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Clark-Atlanta Univ can't be blamed for that. Just as other schools graduate students who run the spectrum of intellectual prowess, CAU is no different.
Actually, it is different. A 25%-75% ACT score of 16-20? That's even BELOW the national average ACT score. Even Illinois which tests EVERY student in 11th grade as part of their state NCLB testing has an average ACT score equal to exactly that of the national average: 20.8. There's no way anyone can use the word "intellectual" to describe CAU. It's just an HBCU for subpar students.
The same degrees from various colleges/universities are NOT equivalent.
And if this cray cray old cat lady was to get those reparations for past slavery through, here is a few things to consider.
1.) Have each and every Negro who receives a check endorse the check and send it straight up to Michigan and into the Greater Detroit Coffers!
A. Why? Because Detroit was one of the stops along the underground railway for negro slaves who escaped.....since those Frenchies in Detroit took in said escaped slaves and gave them a place to live and a fresh start at a new life, they should pay those people, those very same people back!
B. Some of those very same slaves who set up a new life in Detroit did not, it seems, instill in the next generations the work ethic of which was needed to prosper in life. Keep in mind part of the reason that the ex- slaves were welcomed into the area was that there was a need for workers in the area. Most of this was manual labor, especially blue collar type work...which offered a future that was not available in the southern states at that time. Many ex-slaves had these skills, so it was a fit.
Also, how about a genetics background check to make sure those said ex-slaves actually hale from families that were brought over and sold into slavery? Contrary to popular mythology and current urban myth, many Nergos have come to the USA from other countries, and had no ancestral connections to slavery here.
Lastly look into who actually rounded up African Negros and sold them into slavery...you might be amazed....nobody from the USA sent ships over to Africa, headed out into the dark continent and rounded up local Bantu's into slavery. And it was mostly the Bantu's who were rounded up. Why?
Well....they were large and very very strong.....but as far as Intellect went, not too smart to the ways of the world...especially to the ways of the more, how should we say this? More educated African Nergos ( who were typically from opposing Muslim and other religious identity tribes) Arabs and other northern African and middle eastern ethnic groups. People who took advantage of a native culture which lived a sort of ancient lifestyle on the dark continent, the Bantu.
That's right, Many Muslim Africans and middle Easterners were the predominant slave traders...so do ring them up and inquire about reparations from them, would you?
And when you do.... would you do me a favor?
Ring me up on this very forum
Why? Because I am a multi-racial/ethnicity person who has ancestors who descended from slaves...ancestors who were European indentured servants and African Slaves.
But....I do not expect reparations from human beings who had absolutely no hand in any of the decisions regarding slavery.....simply because they were not alive on this Earth to make those choices.
If you chose to force reparations upon a group of citizens who had absolutely no hand in slavery, then it is only just and fair to forward those payments to one of the largest cities in the nation of which has suffered due to Negro crime and neglect.......Detroit.
You are being played by your political actors......played for your vote, played for your inability remember history and lack of desire to reason this out.
They DO NOT give one rats ar$e about you.....They.Are.Using.You.
Do you want to be played "yet again" by those who are above you, both in status and wits, then go ahead.......fall for it!
And be used and abused " yet again" ( shaking head, and shrugging shoulders)
Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.
Great ideas. We could have an option that anyone who wants to denounce citizenship and we'll toss you say, 500 grand and you get booted out never to return. Money well spent.
Slavery was abolished in the US before anyone who is currently alive was born. As such, nobody alive today was a victim of legal slavery.
True. But they are a victim of slavery’s legacy and all of the racism that went along with it. They didn’t even have equal rights until the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In the South, they faced Jim Crow laws, lynching, and couldn’t even attend the same schools. In the North, they faced employment and housing discrimination, etc. Also: wealth (or lack thereof) often passes down through generations.
It might be a mistake to just “cut a check”, but it seems reasonable to help a population that has been historically oppressed.
Can we at least make sure that education is funded at the federal level instead of the state/local level, so that poor communities (regardless of race) can at least have a chance to better themselves?
True. But they are a victim of slavery’s legacy and all of the racism that went along with it. They didn’t even have equal rights until the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In the South, they faced Jim Crow laws, lynching, and couldn’t even attend the same schools. In the North, they faced employment and housing discrimination, etc. Also: wealth (or lack thereof) often passes down through generations.
It might be a mistake to just “cut a check”, but it seems reasonable to help a population that has been historically oppressed.
Can we at least make sure that education is funded at the federal level instead of the state/local level, so that poor communities (regardless of race) can at least have a chance to better themselves?
High minority percentage city Schools are much better funded than other areas' schools. Think Washington, DC, etc. They're still abysmal failures, even with all that extra spending.
And Black men had the right to vote before White women. So, shouldn't we also be talking about reparations for students in/from schools funded less than Washington, DC schools, and reparations for women?
If that was not true we'd have bigger problems than we thought huh, since most of the US is white.
And they, the most, think only white people should get public assistance even after they find every way to block black folks from getting jobs, education, housing , safe neighborhoods, health care, financing. And they so ANGRY.
Food stamps are for the poor. That is what this country has chosen to do, feed the poor. Like the bible says.
Democrats give voice to the poor, preserve their rights, legislate so some public money is left over after corporate welfare, subsidies, tax breaks, while businesses ship jobs overseas and impoverish Americans and make them unemployed and poor. Republicans generally hate the poor, and would like them to have nothing other than babies.
So what is the surprise in this breakdown? 15% whites is still a large number of white people on food stamps.
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