Discrimination and Race (Vera Speaking)
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			John

You're saying that it isn't really color or race that matters here. It's having been unjustly harmed in some way.

But if that's true, doesn't it take us back to the question about whether well-to-do blacks should be compensated? If income is a rough index of who has been harmed and how much of that harm still remains, then some blacks wouldn't deserve any compensation and some whites would.

This kind of an approach also has political advantages, since a lot of white people think that strong affirmative action is unfair. Including some of them in the benefits would show that there really is a moral principle at work, and it works for them as well as for others.

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