The legal challenges to a town providing “slave reparations” should keep this town’s attorneys busy for decades. And its taxpayers get to foot the bill - no one will be getting any payments besides the lawyers.
“...should keep this town’s attorneys busy for decades. And its taxpayers get to foot the bill...”
You just described the Attorney-Government Complex - a yuge jobs program for lawyers (enemies within).
Using that logic, any descendant of an Evanston resident that fought in the Civil War should file a wrongful death suit against the city to attach the reparations.
Since I don’t believe, there weren’t any plantations or slave owners in Illinois, the residents that fought and died in the War were “enslaved” to fight the landowners and slave-owners who benefited from owning slaves.
Further, any person claiming reparations, MUST be able to show a direct line of descendancy from a slave. Any person unable to show direct descendency is precluded from claiming reparations.
That should tie things up in the courts for quite awhile.