The author of this article is so far from reality that it is hard to argue the full extent of his stupidity.
Opinions such as his strengthen poet Amira (sp?) Baraki's plan which provides reparations in the form of education instead of money.
We don't need to be thrown a couple of thousand dollars for the labors of our ancestors. Knowing our spending priorities, if we all were handed money what do you think our people would do with it
Money will come and go, but no one can take away from you what you know. If the US would pay for our college education for ten to fifteen years, wouldn't that be worth more than iced-out jewels, Fendi bags, and decorative hoopties
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"Education is your passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." -- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz