Great-Great-Greats and Beyond

It is an inarguable FACT that none in the United states has owned a slave since 1868. As of today, that was one hundred and fifty-five years ago, or, in other terms, an average of nearly eight generations. In my case, because I am old and my grandparents reproduced young, it was four generations ago.  So why is Reuters, a news agency that is decidedly NOT American, running a major article about “so many” American political elites who are “descended from slave owners?” It’s not because they see unity as a useful purpose. Nor do they seem to understand that far more Americans today are descended from those who believed in union and equality for all men…