The new carpetbaggers would have the acres and a mule recipients drained dry in 90 days.
Republican president Lincoln proposed reparations for freed slaves. Democrats opposed it.
I think all of us civilians put in Japanese Prison Camps during WW II anywhere in the world need reparations, too. We all have suffered physical ailments and mental problems consequent to that experience, loss of property, and many lost family members. I think all Jews who spent their WW II experience in Axis POW camps need compensation as much as we who spent that time, years of time, in the Japanese camps.
I think there may have been some compensation for the Jewish people, but I never have even received an apology for the years my family and I and all the others spent eating lugou and getting thinner and thinner. The older women with severe osteoporosis have not received help ...and the list goes on.
Meanwhile very few Americans (or their offspring) who stayed stateside during that time even realize today the Japanese had POW camps for civilians.
And don’t think for a moment a similar scenario can’t be played out here in the USA. Easily and just as silently.