Seems like a pretty simple judo approach on this would work. Support a Reparation Settlement Fund by giving the Historically Black Colleges a substantial contribution to their endowments, make them self-sustaining and even able to grow enrollment.
Set a standard for who gets what, to try to equal the contribution per African-American student currently attending (to make sure the money goes to the schools with the minority enrollments still mostly AA as well as to teach a lesson about about socialism since the wealthier HBCU’s would get less of a contribution - i.e., Grambling would get more per student than Southern).
Make DAMN sure it is the Republican proposal and that the more mainstream AA groups and church groups are on board. Isolate the radical AA groups and their far left allies into trying to argue against it. Have Ben Carson and Alveda King lead the initiative along with DeVos and find church leaders to support it. Have high profile HBCU graduates talk publicly about how important their alma maters were to them.
Takes the issue away forever, hard to argue against since the Left always cries about educational disadvantage, and makes anyone on the Left who argues against it look really petty.
As well as continue the Trump Admin inroads to the AA vote!
I get riled up every time someone talks about ‘educational disadvantages’.
Both my Dad & one of my brothers ere in or connected to the printing business.
They both were working with TEXTBOOKS.
I have NEVER seen a different set of the following:
TEXTBOOKS
school desks
pens
pencils
compass
notebooks
lined paper
rulers
heat at the school
lights at the school
teachers at the school
I would love for a serious CONSERVATIVE candidate to appear at a debate & place a pair of school desks with a pile of school supplies on the desks on the podium-—one at each side.
Then, I would like that candidate to ask the audience:
WHICH ONE IS THE PILE OF SUPPLIES HANDED TO WHITES ONLY?
There is no such thing.