Yesterday McConnell said slavery reparations aren't a 'good idea' because slavery ended 150 years ago and 'we elected an African American president.'
" legislation. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, first introduced the bill in January to study and develop a commission to study reparation proposals and address the"fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865.
Ta-Nehisi Coates responded to GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's comments that slavery reparations are not a"good idea" because slavery ended 150 years ago.Coates responded by continuing to mention incidents of racism or bigotry which occurred during the 77-year-old Kentucky Republican's lifetime.
Coates detailed the massive and undeniable economic impact slavery had on U.S. history, which used"torture, rape and child trafficking" in order to force African American slaves to become"assets."
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