President Joe Biden will announce plans on Tuesday to narrow the racial wealth gap and invest in Black businesses during his visit to Tulsa commemorating the centennial of its horrific massacre of hundreds of Black residents in its Greenwood district.
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QAnon Conference: The 10 Wildest Moments From Their ‘Patriot Roundup’ (vice.com)
“The fund will be targeted to economically underserved communities”
I suspect my autocorrect of being a magat.
It changed “underserved” to “undeserved”.
Regrettably the result of talk and proposed policy about race based inequalities, wealth gaps, reparations, etc. will be even more vociferous anger, resentment, animosity and violence against the very people Democrats would like to help.
Fear the Pug…
Welp…almost nothing could make them angrier haha
This is a long overdue correction in government policies, partly made possible by the Trump Administration’s viciousness and cellphone cameras that have made plain the basic racial inequities in our system to anyone paying even a modicum of attention.
The Biden Administration is hitting it on all fronts - economic, law enforcement and the justice system, housing policies, and education as it pertains to racial and social inequalities.
Will there be a potential backlash because of racism and willful ignorance? Possibly. But you can’t let those people dictate policy, especially when they’re on the wrong side in every way. As much as Biden is capable of doing, he can’t necessarily change hearts and minds, but we shouldn’t live in fear of morally stunted people.
LBJ learned that in the 1960s. It allowed the Republicans to win over the Southern states.
Well, I’m sure if Trump was still in office he would have done the same thing.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go so I can continue my conversation with Elvis Presley, who is currently residing in my toaster oven.
There are pugs a neighbor has across the street. My RedTick Coonhound did not consider them to be dogs cuz their bark is more of a squeak and that offended her sensibilities.
They don’t even take off their hats for the anthem!
Tulsa will always wear the history of the massacre until they find some way to restore the freedom people had to prosper from their work. This is not something that can just be forgotten.
Yeah. We can’t hold off on correcting injustices for fear of making racists mad. If they get upset they’ll just have to cry it out like the infants they essentially are.
$500? What a scam.
Anyone who disses pugs is not a good person! 
But seriously, they are wonderful dogs and quite capable of full-throated barks!
As with all government programs and policies, it will have good intentions, but very few of the dollars will trickle down to those that need the help the most. Wealthier businessmen and others will find a way to get the lion’s share. Something similar was done in the late 60s.
I worked for a black owned dump truck company located in the Selby-Dale area of St.Paul. It was formed to take advantage of some of Johnson’s policies. I was the only white driver. I did live pretty close to where the company was located at the time. The company did get special consideration on some state jobs. But the pay didn’t increase on those jobs. I could make more money doing just about anything else. I stuck it out a couple of weeks. The company didn’t last very long either.
I’ve been to Tulsa. It’s an oil town. Crude people also too.
I am ashamed to admit that even though I grew up as Black man in OK (And lived in Tulsa for 2 years) , I was virtually ignorant of the Greenwood massacre until around 10 years ago. As you can guess, the OK schools didn’t exactly spend a lot of time explaining the massacre: in fact, I can’t remember any mention of it in my OK history classes. However, once I became aware of Greenwood’s history it clarified so many things for me. I always feel a wave of sadness when I think about how different the Black experience in the U.S. might have been if Greenwood and similar communities had been allowed to prosper and grow without violent suppression. If you can get the past the paywall, Eugene Robinson has a great column on this topic : https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/31/it-was-much-more-than-tulsa/?utm_campaign=wp_follow_eugene_robinson&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_eugenerobinson
Well, that and pass a slew of discriminatory voting laws in a few dozen states, disenfranchising millions, assured in the end SCOTUS will sign off on whatever bullshit they’ve done.
They were already doing that. They’ve done it for 150 years.