"Slavery, Reparations, and Moral Clarity,"
by Robert Fullinwider

I will argue that the argument for reparations is strongest when it jettisons slavery and unjust enrichment as basic grounds. Unjust enrichment actually does no real work in the argument and slavery invites anachronistic postures of judgment. By contrast, the failure of the nation to keep the promise it made in the Fourteenth Amendment provides morally clear grounds for a reparations argument.