PEACH COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) -- Middle Georgia students are joining the campaign to call on the country's top elected officials to cancel loan debt.

The New Georgia Project's Cancel Loans for Education and Reparations (CLEAR) Campaign is on a tour of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and officials with the project stopped at Fort Valley State University on Wednesday.

“Americans owe $1.75 trillion dollars in student loan debt. That’s nearly double the bailouts of 2009. We believe that the American people are also too big to fail, and they deserve a bailout as well,” says Maggie Bell, Lead Organizer for Agenda for Young Georgians.

Bell recently graduated from Albany State University and has student loan debt herself.

"We already know that, for one, Black people got Joe Biden into office. He sold us a dream that he was for canceling student loan debt. He even attached the number $10,000. We already know that $10,000 is not going to solve the problem, so let's take another step. We know that he is able to cancel $50,000, and even though that does not patch up the problem of economic justice with the Black community, it still needs to happen and still needs to get done," she said.

Student loan debt also affects Black borrowers, especially women, more than every other demographic, campaign officials state. Motivated by that issue, Bell says the New Georgia Project's CLEAR campaign is touring HBCUs to speak with Black students and Black borrowers about the significance of getting student debt canceled.

Bell says they want to help amplify students' voices and be a force that brings students together to collectively demand change.

It's an issue that Shanita Wilkerson Bryant, Post 2 County Commissioner, backs up. Bryant showed up to the event to support the university's student NAACP chapter and the New Georgia Project's campaign to have student debt canceled.

"I fully support that effort," said Commissioner Bryant. "Student debt is something that is critical to, especially young African-Americans. You know, as African-Americans, we were sold on a dream that if we got an education, it would help us go further and be better, more economically secure, and financially stable. But, that's hard to do after you spend four to five years in college and you're graduating with an insurmountable amount of debt."

The event came as the New Georgia Project and Debt Collective, a union for debtors, wrote a letter to the White House calling for the cancellation of all student loan debt.

Commissioner Byrant, speaking on behalf of the students, shared a message to President Joe Biden.

We voted for you sir, we appreciate your campaign efforts. But what we want to see is the campaign promise that you made to us to cancel these student debts. We would like to see that campaign promise come to fruition so that we can actually have students to graduate without being stressed out with debts, who can buy their first homes, send their own children through school.