If it was targeting poor white communities that are high crime, or former criminals trying to re-enter the workforce, then yes I would be in favour of it. I think people deserve to have options available to them that they can choose instead of crime and poverty, if they're willing to work for it. If you deprive people of any other choices, then of course they'll turn to crime when they get desperate enough. I don't believe in pure handouts like the dems do, but I think incentives, tax breaks, loans, and other training and jobs programs can only be a good thing. I don't think it should necessarily be a race-based thing.

The thing is though that in the USA, the black community (not all of them, but in general) are in a particularly bad place socio-economically. Their communities are disproportionately poor, high crime, and with not a ton of options to escape from it. Some of this can be faulted on the culture that they foster, but I don't think any one individual can be faulted for falling into it. I think that the culture formed around the formation of the welfare state, and now the poverty and bad culture have formed a negative feedback loop that is extremely hard to get out of without some kind of help.

Let me try to explain a bit more. The black communities are poor because the welfare state promotes single motherhood. The fathers often leave or end up in jail or dead from gangbanging, which raises the next generation of kids in a world without stable families. This deprives them of proper psychological development, stable economic statuses, and education opportunities. This in turn makes them more likely to turn to crime, and not form stable families of their own. And the cycle repeats. The black community also has a very strong ingrained distrust in authorities like police and teachers, meaning that the culture discourages people from getting educated and rising out of their situations and fosters a strong victim culture that makes them think that all of their problems are due to systemic oppression and not (at least partially) their own failings. In addition, since these communities are so poor, they often cannot afford housing and are forced to pay rent, making it impossible to create generational wealth that can improve the community wealth over time.

All of these factors and more create a really strong vortex of poverty that is REALLY hard for individuals to escape without help. The only way to break this vicious cycle is for an outside force to come in and try to give enough people opportunities and motivation to rise out of it and better themselves and their communities. We need to promote stable two parent black families, home ownership, creation and management of black-owned businesses. The impoverished black community by and large does not have the means to achieve this on their own currently. We can't just give them money straight up because they'll just squander it. We have to give them the means and opportunity to make money on their own and become self-sufficient and give them something to hold on to and motivate them.

And bettering the black community can only benefit the USA in the long run (providing there are actually improvements, of course.)

So yeah, I'm ok with this.

If it was targeting poor white communities that are high crime, or former criminals trying to re-enter the workforce, then yes I would be in favour of it. I think people deserve to have options available to them that they can choose instead of crime and poverty, if they're willing to work for it. If you deprive people of any other choices, then of course they'll turn to crime when they get desperate enough. I don't believe in pure handouts like the dems do, but I think incentives, tax breaks, loans, and other training and jobs programs can only be a good thing. I don't think it should necessarily be a race-based thing.

The thing is though that in the USA, the black community (not all of them, but in general) are in a particularly bad place socio-economically. Their communities are disproportionately poor, high crime, and with not a ton of options to escape from it. Some of this can be faulted on the culture that they foster, but I think that the culture formed around the formation of the welfare state, and now the poverty and bad culture have formed a negative feedback loop that is extremely hard to get out of without some kind of help.

Let me try to explain a bit more. The black communities are poor because the welfare state promotes single motherhood. The fathers often leave or end up in jail or dead from gangbanging, which raises the next generation of kids in a world without stable families. This deprives them of proper psychological development, stable economic statuses, and education opportunities. This in turn makes them more likely to turn to crime, and not form stable families of their own. And the cycle repeats. The black community also has a very strong ingrained distrust in authorities like police and teachers, meaning that the culture discourages people from getting educated and rising out of their situations and fosters a strong victim culture that makes them think that all of their problems are due to systemic oppression and not (at least partially) their own failings. In addition, since these communities are so poor, they often cannot afford housing and are forced to pay rent, making it impossible to create generational wealth that can improve the community wealth over time.

All of these factors and more create a really strong vortex of poverty that is REALLY hard for individuals to escape without help. The only way to break this vicious cycle is for an outside force to come in and try to give enough people opportunities and motivation to rise out of it and better themselves and their communities. We need to promote stable two parent black families, home ownership, creation and management of black-owned businesses. The impoverished black community by and large does not have the means to achieve this on their own currently. We can't just give them money straight up because they'll just squander it. We have to give them the means and opportunity to make money on their own and become self-sufficient and give them something to hold on to and motivate them.

And bettering the black community can only benefit the USA in the long run (providing there are actually improvements, of course.)

So yeah, I'm ok with this.

If it was targeting poor white communities that are high crime, or former criminals trying to re-enter the workforce, then yes I would be in favour of it. I think people deserve to have options available to them that they can choose instead of crime and poverty, if they're willing to work for it. If you deprive people of any other choices, then of course they'll turn to crime when they get desperate enough. I don't believe in pure handouts like the dems do, but I think incentives, tax breaks, loans, and other training and jobs programs can only be a good thing. I don't think it should necessarily be a race-based thing.

The thing is though that in the USA, the black community (not all of them, but in general) are in a particularly bad place socio-economically. Their communities are disproportionately poor, high crime, and with not a ton of options to escape from it. Some of this can be faulted on the culture that they foster, but I think that the culture formed around the formation of the welfare state, and now the poverty and bad culture have formed a negative feedback loop that is extremely hard to get out of without some kind of help.

Let me try to explain a bit more. The black communities are poor because the welfare state promotes single motherhood. The fathers often leave or end up in jail or dead from gangbanging, which raises the next generation of kids in a world without stable families. This deprives them of proper psychological development, stable economic statuses, and education opportunities. This in turn makes them more likely to turn to crime, and not form stable families of their own. And the cycle repeats. The black community also has a very strong ingrained distrust in authorities like police and teachers, meaning that the culture discourages people from getting educated and rising out of their situations and fosters a strong victim culture that makes them think that all of their problems are due to systemic oppression and not (at least partially) their own failings. In addition, since these communities are so poor, they often cannot afford housing and are forced to pay rent, making it impossible to create generational wealth that can improve the community wealth over time.

All of these factors and more create a really strong vortex of poverty that is REALLY hard for individuals to escape without help. The only way to break this vicious cycle is for an outside force to come in and try to give enough people opportunities and motivation to rise out of it and better themselves and their communities. We need to promote stable two parent black families, home ownership, creation and management of black-owned businesses. The impoverished black community by and large does not have the means to achieve this on their own currently.

And bettering the black community can only benefit the USA in the long run (providing there are actually improvements, of course.)

So yeah, I'm ok with this.