Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
ISSN
0276-3583
Publisher
Boston College Law School
Language
En-US
Abstract
This paper offers a sympathetic interpretation of reparations claims made on behalf of African Americans and suggests how they could properly be honored. It reviews the federal government’s role in supporting racial subordination and its continuing failure to address the inequitable consequences, which public policy now largely ignores. It sketches a national rectification project, comprising a comprehensive set of public programs that would attack the persisting legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. The programs can be justified by the government’s duty to insure equal opportunity for our society’s children and, most urgently, by corrective justice, because the inequities are attributable to the government’s own policies.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Reparations and Equal Opportunity
,
in
24
Boston College Third World Law Journal
177
(2004).
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