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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you get paid, you are now essentially owned. The Dems have been "paying" the black community for 50 years. And for 50 years, we have had no advancement in this country.  It has been their way to keep the black community under their thumb.

I don't want no handouts. If I don't take anything, I can't be told how to think, what to do or who to vote for. I am not owned. I will think for myself and act for myself from now on.[/quote]

Do you think the wealth gap is an issue? Is it something that the US government should help fix in some way?
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I believe there are some clear steps that the government can do, the top three that comes to my mind:

1. Make drugs legal, heavily regulate it, end the war on drugs in its previous form. State and local governments can do this on their own quite effectively: just look at marijuana. This would turn the tide of incarceration of young black men, and reduce one of the key causes of gang violence.

2. Further clamp down on illegal immigration, and make legal immigration merit based. Doing so will tighten the labormarket, especially for lower to middle wage level jobs. The influx of immigrants both legal and illegal is the main cause for the stagnation of wages even as GDP/capita has continued to rise. A tighter labor market will give blacks more opportunities to join the work force.

3. Create a free option for colleges: such as making all community colleges free - no questions asked. Heavily subsidize state universities based on need, but state university spending must be capped. No more fancy stadiums, gyms, theaters - they can have those things, just not extravagant ones, and etc. Students are there to learn, not to take a 4 year luxury vacation. University of Minnesota, for example, spent $60 million dollars to expand and remodel a gym. [/quote]

Those all make sense.

Would you want to forgive sentences for people already convicted of drug crimes?

What about PK-12 schooling?

Anything to address segregation of neighborhoods and schools? 
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Decriminalizing drugs might make sense, but you can't stop white flight.[/quote]

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