Beto O’Rourke’s presidential camping has been a big dud so far. The liberal media has stopped promoting him as a rockstar and he hasn’t said anything remotely interesting in months. All of that changed on Sunday because he found out that he is descended from slave owners and is promising your money in reparations to make up for it. It’s a good thing he will never be president because I plan on spending my disposable income on beer and other non-redistribution of wealth scam type of things.
In one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time, Beto O’Rourke dropped the news that he comes from a long line of racists in this Medium post:
I was recently given documents showing that both Amy and I are descended from people who owned slaves. Along with other possessions listed in their property log were two human beings, Rose and Eliza.
A paternal great-great-great grandfather of mine, Andrew Cowan Jasper, owned these two women in the 1850s. There are also records showing that a maternal great-great-great grandfather, Frederick Williams, most likely owned slaves in the 1860s (“most likely,” because we are not certain that the Frederick Williams who is my ancestor and the Frederick Williams who owned slaves are the same person, but there’s enough circumstantial data to lead me to conclude that it’s likely).
In case you haven’t figured it out, Amy is his wife, who you may remember as the person he tried to trick into eating baby shit. She is also descendant for slave owners:
Records also showed that Amy had an ancestor who owned slaves and another who was a member of the Confederate Army.
And these slave owning ancestors set the table for black people to be poor scumbags:
The way that fortune was passed through the generations from Andrew to me, misfortune was passed through the generations from Rose and Eliza to their descendants who are alive today. Rose and Eliza were denied their freedom and the benefits that their labor produced; they and their children were then denied their civil rights after the end of Reconstruction; and their descendants endured open terrorism, economic exclusion and racism in the form of Jim Crow, lynchings, convict leasing, voter suppression, red lining, predatory lending, and mass incarceration. Everything their descendants have accomplished in their lives is despite having all of these odds stacked against them.
In the aggregate, slavery, its legacy and the ensuing forms of institutionalized racism have produced an America with stark differences in opportunities and outcomes, depending on race.
It’s shocking that democrats have a history of racism, isn’t it? No worries, Beta O’Dork feels just terrible about all of this:
That those enslaved Americans owned by my ancestors were denied their freedom, denied the ability to amass wealth, denied full civil rights in America after slavery also had long term repercussions for them and their descendants.
I benefit from a system that my ancestors built to favor themselves at the expense of others. That only increases the urgency I feel to help change this country so that it works for those who have been locked-out of — or locked-up in — this system.
And Roberts Francis is going to fix everything that his family and his political party has done by taking your money and giving it to black folks:
As a person, as a candidate for the office of the Presidency, I will do everything I can to deliver on this responsibility.
…I will continue to support reparations, beginning with an important national conversation on slavery and racial injustice.
F*ck that. My family never owned slaves and didn’t even come to America until after slavery was abolished? Plus, I’m a Republican, the party that freed the slaves and abolished slavery. Why in the hell should I kick in on something that is entirely a democratic party issue?
Seriously, Beta O’Dork’s family owned slaves, so he should pay off their descendants if he feels this strongly about it. His wife comes from a very wealthy family and they are the ones who should pay reparations, not us.
Last week NBC broke the story that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was descended from slave owners and they implied that he should pay reparations. Why isn’t there the same call for O’Rourke to pony up? Again, democrats owned the slaves, formed the KKK, and passed all of the segregation laws. Why does Republican McConnell owe reparations on not O’Rourke?
