Jatan’s Reviews > Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays > Status Update

Picked it up for a bargain at Book Culture on MLK day 2023.

Fondly revisited the titular essay and was glad to be reminded by the brilliant Jesse McCarthy that: “no amount of monetary compensation [in the form of reparations] can rectify a debt that consists in the broken promise of a social contract; this contract is a moral good, and therefore its abrogation is a moral debt.”