Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke reveals he and his wife Amy are descended from slave owners.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has revealed that he and his wife Amy are descended from slave owners.
The disclosure came after a freelance reporter from The Guardian newspaper obtained documents from Ancestry.com showing the presidential candidate’s ties to slave owners, a campaign source told ABC News. Before this, the O’Rourkes were unaware, and the revelation prompted his campaign to conduct their own internal research on the couple’s ancestral ties.
“When this came to light, we felt really strongly and he felt really strongly that this was a story that he wanted to tell, and he wanted to be open about it,” a source working for O’Rourke’s campaign told ABC News. "I benefit from a system that my ancestors built to favor themselves at the expense of others," he added, referencing the theme of white privilege that he often discusses in town halls as a presidential candidate, and most recently on ABC's"The View."
"As a person, as a candidate for the office of the Presidency, I will do everything I can to deliver on this responsibility," he wrote."In addition to making significant changes to education policy , economic policy , healthcare and criminal justice ." “We tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation, by electing an African American president,” McConnell said.
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