Japanese Americans urge Biden: “deliver reparations” to Tulsa Massacre survivors

A group of armed men standing at the railroad tracks on Greenwood Avenue watching smoke rise from a burning building during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. One of the men (center) is an Oklahoma National Guardsman. A freight car from the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (M. K. & T.) Railway is visible in the background. A man at the far right holds a rifle or shotgun. (Tulsa Historical Society) “Japanese Americans remember how 125,000 of our people were forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast and unjustly incarcerated by the United States government during World War II. We know what disappearance of our family members feel like and what destruction of our communities look like,” the Coalition stated. Japanese Americans demand reparations for Tulsa survivorsFormed in 2022, the coalition is made up of organizations that support reparations to American descendants of chattel slavery. Its members include Japanese Americans, Black Americans and activists from other communities who first came together to lobby Congress for the passage of H.R. 40 in 2021, a bill that calls for a reparations study.In their statement, they called on Biden to take the DOJ review into a full investigation and to hold the government...