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Coates’s proposal isn’t (much) money in individual pockets, it’s very much like you suggest, subsidies and capital infrastructure. Like I said, pretty compelli

• DoreenMichele 9y ago
  I was just kind of thinking out loud. I should probably look the thing up. I have zero familiarity with it. I only recently heard of the very low numbers I cited above and have been feeling like "Damn! Someone should do something to redress this!" And then you said your thing and my big feels and half baked idea came spilling out. It very much upsets me. My dad was career army and fought in WW2. I grew up in a nice house in the suburbs financed by the GI Bill. My dad was part Cherokee. Only about 1/16th, but there is an actor who is full blooded Iroquois who looks uncannily like my father in some photos. Dad was very white passing. But then about 70 percent of African American DNA is European. In the US, if you are 1/8th African, you are "black." It is very arbitrary. So, I find myself pretty incensed. It hits a nerve for me.
• Noos 9y ago
  And I doubt Coates ever thinks that it would just line the pockets of the corrupt, either. He's a very naive thinker.