The definition of Reparations is as follows: the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. We feel African Americans(Blacks) fall into that category. In 2008 the American Humanist Association published an article which argued that if emancipated slaves had been allowed to possess and retain the profits of their labor, their descendants might now control a much larger share of American social and monetary wealth. The wealth of the United States was greatly enhanced by the exploitation of African American slave labor. Under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the U.S. government apologized for Japanese American internment during World War II and provided reparations of $20,000 to each survivor.



