Eminent domain — the government's power to take private property for "public use" — was used to strip Black communities of land, wealth, and voting rights across two centuries.
Bruce's Beach proves the process works. The government can identify seizures, locate descendants, calculate value, and return land. What prevented it for 98 years was not legal impossibility — it was political choice.
The question is not whether reparations are possible. The machinery exists. The question is why it has been applied to one family in 200 years of documented seizures.