Your “American dream” or your vote for a corrupt bankster stooge doesn’t give you the right to put me on the hook for your financial obligations or poor life choices.

• A California educator says that she owes more than $200,000 in student loans.
• Richelle Brooks, a principal in South LA, has joined the fight to cancel student loan debt for all.
• She told Insider that a major part of her fight for relief is to give her children a future without crippling debt.

One of Richelle Brooks’ dreams is to send her two children to college without taking out any loans. She knows firsthand how taking out a loan to pursue higher education can amount to crippling debt.

“My daughter wants to be an anesthesiologist. My son wants to be a computer engineer. Two little Black kids want this for their future,” Brooks, 35, told Insider. “And this country is telling me it’s impossible for me to get them there. It’s a terrible, hopeless feeling.”

Brooks borrowed $203,000 collectively to attend undergrad, graduate, and doctoral studies. And over the years, has accumulated over $30,000 in interest.

“Yeah, $240,000,” Brooks said.

In 2020, she decided to politicize her inability to pay back her loans. Apart of the Debt Collective, she joined a group of strikers called the “Biden Jubilee 100,” calling on the president to cancel student debt within the early days of being in office.

Brooks’ American dream is simple.

“My hope is that if my student loan debt balance is canceled, I can start saving for them and planning for their future,” she said. “But I’m also hoping that we can get a free college education so that I don’t have to also worry about how to finance their future either.”

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