Here's Why Blacks Need to Stop Voting for Democrats Immediately
Left-wing national and local policies intended to help Blacks have done more harm than good.
Leftists have been propagating the false narrative that conservatives are racist, and their policies would hurt Black people for decades. The result is most of our big cities in America have been under the rule of Democratic politicians. Can Black people in these large urban areas say they are better off as a result of this? There isn’t a city in America where the urban Black population is thriving and that’s unacceptable.
The national narrative promoted by the mainstream media since the George Floyd protests and violence started is there’s systematic racism against Blacks. The blame has been put only on white people and the supposed racist concept of “White privilege.” Democrat politicians who have controlled big cities for years escape and blame for the current problems. The biggest systematic issues Blacks face are failed policies made by Democrats. That’s the elephant in the room nobody talks about in the mainstream media.
Inner-city education in these cities is failing Black students. It’s very difficult for Black students to succeed if they can only go to a failing school in their neighborhood. Democrats oppose school choice which gives students an opportunity to escape failing schools and improve their chances of success. They have an unholy alliance with the powerful teacher unions who are opposed to school choice and charter schools. The Democratic Party supports choice except when it comes to getting children a better education.
The biggest systematic issues Blacks face are failed policies made by Democrats.
The major issues Black communities face today can get traced back to Lyndon Johnson’s big government Great Society programs. The promises made by Johnson were typical visions of utopia from the Left. Cities would be rebuilt with the federal government leading the way, poverty would be eradicated, the best government schools you could imagine, and the most harmful promise of all which was family stability with Uncle Sam being the primary strength.
The Great Society programs destroyed the Black family and it hasn’t recovered. In 1963, the percentage of babies born out of wedlock was 23.6%. That’s a terrible number but in the years since the beginning of the program, it’s grown to a staggering 75%. The absence of fathers is the primary reason for the issues faced today. Nothing can replace the void of a strong male figure in a child’s life. Children without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail than ones with a two-parent household.
The Democratic Party supports choice except when it comes to getting children a better education.
Many of America’s largest cities run by Democrats are in disarray. Poverty and homelessness are out of control in cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Black people account for 13.4% of the population but are 39.8% of the homeless population and rates are increasing fast. Rising housing prices in big cities like San Francisco due to low supply and high demand caused by regulations imposed by Democrats hurt Blacks. The average person has trouble affording a home in these cities, never mind struggling minority families.
Affirmative action programs are a favorite of the Left to repair past injustices but can do more harm than good. It sounds like a good-intentioned idea to give Blacks and other minorities a better chance to get into a premier university. Sometimes it works out, but it can often be disastrous. Students from inner-city schools who don’t have the knowledge and skills to succeed in that setting get set up to fail.
Nothing can replace the void of a strong male figure in a child’s life.
Attending a prestigious university gets more unaffordable every year for the same education you got a decade ago. Most students need to take out loans that require decades to pay off to attend college and set them back financially. The Black student who isn’t prepared to attend college ends up dropping out with thousands of dollars in debt and no degree. Then they return home to an area without good opportunities for work to pay down their debt and start a life.
Things were beginning to turn around for the Black community during the Trump administration before the pandemic and protests hit. Unemployment for Blacks hit a record low of 5.5% in October 2019, a figure President Obama could only have dreamed of reaching. That achievement wasn’t reached by any new big-government welfare program. Trump’s policies created a pro-business environment where small businesses could get created and existing ones the confidence to expand.
Blacks need to look at the track record of Democrat policies since the 1960s. It’s an abomination of how much they have suffered since the Great Society was created. Big government programs have destroyed the nuclear family, not strengthened it. Conservative Black voices need to step up and communicate an effective alternative message. America is a place where everyone should have a shot to succeed. It’s time to give the Black community hope and change that works.