Does a public official or candidate's ancestry matter?

Whether someone descended from slaveholders is completely irrelevant, but Reuters and, apparently, Donald Trump thinks we should know.

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Reuters released a report stating that among America's political elite, five living presidents, two Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators descend from ancestors who enslaved Black people.

They reported, "Reuters found that at least 8% of Democrats in the last Congress and 28% of Republicans have such …