Harris announces a new plan to empower Black men as she tries to energize them to vote for her, reported the Associated Press. Her scheme includes [Youtube]
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a plan on Monday to give Black men more economic opportunities and other chances to thrive as she works to energize a key voting bloc that has Democrats concerned about a lack of enthusiasm.
Harris’ plan includes providing forgivable business loans for Black entrepreneurs, creating more apprenticeships and studying sickle cell and other diseases that disproportionately affect African American men.
Harris already has said she supports legalizing marijuana and her plan calls for working to ensure that Black men have opportunities to participate as a “national cannabis industry takes shape.” She also is calling for better regulating cryptocurrency to protect Black men and others who invest in digital assets.
Harris’s Opportunity Agenda for Black Men, according to her campaign website, is to "provide black men with the tools to achieve financial freedom, lower costs to better provide for themselves and their families, and protect their rights. This pathbreaking agenda includes:
(1) Providing 1 million loans that are fully forgivable to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.
(2) Championing education, training, and mentorship programs that help Black men get good-paying jobs in high-demand industries and lead their communities, including pathways to become teachers.
(3) Supporting a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and other digital assets so Black men who invest in and own these assets are protected.
(4) Launching a National Health Equity Initiative focused on Black Men that addresses sickle cell disease, diabetes, mental health, prostate cancer, and other health challenges that disproportionately impact them.
(5) Legalizing recreational marijuana and creating opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry.
Her so-called “opportunity agenda for Black men” has rightly been tagged as a desperate vote-buying scheme. But there is a deeper meaning here.
A desperate Kamala Harris, following Biden, re-affirms the Democratic Party's 196 year-old racist, white supremacist orientation. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision declared that “African Americans were 'beings of an inferior order.”
The Democratic Party, in its 1856 and 1860 Party Platforms, fully endorsed Dred Scott and its assertion of blacks as “beings of an inferior order.” Then, the prevailing pro-slavery position—of which the Democratic Party officially embraced—held that Africans were like children who needed to be taken care of by plantation masters.The Party hasn’t changed its ideological stripes. Blacks still need that special help to succeed; only today, the state replaces the plantation master as the parent in the role of taking care of African-Americans. Harris’s plan, which follows on the heels of Biden’s racist schemes for black farmers and restaurateurs, makes this clear.
There is no room for equivocation here. It’s plain as day. How else to explain Harris’s regressive, explicitly racist anti-14th Amendment, anti-1964 Civil Rights Act policy. The Democratic Party continues to be, as it has been since its founding in 1828, the party of racism and white supremacy. Its policies and rationalizations have changed, but its fundamental values have not.
[Supplemental: The Harris campaign apparently went swiftly into damage control. The Wall Street Journal reports that “Vice President Kamala Harris’s ‘Opportunity Agenda for Black Men’ . . . will be open to all Americans on a race-neutral basis.” Apparently, her loud, obvious rhetoric doesn’t mean what she says, based on two words, “and others.” See point (1) above. Give me a break!This vague reference to race neutrality is likely inserted as a way of possibly getting around a Supreme Court, and the American public at large, that has largely lost its tolerance for racist policies, like Affirmative Action. But the intent is clear.]
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