Civil rights gains cannot offset reparations because they never targeted black Americans exclusively

Evidence

That argument should not work here either because neither civil rights legislation nor affirmative action was ever limited to black Americans, the way post-slavery discrimination has generally been. Civil rights legislation has never been available solely for black plaintiffs. Making Juneteenth a national holiday gives the day off to everyone, not just black people. Affirmative action is also not an offset to any future reparations payments. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 572

Categorization

• XREF: The offset argument was also used and defeated in the Japanese American reparations case, per 571. — connects to: Neither blanket reparations nor refusing action can alone restore racial equity — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 480