Reparations became realistic to Brown only after concrete historical precedent emerged.

Evidence

Surprising even myself, I have concluded that today all roads to our redemption lead to black reparations. Surprising, because for a long time I believed, as do many people in America, that reparations for black Americans were unrealistic and impractical, a fantasy housed only in our dreams. Then one day something happened that put me irrevocably on the path to believing that reparations can and must become a reality in my lifetime. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 23

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exposure to historical facts shifts focus-group opposition to reparations. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 497; Reparations are politically feasible because the nation has enacted them before — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 610
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Exposure to historical facts shifts focus-group opposition to reparations. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 497; Reparations are politically feasible because the nation has enacted them before — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 610