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Historian Sally Marks endorsed that view, writing that historians who say reparations caused hyperinflation have overlooked "that the inflation long predated reparations" and the way "inflation mushroomed" between mid-1921 and the end of 1922 "when Germany was actually paying very little in reparations" and have failed to explain why "the ...
A 2020 poll from The Washington Post showed that "63% of Americans don't think the U.S. should pay reparations to the descendants of slaves". [75] Notably, 82% of Black Americans support reparations, while 75% of White Americans do not.
War reparations are often governed by treaties which belligerent parties negotiate as part of a peace settlement. [1] Payment of reparations often occur as part of a condition to remove occupying troops or under the threat of re-occupation. [1] The legal basis for war reparations in modern international law is Article 3 of the Hague Convention ...
Denominations offer a glimpse into endeavors at "reconciliation" for their own involvement in another institution dawning centuries ago: slavery.
People traveled across from Texas, and across California, to attend the first day of the California Reparations Task Force’s meeting in Oakland. ‘Texas is watching.’ Reparations meeting ...
Lisa Holder Credit - Jennifer Rocholl. I n 2021, a Black homeowner in Marin County shared a chilling story with the California reparations task force. He and his wife had renovated their home ...
Reparations are broadly understood as compensation given for an abuse or injury. [1] The colloquial meaning of reparations has changed substantively over the last century. In the early 1900s, reparations were interstate exchanges (see war reparations) that were punitive mechanisms determined by treaty and paid by the surrendering side of a conflict, such as the World War I reparations paid by ...
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