| No Images? Click here   Ta-Nehisi Coates Calls Out Mitch McConnell At House Hearing On Slavery ReparationsWriter Ta-Nehisi Coates called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday for his claim that it didn’t make sense to pay reparations for something that occurred more than a lifetime ago.“This rebuttal proffers a strange theory of governance: that American accounts are somehow bound by the lifetime of its generations,” Coates told a House panel discussing the possibility of reparations for slavery. He noted that the United States paid pensions to heirs of Civil War soldiers into this century and continues to honor treaties hundreds of years old. “We recognize our lineage as a generational trust, as inheritance, and the real dilemma posed by reparations is just that: a dilemma of inheritance.”McConnell argued against reparations when he spoke to reporters in a press conference on Tuesday.“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,” he said. “I think we’re always a work in progress in this country, but no one currently alive was responsible for that, and I don’t think we should be trying to figure out how to compensate for it.” People before power. We think regular people’s stories are important – and we think you do too.  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?President Donald Trump officially launched his 2020 reelection campaign in Orlando on Tuesday. The event attracted extremists, prompted a newspaper endorsement of anybody but Trump, forced Twitter to question what year it is, and failed to impress at least one former GOP congressman.Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” has predicted how the race to become the Democratic nominee in the 2020 election will play out. Matthews suggested on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will “blow out” Sanders “pretty early on.”Former Vice President Joe Biden told a roomful of well-heeled donors on Tuesday night that he would not “demonize” the rich if he’s elected president in the 2020 election. “I need you very badly,” he told the group.
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