If general taxation creates the problem of descendants of enslaved people funding their own reparations, and a race-based levy is illegal, what is the alternative? The honest answer is that there is no workable alternative that the reparations campaign has ever seriously proposed.
This is not a minor technical detail. The mechanism question is fundamental. A moral claim that cannot be converted into a workable payment mechanism is not a legal claim or a policy proposal. It is a political demand. The reparations campaign functions as a political demand precisely because it has no answer to the mechanism question.
