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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

If some type of reparations were indeed enacted I definitely don't think the outcome should be more food stamps or even a free ride to college, I think the outcome should be greater equity.  And by equity I mean both in terms of "the quality of being fair and impartial" as well as in terms of "ownership and the monetary value of a property".  
Forty-two percent of the net worth of all households consists of equity in their homes - that means for most Americans, their homes are their single largest asset.  Homeownership provides families with the means to invest in education, business opportunities, retirement and resources for the next generation but for decades African-Americans have been shut out of that part of the American Dream.  Even today studies show that showing that African-American mortgage applicants are 60 percent more likely to be turned down for loans than whites, even when they share similar employment and financial backgrounds.  Even today research shows that African-American mortgage applicants are rejected 217 percent as often as whites - up from 206 percent ten years ago.  Even today studies show that high-cost loans are offered five times more often in predominantly black neighborhoods than in white neighborhoods.  
Even though the Fair Housing Act was initiated in 1968 housing discrimination still persists today in subtler forms as realtors steer blacks to segregated areas and mortgage applicants who are regularly denied loans by necessity turn to predatory lenders who charge them higher-cost loans than their credit histories warrant.
So many of the social ills that disproportionately affect African-Americans are due in large part to the environment - millions of people packed into overcrowded poverty-stricken inner cities that don't have nearly enough jobs for them and they don't have the means (transportation) or the means (financial) to get a job outside the city and commute or move elsewhere altogether so they're stuck relying on government assistance or reverting to crime and violence to survive.
Now granted, 
I am but one person and I'm not affiliated with BLM so this is just my personal opinion and I'm sure someone can poke holes all in my proposition if they want (and I'm sure many will eagerly do just that) but I honestly think that's the best form of reparations if such a thing were to be enacted.[/quote]

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