POWER IN COALITION: INTERVIEW WITH WADE HENDERSON

• Published in: Harvard international review Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 78 - 82
• Main Author: Pandey, Indu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Harvard International Relations Council, Inc 22-09-2020; Harvard International Relations Council
• Subjects: Black Lives Matter movement; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; Discrimination; Essential workers; Floyd, George; Human rights; Injustice; International courts; Intersectionality; Japanese Americans; Racism; Reparations; Slave trade; Slavery; World War II; United States > US; Oklahoma; Africa
• ISSN: 0739-1854; 2374-6564

Reparations legislation has been around for quite some time, in fact, since 1989, when Congressman John Conyers, the to-be first African American chair of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the first version of H.R. 40. [...]it was JACL that in 1970 voted on a resolution urging the federal government to provide a commission to study reparations for Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II. [...]we compensated Japanese Americans inadequately (there is no adequate compensation in this context) with US$20,000 in cash payments, a monument here in Washington D.C. dedicated to that injustice, and an apology from the federal government. First of all, as you say, the United States was not the only country that engaged in the enslavement of African people. Back in 2016, the 15 CARICOM nations, those are the Caribbean nations and former colonies of European countries that are now independent, have explored the option and, in fact, have filed a suit in international court against 11 European countries, who were former colonial powers.