Reparations would not end racism but would strengthen monitoring against backsliding.

Evidence

We have also seen how the end of chattel slavery did not end the reality of black American subordination. We should not expect reparations to be the end of the chapter on racism. (The Indian Claims Commission did not end the government’s taking of land from Tribal Nations.) We should expect a backlash to reparations, but the process would train many more watchful eyes to make sure that we don’t slip back into familiar patterns of white supremacy. This time could be different. We can fight back armed with better information and the political will to change. Also, because most of the reparations funding would not be individual cash payments, the fear expressed by some, that black people would be vulnerable to fraud and subject to being swindled, can be eliminated. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 597

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Letta ne réponse to ‘fraud and swindling’ objections — precisely the kind of strongest-objection-and-answer material the reader wants as a legal brief.

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• Reparations require confronting how slavery corrupted white beneficiaries, not just black victims (similarity 0.82)
• Reparations cannot be more divisive than the harms they would right (similarity 0.81)
• Reparations function as unburdening from compulsory self-explanation. (similarity 0.79)
• Reparations are a completion of American democracy rather than a departure from it (similarity 0.79)
• The US government has paid reparations to non-black groups but never to black Americans. (similarity 0.79)
• The standard objections to reparations form a stable recurring set (similarity 0.79)
• Reparations offer white Americans relief from maintaining delusion and denial (similarity 0.79)
• Non-black precedent plus post-slavery history can win majority support (similarity 0.79)
• Reparations shifted from fantasy to necessity for a scholar who once dismissed them (similarity 0.78)
• Black persecution under US race systems is historically unique. (similarity 0.78)
• Framing reparations as a slippery slope serves white supremacy. (similarity 0.78)