Beto O’Rourke, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, revealed that his ancestors, as well as his wife’s ancestors, were enslavers. The Texas Democrat said that he benefits from a system that his ancestors built to favor themselves over others. “Something that we’ve been thinking about and talking about in town hall meetings and out on the campaign — the legacy of slavery in the United States — now has a much more personal connection,” he wrote in a post published on Medium.
O’Rourke wrote that he recently received documents that showed he and his wife’s...