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Reparations, pay up and shut up. (Original Post) randys1 Jul 2014 OP
It will Never Happen. bravenak Jul 2014 #1
I've been working on some of it. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2014 #2
Japanese Americans, WWII...internment camps, lost their property etc randys1 Jul 2014 #3
Ah, ok, that makes sense then. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2014 #4
The last of the interned Japanese-Americans already got their reparations 15 years ago BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #5
 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
1. It will Never Happen.
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 08:46 PM
Jul 2014

But it should. The nation would be better for it if we just redistributed all the wealth around and started over. From top to bottom. Reparations for the 99.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. I've been working on some of it.
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 09:13 PM
Jul 2014

Although mostly to NA. Anybody else that wants to help NA out can check out the link in my sig.

I'm also all for a massive public reparations program with public funding to go to AA and NA. (I don't know who JA are, or how they were robbed.) Not only would it be morally right, it would be like a bolt of lightning to the real economy that most of us live in.

BumRushDaShow

(128,714 posts)
5. The last of the interned Japanese-Americans already got their reparations 15 years ago
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 02:44 PM
Jul 2014
http://www.democracynow.org/1999/2/18/wwii_reparations_japanese_american_internees

with the initial pay-outs occurring almost 25 years ago - http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-01/news/mn-1299_1_budget-agreement

In fact, Ron Dellums (whose district was in California) was one of the biggest pushers for this -



Meanwhile AAs and NAs still wait. It was bad enough what happened with the Pigford I & II settlements and douchebag Tom Coburn's continual blocking of it.
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