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Typical in that he is a descendent of shave loaders on his mother's side. does mitch mcconnell really want to talk about if you're looking at the single largest grouping of people who are descendants of lav holders you would be looking at african-americans because of the institutionalization you have rape of black women during slavery. and so most of us could say the same that we're descendants of slave holders. >> you're observing a historical fact that if you go down this road of ancestry, black americans. >> that's right. >> have to put it in mr. mcconnell's terminology the descendents of s...

. tonight, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell comparing him to president obama. saying his great grandfather owned least 14 slaves. >> you know, i find myself once again in the same position as president obama. we beth oppose represent arations and both are the descendants of slave holders. >> in 2007 multiple media outlets reported president obama's afrptss on his mother's side were slave owners a. and obama did oppose repairations recently as 2016. a adviser to mitch kpaunl and keith boykin served as a aid in the clinton white house. what's your reaction to kmaun comparing himself as a...

It's hard for us to actually compensate people who were directly impacted by some of the things that transpired. one can certainly look at the last couple of decades and look at the 1970s and '60s and ee polks when bad things happened to african-americans in the country. but the question is what do we do about the bad things? it isn't obvious there is an easy straightforward solution for parsing out some sort of compensation to people based on how much they've been injured on account of blackness. what do sasha and malia what are they entitled to being the descendants of slave holders and slav...

People were promised 40 acres and a mule. andrew johnson overturned the agreement. instead compensating former slaveholders. reconstruction that period right after the war was ended prematurely in 1877. and throughout the 20th century, black people were denied voting rights through jim crow laws. black veterans were denied full g.i. bill benefits. black homeowners were denied equal housing through something called redlining. and black americans were terrorized. more than 4,400 people were lynched. in 2016 the median black american family net worth was $17,600. that means half of all families h...

Ideology and that is white supremacy which we live with today. the other reason he is wrong is did you know that for example, in 1862 the u.s. actually pass add bill that paid slave holders in washington, d.c. repairations for having freed slaves. and each person was given -- worth the value of $300 which today when i looked it up is about $7,000 per person. that money came from the federal government and paid out to each slave holder. so we have seen moments where repairations were given except it always goes the other direction. >> cam he'll. >> we're talk about a kemp rather context that wa...