No Free Tuition for Black Students Despite Slavery Reparations Resolution at Western Kentucky

Newsweek ^ | April 21, 2017 | Julia Glum

[jch10]

Put a box on WKU applications that will allow all accepted white students to check if they choose to help pay a black student’s tuition.

[lakecumberlandvet]

I think that any living person, regardless of color, who now owns or has ever owned a slave(s), should pay reparations to the slave(s) while the slave(s) owner serves his or her lifetime sentence in prison.

[Verginius Rufus]

My mother had one great-grandfather who served in a Union unit, but he had a brother who was a Confederate and a first cousin who died as a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio. My mother had two other ancestors who were of military age during the war but appear not to have served.

My father's two grandfathers were both old enough to serve in the war, but found a clever way to avoid service: they stayed in Europe.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe have a partial scholarship (say, $1000 per semester, contingent on maintaining at least a 2.0 GPA) for any students who can document that the majority of their ancestors who were alive in 1865 were slaves in Kentucky. (Slavery was not abolished in Kentucky until the adoption of the 13th amendment in December 1865.)

[Verginius Rufus]

Should have added that my mother had another great-grandfather who fought on the Confederate side (and was a prisoner of war).

[txrefugee]

Only one glitch in the Left’s idealistic vision.The Supreme Court cannot legislate brains.

[huckfillary]

If the trillions we’ve spent over the years on antipoverty programs don’t count for reparations, what does? Let’s give them what we originally promised them-—40 acres and a mule.

[Verginius Rufus]

Would African Americans be significantly better off now if the "forty acres and a mule" idea had been put into effect?

40 acres would have given them a small farm...some no doubt would have been somewhat better off than those who became tenant farmers or sharecroppers, but even the poorer whites with small farms were struggling to survive. Giving people farms would not have spared them the negative effects of racial prejudice--they would still have had to cope with segregation, inferior schools, etc.

Most of the descendants of the whites who owned small farms in the South are no longer engaged in agriculture, so it's likely that most of the descendants of freedmen who were given farms would also have moved to cities. The migration to Northern cities would still have taken place although perhaps on a somewhat smaller scale.

My guess is that the racial problems the country has now would still exist, although perhaps the percentage of black people below the poverty line might be lower.

Even if the freedmen had been given 40 acres and a mule, the people calling for reparations now would still be calling for reparations.

By the way, were there enough mules to go around in 1865?

[Thank You Rush]

OK - anyone personally/directly affected by Brown vs Board of Education OR slavery will be entitled to free tuition.....problem solved. No takers? Hmmm - strange!

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

X,

Go back and read what I wrote.

Then think, then post.

[kearnyirish2]

350K died fighting for the Union; 250K died fighting for the CSA (that is the source of 600K).

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

have the descendants of the freed salves ever thanked the descendants of the 350,000 white men who died fighting to free their ancestor salves?

[kearnyirish2]

I have no idea; they seemed very grateful 150 years ago, now relations are toxic.