Reparations mean more than money for a family who endured slavery and Japanese American internment.
Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act in 1988, with black lawmakers backing redress. But legal scholars said the law was narrowly framed so as not to serve as a precedent for any other kind of reparations claim. Only Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps and still alive when the bill passed would be compensated — not their children or grandchildren.
Mits and Jayne gave half of their combined $40,000 in reparations to their four adult children “so they could get a better head start” — a symbolic transfer of wealth after everything that had been taken away.Jerome prisoners wait to be put on the train for transfer to the Gila River internment camp in Arizona.
During the trip last April, her father pointed out the spots on a map where his barracks once stood, and the barn where a fellow prisoner had hung himself in despair.. “That was when I just totally realized the injustices.”“I don’t think you can put a dollar amount on it,” Ginny said. “It’s not just financial loss. It’s also emotional loss. You’re being uprooted from a place that, for my grandparents, was the land of opportunity.
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