for ya smart ppl out there...what does this paragraph mean?

Question

On the several occasions Martin Luther King Jr. expressed a view that black Americans, as well as other disadvantaged Americans, should be compensated for historical wrongs. Speaking to Alex Haley in 1965, he said that granting black Americans only equality could not realistically close the economic gap between them and whites. King said that he did not seek a full restitution of wages lost to slavery, which he believed impossible, but proposed a government compensatory program of US $50 billion over ten years to all disadvantaged groups. He posited that "the money spent would be more than amply justified by the benefits that would accrue to the nation through a spectacular decline in school dropouts, family breakups, crime rates, illegitimacy, swollen relief rolls, rioting and other social evils." His 1964 book Why We Can't Wait elaborated this idea further, presenting it as an application of the common law regarding settlement of unpaid labor.

i need to simplify this. plz help?!?

Answer 1

It's already pretty simple. Basically, Martin Luther King Jr. wanted the government to give $50 billion to a program to help disadvantaged groups as a way of making up to them all the crap they had to go through in the past. The money would be spent trying to decrease school dropouts, family breakups, crime rates, illegitimate children, etc.

Answer 2

While I will not rewrite your homework for you, I will tell you that all you have to do is get rid of fluff words, like first sentence.

Martin Luther King Jr. has expressed that both Black Americans and other disadvantaged peoples should be compensated for historical wrongs.
You don't want to get rid of the good stuff, just the stuff that still makes the sentences good.

Answer 3

Disadvantaged Americans cannot achieve true equality without money. MLK proposed a compensation program, of about 50Billion in 1965, so that Americans would be financially as well as politically equal.

This is the main point. You should be able to work in the other details.

Answer 4

sunlight is shortwave radiation, including seen easy, would the two of those 2 9 letter words paintings? Incoming photograph voltaic radiation is insolation for short...yet it incredibly is ten letters EDIT if those are the letters you're basically one off for radiation, i'd say the letters are a typo.