But not everyone gets the educational support they need to have an equal opportunity. It's the difference between equal and equity. To play basketball everyone needs basketball shoes. If I put out 10 pairs of size 9 Nike XXXVIIs that is equal because everyone was given the exact same shoes. But it isn't fair of equitable because the kids with size 11 feet or size 8 feet aren't getting what they need to be successful.
I agree with this one that a general use of educational support wouldn’t be reparations. Something like targeted scholarships to descendants of slaves or though would be.
How would one categorize uneven publicly funded education? It's well-known that poorer neighborhoods (which also impact Black people more than others) have less educational support. Reverse reparation?
Seems to me that the idea of reparations and/or critical analysis ought to be identifying and solving problems, not creating new ones…
If you think inner city public school systems are accomplishing that, I suggest you go visit one and sit in on a class. If anything, people in those areas are getting negative reparations, as they are getting less educational dollars per capita. But as we all know the problem runs deeper than money. Yes it is reparations to create programs to address those problems which are a result of a historical cycle of poverty that goes back - you guessed it - all the way to slavery.
You don't know the first thing about redlining and why it was an issue if you think this tweet means anything. It isn't about segregated housing or not. I'm sure many Black people couldn't care less about living with white people. What they wanted was right after ww2 the chance to buy property and the same quality of property in safe new suburban projects when financially qualified like white folks rather than being denied by banks because the market was racist and a black person buying property devalues said property and therefore banks refuse to hand out loans. It is access to homeownership they care about. Not being segregated or not segregated. I'm sure many Black folks wouldn't mind "seperate but equal" but it was never equal from quality of schools to quality of property and that's why they wanted integration. They wanted the same quality of life as white folks for the same work ethic.
So now we've reached the point of the discussion where you post random outlier folks and try and label an entire group with it.
