Steve King's Ignorant Tweet reminded me of this: How The British Reinvented Slavery

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3. I don't understand what point King was attempting to make.

I just don't.

If Kamala's father's ancestry includes persons who were enslaved, there's a good chance his ancestry also includes one or more slave owners. Even an idiot like King ought to know that slave owners generally believed they had a right to rape the women they enslaved.

His tweet did do me a bit of "good" -- it prompted me to do a little reading on the history of Jamaica. My knowledge on the subject is vague. I found what seems to be a decent overview here. Vinil Kumar's article fills some gaps (and I'm sure the brief summary has many other gaps).