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The key difference here, is that Japanese-Americans were imprisoned, and as such there were records about who, when, where and how long people were imprisoned.
by legostormtroopr 4y ago
The key difference here, is that Japanese-Americans were imprisoned, and as such there were records about who, when, where and how long people were imprisoned.
That makes reparations very easy - if you were imprisoned unfairly, you were entitled to payment.
- wmf 4y agoI sense a market for DNA tests to prove that people are descended from slaves.
- feet 4y agoOoh I bet cops would pay so much money for access to that DNA database
- eesmith 4y agoWhere's the difference? As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391669 quoted from https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/HRC%20Reparations%202022%20Report%20Final_0.pdf https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/HRC%20Reparations... , the list of requirements for this proposed reparation depends on records. You can easily read "identified as ‘Black/African American’ on public documents", "proof of residency", "Record of attendance", and other things which require evidentiary records. Even "Descendant of someone enslaved through US chattel slavery before" requires records.