Quote:So the apology wasn't good enough because there wasn't financial gain? Are you freaking serious? No one owes you a damn thing. No one. If your GOVERNMENT- your BLACK PRESIDENT- doesn't feel like it should pay reparations take it up with them. Where was your President with his phone and pen back then? Has he been so busy playing golf the last 8 years he couldn't see to this? I guess he's not your man as much as you wanted him to be.  You should have been petitioning him through your Senator or House Representative instead of complaining about it to everyone else. 

 

I now completely understand where you are coming from and have nothing more to say to you on this subject. 

 

Based on the legal precedent, no it's not good enough. It takes a combination of the Congress and the President to pass and execute laws. Congress was dominated by Republicans whom would likely not care about this issue. I cannot blame Obama. In fact, the 2008 resolution was drafted by a Democrat...it would have never been brought up by modern day Republicans. Again, I ask what was the rationale by Reagan for using American tax dollars to pay reparations to the Japanese descendants? The internment camps only lasted 2 and half years, compared to 150+ of Slavery/Jim Crow/Institutionalized racism. 

 

Maybe because if you extrapolate it out....the financial cost would be quite significant....IF reparations were based purely on money and we used the numbers the Japanese descendants received ($20,000).

 

13 million blacks * $20,000 = $260,000,000. That's TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY BILLION DOLLARS.

 

 

 

 

 

Senate Votes to Compensate Japanese-

Quote:<p style="font-size:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);">WASHINGTON, April 20— Acting to redress what many Americans now regard as a historic injustice, the Senate today voted overwhelmingly to give $20,000 and an apology to each of the Japanese-Americans who were driven from their homes and sent to internment camps in World War II.

<p style="font-size:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The vote was 69 to 27 and followed an emotional debate. The bill's principal advocate, Senator Spark M. Matsunaga, a Japanese-American from Hawaii, almost wept as, recalling the suffering of internees, he related the story of an elderly man who crossed a fence to retrieve a ball for his grandchild and was machine-gunned to death.


 

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Germany had no problem paying reparations to descendants of the Holocaust. So again back to the original post...why is there such a problem when it comes to the descendants of Slaves?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparation...st_Germany

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