Black Men's Agenda from Stacy Abrams

[BiggWebb79]

Black men deserve leadership that sees them, serves them, and believes in them. I am committed to investing in Black men, their families, and their businesses by leveraging Georgia’s $5 billion surplus – a plan that economists agree will not raise taxes.

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Economic Security

• Provide capital and contract opportunities for Black small businesses
  • Establish a $10 million Small Business Investment Fund
  • Eliminate fees and red-tape to start your own business
  • Increase purchasing from black-owned businesses by state entities
  • Allow multiple small companies to jointly bid on state contracts as prime contractor
  • Close the gap between minority and non-minority business revenues in 6-8 years (at current pace, will take 100 years)
  • Create a $5 million Family Farms Initiative to aid small and micro-farms with financing
• Put money back in your pockets
  • Tax rebates for everyone making less than $250,000
  • End wage theft and misclassification (treating employees as independent contractors)
  • Enforce unemployment regulations in cooperation with the Labor Commissioner (53% of Georgians denied unemployment during the pandemic were Black)

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Healthcare and Housing

• Expand Medicaid
  • Adults making $9/hr or less would be eligible for health insurance, including non-crisis mental health and substance abuse treatment
  • Will create 64,000 good-paying jobs across the state
• Make housing more affordable for everyone.
  • Support first-time homeowners and provide financial education
  • Create a permanent fund to finance property tax deferments for working class households facing rapidly rising property taxes caused by out-of-state buyers or gentrification.

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Education and Job Training

• Increase funding to public schools and decrease over-disciplining of black children
• Create 20,000 apprenticeships, including construction, entertainment and advanced energy
• Restore free technical college
• Expand access to HOPE and fund need-based aid for higher education, particularly at HBCUs

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Criminal Justice and Public Safety

• Focus law enforcement resources on serious violent crime
  • Support legislation to decriminalize marijuana and end poverty-based criminal penalties
  • Repeal extreme gun laws including criminal carry and close loopholes
  • Restore diversion programs and re-entry programs to support housing, healthcare and employment
• Hold law enforcement accountable
  • Require accountability for law enforcement and correctional officers
  • Track officers with records of bad behavior and prevent them from getting new jobs
  • Create state guidelines that address use of force, de-escalation and crisis intervention
    
    

    Black Men's Agenda | Stacey Abrams for Governor

    Black men deserve leadership that sees them, serves them, and believes in them. I am committed to investing in Black men, their families, and their …

    staceyabrams.com

 

[mcellas]

I know how this will go let me get my seat

 

[Mastamimd]

I made it

Need sum entertainment before this trip

 

[Tryna Makit]

Well she actually said Black Men and not "Men of Color".......so I guess I'll give her a listen

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

-sigh-

In

 

[get these nets]

If I was a young guy and lived in that state, and had plans to do something with my life and have a family, the free technical college, trade apprenticeship program, and small business support would be what I'd be focused on and examining the details of.

Lot of natural born entrepreneurs are from, or move to metro Atlanta......so I know that's speaking directly to them.

 

[Rakim Allah]

This is a start, friends.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

In

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Bless her

 

[TreySav]

I ain’t even trying to be on some hating shyt but this is basically the same plan as her general plan


General plan: create over 64,000 jobs and revitalize rural and struggling communities.

Black men plan: Will create 64,000 good-paying jobs across the state

 

[Ain't That Something]

That is a legit socio-economic plan

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I ain’t even trying to be on some hating shyt but this is basically the same plan as her general plan


General plan: create over 64,000 jobs and revitalize rural and struggling communities.

Black men plan: Will create 64,000 good-paying jobs across the state

You're nitpicking unless of course she's trying to get white voters with all of the police accountability and hbcu stuff too

 

[Cornershooter]

Twitter/YouTube hoteps got her team scared

Made her address us directly. They were trying to shame black men until they realized nikkas wasn’t budging

 

[Kenny West]

I ain’t even trying to be on some hating shyt but this is basically the same plan as her general plan


General plan: create over 64,000 jobs and revitalize rural and struggling communities.

Black men plan: Will create 64,000 good-paying jobs across the state

• Provide capital and contract opportunities for Black small businesses
  • Establish a $10 million Small Business Investment Fund
  • Eliminate fees and red-tape to start your own business
  • Increase purchasing from black-owned businesses by state entities
  • Allow multiple small companies to jointly bid on state contracts as prime contractor
  • Close the gap between minority and non-minority business revenues in 6-8 years (at current pace, will take 100 years)
  • Create a $5 million Family Farms Initiative to aid small and micro-farms with financing

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[desjardins]

None of this seems specific to men but at least she has the gumption to explicitly say it's for us
That's all these politicians have to do and most of them won't even do that. So I give her full credit for having the balls to directly campaign black male voters