is less of a reparation, but more of a reprisal where one crime is committed by a member of one group against another group, so the second group gets vengeance on an innocent member of the first group.(Koukl, pg. 2) This is why trying to solve this problem with monetary compensation to slave descendants is more unreasonable now than before. The U.S. government at that time chose to neglect making any type of reparations, and will disagree with it today.Slavery is an unethical practice, and this wrongdoing should be acknowledged. The U.S. government is not taking blame for this practice nor will take it upon themselves to make up for its citizens that did enslave African Americans. This is not the first time where our nation has acted immorally and was pushed to make amends. Native Americans received compensations from the U.S., as did Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during the Second World War by the Roosevelt government. All of these reparations however did occur after the formation of the U.S. government and the constitution that set the guidelines for governing. The thirteenth amendment officially labeled slavery an unlawful practice. Government is not supporting reparations, which as in the constitution, does not make them responsible for any of the previous wrongdoing of our early government, which was made up of states following independent rules and regulations. It is actually our current instilled government, based on the constitution written by the founding fathers, which brought about desires for more equality. Reparations for Native Americans and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned are justified because this was done after our citizens, as well as government had already determined it as wrong. Randall Robinson, an advocator for reparations for slavery brought up that, governments who had no direct links to the regimes that wronged their citizens have paid large monetary reparations for crimes. (Karina, pg.1)...
