State governments can and sometimes do return stolen black property after long delay.
Evidence
Although most black Americans have never been compensated for the discriminatory and racist policies that allowed their property to be stolen from them, the descendants of at least one family have. It took one hundred years before the State of California righted the wrong done to the Bruces—a state where only 6.5 percent of the population is black. Bruce’s Beach demonstrates how the law was used to exclude black Americans from Manhattan Beach, California—a legacy that remains today with the city’s less-than-one-percent black population. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 599
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’ and reparations-brief work: Bruce’s Beach is a concrete case of state-level atonement for property theft, useful as a precedent in the reparations argument.