Requiring prior public support for black reparations is a uniquely American burden

Evidence

Although there were opponents to the DC Emancipation Compensation Act, Congress still enacted the legislation. I know of no national polling regarding public support or opposition for the Indian Claims Commission or the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. There were conflicting reports at the time regarding public support for Japanese American reparations. Having to convince the public to support compensation for black Americans is unique, highly problematic, and yet another example of America’s addiction to treating black Americans differently from their nonblack peers, something I refer to as black exceptionalism. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 525

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘black exceptionalism’ framing extends the saturated-system-harm argument from Part II and parallels the White v nonwhite treatment asymmetries in The Whiteness of Wealth.