Posted on 08/30/2016 12:06:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Amid all the news and noise that Trump's black voter appeal created, an umbrella operation known as the Movement for Black Lives released an economic plan.
Think of the Movement for Black Lives, also known as M4BL, like the civil rights movement: a broad, multi-pronged attempt to create social and legal change populated, fueled and driven by a wide variety of individuals and organizations committed to a common set of political goals. M4BL also includes the formal organization known as Black Lives Matter and a loose collective of individuals, additional organizations and activists associated with it.
The M4BL economic policy paper issued this month includes some of the things that a largely black collective of activists, academics and voters think black Americans both have to lose and need to gain in coming years.
So we checked in with Dorian Warren, a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute and the Center for Community Change's board chairman. He helped to write a section of the Movement for Black Lives' economic platform. Warren, a former professor at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, has taught courses on racial inequality, economic inequality, social movements and community organizing. Warren also hosts an MSNBC online show, "Nerding Out."
What follows is a Q&A with Warren, conducted via email and edited for clarity and length....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Reparations.
More govt welfare.
More govt jobs.
Beating whitey/the rich for their sh1t.
Gimmefreesh1t riots.
“Second, as the Ferguson Report by the Justice Department so clearly articulates, local police and criminal justice systems have engaged in predatory targeting of black residents as a means to raise revenue via excessive tickets and fines, further impoverishing black communities.”
Bwahahahahahahaha. This is too funny. Warren, a former professor at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, has taught courses on racial inequality, economic inequality, social movements and community organizing.
Hmmmmmmmmmm...why does that background sound so familiar?
“Warren...has taught courses on racial inequality, economic inequality, social movements and community organizing.”
I think I’ve detected the problem and reason blacks are held back.
He needs to factor in the cost of body bags.
Maybe if he taught courses on how to behave like a civilized human being they would be better off.
This is a great example of why I have the Trump news app on my tablet. I can easily go see what Trump is saying not what people like this guy try to tell me what he's saying.
Why do I get the feeling this is the latest incarnation of ACORN.
Just who do they think is going to create the necessary income to pay for this? Don’t look at me. The Universal income applies to me too, Why work anymore?
Watch “The Killing Fields”, there’s your clue.
The blm goal is simple - We work for a living and they get our money from taxes and welfare. Same as islam.
Well, if it walks and quacks the same, I'd say you are right!
” broad, multi-pronged attempt to create social and legal change...”
In other words, just like “Occupy Wall Street”, they are a bunch of agitators with no real goal except to agitate and disrupt society.
Bingo. I’ve got a nice little savings and a 401k. If they are going to pay my rent, utilities and groceries, I have no reason to work (above the table at least). I’ll jump on the gravy train too before the wheels come off.
Kill the Federal Reserve and restore a gold-backed currency that puts our currency out of the control of politicians and government — and the money and oxygen for every progressive-left government scam political hack ends quickly.
The ideology of these people will die immediately or become so irrelevant, no one will notice.
Because it is.
Apparently expecting blacks to register/insure cars, or get a drivers license, is racist...
As much as I disagree with the Professor, this does have truth behind it BUT, as Gomer would say, surprise, surprise, surprise - it was small-town politics in good old Missouri style.
You have (had?) an entrenched white government of a SMALL town (6 sq.mi.). As the local economy sank, people able to go for better conditions (whites mainly), moved and lower incomes moved into lower cost real estate and down went city revenues. Since the 1970 census, population shrank by 28%. Pressure grew on government as expenses exceeded revenue and 'revenue enhancements' became a good idea so call out the revenue cops!
In other places with better government and less entrenchment, such revenue shortfalls mean things ranging from down-sizing (firing staff) to what other communities in that area were doing, increasing the tax base by consolidating small towns into larger towns. Ferguson's power structure saw the small picture but failed to see the resentment it triggered. Now, we are all paying the price for a small town's series of bad decisions. Just another good example of bad governance!
I have yet to see any evidence that laws targeted any group - blacks in particular - for revenue phishing. What I have seen is pernicious ordinance building - more and more layers of laws like seatbelt laws and cracked windshield laws and jaywalking laws that ensnare the poor far more than they do middle class or (especially) the rich.
I got tagged for my windshield a week ago. I’m getting it replaced tomorrow. Much as I’d like to spend the money on ammo I can afford to stay compliant and so I will. Lots of people can’t.
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