArenal]

3. Ummmm. NO!! A million times.

The huge elephant in that comment is Mitch would still own humans today if possible.

[OnDoutside]

4. And yet you turned out to be pure evil, Mitch.

[AncientGeezer]

5. It's not a lie....turtle is an asshole but...it's not a lie

[lame54]

6. Obama a descendent of rape victim - McConnell a descendent of rapists

[AncientGeezer]

7. Has nothing to do with being decendents of slave owners

Which is the OP topic

[lame54]

8. I thought the topic was McConnell's bullshittery and hypocrisy...

Mitch is living off the wealth accumulted in those days and passed down

Obama had no money passed down

Not even on the same plane

[AncientGeezer]

9. Turtle didn't have money passed down...he married into money

[lame54]

10. I admit I was assuming...

But I believe you are too

Slave owning is extremely profitable
Where did the money go

[AncientGeezer]

13. I didn't assume....I know history...I researched the f'waffle turtle...

IF you are going to ask this...You have to ask President Obama..."Slave owning is extremely profitable"....155+yrs ago
Where did the money go...his relatives owned slaves per the linked article

[Solomon]

14. Almost every black person in America has slave owners as ancestors since they raped

the fuck out of female slaves. If I sound angry it's because I am. The ignorance of some people is intolerable.

[AncientGeezer]

16. You should be angry...but not because of "rape".

President Obama's ancestors weren't owners of slaves because of rape.

[Doctor Howard]

15. Obama is a slave descendent?

I thought his father was from Africa?

Is that to say his patrilineal African heritage has slaves in there somewhere?

[Retrograde]

17. He had a mother, too

As do most people. Some of his mother's family has been in the US since the 1600s, IIRC.

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Nope, Obama is in fact a descendant of slave owners.

One of those slave owners, Mareen Duvall of Maryland, is also my ancestor (Obama is my tenth cousin); his estate inventory listed 18 slaves along with other property.

[Celerity]

20. what rape victim?

[bdamomma]

11. i hope he

chokes on his arrogance and smugness.

[whistler162]

12. Though it looks like President Obama is

related to John Punch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Punch_(slave)

[DavidDvorkin]

18. It's true, and not because of rape

It's on Obama's mother's side:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/04/uselections2008.barackobama

Of course that part of Obama's ancestry hasn't formed his worldview, the way it has McConnell's.