Property taxation has a documented 150-year history of anti-Black bias

Evidence

State and local reparations efforts could also include addressing the antiblack bias in our property tax system as skillfully documented in Andrew W. Kahrl, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024). — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1165

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading purpose of gathering state/local-level remedies beyond federal reparations, and to prior chapters where property tax and inheritance loopholes were argued to worsen inequality.
• SEED: Angle: a concrete state/local reform — property tax fairness as a reparations-adjacent policy lever without passing federal legislation — could anchor an article on where reparations can actually happen.