My co-founder and I built our startup in a predominantly Black neighborhood that's now gentrifying partly because of businesses like ours, and we disagree on whether paying higher taxes to longtime residents constitutes meaningful reparations or just performs virtue while continuing harm. We're both struggling with the contradiction between our impact and our intentions.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people must grapple with whether good intentions can justify harmful outcomes and what genuine accountability looks like.
“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical and economic case?”
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