Politico: Democrats Underperforming W/ Black Voters

[Based Lord Zedd]

What are some of the policies being offered by these candidates that are specific to Black Americans? I’d like to know so if Steyer doesn’t work out, i have another candidate I can go to.

I think Steyer is the only one who can make a legitimate argument that has a agenda specific to black people. Which is why I would advise anyone who has a Black Agenda as their top priority, to support him vs sitting out.

Warren/Sanders are probably tier 2, they don't have a solid black agenda but are significant improvements over Trump. Some of their policies have already been mentioned in this thread.

If the Democrats are stupid enough to nominate a racist like Bloomberg, I don't blame you for going in a different direction.

 

[Luck]

These type of threads always devolve into some pro democrat Bozos trying to tell everyone who they should vote for.

If you’re an adult that works, pay taxes, ect...vote for whoever you want to or don’t at all, it’s your decision. It’s funny to me how these clowns will try to scare or shame nikkas into voting for who they want us to vote for.

I’m voting for whoever makes the best appeal to me and if nobody moves me then I’m not voting for anyone. I don’t “have” to vote just to vote for anyone and won’t...fukk anybody and their mammy who has a problem with it so don’t quote me

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Travel bans and the Coronavirus

"Trump made them give me a parking ticket"
"Trump made my wifi drop out"
"Trump told that girl not to give me her number"

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

The MAGA Room.

Do you think the Democrats will ever have a better pitch to voters than "Well at least we're not Republicans"?

 

[Jekyll]

YOU nikkaS CANT BE THIS STUPID...

ALL THESE POLICE SHOOTINGS
STARTED UNDER OBAMA
AND NON WERE CONVICTED...

SO ONCE AGAIN WHAT HAS CHANGED?



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Do you even know what a consent decree is?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Do you think the Democrats will ever have a better pitch to voters than "Well at least we're not Republicans"?

Berngawd and some other progressive members of the party do.

 

[xoxodede]

I didn't say any of this nonsense and you don't know anything about me.

From your responses - I have been reading in this thread -- I know enough. Y'all continue to come with the same ish over and over. Oh and

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Bernie is a leftist demagogue whose focus is on disaffected whites who feel left behind, one who’s made quite clear how he feels about black America and the solutions to her suffering under white supremacy that she’s appealed to Democrats for the implementation of. Bernie doesn’t give a fukk about black people at all.

Yeah, let's look at some actual receipts. Bernie's been talking about needing to fight the racial wealth gap and discriminatory policing for 30 years and that shyt is all over his promises for the presidency.

Bernie Sanders on Racial Justice

Our campaign is fundamentally dedicated to ending the disparity of wealth, income and power in this country. It’s time to bring a systemic approach to systemic racism. Structural problems require structural solutions, and together we can meet that challenge.

Systemic inequities have created innumerable disparities across racial groups from health outcomes, to health insurance rates, education outcomes, college debt rates, and police violence. Bernie is running for president because he believes we’re obligated to do more than just acknowledge the problem. He believes in implementing policies that aim to achieve substantive equality now—while the generations alive today can benefit. In a country that is genuinely free, neither one's zip code nor the color of their skin would determine a child’s life outcome. Bernie believes our country is morally bound to close the racial wealth divide.

Key Points

• Address the five central types of violence waged against black, brown and indigenous Americans: physical, political, legal, economic and environmental.
• Address a broken criminal justice system, massive disparities in the availability of financial services, health disparities, environmental disparities, and educational disparities.
• Create a nation in which all people are treated equally.

His specifics include:

1. End continued redlining and other forms of housing discrimination against black folk that still persist
2. Federal job guarantee
3. Ensure quality education for children across the board
4. Make tuition free for all students at public universities and HBCUs
5. Increase public funding for HBCUs
6. Cover all other college costs for students from families making under $25,000/year
7. End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership
8. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage
9. End racial discrimination in the financial services sector
10. Protect minority communities from pollutant exposure like what happened to Flint
11. Identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.
12. Institute Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal for distressed communities.
13. Establish a commission to study and research reparations (H.R. 40)


Receipts:

Spoiler

Racial Justice

Economic Justice
Black Americans currently have ten cents for every dollar white Americans have. Latinx Americans currently have thirteen cents for every dollar white Americans have. This is unacceptable: It’s time for America to treat the lives of people of color like they’re worth more than change on the dollar.

