Reply #2: Reparations are always difficult for the ones [View All]

paying the reparations. When Japan paid reparations for the "comfort girls", they did it because it was the right thing to do. Whenever one party pays reparations to another party, it is an attempt to redress legitimate grievances, the only question is are they legitimate. Mostly, the arguments against reparations are ones of expediency - it would cost too much, it would make white people mad, it would "set back" race elations, etc. There are no legitimate arguments that show that reparations are undeserved, only that they are too difficult and too devisive. Four hundred years of slavery and a hundred and fifty years of aparteid deserves some sort of final restitution. Just MHO.