This is a perfect example of a Democrat talking about “capital” as if it’s food stamps. Or something. You can’t force anyone to invest in a “community.” This is not something that government can dole out like welfare. Efforts at government “investment” in inner-city communities in the past have met with failure. Capital investment in a failing community must be sustained and increased over years for it to have any effect at all.

And if that community has a high crime rate, low rates of high school graduation, high rates of adults on public assistance, and hopelessness, there isn’t much chance of improving the lives of black people by promising something that politicians can’t deliver.

We all know what Beto was trying to do. All politicians do it. It’s just that blacks have become the Charlie Browns of America with Democrats promising every four years to hold the football steady — until they yank it away at the last moment.