McConnell nails it on reparations con game

Just as the "fake news" hits a new low, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell absolutely nailed them and the outrageous reparations con game that Democrats are playing to buy more African-American votes with your tax dollars.

Incredibly a news reporter actually asked Sen. McConnell if the fact that one of his great, great grandfathers owned slaves in the early 1800s changed his position on reparations. Can you imagine being held accountable for something one of your great, great grandfathers did almost 200 years ago? That's immoral insanity. But Sen. McConnell nailed it when he said that he happens to share President Obama's position against reparations even though one of Obama's great, great grandfathers also owned slaves.

The idea of reparations is an insult to the 600,000 Americans who died and the 1.2 million Americans who were wounded in the Civil War to free the slaves in 1865. America has paid its reparations with its blood and treasure.

Virtually every nation on Earth has practiced slavery at one time or another. Should we all pay reparations to each other? After all, 13% of slaves in America were owned by free African-American plantation owners and several Native American tribes owned Black slaves, too.

This reparation con game is a new low for Democrats that stokes hatred about something that Americans gave their blood and treasure to end over 154 years ago. Hopefully African-American voters will view this Democrat con game with outrage and celebrate the lowest unemployment in U.S. history that Trump's and the GOP tax cuts have delivered to them, Hispanics, Asians and women. Jobs are freedom, not reparations.

Randy Rossi

Grayslake