Slavery Reparations and 2020

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(04-10-2019, 06:37 PM)fredtoast Wrote: You are mixing up two different issues.  Baby Bonds have nothing to do with slavery reparations.

I generally don't favor reparations to descendants of slaves, but I am in favor of policies that will help put African Americans on more equal footing.  For example we need to change the law that ties school funding to local property taxes.  Schools are ran by the state and every public school in the state should get the same funding.

Of all developed countries the United States ranks the highest in how much your parents wealth determines your wealth (google: intergenerational income elasticity).  This is not  land of equal opportunity.  The children of wealthy parents get a huge head start over the children of the poor.

I am not mixing up two different issues. He's ALSO in favor of slavery reparations. The Baby Bonds are just mentioned at the end of the article there and not what I was addressing.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2019/04/09/cory-booker-introduce-reparations-bill-senate/3408903002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/09/cory-booker-introduce-slavery-reparations-bill-senate/3409097002/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/cory-booker-reparations-senate-bill/index.html

Please don't derail this thread with the very first reply.