yeah. people will start to look at the candidates, not only for their conservative bone fooids, but also, is this person we can post up against hillary clinton. and that s why marco rubio has had such a great few weeks. he s the old versus new contrast, very strong with marco. and he s got a certain fluentsy with that. and if he can broaden his appeal and come out with something a little less, like, we re doomed. and only my stern discipline will save us. and there s also jahmell bowie and slate wrote a smart piece about this, comparing him to how santorum emerged, by sort of enduring and ultimately, as people dropped out or people became nonviable, who inherited the kind of anti-romney manuel.
african-americans access to public goods, like public pools. and in the years that followed, the public goods themselves garnered less investment. economist robert reich writes, since the 1970s, almost all the growth from the gains have gone to the top, but as the rich begin shifting to private institutions, they withdrew political support for public ones. in consequence, their marginal tax rates dropped, setting off a vicious cycle of diminishing revenues and deteriorating quality, spurring more flight from public institutions. jeff wolettes, who is the author of the book contested waters: a social history of swimming pools in america explains, when black americans gained equal access to municipal pools, white swimmers generally abandoned them for private pools, and cities downgraded the importance of public pools. 50 right after the civil rights act, the struggle is not just about getting access to the pool for some, it s about keeping the pool open for all. with me at the table, j
jahmell, i want to let you in on this. only because i know this is part of what you were writing so much about. i m not sure how much i have to add to that. there s confrontation we had about the complex makes the small government conservatism and what means given our racial reality. i think khalil s absolutely right, that someone has to spend the resources. one of the things that gets glossed over in our myth about ourselves is the fact that the american middle class and the american white middle class is the product of the government subsidies. is a product of subsidies of housing, of subsidies of transportation infrastructure, subsidies of school infrastructure. and part of what s happened over the last 40 or 50 years, is there s been a conscious decision to not do that for integrated communities, to not do that for african-americans and to not do that for latinos. and i want to make sure that i note this. i think that s right and i think the impact on communities of color is
can t get anything done and are spending money, but these kids are the future. and they really got it. they really understood it. and they were serious about the change coming from the just to inject a note of sympathyism. at the level, i think it s great, a lot of activism, and the dream defenders are down in florida. i want to read something that jahmell bowie wrote in the daily beast about his thoughts on whether or not it s going to even be possible to change the stand your ground law. he said, to repeal that law in florida, in effect, in 23 other states, means building coalitions, either with people who support the law or represent constituencies who support the law. constituencies that are mostly white and are from certain portions of the state, and have in the attitudes they have for grounded historical reasons. so, even that sort of step one, how do we do something about the solution, repeal the law, is almost impossible. like, it s just not going to happen. the way our pol
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