Could Trump Convert the Black Vote With Republican Reparations?

New less racist highways, checks to keep Black people just above the poverty line and high-speed internet access. That will reverse decades of the systemic racism, Biden alleges, for sure.

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If there has been a trail of broken promises, Democrats are the ones who broke them. Over my lifetime, Republicans haven’t had much to say to Black America, except for a few heroes such as Jack Kemp, who tried to bridge the divide between Republicans and African Americans.

It is time for Republicans to say something, and I think Donald Trump may be the messenger who could break through Republican norms to say something this daring and counterintuitive: Let’s give the descendants of slavery a radical Republican version of reparations.

Ed Morrissey

It's an interesting premise, but it's mainly a bunch of empty promises too, at least at the federal level. The federal government does not provide the funding for K-12 schools, so they have no direct way to provide school choice or "education savings accounts" for black children. That would have to come from state legislators. As for the "massive home ownership program" David Mastio foresees, there are a couple of problems with it. not the least of which is that it's been tried before and it almost destroyed the financial industry when it blew up. 

We need to include black voters in the American dream, not construct a "separate but equal" version of it. But at least Mastio has the right idea in actual, constructive engagement with black voters rather than just using 30,000-foot messaging and assuming they'll play along. 

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