1---It doesn’t resolve racial disparities, renders black folk dependent on the state, slashes public infrastructure, and leaves interpersonal racism unchecked.

Similarly, a program of cash reparations to African Americans would be difficult to implement and would probably not resolve the disparity between white Americans and African Americans. The groupbased variant of cash distribution presents special problems. For one thing, there is the problem of "picking the group." Who legitimately represents African Americans? If the goal of these cash distributions is to establish some sort of autonomy for black groups, it will probably fail. Cash payments would leave African-American groups beholden to those in the United States who distribute the money. Second, the real costs of any type of cash remedy, payments to representative groups or to individuals, would be extremely expensive.10 Taxes would have to be raised or, alternatively, public spending would have to be cut. Arguably, this may reduce national growth, and it will certainly raise tension between average taxpaying Americans and African-Americans. Finally, monetary transfers do nothing to stymie racist social attitudes. 102 It can scarcely be said, according to one author for example, that a reparations "check" given to Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps during World War II changed institutional racism or the social attitudes that Japanese Americans face.