Camala Harris want us to pay for past transgressions. Do you agree?
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You couldn't stop with the Black community. What about Aberiginals, Women, Chineese etc. It's not possible to pay for someone else's past discretions against people who are no longer alive. Keep moving forward. Reverse discrimination is still discrimination
Realist
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Mar 1, 2019
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Hasn't the issue already been decided. Doesn't the US pay restitution or reparations to American Indians for taking something of value without compensation? The question is, has America as a whole benefitted financially from hundreds of years of slavery or Jim Crow, and I'd say undoubtedly it has. South Carolina was the wealthiest state in the nation prior to the civil war, and that came from the stolen labor of blacks. Other groups have been enslaved as well, so it's a difficult question. I'm not necessarily for financial compensation, although I wouldn't rule that out entirely, but would support programs to help those who have been clearly disadvantaged by our history and behavior. I understand the current trend is to upend affirmative action programs, but I still don't believe the playing field is even.
geoffm62
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Mar 9, 2019
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A child born into slavery was more likely to be born into a home with both of parents present, that is in stark contrast to today's statistic of 70% of black children are born into single parent homes. Jim Crow is a product of Dem think as well. Kamala needs to write a check
I think "reparations" is a broad word that people tend to read in a very narrow, specific way, namely reparations=free money for African Americans because their ancestors were enslaved by whites. But there's so much more to it. It doesn't mean just paying people to get over the memory of slavery. When they say racism is "systemic" they mean that there are policies in place (or have been) that limit the freedoms and scope of possible success for non-whites, such as housing redlining and mass incarceration. So reparations are the whole range of things we could do to repair the system with the goal of narrowing the divide between us and healing the racial angst. What aspects of the system need to be repaired? Education? Here's a document outlining ideas for this one specific area, which doesn't involve sending government checks to individuals: [policy.m4bl.org]
Halliley
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Mar 5, 2019
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I agree. When school districts enable school choice minority students do better. The republican party advocates for this but the left is opposed.
@Marabella I'll give an example from personal experience to illustrate why I think people on the left tend to oppose choice.
If the idea is that choice leads to voluntary segregation and neighborhoods are technically supposed to be non-segregated, then people zoned for a particular school will be fairly diverse and if they can't choice out the schools will be diverse. Of course, people live where they want and tend to self-segregate where I live.
So my kids are zoned for a school that includes one primarily very low income/section 8/African American neighborhood as well as part of our neighborhood, which is mixed income and racially diverse. Of the diverse people in my neighborhood who are zoned for that school, the whites are more economically comfortable and they choice their kids into better, whiter nearby schools. So the school in our zone is left 100% black, 100% free lunch, parents are mostly single, working multiple jobs, lack reliable transportation, do not have the time or support to advocate for their kids or for the school. The school is one of the worst in the state. Technically, the parents could just choice all their kids out, right? But in reality, they do not have the education or framework in place to be able to do this. It's really sad.
My daughter was in that school for kindergarten and first grade and it was hell. She has special needs and I had to put a lot of time and energy into advocating for necessary services to be provided. I ultimately moved her to a different school because that one simply didn't have the staff or resources to meet her needs, or if they did it would have taken resources from other kids who had similar needs but no parent to advocate.
The whole situation is just heartbreaking. There's no clear solution. But what is clear is that school choice has lead to more or less all black schools and all white schools in the American South, so far as I can see. Obviously, I'm not fully opposed to it because I use it myself and am glad I can. But I can see the reasons it might not sit well with everyone.
@Halliley education should be the primary concern at all schools. Is it possible that test scores improve when any children are given strict guidelines for behavior and participation through doing all assignments and homework. Arriving at school on time and being prepared to learn. I have watched a documentary abour a charter school in NYC when the kids wore uniforms, had small classes and a lot of hands on instruction. But most of all the students took pride in themselves and their school. I'm sorry I don't know the school name. Ultimately, the school admins closed this very successful school
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