Reparations: A Necessary Apology for Historical Wrongs

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Reparations are probably an action the government wouldn’t like to act and give. Reparations are the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. No one wants to be proved they were once wrong and is willing to make up for it. During some situations that cause people to go through traumatic experiences, some of these reparations packages can never fully make up for it. Some of these tragic experiences can be police brutality, false accusation, school mistreat, confiscation of property, segregation, etc. In the article " The Case For Reparations." by Ta-hensihi Coates, he argues that every African American that has been done wronged to should have reparations packages offer to them. I agree the act of reparations is a positive action because African …show more content…

The past can never be forgotten and we can always learn from it to make a better future. Coates states "Any single check out to any African American, the payments of the reparations would represent America's maturation out of childhood myth of its innocence into a wisdom worthy of its founders." America paying their reparations shows a sign that we are own up to our mistakes. This is also the price we must pay to see ourselves squarely. In the article "Why the Descendants of Slave Should not Receive Reparations" by David Tucker argues that America already paid back the slaves by ending slavery. "The Civil War consumed all the wealth piled up by the slaves and if every drop of slave blood drawn by the slaveholder's whip was paid for by a drop drawn by a sword." However, they were never repaid because slavery shouldn't have happened in the beginning and it's America's job to end it and payback to how they were being treated

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