The argument of reparations on behalf of African-Americans based on slavery
continues well into the 21st Century here in America. Can a gross miscarriage
of injustice in 1906 sway the arguments for compensatory damages become
valid based on racism? The case of the all-black 25th Infantry of the United
States Army in the Brownsville Affair is perhaps one of the most egregious
events in American history. On the night of August 13, 1906, a group of anonymous
men went on a shooting rampage throughout the town of Brownsville,
Texas, leaving one person dead and another wounded. There had...