Nothing in your post detracts from what I said
If anything, you're searching for reasons OUTSIDE of the simple fact that colleges raise tuition every year and most students in college utilize loans
Nowhere did I mention anything at all about dorm prices, that's completely irrelevant to what colleges charge students purely to attend
I wasn't really going to type out a longer response, but I have a little time on my hands. The problem with conclusions like yours is not that they are wrong but rather that they don't deal in truth. During the mid-to-late 60s Dr. King would travel from school to school lecturing and one of his favorites things to say was the following, "I’m afraid if I stop now I will not be telling the total truth. I would be stating a fact, certainly, but not the whole truth. You see a fact is merely the absence of contradiction, but truth is the presence of coherence. Truth is the relatedness of facts."
What you have done in your post is cherry pick certain facts that fit your world view, rather than present the issue in its totality. Your style of argumentation is akin to conservatives who blame black people for their problems but never want to talk about the sad and shameful history that Black people have endured in this country. For other posters reading this, think about how differently someone from another country wold see black people if they ignored everything prior to 1970 versus learning all of U.S. history...now you understand my problem with his post.
Your post would have us believe that the world started right when Bill Clinton created a government program. Bill Clinton and a REPUBLICAN congress didn't just come along one day and say, hey "Lets make college unaffordable." Rather they were addressing another issue. They wanted anyone regardless of income or family status to have the ability to attend college if they were smart enough to get in. So if you want to be intellectually honest, what you should have said is blame President Clinton for both the higher student debt AND the the higher college enrollment rates.
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*You see that decrease for African-American College Enrollment from 1980 to 1986? That was under a Republican President who thought that government should cut back how much they funded Higher Education...
REAGAN ATTACKS CRITICS OVER CUT IN STUDENT AID
You argue on the one hand that President Clinton and Congress are responsible for the high cost tuition but being an Economics major I have to tell you that your argument is flawed. For one, your argument assumes that college tuition and student debt are synonymous. This assumption is unwarranted. When it comes to higher education people have choices. They could easily choose to go to a community college or a local state school and take out less debt. Expensive schools would still be expensive, but on a whole, students would have less debt.
Another problem with your post is that it underlying your argument is the unspoken assumption that debt is inherently bad. This is simply not the case. Debt, especially when taken out for college is an investment. A person who has $40,000 in debt and a STEM degree is sitting pretty. A recently graduated doctor who has $150,000 in debt is well positioned financially. On the other hand, a person who has a degree in philosophy may have a hard time paying off their debt. So to simply say that Bill Clinton did something that made student debt increase therefore blame him is so intellectually weak that it's kind of sad.
I'll leave with you with two things. One, in spite of the rising cost of tuition college is still a great investment (So how much blame do you really want to put on Clinton, seeing how he increased College enrollment and college is a great investment).
College Is Worth It, Even With Loans
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/upshot/is-college-worth-it-clearly-new-data-say.html
It turns out college IS worth it — if you want to get a job
Lastly, and probably my biggest issue with your post, is that anyone who reads your post would logically assume that the best way forward is to rollback Government funding for higher education (Let me guess your a Trump supporter aren't you-https://
www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/24/white-house-budget-includes-tens-billions-cuts-student-aid-and-research). If you read my post, a post that provides not just cherry picked facts but truth, you'd realize that the best way forward is not to cut government funding for higher education but rather to educate families and individuals so they factor in affordability when it comes to the college they choose to attend.
......its a simple equatuon...black women are highest educated demographic in the country....the offset...they have the highest amount of college debt. Pretty much everyone who goes to a major university is under the debt umbrella. To use this simple fact as a means to shyt on black women is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
