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Is Reparation The Answer?

As a people, African-Americans have endured hundreds of years of both physical and mental pains and injustice. "Through keloids of suffering, through coarse veils of damaged self-belief, lost direction, misplaced compass, shit-faced resignation, racial transmutation, black people worked long, hard, killing days, years, centuries-and they were never paid "(Robinson 207). Many will argue that for these reasons stated above, some sort of reparation should be applied. What exactly is meant by reparation? Webster's Dictionary defines it as the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury.
The issue of reparations for African-Americans has its fair share of advocates, adversaries, strengths and weaknesses as well as its time in the United States, but its true value of recognition lies deeper than just which argument is stronger or weaker. African-American reparation is a stepping-stone to solving the American......

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