An Open Letter To Mitch McConnell

Ebony Edwards-Ellis
5 min readJul 10, 2019
Mitch McConnell

Dear Mitch McConnell:

Last night, you publicly admitted that you are a descendant of slaveholders. Seeing that you are a white man from Kentucky, a former slave state, this wasn’t at all surprising. What did have me scratching my head, though, was your decision to remind everyone that Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, was also a descendant of slave-holders.

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Ebony Edwards-Ellis

Author of "Former First Lady" and "Memoir of a Royal Consort." Twitter provocateur, aspiring shut-in, and newly minted Roosevelt Islander.