Mitch McConnell Is Against Reparations Because 'We' Already Elected a Black President

Thank you, Mitch McConnell, for electing our first black president.

Mitch McConnell told a reporter that there’s no need for reparations for slavery, because “no one currently alive was responsible for that”—even though slavery’s repercussions are still present today... and immigrants have experienced discrimination too... which has nothing to do with unpaid labor during chattel slavery. But McConnell’s most baffling justification of his anti-reparations stance was, “we elected an African-American president.” One, LOL.

President Trump says that ICE will be arresting and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants starting next week. He is, predictably, giddy. [In other Trump news, he has no regrets over saying the Central Park Five should be executed, despite DNA evidence that exonerates them.

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