Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I got a kick out of the recent Reuters report on their investigation into the slaveholding roots of U.S. politicians. It’s long been known that Joe Biden is from a line of slave owners but – as I’m sure it galled Reuters to have to report – their bete noir Donald Trump was the ONLY living U.S. president NOT descended from slave owners. (Yes, even Barack Obama’s ancestors were slave owners.)

Republican office holders who are descended from slave owners include some of my frequent targets for bashing over present-day corruption include Mitch McConnell, George W. Bush and Lindsey Graham.

Democrats descended from slave owners and who are among my frequent targets for bashing over present-day corruption include Elizabeth Warren, infamous for her exposed lies about being Native American (and using that lie to fill minority positions in academia despite being lily-white).