So start with reparations.
If, indeed, Soviet crimes were the same as Hitler's, and if, indeed, Russia is the sole unilinear successor state, well, then two plus two equals four: today's Russia should start dishing out reparations, doing longtime national penance as a pariah, and spend the next half-century eschewing any kind of assertive global stance.
"So that's why I think we have to start talking about reparations for the war on drugs.
(RNS) A white scholar touring churches across the nation is trying to convince Christians that racial reconciliation is not enough — it's time to start talking about reparations for descendants of slaves.
That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
There are a lot of objections that can be raised to reparations, starting with the price tag, which would run into the trillions.
The Bringing Them Home report found the forced removal was "an act of genocide" and set out a list of reparations, starting with a formal apology which was delivered by then prime minister Kevin Rudd in 2008.
It, to me, is a glaring contradiction that we would fight, and rightfully so, to get the right to vote for the people in the capital of Iraq in Baghdad, but still don't give the federal right to vote for the people in the capital of the United States, in Washington, D.C. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
Eric J. Miller, a professor at Loyola Law School, said the case for reparations starts with an honest accounting of the racism that black people have experienced.
Reparations can start by returning the Turkish White House, known as Çankaya Köşkü, to the Kassabian family from whom it was stolen after the Kassabian's fled the Armenian genocide to Constantinople and eventually Canada.
