President Reagan's at the Japanese-American Internment Compensation Bill signing on August 10, 1988
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2016
- Full Title: President Reagan's Remarks and signing Ceremony for the Japanese-American Internment Compensation Bill (HR442) in the OEOB in Washington DC on August 10, 1988
Creator(s): President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Television Office. 1/20/1981-1/20/1989 (Most Recent)
Series: Video Recordings, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989
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Production Date: 8/10/1988
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This one thing Reagan doesn't get enougt credit on. In 1988, President Reagan signed into law the "Civil Liberties Act of 1988" which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government and authorized a payment of $20,000 (equivalent to $43,000 in 2019) to each former Japanese-American internee.
20k for 3 years spent in a concentration camp and violation of all their rights. That’s less than 20 dollars per each day they’re denied their rights as Americans.
20,000 is a slap in the face
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
…oh,you mean reparations?! Cool…can’t wait for Afro-Americans to get our reparations…🫤😐🙄
@@boskee a bit different from concentration camps
So wonderful that that horrible, one time injustice was not simply left at an apology
American slavery was left w an apology
FDR knew JAPAN WAS GOING TO INVADE. He wanted war.
@@kevinisnice5699, it was expected, but not for sure. But you can't throw it all on Roosevelt. There was the military, Congress, OSS, etc..
One time injustice lol
@@Toxicplyer Yeah, just ignore the Civil War where millions of Americans volunteered to fight and die to end slavery.
Thank you Mr. President. Japanese Americans should have been compensated many years ago., not only did they go to internment camps, they lost everything they owned. They lost their homes, property, bank accounts and all of their precious memories and keepsakes. The living relatives deserve more than compensation than the $20,000 they were awarded!
CHI CHI GET THE YAYO ignorant ass fool, get off the damn plantation and think for yourself! And this coming from a black man.
@@007mia7 . Blacks from Brazil and Cuba have YET to receive reparations from their nations. They were enslaved for a MUCH longer period in those countries too!
A G A G Ok so first your point about how Japan should apologize give is true and it’s disgusting how they haven’t. Second I agree people should stop blaming America or white people for every little bad thing that happens to other ethnicity’s. But I have to argue with the idea that if Japanese get repetition then why not African Americans. First all the people who were enslaved are long dead and the idea that you can get money from there pain is terrible while in case of the Japanese many suffers by the aftermath losing homes, job discrimination and sow on and it was something the government did on purpose. While In case of slavery the founding fathers were forced to keep slavery in order to maintain the fragile government with the idea it will die out eventually.
@A G Bruh you need to learn the difference between Japanese and Japanese-American. Also, I think the government is giving reparations to Japanese-Americans, instead of other mistreated ethnicities is because the oppressed group is still alive
@A G Funny enough, before 1860 the platforms of Republicans were more similar to today's Democrats, and vice-versa. Sometime between 1860 and 1936 the ideals of republicans and democrats switched. So blaming the "southern democrats that held slaves" is almost like blaming the Republicans of today. Here's a link I found: www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html
Could you imagine if he did this for the descendants of slavery? These comments would be a lot different towards Reagan.
Descendants are not survivors.
@@KyotoShanghailTV they are because If the descendants ancestors wouldn’t of survived the descendants would not be here today. The descendants are the Blood line of the Captives that was stolen from land.
Amen, Shalom
We would just want to be compensated for the displacement of African American towns in America which continued to happen after the 60s
Exactly 💯
Guess what!!! He’s wearing a tan suit! You didn’t see Fox News complain about it than.
💥 damn right
Fox News didint exist until the 90s
That 442nd Regiment was the most decorated Army unit in US history since they earned dozens of purple hearts and medal of honors due to heavy casualties fighting against Nazi forces in the European theatre of World War II.
Motto was Go For Broke which means everything depends of the roll of a dice
I'm Japanese of from Shizuoka. And Norman Mineta's parents are also from Shizuoka. So he's like my grandfather.
Thank you President Reagan.
A Republican President talking in complete sentences! Oh, so refreshing!
