This should get me something
Democratic presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke made a calculated political move last week, revealing he and his wife descended from slave owners.
He didn’t immediately say whether he hoped to get the votes of other slave-owning descendants, more blacks because he admitted his past or groups who push white privilege, but his announcement came the same week his meager second-quarter campaign contributions were revealed.
“Something that we’ve been talking about in town hall meetings – the legacy of slavery in the United States – now has a much more personal connection,” O’Rourke said.
He said his great-great-great grandfather owned two women slaves and that an ancestor of his wife owned slaves and that another of her relatives served in the Confederate Army.