> I read once that Andrew Hacker asks his white students at Queens
> College how much compensation they'd ask for for having been born
> black. The average is around $1 million.
That would add up to $39 trillion, about three times the U.S. annual GDP -- a good chunk of current U.S. national wealth.
I wonder if white students at a college in, say, Louisiana would go higher.
MK wrote:
> We're all so atomized - those of us who are willing and able try to
> approach the problem analytically should continue to do so. But
> there's no substitute for just going out, talking to one another and
> building community.
Indeed.