A presidential commission with televised hearings can build the public case for reparations

Evidence

I lay out the case for creating a commission, by executive order from the president, to collect evidence and testimonies, publicize its findings through a series of televised hearings, and finally issue recommendations, building public support along the way. Compensation should include not only cash payments to individuals but also funding for systemic reforms. I explain why these payments would be legal, how we will calculate the cost, how we will pay for them, and how they are the inevitable next step in righting the wrongs done to black Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 51

Categorization

• XREF: Commission via executive order plus publicity intentionality parallels how the truth-and-reconciliation and anti-civil-rights commission literature frames institutional design. — connects to: A federal reparations commission by executive order can build public support through hearings — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 51; A reparations commission could be created unilaterally by presidential executive order — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 517; A reparations study commission could serve as an American truth and reconciliation panel. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 586 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A federal reparations commission by executive order can build public support through hearings — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 51; A reparations commission could be created unilaterally by presidential executive order — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 517; A reparations study commission could serve as an American truth and reconciliation panel. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 586 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• A federal reparations commission by executive order can build public support through hearings #expands (0.92) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 51