Reparations: African Americans Justice Essay

The unite States government should pay reparations to African the Statesns as a means of admitting their wrong-doing and making amends. The damages African the Statesns pose sustained from White the Statess policy of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. Therefore, I am in favor of reparations for African Americans. The effect of slavery has been an enduring issue deep down the African American community. Many of us are cognizant of the harm racism brought to the African American raceway, conveyed through slavery, racial segregation and discrimination.African Americans suffered many a(prenominal) another(prenominal) atrocities, plainly the bulkyest damage done to them was the destruction of theyre original identity. African Americans no longer have a native language or any African customs to connect them to Africa. Today, African Americans are connected together because they all share a common foundation-the horrendous experience of slavery-and the great effort to conquer its lingering result. (www. AcedemicLibrary. com) Americans should realize the magnitude of slaverys consequences on African Americans as a whole.Blacks were brainwashed and stripped of self-esteem and taught to be ashamed of dark color of their skin. Many African Americans have effortlessly tried to advocate Black Pride, trying to re-instill self-worth and being proud of our straightforward facial and body features, and darker complexions. African Americans had zilch to begin with after the abolishment of slavery in 1865. Slaves were promised a mule/ and 40 acres and they didnt pass to receive it nor did generations to follow because the American government has yet to live up to its word.The fruit of the slaves labor was stolen from the land of the free. The victims of the White peoples African slave trade never experienced such freedom. This race deserves compensation for the mistreatment Pongee Bryant it has suffered and continues to endure. Paying reparations to the descenda nts of African American slaves would take away about a awful improvement for the advancement of Black America. (Douglass, Fredrick, 1845, Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass). White Americans have profited from education, life experiences, riches that were handed down by their ancestors.As well, African Americans have been handed down the hardship of race-related issues, poverty, and the unknown history of their past. African Americans have constantly been inflicted with the social stance of their low-income level in contrast with that of White Americans. America should be ashamed for their mistreatment of a race that did not ask or even desire to reside in this ground. Yet, they still wear their ugly scene of racism, and discrimination, and only seek to segregate African Americans, as if they were at fault.Americans may argue Blacks shouldnt be complaining, whining, and to pull themselves up by their boot straps. Well, Martin Luther queen once said White America exigen cys us to pull ourselves up from our boot straps, but we dont have any boots. (Shuttlesworth, Fred, 1999, A cauterise You Cant Put Out). The U. S. government has a moral responsibility to this race of people to compensate, African Americans because they were denied their heritage, religion, family, and culture. America alleges it is a religious-based country and their faith resides in God.The bible says If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it he shall restore five kine for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. This country consistently contradicts itself in the way it wants to be perceived. If America has any belief in God, they should feel an obligation to compensate the African American descendants of slave ancestors. (Exodus 22, Bible). Pongee Bryant White Americans may argue that the country did enough when it passed the Civil Rights Act in 1960. They may also state America has enough resources and equal prospect for each individual of every race to succeed.Ho wever, there is a huge wealth gap in social status among blacks and whites mostly because of oppression, discrimination and racism toward the modern day contemporary black. Whether anybody wants to admit it, there is still a glass ceiling (i. e. ,a status barrier) against African Americans. Reparations would bring African Americans justice and economic power in this country. There are numerous black reparation organizations which could receive the money and distribute it evenly among African Americans, to incorporate black-owned businesses, home ownership, and better education selective for young and old blacks.These reparation organizations could also invest money into smaller black-owned businesses, and other industries that would further the African American race, and ensure a rapid growth of African American middle-class and beyond. (Robert J. Brym/ John Lie, Sociology) The exploitation of African Americans in this country took on many forms through decades. The centuries of sla very in this country laid the foundation of our current relationship to America. From cotton fields to building Americas most evidential buildings African Americans have helped build the wealth in this country.Yet, the African American race has endured the most terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, plantation jails, police torture and murder, and poverty. Slavery was a crime against humanity and it still is in existence in many other ways and forms. America has created a system with, voter discrimination, drugs, and drug sentences to redeem the African Pongee Bryant American man enslaved. The government should compensate the African American race and put an end to a never-ending oppression cycle.The government of the United States of America was instrumental in having pressured the German and Japanese governments into the payments of reparations to the people who suffered and survived the crimes and legacy of slavery endured during World War II. The government of the United States has also already paying(a) reparations to the Japanese-Americans who were detained in concentration camps during World War II. America calls herself a fair nation a civilized country which respects civil and human rights, encourages opportunity for and well-being of all her people, and can be trusted by other nations as a county whom honors her word.Well, America promised African Americans 40 acres and a mule and didnt live up to her promise. Americas attitude and silence on reparations reeks of hypocrisy. (X, Malcolm, Biography of Malcolm X). America should also pay reparations to African Americans because they consistently want us to labor for their work and take all the credit. For instance America is at fault for African American dead and injured men who served and were drafted in the Vietnam War.America put young black men on the front-line of a war they had nothing to do with nor helped contribute to. America wanted a race that was not yet capable of voting but was com petent enough to fight in a war. A race that did not have the selection of drinking from any fountain, sitting anywhere on a bus, using any bathroom, however we were fit for fighting. The point is America constantly benefits from African Americans, but refuses to compensate African Americans for their contributions to this country. (www. AcedemicLibrary. com).