'We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners,' the Kentucky Republican said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday defended his ancestors who owned more than a dozen slaves around the time of the Civil War by comparing his ancestry and position on reparations to that of former President Barak Obama—the first black president of the United States.
McConnell's defense of his great-great-grandparents owning 14 slaves, who ranged in ages from 1 to 30 years old, was uncovered through county"Slave Schedules" from the 1850 and 1860 censuses that were "I don't think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, when none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea," McConnell told reporters."We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We've elected an African American president."
"I think the reparations we need right here in South Carolina is investment, for example, in our schools," he said during aHe revisited the topic in an NAACP 2008 questionnaire posed to both him and his GOP opponent, the now late Senator John McCain of Arizona.
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