Meanwhile, this was her original statement:

My father was born on a dirt farm in Lincoln County. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of a very prominent person who then was kind enough to allow them to work for him as slaves. So, if you’re asking, did we own slaves? My father was a slave, just to a white man and he was white.

I wish the Courier Journal had simply asked her, “was your father able to leave whenever he wanted?”