OPINION:
When we hear discussion of reparations for the descendants of America’s slaves, who were freed in the 1860s, no one ever mentions that slaves were initially sold into slavery by other black Africans to traders of many races. They were enslaved before white Americans (and some black Americans) bought them.
We ought to be considering giving reparations to the descendants of those Americans (and, in some rare case, the Americans themselves, if they are still alive) who were locked away in “concentration camps” by their own government under President Roosevelt. Their crime: They had ancestors from Japan, Italy or Germany. By the time they were released, most of them had lost everything they had worked for.
We must learn to accept our history, the good and the bad. It’s what made us who we are today. We can’t change it by destroying statues and art.
C.D. STUBBS JR.
St. Augustine, Fla.
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