This chapter aims to show how my new fair play argument is particularly well-suited to help develop and sustain increased engagement on the issue of Black reparations. I begin by recalling some of the socio-discursive hazards mentioned in Chap. 2 and clarify how my fair play argument helps negotiate the worst of them. Next, I highlight the core pragmatic strategy underlying my approach via three mechanical analogies to familiar tools—the wedge, the vise, and the ratchet—showing how the relatively modest obligations defended in Chaps. 3 and 4 can be developed and strengthened as discursive socio-political circumstances allow. The latter part of the chapter considers the quite general question, raised by Táíwò (Reconsidering Reparations, Oxford University Press, 2022), of how to assess reparations views overall (arguing that even on his standards my account comes out ahead of his own), and closes by arguing that insofar as my approach is capable of helping to move those who now oppose Black reparations toward a cognitive position from which the force of more familiar reparations arguments stands a better chance of registering, it is well-construed as a kind of ideological bridge between backward-looking and forward-looking frameworks.