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Moral Component<br />

Moral debt is the final component of the education debt and “reflects disparity between<br />

what we know is right and what we actually do” (Ladson-Billings). Moral debt is<br />

expressed as the lack of honor given when honor is due. There is no hesitation in<br />

giving honor to Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks. Another example of repaying<br />

moral debt are the reparations placed on Germany after WWII.[38] Debate is happening<br />

on the basis of moral debt, reparations and success but much of the debate focuses on<br />

the individual and the responsibility of the individual to ensure success. “No nation can<br />

enslave a race of people for hundreds of years, set them free bedraggled and<br />

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