Now, literally ALL REPUBLICANS are doing things to ACTIVELY make things worse for blacks. And many other Americans.
This is ridiculous. Literally all Republicans? It's like you're categorizing Republicans as villains. It's cartoonish and hilarious. Especially considering people like Rand Paul.
I notice you ignore Nola’s helpful list:
Economic models which advocate stagnating or eliminating the minimum wage, eliminating most social program spending, gutting education, allowing re-segregation of communities, drastically slashing healthcare spending, eliminating labor protections including affirmative action and discrimination laws, and putting as much power into the hands of the ownership of capital that can be politically mustered, whom prop up the Republican party and who they have proven to be almost entirely responsive to.
I think neither party is correct on minimum wage. Democrats want to raise it to 15 but you know when I saw Black Panther? No one in the front desk. It was just a bunch of machines. Upping that to 15 would be catastrophic and have employees replaced almost immediately.
Depends on the social program. Social programs shouldn't be eliminated, but they should be re-tooled. Far too many are overly reliant on them with no progress and a welfare state leads to a lack of happiness and fulfillment. I'm against welfare states, but I also fine social programs useful. We should do more to help people transition from being on social programs. Things like social security are fine, and not every Republican supports gutting it.
Education should get more out of it, but I'm also fine with things like charter schools but both options are bad, and Democrats don't seem to be doing well on the education front either, given states like California. Education in general is a mixed bag. I'd personally take a bit of the military budget and put it in education.
Re-segregation might not be entirely a negative. I have posited before many times that black people tried to integrate far too quickly rather than push for equality. There's also the argument that integration hurt black Americans. Certainly, Asian Americans and Latino Americans are kind of segregated from the rest of the population and they're self reliant. Not a lot of black people these days see integration as an inherently good thing and I'm one of them. The case could be made that a lot of white liberals believe in the idea of integration. Read here: https://www.colorlines.com/articles/did-integration-hurt-black-neighborhoods
I'm definitely up on Republicans' asses on healthcare spending. But let's not forget: ACA was originally Romney's. Healthcare is a basic right and more Republican constituents realize this. This will force Republicans to shift on their stance by necessity.
RE: labor protections. Affirmative action should be changed from racial-based to economic-based. Affirmative action ignores ethnic groups along racial lines. Well off Nigerians vying for higher education are lumped in with black Americans. Affirmative Action needs to be retooled from the ground up. It's based on 1960's politics with 1960's demographics in mind. It hurts Asian Americans for instance. See: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/20/365547463/new-affirmative-action-cases-say-policies-hurt-asian-americans However, taking away AA in California hurt black and latino students. So it's a tough subject.
Republicans definitely need to work on discrimination laws. It's my biggest problem with the party especially their treatment of anti-discrimination laws towards LGBT people.
Some people in the Democratic party would want to raise it to 15, but that is really beside the point, you could go back and forth for pages debating where the cost/benefit threshold is on changing the federal minimum wage and Democrats do that all the time. But broadly speaking, Republicans are in favor of stagnating or eliminating it entirely. And this is important to not isolate from the rest of the discussion, because while they are seeking to reduce labor's safety net through a minimum wage, they are in favor of simultaneously reducing the amount of social services the government provides across the board. So you are putting downward pressure on wages by hacking away the minimum wage while also eliminating the very programs you will need as a result of that sort of policy. Automation is a real long-term threat, but that is an argument in favor of a robust set of social services, not against. As the alternative is to put enough continual downward pressure on wages to never make automation a more economically viable alternative to human labor. That is a pretty dark path to take.
Welfare state is a throwaway buzz word, what programs are you for and against, why, and what is the alternative method of addressing those needs? That is all that needs to be established. You want Social Security, a universal healthcare system, education funding, and some additional yet defined social spending, all things Republicans historically and presently have attempted to hatchet at every level of government they have been in. This is why I point to places like Oklahoma and Kansas.
We also need to discuss regulatory policy. The post I made that got moved yesterday was 5 links speaking about redlining. A concept where banks and people in the real estate industry explicitly discriminate against minorities in the way they issue loans, price real estate, or offer real estate services to minorities. Those links were not just from the 80's, they were from last year and 2016. This shit still happens today. And thanks to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau they were caught and penalized. Now what would Republicans see to do here? What they have already done, hollow out those regulatory bodies and allow these industries to operate without meaningful oversight. It is more abstract, but that is real harm that gets imposed on minorities that do everything right, have the same income and credentials as a white buyer, but are forced into a higher interest home, possibly at a higher price, and only shown in lower quality neighborhoods. Which is a real long-term harm that is going to affect a minorities long-term wealth and continues the ongoing pressures that create wealth disparity between white and black people in this country and undercuts ways we have attempted to correct it.
As to re-segregation, I was specifically referring to what is being attempted once again in places like Baton Rouge. This is not pockets of communities trying to strengthen themselves by banding together within a county and improving their community. This is referring specifically to what white people in some communities are attempting to do to siphon off the wealthy parts of towns and isolate the poor, minority parts of the town by separating the parish into two. Immediately cutting off the vast majority of funding needed to aide these impoverished areas of the country. And just think this through. So you have had a community with very little revenue thanks to Republican policies for decades, that is already struggling with crime, poverty, and gross neglect in education having that already sparse spending getting sliced by a third of what it once was. How does the police department fund itself anymore? Well, like in Ferguson, they might be forced to criminalize the community just to fund basic police services by over-policing minor crimes. But maybe they escape that, but they certainly won't escape how that will harm school funding and how the harm that the reversal of bussing policies since the 60's would do to community graduation rates and crime.
Liberal policies have failed black people as much as conservative policies. I guess I’m this case “conservative” because Republicans are rarely conservative as per the actual definition. Black leaders are overwhelmingly Democratic. What have their policies done to help black people? They’re the ones begging like a dog to be oppressed as seen in the aforementioned links.
As the above shows, bullshit.
