A stunning campaign email from @BetoORourke pic.twitter.com/ywuf0tUR1V
— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) July 15, 2019
So?
Via The Hill:
White House hopeful Beto O’Rourke (D) on Sunday revealed that he and his wife, Amy, are descended from slave owners.
The former House lawmaker from Texas wrote in a Medium post that he was recently given documents showing that his paternal great-great-great grandfather listed two women, Rose and Eliza, as his possessions.
“That those enslaved Americans owned by my ancestors were denied their freedom, denied the ability to amass wealth, denied full civil rights in America after slavery also had long term repercussions for them and their descendants,” O’Rourke wrote.
“I benefit from a system that my ancestors built to favor themselves at the expense of others,” he added in the post, a defense of reparations.