Report: Mitch McConnell found to be the direct descendant of 2 slave owners

Slavery was not that long ago... and the Jim Crow era that followed still set up a society that tried to keep black people down at every turn. Denying them loans while giving white people loans. Forcing blacks to live in crime ridden areas. Even today it’s obvious to see that mostly black schools barely get any funding. Once you do the research it’s clear that there are far more hurdles for black people to jump through than white people, on average.

Basically since the founding of the country the system has been designed to keep black people from advancing to the status that most whites enjoy. Reparations are just a small way of trying to correct that. The specifics can be worked out

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