The stain of slavery was not just inked in bloodshed, but in policies that have disadvantaged African Americans for generations Cory Booker“I am not here in anger. The idea of reparations has begun to develop a life of its own amid growing alarm about the racial direction in which America is moving. That idea of black inferiority was codified not just in the culture but in laws themselves, and persists powerfully today. Coates launched into a devastating takedown of Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader in the US Senate who on Tuesday pre-empted the reparations debate by outright dismissing it. Among the other celebrated witnesses was Danny Glover, the star of the Lethal Weapon movies and a longtime reparations advocate.

Source: The Guardian June 19, 2019 17:56 UTC