A reparations commission could be created unilaterally by presidential executive order

Evidence

The Post-Slavery Discrimination Commission (PtSD Commission) could be created with the stroke of a pen. (I am intentionally calling it the PtSD Commission to draw attention to the generations of trauma the government inflicted upon black Americans.) Because the commission can be created unilaterally by the president, I have to convince only one person—not a majority of the 535 members of Congress. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 517

Categorization

• DEFINE: PtSD is introduced here as a deliberate neologism — ‘Post-Slavery Discrimination’ — chosen to foreground governmental trauma rather than the vaguer ‘slavery’ frame.