I think the issue is that he didnt fo anything really specific for the black community.
Almost every benefit or positive net bump they recieved in some category wasnt just an AA thing.
You can sight tax cuts, wage/job increases etc.. but it was 'just AA' They were just part of an overall increase across the board.
If you point out program initiatives they werent specifically AA but spread across all monorities.
All in all he did far little DIRECTLY affecting the AA solely.
If anything immigrants and LGBT recieved FAR more direct discussion and policy.
Always makes me shake my head watching AA groups/people fight so hard for immigration/LGBT things while they get so little.
They've basically put themselves, and we all have, behind those issues.
I, myself as a white dude, would place AA issues and improvements waaaaay ahead of those issues. Fuck DACA, Fuck bathrooms and gay marriage...let's focus on AA issues before we worry about illegals and where trans men can piss.
And this is what's funny about that. What policy in the history of America "only" helped black people? Sadly most people don't realize that the Civil Rights bill was not a black people only bill. And why do people love ignoring this?
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Since the launch of MBK, the private sector has committed more than $600 million in grants and in-kind resources, along with $1 billion in low-interest financing to support activities that are aligned with MBK priorities. These commitments do not include the substantial additional investments that are also being made at the local level.
» “Ban the Box” Philanthropy Challenge – Most job applications include a mandatory yes-or-no question regarding whether the applicant has had interactions with the justice system.
Some 70 million Americans have arrest or conviction records that can show up in background checks; there is evidence that this reduces by 50% the likelihood that an applicant will receive a callback interview for an entry-level job. This practice of asking about a criminal record at the first step in the application process takes a particularly heavy toll on communities of color, and especially on men of color who are disproportionately arrested, convicted, and sentenced.
Inspired by the President’s announcement that the Federal Government will change its practices and “ban the box” in its own hiring, the Executives’ Alliance has embarked on a campaign to challenge philanthropy to do the same and is urging foundations nationwide to join the movement by “banning the box” and adopting fair chance hiring practices – more than 40 foundations had accepted the challenge at time of launch.
» The Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress initiative is working to catalyze the economic progress of 100,000 low-income urban youth in 10 cities across the United States.
To date, the initiative has reached more than 60,000 young people through a variety of programs including one-on-one college and career mentoring, summer jobs, and leadership and workplace skills development through volunteering and service
» In March 2014, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a performance-oriented national network of 240 Community Development Financial Institutions, launched the Youth Opportunity Pledge in support of the MBK initiative. The pledge was to make more than $1 billion in new financing available annually to support youth of color, including $300 million specifically for black and Hispanic male youth.
Since the March 2014 announcement, OFN members have invested more than $470 million in housing, community services, small business, and other financial agreements designed to positively impact youth of color.
» Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS) focuses on finding, enrolling, and supporting students absent from challenging college preparatory courses.
In April 2015, a consortium of education, philanthropy, and business leaders announced “Lead Higher” with commitments to spend a combined $100 million over three years to identify and enroll 100,000 low-income students and students of color in Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) high school classes across the country.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. has committed $10 million to expand The Fellowship Initiative (TFI), a comprehensive enrichment program for young men of color that includes academic, social, and emotional support; experiential learning opportunities; one-on-one mentorship with JPMorgan Chase employees; college planning support; and more.
The expanded initiative resulted in a new class of TFI Fellows being recruited from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City, and the firm identified and trained some 120 employees to serve as one-on-one TFI mentors.
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Several school districts have started to take action in response to the continued Federal efforts to address disparities in school discipline policies and practices. Following the 2014 release of a joint guidance letter from ED and the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) advising schools that the disproportionate application of discipline to certain groups of students may violate Federal civil rights laws, advocates and educators in California began to push the California State Legislature to replace “zero-tolerance” discipline policies with alternative approaches.
