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89% [image: Hillary Clinton]Hillary Clinton Democratic on economic, domestic policy, healthcare, social, education, and environmental issues. compare answers <http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1840736686:801556209> 82% [image: Bernie Sanders]Bernie Sanders Democratic on environmental, domestic policy, healthcare, social, and economic issues. compare answers <http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1840736686:801556211> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:59 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > Obama administration earmarks $12 million in reparations for Holocaust > survivors > By Mo Barnes <http://rollingout.com/author/maurice-barnes/> > <https://twitter.com/theblogrebel> | October 7, 2015 7:43 AM EST | > 109 > [image: President Obama and reparations question(Photo Source: Official > WHite House Photo and historical image)] > > President Obama and reparations question(Photo Source: Official WHite > House Photo and historical image) > > There can be no doubt that the Jews of Europe suffered great hardship and > genocide under the regime of Adolf Hitler and his allies during World War > II. Nazi concentration camp survivors were able to settle throughout the > world and eventually founded the nation of Israel. But the Holocaust > survivors in this country are still suffering with an estimated 150,000 age > 65+ living below the poverty line. > > In response, the Obama administration last week approved $12 million in > aid over the next five years to assist these survivors. This was part of an > initiative backed by Vice President Joe Biden in 2013. Last year, the White > House named Aviva Sufian as a special envoy for U.S. Holocaust survivor > services. > > Many European countries have paid victims of the Holocaust; at the top of > the list is Germany, which paid over $90 billion in reparations. In 2012, > Germany gave an estimated 80,000 survivors in other countries a one-time > payment of $3,250. > > This is not the first time America has paid restitution or reparations to > the survivors of racial atrocities. In 1998, the United States pledged to > pay $1.25 billion to Japanese-Americans and their heirs. That amount is in > addition to the $1.65 billion previously paid out to 81,278 claimants. > > But when it comes to the United States paying reparations to Blacks who > suffered oppression and genocide, there is no money forthcoming. Taking > aside the argument that descendants of former slaves of the United States > are more than deserving of economic justice, what about the 20thcentury > Black Holocaust? There are, in fact, incidents where many of the survivors > are still living: > > - The bombing and burning of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma > 1921 > - The burning and lynching of Rosewood, FL 1923 > - Moore’s Ford Bridge Massacre 1947 > - Church burnings that took place from 1954-2015 > - Illegal and unconstitutional arrests of Blacks during the Civil > Rights movement > - Jim Crow laws enacted at the state and local levels and ignored at > the federal level > - The implications of the CIA linked crack epidemic in Black > communities > - Hurricane Katrina victims living below the poverty line > > The sad part about these tragedies is that this is just a short list of > events that are deserving of restitution. What does it take for restitution > or reparations for Blacks in the United States? > > On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 2:56:51 PM UTC-6, plainolamerican wrote: >> >> Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders caused a stir when hetold >> Fusion >> <http://fusion.net/video/255113/bernie-sanders-reparations-answer-iowa-forum/> >> that >> he does not support reparations for slavery on the grounds that such a >> program would be “very divisive” and would never pass Congress. >> >> Ta-Nehisi Coates, a National Book Award winner and writer for The >> Atlantic who wrote a widely read article >> <http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/> >> in >> 2014 making the case for reparations, was among those who took Sanders >> to task >> <http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-reparations/424602/> >> . >> >> Four years ago, though, Sanders did support a form of reparations—not for >> descendants of African slaves and victims of other injustices against >> African-Americans, but for Holocaust survivors and the families of those >> who were killed. >> >> The Vermont senator joined 18 colleagues in co-sponsoring the Holocaust >> Rail Justice Act, a bill >> <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s634> to help survivors and >> families sue France’s national railway company, SNCF, for reparations. >> >> A group of victims’ families called the Coalition for Holocaust Rail >> Justice pushed for a decade to get the railway to pay because it carried >> tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners from France to German camps. >> SNCF officials have apologized and argued that the Nazis forced the railway >> to do it. >> >> The Sanders-sponsored bill never came up for a vote. But in 2014, France >> agreed to send the U.S. State Department $60 million to be distributed to >> American Holocaust survivors and victims’ families. After the deal was >> announced, Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of the lead sponsors of the Holocaust >> Rail Justice Act, credited the bill >> <https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-announces-after-his-push-us-state-department-will-finally-accept-applications-for-restitution-from-holocaust-survivors-who-were-transported-to-concentration-camps-via-french-rail-company-sncf-during-wwii-beginning-next-week-a-total-of-60m-will-be-available-to-eligible-survivors-and-family-members-of-those-who-perished> >> for >> helping make the payments possible. >> >> Slavery reparations would present logistical hurdles that do not apply to >> Holocaust reparations because of the relative timing of the historical >> atrocities and the size of the receiving populations. Nevertheless, legal >> and economic scholars have published a large body of work on how >> reparations for African-Americans might be achieved. >> >> Experts like Duke University’s William Darity and the late Boris Bittker >> of Yale University have studied the question for decades. Rep. John Conyers >> (D-Mich.) has introduced bills in Congress for a quarter-century to >> establish a commission to study how reparations might work in the United >> States. >> >> <http://2912a.v.fwmrm.net/ad/l/1?s=f047&n=379215%3B379215&t=1456174308867484005&f=&r=379215&adid=13138274&reid=4342632&arid=0&auid=&cn=defaultClick&et=c&_cc=&tpos=&sr=0&cr=> >> >> The Sanders campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fusion. >> >> Sanders is not the only Democratic candidate who supports Holocaust >> reparations without supporting reparations for atrocities that happened on >> American soil. >> >> Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about slavery >> reparations at Fusion’s Iowa Brown & Black Forum >> <http://fusion.net/series/demforum/>and did not give a direct answer. She >> argued instead for more investment in underprivileged communities, citing a >> proposal from the Congressional Black Caucus. >> >> Clinton, too, has a history of explicit support for Holocaust >> reparations. During her husband’s administration, she was given an award by >> the World Jewish Congress for helping obtain reparations from the Swiss and >> German governments. >> >> Some advocates for Holocaust reparations said they felt that Clinton’s >> contribution was overstated and that the award was political. Clinton >> herself played down her role in winning the payments but was clear in her >> support for the payments. >> >> During her 2000 Senate campaign, Clinton was asked >> <http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4577330/clinton-reparations> about the >> award, her position on Holocaust reparations, and whether she would endorse >> slavery reparations. Without answering directly, she said that “we have >> some mental and emotional and psychological reparations to pay first.” >> >> “We do owe … an apology to African-Americans for hundreds of years of >> slavery,” she said, “but I think that the people I know and the people I >> work with want us to stay focused on the future, keep our economy going, >> keep providing good public education, quality affordable healthcare—do the >> things that will enable people to have the best futures for themselves, and >> that’s what I’m committed to doing.” >> > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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