It seems odd that people are demanding the obliteration of statues, names, ads — anything with even the most attenuated link to our racist past — while ignoring blatant “systemic racism,” which NAACP President Derrick Johnson has called the “systems and structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantage African-Americans.”
Many regulatory initiatives demonstrably “disadvantage African-Americans.” Any policy that raises prices, slows economic growth or limits market access will take its greatest toll from those striving to rise from the bottom of the economic ladder, and that group is disproportionately Black.
Pretending that eliminating the minimum wage will cause wages for Black Americans to increase is some kind of white Republican magical thinking.
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Pretending that eliminating the minimum wage will cause wages for Black Americans to increase is some kind of white Republican magical thinking.
“I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law.” ~ Chris Rock
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