Greetings All,
Last year, I took the Black Power Movement at my University, and towards the end of the semester, this issue was discussed. I had a classmate who wrote an in depth paper on this topic. In class she discussed, that Affirmative Action was chosen as an alternative to reparations. What do you think about that?
Also the notion of money given out to African Americans is not really an option for those on the fore front of this issue. Advocates are looking at options like free college educations and/or not having to pay taxes for decedents of slaves. The qualifying scale would be like Native Americans use: if you are a certain percentage then you can choose to take advantage of those benefits. Then the issue would be researching your history to see about your slave ancestors.
What do you think about that? I am interested in your comments. This is an interesting topic.
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