The reparations case is meritorious but demands sustained painful work

Evidence

Post-slavery, black people had to fight for their financial lives, in every institution, in every part of the country, all…at…once. I think of their daily struggle for freedom as an extraordinarily brave act of drinking water from a firehose each and every day. On the merits, the case for reparations for black people is very strong. But it will not happen without a lot of hard and painful work. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 469

Categorization

• SEED: ‘Drinking water from a firehose each day’ is a strong capsule metaphor for saturated-system harm that could anchor an essay or talk summary of Brown’s thesis.