O’ROURKE: “The foundation of this country is an extraordinarily brutal one. I think of Nikole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 Project, the case that she makes that has persuaded me that you mark the foundation of America not on the 4th of July, 1776, but the 20th of August, 1619, the first time someone was kidnapped from west Africa, brought here against their will, made to build the wealth, the success, the greatness of America, which neither they nor their descendants alive today are able to fully participate in. And we know that from any way we can cut it or measure it. Ten times the wealth in white America than there is in black America and it’s not accidental. It’s by design.”