Amazing how it always comes to magic money... Everything will be just fine if you just hand out money...
The compensation for interment camp survivors was for property lost while they were locked up in Owens Valley. The compensation from Germany was for property lost when Jews had to flee with just what they could carry. To compare either of these payouts to a practice outlawed 150 years ago is ludicrous.
But of course, that doesn’t matter, magic money will arrive and every person who identifies as being black in the last ten years who can claim a slave ancestor (with what documents, I have to wonder, since so much was lost during the civil war and other wars, natural causes and insurrections) will finally get the justice that their ancestors deserved..? Or more accurately, what will happen is that a few hundred ethnic studies doctorates who can’t get a job other than at Starbucks will finally have a cushy government position while they ‘study and investigate’ the issue for half a century.
I think I’ll start marking “black” on all documents from now on. LOL
Correct. Property taken from Japanese-Americans during WWII was confiscated and sold off by the Federal Reserve Board. These people lost practically everything they owned. Furthermore, when Japanese-Americans vacated property in San Francisco's Japantown, it was filled with black Americans brought in from southern states to man the local shipyards. Those blacks directly benefitted from the sorrow suffered by removal of Japanese-Americans. Half of Japantown in SF became a black ghetto known as the Fillmore District and the Western Addition. Japanese-Americans returning from camps after the war erected a shopping mall as a barrier between what remained of Japanese and the black ghetto. Why can't the blacks improve their lot without taking from others?