04-10-2019, 07:07 PM
(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.
Got that right. It would take a generation, but that might be the thing most likely to erase the school achievement gap. Not just for African-americans.
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