More than 22% of black Americans and more than 21% of Hispanic Americans are living in poverty compared to 12% of white Americans.

Today redlining prevents businesses owned by people of color from getting loans, and predatory lending results in higher interest rates in low-income communities of color. More than 47% of African Americans are unbanked or underbanked and some 43% of Hispanic families are unbanked or underbanked, whereas 18% of whites are unbanked or underbanked. The massive disparities and discrimination in the availability of financial services must end.

Our campaign is fundamentally dedicated to ending the disparity of wealth, income and power in this country. It’s time to bring a systemic approach to systemic racism. Structural problems require structural solutions, and together we can meet that challenge.

Systemic inequities have created innumerable disparities across racial groups from health outcomes, to health insurance rates, education outcomes, college debt rates, and police violence. Bernie is running for president because he believes we’re obligated to do more than just acknowledge the problem. He believes in implementing policies that aim to achieve substantive equality now—while the generations alive today can benefit. In a country that is genuinely free, neither one's zip code nor the color of their skin would determine a child’s life outcome. Bernie believes our country is morally bound to close the racial wealth divide. In order to do that, we must ensure that people:

• Start treating the racial wealth divide like the crisis it is. We must end the especially pernicious racial wealth divide that exists today in America within the gap between millionaires and the poor, working, and middle classes of all races.
• Guarantee a job to every American. A job guarantee will create good-paying jobs and will create work building much needed infrastructure and providing critical services to communities across the country.
• End redlining practices and other forms of housing discrimination that still exist.
• Make sure every kid, regardless of race or class, receives a quality education.
• End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership.
• Make sure resources are focused on the Americans who need it most -- often as a result of structural disadvantage. Bernie supports the 10-20-30 approach to federal investments which focuses substantial federal resources on distressed communities that have high levels of poverty.
• Support public colleges and HBCUs. We must make public colleges, universities and trade schools, tuition-free—including for the 76% of HBCU students who attend public colleges—and increase public funding for all HBCUs.
• Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Black and Latinx workers disproportionately work minimum wage jobs. Raising the minimum wage will increase the wages of 38% of African-American workers and 33% of Latinx workers.
• End the discriminatory practices in our financial services. We must allow every post office to offer basic and affordable banking services and end lending discrimination once and for all.

Or here: Bernie Sanders on Black Rights

BERNIE SANDERS ON BLACK RIGHTS
“Have we made progress in civil rights in this country? No question. But do we still have a very long way to go to end the institutional racism which permeates almost every aspect of our society? Absolutely. Together, we are going to put an end to that.” – Bernie Sanders, April 9, 2019

Bernie Sanders has a long history of fighting for social equality and the rights of black Americans — a record that goes back to the early 1960s. In college, he was a student leader of the Congress of Racial Equality and was arrested for protesting institutional segregation. His views were cemented in 1963 when he marched on Washington and witnessed Martin Luther King, Jr.’s pivotal “I have a dream” speech.

In Congress, Bernie opposed the 1991 crime bill that he believed would disproportionately punish people of color — especially African Americans. Bernie’s civil rights record has earned him one of the highest scores given to a U.S. Senator and a 100 percent score from the NAACP.

Bernie Sanders is committed to ending racial disparities. He often refers to these disparities as the “disparity within the disparity.” Bernie understands that slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, predatory lending, redlining, and other factors have led to racial economic disparities and a theft of wealth from African Americans.

Education: Education isn’t a privilege — it’s a right. Everyone deserves access to affordable, quality education, including universal pre-K and college, and we need to increase access to it for people of color to provide greater economic opportunities.

