To ensure the reparations debate continues to evolve, young people must be included, and educated about why we’re having this conversation to begin with
are expected to default on their school loans by 2023. And because Black Americans have higher debts and fewer assets than their white counterparts, there’s no way to accrue generational wealth and no way to pass it on to their descendants, often creating a vicious spiral of inequity., permanent structural change in America's institutions would be the best benefit for the Black community.
“This whole thing about who should get a check, and should we cut checks, you know, I understand those questions,” Coateson June 20, adding that the purpose of HB 40 is to ask those questions and try to discern at least some answers. “If we don’t actually have a study, we can’t actually answer those questions. You can’t ask a doctor to make a diagnosis before there’s an actual examination.”
Currently, one of the debates amongst the pro-reparations crowd is who should qualify in the first place. Some advocates, like Professor Sandy Darity, the founding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University,But the debate surrounding who should receive reparations might be equal parts divisive and premature, Loftin warns:"Before we have a conversation about who should and shouldn't be getting it, let's see if we even get it first.
In order to ensure that the reparations debate continues to successfully evolve, there are two critical aspects of engagement that must occur immediately: education and inclusion. “In order for the nation to further engage young people about reparations we have to start with what reparations are and why we’re having this conversation to begin with,” says Loftin.
Jones believes that if we make the conversation more tangibly based in the future, it will pull more young folks into the discussion."Young folks care, but for many it's just a hot topic that keeps up conversation," he said, adding:"It hasn't been tampered with and explored enough to discover what realistic reparations could look like."
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