BREAKING: Donald Trump Announces Plan 2 Remove Clinton Era Criminal Justice Laws That Hurt Black Men

[Don Homer]

MAGA!

hold this neg, hoe

 

[dj-method-x]

Again, many blame blue dog democrats for a lot of Obama’s inability to do much too in those two years:
Opinion | Boot the Blue Dog Democrats

You’re still ignoring the fact that he still got a lot done bruh - including “don’t ask don’t tell” and Obamacare which republicans hated

You all just don’t want to admit he had no interest in the AADOS community’s issues whatsoever

He was able to do don’t ask don’t tell by executive order not by legislation that had to go through Congress since it had to deal with the military. He was able to do Obamacare during the 4 months he actually had control of congress. If you’re going to argue politics at least read and research to know wtf you’re talking about.

Also, for the 2618262727th time he did plenty for Black folk.

Progress of the African-American Community During the Obama Administration


Key Accomplishments

Labor Market, Income and Poverty

• The unemployment rate for African Americans peaked at 16.8 percent in March 2010, after experiencing a larger percentage-point increase from its pre-recession average to its peak than the overall unemployment rate did. Since then, the African-American unemployment rate has seen a larger percentage-point decline in the recovery, falling much faster than the overall unemployment rate over the last year.
  
  
• The real median income of black households increased by 4.1 percent between 2014 and 2015.
  
  
• The President enacted permanent expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which together now provide about 2 million African-American working families with an average tax cut of about $1,000 each.
  
  
• A recent report from the Census Bureau shows the remarkable progress that American families have made as the recovery continues to strengthen. Real median household income grew 5.2 percent from 2014 to 2015, the fastest annual growth on record. Income grew for households across the income distribution, with the fastest growth among lower- and middle-income households. The number of people in poverty fell by 3.5 million, leading the poverty rate to fall from 14.8 percent to 13.5 percent, the largest one-year drop since 1968, with even larger improvements including for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and children.
  
  
• The poverty rate for African Americans fell faster in 2015 than in any year since 1999.While the poverty rate fell for across all racial and ethnic groups this year, it fell 2.1 percentage points (p.p.) for African Americans, resulting in 700,000 fewer African Americans in poverty.
  
  
• African American children also made large gains in 2015, with the poverty rate falling 4.2 percentage points and 400,000 fewer children in poverty.

Health

• Since the start of Affordable Care Act's first open enrollment period at the end of 2013, the uninsured rate among non-elderly African Americans has declined by more than half.Over that period, about 3 million uninsured nonelderly, African-American adults gained health coverage.
  
  
• Teen pregnancy among African-American women is at an historic low. The birth rate per 1,000 African-American teen females has fallen from 60.4 in 2008, before President Obama entered office, to 34.9 in 2014.
  
  
• Life expectancy at birth is the highest it’s ever been for African Americans. In 2014, life expectancy at birth was 72.5 years for African-American males and 78.4 for African-American females, the highest point in the historical series for both genders.

Education

• The high school graduation rate for African-American students is at its highest point in history. In the 2013-2014 academic year, 72.5 percent of African-American public high school students graduated within four years.
  
  
• Since the President took office, over one million more black and Hispanic students enrolled in college.
  
  
• Among African-Americans and Hispanic students 25 and older, high school completion is higher than ever before. Among African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian students 25 and older, Bachelor’s degree attainment is higher than ever before. As of 2015, 88 percent of the African-American population 25 and older had at least a high school degree and 23percent had at least a Bachelor’s degree.

Support for HBCUs

• The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is responsible for funding more than $4 billion for HBCUs each year.
  
  
• Pell Grant funding for HBCU students increased significantly between 2007 and 2014, growing from $523 million to $824 million.
  
  
• The President’s FY 2017 budget request proposes a new, $30 million competitive grant program, called the HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Innovation for Completion Fund, designed to support innovative and evidence-based, student-centered strategies and interventions to increase the number of low-income students completing degree programs at HBCUs and MSIs.
  
  
• The First in the World (FITW) program provided unique opportunities for HBCUs to compete for grants focused on innovation to drive student success.
  
  
• In 2014, Hampton University received a grant award of $3.5 million.
  
  
• In FY 2015, three FITW awards were made to HBCUs, including Jackson State University ($2.9 million), Delaware State University ($2.6 million) and Spelman College ($2.7 million).
  
  
• While Congress did not fund the program in fiscal year 2016, the President’s 2017 budget request includes $100 million for the First in the World program, with up to $30 million set aside for HBCUs and MSIs.

