"Practicalities" of Reparations (was Re: Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers)

[Doug Henwood]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

>Mat & Justin have already made an argument that practicalities are 
>not the problem.  What's your objection to them?

1) Defining race. 2) Defining eligibility after defining race. 3) 
Defining the mechanism of reparation (America's plan reinforces 
capitalist logic; you want to undermine it. Robinson would make 
tuition free; everyone should have free tuition.) 4) Deciding whom to 
exclude - if you include the descendants of slaves, why not Indians? 
Why not the Latin Americans we've bled for eons?  5) Deciding how to 
fund them - should working class whites be taxed, or just bourgeois 
whites?

There, that's a start.

Doug