Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Criticizes McConnell’s Comments About Slavery Reparations

Responding to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s remark that he did not think it a good idea to pay “reparations for something that happened 150 years ago,” author Ta-Nehisi Coates said while slavery ended before McConnell’s time, what he characterized as the “inheritance of slavery” did not.