McConnell Equates His Ancestors’ Slave Ownership To Obama’sSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his family’s history of slave ownership doesn’t change his opposition to reparations.
The Kentucky Republican said Tuesday that he and former President Barack Obama have opposed reparations, and “both are the descendent of slave owners.”
Last month, McConnell said he didn’t think “reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea.” He said the nation paid for the “sin of slavery” by electing Obama president.
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