Seriously back when Republicans used to elect decent people into office. Reagan is an American loving conservative! Now it is just Lying, Cheating, Racist, Corrupt, Incompetent Jerks who absolutely hate democracy and put their own political power over everyone and everything else.
Have u heard Biden lately?
C'mon man!
And as usual trying to right a horrible wrong committed by a democratic president
The current Democratic President can't talk in complete sentences either
This is comical as many families never received restitution for their Businesses and homes! I grew up around the survivors of these camps and their kids and grandkids. They for the most part never complained their patriotism was so strong!
Was anything ever Written on this?
And how did this happen?
Twenty-six thousand, five hundred sixty-eight claims totaling $148 million were filed under the Act; the total amount distributed by the government was approximately $37 million. It is difficult to estimate the extent of property losses which were not fully compensated under the Evacuation Claims Act, for the evidence is suggestive rather than comprehensive or complete.
First, by the time the claims were adludicated, most of the essential financial records from the time of the evacuation were no longer available. When the Evacuation Claims Act was set in motion in 1948, the Department of Justice discovered that the Internal Revenue Service had already destroyed most of the income tax returns the most comprehensive set of federal financial records.
Reagan rocks!
@@elladroege5237 I am not a fan of the Republican Party but this guy was a class act. I think about how far the Republican Party has fallen and it is hard to believe that they still win elections with the clowns and sellouts that make up the party today.
@@kentburyska6703 Reagan spinning in his coffin how socialist country turned into.
@@kentburyska6703 He restricted automatics and gave them to criminals
I agree and this is one of my favorite moments
Rocking in hell 😂
This made me shad a tear
*shed
It's interesting to revisit this moment in the current climate where reparations for Black Americans are being discussed. There are some parallels to be certain. I empathize with the plights of Japanese-American families as a minority member whose people have suffered orders of magnitude more harm for longer periods of time.
I agree. Reparations should be paid for all persons oppressed and harmed by the US government.
If they did that then the u.s. government would be bankrupt!
A real Republican
AND REPARATIONS FOR BLACK PEOPLE NEVER HAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A JOKE
No doubt. The party desperately needs a man like him now to right the ship.
Trump would put Muslim Americans into internment camps
So
FDR the Democrat initiated the internment camps of people because they are Japanese descent.
Ronald Reagan the Republican willingly apologized and signed the reparations of survivors and relatives.
Respect! And I myself have a disdain of Republicans especially the ones right now.
If I am correct, Reagan initially vetoed the bill and then the democrats overwhelmingly supported with the republicans supporting it with a narrower majority
@@arjunlahiri2790 You are wrong. Reagan never vetoed this law for the Japanese. He signed with conviction. This one thing he doesn't get enough credit on.
20,000 dollars in August of 1988 is equivalent to about 52,000 in March of 2024.
This videos took place on August 10, 1988, in which Ronald Reagan explains a little bit of ww2 and the concentration camps in which thousand of Japanese Americans were put in. Speaking more specifically about Norman Mineta and her case.
The legislation he signed provided
for a reinstitution payment to each of the 60,000 surviving Japanese-Americans.
I think this legislation was something good but still the harm is already made.
True, but it isn't about the money, It is about the principle. What former president FDR did by placing Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was un-American. Former president Reagan can't undo that, he cant travel back in time to 1941 and tell FDR not to do that. Reagan could have simply ignored it, said it never happened y'all are crazy, yada yada yada; but he didn't. He stood up and faced the American people, faced the Japanese, and admitted quite blatantly "Hey look, we fucked up, I'm sorry". While no amount of cash could EVER undo that ugly part of American History, It was the gesture that counted. The money was simply the way we proved that we actually meant it when we apologized.
@shawns574 hmm, would you say that about black Americans in this country that have suffered far worse, both before and after internment camps?
@kevlar2125 they support reparations for their group but not for FBA/Freedman descendants of American Chattell Slavery.
@@kevlar2125 the blacks has now experience more rights and priviledge than the average white and brown americans....
@@kevlar2125 Don't worry Biden will do it
More people need to talk about this, worldwide.
I wonder when and what occasion did the young Reagan spoken those line "Blood that is soaked into the sand of the beaches..."?