Criminal Justice

• The incarceration rates for African-American men and women fell during each year of the Obama Administration and are at their lowest points in over two decades. The imprisonment rates for African-American men and women were at their lowest points since the early 1990s and late 1980s, respectively, of 2014, the latest year for which Bureau of Justice Statistics data are available.
  
  
• The number of juveniles in secure detention has been reduced dramatically over the last decade. The number of juveniles committed or detained, a disproportionate number of whom are African American, fell more than 30% between 2007 and 2013.
  
  
• The President has ordered the Justice Department to ban the use of solitary confinement for juveniles held in federal custody. There are presently no more juveniles being held in restrictive housing federally.

My Brother’s Keeper

• President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative on February 27, 2014 to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential.
  
  
• Nearly 250 communities in all 50 states, 19 Tribal Nations, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico have accepted the President’s My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge to dedicate resources and execute their own strategic plans to ensure all young people can reach their full potential.
  
  
• Inspired by the President’s call to action, philanthropic and other private organizations have committed to provide more than $600 million in grants and in-kind resources and $1 billion in low-interest financing to expand opportunity for young people – more than tripling the initial private sector investment since 2014.
  
  
• In May 2014, the MBK Task Force gave President Obama nearly 80 recommendations to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by young people, including boys and young men of color. Agencies have been working individually and collectively since to respond to recommendations with federal policy initiatives, grant programs, and guidance. Today, more than 80% of MBK Task Force Recommendations are complete or on track.

Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color

• In 2014, the Council on Women and Girls (CWG) launched a specific work stream called “Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color” to ensure that policies and programs across the federal government appropriately take into account the unique obstacles that women and girls of color can face. In fall 2015, CWG released a report that identified five data-driven issue areas where interventions can promote opportunities for success at school, work, and in the community.
  
  
• This work has also inspired independent commitments to advance equity, including a $100 million, 5-year-funding initiative by Prosperity Together—a coalition of women’s foundations—to improve economic prosperity for low-income women and women and girls of color and a $75 million funding commitment by the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research—an affiliation of American colleges, universities, research organizations, publishers and public interest institutions led by Wake Forest University—to support existing and new research efforts about women and girls of color.
  
  
• At the United State of Women Summit in June 2016, eight organizations launched “Young Women’s Initiatives,” place-based, data-driven programs that will focus in on the local needs of young women of color. Those organizations include the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, the Women’s Foundation of California, the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham, the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, and the New York Women’s Foundation.

Small Business

• There are 8 million minority-owned firms in the U.S.—a 38% increase since 2007.
  
  
• In early 2015, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) launched the MBK Millennial Entrepreneurs Initiative, which seeks to address the challenges faced by underserved millennials, including boys and young men of color, through self-employment and entrepreneurship. A major component of this effort included the six-part video series, titled “Biz My Way,” which encourages millennials to follow their passion in business.
  
  
• In fiscal year 2015, underserved markets received 32,563 loans totaling $13 billion, compared with 25,799 loans and $10.47 billion in fiscal year 2014, an increase of 26 percent in number of loans and 24 percent in dollar amount.
  
  
• Last year, the SBA issued a new rule that makes most individuals currently on probation or parole eligible for a SBA microloan—a loan of up to $50,000 that helps small businesses start up. And in August 2016, SBA together with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Justine Petersen, launched the Aspire Entrepreneurship Initiative, a $2.1 Million pilot initiative to provide entrepreneurship education and microloans to returning citizens in Detroit, Chicago, Louisville and St. Louis.

Civil Rights Division

• The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division continued to enforce federal law.Over the last eight years, the Division has vigorously protected the civil rights of individuals in housing, lending, employment, voting, education, and disability rights and through hate crimes and law enforcement misconduct prosecutions and law enforcement pattern and practice cases.

African-American Judicial Appointees

• President Obama has made 62 lifetime appointments of African Americans to serve on the federal bench.
  
  
• This includes 9 African-American circuit court judges.
  
  
• It also includes the appointment of 53 African American district court judges—including 26 African-American women appointed to the federal court, which is more African-American women appointed by any President in history.
  
  
• In total, 19% of the President’s confirmed judges have been African American, compared to 16% under President Bill Clinton and 7% under President George W. Bush.
  
  
• Five states now have their first African-American circuit judge; 10 states now have their first African-American female lifetime-appointed federal judge; and 3 districts now have their first African-American district judge.
  
