Ta-Nehisi Coates laid out a rebuttal to Sen Mitch McConnell’s argument that reparations are not needed. He laid out that black people suffered & continue to suffer impacts of slavery & that McConnell should essentially know better since he was alive for some of the worst of it.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 19, 2019

Man. I miss TNC on Twitter. I hate that this issue, which he laid out the clearest argument for, is what chased him off almost all platforms.