The United States has precedent for cash reparations to nonblack victims

Evidence

Getting to Reparations proceeds in three parts. Part I presents the four instances when the United States paid cash compensation to nonblack people for harms similar to those experienced by black people. These include reparation payments to enslavers in Washington, DC, Italian lynching victims, Tribal Nations for land theft and economic exploitation, and Japanese Americans for their mass incarceration. Our history of compensating other groups demonstrates that the complexities of such a massive undertaking can be worked out. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 49

Categorization

• XREF: Four precedent cases are the ammunition to pre-empt the ‘unprecedented/complexity’ objection in the reparations article — connects to: Legally compensating comparable losses has an American precedent for white victims. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 27