$1.6 billion reparations paid by U.S. government

[posterchild336]

Remember this when they try to play that "well Asians and Jews are succeeding, so why arent blacks?"....Both Asians and Jews received considerable reparations for their ordeals, and those were for specific and finite epochs in history. Blacks were enslaved for centuries, and segregated for close to a century, which made cruelty towards blacks intertwined into the fabric of this country.

that is true to..but in comman day, one reason why asians and jews flourish is because they always pull together resources and support one another...No matter what country you go to its not uncommon to see a house with like 5 or 6 asian families pooling incomes and running a business and living thrifty, then giving counterparts that move over the same support. The black community refuses to do this though, if we put our disposable incomes in collectively and supported each others businesses the community would really thrive

 

[filial_piety]

.....which came out to be $20,000 per person, to Japanese Americans for what it deemed it's wrong decision to detain them in internment camps from February 19,1942-December 17,1944.

Dillon S. Myer who was the director of the camps they were held in stated the Japanese Americans had grown increasingly depressed, and overcome with feelings of helplessness and personal insecurity.

It is said that many of the detainees lost irreplaceable personal property due to the restrictions on what could be taken into the camps along with a lot of their belongings being lost and destroyed in governmental storage.

$0 billion dollars paid to "African-Americans" for the holocaust they inflicted on us tho.

Keep in mind that the recepients of those reparations were paid directly to those who were victims of those atrocities.

 

[Reign X]

Guess you've never heard of the ONLY TWO times in history a Nuclear Weapon has been used...

What does that have to do with the original quote? Which was comparing the Jews and Japanese concentration camps. Jews get more sympathy because they were getting killed in their camps. If you HAD to pick one camp to be in, wonder which one you would take.

 

[beenz]

Link please

yeah it's funny they cry about the holocaust while they had concentration camps for Japanese folk right here.

this doesn't need a link, cuz its true. I actually knew about this YEARS ago. the japanese that were put in the internment camps during WWII era were all paid out in the early 80's by the government.

and if they weren't alive, their descendents were paid out. the actor george takai from star trek has talked about it specifically saying he got a check like 30 years ago cuz he was in one of those camps as a kid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment_in_the_United_States#Reparations_and_redress

In 1980, Congress established the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) to study the matter. On February 24, 1983, the commission issued a report entitled Personal Justice Denied, condemning the internment as unjust and motivated by racism and xenophobic ideas rather than real military necessity.[117] The Commission recommended that $20,000 in reparations be paid to those Japanese Americans who had been victims of internment.



U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which granted reparations for the internment of Japanese Americans.
In 1988, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which had been sponsored by Representative Norman Mineta and Senator Alan K. Simpson – the two had met while Mineta was interned at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming – which provided redress of $20,000 for each surviving detainee, totaling $1.2 billion. The question of to whom reparations should be given, how much, and even whether monetary reparations were appropriate were subjects of sometimes contentious debate.[118]

On September 27, 1992, the Civil Liberties Act Amendments of 1992, appropriating an additional $400 million to ensure all remaining internees received their $20,000 redress payments, was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush, who also issued another formal apology from the U.S. government on December 7, 1991, on the very day of the 50th-Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack:

"In remembering, it is important to come to grips with the past. No nation can fully understand itself or find its place in the world if it does not look with clear eyes at all the glories and disgraces of its past. We in the United States acknowledge such an injustice in our history. The internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry was a great injustice, and it will never be repeated."

Some Japanese and Japanese Americans who were relocated during World War II received compensation for property losses, according to a 1948 law. Congress appropriated $38 million to meet $131 million of claims from among 23,000 claimants.[119] These payments were disbursed very slowly, the final disbursal occurring in 1965.[119] In 1988, following lobbying efforts by Japanese Americans, $20,000 per internee was paid out to individuals who had been interned or relocated, including those who chose to return to Japan. These payments were awarded to 82,210 Japanese Americans or their heirs at a cost of $1.6 billion; the program's final disbursement occurred in 1999.[13]

so not only did the japanese get reperations from our government, but they got an apology as well.

 

[Diondon]

this doesn't need a link, cuz its true. I actually knew about this YEARS ago. the japanese that were put in the internment camps during WWII era were all paid out in the early 80's by the government.

and if they weren't alive, their descendents were paid out. the actor george takai from star trek has talked about it specifically saying he got a check like 30 years ago cuz he was in one of those camps as a kid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment_in_the_United_States#Reparations_and_redress



so not only did the japanese get reperations from our government, but they got an apology as well.

We get told to forget about slavery, it was in the past

 

[Schmoove]

Why would the government give anything to a people who are gonna eventually take ....

Nah imma chill.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Also, think about animes and mangas like Akira...

Why is Tokyo always getting blown up in those movies and comics? Why are there so many of those movies were Japan is getting blown off the face of the planet?

Yep...it has to do with Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 

[WheresWallace]

Keep in mind that the recepients of those reparations were paid directly to those who were victims of those atrocities.

You're an idiot.

Slavery lasted over 400 years, most of the victims died by the time the shiit ended. How the fucck do you pay them back? Idiot.

Also, why do "Native Americans" get government subsidies...TIL THIS DAY? Were they direct victims? Moron? :thinking:

 

[Matt504]

Why would the government give anything to a people who are gonna eventually take ....

Nah imma chill.

finish the statement.

 

[JasonSJackson]

Yep which is why we need to demand our reparations.

