Watch: Ta-Nehisi Coates' Full Opening Statement at House Hearing on Reparations

Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of “The Case for Reparations,” testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee during a hearing on whether the United States should consider compensation for the descendants of slaves. He delivered a rebuttal to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s comments that “no one currently alive was responsible for that.”