Why haven't African-Americans ever received reparations for slavery? Many African-Americans believe they should be compensated for the all the unpaid labor, and suffering that their ancestors went thru during American slavery.
The Jewish people received reparations from the Germans for the holocaust during WW2. The Japanese people received reparations from the US govt for being locked in internment camps during WW2 also. Doesn't the enslavement of one's ancestors entitle a person to reparations?
Name me some black people who used to be slaves............. if any are alive........ maybe the government can give those specific people the reparations like those that were given to people whose lives were ruined by WW2.
As for those whose ancestors were slaves, welfare for life and affirmative action hiring where someone gets a job due to his/her skin color rather than qualification for the job............is certainly reparation for the snubs because of skin color.
The descendants of slaves enjoy a far richer life and far better life expectations than their people who were not brought to America that still live in squalor and starvation and gangland situations in Africa now so reparations have been made here - maybe not in dollars handed over but in other ways.
BTW........ those receiving reparations after WW2 were actually impacted..........not the great great grand children of those impacted.
Black people demanding reparations in the form of some monetary grant have a lot of chutzpah. It's shameful that they don't recognize real reparations that are not in the form of a dollar amount but in the hope, like all other Americans, that they can live a good life and maybe even become our President one day. African slaves in America, I believe, would have thanked God for such reparations.