Probably when he was at the beach and got a nosebleed.
Reagan served in WWII.
A great speech by a great President. Hard to believe there was a time when Republicans reached across the aisle to Democrats like this.
To think we've lowered ourselves from Reagan, one of the greatest statesman to have ever lived, to Donald fucking Trump of all people.
"It is not for us today to pass judgement upon those who may have made mistakes while engaged in that great
struggle, yet we must recognize that the internment of Japanese Americans was just that, a mistake." -- President Ronald Reagan. August 10, 1988.
@@dieselpatches Ironically he did voted for him for his 4 terms plus Truman.
It was a Democrat that put the Japanese in there lol
@@fwtexas2392 Yes! FDR also gave broad powers to J. Edgar Hoover to run roughshod at the FBI as well.:(
You can hear all the loud noisy camera shutters clicking away not like today's cameras which are much quieter.
So few today acknowledge this act of American patriotism and justice in righting a grave historical wrong. Many know of the internment, but not enough know of this act of remedy, recognition, and reconciliation.
This is very inspiring and it does actually have parallels with some of my experiences I went through
I think we need a Japanese-descent president
*yes*
I have a few mixed feelings about Reagan as a President.
However This was honestly really Huge. Because this was 1988. This was not the
21st century.
Interesting.
IM JUST CRYING OKAY??
For how many pictures that are taken, you only see a hand full of them these days. All photos need to be uplifted, and shown to the whole world. Every single one, from every event. That's how we get all of the facts, more then the limited that was shown from then to current day.
What a class act
Glad Reagan did this but, it should have happened way earlier.
For Africa Americans right?
Casio? _Kazuo, not something to mess up like he did.
Hi guys 😂
say what you want about this man did wrong in his time, but this was one thing he did right.
Yeah I have mixed and Indifferent Feelings toward him but he did this well
I dont much of what Reagan did, but he did right here, no doubt about that, credits to him.
did they ever compensate the german and Italians they interned
They weren't interned
Idiot
@@Wogboy747 . Actually some of them were interned.
@@rockyracoon3233 source??
@@Wogboy747 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
Reminder that Daniel Inouye (standing next to Reagan) went through all that discrimination, still decided to go to war for his country, and lost his arm in combat. You don't see patriots like these very often
There needs to be a full feature length film capturing the heroic actions of the 442nd Regimental Combat team in WWII. Last time I checked, they are still today, the highest decorated unit in US military history.
Thank you 442nd… 🇺🇸🫡
The men of the 442nd were fighting not only the enemy overseas but also discrimination at home. Initially I wasn't keen on learning about the story of the unit but then after all they were most decorated military unit of all time even by today's standards
We need a president like him who righted wrongs and worked for us, the people of the usa.
He banned open carry, and illegalized automatics. He was a terrible political president
@@9mmshort254 Wow I like him even more.
@@octobersky9639 that's why you got 1 sub a year
@@9mmshort254 ironic
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Do people who think only "radical leftists" advocate reparations picture Reagan with purple hair when he gives this speech.
Because those people were still alive then, as were a number who had oppressed them. With African Americans, slavery has been abolished for nearly 160 years now. Unless you believe in inherent guilt, it's kind of wrong to force generations who had nothing to do with it to pay. What we SHOULD do is teach the sufferings of those people so that the horrific experience is never repeated. Investing in our inner cities (such as cutting out the endless "global trade" BS) would go a long way in healing I think as well.
@@thunderbird1921 It's not just slavery, there were also Jim Crow laws (which were in place in living memory).
But we blacks suffered for 400 years and worked for free and were tortured against their will and not 1 President has ever apologized for the Great and Unjust Act and Sins of our country
I'm wit you sis!
This isn’t about you. Your problems are valid but maybe you should look at how the Japanese and Japanese Americans handled their incarceration, with grace, not expecting anything but working hard to rebuild their lives. They didn’t force their problems on others, actually didn’t like to talk about it because they felt ashamed. And they also relied on themselves to try to rebuild as much as they could. Learn from them and learn to not expect anything from anyone else.
