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AnointedVisions 1 point ago +1 / -0

Republicans don't even want to "teach them to fish."

The right knows black people are perfectly capable human beings that don't need special attention. Treating them like they do need special laws and programs to "save" them is the epitome of arrogance and condescending low-expectation racism.

What did Frederick Douglas say?

Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!

Just give every American the same basic human dignity and let them make their own path in life as they see fit.