Interesting article. I personally don’t hold it against or give something to someone who had or didn’t have an ancestor that owned slaves. Going back far enough we all probably had ancestors that wouldn’t hold up to today’s standards.
I’m into genealogy. My 5x great-grandparents owned slaves. I think that for White Americans who have had family before the Civil War are likely to have ancestors who owner slaves. The longer the family has been in the New World, the more likely that their ancestors owned slaves. You have to research that stuff. Most people wouldn’t know about it until you looked into it. It’s just a fact of history.
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Gates said identifying those familial connections to slaveholders is “not another chapter in the blame game. We do not inherit guilt for our ancestors’ actions.”
No shit.
“It’s just to say: Look at how closely linked we are to the institution of slavery, and how it informed the lives of the ancestors of people who represent us in the United States Congress today,” Gates said. “This is a learning opportunity for each individual. It is also a learning opportunity for their constituency … and for the American people as a whole.”
Ha ha, right. C’mon if anyone is too stupid to yet understand the US’s links to slavery, I don’t think this or anything up to a lobotomy can help them. It must be to say something else 
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I see you’ve not live in the South…
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