  
• Also, the President appointed the first Haitian-American lifetime-appointed federal judge, the first Afro-Caribbean-born district judge, the first African-American female circuit judge in the Sixth Circuit, and the first African-American circuit judge on the First Circuit (who was also the first African-American female lifetime-appointed federal judge to serve anywhere in the First Circuit).
  
  
• The President is committed to continuing to ensure diversity on the federal bench. This year, the President nominated Myra Selby of Indiana to the Seventh Circuit, Abdul Kallon of Alabama to the Eleventh Circuit, and Rebecca Haywood of Pennsylvania to the Third Circuit. If confirmed, each of these would be a judicial first—Myra Selby would be the first African-American circuit judge from Indiana, Abdul Kallon would be the first African-American circuit judge from Alabama, and Rebecca Haywood would be the first African-American woman on the Third Circuit.In addition, two of the President’s district court nominees—Stephanie Finely and Patricia Timmons-Goodson—would be the first African-American lifetime-appointed federal judges in each of their respective districts, if confirmed.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

1) Democrats controlled the white house and the senate from Jan 2009 - December 2010
111th United States Congress - Wikipedia

that's plenty of time to have done this - and again, who the fukk was gonna go against anything Barack endorsed at ANY point in his presidency without backlash and damaging their political career?

2) trump just reduced bill clintons 3 strikes law from a life sentence to 25 years
this is an issue that i've heard COUNTLESS black leaders and activists complain about, now TRUMP is gonna get credit for it

the truth of the matter is a lot of you dudes are terrified and afraid of looking like sellouts to look at your leaders and ask them how the fukk they let this happen

nobodys saying support trump, but the apathetic attitudes DEMOCRATS have had for black people bit them in the ass here

1) I swear you have no damn clue what a filibuster is or how long the Democrats had a 60-seat majority. You sound like a damn Fox News host the way you keep denying reality.

2) Trump hasn't undone shyt. You ignore that during his first two years in office, he made every sentencing issue WORSE. His Department of Justice pursued harsher sentences, more private prison funding, more drug prosecution even of nonviolent offences, he literally told police officers to abuse suspects in custody. Then he turns and gives vocal support to an extremely WEAK bipartisan version of a bill that Democrats have been pushing for years, and you want to kiss his ass because he's suggesting anything at all after two years of doing the exact opposite?


And who the hell are my "leaders"? I'm not a Democrat. I'm just not the kind of guy who goes around lying to get people to kiss Trump's ass.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

1) I swear you have no damn clue what a filibuster is or how long the Democrats had a 60-seat majority. You sound like a damn Fox News host the way you keep denying reality.

2) Trump hasn't undone shyt.

I stopped reading here - I never said anything about anyone “undoing” anything

And you still haven’t negated the fact that Obama got Obamacare and “don’t ask don’t tell” through these “filibuster” republicans

You cats come on here with already pre-loaded emotions and anger and expect us to cater to them, not me.

Get your last word in bruh, I’m not your got damned therapist.

 

[panopticon]

Kanye got clowned for talking to trump about prison reform tho

Real shyt.

I don't care who's doing it or why. I just want as many of our people out of prison as possible.

Freedom is priceless.

There's ~181,000 federal prisoners right now. ~69,000 of them are black. Of all federal prisoners, 78,000 are in for drug-related offenses.

BOP: Population Statistics

BOP Statistics: Inmate Race

BOP Statistics: Inmate Offenses

That's 78,000 days of human life completely wasted every single day. Shyt is completely fukked up.

Check out the bill summary here:

H.R.5682 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): FIRST STEP Act

The two best parts (IMO):

"The bill modifies the computation of good time credit to allow a prisoner to earn a maximum of 54 days per year of the sentence imposed (instead of 54 days per year of the sentence actually served)."

This is hugely significant. It means brehs with 10 year sentences can get out a whole year earlier than they could before (by just doing the RDAP+ good time credit - remember, before the requirement was that you did 85% of your total sentence regardless of how much good time credit you earned).

If they do things right, they end up doing ~75% of their time. Still not enough, but this is moving things in the right direction.

"(Sec. 402) The BOP must place low-risk prisoners on home confinement for the maximum amount of time permitted."

Also huge - especially for non-violent drug offenders (for obvious reasons).

Overall, the bill title is pretty accurate - this is a good "first step." Clearly a whole lot more needs to be done, but I can't knock this.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Spoke to my homie in feds he say this will cut his sentence down tremendously.

