It was the winter of 2007. I got a letter in the mail. It was from an oil and gas company. But not one that I had ever heard of. It said that there was a large reservoir of natural gas under the 1875 farmhouse plus 7 acres of land that my wife and I […]
Topic: reparations
The Grounding
Author’s note: I am not a lawyer. The following does not constitute legal advice. It is a brief in support of a proposition. The Return describes an operable remedy to urban renewal. The Grounding describes an executable, doctrinal path that enables it. The chartered covenant proposed in The Return rests on constitutional building blocks that […]
The Return
“Some men see things as they are and ask why; I dream things that never were and ask why not?” — Robert Kennedy, March 18, 1968 The trilogy named the problem. We Know Who You Are Working For, Reparations: The Preferential Rental Option for the Displaced, and The Holding described, in three different registers, the […]