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When your inheritance is someone else's loss

I inherited my grandfather's house and just learned it was built by Japanese American families who lost their property during internment, and now their descendants live in apartments across town.

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Personal good fortune becomes morally complicated when traced back to systematic dispossession.

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“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical case?”

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