Why do the descendants of the Japanese kept in interment camps get reparation, but not the descendants of?

Question

African slaves?

Reparation- the making of amends for wrong or injury done

No Peaches. I forgot one word. Big deal.

You're the one who should take an English lesson considering that you can't capitalize propper nouns and you don't use propper grammar.

No, no relatives of mine are Japanese or black.

Answer 1

The reparations were payed to those DIRECTLY affected by the interment. As far as slavery goes, if Billy Bobs grand dad owned Leroys grand dad, then Leroys grand dad is more than welcome to dig up Billy Bobs grand dad and sue him. Leroy wasn't directly affected in any adverse way and Billy Bob don't owe his sorry a** s***. What somebody did a few hundred years ago isn't our fault, nor is it our problem, except to see that it doesn't happen again. To blacks, whites, asians or anybody else, because all of our ancestors have been enslaved by someone at some point in history. The Irish, Native Americans, Russians, Brits, and so on just don't keep bellyaching about it. Next moronic question please.

Answer 2

KesoKram you are ignorant. Read history before you make dumb statements. Ricky, you are ignorant because Dave Chappele was making fun of the view that non- whites have and what they believe we would do with the money. Also all races have been enslaved, whites were slaves first. ( Read your history, no not the S**t they teach in school, read some ancient books, if you have the mental compacity. What people don't realize is that civilization came from Africa( Egypt) I believe that blacks have accepted western culture, so its too late for reperations. People always have the concept that blacks are not educated, thats funny because I'm the only one that hasn't graduated from college in my family. Don't believe the hype, blacks are better off than they potray in the media. Funny how ricky says education would help, well whats your education, because obviously you don't read, because if you did, you would take back all of the stupid sh** you said. Remember knowledge is power. And to Punk A g....there is a memorial for Holucost victims...a form of a reperation....

Answer 3

The reason for this unfortunate chapter in American history is that Japanese Americans were in most cases innocent citizens of the United States who were incarcerated like criminals simply because of their nationality. In that case, I think reparation by our government is appropriate because it was government policy that implemented the crime in the first place.
In the case of African Americans, their unfortunate situation was caused by in most part private citizens - not directly an act of government. In their case, I think unless the ACTUAL PEOPLE AFFECTED by the crime as well as the ACTUAL PLANTATION OWNERS are involved in the reparation process, innocent people would be paying for the sins of others. That to me seems as unjust as stealing these people away from their lands and homes in the first place!
Simply throwing money at people isn't the answer, anyway. Native Americans were placed on reservations against their will. (Sorry, I qualify as one myself and prefer the word "Indian", as most do but I'll be politically correct so people don't whine) The government then developed a guilty conscience about what they had done, started throwing money at the problem, and look what has happened there! There are still many problems, but some of the tribes are beginning to reach a state of autonomy and independence BASICALLY DUE TO THEIR OWN INITIATIVE. There is still a long way to go, unfortunately...
Thank goodness for gaming and other money-making venues on these pieces of land that no one wanted until they found valuable resources, huh? And education doesn't hurt, either...I'll quit here; I'm getting worked up. Sorry for the digression, but it's a sore spot with me! :-)

Answer 4

Do you actually mean that you can't figure thatr one out yourself ?
The Japanese were interned because they were neisis. That means that they had duel citizenship. Because they wouldn't renounce their Japanese citizenship, they were suspect. The ones paid were the actual ones who were jailed.
No let's see about the slaves. First, they were not ordered to be slaves by the government ( the Japanese were). If anything is owed to them, it's owed by the plantation owners, now the taxpayers.
My suggestion would be that if you have a relative who you think was cheated by a slave owner, get all your papers in order showing the number of days worked, the value of the type of work done. Subtract the value of the room and board provided, and present a bill to the owners of the plantation where your relative lived.
Perhaps a good lawyer could put a lien on the property.
The vast majority of the people trace their ancestry to Europe long after slavery was no more. They sure don't owe anything to decendence of slaves. In fact, the people of Europe would gladly have traded places with an American slave. To a plantation owner, a slave was valuable property. To the Noblemen of Europe, human life had no valve at all.

Answer 5

that's because property was unlawfully confiscated and resold for profit by the federal government for no reason other than the fact these people were of Japanese descent nothing more and nothing less. And the African slaves in this country were sold as property and therefore lost "nothing" of value,also it would be hard pressed to determine whom was actually entitled to monies due to immigration from the Caribbean and other African nations since the end of slavery

Answer 6

More accurate details were kept in the by the government in the 6 short years the US was involved in WWII from 1939-1945, than were kept by embarrassed plantation owners during the 300 years of slavery from 1600- 1900.

Answer 7

It's a very complex question. Keep in mind that the nisei interned in the 1940s received very limited reparations only in the early 1980s.

I think one factor has to be, of course, the enormity of the impact of trans-Atlantic slavery on the development of the US national experience. We are talking about one of the single greatest crimes against humanity in history. To even contemplate reparation for slavery would necessitate considering an expense of unprecedented magnitude.

Now, it would be wrong and irrational to diminish the horror of Manzanar, Heart Mountain, Minidoka, etc. (the Japanese internment camps). They were brutal, oppressive, and unjust, and the impact of them on the development of Asian American history and Japanese American history in particular has been enormous. If you want to better understand the experience, I encourage you to read the Japanese American record of that experience (other than Mike Masaoka's self-serving revisionist history *They Call Me Moses*--ignore that one). Check out John Okada's *No-No Boy*, for example, or read the excerpts from the interrogations of real-life no-no boys in the book *The Big Aiiieee!*

But the scale of African slavery, in terms of number of people involved, length of time, and number of present-day descendants, dwarfs even the cruel reality of the Japanese internment camps. These were *centuries* of oppression, brutality, rape, torture, forced labor, and murder, with *millions* of present-day descendants. Imagine the financial impact alone.

But the greater challenge to the US is that this discussion itself would bring out of the shadows the reality of the American historical experience--the twin holocausts of Native American genocide and African American slavery. Alongside the "official" American self-image as the bastion of democracy, which is not totally without some basis in truth, there is the competing reality that the US has perpetrated some of the most horrific unpunished crimes against humanity in history.

In a social order that remains very racist, it is difficult to even have an intelligent discussion of the need for appropriate EEO/AA programs. How, then, to have a rational conversation about the economic imperatives of reparations for slavery?

You see what I mean---the issue is not about whether either of these was deserving of reparations, as they clearly both are. The issue is what people would have to confront to have either of these conversations. In some ways, the real surprise is not that there is no reparation for descendants of slavery yet--the real surprise is that it took only 35 years to get something small for survivors of internment camps.

Answer 8

Because up to this day they still think that what they did to my ancestors was justified and nothing to be ashamed of.

Anyway, they could never compensate us the descendants of the kidnapped people...that would mean giving up the lifestyle they have become accustomed to.

Answer 9

Maybe because the Japanese were actually in camps. African slave descendants are just that... descendants.

Oh, by the way, Colombianita, it's spelled "proper", not "propper".

Answer 10

UMMM....neither do Holocaust survivors