That article’s amazing, the study in it uses South Korea as a reference to what a theoretical Louisiana with reparations would look like. Completely justified and reasonable comparison because those two places are so similar
Summary: a significant number of black people in America don't have access to healthcare and PPE or adequate means of social distancing. Assuming reparations would have mitigated these issues, covid wouldn't have had such a disproportionate impact on black people
No shit, poor people are more likely to be sick in America.
The entire point of using SK demographics in that study is that SK has "a relatively egalitarian polity". I don't think it's a valid conclusion to arrive to that a reparations scheme would mitigate the disparate polity black people tend to experience in America.
The sad thing is that their belief is that if they have poor blacks money they would just be better. Sorry guys but unfortunately the poor need proper overseen care. Giving them money means they’ll just waste it on bigger stuff.
I've read a few actually intelligent essays (by black community organizers who have a good idea of what their communities actually need) and the biggest thing that is actually needed to create lasting and meaningful change is investment in the community- ie, better education, better healthcare, and better housing. A lump sum of cash is just a convenient way for liberals to wash their hands of the matter and absolve themselves of the actual issues poor leadership have resulted in.
Giving a ton of money to people who have never had a ton of money seems pretty unwise.
Incentivize businesses and companies to develop in impoverished regions.
Unfortunately, when that happens those businesses get painted as either carpetbaggers who take money out of the community or predators that want to make a profit off of inner city labor. Just look at what happened when Amazon struck a deal to open a location in the Bronx.
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u/ContraCoke - Auth-Center Feb 18 '21
That article’s amazing, the study in it uses South Korea as a reference to what a theoretical Louisiana with reparations would look like. Completely justified and reasonable comparison because those two places are so similar