30K views · 399 reactions | Author Ta-Nehisi Coates on Sen. Mitch McConnell saying reparations aren’t a “good idea” because “none of us currently living are responsible”: “[If] you want the good — the day off on President’s Day, you want to cook out on the Fourth of July ... you take the bad with it.” "We have no problem claiming our ties to the past when they credit us." abcn.ws/2CcjBVI | The View | Facebook

Why reparations matter. What are your thoughts? What kind of reparations should we receive? Cash payments, free college? Land grants? This is what white people have received through various programs throughout the history of this country that we were denied. | Constance Carter