Yeah. So what are black interests, anyway?The two parties tend to at least ostensibly push policies and pass legislation that benefits their base and encourages further support. Blacks make up virtually none of the Republican base so Republican policy ignores or is outright opposed to black interests.
The same as anyone's interests. What policies benefit them. Black voters aren't monolithic and most are middle and lower middle class but a wildly disproportionate amount of them continue to be seriously negatively impacted by holdover social and economic policies from the pre-Civil Rights era.
Black voters want their kids to get a proper, quality education (the single greatest factor determining future success) in an environment conducive to learning, they want to be able to find meaningful work that pays a living wage, they want proactive law enforcement to keep their streets safe rather than allowing rampant crime to destroy communities then treating every resident like a criminal, they want the ability to get qualified loans at reasonable rates so they can start their own businesses and buy their own homes, they want urban blight cleaned up and collapsing infrastructure repaired or rebuilt. In short, they just want the equality of opportunity every citizen has promised to them and to stop getting the short end of the stick.
If it weren't for the implementation of dozens of social and economic policies (many of which were outlined above) that forced all migrating black citizens into overcrowded poor communities with no avenues for advancement and all practical means to better their circumstances cut off, we wouldn't have predominately black ghettos and all the repercussions that come with them 50 years later, nor such endemic and generational poverty that maintains them. The consequences of those policies are what they still face and they just finally want the fair shake every citizen deserves.
The general Republican opposition to public services and social programs (not welfare) as essentially "government waste" going to "lazy people" is an ideologically rigid and generally uninformed opposition to all the investments in community improvement that could provide that opportunity. It's ironic too, because if those investments were made and opportunities provided, then in a generation or two most direct social welfare programs would be rendered unnecessary and instead of being a drain on the economy, the current poor would be largely productive contributors to it.
According to him, it's being able to cash in your food stamps to go by 40's and weed, whilst applying for yet more economy crippling entitlement thus strengthening said dependence on welfare, and worsening their living conditions, and hopes for a real future.
Right...because all black people are on food stamps, just drinking forties and smoking weed... :roll-fucking-eyes:
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