When slavery ended in America, reparations WERE paid: Lincoln signed a bill giving slaveowners who stayed loyal to the union $300 per freed slave for their financial loss. https://t.co/MbIt7nBerX Any descendants of those who made war on the United States would have no such claim. https://t.co/GBw31gTwFV

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 24, 2019