And some cannot or will not see racism when it is plainly there.
Your comment about wanting votes applies to all political parties. The Democrats are not unique in this. And regarding concern for the people, you should try to support your belief with evidence, particularly evidence of past legislative accomplishments by Democrats and Republicans. Can you show that Democratic legislation was worse for minorities than Republican legislation? I would really like to see that evidence!
A minority of black voters were registered Democrat in the 1930’s, there was an uptick post WWII, butthe shift to overwhelming registration as Democrats occurred with the civil rights movement.
That is not only untrue, but it, in any case meaningless. There was, over time, reorganization of thinking among politicians and rank and file, in which those that stayed moderated their views on race and others gravitated to the other side.
I know no such thing and feel sorry that you feel such things.
None that I know of.
It hasn’t. Remember that a Democratic administration (the Clinton administration) pretty much put an end to cash welfare.
Oh, please. Not happening.
I’m all for teaching someone to fish. But sometimes, in the interim between not knowing how to fish and becoming an expert, a person needs something to eat, right?
Is this supposed to be an example of how Progressives are hurting minorities? By giving them things? Not saying it is a good idea in general for the country to do that, but it is hard to see how giving them things is hurting them and not giving them things is doing them a favor, especially from the point of view of those being helped.
I don’t know. There are many things that might explain generational poverty. But giving them things is not one of them.
Why not indeed? Why not provide tuition-free college and pre-K education to all? It does no good to teach someone to fish if that person has no access to the water.
So it is said and so it is said about their being a “plantation”.
Well, you were the one who said “teach them to fish.” We know that a college education is the key to higher paying jobs these days. So, you are saying “don’t give them a fish and don’t teach them to fish.”
Because vouchers do not provide a college education. All they do is drain away support for public schools so that poor kids who go to public schools have an even worse education. If you are really suggesting totally replacing all public schools with a system of vouchers to private schools, I would like to see how there could possibly be enough private schools to meet the need that currently being provided by public schools. I would like to see how you are going to enforce the requirements on private schools that they accept anyone, especially special needs children. It is a wild idea that has never been proven out anywhere else in the world. I will not risk generations of uneducated children on an experiment like this.
Good idea. Gonna make them tuition free?
You must be thinking of countries other than the US.
Kamala Harris, having a Jamaican father, in considered black. So is Cory Booker. That’s two black Democratic senators. Tim Scott is the only Republican black senator currently. There has only been one other Republican black senator in the 20th century, and that is Roland Burris who was appointed to fill Obama’s senate seat, and left the senate at the end of that partial term. He was never elected.
Republicans have Cruz and Rubio in the Senate now, one can name prominent Democratic Hispanics in the past but they don’t seem to be well known.
I merely corrected you supposition that the DNC does currently have a black senator. They have two.
So what? Now, Trump has done way more for the pro-life movement than Ted Cruz, all you do is talk against people who actually accomplish things for the pro-life movement.