Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he and his wife, Amy, are descended from people who owned slaves
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“Something that we’ve been thinking about and talking about in town hall meetings and out on the campaign — the legacy of slavery in the United States — now has a much more personal connection,” O’Rourke wrote. His ancestors, O'Rourke wrote, were “able to build wealth on the backs and off the sweat of others, wealth that they would then be able to pass down to their children and their children’s children. In some way, and in some form, that advantage would pass through to me and my children.”
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