I guess this reply is right wing propaganda too huh

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

While I won't give my vote to trump just yet..there is nothing wrong with trying to pander to black men for votes

 

[panopticon]

Spoke to my homie in feds he say this will cut his sentence down tremendously.

Did he give you any details? Was it the good time credit change that made most of the difference? Or the recidivism prevention part of the bill?

It's one thing to have the bill language - but I'm always curious to hear how things actually pan out for brehs in the system.

In any case thanks for sharing breh

 

[Keep_It_Hip_Hop_Fam]

Don't fall for it. Those Eminem racist tapes still exists and now suddenly he's all for black people?

Trump knows his former lawyer or someone else has that 'trump' card against him.

 

[ultraflexed]

they still don't acknowledge the crack "crisis" but NOW it's a problem because it's happening to you know who

Trump troll game is so skrong though

They did in the 80's the crack epidemic, regan's spoke on it, dare program came out of that, and all the this is your brain on drugs commercials

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I stopped reading here - I never said anything about anyone “undoing” anything

Right here:

Wait...so barack obama did MORE than reverse those crazy clinton crime laws that bill clinton himself admitted were bad

And you still haven’t negated the fact that Obama got Obamacare and “don’t ask don’t tell” through these “filibuster” republicans

You cats come on here with already pre-loaded emotions and anger and expect us to cater to them, not me.

Get your last word in bruh, I’m not your got damned therapist.

Breh, "Don't ask Don't tell" was executive order, it has NOTHING to do with Senate filibusters.

Obama got through a LOT of executive orders to reduce sentences, everything from commuting the sentences of over 1,000 federal prisoners to instructing attorney generals to seek the minimum sentence possible for nonviolent drug offences to increasing compassionate release to diverting prison funding to decreasing the number of people convicted under mandatory minimum laws by 20%.

But you can't change actual sentencing laws without passing legislation. And that's what Republicans have blocked for years.

 

[mcellas]

Did he give you any details? Was it the good time credit change that made most of the difference? Or the recidivism prevention part of the bill?

It's one thing to have the bill language - but I'm always curious to hear how things actually pan out for brehs in the system.

In any case thanks for sharing breh

His words" It should correct my sentence by making the cocaine to crack disparity retroactive. I was sentenced in May 2010. They law was amended in November that same year. I got a consecutive sentence for having a gun to ''protect the drugs'' which is called stacking sentences"

 

[panopticon]

His words" It should correct my sentence by making the cocaine to crack disparity retroactive. I was sentenced in May 2010. They law was amended in November that same year. I got a consecutive sentence for having a gun to ''protect the drugs'' which is called stacking sentences"

Appreciate the response breh dap+rep

So now his sentences are running concurrently...and he's eligible for more good time credits than before (54 days per sentenced year rather than served year) on top of the RDAP 1-year reduction (which I assume he already took because he's got a drug-related conviction).

Thats some good news right there...might've knocked 50%+ off his original time

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I hate that religion is always brought into it by rolling out that pastor. The black church has done NOTHING to improve the lives of black people. How much praying are we going to do before we realize it doesn't work?

 

[CASHAPP]

When he was elected the 3 Headed Monster of White Supremacy was Trump,Sessions and Bannon .

Only one of them is still around.

Who is in his ear now for these type of issues?

He’s going totally against what Sessions philosophy was on this. If he legalizes weed the Dems won’t see the White House until 2036..

I fixed that for you. He does plan to do that and a couple of his Republican buddies have said this, from "The Mooch" to that Republican Congressman that was in office for decades that the Russians love. He has told them and others in his circle he plans to be more progressive to win back the house and win big in 2020.

I got no doubt in my mind he will be the one to pass immigration reform also

Obama should’ve done this his first week in office if he was so concerned about his legacy. If Trump repeals Three Strikes and other Clinton crack laws then that says more about Obama than Trump. But y’all still worship him

I won't be shocked if that does happen. He will still find a way to get the degenerates in the Black community though later on in his term.

I'm not shocked by this btw and what you said is what likely will happen.

To use another parallel.

Obama=JFK

Trump=Lyndon Johnson

Obama like JFK at times while they did certain things became much more known for being a "symbol". In JFK's case it was out of his control since he was just in for 2 years. Trump is a hardcore racist like Johnson was but are so obsessed with their ego and legacy that they will do these progressive initiatives to make them end up as legends. Johnson himself explicitly said how great the Great Society Programs would be for his legacy. This was a man who for years as a congressman was voting down every civil rights bill in the 40s and 50s.

Personality wise he and Trump are even similar. This is what it is gonna end up being.