Black harm spans all case-study types, demanding community-based reparations not just cash

Evidence

Cash payments are often the first thing that usually comes to mind when reparations are mentioned. It was the form of payment in each of the four case studies. But reparations can mean so much more. When I speak about reparations, I am talking about more than money paid to individual black people, because what we have with the black community is not just one type of harm, like those experienced in the case studies. We have a group of people, black people, who have been harmed in all those ways—through slavery, through lynching, through economic exploitation, and through mass incarceration—and so much more. The list continues with being denied the right to full citizenship, including the right to vote, travel, and enjoy other fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. An entire race of people—the black community—has experienced harm. And that harm also requires community-based reparations. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 32

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Distinguishes individual cash reparations from Brown’s broader community-based conception.

Related

• Black harms span multiple categories requiring community-based reparations beyond cash (similarity 0.98)
• Reparations must transform wealth-building systems, not just pay cash (similarity 0.89)
• Reparations must fund systemic change, not just individual cash payments. (similarity 0.88)
• Every reparations program pays far less than the actual harm suffered (similarity 0.82)
• The reparations case is meritorious but demands sustained painful work (similarity 0.82)
• The United States has precedent for cash reparations to nonblack victims (similarity 0.81)
• The US government has paid reparations to non-black groups but never to black Americans. (similarity 0.81)
• The United States has already compensated nonblack groups for comparable harms (similarity 0.81)
• Black American harms are uniquely total and systemic, warranting collective remedy (similarity 0.81)
• Black Americans alone suffered the full compound of harms, none escapable by passing (similarity 0.80)
• Black support for reparations is uniform across all demographics, unlike all other groups (similarity 0.80)
• Reparations are a completion of American democracy rather than a departure from it (similarity 0.79)
• Reparations shifted from fantasy to necessity for a scholar who once dismissed them (similarity 0.79)
• Reparations cannot be more divisive than the harms they would right (similarity 0.78)
• Government-inflicted harm warrants a higher-order remedy than private harm (similarity 0.78)