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You can tell politics are heating up for the 2020 elections with new cries for paying black Americans reparations for the many years some of their ancestors were enslaved in the United States. It seems we don't hear much about this issue until elections are on the horizon.

I've seen some staggering figures into the trillions of dollars should such reparations come to fruition. But the bottom line is who should pay for those reparations.

U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has come under fire recently when it was learned his great, great grandfather owned 14 slaves.

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