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It takes a Village

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“It takes a Village”

  An African Proverb


Google image from: Arkansas Advocate


Today, the Supreme Court ruled the Biden Administration has overstepped its boundaries as it pertains to the issue of Student debt relief. What a disconnect for the average American. I have a post graduate degree in which I have amassed over $130,000 worth of debt as a mom with a recent college graduate (of which I co-signed for one of his college loans) and one in college. My young adults were raised to consider public service as a viable choice for their vocations, a value they learned from their mother, who has pastored small congregations for over 25 years—many of which struggled to pay their clergy. I will never be a mega church pastor with airplanes and million dollar home. I serve people like me moderate and low income, and I pride myself on justice within my own community. The initial purpose of student loan programs was to provide an equitable way for lower-income Americans to access education. However, is it truly equitable, or has it become a cycle of debt that prevents equity and the accumulation of generational wealth?


We live in a country where bailing out billion-dollar corporations and providing tax breaks to multimillionaires have become the norm for our government. What happened to “We the People, for the People?”

 Is this latest act of the Supreme Court an act of defiance based on political shennigians to poke a finger in the face of the Department of Education in which the Secretary can invoke, “income contingent repayment”. This option supports the notion of equity and the pursuit of generational wealth through higher education, especially for many first-generation students?  What happened to the notion of the Greater Good as an ethical principle? And let’s not forget we are talking about reducing the interest rate from 10% to 5%, the program Saving on Valuable Education does not eliminate the debt but provides relief in terms of reduced interest. Do my children and I and other Americans have to now choose to get groceries or pay high interest rates for higher education for better opportunities to serve our fellow Americans. 


A Motherist approach would be to reorder the system that would prevent access for the community. Who and where our Motherist?



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