Crime & Social Justice: The U.S. has the highest prison population rate in the developed world, with a distressingly disproportionate number of black inmates behind bars and many for drug offenses and other non-violent crimes. Our criminal justice system is broken and must be reformed to provide opportunity instead of incarceration.

Income Equality & The Racial Wealth Gap: Economic justice is tied to racial justice. Black youth unemployment is at 51 percent, higher than any other demographic. We need a federal jobs program to put the unemployed — including black youth and adults alike — to work, and we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Moreover, we need tax reform so corporations and billionaires pay their fair share and fund the expansion of the social safety net. Additionally, we must repair the racial wealth gap and end the institutional racism in the financial services industry such as redlining.

Infant Mortality Rate of Black Children & Death Rate of Black Mothers: We must identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.

Reparations: Many black Americans are still experiencing social and economic disadvantages as a result slavery in America. Bernie supports establishing a commission to study and research reparations for American descendants of slaves as well as investing resources into distressed communities.

Note: As is the nature of this project, this page highlights Bernie’s views and record on issues affecting black Americans. For more detailed information, check out the comprehensive racial justice plan Bernie released as part of his 2020 platform.

Reparations
Although the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States in 1865, American descendants of slavery still face social and economic inequalities as a direct result of the legacy of slavery. One of those inequalities is the racial wealth gap. The median white household is ten times more wealthy than the median black household.

How does Bernie plan to address lasting inequalities from the legacy of slavery?
Bernie supports two policy proposals to address these inequalities. At a CNN Town Hall, Bernie expressed support for Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal.

Clyburn’s proposal would make sure that at least 10% of Rural Development investments would go to communities in persistent poverty. These communities are those where at least 20% of the population has lived below the poverty line for the past 30 years or longer.

Bernie also supports H.R.40, a bill that would create a commission to study reparations for American descendants of slaves and make recommendations to Congress for appropriate remedies.

Has the United States paid reparations to other disenfranchised groups?
Yes, the United States government has paid reparation to other disenfranchised groups before. Japanese Americans have been paid reparations for being sent to interment camps during World War Two. Victims of the Holocaust have also received reparations from the United States government.

And there's much more on that page as well.

Environmental Justice
The ills of pollution and climate change touch everyone, but tragically, they touch those in poverty more than others. Trump’s own EPA has shown that people living in poverty are exposed to more harmful particulate matter in the air, and that people of color are more likely to live near pollution and be exposed to pollutants. According to the EPA report, “results at national, state, and county scales all indicate that non-Whites tend to be burdened disproportionately to Whites.” This, too, is unacceptable.

Today, Flint, Michigan, is still without new pipes for clean water, and there are 3,000 other Flint, Michigans, across the country—neighborhoods with lead rates that were double those of Flint during the height of its crisis. Together, we must:

• Enact a Green New Deal not just to save the planet, but to protect our most vulnerable communities. We must end the scourge of environmental racism, and at the same time create green jobs to support and rebuild the local economies of affected communities.
• Protect low-income and minority communities, who are hit first and worst by the causes and impacts of climate change, while also protecting existing energy-sector workers as they transition into clean energy and other jobs.
• Address the inadequate environmental cleanup efforts of Superfund hazardous waste sites in communities of color.
• Stop the exposure of people of color to harmful chemicals, pesticides and other toxins in homes, schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces and challenge faulty assumptions in calculating, assessing, and managing risks, discriminatory zoning and land-use practices and exclusionary policies.
• Enact a Green New Deal to mitigate climate change and focus on building resilience in low-income and minority communities.

Spoiler

That's a shytload of receipts and some really far-reaching policies for someone who "doesn't give a shyt" about Black folk.

 

[xoxodede]

What are some of the policies being offered by these candidates that are specific to Black Americans? I’d like to know so if Steyer doesn’t work out, i have another candidate I can go to.

