Compensation paid for Japanese internment was never paid to black Americans

Evidence

In the same way that wartime incarceration caused Japanese Americans to lose their livelihoods and property, mass incarceration has also taken money from black families, making it harder to build generational wealth. An emotional toll, too, comes with imprisonment, the loss of dignity, and the badge of inferiority that “criminals” are forced to wear. And while compensation has been paid for the mass incarceration of other groups, like Japanese Americans, it has never been paid for black Americans and their affected loved ones. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 429

Categorization

• XREF: This is the strongest precedent-based argument for reparations — the Japanese American redress model is the closest existing analog to what Brown proposes for black Americans. Central to debating the book. — connects to: Constitutional revenue-sharing promises for minorities were never honored — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 298