A recent study by the Center for Civil Rights Remedies using data from the California Department of Education, found that the total number of suspensions in California fell from 709,580 in 2011-12 to 503,101 in 2013-14 and that reductions in suspensions also resulted in a narrowing of the racial discipline gap for California. After attending the national Rethink Discipline convening at the White House, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and the Houston Independent School District (HISD) each unveiled their plans to take a bold new approach to student discipline aimed at becoming the largest districts in the country to reduce out-of-school suspensions. With growing evidence that calls into question the effectiveness of stringent discipline policies—and following in the footsteps of other districts like Oakland, Syracuse, and Broward County, FL, that have all taken steps toward overhauling their student discipline codes – Miami-Dade County Public Schools announced that, beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, it would eliminate out-of-school suspensions in response to a review of its own data, which showed that the district had suspended 36,000 students in the 2013-2014 school year alone.
Though black students made up only 23% of the student population, they represented 38% of students suspended. The district also announced a new $3 million investment to support student success centers, to expand the number of counselors, and to implement character development practices in the classroom. Meanwhile, the HISD School Board passed a new policy banning suspensions altogether for young children. These new, more positive approaches to improving school climate and discipline will help to keep students in school and provide more targeted interventions and supports for students most in need.
» Since 2014, the Task Force agencies have invested significant resources to address barriers to employment and to ensure that all young people have the tools and opportunities to enter the workforce successfully. The Task Force agencies also expanded access to apprenticeship programs and launched new pilots to empower communities to help improve outcomes for disconnected youth through education, training, and other services.
For example, from FY 2013 to FY 2015, there was an increase of nearly 10,000 new apprenticeships filled by African-American and Hispanic men and women in 25 states.
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Many black and Hispanic teenage boys lag behind their peers in summer employment and year-round jobs. This employment gap broadens as these young men get older, making them the highest percentage of the roughly six million youth ages 16 to 24 disconnected from school and work. That is one of the reasons why the Task Force recommended strengthening opportunities for summer youth employment and launching a cross-sector campaign to reduce summer learning loss, and to increase the number of job and internship opportunities for all young people. Building on this recommendation, the White House and MBK Task Force agencies launched the Summer Opportunity Project, in partnership with the National Summer Learning Association and other collaborators, to increase the percentage of youth in evidence-based summer opportunity programs, decrease the percentage of youth experiencing violence over the summer, and ensure that young Americans have the support they need to get their first job. The Summer Opportunity Project launch featured several new public and private sector commitments.
LinkedIn, the world’s largest online professional network, has committed to connecting leaders of small and medium sized Impact in Action: A Summer of Opportunity for Baltimore Following the unrest in Baltimore in April 2015, one of the top priorities that the City of Baltimore established was to expand its long-running summer jobs program, called YouthWorks, to ensure that every young person who signed up for the program would be guaranteed a summer job opportunity. The expansion of YouthWorks in the summer of 2015 has been one of the city’s most successful efforts to increase opportunities for Baltimore’s youth. In total, the city was able to secure more than $4 million in new non-federal funds and provide more than 3,000 new jobs with public, nonprofit, and private sector employers. MBK Task Force agencies also played an instrumental role in helping the city leverage Federal programs and resources to support the summer jobs program. For example, ED provided technical assistance to the Baltimore City Public Schools on using Title I education funds to pay for career enrichment activities or for instructors and tutors as part of summer jobs programs. In addition, grants from AmeriCorps and the U. S. Department of the Interior helped support additional summer job slots. DOT also sponsored the National Summer Transportation Institute at Morgan State University to provide STEM education and SAT prep courses, and to promote awareness of transportation career opportunities for area high school students As a part of the President’s FY 2017 Budget, the White House and the Departments of Labor and Education also announced a new $5.5 billion proposal to connect more than one million young people to their first jobs over the summer and year-round. The proposal also included a new $2 billion competitive grant program designed to reconnect disconnected youth to educational and workforce pathways. businesses with local and state organizations to help young people, including disconnected youth, access summer jobs in 72 cities. CNCS has committed $15 million in existing Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards over the next three years to launch Summer Opportunity AmeriCorps that will enable up to 20,000 youth to gain new skills and earn money for college.
