"You know, I found myself once again in the same position as President Obama. We both oppose reparations. And we both are the descendants of slave holders."
— @senatemajldr McConnell https://t.co/ZrP5BQZbvL
h/t @netouhey pic.twitter.com/E6Dg6diuBU
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) July 9, 2019
Cocaine Mitch strikes again!
Via Daily Wire:
Late Monday night, NBC News published an “exclusive” revealing that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves. The article ties the so-called revelation to McConnell’s opposition to reparations for the descendants of slaves.
NBC spent a great amount of time digging through ancestry century-old census records to trace McConnell’s history and find the slave owners.
“The two great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, owned a total of at least 14 slaves in Limestone County, Alabama — all but two of them female, according to the county ‘Slave Schedules’ in the 1850 and 1860 censuses,” NBC reported.
At Tuesday afternoon’s Senate leadership press conference, McConnell was predictably asked about the report.
“You know, I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama,” McConnell said. “We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners.”