¶ … reparation being paid to descendants of African America slaves is certainly not a new argument, either for or against. The world is full of people who in black and white see the need for reparations, be they financial or otherwise. To many, the ideals or affirmative action and other civil rights reforms are a form of reparations. Yet, the question is often raised as to why the rest of the culture should pay for a mistake made by a small percentage of the U.S. population, more than one hundred years ago. Additionally, within tort theory states that the federal government had the power to abolish slavery and yet did not and it therefore owes for damages. It is clear, without a doubt that something is owed to the descendants of the African-American Slaves, yet the question has always been who should pay and how much.
" ... The government is strictly liable for the damage caused by slavery because protecting this institution is analogous to carrying on activities for which tort law imposes strict liability. Fourth, we might argue that the government is at least liable to the extent that it could have abolished slavery in some peaceful, legal, and orderly fashion, by, for example, a program of compensating slave owners."
Yet it is also clear the U.S. federal government was not the only entity capable of the abolition of slavery, so should be only partly responsible for damages.
It is arguable that individuals, by action and by collective vote could have abolished slavery and individual states could also have abolished slavery, within their own constitutional amendment.
Other situations of remote similarity where reparations were owed, such as the those paid to Japanese-American's wrongly interned during WWII are different in the sense that the Federal government was soley responsible for the decisions made to evacuate and incarcerate the individuals involved. While in the case of the African-Americans there were many entities associated with decisions to capture and enslave African-Americans. There is a seemingly endless list of corporate and international players...
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Rogerian style arguing for the stand that reparation should be paid, or is owed by the United States Government for the African-Americans, the descendants of the African slaves. It has 5 sources. Government should not pay or owe financial reparations to the descendants of African slaves for the impact of slavery. The stand taken by the writer is for the reparations that should be paid or are owed by the
But that doesn't really change the history or the reality of any event. Emancipation should have been our first concern but fortunately it was not even one of the main concerns let alone the first one. Lincoln along with other political heavyweights were more interested in appeasing the South and various efforts were made to please the Southern elite since secession was an imminent possibility. So for various political and
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