Opinion: Will the Democratic push for reparations benefit Trump?
By George F. Will George F. Will Columnist covering politics and domestic and foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Columnist March 6 at 4:30 PM Tiptoeing along the edge of caricature, Sen. Elizabeth Warren says: Native Americans should be “at the table” with African Americans for a “robust discussion” about making some Americans pay reparations to other Americans to atone for misdeeds by still other Americans.
Native Americans and African Americans experienced uniquely severe injustices. However, there must be some statute of limitations to close the books on attempts to assign guilt across many generations to many categories of offenders .
If, however, you doubt that American discord can become much worse, try launching a scramble among racial and ethnic constituencies to assign varying degrees of guilt to others for varying degrees of injuries. Should reparations be means-tested, making affluent African Americans ineligible? To avoid using moral micrometers to measure guilt and injuries, should lump sums be awarded to groups? Does it matter that 3.
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