Two African-American attorneys find their friendship at odds and themselves at the center of national controversy as they represent opposing sides in a legal battle nearly 400 years in the making, one seeking reparations from the U.S. Government for the descendants of slavery, the inheritors of the harm that legacy brought.Listen to a selection form the work. Exhibit/Chapter 38 of 69 by clicking a link below:http://sonicmovie.net/sonicsearch.asp?SearchString=Reparations+I:&DisplayAmount=5&Submit=++Search++Time Length: 18 minutes 54 Seconds (18:54)During the course of Reparations I: The Attorneys, the shared legacy of other reparations battles against the U. S. Government are explored as well as other infamous horrors of slavery:German-American, Italian-American & Japanese-American Reparations — Due to the United States mass, unlawful actions — arrests, internment, and “exclusion” of these people during WWII.The racial neutrality of slavery in the enslavement of Jews, Muslims, non-Christians, white women, . . . in the United States.Hawaiian Reparations — Per international Law Hawaii is a nation illegally seized by the United States.The abduction of white children, white adults, Mexicans, and foreign nationals who were sold as “mixed race” African-White slaves.Is the United States an Empire or Democracy? — Why does the United States have millions of sub-citizens deprived the rights of full U.S. citizenship in Puerto Rico, Guam, The U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and The Northern Mariana Islands — territories it’s held over 100 years?Chinese Slavery and defacto Slavery in the U.S.Mexican-American Reparations — For violations of The Treaty of Hidalgo, signed February 2, 1948, which ended the Mexican American War. The civil rights violations began almost immediately after ratification of the treaty and continue today, over 160 years; and for violations of the U.S. Constitution during the “Mexican Repatriation” (1929-1939), the first U.S. Mexican/Mexican-American ethnic cleansing and “Operation “Wetback” (1954), the second U.S. Mexican/Mexican-American ethnic cleansing. Combined these two programs forced 2.3 million people of Mexican heritage in the U.S. out of the U.S. to live in Mexico, 60% of which were U.S. citizens.And More . . .Reparations 1: The AttorneysReparations I : The Attorneys
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