Reparations are practically achievable because similar remedies were enacted before
Evidence
Reparations are not only the right thing to do, but as I have shown, they are also the practical thing to do. We can secure reparations now because we have done it before. I started this project as a skeptic, but I am now a believer. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 610
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: The ‘we have done it before’ precedent claim is the strongest possible objection-facing argument — links to her earlier case-by-case chapters and to the genre shift from diagnosis to remedy-design.