Democrats have plans to
close vast racial wealth gap
NBC News,
by
Benjy Sarlin
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/20/2019 10:15:10 AM
If you've been to an event with a Democrat running for president this year, there's a good chance you've heard about it: the racial wealth gap. Candidates are regularly bringing up the fact that the typical black family has only one-tenth the assets of the typical white family — a divide that has grown larger than it was 35 years ago. Far from a niche concern, candidates have incorporated it into their signature proposals. They've addressed it in speeches not just to black churches in South Carolina, but also to mostly white town hall crowds in Iowa and New Hampshire. In
Reply 1 - Posted by:
droopydog 5/20/2019 10:18:39 AM (No. 67661)
They've had a plan for the last 60 years but it only made matters worse. But let's not let abject failure and a few trillion down the drain stop us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/20/2019 10:19:21 AM (No. 67662)
Coerced income transfer in return for votes.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 5/20/2019 10:25:22 AM (No. 67665)
More official racism. Get whitey. Steal his money using government authority and use it to buy votes from blacks.
Racism, retooled.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/20/2019 10:30:13 AM (No. 67667)
It couldn't be more clear that the democrat party intends to spread the wealth by any and all means possible. They'll use race and inheritance, as the leading edge then when that still leaves a level of stratification, they'll move on to other forms of privilege such as intellect.
I can't tell you when or where in that process it will happen but history will repeat itself and we are all doomed. I still hold out hope that we can change the course but unless that happens we will be Venezuela.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 5/20/2019 10:31:17 AM (No. 67669)
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 5/20/2019 10:45:04 AM (No. 67678)
#Blexit, NBC Enemy News, #Blexit.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ebolamadcow 5/20/2019 11:03:56 AM (No. 67682)
Everyone, including blacks, knows this is more aptly named a "work ethic gap".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/20/2019 11:11:47 AM (No. 67685)
How much of the "racial wealth gap" is due to lifestyle choices - married black couples are close to whites in income and net worth while their ghetto brethren are drugging, living on welfare, and pumping out children by numerous "baby daddies." Years ago, a coworker told me, "the black middle class moved out of the ghetto and never looked back." The black community needs to fix itself and its dysfunctional culture instead of celebrating it. Only then will change come.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/20/2019 11:12:59 AM (No. 67686)
Democrats are still hoping to win with the race card. That has been wearing thin for several years now, even among enlightened blacks. They understand that democrats will never do what they say, and that blacks have been played for decades.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
aasilver 5/20/2019 11:13:02 AM (No. 67687)
75% of African Americans are born to single mothers with no signs of a father.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/20/2019 11:17:58 AM (No. 67690)
Great! I'm not near as wealthy as black football players and black basketball players, and a certain black golfer, so anytime these politicians can get these black millionaires to split their wealth with me, I ready!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Sandbar 5/20/2019 11:30:30 AM (No. 67694)
LBJ's great society devastated the black family unit and we now have generations that have never learned a work ethic. Once again government breaks something by fixing it, then breaks it even further by fixing it again, and on and on and on.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 5/20/2019 11:30:55 AM (No. 67696)
If the dims get their way we will go the way of South Africa. BTW, I'm still waiting for an answer to my request: Name one great African or Muslim country.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/20/2019 11:35:04 AM (No. 67699)
Says one of the wealthiest groups in the country: politicians. Some of them are 'of-color'. (how I hate that term)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
tennisbum 5/20/2019 11:35:08 AM (No. 67700)
The racial wealth gap is simple to fix but it requires a major fix within the black culture. Sadly, that will never occur. Getting an education, getting part time jobs while in high school and college, getting degrees in job opportunity subjects and not African American studies, consider going into a trade..plumber, electrician, welder, etc. and you'll be employed forever. But hanging with the brothers and sisters, doing weed, hooking up with gangs, fathering kids here and there and everywhere are not steps leading to success. Pressure to conform within the hood culture is significant but can be overcome. The Dems are always going to offer the easy way to retain the black vote as they have always done. It hasn't worked for the last 60+ years but the hood continues to believe them. Idiocy...doing same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Sadly, the "same thing" has two predictable outcomes....prison or death.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
velirotta 5/20/2019 12:10:32 PM (No. 67711)
No actual plans are visible in this article. Way back in 1965, Eldridge Cleaver in his book "Soul on Ice" said that blacks would get nowhere until they solved the problem of broken families--children out of wedlock, absentee fathers, etc. That message has always been and still is missing in the tone-deaf black "community," which can only propose "solutions" involving free money, free housing, dumbed-down educational standards, and "get whitey" legislation.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 5/20/2019 12:11:34 PM (No. 67712)
Collective thought process of the left: "I'm sure this will be successful, this time. All of the other times, they just didn't do it right."
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
winnie1 5/20/2019 12:13:20 PM (No. 67715)
What does this mean? Hard working Americans have to spread their wealth. Who in their right mind would vote Democrat???????????
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
janjan 5/20/2019 12:16:42 PM (No. 67717)
Democrats still believe that they have to offer minorities white people's money to get votes. They are never clear about exactly how this exchange is going to happen but it is enough that they talk about it. Of the black people who think this is a great idea, probably few of them actually vote. The Presidential debates between Trump and whichever loser wins the Democrat nomination are going to be interesting.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Socio 5/20/2019 12:40:34 PM (No. 67731)
There is only one plan that would fix the wealth inequality, the "get off your lazy woe is me butt and go out and earn it plan".
