“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,” NBC News reports.
“The Guardian first reported O’Rourke’s family history, saying that ‘abundant’ documentation exists on the website Ancestry.com of the couple’s ‘slave-owning’ ancestors and ‘their support for the Confederacy.'”
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