Constitutional revenue-sharing promises for minorities were never honored

Evidence

The Ogoni constitute approximately 0.4 percent of the Nigerian population. Thus, like the other micro-minorities who dwell in this delta the size of England, the Ogoni lack the political leverage and constitutional protections to lay claim to the wealth that has been stripped from their land. Nigeria’s independence initially promised a measure of economic justice for micro-minorities: the 1960 constitution required that the government return 50 percent of any mining revenues to the region of extraction. But instead of the 50 percent constitutionally due to them, the Ogoni have been awarded a mere 1.5 percent, and in effect not even that. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 298

Categorization

• SEED: The gap between a constitutionally promised 50% and an actual ~1.5% is a crisp case study for eco-justice writing on how legal form can be voided in substance.
• XREF: Connects to ch.9 ‘contested law determines who is recognized as a victim’ and the broader law-and-institutions polyad thread. — connects to: Compensation paid for Japanese internment was never paid to black Americans — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 429; Racial minorities lacked any constitutional shield comparable to religious freedom; Minority protections historically covered religious but never political rights — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2501 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Constitution protected religious minorities but left racial minorities unprotected #expands (0.90) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 289
• Racial minorities lacked any constitutional shield comparable to religious freedom #expands (0.85)
• The US Constitution protected religious minorities but offered nonwhite races no shield against discrimination. #expands (0.85) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 289
• Compensation paid for Japanese internment was never paid to black Americans #complicates (0.80) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 429
• Minority protections historically covered religious but never political rights #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2501