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You appear to be a real person, rather than a bot. So I will school you, rather than block you...
White men who owned, traded in, and supervised the work of enslaved black women often raped them--if they weren't looking the other way when other white men did it....
Consequently, many blacks can trace descent from slaves AND slaveholders. In fact, many historically significant black people descended from slaveholders...
Booker T. Washington was the son of an enslaved black woman and a white man from a neighboring plantation.
Frederick Douglass, also born into slavery, never knew for sure who his father was but had legitimate reasons to believe that his father was a wealthy plantation owner.
Blanche K. Bruce, a Reconstruction-era politician, was the first black person to represent Mississippi in the United States Senate. He was also the son of a white slaveholder and an enslaved black woman...
P.B.S. Pinchback, another black Reconstruction-era politician, was the son of a white slaveholder...
Ellen Craft escaped from slavery in 1848--by passing as a white man. The light skin she inherited from her white slaveholding father made this possible...
Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, conceived her only son after being repeatedly raped by a white man. (Her son later passed as a white man.)...
Sojourner Truth's daughter, Diana, was conceived afterTruth was raped by the white slaceholding man who held her in bondage
Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one (and possibly all) of the children birthed by Sally Hemings, a slave girl that he "romanced" when she was 14 (!)
Sally herself was the daughter of an enslaved black woman and a white slaveholder.
Sally herself was the daughter of an enslaved black woman and a white slaveholder.
Harriet Jacobs, a former slave, published "Incidents in the Life of a Slavegirl" in 1861. In the book, she detailed the sexual harassment, abuse, and flat out rape that black women were forced to endure at the hands of white men...
A white woman by the name of Mary Boykin Chesnut decried the presence of "mulatto" children on every plantation in the South, denouncing white men for keeping their "concubines" on the same plantations with their wives...
And, bc anti-miscegenation laws forbade these "mulatto" children from marrying white people they (1) married "full-blooded" black ppl or (2) married other mixed-race ppl and had children and grandchildren who married "full-blooded" black people...
Consequently, 400 years after the first Africans arrived on North Anerican soil, just about every black person you'll meet in the US can trace their descent to a slaveholding rapist of a white man...
If you're going to denounce Kamala Harris for having a sexually predatory slaveholder in her family tree, you might as well go all out in denouncing ALL black people.
