In response to: Reckoning With Wealth
Current issue
July 2025
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
Mr. Rockey, it will only take a few minutes to read about how a million Black WWII Veterans were denied the benefits of the GI Bill. Link here: https://www.history.com/articles/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits
Redlining in its various forms is well know and documented. No one said the GI Bill itself was a bad thing (my white grandfather, veteran of the Korean War, was a beneficiary of it). But we must understand how it was implemented with a racist lens to shut out certain qualifying and worthy candidates (WWII heroes) so that we do not continue to repeat the same mistakes (or similar mistakes in a modern form).