Mayor Pete plan for black america: Douglass Plan

[Supercoolmayo]

Countering skeptics who doubt he can win crucial African American voters in the 2020 Democratic primary, Buttigieg rolled out the details of his plan to combat systemic racial inequality, named for legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass, on NPR's Morning Edition.

"If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing the problem — which is fashionable in politics — but actually talking about what we're going to do about it and describing the outcomes we're trying to solve for," Buttigieg told NPR.


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His "Douglass Plan" aims to establish a $10 billion fund for black entrepreneurs over five years, invest $25 billion in historically black colleges, legalize marijuana, expunge past drug convictions, reduce the prison population by half and pass a new Voting Rights Act to further empower the federal government to ensure voting access.

His campaign says it is equal in scale to the Marshall Plan, which used the equivalent of approximately $100 billion at current value to rebuild Europe after World War II. Buttigieg says the program would be enacted alongside potential direct reparations for slavery, not in place of it.

The two-term mayor also supports aconstitutional amendment to abolish the death penalty, and intends to expand the Supreme Court and eradicate the Electoral College.

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[Secure Da Bag]

Sounds good. But he does realize that the black vote will be difficult to get if he doesn't solve the police issue in his own town?

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Yeah sure no problem...let me know when the Dems get control of the House and the Senate and the White House and by all means...do this

Cause that's the only way this is happening

 

[Professor Emeritus]

He's not winning the black vote or going anywhere in this election regardless, but I like that he's putting shyt on the table to challenge others to follow.

reduce the prison population by half and pass a new Voting Rights Act

Those are the two most interesting to me and the ones I think could make the biggest difference going forward. The money numbers tagged to the other stuff just don't feel large enough to make a huge difference, though I'm not envisioning exactly what $25 billion for HBCUs will actually look like.

 

[Consigliere]

I have no idea who this is, but he’s in the ball park. I’m pretty much down to support anyone who is going to break the status quo and actually do something.

One of the biggest things that the younger generation is pushing in this idea is that we have to turn the page on the last century of America. Racial inequity, incarceration, debt, energy, our habitat, education, and social safety nets have to get the same importance and funding as the endless wars. We have the resources if we choose to allocate them properly.

I’m probably going to end up campaigning for Warren, but I would love to see a youth movement where we get these old fukkers and their old ideas out of here.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

though I'm not envisioning exactly what $25 billion for HBCUs will actually look like.

25B split between

Today, there are 107 HBCUs with more than 228,000 students enrolled. Fifty-six institutions are under private control, and 51 are public colleges and universities.

Though I'm sure they'll be a stipulation similar to:

Not sure about that for the Mississippi HBCUs. For example in the early 2000s the HBCUs in Mississippi sued the state because they were taking money that was owed to HBCUs and not giving it to them.

The HBCUs won the suit but were required to increase their non black enrollment by a certain percent. The state of Mississippi did this as a way to not pay them what was owed. Since they knew Mississippi is a predominantly white and black state.

So what the HBCUs in Mississippi did was reach out to foreign whites, asians and Indians (to attend the school) to hit that non black percentage in order to get their money from the state.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I always hated the name of this thing

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I always hated the name of this thing

I'm curious. Why?

 

[OfTheCross]

He gonna start pushing this heavy in SC