Burden of proof for reparations claims should rest on the government

Evidence

No proof on the part of black people will be required. Why? Because the government failed black people—and failed to keep adequate records. The burden should be placed on the government to make amends. In some cases, private white citizens burned down courthouses with the intention of destroying property titles and other records, as we saw in Part II; they would do anything to make it easier to usurp black Americans’ wealth. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 540

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The government, not claimants, should bear the burden of proof — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 538; The government’s record-keeping failures shift proof burden onto it
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The government, not claimants, should bear the burden of proof — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 538; The government’s record-keeping failures shift proof burden onto it

Broader Connections

• The government, not claimants, should bear the burden of proof #expands (0.97) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 538