Sounds like Peters owes a hell of a lot of reparations.
Townhall: The slave-owning great-great-grandfather of Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) allegedly harbored John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who killed President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in 1865, the New York Post reported.
According to the Post, Peters’ late father Herb Peters retold the story of the senator’s great-great-grandfather, a slave-owning farmer who harbored fugitive and slavery-defender John Wilkes Booth for two days after Booth assassinated President Lincoln. more
According to the scriptures he must be canceled and shunned.
According to history, that story has more holes in it than Lincolns head.
Just by the way, Garrett’s farm is now on Army Ft A.P. Hill, named after a confederate general, a short drive from here. Name of the base is also under pressure.
Nothing is safe.
For a good read try Manhunt: Search for Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson.
Why am I not surprised that a Democrat has this in his history? And why aren’t the mobs going after the people on the left side of politics? Nevermind, rhetorical question. Useful idiots.
And everybody knows that John Wilkes Booth committed suicide Jan. 13, 1903, at the Grand Avenue Hotel in Enid, OK. Well, truthfully, there are at least a few that believe it.
https://oklahoman.com/article/2054048/did-john-wilkes-booth-commit-suicide-in-enid
So we are not only going to check all old twitter posts for things that offend the touchiest liberals, but also things done and said 150 years ago?
Time to secede, we hate each other.
What’s going to be even more ironic is that this slaveowner’s descendent is going to be replaced by a black Republican named John James.