Listen. We’re one sleep away from the election deadline across the country. If that fact alone doesn’t have your anxiety working overtime, then you’re the real MVP. For the rest of us, it’s the crunch time we’ve been waiting for.
We've got some final thoughts. And they don't involve saving folks from themselves (looking at you, Lil Wayne and followers). Leave the people who still believe "protest nonvoters" and the "all the candidates are the same" people where they're at. You and your mental health will thank us later.
There's still many of you voting absentee up until tomorrow and in person tomorrow.
In case you still haven't read it, the Biden Harris ticket has a plan that addresses damn near all of your concerns, if you give it a fair shot. For instance, tired of racist bankers and SBA loan officers having so much power in who they lend money to? This longstanding issue is only being addressed by the Biden Harris ticket.
Despite the tax receipts we didn’t need that prove the current leader of the free world is a whole con-man, there are still people doing Olympic style hurdles to say the Biden/Harris ticket is “no different” than a Trump administration. Let them. They will likely never be swayed to vote for what’s in their own best interest. They’re simply making excuses to allow for another Trump term - whether it’s sexism, being too woke for their own good, secretly being happy about the way they’re benefitting from a Trump presidency, or whatever other reason they could possibly have. There’s no reasoning with or swaying those people, so don’t.
In the words of the rap poet Pastor Troy, “Don't save 'em. They don’t wanna be saved.” It’s time to leave those folks right where they’re at so we can focus on continuing to sway “undecided voters” or those who haven’t typically voted. All 100M+ of them.
At this point, if the Biden Build Back Better Plan is, to you, “what and what” with Trump’s “Platinum Plan” when it comes to their stances on helping Black America, you simply want to believe that, despite the facts proving otherwise. The root of the problem is finally being addressed with the Build Back Better plan, and it’s the getting rid of the racist lending practices for us. All while generating NEW money to pump into black businesses and communities.
Here’s the gist of what you need to know about how Build Back Better ACTUALLY affects our lives. No more of this “but his plan doesn’t explain anything.” That’s B.S. If you actually want to know instead of automatically believing and repeating what others say, here’s what you should know:
To address the racial wealth gap, the opportunity gap, and the jobs gap for Black and Brown people, Biden will launch a historic effort to empower small business creation and expansion in economically disadvantaged areas — and particularly for Black-, Latino-, AAPI-, and Native American-owned businesses. In addition to providing small businesses with an ambitious “restart package” to survive the current crisis and come out the other side strong, he is launching a special, ongoing initiative to empower these entrepreneurs to succeed and grow with a three-prong Small Business Opportunity Plan. His plan is consistent with key elements in the Jobs and Neighborhood Investment Act recently proposed by Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris. Biden will:
· Spur more than $50 billion in additional public-private venture capital to Black and Brown entrepreneurs by funding successful state and local investment initiatives and making permanent the highly effective New Markets Tax Credit.
· Expand access to $100 billion in low-interest business loans by funding state, local, tribal and non-profit lending programs in Black and Brown communities and strengthening Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs), and the Community Reinvestment Act.
· Eliminate barriers to technical assistance and advisory services by investing in a national network of cost-free business incubators and innovation hubs and intensive business seminars.
And how much money will be in play for this? $150B of NEW capital for small businesses that have been structurally excluded for generations. This is not existing money supposedly being sent our way.
If folks have an issue with this amount of money going to small and black owned businesses, let them. Most people are silent about tax dollars going to things that don’t help our community in any way. So if some tax dollars go to helping black and brown business owners, so be it.
Re-allocating additional current funds isn’t off the table either, though. Biden is also set to Leverage $100 Billion in Additional Financing for Small Businesses. Why? In 2019, only 10% of funding from the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) major lending programs went to Black, Latino, and Native American entrepreneurs. We haven’t heard anyone else talk about how they plan to address that. (see point #2 above).
Trump’s Platinum plan promising $500B to black people is empty foolywang material. He can't do it anyway. Congress must appropriate the money. Unlike in Biden’s plan, Trump hasn’t named a single member of Congress whose bill he will be promoting.
It’s also important to reiterate, the $500B is not new money. These are federal contracting dollars already available that he’s promising will be allocated. People would still need to go through banks and possibly the SBA – who often use racist lending practices to barely lend to black businesses at all – who face no repercussions if they don’t lend to black businesses and people and pocket the money given to them to reallocate. None of this is addressed by Trump. And seeing that he recently said systemic racism doesn’t exist, you can bet it won’t be addressed ever. This means hardly anyone but his white banker friends will see a dime of that money. So it’s toothless policy even if it was to come into fruition.
No plan will ever be perfect, but you didn’t need perfection from anyone else you are handing over the keys to in other parts of your life. And you have surely found ways to forgive the folks who affect your everyday life - cheating pastors who are leading whole congregations with your tithes you pay, husbands or wives who have made mistakes - whether they have proven they’ve corrected their previous questionable behavior or not. Biden’s and Harris’ records over these last several decades have proven they have evolved with the times and needs of our society. It’s one thing to hold someone accountable for a belief or action from 40 years ago. It’s another to ignore the endless actions they have done sense to course correct, especially when the incumbent hasn’t course corrected a day in his life.
It does not matter whether you like Biden-Harris or not. Even though we actually do. The important fact is that you do not waste your vote writing in another candidate and vote for the ticket that can oust Trump. This election is about getting him out, yes. But it’s also a referendum on what type of country we want America to be. Some may feel like America hasn’t been a democracy for a long time, but more of an oligarchy. That's fair. But when you have the opportunity to change it, do that. Vote for who has made it clear that making a more perfect democracy is their end all, be all goal. And only one ticket has said it is.
We can’t worry about those who are ignoring the dictatorship forming and acting right before our eyes, and that is being strengthened with a Supreme Court pick whose belief system is rooted in a “secret society” that spurned the idea for “The Handmaid’s Tale”. There’s no way anyone who truly is weighing both sides can come up with a final evaluation that both sides are the same. Those people want a Trump presidency, so let them want that. Far more do not. And it’s time we spend our efforts aligning with the non-voting progressive majority instead.
VOTE NOW. If you have not yet voted, turn your ballot in to a ballot box or your county clerk's office, or vote in person on November 3rd. Both options are now better than mail in voting due to timing.
Protect your energy, and your vote!
source: theybf
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