Violence and exclusion against black Americans are more divisive than reparations

Evidence

I begin with the generalized objection that somehow reparations would be divisive. Do you know what else is divisive? Taking black Americans’ property, lynching, preventing black Americans from living and working where they want, and targeting them with police violence. If ending our country’s history of treating black Americans as second-class citizens is viewed by some as divisive, they need a history lesson. If their views remain unchanged after that, they cannot hold the rest of us hostage. We must keep moving our country forward. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 533

Categorization

• XREF: Answers the ‘divisive’ objection to reparations — one of the strongest objections the reader must be able to state and rebut in the legal-brief framing. — connects to: Racialized neighborhood boundaries are violently enforced against Black and brown bodies — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 490