Rep. Luis Gutierrez: Sessions Would Love if Black People Were at the Back of the Bus Again
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Gutiérrez is for single payer healthcare, public education, criminal justice reform, programs for poor people, fair housing, consumer rights, diversity programs, etc: which would all benefit black communities.
He recently personally fought for a bill that would limit predatory loans (pay day loans) which unfairly targets blacks as well.
What more do you want? What’s your agenda? May be you should write him and see how he can help instead of throwing unwarranted vague complaints that come from a place of not knowing.
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He's the one campaigning for votes. It's up to him to effectively communicate his points in his appeals to the black community instead of utilizing the tired 'those republicans are RACIST!' rhetoric.
In fact, all of the democrats have supposedly been for all of that stuff for the longest and yet when they had a lead in the house and senate under obama, things didn't change much.
What I want? Enough of the general platitudes on policies that benefit a lot of people, but we get the crumbs off of. Enough of the dancing, throwing bbqs, carrying hot sauces in the purses and the racist boogieman rhetoric. It's time to open up the pocketbooks and put a lot more money into black communities. In fact, blacks did worse under Obama and the Democratic administration
NAACP president: Black people worse off under Obama
How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth
I can post more.
The vote comes to the party that will start cutting the checks.
NAACP president: Black people worse off under Obama
How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth
I can post more.
The vote comes to the party that will start cutting the checks.
If he wants to speak his truth about Sessions, fine...but people always bring in African Americans just for the sake of having extra bodies for whatever agenda they are pushing. And again, African Americans will gladly get out the way if he wants to check Sessions, just do it without throwing black people out there to catch the hate. Why is it that "leave us out of it" makes yall insult African Americans? It's not a coded message. People have proven time and time again they'll only give the illusion of being in a coalition with us only to push only their shyt through when it comes time to put pen to paper. Some of yall act like yall hear something different. Make you agenda known, just don't try to claim AA history as your plight when it's not.Here’s my thing with you bruh. Guiterrez merely mentioned the truth that Sessions wants us back on the back of the bus. He was merely pointing out how ass backwards that man is. He didn’t ask us to go on a fukking hunger strike to further the cause of brown people. The fact that you and others are in here with your panties in a bunch over Gutierrez’s harmless statement while being silent over the white man who said he thought the KKK was ok until he found out they smoked weed is utterly mind boggling.
Nikka it was dam near.There was a big illegal boom when i was kid. My family has been living in LA before it was overran with paisas It's a dog eat dog world in working class communities. To sit hear act like competition for jobs have left blacks on the short in of the sticks is comical. The prejudice i seen firsthand in the workforce is ridiculous.
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They had the house and senate under about for like 4 months bruh until Senator Keneedy died. We got the stimulus bill, the bill that saved the auto industry, and health care reform in those months. The republicans vigorously obstructed him from that point on. It was the republicans fault things didn’t change much, not the democrats. Obama still did the best he could through executive measures though.
I brought up the issue of the rent and for sale signs in Spanish not English and these guys on here started.
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Uhhh you are clearly uniformed. Here’s the truth about what all Obama did for black people.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Seeing more and more brown people may make you nervous and spark the bigotry you may have in your subconscious but....
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/us/immigrants-arent-taking-americans-jobs-new-study-finds.html
Do immigrants take jobs from Americans and lower their wages by working for less?
The answer, according to a report published on Wednesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, is no, immigrants do not take American jobs — but with some caveats.
The report assembles research from 14 leading economists, demographers and other scholars, including some, like Marta Tienda of Princeton, who write favorably about the impacts of immigration and others who are skeptical of its benefits, like George J. Borjas, a Harvard economist. Here’s what the report says:
• “We found little to no negative effects on overall wages and employment of native-born workers in the longer term,” said Francine D. Blau, an economics professor at Cornell University who led the group that produced the 550-page report.
• Some immigrants who arrived in earlier generations, but were still in the same low-wage labor markets as foreigners just coming to the country, earned less and had more trouble finding jobs because of the competition with newer arrivals.
• Teenagers who did not finish high school also saw their hours of work reduced by immigrants, although not their ability to find jobs. Professor Blau said economists had found many reasons that young people who drop out of high school struggle to find work. “There is no indication immigration is the major factor,” she said.
• High-skilled immigrants, especially in technology and science, who have come in larger numbers in recent years, had a significant “positive impact” on Americans with skills, and also on working-class Americans. They spurred innovation, helping to create jobs.
“The prospects for long-run economic growth in the United States would be considerably dimmed without the contributions of high-skilled immigrants,” the report said. It did not focus on American technology workers, many of whom have been displaced from their jobs in recent years by immigrants on temporary visas.
I can post info from the bookings institute and get a liberal spin. I can post info from Heritage foundation and get a right wing spin. But I post a latino owned The root article. https://www.theroot.com/how-illegal-immigration-hurts-black-america-1790878554
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I post research from 14 leading economists, demographers and other scholars, including some, like Marta Tienda of Princeton, and George J. Borjas, a Harvard economist, AND YOU COUNTER WITH AN ARTICLE FROM THE FUKKING ROOT?!?!
Black smoke and cac jokes
Your daps are mine
Divide and conquer still works I see
I post research from 14 leading economists, demographers and other scholars, including some, like Marta Tienda of Princeton, and George J. Borjas, a Harvard economist, AND YOU COUNTER WITH AN ARTICLE FROM THE FUKKING ROOT?!?!
Your a blavity black so I was fukking with you.I also reference that both popular liberal and conservatives think tanks have ideology slants. Bojas has spoken about the correlation between immigration and black jobs and wages for years. I made a thread about Chicago tempt workers suing temp agency managed by Hispanics for discrimination which is common and you strung it off like it's nothing.Stop cherrypicking.