Whether if you agree or not black Americans are owed reparations

Black Americans who are descendants are owed reparations not just from slavery but for the following: Jim Crow, redlining, inhumane experiments for war, inhumane experiments that were used to further medical practices, forced sterilization burning down our towns, racist propaganda in school books, the CIA causing the crack epidemic, and lastly giving reparations to former slave masters.

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DownTheStreet · 51-55, M

What do you want?

bijouxbroussard · F

@DownTheStreet
Personally, I think access to a quality education would make a huge difference. The proverbial “teaching someone to fish“ vs. handing them a fish, which would be short-lived and of little consequence to future generations. Sixty six years after Brown vs. Board of Education, schools are still effectively segregated, and still unequal in resources—that needs to be realistically addressed through high school, and then, possibly beyond.

This, for the descendants of people it was once actually [b]illegal[/b] to educate (people who taught slaves to read and write literally risked [b]prison[/b]) would be some measure of justice.
Moreover, those who needed it would use that advantage, whether it was trade school or university. Those who saw no value in it, wouldn’t. But it would be their decision.

DownTheStreet · 51-55, M

@bijouxbroussard the way schools are funded is surely part of the problem ... primarily thru local property taxes. Poor areas get poor schools. It’s more complicated than that but I’d think blending the funding formula more equitably would be a tangible, sustainable, measurable step forward.