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In reply to the discussion: Now that we're finally purging America of the Confederacy's toxic remnants..... [View all]meadowlander
(5,133 posts)if they could show that they signed a treaty with Britain which was subsequently ignored while their land was forcibly taken from them.
I would imagine that most European colonists chose to come to America and America chose to rebel from British rule which would seem to nullify any entitlement to reparations.
That's not really a comparable situation to either indigenous people being paid reparations for the loss of their land or reparations for people (and their descendants) who were forcibly brought to the US, treated as property and not compensated for their work.
To add to my original point, Germany also offered partial reparations to Israel for the Holocaust:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_West_Germany