@@minniepigs1198 They got reparations too. Do your homework!
@@hondasrdbest9614 I didn’t say they didn’t (: we are watching the video where he gave them reparations... did you watch this video or know what you’re watching. It was many years later that they got reparations, I’m talking about the years BEFORE they received it... reread my comment and think before you write a dumb comment, I hope you know what you’re watching. I stand by what I said (;
@@hondasrdbest9614 before 1988 (this video in case you didn’t know) they worked their asses off not complaining like you lot or posting about it on social media. Thats what I mean. I suggest you use some critical thinking when you watch videos and read/respond to comments. I assure you I am much more educated than you 💙
In today's hypercritical environment, Reagan would have been criticized for referring to the internments as a "mistake."
President Reagan was a great president. I did not know that when I was younger. The children in my classroom in sixth grade were afraid. Today, I know that those children would just voicing their parents opinions. My parents never talk politics so I didn't know what to believe in. But I do know this, African Americans have lost a lot more than Japanese. Japanese still have their language and their culture and their names. Slavery made illegal for black people to even have their own names and culture and language. Even the Native Americans have not lost as much as African Americans.
I don't know, maybe Native American got their own LAND robbed off.
@@lidiareyes7048 Wrong. The Native Americans that settled in the SOUTH we're the FIVE nations that signed treaties with the Democratic Party, because of this treaty, they all took in slaves and they wanted slavery to continue. The reason why is because they were promised a side next to the Democratic party in Congress if they won the Civil War. These natives dealt with the Democrats and the Democrats use them. The Native Americans that did not want to sign treaties were all killed by these five great tribes. They're called great tribes that they weren't great at all. They were equivalent to the Nazi party or the KKK among the Native American tribes. You don't know about this because they're not going to teach you this unless you research it on your own. Native Americans forfeited their full Birthright. They don't deserve any more. black people lost a lot more than made of Americans ever lost, and now it is out in the open. you want to act like Native Americans lost so much because of land when black people weren't even allowed to study or educate themselves, as they were bred like dogs to make different species of black people. Your comment is nullified as well as ridiculous.
They are Japanese American, not "Japanese." If you're going to refer to black Americans as African Americans then you should refer to them as Japanese American not "Japanese." And why do you guys keep turning everything about other minorities to black people? This isn't a competition.
Empathy only goes as far as for "certain" people... but let me just leave it as that cause around that same time [1940s] segregation and jim crow was alive and well. Glad they received it. Just know that its unfortunate that Amerikkka only acknowledges "certain wrongs"
OMG! A tan suit!!!!
the asian dude on the right tho 💀
LMAO PLS-
That’s Senator Daniel Inouye
He actually served in the 442nd and was really badass. The story about how he lost is arm is legendary.
I'm surprised that "They" didn't make the Japanese wait decade after decade hurtling excuse after excuse at them.
Something Fishy is going on
MrSwarai Japanese are in the top 1% income group & actually denied college admission because of high qualification.
So yes, something is going on. It's called earn the reparations.
Intaglio Oglethorpe by definition, you don’t earn reparations.
@@intagliooglethorpe8434 You're a fucking idiot. They probably paid them because the country is/was indebted to Japan. It was probably just a political move just like any other bill the government passes. They don't really care about people; you, me, or anyone else for that matter!
utterbullspit the money didn’t go the country if japan though it went to the Nissei right?
@Ramen Lover u have a right to be wrong 🙃
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When the US does this again, and they will… which authoritarian party will be putting who in internment camps?
If they got 20k for 3 years of lock up, then those effected by slavery ( & the racist laws that followed after it being outlawed) deserves millions.
Reagan actually did one good thing!
Mr Naugles That and many more. He wasn't a Good, by any means, but he was much better than Trump.
How do you define "good?" Why did our government decide the electoral college was a better way to choose a president than the popular vote? If we did away with the electoral college, would candidates with the biggest budgets figure out how to hack that process as well? Do we live in a reality where economic might is "right" or as you say "good?" As technology evolves to empower its wielder, how can we continue to level the playing field to preserve democracy?