In the summer of 2015, DOL awarded nearly $22.5 million to seven communities facing high unemployment, high crime, and low graduation rates to help connect youth and young adults (ages 16 to 29) with job opportunities. Grants were awarded to: Baltimore, MD; Detroit, MI; Houston, TX; Greater St. Louis, including North St. Louis; Long Beach, CA; North Charleston, SC; and Camden, NJ. These grants are designed to help prepare young people for work in construction, manufacturing, hospitality, health care, information technology, transportation, and other growing industries. They also fund an array of services including financial literacy, apprenticeship training, leadership development, and mental health and substance abuse counseling. The grants involve partnerships with community and faith-based organizations, educational institutions, foundations, and employers. Building on this success, in February 2016 DOL launched a new $20 million grant competition that will be awarded to approximately 10 communities for innovative approaches that provide young people with summer and year-round jobs and connect them to career pathways.
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Nearly one in every two black men has been arrested by the time he is 23 years old. But crime and violence are problems affecting too many young Americans. Far too many of our nation’s young people are detained, imprisoned or fall victim to violence. An estimated 2.2 million people are currently incarcerated in the United States and each year, more than 600,000 individuals are released from state and Federal prisons.
Persons of color disproportionately have contact with law enforcement or are victims of violent crime. In 2014, nearly 4,500 young non-Hispanic black men were victims of homicide, making homicide the number one leading cause of death for black males between the ages of 15 and 34. This Administration has taken, and will continue to take, steps to enhance public safety, improve youth and law enforcement relations, reduce youth involvement with the juvenile and criminal justice systems, reduce youth violence, and address the barriers justice-involved young people face. To achieve these goals, the Administration has issued guidance and coordinated resources across funding streams.
In U.S. prisons, there are as many as 100,000 people held in solitary confinement — including juveniles and people with mental illnesses. An estimated 25,000 inmates are serving months, even years in a cell, with almost no human contact. In July 2015, President Obama directed the Attorney General to review the overuse of solitary confinement across American prisons. DOJ conducted a thorough review to determine how, when, and why correctional facilities isolate certain prisoners from the general inmate population and developed concrete strategies for safely reducing the use of this practice throughout our criminal justice system. That review led to a report to the President setting out guiding principles to responsibly limit the use of restrictive housing at the Federal, state, and local level, as well as specific recommendations for policies that the Bureau of Prisons can implement for Federal prisons.
In January 2016, the President adopted DOJ’s recommendations, issuing an executive order to ban solitary confinement for juveniles, expand treatment for the mentally ill, and increase the amount of time inmates in solitary confinement can spend outside of their cells. These steps will affect approximately 10,000 Federal prisoners held in solitary confinement – and serve as a model for what can be done in state and local corrections systems.
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DOJ’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) made 12 awards to communities totaling $14 million in 2015 to improve responses to male survivors of violence, including boys and young men of color and their families, and to dedicate technical assistance to support these efforts. OVC partnered with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to strengthen healthcare, corrections, victim assistance, and other community stakeholders’ knowledge and skills, resulting in innovative programs and practices that foster a better understanding among criminal and juvenile justice systems to ensure that these victims receive needed services and can exercise their rights. OVC continued to fund its “Vision 21 Linking Systems of Care” demonstration projects in 2016 in the states of Montana and Virginia. The goal is to ensure that children and youth in these states are assessed for trauma and victimization. The program is also designed to provide evidence-based services and interventions, regardless of which system a child may encounter or enter: victim services, law enforcement, child protection services, foster care, health services (physical, mental, and behavioral), juvenile justice, courts, and schools, for example. In 2016, OVC will competitively fund (up to $10 million) a National Resource Center on Reaching Underserved Victims. OVC’s Vision 21 Report, released in 2013, recognized the need to address obstacles to accessing services faced by many historically marginalized and underserved populations. This Resource Center will establish a one-stop shop to provide information, training and technical assistance to victim assistance providers and allied practitioners (such as law enforcement, healthcare, and mental health providers) to reach these victim populations, including boys and young men of color. In addition, HHS and DOJ announced a new grant award in September 2014 of approximately $3 million to help curb youth violence and improve the health and well-being of underserved and distressed communities.
Now people can keep saying whatever they want about what was and wasn't done for black people. I realize that we are living in the new era where facts don't matter and people can say whatever they want in the Social Media era. But facts are the facts. Black people have been helped directly in a way from this guy, that most other Presidents just haven't done or focused on.
