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Bad take. I'm a first gen college grad. I was born into a single parent household on Chicago's south side. My hood was once a middle class haven but by the 80s it was taken over by drugs and gangs. I remember crying on the floor in a huddle with my mom while drive-by's happened https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1328593922478764032
outside. I was four years old and some of my earliest memories are bullet holes in our windows and staircase. I remember when my mom packed up her four kids and moved because she wanted us to live to see graduation. Education was always big in my house even though there were
days where we did homework in the dark because we couldn't afford electricity. I graduated high school valedictorian and went onto college and grad school. College for a kid from an impoverished background is still out of reach for sooooo many add Blackness to the plate and
things get a lot harder. Black kids graduate with 2-3 times the student loan debt of whites largely because of the wealth gap that exists between Blacks and whites. Most Black families can't contribute much if anything at all to their kids college aspirations. My EFC was 0
on the FAFSA and I had an incarcerated parent. The road was rough. But my story isn't unique to people who look like me. Neither is 6 figure student loan debt. Our system is setup to reward those with wealthy backgrounds and bury those who didn't win the birthright lottery
Its time we reform that and yes #studentloanforgiveness is a vital part of that.
And student loan forgiveness helps the economy. It allows young people the freedom to purchase homes, invest in community goods and services and not have the weight of crushing debt. The only people we hear shouting down #studentloanforgiveness are those from backgrounds of
privilege, those that graduated years before the avg cost of attendance ballooned and those lucky enough to graduate and have an 80k+ job waiting for them. That's just not the reality for many students today. I graduated in 09, a year after the economy fell apart. Many students
that graduated with me went back to live with their parents and worked at Walmart or any other retail job they could find. They earned low wages with degrees in hand. In 2020 these kids didn't even get to have a graduation due to covid and the Covid-19 economy has
swallowed up job opportunities for several industries. We can and should offer a reset. Student loan debt forgiveness is imperative
