Universal Basic Income Hits the Bay Area—If You’re Black

Equally and without discrimination. If two individuals or families are below the poverty line and social services is allocating money then the determination needs to be made strictly based on circumstances if there is only enough money to help one. The race of the people involved should have zero bearing on the decision whatsoever.

Discrimination is illegal and this should be struck down by every court in the land immediately. No, attempting to legalize modern discrimination as a means to combat historical discrimination is not the solution nor is it morally right or legal. California and all of these so called social justice warriors need to cut this nonsense out. What's the long term solution then? Playing ping pong for the rest of our countries existence? Legally discriminate in favor of minorities for the new few years while discriminating against white people so that white people become the marginalized then use the same programs to help the now marginalized white people in the future?

They keep pretending there is some "success criteria" for nonsense like this but nobody can ever actually define what it is. When will it be "ok" to stop this sort of thing? When are black and "marginalized" peoples circumstances as a whole considered "good enough" and "fair?" Is it when X amount of black people have jobs? X amount of black people make X amount of money? X amount of black people are in college? Sure plenty of SJW's will claim yes to those things, "when" that happens it's success. But nobody can actually solve for X because nobody knows what X is. And based on the trends I've seen regarding this sort of ideology even if they did reach X it STILL wouldn't be good enough because nothing is ever good enough.

There's never enough "representation". I've seen a total of like 1 white person in the past 20 commercials on TV yet if a movie is released about historical Scandinavian Vikings and there are no brown people in it then the SJW's throw a fit. Black Americans are currently attending higher education at historical record numbers yet we're still fussing and discriminating against the likes of Asians in favor of black people in good schools. When are black and other so called "marginalized" people considered equal? Anybody?

 

I can give plenty of examples of what I'm sure they're talking about from members of my own family.

DeShawn
Jaisean (Jason)
Rashad
D'Andrae

Not "ethically" black names per say but names that one would read and logically conclude are probably black people.

What folks refuse to acknowledge, either intentionally or unintentionally, is the fact that maybe, just maybe, many black people are just not qualified for the position for whatever reason hence being hired at a lower rate vs the default "simply because HR assumes they're black". Granted I'm sure there is some of that going on in the world but I'd wager to bet it's nowhere near as prevalent as it's being made out to be. Hence the reason why there is now a push in some areas to bar employers from utilizing background checks during the hiring process due to "unfair discrimination against POC's".

So if "DeShawn" isn't hired folks tend to automatically default to it's because his name is DeShawn instead of the fact that statistically speaking "DeShawn" has a higher chance of having a criminal record than "Shawn" who was the next application in the stack. Not the case 100% of the time obviously but as folks who know me know I shoot from the hip. Reality is A LOT of young black people have records unfortunately and that's the truth so if you aren't hired it's likely due to that rather than you having a name that is difficult to figure out how to pronounce. It also has a lot to do with the interview. I used to work HR decades ago and again the truth is many young black people tend to not carry themselves in a professional manner. Unfortunately a lot of it has to do with upbringing and just an overall lack of education on social etiquette. First impressions are everything.

As one who used to hire folks for jobs as a waiter in a restaurant I needed to hire people who's literal job was to be the front lines servicing our customers and setting the representation for our restaurant. This sort of thing happened all the time back in my home town, if you show up to a job interview with a rugged appearance and talking to me like I'm one of your buddies on the block then I'm sorry but I can't in good conscience put you in front of customers to serve them. There were plenty of times where this exact thing happened and I've turned people away. There were 2 specific cases I remember where after the interview I met with the kitchen manager and said hey the guy seems like he would be a hard worker but not exactly somebody we want out front engaging with customers. You have any positions open for him in the kitchen? They did.

Now many will argue that in itself is racist, "trying to hide them out of sight" or whatever or that the way they spoke or carried themselves is a reflection of black "culture" that needs to be accepted. But no, customer service is a huge deal in any business and if I didn't feel you could positively serve the customers then I don't want you serving the customers and harming the business. And this is by no means unique to one particular race either. I grew up in the deep south and there were PLENTY of white rednecks trying to get hired as waiters who I tossed in the kitchen too for the exact same reason. This was a high-end(ish) restaurant thaat served high-end(ish) customers, to get hired on to serve them you needed to be able to carry yourself a certain way and that has absolutely nothing to do with your race and everything to do with the way you acted. We had black waiters, I was one of them and so was a good friend of mine. Him and I didn't "act" like that.

 

And Conservatives allow themselves to be called racists and do nothing at all about it but cast their eyes to the ground and complain in the shadows. Meanwhile the the word racist has been overblown to such a hilarious level at this point that I saw an article the other day titled "Why young men of color are joining white supremacist groups" lol....Because that somehow makes sense...

Where are the Conservative's with fortitude? I always hear Conservatives equating themselves to the Colonists who rebelled against the British Crown or the courage of the men who stormed Omaha Beach. Or being the modern hardened blue collar workers who work the mines and drive the trucks and farm the land and join the military and fight the wars and do all of the backbreaking "real work" while the Left is painted as the Starbucks barista boy who needs a break every 20 mins and safe zones in college because life is so hard.

