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You're a racist.
City of Oakland Mayor is branded racist for giving families of color $500 a month if they earn under $59,000 with no rules on how they spend it - but offering poor white families nothing
A program to give $500 monthly checks to low-income families of color in Oakland, California, has been criticized for explicitly excluding the 10,000 white residents living in poverty in the city.
The lottery system, funded by private philanthropists, will see the no-strings-attached checks go to households with an annual income of less than $59,000 if they have at least one child. The other half of the $500 checks will go to those earning under $30,000.
According to data from an Oakland Equity Indicators Report, cited by officials to justify favoring people of color, white households earn about three times that of African-American ones.
The same report states around 8 per cent of the city's white residents, approximately 10,000 people, live in poverty.
Schaaf told the Associated Press the reason for limiting eligibility to black, indigenous and other people of color was that white households in Oakland make on average about three times as much as black households.
Mayor Schaaf said: 'We have designed this demonstration project to add to the body of evidence, and to begin this relentless campaign to adopt a guaranteed income federally.'
The announcement sparked an angry debate online, as hundreds of commentators on Reddit were critical of the move.
One commenter labeled it 'pure racism'.
'Is this even legal? Can a city government legally have a program that's only for certain races?'
Another explained the program failed to understand the changing demographics of the city.
'The high income earners in Oakland are mostly young transplants that did not grow up in Oakland. They should have done research on upward social mobility in Oakland and restricted based upon that. But I guess that's too much work.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9399137/Oakland-California-exclude-white-families-living-poverty-500-month-checks.html
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Yep total Wack Job
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These two photos show who Georgia's new elections law benefits -- and hurts
If you're trying to figure out the impact of the new Georgia law restricting voting rights, two photographs will tell you everything you need to know.
The first photo shows Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signing the sweeping law, which many argue will make voting harder for people of color. He is sitting at a table in a stately room, flanked by six men in suits and before a portrait of what seems to be a painting of an antebellum, plantation-styled home.
The second photo shows two beefy White police officers arresting a distressed-looking Black woman -- Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon -- after she knocked on Kemp's office door repeatedly while he announced the signing of the bill into law.
The symbolic contrast between the two images, both taken within minutes of each other Thursday evening at the Georgia Capitol, is hard to miss.
In the photo, Kemp and the Republican lawmakers surrounding him are wearing face masks because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Republicans rushed the bill through both chambers of the legislature within a few hours, allowing Kemp to sign it into law that night.
But the optics and timing of the signing -- under cover of darkness, with White men wearing masks -- will only fuel suspicion among voting rights advocates and Black Americans that what Georgia Republicans did Thursday wasn't lawmaking.
It was the 21st-century political equivalent of strongarm Jim Crow tactics to prevent Black citizens from voting.
No one died Thursday night when Cannon was hauled away to jail on charges of disrupting the meeting. Cannon admitted she continued to knock on Kemp's door after state troopers told her to stop. She said she did so to fight voter suppression.
Kemp and his fellow Republicans who posed for the signing portrait last night have said the new law is needed to boost confidence in "secure, accessible, and fair" elections.
But they may soon discover that photo will haunt them for years to come.
The juxtaposition between that image and the one of Cannon's arrest shows -- maybe better than a thousand op-eds about "voter integrity" -- what the new Georgia law is all about.
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I saw the video. She was acting a damn fool. Waiving her hands in the Police Officer's face and just generally being an asshole after she was warned. Fake News. Bullshit. Lies.These two photos show who Georgia's new elections law benefits -- and hurts
If you're trying to figure out the impact of the new Georgia law restricting voting rights, two photographs will tell you everything you need to know.
The first photo shows Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signing the sweeping law, which many argue will make voting harder for people of color. He is sitting at a table in a stately room, flanked by six men in suits and before a portrait of what seems to be a painting of an antebellum, plantation-styled home.
The second photo shows two beefy White police officers arresting a distressed-looking Black woman -- Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon -- after she knocked on Kemp's office door repeatedly while he announced the signing of the bill into law.
The symbolic contrast between the two images, both taken within minutes of each other Thursday evening at the Georgia Capitol, is hard to miss.
In the photo, Kemp and the Republican lawmakers surrounding him are wearing face masks because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Republicans rushed the bill through both chambers of the legislature within a few hours, allowing Kemp to sign it into law that night.
But the optics and timing of the signing -- under cover of darkness, with White men wearing masks -- will only fuel suspicion among voting rights advocates and Black Americans that what Georgia Republicans did Thursday wasn't lawmaking.
It was the 21st-century political equivalent of strongarm Jim Crow tactics to prevent Black citizens from voting.
No one died Thursday night when Cannon was hauled away to jail on charges of disrupting the meeting. Cannon admitted she continued to knock on Kemp's door after state troopers told her to stop. She said she did so to fight voter suppression.
Kemp and his fellow Republicans who posed for the signing portrait last night have said the new law is needed to boost confidence in "secure, accessible, and fair" elections.
But they may soon discover that photo will haunt them for years to come.
The juxtaposition between that image and the one of Cannon's arrest shows -- maybe better than a thousand op-eds about "voter integrity" -- what the new Georgia law is all about.
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Biden Condemns Efforts to Limit to Voting Rights as ‘Sick,’ ‘Un-American’
At his first press conference, Biden said if Democrats’ voting rights legislation faces consistent opposition in the Senate, he’d be open to more dramatic reforms to the filibuster.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN gave a forceful condemnation of Republican bills proposed in dozens of state legislatures that would limit voting access, emphasizing the importance of getting voting rights legislation through Congress. But if Democrats' face persistent resistance to passing their top priority in the Senate, the president signaled a willingness to support more dramatic reforms to the filibuster.
At his first press conference since taking office, Biden was asked whether he's worried about losing seats – or control of the House and the Senate – if many of these bills become law. He waved off any potential political consequences and argued that they infringe on voter rights – especially for voters of color – in a way that's worse than Jim Crow-era laws that institutionalized racial discrimination and segregation.
"What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It's sick – deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people standing in line waiting to vote," Biden said Thursday from the White House East Room, referencing a GOP bill in Georgia's state legislature that would impose restrictions on handing out food and water to voters standing in line.
"I'm convinced that we'll be able to stop this. It's the most pernicious thing," he added. "This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle. This is gigantic what they're trying to do, and it cannot be sustained."
Democrats have labeled the wave of voting legislation suppression tactics that would reduce access and limit absentee voting after an election cycle that saw record turnout and increased use of mail-in voting due to the pandemic. Republicans contend that the state bills are centered on election integrity and reducing fraud by imposing measures like voter ID laws.
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explanation of the 2nd Amendment
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This photo will cost Georgia Gov Kemp the next election to Stacey Abrams for Governor. 37% of the population of Georgia are people of color. They will not forget this photo as an act of protest against blatant voter suppression by seven white men in the middle of the night.Comment
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