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Scenario

How to discuss inherited responsibility with those who resist it

I teach at a school where most of my students are white and wealthy, and when we discuss slavery reparations, they keep asking me to explain why they should pay for something their families did not do.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The demand to justify collective accountability places an unfair burden on those seeking redress.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical case?”

Peri

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