Policy Priorities
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Lineage-Based Investment
- The conversation about “reparations” would have been closed if Democrats had not assassinated Republican President Abraham Lincoln and sabotaged Reconstruction.
- Black Americans have reported reparations as the top issue for members of the Congressional Black Caucus to address. Black people comprise nearly 30% of the population of Chicago.
- My proposed redirection of current minority-focused spending addresses a fiscally responsible, morally sound investment that puts Americans First, adheres to originalism, and moves toward closure on the issue.
- The proposal redirects ~$4.125 billion annually—half of existing minority-focused federal program spending—specifically toward Black Americans descended from U.S. chattel slaves (“Legacy Black Americans”) who are also the survivors and descendants of Jim Crow "separate but (un)equal" segregation.
- Since the 1960’s Negro civil rights era, all groups have been shoehorned into the programs that were targeted toward the founding Black population who were the reason for the civil rights era and its legislation. This includes handing out special dispensations for African/Caribbean and other immigrants, sexual preference, sex, and “gender.”
- Since 1965, federal programs for “minorities” have continually broadened and often dilute the impact on Black Americans, whose lineage-based harm remains structurally unresolved.
- In the June 2023 Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, the conservative justices demonstrated moral clarity and historical originalism when they noted that Black Americans (descendants of the founding Black population) are protected based on injury that was allowed by the government NOT based on race. It doesn’t include all “black” people.
- Over 40–50 years of implementation, my proposed redirection, if strategically invested, could drive 90% of Black Americans out of poverty/economic inconsistency, generate up to $24 trillion in government savings, and begin to close the $850,000 lineage wealth gap
- This proposal does not raise taxes and can be implemented without adding to deficits.
- The program operates with efficiency to drive impacts/ROI and effectiveness to minimize waste and avoid opportunistic mission creep particularly through a relaunch of the Freedmen's Bureau–which was initially authorized by Republicans in 1865 and quickly sabotaged by Democrats.
- A targeted Americans First investment strategy with adherence to originalism, not simply direct transfers, can drive long-term wealth creation, self-sufficiency, and reduce the need for government assistance.
- Simply giving out small checks annually with no interest, investment, or multiplier effect, would take millennia to close that wealth gap and large checks could increase deficits absent a concomitant reallocation of new or existing funds.
- Only direct redistribution equals a longer timeline, little growth
- Strategic investing equals shorter timeline, compounding growth, policy multipliers
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