Look for the history of how our government imprisoned Hopi male elders in Alcatraz in order to force their children to attend government schools instead of remaining with their families. That act undermined the culture of Hopi which included a way of life that allowed the Hopi to survive life in the desert with much lower environmental impact and much smaller carbon footprint than the way of life of those they were forced to honor as their teachers. Consider these links regarding Spielberg's recreation of events at the Carlisle Indian School: ruclips.net/video/yfRHqWCz3Zw/видео.html, ruclips.net/video/GN1PrNl6h8c/видео.html.
whoownsthepast.com/category/microhistories/alcatraz-san-francisco/
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In 1895, 19 members of the Hopi tribe were imprisoned for seven months for refusing to allow their children to be taken to government-run boarding schools.
Organize, make sure you and your friends vote in every election. Replace discouragement with connection and intellectual discussion that leads to peaceful nonviolent communication and advocacy to defend quality of life for native species and people (regardless of their assets, solvency, and liquidity).
Mr Naugles He break the code of FDR’s 200 members of admin. who worked under FDR were communists. They were connected to Russia :( FDR trucked Japan to start the War. FDR signed the paper to send 4 Pilots to China to pound Japan 2 years before the Pearl Harbor !!
FDR causes WWII who was a Satan :( FDR should have been in a jail :(
Next group of people, African Americans!!! If Indigenous people have gotten compensation and an apology as well as the Jews, so should African Americans despite having a half black president!!!! 😒😒😒😒😒
i agree sir
@@crunckNATIon I am not a man sir!!!
@@Intr0vert4nerds oh my bad...i agree ma'am
@@crunckNATIon Lol
They did get some compensation. It was called the Freedman's Bureau.
You people make great toys though
Basically spitting in the face of all blk Americans
Oh well .. get a job if you need money
@SexyBeautifulBabe
Yea I have a job, but what's even worse is that while approving reparations for Asians, he was secretly working with the Cia selling Crack in blk neighborhoods to help fund his illegal war overseas. I wonder how does he hide his horns?
@@SexyBeautifulBabeBecause that’s what jesus would say, right? You people are fucking EVIL!!!
The Japanese internees lost more than 20,000 dollars. Many lost their houses and farms. Can you imagine losing 2 acres of farmland in present day downtown Palo Alto? The Japanese Americans returned after the war and rebuild their lives without pulling out the victim card. They ask for no special treatment no compensation. They are model citizen, well educated and law abiding citizens.
Supporting reparations to the japanese and snubbing blacks is serious wickedness.
No need to worry. Bill Clinton will do it. Obama will do it. Biden will do it. Someday...just keep voting Democrat.
Honey
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Where's black people reparations
Your weird asf
no
These were reparations to the survivors
@@patwhite8106
Not only the survivors, google the requirements.
@@ten4k964 okay, but we can't afford this right now. We can't even afford to give housing to the disabled. There's people in wheelchairs who are homeless
$20,000 for 3 years locked up 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
And every African Americans are sipping tea in there fold chairs laughing at this true American hero make his speech. That's the American Way. lol
What a fn joke this is…… class act my ass
You telling me Asians can get reparations but not African Americans. That is kinda of stupid.
@Random user Name ...african americans were enslaved for hundreds of years and are still facing racial injustice...
“He shouldn’t get the candy because I didn’t either!” Definition of a snowflake
You should be glad that reparations were given at all.
well asians work a lot more harder and show more pride than you guys. lol Also Asians are not stupid enough to keep voting for blue like you guys do. Yall keep supporting the same bullshit, while expecting a different outcome. It's no wonder asian americans tend to rise higher in american life. lol
Technically African Americans during the slave years were not considered American Citizens.
No reparations.
The one good thing Reagan did.
typical politician, makes it all about himself at the end
So sad that black people come into the comments and are upset at this also to make it about themselves. Shameful.
we had it worse
yeah so who cares about your stupid shaming tactics where is black people reparations
It’s sad that African Americans that live on Black Wall Street never receive any type of support. The richest town was left destroyed.
@@travishylton6976you weren’t Alive when it happened so , no you dont !
@@creepyjimcrowjoebiden9293ita never going to happen