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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 29 13:11:11 PST 2001


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



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