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Article: A Different Perspective on Reparations For African Americans
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- The New York Beacon
- Article date:
- January 12, 2000
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Wright, William J.
New York Beacon, The
01-12-2000
A Different Perspective On Reparations For African Americans
From the outset let me make it clear that African Americans are entitled to
reparations of some sort not only because of slavery but also because of
the effects of its aftermath. It is in this latter area that compensation
can easily be identified and justified. This compensation is not in the
form of reparations, but refunds, with interest, for money that was
illegally confiscated from African Americans.
BACKGROUND - During the civil war over 200,000 African American men fought
for the North without which the union would not have been preserved. Over
30,000 of these men died in the ...