Let's not pretend Biden has done ANYTHING for Black Americans the past 4 years
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I can admit when I'm wrong, and honestly, inflation aside, he hasn't been a bad president. I still think he losses in November, but I think he'll be remembered like Jimmy Carter was down the line.
It's a shame that Republican voters are hellbent on voting out of spite and ideal worship, but that's Americans for you, stuck on fukking stupid.
Make sure you go against Trump
If I'm sabotaged and worth 12K and you're worth 1.2M, and we get a program that boosts us both by 10K, sure I'm doing better, but I'm still infinitely behind with no chance to catch up. In effect, it did nothing.Something is better than nothing. These aren't crumbs. These things are substantial. And you know that POTUS can't arbitrarily and solely pass Reparations. It has to pass as a bill, then signed into law, then pass judicial scrutiny. Until then, get what you can get.
But do you.
What does it matter what he can allegedly do when he says shyt like "I'm not responsible for what my ancestors did", which is light for his racist ass. He could formally apologize for slavery and start the real discussion, but that would require actually giving a fukk about Black people.
But he's "got our back", right?
The Japanese also had a commissioned study before getting reparations:
Mass’s experiences led her to become a clinical social worker and participate in the redress movement that culminated with the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. This law gave surviving Japanese Americans $20,000 in reparations and a formal apology by President Reagan for their incarceration during World War II. But its passage did not happen overnight. It took years to turn the redress movement into legislation.
In 1978, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) formed the Redress Committee and appointed John Tateishi as its chair. The JACL and Tateishi went to the Hill to meet with California Representatives Mineta and Robert Matsui, as well as Senators Daniel Inouye and Spark Matsunaga. Like Inouye, Matsunaga was a WWII veteran. He fought in the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. They began their political careers together when they were elected to the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives in 1954. The JACL Redress Committee assumed the congressmen would agree with their idea for reparations. Inouye convinced them to switch from pursuing monetary compensation to creating a federal commission to investigate the causes and consequences of the incarceration.
On August 2, 1979, Inouye and Matsunaga introduced Senate bill 1647 to establish the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC). In 1980, Congress and President Carter signed that bill into law. The CWRIC gathered archival sources, scholarship, and personal papers that explained the government’s decision and process for incarceration.
Source: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/w...d-reparations-japanese-american-incarcerationIn 1978, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) formed the Redress Committee and appointed John Tateishi as its chair. The JACL and Tateishi went to the Hill to meet with California Representatives Mineta and Robert Matsui, as well as Senators Daniel Inouye and Spark Matsunaga. Like Inouye, Matsunaga was a WWII veteran. He fought in the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. They began their political careers together when they were elected to the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives in 1954. The JACL Redress Committee assumed the congressmen would agree with their idea for reparations. Inouye convinced them to switch from pursuing monetary compensation to creating a federal commission to investigate the causes and consequences of the incarceration.
On August 2, 1979, Inouye and Matsunaga introduced Senate bill 1647 to establish the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC). In 1980, Congress and President Carter signed that bill into law. The CWRIC gathered archival sources, scholarship, and personal papers that explained the government’s decision and process for incarceration.
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There's not going to be anything specific to only black people.And what about the black folks that dont have fukking kids...that tax credit shyt aint specific to ONLY black people...
That's the problem.
Appointed judges to reverse civil rights
Honestly Joe has been pretty decent as a president considering the bullshyt he has to shift through after Trump with this extremely partisan government hellbent on sabotaging everything.
OP is just trolling at this point 
It just really shows how the democrats’ benign neglect policy toward the black voter base has damaged the black voter psychology. Ignore black Americans as a demographic long enough and simply saying the word “black” makes you the second coming of MLK.
This isnt the argument being made. OP gave examples of a president passing laws that apply to every demographic and somehow came to the erroneous conclusion that because black people are one of the many included demographics, then that means the policy is specifically for black people which obviously makes no sense at all.Something is better than nothing. These aren't crumbs. These things are substantial. And you know that POTUS can't arbitrarily and solely pass Reparations. It has to pass as a bill, then signed into law, then pass judicial scrutiny. Until then, get what you can get.
But do you.
It just really shows how the democrats’ benign neglect policy toward the black voter base has damaged the black voter psychology. Ignore black Americans as a demographic long enough and simply saying the word “black” makes you the second coming of MLK.
Also, something is not better than nothing. Policies like student loan forgiveness actually hurt black people as a community when it comes to the wealth gap.Something is better than nothing. These aren't crumbs. These things are substantial. And you know that POTUS can't arbitrarily and solely pass Reparations. It has to pass as a bill, then signed into law, then pass judicial scrutiny. Until then, get what you can get.
But do you.
UWasntThere
Superstar
He has 70% of the black vote. Why would he?
He's not going to do anything out of the goodness of his own heart
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OP is just trolling at this point
This isnt the argument being made. OP gave examples of a president passing laws that apply to every demographic and somehow came to the erroneous conclusion that because black people are one of the many included demographics, then that means the policy is specifically for black people which obviously makes no sense at all.
It just really shows how the democrats’ benign neglect policy toward the black voter base has damaged the black voter psychology. Ignore black Americans as a demographic long enough and simply saying the word “black” makes you the second coming of MLK.
The title says "Biden has done anything for Black Americans the past 4 years". Not "Biden has done anything solely for Black Americans the past 4 years".
If all he did was make Juneteenth a federal holiday, then I'd agree with you 1000%. But he's trying to pass, passing, or gonna pass substantial legislation. That's nothing to dismiss especially when it's affecting positively a large swath of Black folk.
Initially it'll be make the wealth gap wider. But Black people can make that up by getting a house, investing in stocks/401k/IRA, and/or starting a business. It's not a static, unchanging situation.
Joe Bidens best friend and mentor was strom Thurman. He personally authored the most anti-black policy post civil rights era. You think he doesn’t hate you?
OP is just trolling at this point
This isnt the argument being made. OP gave examples of a president passing laws that apply to every demographic and somehow came to the erroneous conclusion that because black people are one of the many included demographics, then that means the policy is specifically for black people which obviously makes no sense at all.
It just really shows how the democrats’ benign neglect policy toward the black voter base has damaged the black voter psychology. Ignore black Americans as a demographic long enough and simply saying the word “black” makes you the second coming of MLK.
Explain how bills can pass that EXCLUSIVELY and ONLY benefit blacks when the Supreme Court just shot down Affirmative Action, and all race based benefits. Republicans are coming for black scholarships, grants that benefit black businesses, and all other race based initiatives that benefits blacks, based on the grounds that it discriminates against other races.
Even in lineage based reparation's, it would be argued that it is race based adjacent, and this conservative majority Supreme Court will shot it down. Can't use precedent with them (as the Japanese got reparations), as with Roe v. Wade, they will just say that the previous decision was wrong.
Can you give recent examples in the past decade of a bill that passed that benefited exclusively one race of people?
The title says “Let's not pretend Biden has done ANYTHING for Black Americans the past 4 years”
The operative word is “for.” What policy has Joe Biden passed for black Americans?
In fact, none of the aforementioned policies even disproportionally benefit black Americans.
Giving everybody the same amount of resources in a system where whites already have a disproportionate amount of wealth and resources, only widens the wealth gap. The only solution to over an entire century of racist economic policy is corrective action. Giving everybody the same resources is not corrective action.
