It’s politically infeasible

[*399] Critics of cash reparations from across the political spectrum have cast them as too "divisive" 54or too impracticable to administer. 55While widespread evidence suggests that reparations programs for other racial or religious groups have been readily implemented without resulting in social schism, 56such skepticism is common within the mainstream political establishment. With 92% of Republicans opposing reparations, 57and just one out of twenty-seven Democratic presidential candidates in the 2020 election cycle calling for immediate reparations, 58the near-term success of political efforts to achieve [*400] reparations for Black people seems unlikely. Public opinion remains intractable on the issue. Despite the increase in public empathy for Black people in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, 59support among White people for reparations has not followed to a significant degree. 60Former President Barack Obama has gone so far as to suggest that it would be impossible to "ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress . . . around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow." 61