America has been through a terrible past. He once decided to own people as property and deprive African Americans of their freedoms and enslave them. Since then, the United States has attempted to right this wrong through reparations. U.S. legal reparations have unsuccessfully redressed individual and social injustices while failing to alleviate the pain caused to the African American community. The harm caused by slavery continues to be experienced by the community today. African Americans have always been devalued in the American legal system. Since colonial European times, it was custom, not law, that African Americans were inferior to English-speaking whites. They have always believed that they were inferior, destined to be subjugated by the superior and dominant white English-speaking race. It has been ingrained in the cultural customs and beliefs of America and therefore the American legal system is inherently biased against African Americans. To seek and then obtain reparations, African Americans face an arduous task. They must defy the law. They must challenge the cultural attitudes of a white-dominated society. But because legal reparations require the use of the American legal system, they must challenge the law, they must challenge it within its confines. When the United States maintained a system of African slavery, it sold it at today's values. Africans were believed to be commodities to be bought and sold. Culturally they were deemed inferior to their white counterparts. The abolition of slavery, which occurred later in the post-Civil War period, did little to alleviate the prejudice and suffering that Africans suffered during the period of slavery. The Jim Crow laws... at the heart of the paper... the case and on the substantive justice of the case. The court should clearly use its equitable powers when dealing with compensation cases. Black people, who, for the longest period in American history, have been denied their basic rights, have clearly not always been able to seek relief from the social injustices committed against them. For reparations to be effective, the courts must specially dispose of these cases and seek to correct the social injustices of the past and throw away some of the harsh procedures that have been repealed and used against them to deny them social justice. reparations for Successful reparations is the failure to organize a real movement demanding reparations from the United States government. There has been discussion within the movement about the scope of the request. The claim should extend to colonialism or simply slavery?