LAL #060 — Reparations Revisited: What Your Town Is Doing

<p>While you're vibing to our new intro music, rate Law and Legitimacy sixty stars in honor of our 60th episode in 7 months. We're on fire and we're just getting started. </p> <p>Michael Boyer, Producer of Law and Legitimacy, joins Norm this week to discuss recent developments in the sphere of reparations and to share his observations after attending a free legal symposium hosted by a local law school aimed at making the legal case for reparations. </p> <p>The conversation begins with an assessment of High Point, North Carolina's, very recent move to establish a commission to study the basis for race-based transfer payments. Norm quizzes Michael on the details of the City Council's vote to establish such a commission and the bases and findings upon which the Council anchored its vote. </p> <p>Norm and Michael then move into a discussion of the legal symposium Michael attended and attempt to analyze both the alleged scholarly basis for race-based transfer payments as well as the legal arguments being forged in their name. </p> <p>This episode is capped with a long-form dialogue between the two, including Michael's assessment that local towns and small municipalities occupy roles as laboratories for reparations proponents, what reparations proponents say of the potential consequences for successful implementation of race-based transfer payments—both economically and socially—and a callback to Norm's suggestion in LAL #005 that an Article V Convention of the States is perhaps an appropriate mechanism to explore as Americans continue to become aware of such widespread efforts to subvert federal standards of equal protection and the tenth amendment's guarantee of state sovereignty. </p> <p>Norm ties this conversation into a perfect bow by reasserting that there is indeed a fight going on for the heart and soul of the United States, and reminds us that the heart and soul of the United States rightly pits power against power, person against person to guard against the type of tyrannical impulse at the core of the repara