Reparations

It happened for descendants of Jewish people involved in their Holocaust. It happened for Japanese people placed in internment camps after world war I. It also happened for Aboriginal Americans who suffered from the colonization of the Americas. However, it never happened, and arguably never will happen, for African Americans. The subject is reparations, and whether or not African Americans should receive them for slavery and the effect it has had on our race. SorrelBody …

…and overcome without reparations, reparations will not solve all of our problems. Those problems will be solved with our own efforts. It would be impossible to offer something worth the value of lost lives and lost happiness. The reparations are more of a gesture than a solution. This gesture would be a step to lessen racial conflicts and tension. If you have any thoughts or feelings concerning this issue or this text, please send them.