Personal Reparations 4: Representation

Sarah Eisner
16 min readJan 21, 2020
Our CA legal team and me

Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this story can be found by clicking these links.

It seemed obvious to me that in a country grappling with what reparations to Black Americans for slavery and Jim Crow and beyond might look like, what they should not look like was a Black family being forced to spend thousands of dollars on attorney fees if they hoped to save, or simply be paid fair market value for…

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Sarah Eisner

Writer, reader, compulsive swimmer and apple fritter eater.