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Second, the case for black reparations moves beyond the historical harm of slavery. The case for black reparations becomes even more salient because present-day African-Americans suffer from on-going injustice. To be sure, slavery anchors the claim to repair: it has been estimated that the present-day value of expropriated slave-labor ranges to trillions of dollars, depending the rate of interest. Importantly, the emancipated slaves were neither compensated for this toil, nor treated as equal citizens upon their emancipation. Instead, freed slaves and their descendants were subjected to the Jim Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation...
...state-sponsored” crimes of the Nazi regime. Likewise, the U.S. government admitted its complicit nature in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 for the Japanese interment camps in this country during World War II, and found that with governmental culpability comes the need for repair. Black reparations models its claim on the group components of the Jewish and Japanese reparations. Germany paid money to the Jewish Claims Conference, and the Civil Liberties Act contained an “inheritance provision” that paid money to descendants of Japanese internees. Moreover, through the U.S. government?...
...words of Frederick Douglass, “if there is no struggle, there is no progress.” The recent litigation for black reparations is part of the larger movement to examine, reconcile and repair the past of America’s un-remedied injustices. This is not a black problem or a white problem, it is an American problem, and it demands an American solution. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “we seek not just equality as a right and theory, but equality as a fact and equality as a result...
...shares of stock worth a dime apiece. And every week Stack held "huddles" in which everyone from top managers to janitors pored over financial data. Those who couldn't read the data got training. That helped them make day-to-day decisions such as whether a mechanic should repair an engine's connecting rod or install a new one. He could compare his wage, $26 an hour, with the cost of a new rod, $45, and determine that it was worth repairing the old one only if he could do it in 90 minutes or less. "It's about truly...
...that [gay] lifestyle” as if it were one, well-defined way of life. In reality, queer individuals have as many varied lifestyles as others. Nor is queerness a disease warranting “reparative therapy.” We do not need regeneration, fixing or repair...