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Originally Posted by the_spatula
I am not advocating 40 acres and a mule, dude. Of course that wouldn't work.
But I do believe there is justification for our government to proactively attempt to undo some of the issues created by our forefathers.
I was simply pointing out that it isn't nutty to believe in something like reparations.
I do not believe that handing over money or goods is the answer, though. I never said that.
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As does just about everyone else.
Here's the problem - it's been tried. Over and over and over again it's been tried. Magnet schools, minority scholarships, huge education grants to predominantly minority schools, funding formula modifications, on and on and on.
The government has done a TON to try to get more education to disenfranchised minorities but the problem is that oftentimes the family simply does not do their part in it.
"Provide education" is always the easy answer, but it presupposes that the government hasn't tried to do exactly that. They most certainly have and at some point, the black community has to take ownership of the fact that they have very frequently pissed those opportunities away.