Two birds, one stone: give all them a home in Louisiana or other states who want one as part of reparations. If they want it, then check their name off for getting future reparations. Some might not want it, and that’s understandable, so don’t check their name off and let them be available for reparations. You’ve solved two problems with you idea and I back the idea.
But the reason I high you quote about the Black Caucus is to let you know that you said it, not me. I can’t say that kind of thing. What I can say, sadly, is that she might actually be telling the truth! There is no one in DC working harder than her on the issue. Indeed, there is no one in the GOP working at all, or rather they are working against it. Trump’s black head of housing, Dr. Ben Carson, ordered a new $35,000 dinner table for his office while simultaneously closing down the housing programs. They’ve been actively restraining and draining the housing program since the 80’s. I lived in government housing projects back then for a bit, and there was no wait list I could remember (of course I didn’t apply, I was just a child, it was my father). But it worked. Now there are long waiting lists for housing and vouchers. It’s horrible and it’s deliberate. I personally have no doubt that the hardest working congresswoman is doing little work, so little that she tone deadly tells the people waiting in line: Go Home. That has got to be the most tone deaf comment from a democratic this year I’ve heard (I nominate the anti racist baby one from Cruz.
But when the white caucus outnumbers the black caucus by more than 2 to 1, it’s hard for them to make any inroads. 60 percent democrats are white and 99 percent of republicans, so add that together— which you have to do because neither party wants to upset white America and lose that vote. 40 percent— that’s way to high a statistic and show the systemic part of systemic racism.