Why Do African Americans Deserve Financial Reparation

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend,” said by the most visible spokesperson, Martin Luther King Jr. valiantly lead the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement that erupted in our nation through the tension and hostility between the White and Black racial groups. This quote says that with love, unity, integrity, and human respect, we can change how differing races treat each other. We can also change the segregation and racial discrimination between races through these actions, not through a mandated taxation on definite American citizens. Money is not the answer, it never was, and it never will be. There is no escaping the horrific and appalling wrongdoings done to Native and African Americans in the early years of our country, nearly two centuries …show more content…
Rights have been written and amended into our U.S. Constitution, and laws have been passed which promote the lives and well-being of African Americans and Native Americans (Zinsmeister). African and Native Americans do not deserve financial reparations for excepted historical practices done by past generations. Instead of financial reparations we must use our human attributes and qualities to treat each other in a more excellent fashion, leading towards a better quality of life for everyone. This process better affects today’s African and Native American generations for the previous malpractices, rather than forceful compensation. America’s ‘repayment’ also must be done through overcoming discrimination, acknowledging the benefits that African and Native American people currently have in the United States, and consider the unfair burden of taxing the White and Immigrant citizens. The only form of reparations the United States needs to demand is the sense of dignity and compassion with people of all backgrounds, race, creed, and ethnicity, joining in unity for all of