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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The United States Revenue Act of 1913 allowed the Federal government to tax the income of individuals and that money went toward Social Security, Medicare Hospital Insurance, unemployment insurance, highway and mass transit spending, and education.
The Voting Rights Act was signed on August 6, 1965 helped break down the legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.  
1965 minus 1913 equals 52.  For Fifty-two years blacks were being taxed as citizens but not allowed to vote as citizens and its safe to assume the majority of their tax dollars were not put toward their communities or their individual interests but were put toward improving the lives and prosperity of white citizens.  
Speaking of individual interests, the Social Security Act of 1935 which provided a safety net for millions of workers, guaranteeing them an income after retirement, specifically excluded two occupations: agricultural workers and domestic servants who were predominately African American.
Once again, blacks paying their fair share but getting nothing in return.[/quote]

What exactly do you hope is the outcome of reparations?

According to PEW, more minorities than whites have used food stamps.

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Beyond politics, equally large or larger gaps emerge in the participation rates of many core social and demographic groups. For example, women were about twice as likely as men (23% vs. 12%) to have received food stamps at some point in their lives. Blacks are about twice as likely as whites to have used this benefit during their lives (31% vs. 15%). Among Hispanics, about 22% say they have collected food stamps.[/quote]
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/12/the-politics-and-demographics-of-food-stamp-recipients/

Do you think that with reparations, this number will go down?  Do you believe that by giving blacks a free ride to college, all students offered this gift will graduate?

[quote]According to the most recent statistics, the nationwide college graduation rate for black students stands at an appallingly low rate of 42 percent. This figure is 20 percentage points below the 62 percent rate for white students. Here, the only positive news we have to report is that over the past two years the black student graduation rate has improved by three percentage points. 
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http://www.jbhe.com/features/50_blackstudent_gradrates.html

The article from The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education gives plenty of reasons why the dropout rate is higher for blacks.  These reasons, however, won't be solved by free tuition.  Therefore, the BLM requests were written by people who didn't do their research.

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