Obama jokes about distant relative Jefferson Davis
Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
Published 9:50 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2017 | Updated 8:26 a.m. ET Oct. 20, 2017
... "I'll bet he's spinning in his grave," Obama said when discussing how Americans should address the history of slavery in the U.S.
"My mother — you can trace her lineage — and like I'm a eighth or ninth or tenth or something cousin removed from Jefferson Davis who was the head of the Confederacy" ...
"We shouldn't use the most painful parts of our history just to score political points," Obama said. "We don't rise up by repeating the past, we rise up by learning form the past" ...
"My father was from Kenya, as you know. Well, some of you know. Some of you may have forgotten."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/19/barack-obama-relative-jefferson-davis-spinning-in-his-grave/782785001/
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