> I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in repa

> I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparations does America owe modern black Americans Y years later at interest rate Z." That does seems a bit unnecessary example since there is high racial tensions and the book is supposed to be about math. You could just use another example in that case. If it was about cases like that, I might just agree with them being rejected. > I really wish we could see what it actually was so we could see if the DoE's judgement here was reasonable or not. Agree, seems weird to not show people what the problem was if it's easy to justify. But then again, a lot of judicial, government and politics from America seems weird to me so...