Beto O’Rourke: America Is a Violent Country ‘Defined By Foundational, Systemic, Endemic Racism’ Which Has Always Been Part of the U.S.

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O'ROURKE: "This is a violent country that loses more than forty thousand of our fellow Americans every year to gun violence. And this is a country that has been defined by foundational systemic endemic racism since the very founding of this country, August twentieth of sixteen nineteen, the first time that a kidnapped job was brought here against his will and made to serve as a slave to build the greatness and success and the wealth of this country, which his descendants would never be able to fully participate in. This is the reality of the United States of America and sooner or later it was going to find us it wasn't a matter if, it was a matter of when.”