Yet somebody calls a Conservative a racist and they crumble like wet toilet paper and start tripping over themselves. Where are the Conservatives with the strength to stand up and look a person in the eyes who calls them a racist and give the the middle finger directly to their face without remorse or apology? The Left will get on national television and call you a bigot and a racist and tell you and your entire ideology to go pound sand.

So as with everything else, the reason why the Left has no problem calling any and everything racist and bigoted and hateful is because they know Conservatives won't do anything about it.

I guarantee you there aren't thousands of Conservatives marching on city hall right now in San Francisco with bullhorns and signs calling this bill racist against white people. Of course not because Conservatives "are too busy going to work and raising a family to be bothered with such trivial things".

 

Our media is pure propaganda at this point but once again Conservatives do themselves no favors by being so passive and timid. J6 was dumb in my opinion but the media and the Left are going to forever exaggerate that as a failed modern day Reichstag Fire Decree. And they will forever use that to paint every single Conservative protest of any sort as akin to J6 that they have grossly exaggerated hoping to intimidate Conservatives from gathering en-masse again for anything. The only way that works is if Conservatives CARE what these people think. And care they do, big time.

If Conservatives gather en-masse and protest this decision at city hall in SF or protest the capital in Sacramento then they will call you a J6'er and a racist and a bigot and a nazi and whatever else. WHO CARES? They call you that anyway even if you don't do anything. California supposedly has the most Republicans of any state in America even though the place is deeply blue so where are they? What are California Republicans going to DO about this blatantly racist and discriminatory piece of legislation? I'll tell you what they will do, they will sit back and say "I hope the courts will strike this down there is no way this is legal". California has a history of just doing whatever they hell it wants regardless of the Constitution or morality or legality. Hoping that the courts will side with the law in California is hilarious at this point. I'm not saying go out and riot and break things, in fact I'm saying specifically don't do that. Go out and protest it's your Constitutional Right. In spite of what so many Hank Hill Republicans think you do have more rights to express your discontent than simply "hopefully voting these people out next election cycle" or "writing a strongly worded letter to your Congressman".

The Left doesn't even always break the rules they simply use the tools at their disposal. You are ALLOWED to protest peacefully and be civilly annoying as hell which is what the Left does (even though it's not always peaceful, don't imitate the non peaceful rioting they do). The Right writes strongly worded letters and votes and calls their congressman to "tell that son of a gun how I feel about this!".

If this were reversed and a bill was passed to give white people free money and nobody else then guess who would be on in the streets at 7am tomorrow morning to the tune of thousands with signs and bullhorns? The Left. Hell they're so damn good at it they have drums in their formations calling cadence tunes at this point, literally. But by all means Republicans, write your letters and make your phone calls, that'll show em!

At a certain point continuously taking the moral high ground while systematically being punched in the face doesn't make you the bigger man or adult in the room anymore. It just makes you the dummy who is standing there getting punched in the face.

 

I hear what you're saying, I really do, and I agree with you. This is NOT what I serve my country for so long for either. But here is my question which I will admit is a difficult one. In the face of a blatantly unfair biased two tier judicial system and a pop culture driven society that calls you names for simply existing I understand that doing "something" is challenging at the moment and it seems like it may not be the right time. My question then is WHEN is the right time? Is it AFTER the point of no return? Is it AFTER laws are implemented to arrest you for wrong think? AFTER the feds ban your guns? AFTER you are arrested for refusing to transgender your 5 year old because he thinks he's a she? AFTER your white children can't get a job or accepted into any college because of the color of their skin? AFTER you are arrested for speaking out against giving black people free money and arguing it should be for all peoples? As you said, they arrested a GRANDMOTHER for merely being on the steps of the Capital and put her in prison.

History and science have always been my favorite subjects and hobbies to study and regardless of the country or time period whenever totalitarianism rears it's head the question is always the same. HOW did this happen? The answer is simple, fear and the boiled frog analogy. Slowly and steadily one at a time your rights are removed, your traditions are replaced, your culture is changed, slowly and steadily. Then one day you notice something is different and at that point it's already too late.

One day it'll get bad to the point where there will be a mob of angry violent rioters in your yard threatening you to take down your American flag hanging from your home as a show of support for their cause. They have bricks and bats and molotov cocktails in their hands. Your wife and children are inside. You grab your firearm and brandish it at the mob in an attempt to shew them away and call the cops for help. The cops that you support because you "back the blue" show up to your home and arrest.....YOU. And you ask them wait a minute I'm being threatened in my home look outside at this mob, my wife and children are in here I need help why are you arresting me this is America! Yup, this is America.

One day....just kidding, that already happened. How much more "bad" does it need to get before Conservatives are willing to do something as simple as protesting against something as blatantly racist and illegal as this California bill? How much longer will they continue to just sit there and get boiled alive because society isn't fair towards them anymore and they are afraid? If they aren't willing to do anything now when the heat is still on medium relatively speaking then what the hell do they think they're going to do when the burner is on full blast in a few years?