Any awarded reparations will fall short of the actual loss sustained

Evidence

The four case studies of reparations teach us one final lesson: Whatever compensation is awarded will be much smaller than the actual loss sustained. Black Americans, when awarded reparations, are going to receive less than they deserve. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 561

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This is the ‘accounting, not charity’ frame in one line; the under-compensation pattern also recurs in the Japanese internment and prior reparations cases.

Related

• Every reparations program pays far less than the actual harm suffered (similarity 0.93)
• Compensatory payments for loss are deeply embedded in American practice (similarity 0.87)
• Compensation paid for Japanese internment was never paid to black Americans (similarity 0.82)
• The US government has paid reparations to non-black groups but never to black Americans. (similarity 0.80)
• Reparations are a completion of American democracy rather than a departure from it (similarity 0.80)
• The United States has already compensated nonblack groups for comparable harms (similarity 0.80)
• The United States has precedent for cash reparations to nonblack victims (similarity 0.80)
• Reparations offer white Americans relief from maintaining delusion and denial (similarity 0.79)
• Reparations function as unburdening from compulsory self-explanation. (similarity 0.79)
• Reparations cannot be more divisive than the harms they would right (similarity 0.78)