Answer the Question:
Does the case for reparations depend on showing that those who owe the reparations benefited from the injustice? If not, what other moral grounds can give rise to an obligation to atone for a historical injustice?
Focus:
The paper should discuss morals and ethics in being obligated to pay reparations primarily, with a secondary connection to reparations.
Sources:
Lance Morrow, “The Danger of Debating Reparations for Slavery Download The Danger of Debating Reparations for Slavery,” Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2019.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, “What is Owed Download What is Owed,” New York Times Magazine, June 30, 2020.
Richard A. Epstein, “Black Reparations Parsed (Links to an external site.),” Hoover Institution, July 6, 2020.
https://www.hoover.org/research/black-reparations-parsed
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First CenturyLinks to an external site., pp. 239-255.