African American Reparation Research Paper

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One of the reasons in favor of reparations for slavery is the fact that African Americans created the wealth in the United States from the 1700s to the 1950s. For example, according to Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the government raked in millions of dollars in taxes on cotton alone, all whites – whether they were rich or poor, slave-holder or fervent abolitionist – benefited from slavery because the whole infrastructure of this nation was built on money made from it, directly or indirectly. Furthermore, Ken Lewis, a reparation researcher, proved that United States citizens even owe the success of the American Revolution to money generated by slavery in the colonies.
For an example, Robert Morris, who built his wealth …show more content…
Whenever the United States wronged ethnic groups, the government reprimanded them. At the end of World War II, Jews were rightfully given reparations from Germany for their Holocaust. The US government also awarded well-deserved reparations to Japanese Americans for this country's inhumane detention of them during World War II. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom renders the reparations for the Jews and Japanese Americans even included provisions for the descendants of the people harmed, not just the actual victims. The Constitutional Rights Foundation notes that the Supreme Court in 1980 ordered the federal government to pay eight Sioux Indian tribes $122 million to compensate for the illegal seizure of tribal lands in 1877. Then in 1988, Congress approved the payment of $1.25 billion to 60,000 Japanese-American citizens who had been interned in prison camps during World War II. Donna Lamb, a writer for reparations states in an article, “Tax dollars were used to pay Japanese Americans for something our government did before many of them were born, and to contribute to the building of the Jewish Holocaust Museum in our nation’s capital, which commemorates a hideous slaughter they themselves had no hand in? There is, by the way, no comparable museum in Washington, DC commemorating
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