Black veterans were blocked from tapping into the full scope of the GI Bill’s programs. Now over 75 years later, Democrats in Congress want to make good.
The GI Bill Restoration Act can’t completely reverse the harm that was done all those years ago. It can’t automatically close the— 47 percent among Black Americans versus 76 percent among White Americans in the second quarter of 2020 — the GI Bill’s racist implementation exacerbated. But it can help. Weakening one pillar of structural racism is still better than a lot of proposals currently on the table.
For now, the bill is only newly introduced, and, given how crowded Democrats’ agenda is at this point, I doubt it will get a standalone vote in the Senate anytime soon. The best option is for Democrats to attach this bill to the National Defense Authorization Act for the next fiscal year. At least then it will have a chance of actually becoming law, and if it does, it will give hundreds of thousands of families a chance that their fathers and grandfathers were denied.
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