re: Trump and Republicans should give “education reparations”

We already tried that. It was called BOG, Basic Opportunity Grants. I witnessed the results at USL in Lafayette when I was taking early admissions courses.

The descendants of slaves were all over the campus...except in the classroom. They hung out in the student center, played pool, hit on girls, used drugs and got drunk. After a semester they lost the money due to straight 'F's.
That was the plan. Have a party on the tax payer's dime.
The unintended consequence (there always is one) was that dozens of profs had to be let go at Christmas because enrollment was so much lower in the Spring semester.