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[–]hufflepuff-poet 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A mix of both, I support heavy infrastructure investment in Black communities and historically Black institutions (mainly thinking of colleges and universities), and also direct payments to African Americans.

[–]usehername 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do historically black colleges and unis need the money? I'm not trying to troll I just was under the impression that universities in the U.S. are wealthy because going there is so expensive. Also, how will you determine what is a black community? An area with a certain percentage of black people? I think it would be better and easier to just focus on low-income communities in general for this reason, other than native communities which are obviously easy to pinpoint. I just don't think checks are a good idea. They get their money and then what? It's spent. Especially with low-income people the money will just disappear. How big of a check are you thinking?

I definitely support improving schools in low-income areas and childcare and scholarship programs. Also a ton of work needs to be done for natives. Reservations are a mess because they can't get permission from the U.S. govt. to build infrastructure on reservations so they're without roads, electricity, water, don't even have towns. Plus their money is hoarded by corrupt leaders.

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not being facetious because I myself am mixed-race (but not with African), but how would you propose reparations to mixed-race AAs, which, I've read, many, if not most, African-Americans are?

Would amount of reparation be decided by African DNA % given that most slave history was erased so for some people it would be hard to find proof of ancestors who were slaves?