Focusing remedies on chattel slavery alone weakens the reparations case

Evidence

I have not advocated for compensating for the losses associated with chattel slavery, which comes in as high as $111.4 trillion. Why? Because I believe focusing on chattel slavery alone is a red herring and gives the opposition the upper hand in arguing that it happened so long ago. It misses the reality that chattel slavery shape-shifted and never really ended. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 557

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the ‘it happened so long ago’ objection the reader must answer when defending the case. — connects to: Neither blanket reparations nor refusing action can alone restore racial equity — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 480