It's past that point now tho

 

[Sandy_Cheeks]

Remember this when they try to play that "well Asians and Jews are succeeding, so why arent blacks?"....Both Asians and Jews received considerable reparations for their ordeals, and those were for specific and finite epochs in history. Blacks were enslaved for centuries, and segregated for close to a century, which made cruelty towards blacks intertwined into the fabric of this country.

Just reading this alone made my blood pressure rise. Shyt just made me mad
This country dont give a fukk, has never given a fukk , and will never give a fukk about blacks brehs

 

[Matt504]

You're an idiot.

Slavery lasted over 400 years, most of the victims died by the time the shiit ended. How the fucck do you pay them back? Idiot.

Also, why do "Native Americans" get government subsidies...TIL THIS DAY? Were they direct victims? Moron? :thinking:

they cut the Native American population down to an "acceptable number", even today in 2014 there are only about 5 million natives left.

there are roughly 40 million African Americans in America, the country would go broke trying to pay us reparations, Johnnie Cochran started looking into reparations for Black people and "suddenly died".

America would rather murder every single Black person in America before having to pay reparations to them.

"Johnnie Cochran, the famed O.J. Simpson attorney, has said on national television that he is now going to focus on his Reparations For Slavery lawsuit against the United States of America.Johnnie Cochran has assembled a ' Reparations Dream Team' of high powered trial lawyers to help him in this lawsuit, and liberal federal judges have already cost taxpayers in cities like Kansas City, Missouri and Yonkers, New York of billions of dollars to pay for their nonsensical rulings. A liberal federal judge could cost us taxpayers trillions of dollars more if Johnnie Cochran wins his Reparations lawsuit"



"Lawyers planning suit for African-American slave reparations (11/04/00)**



(Associated Press) — "A powerful group of civil rights and class-action lawyers who have won billions of dollars in court is preparing a lawsuit seeking reparations for American blacks descended from slaves.



"The project, called the Reparations Assessment Group, was confirmed by Harvard law professor Charles J. Ogletree and appears to be the most serious effort yet to get American blacks compensated for 244 years of legalized slavery. Lawsuits and legislation dating back to the mid-1800s have gone nowhere.



"We will be seeking more than just monetary compensation,'' Ogletree said. "We want a change in America. We want full recognition and a remedy of how slavery stigmatized, raped, murdered and exploited millions of Africans through no fault of their own.''



"Ogletree said the group, which includes famed attorney Johnnie Cochran, first met in July and will hold its fourth meeting in Washington D.C. later this month. "This country has never dealt with slavery. It is America's nightmare. A political solution would be the most sensible but I don't have a lot of faith that's going to happen. So we need to look aggressively at the legal alternative,'' Ogletree said.



Harvard's ultra-liberal Charles Ogletree indicated that the group's lawsuit will be directed against the federal government, state governments, corporations, and other institutions that allegedly have benefited from slave labor.



"Ogletree said the Reparation Assessment Group includes attorneys [Johnnie] Cochran and Alexander J. Pires Jr., who won a $1 billion settlement for black farmers who claimed discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Richard Scruggs, who won the $368.5 billion settlement for states against tobacco companies; Dennis C. Sweet III, who won a $400 million settlement in the "phen-fen'' diet drug case; and Willie E. Gary, who won a $500 million judgment against the Loewen Group Inc., the world's largest funeral home operators.



"Also in the group is Randall Robinson, president of the TransAfrica Forum, a think tank specializing in African, Caribbean and African-American issues. Robinson recently wrote the book "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks,'' which argues for reparations."



Supporters of the reparations boondoggle cite recent, largely irrelevant, noncomparable cases where groups have been compensated in cash for discrimination by governments. For example, the Reparations Support Group cites the $20,000 award granted by the U.S. to the Japanese-Americans who were interred in concentration camps in the U.S. during World War II. Reparations advocates fail to acknowledge that the Japanese-Americans who received the $20,000 award were direct "still living" victims of the government's discrimination. This is not the case in the proposed "slavery reparations" debacle. Many generations -- and trillions of dollars in welfare payments and minority set-asides and racial preferences in the U.S. -- have already been awarded to "blacks" in this country.



Many citizens and politicians also argue that it isn't fair for taxpayers and corporations who never owned slaves to be burdened with possible multibillion dollar settlements. (AP, via FoxNews, based on the Associated Press story 11/04/00 by Paul Shepard)"





THANK TO NIK FOR THE WORK .

 

[filial_piety]

You're an idiot.

Slavery lasted over 400 years, most of the victims died by the time the shiit ended. How the fucck do you pay them back? Idiot.

Also, why do "Native Americans" get government subsidies...TIL THIS DAY? Were they direct victims? Moron? :thinking:

This is why you can't discuss nothin with nikkas.

At no time did I even state that the discussion for reparations were unwarranted.

I clearly made a note that the reparations were paid directly to the victims....

But your over-emotional dumb nikka azz immediately flipped into huey Newton mode and can't make a lick of sense with your own ideas.

 

[Blackout]

It's past that point now tho

No it isnt.

Self imagined excuses is the only thing stopping us from getting it especially when we are only 13% of the population.

 

[mbewane]

What does that have to do with the original quote? Which was comparing the Jews and Japanese concentration camps. Jews get more sympathy because they were getting killed in their camps. If you HAD to pick one camp to be in, wonder which one you would take.

I wonder why gypsies, communists, slavs, gays, handicapped people and, uh, black people who were in the same camps are not getting that same sympathy