Robert,
The education "problems" of the blacks are cultural, not racial, as are most of their problems.
We already have "free" community colleges, and the student loan program became little more than unemployment compensation for many blacks (and whites).
"Minorities are in general in lower income areas, and school funding is directly tied to property tax." --States vary, but this is specifically not true in California. In the early 70's, the California Supreme court decoupled property taxes from school funding. (I remember them well because we lived through their unforeseen consequences.)
Back to the cultural problems:
"Nowhere was the effect of the white liberalism of the 1960s on the social evolution of black culture more devastating than in the disintegration of the black family. The raw facts are these: As of 1960, 51 percent of black females between the ages of 15 and 44 were married and living with their husbands, another 20 percent were divorced, widowed, or separated, and only 28 percent had never been married. Twenty years later, only 31 percent of black women in these age brackets were married and living with their husbands, while 48 percent had never married. By 1994, an absolute majority—56 percent—of black women in these age brackets were never married and only 25 percent were married and living with their husbands.186 Accordingly, while two-thirds of black children were living with both parents in 1960, only one-third were by 1994.187 While only 22 percent of black children were born to unmarried women in 1960, 70 percent were by 1994."
(Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks & White Liberals)
The "blacks' problems" are cultural, not racial, and no amount of reparations will solve them.
Regards,
Russ
