Legally compensating comparable losses has an American precedent for white victims.

Evidence

Get ready to put aside everything you thought you knew about the case for reparations. I’m not going to make the argument you’re expecting me to make. The stories I’m going to tell you shocked me—a scholar who studies race in America for a living. What I discovered was that compensating for the types of loss experienced by black people in America is as American as apple pie. That’s when I became a believer. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 27

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The United States has precedent for cash reparations to nonblack victims — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 49
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The United States has precedent for cash reparations to nonblack victims — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 49

Broader Connections

• The United States has precedent for cash reparations to nonblack victims #expands (0.95) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 49