Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent remarks about reparations “reflect a kind of ignorance and arrogance,” says Cornell Williams Brooks, former President & CEO of the NAACP
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If you've heard of"40 acres and a mule," then you know that the concept of America paying reparations for the enslavement of black people is by no means a new idea. The concept has been discussed since 1865 when the promise to repay -- I use that term loosely -- former slaves was made by Union Gen. William T. Sherman and then backed by President Abraham Lincoln and Congress.As we know, the promise would be broken .Since then, the national conversation around America's history with slavery and how the country should atone for its past has been pushed aside -- coming up only occasionally in pockets of discussion.
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