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'This country was founded on white supremacy': Beetle O'Rourke speaks with Tennessee immigrants
[TENNESSEAN] On his second day of events in Nashville, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Betois a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... met with im O'Rourke, a former Texas congressman, first held a rally at Marathon Music Works on Sunday, drawing hundreds of supporters to the campaign event where he largely focused on immigration and decried President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... 's policies on detaining The Monday roundtable was organized by TIRRC Votes, the political action committee of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition. O'Rourke's campaignreached out to the organization about holding the meeting, which took place at The Horn Coffee, a shop owned by a family who came to Nashville in 1996 as refugees from Somalia. "Here we are in Nashville," O'Rourke said as he responded to a question about how, as president, he would combat white supremacy and make the country more welcoming to all people. "I know this from my home state, Texas, places that formed the Confederacy, that this country was founded on white supremacy. And every single institution and structure that we have in this country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression, even in our democracy." O'Rourke addresses immigration, raids, detention centers First to speak was Martha Pulido a resident of Morristown for more than 20 years who shared in Spanish about being detained during a massive work site raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year at a meat plant Bean Station. Alberto Librado Chavez, who has lived in the United States 15 years, also shared in Spanish about his experience being detained for weeks after the raid, which resulted in the arrests of 97 factory workers. Posted by: Fred 2019-07-10 |
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