Beto O’Rourke says he had relative who owned slaves

Associated Press ^ | July 15, 2019

[Olog-hai]

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says he was recently given documents showing that both he and his wife are descended from people who owned slaves.

In a post Sunday night for the website Medium, the former Texas congressman writes that the documents showed that one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women in the 1850s.

He says records also showed that one ancestor of his wife, Amy, owned slaves while another was part of the Confederate Army. …

[Gene Eric]

He’s an idiot.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Very big of you Beto.

[Yaelle]

His Mexican ancestors had slaves??

[BradyLS]

That’s too bad. Enjoy your trust fund.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

So?

[a fool in paradise]

Were the slaves Irish?

[leaning conservative]

And truly tedious.....

[DIRTYSECRET]

One should be proud of where they came from. The alternative is to be ashamed and apologize. What do the reparations people have over Beto? Does it make them more proud of themselves? They have this sick need to to pile on-and riot.

[Made In The USA]

Bob should immediately write a big reparations check LOL

[Reno89519]

And this is important or relevant how?

[a fool in paradise]

When is Kamala Harris going to write a reparations check and send it to Ireland?

[ssaftler]

I’m surprised that the rest of the clown college running for the chance to lose to President Trump would be demanding that he drop out of the race immediately.

But he’s Mexirish Robert O’Rourke, so it’s okay, I suppose.

[tinyowl]

Imagine if you were a spider, and you spun a web, but you lost your whatever-makes-you-not-stick-to-it-ability. You would get all wrapped up in it. Then what you planned to be your prey would eat you.

That's what it must be like to be these maroons.

[Fungi]

A fool beyond his ken to realize he is one. This clown as president? What a friging joke. Tom Hanks, your input please.

[Reno89519]

Every time I read someone mocking his childhood nickname from growing up in El Paso, I am reminded of Rafael Cruz. One guy has a Mexico nickname, the other an American one. Both losers and it didn’t take their names to make that so.

[PGR88]

He thinks and acts like a child. It’s pathetic.

[Rebelbase]

What an amusing group of candidates.

An Irish guy pretending to be Mexican

An Irish woman pretending to be African

A lily white Yankee pretending to be an indian.

[fidelis]

This poser is getting more and more desperate to stay in the forefront of the public eye. Negative attention is better than no attention.