As a third-generation Japanese American, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka remembers the fight for reparations during the Japanese redress movement in the 1970's. Black leaders in the civil rights movement were among the effort's biggest supporters, she says. Masaoka said winning reparations gave the Japanese American community strength, a chance to stand up and a sense of responsibility. Now she wants the Black community to have the same. "I think we always felt very connected to other communities of color and saw similarities of our own situations," Masaoka, the co-chair of Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, told CNN. "We can fight...
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