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...blacks. Geoffrey A. Starks ’02 admits as much in his op-ed (“Forty Acres and a Lexus,” April 15), saying that reparations would be targeted for “those in the black community who have remained cemented in the underclass,” and justifying reparations based on “on-going injustice.” Thus, he recognizes that many African-Americans today have become quite successful, despite the fact that all face the same aftermath of slavery. Therefore, if not all blacks are bound down...
...reparations are not necessary for the many blacks who have not been “cemented in the underclass,” but are rather intended to address the consequences of racism, where is the justification for excluding the tens of millions of other Americans who have suffered discrimination either individually or as groups? Many groups, not just blacks, have suffered at the hands of others in our history. Descendants of Chinese railway laborers, Irish famine refugees, American Indians, Jews and more recent Asian immigrants have all faced the same problems of racism and discrimination, and would have just...
...group claim to recompense. Neither legally nor legislatively is it viable to provide reparations payments to individual African-Americans. The vision of reparations checks being cut to individual blacks is wrong. Reparations money would be ear-marked for those in the black community who have remained cemented in the underclass. More importantly, reparations would be paid through programs such as education, health care, job training and urban renewal. Individual African-Americans would not receive reparations payments in any form; black reparations is not about “forty acres and a Lexus,” it is about revitalizing, rejuvenating...
Undergraduate RAs perform a job in the most fundamental sense of the word. On top of their responsibilities as students, RAs live apart from their peers in dorms among underclass students, providing what amounts to roughly 20 hours a week of service. They are responsible for overseeing the well-being of students, providing guidance, keeping drunk students in order, and even mopping up after rowdy parties...
Instead, their open casting call brought them a largely underclass, mostly inexperienced troupe...