{"id":101774,"date":"2019-07-15T03:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T01:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/15\/beto-orourkes-ancestors-were-slaveholders-records-reveal\/"},"modified":"2019-07-15T03:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T01:21:17","slug":"beto-orourkes-ancestors-were-slaveholders-records-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=101774","title":{"rendered":"Beto O&#039;Rourke&#039;s ancestors were slaveholders, records reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: O\u2019Rourke addresses family history for the first time and admits that he and his children are \u2018beneficiaries\u2019 of slaveholdingDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke recently delivered an impassioned speech while meeting with the Gullah-Geechee Nation, an organization of African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved on plantations from Florida to South Carolina.The speech in Beaufort followed one attendee\u2019s question about whether O\u2019Rourke supports reparations, the idea of compensation for the descendants of slaves. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/14\/beto-o-rourke-slavery-ancestors-interview-family-tree\" target=\"_blank\">Beto O&#039;Rourke&#039;s ancestors were slaveholders, records reveal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: O\u2019Rourke addresses family history for the first time and admits that he and his children are \u2018beneficiaries\u2019 of slaveholdingDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke recently delivered an impassioned speech while meeting with the Gullah-Geechee Nation, an organization of African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved on plantations from Florida to South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}