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Podcast host: If my ancestors owned slaves, ‘eff them’

Published 11:12 PM EDT, Fri August 29, 2025

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Podcast host: If my ancestors owned slaves, ‘eff them’

The Pentagon is re-installing a portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee with a slave in the background at the West Point library. Republican Joe Borelli says imagery of the South evokes a certain history and ancestry of some Americans. Jennifer Welch says she doesn’t care and that if her ancestors owned slaves, “eff them.”

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