They keep saying school loans and Medicare 4 All. But, it aint specific -- but it will help us the most... AND.... it should. But, it will help everyone too. Basically, it aint specific.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Berngawd does.

Tell the DNC to stop cockblocking and get on board then

I know a lot of rich white sheltered Democrats still fukking with Bootygreg

And a lot of @dj-method-x shills on here on that "this election is a matter of LIFE OR DEATH #LITERALLYANYBODYbutTRUMP" bullshyt

Say what you want about the GOP but they stay on code

 

[xoxodede]

Yeah, let's look at some actual receipts. Bernie's been talking about needing to fight the racial wealth gap and discriminatory policing for 30 years and that shyt is all over his promises for the presidency.

Racial Justice




His specifics include:

1. End continued redlining and other forms of housing discrimination that still persist
2. Federal job guarentee
3. Ensure quality education for children across the board
4. Make tuition free for all students at public universities and HBCUs
5. Increase public funding for HBCUs
6. Cover all other schools costs for students from families making under $25,000/year
7. End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership
8. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage
9. End discriminatory practices in the financial services sector
10. Protect minority communities from pollutant exposure like what happened to Flint
11. Identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.
12. Institute Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal.
13. Establish a commission to study and research reparations (H.R. 40)


Receipts:

Spoiler

Or here: Bernie Sanders on Black Rights




And there's much more on that page as well.

Spoiler

That's a shytload of receipts and some really far-reaching policies for someone who "doesn't give a shyt" about Black folk.

Bernie can't even admit that Black people are owed reparations YET -- we are supposed to support this man.

He said he would support the H.R. 40 -- he signed it -- that's where it ends. He would sign the bill -- he did not say he would support reparations -- if the commission deems the findings to be reparations.

There needs to be a study, but let me also say this, that I think that what we need to do … is to pay real attention to the most distressed communities in America,” he said. “We have got to use 10 percent of all federal funds to make sure that kids who need it get the education, get the jobs, get the environmental protection that they need. And that would be a major focus of my efforts.”

And Bernie doesn't have a long record on supporting Black rights -- he went to two sit in in Chicago. And supported Jesse cause he supported Socialism.

He didn't opposed the Crime Bill. This is a lie. Bernie Sanders voted for the 1994 tough-on-crime law. But it's complicated.

He's anti-Black AF -- and doesn't respect the Black Vote -- nor Black Americans.

 

[Dap Punk]

You want to see women getting abortions in the alleyways, with a hanger?

Her body, her choice

 

[Professor Emeritus]

For those who prefer tweets and videos to text receipts:























In that last video from the part where he quotes himself from 1974 talking about how White politicians don't give a shyt about Black communities all the way to the end of the video where he's reeling off those stats about Black America right off the top of his head proves he fukks with this shyt.

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

From your responses - I have been reading in this thread -- I know enough. Y'all continue to come with the same ish over and over. Oh and

You don't know anything, just making assumptions. Also, funny how you whined about me "faux-shaming" people in the same post you tried to insinuate I'm not a Black American.

Kiss my ass.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Ehh this doesn't seem like the smartest strategy. Pretty damn soon not even Democrats will actually need the black vote because of the growing Latino population. The "candidate with a black agenda" thing is just a pipe dream that smart-dumb nikkas cling too to sound smart.

In reality we are just teaching Democrats how to win without us. Republicans can already win with sub 20% black support. The first election Democrats win without black support will be the end of any party caring significantly about black issues. Hillary came damn close to winning with low black turnout. It won't be long.

But yall nikkas keep walking around like you doing something by sitting out.

nikka, the LGBT community is around 5% of the population yet they get specific policies

No one is saying candidates have to just have policies for us, while not having policies for other groups. All we're saying is that they can still do M4A or other stuff, just have reparations and a Black agenda in addition to your other policies.

The Dems still need us though, this ain't just us saying that, their own news outlets are saying this(NBC News and others). So while they still need us, we're going to leverage that to get the policies we want and need.