Historical Comparisons and Rationale
What is needed to feel the stifling weight of this issue, seems so overlooked by the American people, the comparison of the genocide of African Americans to the horror that was the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, an estimate of six million Jewish people lost their lives in the horrors of the holocaust.10 After the holocaust, it is known that the United States did in fact eventually pay reparations to the Jewish people for their stifling losses more than once, the second time adding up to more than 30,000,000 dollars.11 No amount of capital could ever justify or undue the pain and loss of the families of these victims and especially the victims themselves. It is interesting the ancestors of the African people currently living in the United States have never received reparations for the astounding losses they burdened during the period of slavery, but also received opposition to ethnic equality in various forms leading up to the present day. No other proof is needed for this than the fact that the Ku Klux Klan was spotted in Hanover, Virginia in full force protesting for “White is Right” in July of this year 2019, almost sixty years after the civil-rights movement. However, when one stops to think about this fact, there is no denying these heinous events did not occur one-hundred years ago to this day yet, and it is as though stripping the identity from these people was not enough, as people are still opposing their rights as citizens.
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