OfTheCross
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Now you're making $60K and they're paying more taxes
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2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races
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You, like most black folk's hopes are with Biden because that's what we've been conditioned to accept.
I saw some LBGT people say they like Bernie and supported him until he took an endorsement from a transphobe despite the fact that he has been on the right side of history in regards to their issues before it was popular.
If you're going off of 'hope' here in regards to which one of of these candidates actually have the compassion necessary to address any black issues brought to them, say one like the water crisis in Flint, you might want to look at little less at their rhetoric and more so at the actions they have taken in regards to black people or any other civil rights issue for that matter.
OfTheCross
Veteran
You're misrepresenting his response and it's not right because the video has been posted.
$20K does not resolve the issue, in his view.
Do you think Corey Booker would be happy with $20K as the solution the committee came to?
afterlife2009
Superstar
lol is kamala about to endorse biden or announced as VP? clyburn endorsing biden? kinda intrigued here.
the kid
Real Esquire, Not the Magazine
Fam, I get your support of Bernie, but even in the clips you posted, Bernie talks in generalities about how his plans will help all people, including black people. Liz speaks about specifics, such as her housing plan aimed at formerly redlined areas to increase black 1st time home ownership. Again, Bernie is cool but if you are looking for tangible plans for black people, Liz is where it’s at.
Secure Da Bag
Veteran
Because white liberals tried that and that how's we got where we are now. It's not gonna be much different with white progressives.
You wanna give white, working class people an economic leg up, then do the same for black people. And before you say "he is", remember that by almost every economic and financial metric black people are woefully behind white people. So the economic impact of those programs will be immediate for white people on average. Black people will have to wait about a generation (20 years) before seeing any results. Assuming they all don't get dismantled like Obamacare did.
What do Cory Booker have to do with anything? I didn’t support Cory Booker campaign. Nobody stated that just a cash payment will solve all of the systematic problems of racism Black people face. However, it could be part of the solution. Again, I will ask you the question. What if the committee recommend monetary payments as part of the solution?
Uno Venova
Your honor, I was merely capping.
Amy killed pete 
Thank you moderate queen
Thank you moderate queen
Racial Justice
Voting Rights and Enfranchisement
In the last decade, more than 30 states have considered voter suppression laws whose clear intent is to disenfranchise people of color. How pathetic and how cowardly is that. Together we will end voter suppression in this country and move to automatic voter registration. We are going to make voting easier, not harder. To protect our democracy, we must:
- Restore the Voting Rights Act.
- Re-enfranchise the right to vote to the 1 in 13 African-Americans who have had their vote taken away by a felony conviction, paid their debt to society, and deserve to have their rights restored.
- Secure automatic voter registration for every American over 18.
- End voter suppression and gerrymandering.
- Abolish burdensome voter ID laws.
- Make Election Day a national holiday.
Over the last number of years, we have seen a terrible level of police violence against unarmed people in the minority community: Laquan McDonald, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Rekia Boyd, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Jessica Hernandez, Tamir Rice, Jonathan Ferrell, Oscar Grant, Antonio Zambrano-Montes and others. People of color, killed by the police, who should be alive today. We know that African-Americans are twice as likely to be arrested, and almost four times as likely to experience physical force in an encounter with the police.
Today, black men are sentenced to 19% more jail time for committing the exact same crime as white men, and African Americans are jailed at more than five times the rate of whites.
All of this and more is why we are finally going to bring about real criminal justice reform in this country. We are going to end the international embarrassment of having more people in jail than any other country on earth. Instead of spending $80 billion a year on jails and incarceration, we are going to invest in jobs and education for our young people. No more private prisons and detention centers. No more profiteering from locking people up. No more "war on drugs.
Environmental Justice
Today, Flint, Michigan, is still without new pipes for clean water, and there are 3,000 other Flint, Michigans, across the country—neighborhoods with lead rates that were double those of Flint during the height of its crisis. Together, we must:
- Enact a Green New Deal not just to save the planet, but to protect our most vulnerable communities. We must end the scourge of environmental racism, and at the same time create green jobs to support and rebuild the local economies of affected communities.
- Protect low-income and minority communities, who are hit first and worst by the causes and impacts of climate change, while also protecting existing energy-sector workers as they transition into clean energy and other jobs.
- Address the inadequate environmental cleanup efforts of Superfund hazardous waste sites in communities of color.
- Stop the exposure of people of color to harmful chemicals, pesticides and other toxins in homes, schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces and challenge faulty assumptions in calculating, assessing, and managing risks, discriminatory zoning and land-use practices and exclusionary policies.
- Enact a Green New Deal to mitigate climate change and focus on building resilience in low-income and minority communities.
Today, the infant mortality rate in black communities is more than double the rate for white communities, and the death rates from cancer and almost every other disease is far higher for blacks. Black women are three and a half times more likely to die from pregnancy than white women. We must:
- End the racial disparities in our health care system—31% of African Americans and 32% of Hispanics struggle paying medical bills compared to 24% of white Americans. We must guarantee health care to all people of color as a right, not a privilege, through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program and end this inequity.
Ensure that revenue from legal marijuana is reinvested in communities hit hardest by the War on Drugs, especially African-American and other communities of color.
With new tax resources from legal marijuana sales, we will:
- Create a $20 billion grant program within the Minority Business Development Agency to provide grants to entrepreneurs of color who continue to face discrimination in access to capital.
- With this revenue we will also create a $10 billion grant program to focus on businesses that are at least 51% owned or controlled by those in disproportionately impacted areas or individuals who have been arrested for or convicted of marijuana offenses.
- Provide formerly incarcerated individuals with training and resources needed to start their own businesses and worker owned businesses, and guarantee jobs and free job training at trade schools and apprenticeship programs related to marijuana businesses.
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OfTheCross
Veteran
What is Liz going to do for Blacks with regard to Housing that she isn't going to do for other Americans? Or what's Biden going to do? or Steyer, or Pete, or Bernie?
She surely didn't mention it in the NAACP forum.
"build affordable homes for working-class Americans" is what she said.
Sounds like Bernie's plan, including the redlining bit.
Housing for All
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
OfTheCross
Veteran
What is the economic leg up what Warren or Sanders are proposing for White people? They both focus on low an middle income ppl which are disproportionately Black and Latino
OfTheCross
Veteran
Then if it's good and viable it'll work.
edit: Cory is the one that introduced the Senate bill regarding researching the issue that Warren and Sanders are co-sponsoring. That's what he has to do with it, btw.