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/20/2019 12:50:04 PM (No. 67735)
Such a simple plan it is: Vote Democrat
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/20/2019 12:58:01 PM (No. 67738)
Really? I didn 't know that there was an easy way to make black people smarter and more ambitious. Or is it just another repackaged way to rob whitey and pay them more for doing nothing?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/20/2019 12:59:56 PM (No. 67740)
If blacks really want to close the wealth gap, perhaps they should start “acting white”.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/20/2019 1:07:29 PM (No. 67741)
#13 I can give you a weasel answer. Iran was considered "great" when it was Persia and had conquered most of the Mediterranean area. As we all know, that didn't last very long. Mohammed's spawn have remained barbarians to this day and still think that advancement of their civilization should be done by force and not initiative.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
cThree 5/20/2019 1:34:00 PM (No. 67746)
Why on earth would any self-respecting Af-Am listen to this snake oil pitch from Democrats who are keeping the borders open to a food of millions of workers to keep the wages of AfricanAmerica depressed?!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 5/20/2019 1:41:20 PM (No. 67748)
They could take every cent from the rich and give it to the poor, and within ten years 99% of it would be back in the pockets of the people it was stolen from.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/20/2019 1:44:32 PM (No. 67750)
I seem to recall Lyndon Johnson and his "Just Society? Great Society?" which amounted too cough it up so we can build tenement housing.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/20/2019 1:46:54 PM (No. 67752)
Take the asets of the Dimokkkrap Party and its members and redistribute them.
The Dimokkkrap party created racism as an institution in the US and they should pay.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
padiva 5/20/2019 1:49:52 PM (No. 67754)
I'm grateful for the rich people who gave money to build the cancer treatment center where I received treatment. I've been been cancer free for 2+ years.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/20/2019 2:27:15 PM (No. 67767)
The Democrats continue their race to the bottom. They will confiscate everything, and make everybody equally poor. That is how the left views equality. There will be wealthy people. Far fewer than there are now. Only privileged enlightened leftist 'leaders'.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Tennman 5/20/2019 2:48:46 PM (No. 67771)
Odd how all that money taken from the "rich" (defined as your, not their money) never seems to make it to those "poor".
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/20/2019 3:29:05 PM (No. 67782)
I thought the War On Poverty was supposed to fix that. Now it universal income reparations and expanded welfare rights as the path to universal prosperity and equal income.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/20/2019 4:16:20 PM (No. 67790)
So basically, they want to punish productive people(white or minority) who have a work ethic? Gonna go over real well come primary and election season. NOT What they refuse to accept is that the decades of telling minorities that society owes them, and that they don't need to work for their own success is culminating in the situation we have now.
Obama and the rest of the activists have the minorities truly believing that if they just sit on their front porch, success will come someday. And that whites truly have to be doing something to keep minorities down. Whites don't work to earn their success, they were just born lucky. He actually told the graduating college kids this during his final year at their graduation. With all the AA programs for minorities only, you would think that minorities would be more successful in life and way ahead of whites. But they are discouraged for the most part from taking responsibility for their lives. So they continue to languish on the mental plantation.
As the mother of a son who happens to be white, I truly fear for his future sometimes.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
4Justice 5/20/2019 5:22:26 PM (No. 67804)
Cleaver was right, but he was also a big part of the problem too with his BLM. However, LBJ's "Great Society" and "War on Poverty" created and perpetuated the mess that plagues the black community and has been for over 50 years. These socialist Democrat policies destroyed the once strong black nuclear family and created a dependent class of people with no incentive to improve their lives. Then, all the crazy other far leftist ideas like Critical Racial Theory and Black Liberation Movement (BLM) have exponentially worsened the problem by creating racial divisiveness and blaming white people.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/20/2019 5:55:04 PM (No. 67819)
Wealth Gap created by ... you guessed it...Democraps!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
red1066 5/20/2019 6:38:16 PM (No. 67839)
The amount of money spent on correcting poverty over the last 60 years would pay off the national debt. If black families( and there are very few actual families as defined by a father, mother, and child living in the same house) spent as much time studying and doing well in schools with a eye on improving their lives as most whites families do, they might be in better shape.
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I call bs. Would you believe there is a textbook promoting this drivel ? I have one. They never mention all of the wealthy blacks in this country, including the man who just paid off student loans for a graduating class.
I am in my community almost every day and I could enlighten Booker because apparently he isn't. Everything is free and when it isn't, they think nothing of robbing to get it. They are so conditioned that even the elderly want everything free. Why leave poverty and cut off the feedbag?
Designer clothes are a given. An African American financial expert was on Orca some years back and she told the young black women in attendance that day "If it is on your a--, it is not an asset"
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/21/2019 2:36:43 AM (No. 67949)
What's the cut for the politician? One dollar for you and two dollars for me?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
JrSample 5/21/2019 8:04:23 AM (No. 68018)
This "vast racial wealth gap" for blacks is caused by: high out-of-wedlock birth rate (over 70%), widespread drug usage, poor failing schools, and violent criminal behavior. These problems have nothing to do with slavery in the 1800s or "white privilege" and everything to do with bad behavior. Yet, the only "solution" that liberal democrats can concoct is taking other peoples' money to pander and buy votes.
If the real problems are not solved any reparations payments will be a complete waste of money. A sure way to doom oneself to a life of poverty and financial failure is to have multiple children out of wedlock and use of illegal drugs. Giving money to someone in that situation does not solve any problems, the money will be wasted and there will be nothing to show for it.
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If distributed wealth to minorities was to be a reward for families of intact married couples, for their children who are succeeding in school, for those who don't use or sell drugs and are not gang members then maybe we could talk. I doubt that very much money redistribution would be required.
If it goes to the others who have problems, it would circle back in time anyway.
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