Posted on 08/28/2022 12:02:29 PM PDT by grundle
One of Richelle Brooks' dreams is to send her two children to college without taking out any loans. She knows firsthand how taking out a loan to pursue higher education can amount to crippling debt.
"My daughter wants to be an anesthesiologist. My son wants to be a computer engineer. Two little Black kids want this for their future," Brooks, 35, told Insider. "And this country is telling me it's impossible for me to get them there. It's a terrible, hopeless feeling."
Brooks borrowed $203,000 collectively to attend undergrad, graduate, and doctoral studies. And over the years, has accumulated over $30,000 in interest.
"Yeah, $240,000," Brooks said.
In 2020, she decided to politicize her inability to pay back her loans. Apart of the Debt Collective, she joined a group of strikers called the "Biden Jubilee 100," calling on the president to cancel student debt within the early days of being in office.
Brooks' American dream is simple.
"My hope is that if my student loan debt balance is canceled, I can start saving for them and planning for their future," she said. "But I'm also hoping that we can get a free college education so that I don't have to also worry about how to finance their future either."
Living in California as a single mother is financially taxing, she said. She works as a principal in South Los Angeles, a career which she adores, but she often has to have a side hustle to live comfortably.
With the burden of student loan debt, saving money for the future is not a luxury for many Black borrowers.
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What the heck does race have to do with this? Are they exempt from consequences because of the color of their skin? What happened to this country?
Deadbeat.
maybe they should have done these calculations before they signed the papers
You decided to borrow the money.
Pay it back.
“She works as a principal in South Los Angeles”
So that’s why the story doesn’t mention what her dregrees are in. Education.
A monkey could pass those classes.
I tried to get a C in one, I didn’t study, didn’t read the book, even answered tests with eenie-meenie-miney-moe. I kept getting As.
Not feeling her ‘pain,’ at all.
Further proof that even people with ‘PhD’ behind their name’s are utter idiots.
Oddly, no mention of any attempt to pay back loans voluntarily taken out.
ENTITLED PARASITES!
What about the father’s contribution?
What is her degree in? Underwater basket weaving or theater arts?
She can’t pay back a student debt on a Principle’s salary ???? Something is wrong here ...
“Two little Black kids want this for their future,”
So black kids have dreams for their future. White kids don’t? Why are THEY special? I am so sick of this s**t!
And if she owes a ton of money for anything, including exorbitant school loans, she shouldn’t be popping out babies. Be responsible, for Pete’s sake!
All that debt for a HS principal job. Now she wants you to pay. Bah! She can work the street for cash.
She’s a school principal so likely in Education, like Doctor Jill.
She should be suing the College for price gouging.
She's an idiot.
Her inability to pay off her debt is due to her own poor choices, which doesn't equate to anyone's problem other than her own.
The negroes in particular need to learn that making bad financial decisions has monetary consequences.
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