Even if they win ontology, hope in the context of the aff is good

In addition to financial repair, reparations may offer spiritual repair as well. Studies report that Black people tend to hold pessimistic views on the potential for racial equality in America. 43While those beliefs are well-earned by decades of empirical support, 44the hope for meaningful change that reparations might inspire could have a positive effect. Making cash reparations, along with a fulsome apology, to Japanese Americans for their displacement and internment during World War II "produced 'a wonderful feeling'" in that community, with recipients feeling as if they "were made whole again as American citizens." 45While money and expressions of regret alone will not dispel "the on-going effects of the institution of slavery and its legacy of persistent systemic structures of discrimination," 46such a gesture could be part of a process that results in a more equitable society for Black people.