If you listen to the GOP, Democrats have failed black people. They argue that they’ve only given lip service to improving the black community, at the same time they argue that it has been Democrats who have used “Identity Politics” in order to divide and conquer the electorate and dominate the African-American vote.
They’ve said that African-Americans should give Republicans “A Chance”— yet the truth is that they’ve already had a chance and we’ve already seen much of what they bring to the table. Most notably they are hellbent on dismantling public institution and replacing them with private entities funded by public dollars. We’ve seen them do this with our military in terms of private entities like Blackwater/Xe who may have had a perfect track record protecting State Dept personnel in Iraq, they also produced the Nisour Square massacre of unarmed civilians. They turned standard military KP duty and construction services over to the like of KPR which produced high profits for that corporation but also killed at least 18 soldiers due to improper electrical work performed by the company.
When it comes to Americas failing public schools, the GOP and Donald Trump have insisted on the magic fix-all solution of “School Choice”, which is simply a euphemism for privatization and channelling public tax dollars into privately owned Charter Schools.
And just how well has that worked out so far?