Black harms span multiple categories requiring community-based reparations beyond 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

• DEFINE: Defines reparations as multi-category community redress, not individual cash — the book’s central scope-setting move.
• XREF: Builds the community-level argument that extends the four case-study model (slavery, lynching, exploitation, mass incarceration) into cumulative policy.