2---Provokes racist backlash and cruel optimism via reformist changes that sap social energy for revolutionary change.
Harris 01, 2001, Lee A Harris is a professor at the University of Memphis Law School and has a J.D. from Yale Law School, “Political Autonomy as a Form of Reparations to Africa-Americans,” Southern University Law Review, https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/soulr29&collection=journals&id=31&startid=31&endid=62, Morr
Equally, monetary transfers might create problems in public opinion if implemented. As mentioned, to fund cash payments taxes would certainly have to be raised for all Americans. The cost to taxpayers of funding reparations payments to African-Americans may engender some resentment. Moreover, monetary transfers may exacerbate the race problem in America, as other groups perceive these re-distributions as little more than undeserved handouts. Payments may lead to African Americans being characterized as victims, or being perceived as helpless by other groups. Lastly, cash payments as a form of reparations can even be counterproductive insofar as it creates the illusion that substantive progress is being made in race relations. 12 Whether it is a check to AfricanAmerican community groups or a check to each African-American in the country, such a large social spending effort will inevitably create the sense that the race problem has been resolved.