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.
We all know,without a shadow of a doubt,given the opportunity to enslave people again,Trump would do it in a heartbeat-He resents paying ppl a decent wage and employed illegal immigrants to pay less wages-Trump would operate a full.scale slave trading company,WE ALL KNOW THIS!!!
Beto, I think it is time for you to get out and lead the change against Lindsey, Mitch, Cornyn and Perdue.
who
Good,let him start sending out the checks...
He is an ID-10T. Talk about pandering to the masses. My family came to America in the 1840s and my great-great grandfather fought at Gettysburg for the UNION
It’s embarrassing to watch a grown man pander in such a way just to gain voters. These politicians are the last people who should ever have power over people’s lives.
Well maybe Beto, you need to start writing out checks if YOU feel reparations are needed. Otherwise stop pandering!
Beto,reparations for tax payers. I’m tired of paying taxes for hair brained ideas, abortions and social programs.
What is he, a Portuguese Paddy?
The new democratic bandwagon to jump on to stay relevant!
And free beer for all. Anything to get me up from zero.
Lies,why do this to a man whom people are deframating.........tell the truth.........is a reliable source? No, they go by records from the 1600 they have NO IDEA who these people were or whether they were all immigrants
Democrats Dream Boy!
No one alive today owned slaves or was a slave. This is ridiculous.
Beto when saying this:
You mean 0% BetoORourke?
Beto “I’m a descendant of slave owners which more than qualifies me to the owner oops I meant President “
How about Beto and his wife donate all their money to the NAACP and then get jobs at Walmart.....then his sins will be lifted
Beto forefathers benefitted from the slaves and Beto must pay back as reparation from his personal wealth to the descendants of those slaves. If Beto does not pay then he is a hypocrite.
Shit happens, but he is an exceptional person. The people who are a constant drag ancestors were too poor to own a slave, so they became the overseers, then slavery ended, they became the police,, now they are the 6th generation of cops. One of them murdered Eric Garner.
Must...get...more...than 0.0% polling....
any white family who owned a home or land always had at least 1 slave. can't change the past
Beto confused about how to run for President. His analysis is seeking to maximize the inverse of his poll numbers
Changes to criminal justice.....
I'm just going to leave this right here
aka 'Master Beto'
I know 1 person who would agree: DONALD TRUMP
Some people will do something... and that something won’t be voting for BetoORourke
Anything for a percentage point.
Also polling at 2%
Weird flex but okay
But we know this though🙄
Shameful. He needs to donate all the money he's made off of politics to the NAACP and bow out in shame.
His campaign is going nowhere
Did he own slaves? No? Are there any slaves alive today? No? Then reparations is a moot point. We don’t punish people Who aren’t guilty of anything.
Let me get this straight. So they admit to owning slaves but Beta needed the media to bury stories they uncovered when he was going against Cruz? Someone needs attention.
Mine were Vikings. They raped, burned and pillaged. Am I disqualified from everything now?
He is going to fight to end slavery. How 150 years too late is that? Slavery of the mind still exists in the Democratic party.
He did it just in case he gets investigated 😂 this Irish man cracks me up.
African Tribes sold their people, they should pay reparations
Yeah, many of our ancestors did, so you're not special.
...... and yet another moderate Dem now supports Trump in 2020....
Why is he still talking?
As if the Democratic Presidential Election could get more freakish...between Bernie, Liz, Kamala and Spartacus, their chances at beating Trump are slim and slimmer, LOL
Let's focus on our 5 top tier candidates and vetting them. Cannnnnot afford to make a mistake this time!
So who paid NBC to dig this up? Same people who dug up Bidens old records? Kamala?
There! Get that one for reparations! and leave us Pennsylvania coal miners alone. What a cuck
I have 300 years of complicity in slavery in my ancestry, from the Deep South to colonial New England and back to Tudor London. My ancestry is like a huge old house, bafflement and trauma - black faces among white ones - in every room. Truth hurts, & heals.
Well, of course.... he's from TX, right? I wish Dems stopped trying to fall on the sword during a capmaign. It would be nice if they just ignored this kind of stuff. It's not like his parents owned them.
Well hes done
Whatever, Beto. Go back.
We cannot judge people in the past using today's standards.
Beto what is your real name. I want to find out all I can. I know you have bad pass. You will never be our president. You were a bad person in the past. People like you don't change. They just change their names.
Who cares, he's irellevant!
I'm from a viking lineage...does raping and pillaging Ireland, the UK, France and parts of Germania make me responsible for my ancestors actions?
Another one bites the dust.
Sorry but we don’t need you either.
Start cutting those checks puto!
Democrats fought to keep their slaves. Seems to me that party is full of slave owners. Even now they want to have slaves and that is why they want undocumented people to come into the country. As Beto said, they need people to work for them as Americans will not do so.
I refuse to pay any slave tax Y'all can kiss my ass.
Start paying retribution. Put your money where your mouth is at.
If one of the female candidates talked about childbirth beto would say he has given birth to a child also
I thought he was Mexican? 🤣
BETO IS IRRELEVANT!!!!!!!!
Maybe he should not be President then? A beneficiary of free slave labor? Hell no!
So what? It is not his fault. He still needs to go away.
Let’s focus NOT on a former family of racists but on our current family of racists living in the White House realDonaldTrump
TxTrialAttorney Read what Beto had to say in his own words here:
Hahah Beto destruction I. 3...2....1
DanRiehl Will he now prostrate himself, give himself 50 lashes, ask for forgiveness for something he never knew about and spend his money on reparations? DOUBT IT!
Not only Francis Beto, his wife's family too. If she inherits any of her father's $500 million estate she'll have to donate it all to various black families. What a bummer.
My ancestors did this shit is ridiculous. I'm not responsible for what my dead ancestors did as much as you are yours. Doest matter what side of the isle you are on. Next?
And my great great grandma died on the trail of tears..... cry me a river.....DO SOMETHING NOW
We all can learn and grow from the sins of the past. What matters is that history skips the repeat itself and he can use his platform to do good work.
BetoORourke is One strange man! This guy hears himself speak before he thinks — pure entertainment, not presidential. Trump2020Landslide Trump MAGA2020
Will he be giving his possessions away now in reparation?
Time for honky wannabe mexican to pay reparations
Well MAYBE IF BetoORourke STILL OWNED THEIR DESCENDANTS THEY COULD HAVE CANVASSED FOR HIM, and he'd have won. And what the hell is Texas doing still in the Union? Jesus H. Christ!
Pay up cowboy
So what? What does HE have to do with that? Nothing. Next.
Wow! Shocking! 😱
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