American conservatives like to rewrite history to achieve their goals. One goal is to establish that groups who were wronged in the past have no right to expect amends in the present. They failed to achieve that goal when Americans demanded - and got - monetary damages in 1988 because the U.S. government imprisoned 120,000 of them during World War II. They were of Japanese descent; the government assumed they were spies or Fifth Columnists because of their race.

Likewise, conservatives don’t want to compensate Black people for racist policies in the past. Such as giving them monetary damages for “redlining.” That was the practice by banks and Federal housing agencies, done through the 1970s, of charging Black people extra-high interest rates, preventing them from getting loans, and undervaluing their homes when considering them as collateral for other loans.

One way for right-wingers to deny claims that Black people should receive amends is to deny or undercut claims that they were ever harmed because of their race. That starts with re-writing history to say that 18th and 19th century slavery in America was a benevolent institution - that it benefitted Black people.

See what you did, Tapasyaa? You got me to be serious about something. I bet you’ll think twice before doing that again.

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