Education: Black children disproportionately inhabit the worst schooling areas in the nation. HRC was in the pocket of teachers unions, who have no vested interest in improving the educational system for those children stuck in the school to prison pipeline. Attempts to alter the system have traditionally been stymied by those same public education bureaucrats funding Hillary. Education reform for those who most need it would not have been a realistic outcome. On this issue, Trump said: "The Democratic Party has trapped millions of African-American and Hispanic youth in failing government schools that deny them the opportunity to join the ladder of American success. It is time to break up that monopoly. I want every single inner-city child in America who is today trapped in a failing school to have the freedom – the civil right – to attend the school of their choice. Our government spends more than enough money to easily pay for this initiative, with billions left over. It’s simply a matter of putting students first, not the education bureaucracy.”
I can appreciate this. remains to be seen.
I will say that in Michigan, where most of her experience lies, 80 percent of charter schools are for profit. also Michigan has fallen over the last 2 decades on national reading and mathetics levels, while the number of charter and parochial school has been rising over the same time.
I hope she succeeds. it's a different strategy and I can support that.
Immigration: Hillary's plans for amnesty and refusal to consider deportation would severely dilute the power of the black community as a political bloc. This process is already happening due to demographic shifts, but her proposals would have accelerated this process. On this issue, Trump said: "One of the greatest betrayals has been the issue of immigration. Illegal immigration violates the civil rights of African-Americans. No group has been more economically-harmed by decades of illegal immigration than low-income African-American workers. Hillary’s pledge to enact “open borders,” – made in secret to a foreign bank – would destroy the African-American middle class."
I agree with this.
Economics: In conjunction with her immigration policy, her neoliberal economic ideology would further gut the working class, disproportionately consisting of African-Americans, through onerous trade deals like TPP. On this issue, Trump has continuously railed against trade deals that sell-out the working class, and has said: "Every African-American citizen in this country is entitled to a government that puts their jobs, wages and security first...The Clintons gave us NAFTA and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, two deals that de-industrialized America, uprooted our industry, and stripped bare towns like Detroit and Baltimore and the inner cities of North Carolina. This state has lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs since Bill and Hillary’s NAFTA, decimating the African-American middle class...I will also pursue financial reforms to make it easier for young African-Americans to get credit to pursue their dreams in business and create jobs in their communities. Dodd-Frank has been a disaster, making it harder for small businesses to get the credit they need. The policies of the Clintons brought us the financial recession – through lifting Glass-Steagall, pushing subprime lending, and blocking reforms to Fannie and Freddie. It’s time for a 21st century Glass Steagall and, as part of that, a priority on helping African-American businesses get the credit they need."
Manufacturing jobs are never coming back.
Hope he can help small businesses. I support that.
People are often blinded by the more visceral incarnations of white supremacy, like police brutality, which is why believe HRC's weak-kneed "can't we all just get along" shyt to be the definitive factor in the "Who is more racist?" debate. But while Hillary may have a better position on that particular issue than Trump, with his love affair with the police and association with people like Rudy Giuliani, there are other, more fundamental issues at play when analyzing white supremacy than policing.