Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke revealed on Twitter Sunday that he and his wife Amy are both descended from slave owners. “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. “A paternal great-great-great grandfather of mine, Andrew Cowan Jasper, owned these two women in the 1850s,” O’Rourke wrote. He added that records also showed that an ancestor of his wife, Amy, owned slaves while another was part of the Confederate Army. GET THE FOX NEWS APPLast month House Democrats held a hearing on reparations for slavery for the first time in more than a decade.

Source: Fox News July 15, 2019 03:45 UTC