California’s failure to improve conditions for Latinos and blacks was evident even before the lockdowns and recent unrest. What the state’s minorities need is not less policing, or systematic looting of upscale neighborhoods, or steps to reimpose affirmative action, or kneeling politicians; they require policies that empower working-class citizens of all races to ascend into the middle class.
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| Mike Ramirez |
"Leaders offer platitudes and counterproductive policies rather than opportunities and better living standards for the state’s minorities."
"No state wears its multicultural veneer more ostentatiously than California. The Golden State’s leaders believe that they lead a progressive paradise, ushering in what theorists Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca call “a new progressive era.” Others see California as deserving of nationhood; it reflects, as a New York Times columnist put it, “the shared values of our increasingly tolerant and pluralistic society.”
"In response to the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced plans to defund the police—a move applauded by Senator Kamala Harris, a prospective Democratic vice presidential candidate, despite the city’s steep rise in homicides. San Francisco mayor London Breed wants to do the same in her increasingly crime-ridden, disordered city. This follows state attorney general Xavier Becerra’s numerous immigration-related lawsuits against the Trump administration, even as his state has become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants—complete with driver’s licenses for some 1 million and free health care.
"Despite these progressive intentions, Hispanics and African-Americans—some 45 percent of California’s total population—fare worse in the state than almost anywhere nationwide. Based on cost-of-living estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 28 percent of California’s African-Americans live in poverty, compared with 22 percent nationally. Fully one-third of Latinos, now the state’s largest ethnic group, live in poverty, compared with 21 percent outside the state. “For Latinos,” notes longtime political consultant Mike Madrid, “the California Dream is becoming an unattainable fantasy.' ” . . .
From the comments to the author of this post:
Joel: Remember that you voted for this. You wrote article after article criticizing the judgment of President Trump (and Republicans in general), and encouraged every one of your readers to vote for liberal Democrats. Your exhortations are one of the reasons that California is a one-party state in substantial and rapid decline. (Personally, after living there for 38 years, I escaped to Texas in 2014. The best decision I ever made.)
So where are we now, Joel? You have in office the politicians that you actively promoted. Spare us the complaints and the recriminations. You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
You got the government you wanted, Joel. Good and hard! Enjoy it.
I always thought the author was center-right. I never attributed him to being a mouthpiece for the morons that run California
Here’s a question I have about our next presidential election later this year: In spite of having Trump as president and Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education the left has still made great progress in using our schools to teach white kids to hate themselves for being white and to teach all children to hate white people. If they can do this with conservatives in charge of the federal government what will they do if they get control of the federal government, especially with the left in control of the msm which is simply their Pravda, their propaganda machine?
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