Senate Majority Leader McConnell on slavery reparations: 'I don't think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, when none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea.'
The reparations debate has also become part of the 2020 presidential race. Several Democratic candidates have either come out in favor of reparations or at least saying the issue should be studied to figure out how to compensate the descendants of slaves."I think we're always a work in progress in this country, but no one currently alive was responsible for that, and I don't think we should be trying to figure out how to compensate for it," he said.
"First of all, it would be pretty hard to figure out who to compensate, we've had waves of immigrants as well who have come to the country and experienced dramatic discrimination of one kind or another."by paying reparations. The U.S. Congress also paid reparations to Japanese-Americans who were held at internment camps, first with the Japanese-American Claims Act of 1948 and then the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, both of which allocated millions for survivors.
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