The present debate concerning  reparations for slavery has hit the expected wall.

“It would be wrong to single out one race of people over the rest, when so many groups have suffered,” is the present answer to the question. 

     Americans have been totally fine with reparations, just not for slavery.

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Japanese were inconvienced in camps for 3 years during world war 2.

The Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established in 1988 and was charged with administering a ten-year program to provide a tax-free restitution payment of $20,000 to eligible individuals of Japanese ancestry for the fundamental injustices of the evacuation, relocation, and internment during World War II.

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The US  has supported reparations as a form of restorative justice. After World War II, it supported Jewish victims of the Holocaust in their demands for reparations from Germany and Austria. As recently as 2016, the US Department of State helped Holocaust survivors access the payment owed to them by a French railways company that was an accomplice in deportations.

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The U.S. government paid Mexico $15 million “in consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United States” and agreed to pay American citizens debts owed to them by the Mexican government.

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The commission, which was active until 1978, paid out $1.3 billion, according to the New York Times, which amounted to about $1,000 for each tribal member. In 1980, the Supreme Court ordered the United States to pay the Sioux nation over $105 million for the illegal government seizure of its land.

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I suspect that on Harvey Milk’s birthday, we will see reparations paid to the LBGTQ community,  in abstention of any requests by the black community.