Well-to-do Blacks (Malik Speaking)
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Well-to-do blacks would get come compensation under the super-liberal principle of compensation. And they should. In the first place, just because they are upper middle class doesn't mean they haven't been harmed by discrimination. Remember, there would be a lot more UPPER class black people if things had always been fair. The big money in this country is still white.

Well-to-do blacks may have been harmed less than poor blacks, but that doesn't mean they haven't been harmed at all. It may mean they deserve less compensation or a different form of compensation. But those are different issues.

And besides that, I want to make another point. Just because a black family manages to do pretty well, I don't think that relieves others who discriminated against them or benefited from their difficulties from the obligation to compensate them. If A harms B and B somehow manages to recover, does that mean that A owes B nothing? Of course not. If A took B's property and B's children want it back from A's children, what difference does it make whether B's children are well off? Maybe we shouldn't call it compensation. Maybe we should call it something else. But something is still owed.

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