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When the reporter persisted, Decker explained that her father—a preacher born around 1933, according to the Courier Journal, or 68 years after slavery was outlawed—was “born into poverty” and worked for free with his family on the property they lived on. (It’s unclear whether the adults were paid, though the Courier Journal notes that it sounds more like “Decker’s father was forced by his parents to do chores” and that the family were tenant farmers.)
“My dad had to do chores when he was growing up 😭😭” - KY State Rep. Jennifer Decker
Meanwhile, this was her original statement:
My father was born on a dirt farm in Lincoln County. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of a very prominent person who then was kind enough to allow them to work for him as slaves. So, if you’re asking, did we own slaves? My father was a slave, just to a white man and he was white.
I wish the Courier Journal had simply asked her, “was your father able to leave whenever he wanted?”
anyone who experienced slavery would be opposed to it, want to educate people of it’s evils, not defend it. what a bucket of stupid.
lol @ the two people who think slavery is groovy… chuds follow me everywhere
I’m totally stealing “what a bucket of stupid” from you. That’s just danged funny!
…a preacher…
Oh, so he’s well-versed in lying to push an agenda. Got it. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
“My father was born on a dirt farm in Lincoln County. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of a very prominent person who then was kind enough to allow them to work for him as slaves. So, if you’re asking, did we own slaves? My father was a slave, just to a white man and he was white.”
“Kind enough”. wtf
Can’t call grandpappy mean can we? A “slaver” sure but a kind slaver grandpappy was
Poverty in Kentucky and wider Appalachia is still a very real and very serious problem.
It’s very hopeless feeling and was hit extremely hard by the opioid crisis.
I’m sure it was bad 100 years ago, too–although alcoholism was usually the drug of choice back then.
Lots of systematic suffering. Children growing up in the nightmares their parents created for them.
But it’s not slavery, lol.
A feckless cunt says what now?
I mean, the argument that there are/were white slaves does have some merit, but I wouldn’t expect any of these people to either A) know about it or B) argue it in good faith.
Even if true, what is it an argument against? If her great-great-grandpappy was a real slave, she might have heard slavery is bad.
what is it an argument against?
“All slaves matter”
( Just like the “all lives matter” response to “black lives matter”, it’s a way to dismiss the concern behind the original sentiment or facts )
My favorite part of this scene is that he is eating cereal while driving
White trash
Big difference between allowing someone to work on your farm, vs owning someone and forcing them to work and they can’t leave. What a total piece of shit with a dumbass false equivalency.
GOP leaders are liars. Every single one of them.
This woman looks like she calls black people coloreds.
bruhhhh
