He said the revelation created an urgency to 'change this country so that it works for those who have been locked-out of — or locked-up in — this system.'
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke revealed Sunday that his family’s ancestors owned slaves — a fact he said injected new urgency into a slate of policy proposals designed to grapple with slavery’s legacy.
In the Medium post, O’Rourke said he and his wife recently received documents that listed Eliza and Rose in a property log.that two great-great-great grandfathers of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell owned 14 slaves. In Sunday’s post, O’Rourke attributed America’s “stark differences in opportunities and outcomes, depending on race” to slavery and the generations of institutionalized racism that followed.
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