Opposition to reparations can come from within the affected community.

Evidence

Senator Hayakawa remained opposed to redress. On May 5, 1988, he sent a handwritten note to Baker that described Japanese Americans as “just rolling in prosperity.” His note continued: “They are a damn sight better off than whites, but they play on the widespread assumption that non-whites are all more-to-be-pitied than whites. Makes me damn sick to listen to those skillful hustlers. I crawl with embarrassment at their gimme/gimme attitude towards government.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 229

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the strongest internal-objection material for the legal-brief framing — how does Brown answer the ‘successful minorities don’t need and shouldn’t claim redress’ argument in the Black case, given similar dynamics?
• XREF: Echoes arguments in the reader’s own defensive briefing: intra-group opposition to reparations, and the contrast with the White Enslavers framing of the chapter.