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.
The demand to justify collective accountability places an unfair burden on those seeking redress.
“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical case?”
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