It’s not likely to live past the first lawsuit.
I heard about it on the radio yesterday. It specifically excludes Caucasian people from taking advantage of a poverty-abatement program. Race-based government denial of a public benefit? Sure, that’ll last.
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I just wonder where is all the outcry from the left; had this been introduced by conservatives, there would already be screeching posts of sarcastic outrage and glaring hyperbole.
Michelle Obama, where are you now?
The news reports I’ve seen show the mayor of Oakland, California proudly promoting the program in an on-camera appearance. I am not saying that that makes it automatically or definitely a government program, nor do I dispute your claim that it is privately funded, I admit that with the way the facts are lining up, it’s either confusingly looking like government backing of a questionable plan, or government being in bed with the private sector in order to vouch for a questionable plan.
Were the ethnicities to be reversed, I doubt many would applaud this or sit still for it. I guess it’s now become ok the favor one ethnicity/race over another because the left is doing it . . .
UPDATE: CNN reported it this way:
(CNN) Low-income families of color in Oakland, California, could receive some extra financial assistance over the next year and a half.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced this week that the city will launch a guaranteed income project to give hundreds of Black and Indigenous families and people of color $500 per month for 18 months.
The remainder of the article can be found on CNN’s website. That doesn’t preclude your statement that the funding itself is private.
Aren’t there plenty of conservative initiatives that could benefit from the same stance of a wait and see instead of being shot down immediately, vigorously, and with fervent rebuke by its opposition?
Thank you.
Randy D 