In every city the Most Vulnerable Population (MVP) students are served by the WORST schools. This is a 20th century segregationist relic that undermines the education of America's black and Hispanic youth, whose talents and skills we need to bolster US competitiveness. 2/16
I've heard a lot about the great economy and lowest unemployment rate in history. Trump & GOP have one talking point when it comes to black voters: take a look at that low unemployment rate. Do you like that? I'd like to discuss it within context and reveal the full truth. 3/16
The Dems have talked a lot about ensuring all Americans have a living wage. I like that kind of talk. But when put in context, we must incorporate the history that got us to this point. That history is rooted in racial hierarchy that established giant gaps in incomes. 4/16
Dems are missing a big picture that both Bernie and Elizabeth have touched upon. I haven't heard Biden speak yet about his plan to address the horrific gap in the median net worth between black and white Americans. The wealth gap isn't going to close itself. What's the plan? 5/16
A racial wealth gap in US has existed since 1868, when black people (both free blacks & American Descendants of Slaves) were extended citizenship into a former whites-only US citizenry via 14th amend. Freedmen's Bureau attempted economic empowerment but was killed in 1872. 6/16
In America, the key to equitable ownership of a share of the American Dream of prosperity starts w/land & homeownership. White America has intentionally hoarded the land & kept black Americans chasing the homeownership dream for generations. Now our rate is at historic low. 7/16
Which of the Dem candidates has a detailed plan for exponentially increasing the rate of homeownership for black Americans? Have any unfolded those plans while speaking in our churches and at HBCUs? Anybody expose the banks, yet? Do any CEDS plans target such goals? 8/16
Ownership is key to building wealth in America. And aside from homeownership, business ownership is a major wealth-generating opportunity. Black Americans have always been innovative entrepreneurs but much of black wealth was destroyed by white terrorism. Reparations anyone? 9/16
Owning a business is a high-risk challenge. Growing that business into an employer firm is lauded across the private sector. There's a ton of talk in white America about job creation and business productivity. Not so much about scaling up productivity of black businesses. 10/16
How much more could we grow US economy by prioritizing scaling productivity of black & Hispanic businesses & hiring more employees & bolstering regional economic competitiveness? Isn't scaling productivity of black & Hispanic populations (42% of US by 2045) advisable? 11/16
The US is the world's wealthiest nation. But let's be honest. From WWII to today, white America ensured the talent inherent in black & brown America was segregated, marginalized & economically starved (economic sanctions = tool of war). Now, America NEEDS us to contribute. 12/16
Creativity & innovation isn't germane to any false notion of race (societal construct based on valuing/devaluing people by skin color/bloodline). America is a multicultural society filled w/innovative talent in all pops. Let's cultivate our Most Vulnerable Pops (MVP). 13/16
We know that public funds invested into research and commercialization of ideas has worked for the past 60+ years in developing tech-innovation ecosystems like Silicon Valley & Boston et al. We can invest in HBCUs NOW to scale up innovation in an existing infrastructure. 14/16
Too much focus solely on jobs, as though I can pass my job to my kids. Building wealth in US requires OWNERSHIP of land & resources. White America once knew that. They took that WEALTH from the rightful owners & REDISTRIBUTED it freely to whites. Let's fix that. Got plans? 15/16
This election is an opportunity for America to revisit 1968, when Trump was actively engaged in discriminating practices that #MLK sacrificed his life protesting. For an Inclusive America to live, white supremacy must die. White male supremacy is the enemy we must defeat. 16/16
Phil King, Dan Flynn, Tan Parker & Rick Miller are Texas legislators who co-authored the now infamous law banning abortion after first 6 weeks of pregnancy in Texas. While first introduced in 2013, Shelby Slawson & Bryan Hughes in March 2021 led SB8 to becoming law in May 2021.
There's never an appropriate time to point out this fact, but the new Texas law banning abortions, which authorizes the public as vigilantes who can legally sue in civil court anyone who aids & abets a woman seeking an abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy is filled with irony...
There are 2 reasons why this law is now in effect on Sept. 1, 2021 1. A majority of White men in Texas approved of this tactic to gut Roe v Wade 2. A majority of White WOMEN supported the White men who conspired to introduce & push through this new law
Here's the evidence...
What is at stake in the 2020 election? Here's some historical context that's much-needed in American schools to help fully understand the challenge each generation has faced. Now, it's our turn. We get to determine the future for the next generation.
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White supremacist ideology is taught in American schools. 80% of public school teachers are White, while 52% of public school students are not. Teachers cannot teach contextual US history, social studies & economics when they've never been taught the truth about w-supremacy.
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The U.S. was built on a foundation of white supremacy. it was established as a whites-only citizenry. A nation created by White Europeans for their benefit at the expense of the original Brown owners of this entire continent & Black people brought here in chains.
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1. What is your plan to help cities develop economic ecosystems that prioritize racial equity & increasing measurable productivity outcomes for economically deprived communities of color?
2. How will you address the imminent economic cliff America is racing toward, due to systemic bias that relies upon white entrepreneurship & job creation (which has a 30-yr decline) while ignoring growth of nonwhite businesses?
3. What is your plan to disrupt segregationist policies and practices that protect white supremacy and oppress nonwhites nationwide? (Education, housing, transportation, banking/finance, investments, business development, etc)
FROM SEGREGATION TO TRUMP
NYT: Which political icon argued that his theme of middle-class empowerment was borrowed by Richard Nixon in 1968 and then grabbed by Ronald Reagan, as the spine of his triumphant populist conservatism?
George Wallace npr.org/2016/04/22/475…
TRUMP BLOCKS BORDER
Who promised to protect the state's 'Anglo-Saxon people' from 'communistic amalgamation' with blacks and stood in the schoolhouse door to block two black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama?
George Wallace
TRUMP AND ARIZONA ALIGNED ON RACE
When Sen. Barry Goldwater (AZ), came out against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, who was it that said, "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between the two main parties on race?
George Wallace
Most Americans have never been taught anything about the "Negro American Revolution." This explains why educators, media, clergy, pundits and politicos struggle to understand today's socioeconomic and political battlegrounds. Just 53 years ago, the govt spelled it out. 1/13
"The US is approaching a new crisis in race relations. In this period expectations of Negro Americans will go beyond civil rights. They will expect equal opportunities for them will produce roughly equal results as compared with other groups. This is not going to happen." 2/13
"Nor will it happen for generations to come unless a new and special effort is made. There are two reasons. First, the racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us: Negroes will encounter serious personal prejudice for at least another generation." 3/13