It’s the progressives that are fighting for universal health care like Canada so I’m not sure how this proves your point. It’s the gop that wants the status quo of of health care NOT being a basic right.
You can only do so much with local politics. The GOP has held most of the power in state and federal politics, not to mention judicially. They have thwarted a lot of the progress that people have tried to make locally. Look at St Louis, Atlanta, Miami, etc as case studies for this.
As far as Clinton goes you’re right, he fukked up with the crime bills. But to be fair, ALOT of black community leaders were also lobbying him and selling those bills. In hindsight this was definitely a mistake.
As far as Obama, one of the very first things he did as President was change minimum sentence guidelines. He also moved to permanently shutter all federal private prisons. He also granted clemency to more non violent drug offenders THAN ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED
How are programs like free lunch programs for kids, CHIP, Medicaid, Medicaid and social security responsible for the break down of our family units?
As I asked before, what things do you want done for blacks and only blacks that is achievable politically?