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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel

(This post was last modified: 09-29-2016, 11:33 AM by Solid Snake.)

Quote:2008

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...d=93059465

 

On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crow laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society.

Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, drafted the resolution. Cohen explains the apology's long journey for Congressional approval and the significance of its timing.
 

 

 

 

Quote:In 1988, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate more than 100,000 people of <b>Japanese </b>descent who were incarcerated in <b>internment camps</b>during World War II. The legislation offered a formal apology and paid out $20,000 in compensation to each surviving victim. http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2...nt-redress
The caveat of the entire 2008 resolution is that the mea culpa (acknowledgement of the wrongs of Slavery and Jim Crow) could NOT be used as legal rationale for reparations, financial or otherwise.

 

I have a problem with that. I argue that aside from the near genocide of the Native Americans, the century-plus of institutionalized racism towards blacks has been one of the greatest sins of this country. The timing, coming after close to two centuries of mistreatment of blacks and on the heels of this nation electing it's first African American president are also very interesting. It's like either a husband and wife leaving relationship counseling and saying the problem is fixed. Chapter closed! No its not.

 

By the way what was Reagan's rationale for tax funded financial reparations to the Japanese descendants? Did he feel an obligation to help them overcome their apparent marginalization?


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