Reparations can be framed as accountability for intrusive government, winning conservative support.

Evidence

I believe there is a winning message that will resonate with some conservatives: Without the governmental discrimination faced by black Americans, they would not need monetary assistance. Felix Haywood’s vision would have become a reality. Recall that reparation payments to Japanese Americans garnered significant conservative support, as did the Indian Claims Commission. To provide reparations now would serve as a monument against intrusive big government that told an entire race of people where they could live, who they could marry, which homes they were allowed to buy, and which colleges they might attend. The government must be held accountable. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 508

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the Japanese American reparations and Indian Claims Commission precedent — echoes the remittance-payments history in earlier chapters.
• SEED: Angle: article on the conservative case for reparations as anti-big-government monument — the counterintuitive reframe.