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White Americans has profited from education, life experiences, riches that were handed down by their ancestors. As well as African Americans have been handed down the hardship of race related issues, poverty and the unknown history of their past. African Americans have constantly been inflicted with the social status of their low income level in contrast with that of White Americans. Perhaps it is due to uneven distribution of economic resources. America should be ashamed for their mistreatment of a race that did not ask or even desired to reside in this country. Yet they still wear their ugly face of racism, discriminate, and segregate African Americans, as if the Blacks were at fault. Americans may argue Blacks shouldn't be complaining, whining, and to pull themselves up from their boot straps. Well Martin Luther King once said "White America wants us to pull ourselves up from our boot straps, but we don't have any boots".
The U.S. government has a moral responsibility to this race of people to compensate, from which they denied their heritage, religion, family, and culture. America alleges they are a religious based country and their faith resides in God. The bible states in Exodus 22: "If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep." This country consistently contradicts itself in the way they want to be perceived. If America has any belief in God, they should feel an obligation to compensate the African American descendants of slave ancestors. .
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White Americans may argue that the country did enough when it passed the Civil Rights Act in 1960. They may also state America has enough resources and equal opportunity for each individual of every race to succeed. However, there is a huge wealth gap in social status among blacks and whites; because of oppression, discrimination and racism toward the modern day contemporary black.
"The case for Reparations", by Charles J. ... The author is obviously an avid supporter for the case of reparations. ... The case for reparations is not all that recent. ... Reparations become a tricky argument for anybody to debate. ... If a trust fund is set up where only those with claims can receive reparations, my question is what is kind of claim would receive reparations? ...
The conflict for reparations first emerged at the conclusion of the Civil War, when President Andrew Johnson reneged on Union Army Gen. ... The reparations battle was never under the microscopic eye of society until recently. ... Such as: "Germany paid reparations to Israel for the crimes of the Nazi Holocaust. ... "Slave Reparations." 2002 http://www.jdhauser.com/Slave%20Reparations.htm. Online. 7 Feb. 2003 "What's the Legal Basis for the Reparations Lawsuit?" ...
Reparations or Not? ... Finally, giving reparations would only cause more problems in the future for our country. ... We have to remember that this issue is bringing in a new aspect of reparations for anyone. It is not reparations, it is reparations for descendants. ... "Those reparations were generally paid to actually victims, not their distant descendants" (Northeast). ...
On a more legal level, slavery reparations stray from the personal demoralization that Williams mentions of being a black and wanting slavery reparations. ... How would it [reparations law] define the beneficiary class? ... In a college run advertisement about why reparations are a bad idea, he writes that "reparations have already been paid' in the form of welfare, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Acts, and racial preferences- (qtd. in "Slavery Reparations- par. 4). ... There is no justification as to who will get reparations. ... The Bill makes the most sense in the fight for repa...
Slavery and Reparations Despite the fact that slavery officially ended over one hundred years ago, there remains discussions of owing slaves" families reparations. ... White's article, "Don't Waste Your Breath," he argues against reparations. On the contrary, Vincene Verdun's article, "To Right an Old Wrong: Potential Defendants for Slavery Reparations are Still Around," defends and supports reparations. ... Even though White and Horowitz have different viewpoints on the reparations issue, White applauds Horowitz for making reparations a story worth fighting for (574). ... He ...
The African Reparations Movement is the leader for this argument, they believe that the country of Africa should receive reparations for slavery. ... David Horowitz, in a unpublicized paper on reparations, states that Americans have indeed paid reparations to African-Americans by giving their lives in the Civil War. ... Because people do not understand reparations, the reparations movement will not progress. ... When I began, reparations to African-Americans were the only reparations I knew of. The country of Africa must receive reparations. ...
African Americans Should Receive Slave Reparations. The issue of slave reparations has been a controversial topic for U.S. citizens for several years now. ... The United states government has paid reparations to other groups that were mistreated. ... Reparations should be payed to the descendants of African American slaves. ... There are many excellent reasons to support reparations for Blacks in the United States. ...
Reparations are a promise to keep. ... Others forms of reparations include formal apologies and changes in government policy. ... Today, reparations more often involve government's payments to people it has mistreated. ... This agreement became a model for later reparations demands (Copper). ... Should only the white descendants of slaveholders have to finance these reparations? ...
Reparations are a promise to keep. ... Others forms of reparations include formal apologies and changes in government policy. ... Today, reparations more often involve government's payments to people it has mistreated. ... This agreement became a model for later reparations demands (Copper). ... Should only the white descendants of slaveholders have to finance these reparations? ...
