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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 4678399" data-attributes="member: 60252">Were you even alive in the 60s when blacks were living in slums across the country and literally starving in rural areas of the south, and living in shanties with no water or heat or refrigeration??????? It was DEMOCRATIC leaders who spent billion and trillions of dollars on training, housing, food assistance, while republicans fought it then and continue to fight it now????? I grew up just outside of Oakland Ca and have seen the slow steady improvement. If democrats had cooperation instead of obstruction from republicans, things would have been done faster, but blaming democrats for not doing enough fast enough is short sighted. When schools alone that serve mostly black children get half the funding as schools with a majority of white children, you want ot blame democrats. who you say talk but do nothing. Until the education is equal, there won't be job opportunities that whites take for granted. Sure, a certain % will get past the problems, but simple math says that a lower education level in general lessens the odds. Does any black person really think that republicans are going to be willing to spend ANY tax money to help majority black schools? NO. Republicans want to pull money OUT of majority black schools and spend it on private schools that might take a few of the black kids, and literally leaving less money for the others who have fixed costs, leaving the reductions coming from teachers, and textbooks and supplies. The building costs the same to heat and maintain and clean and light even if 100 out of 1000 kids leave. But the remaining budget must be cut when funds are taken away with the kids that leave, and the pace towards complete failure is hastened, which is what the right really wants when they say they want charter schools or school choice. What they want is tax dollars going to private hands, just like they want with prisons, and defense spending.</blockquote>

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