Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says slavery reparations are not a 'good idea'

Mitch McConnell says he opposed reparations for descendants of slaves, because no one 'currently alive was responsible for that.'

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he opposed reparations for descendants of slaves, because no one"currently alive was responsible for that."

"We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation, by electing an African American president," he said.

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