{"id":1376,"date":"2009-04-07T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T22:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/reparations\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T22:51:38","slug":"reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/belindas-petition-prologue-1.jpg\" title=\"Belinda\u2019s Petition - Prologue 1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/belindas-petition-prologue-1.jpg\" alt=\"Belinda\u2019s Petition - Prologue 1\" height=\"359\" width=\"253\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/belindas-petition-prologue-2.jpg\" title=\"Belinda\u2019s Petition - Prologue 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/belindas-petition-prologue-2.jpg\" alt=\"Belinda\u2019s Petition - Prologue 2\" height=\"263\" width=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there is simply no way to fashion a reparations remedy that would not, itself, do an injustice to people completely undeserving of that harm, as if a fair value could even be sorted out.\u00a0 Two wrongs will never make a right.<\/p>\n<p>A crime requires a bad intent and a harmful act.\u00a0 That intention is not inheritable by descendants of slavers.\u00a0 Similarly, causation is not an inheritable trait by distant descendants of original victims.<\/p>\n<p>So long as reparations remain the only end point for this &#8220;righteous struggle,&#8221; the struggle will have no end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, there is simply no way to fashion a reparations remedy that would not, itself, do an injustice to people completely undeserving of that harm, as if a fair value could even be sorted out.\u00a0 Two wrongs will never make a right. A crime requires a bad intent and a harmful act.\u00a0 That intention is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-history","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}