Reparations -- Yes? (was Re: Joy In Horowitzville)

[Justin Schwartz]

Actually, it wouldn't be hard to operationalize reparations for slavery, 
just as reparations to Nazi slave laborers can be operationalized, like any 
class action-type limited fund. Set a settlement amount, appropriate the 
money, come up with a formula for distribition, such as a per capita amount 
for every person who can show she or he had slave ancestors, and send out 
the checks. Lawyers and courts do this all the time. I've done it, or 
participated in the process, myself. It's routine. Whether it would be a 
good idea is another question. But practicalities are not an obstacle. --jks


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> > How do you imagine reparations being "operationalized," as the social
> > scientists say?
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> > Doug
>*******
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>Start with grassroots agitation to get Congressional hearings so the whole
>history can be laid out to the citizenry, lest we reproduce our amnesia.
>
>Ian
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