Reparations are a precondition for American democratic wholeness

Evidence

Ultimately, the case for compensating black Americans for the harms they experienced after chattel slavery ended is also a case for American democracy. America has unfinished business regarding its black citizens. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 52

Categorization

• XREF: Reframes reparations from racial-justice demand to a universal democratic project — echoes the ‘We the People’ constitutional completeness argument found in antebellum abolitionist and 13th-Amendment scholarship. — connects to: Reparations are a completion of American democracy rather than a departure from it — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 52; Reparations offer white Americans relief from maintaining delusion and denial — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 583; Reparations are a worldmaking project rather than a penalty for past injustice — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 366 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Reparations are a completion of American democracy rather than a departure from it — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 52; Reparations offer white Americans relief from maintaining delusion and denial — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 583; Reparations are a worldmaking project rather than a penalty for past injustice — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 366 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Reparations are a completion of American democracy rather than a departure from it #corroborates (0.97) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 52