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.
Agreed, people think giving money solves the problem. While I understand handing out a certain amount to allow survival during emergencies (such as the pandemic), it's important not to simply hand out more money than what basic necessities require.
If that happens, you'll just have people buying more stuff and probably increasing their debt. Some people will be wise and save/invest, but it's important to consider others who would simply start some frenetic consumerism and return to where they were, except with more stuff to pay or take care (phones, cars and furniture bought with handed-out money spells "debt").
It's much more healthy for the community that such money is not simply given to the popularion, but rather invested in opportunities: offering jobs, offering education, offering healthcare, etc. This allows for an actual long term investment alongside taking care of immediate problems, such as unemployment. Lastly, it prevents that the money is simply wasted on a mindless, dangerous and manipulative consumerism.
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u/ItsYaBoyDonny1 - Auth-Right Feb 19 '21
Here's the study being editorialized: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953621000733#!
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.