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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says you got a black President that is your Reparations. Really? We discuss the history of Reparations and why their is a resurgence in the topic this current political environment.

Show Notes

Mitch Mcconnell Obama’s election was reparations
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/mitch-mcconnell-reparations-slavery-compensation-not-needed-after-obama-presidency/1497461001/

Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/juneteenth-and-reparations-hearing-house/592036/

Ta Nehisi Coates  gives Mcconnell a lesson
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/6/19/18691735/ta-nehisi-coates-mitch-mcconnell-reparations-history-racism-slavery

Slave Owners Given Compensation for losing slaves
https://newsone.com/3012856/did-you-know-us-govt-paid-reparations-to-slave-owners/

McConnell and Nehishi Coates
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/danny-glover-ta-nehisi-coates-testify-in-house-hearing-for-reparations-62254661921 





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