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In America, descendents of the enslaved. Same people who paid the interred Japanese Americans.
I don't think I ever heard that the interred Japanese Americans were compensated for their inconvenience.
The Japanese received some compensation in 1988 for lost property from 1942 to 1945.
The Japanese situation was different. The time gap was 43 years. Compensation was given to the actual Japanese who were interred, not their descendants who were never interred.
So many of your answers only give a part of the story. You seem too smart to be this misinformed. You seem very purposeful.
Congress provided $38 million in reparations in 1948 and forty years later paid an additional $20,000 to each surviving individual who had been detained in the camps
This is easy to research.
Congress provided $38 million in reparations in 1948 and forty years later paid an additional $20,000 to each surviving individual who had been detained in the camps
14 percent of USA population is "black"
Black person is anyone who can benefit from affirmative action or DEI
But reparations are for grievances. Simply fitting a racial category doesn't qualify a person for reparation of the grievances of some people who fit the same racial category. For instance, someone who immigrated to the USA from an African country in the last couple decades doesn't have the same grievances as people who came here involuntarily in previous centuries.
descendents of slaves
grievance is my ancestors were slaves therefore I should receive compensation
There are many black people who are not the descendants of slaves, or who are not the descendants of American slavery.
non descendants would not be eligible for reparations
Why do you so over simplify? This is just wrong. Blacks from Africa, Caribbean, Europe do not count in American reparations and they are not what is meant by Black in these discussions.
This discussion is extremely timely with a presidential candidate of Jamaican descent claiming to be "black" but if anyone the British owe reparations to Jamaicans, no? Etc.
If we are talking trans-Atlantic African slave trade era then of course, Brazil, Jamaica, Bermuda, Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Etc.
Kamala Harris claims to be Black, but would not meet, and would not claim U.S. reparations per requirements as typically outlined.
What do you mean "black people" and who will pay these reparations?