Posted on 10/17/2018 4:28:18 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Jackson, MS, is once again modeling radical Black love for the nation with a pioneering basic income program that will give fifteen Black mothers living in subsidized housing $1000 every month for the next year. The initiative, Magnolia Mother’s Trust, is spearheaded by Springboard to Opportunities, in partnership with Economic Security Project, and “will be the first [guaranteed income initiative] that specifically targets extremely low-income families headed by an African American female living in affordable housing in the United States,” according to Springboard’s website.
Citing “Becoming Visible,” a 2017 report published by Springboard and Washington, D.C.-based policy research group New America, Mississippi Today reports:
In Mississippi, just 5,682 low-income families received benefits under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the program sometimes derided as welfare, in 2016, even though one-in-five Mississippians live in poverty. Mississippi’s monthly benefit for those who receive basic assistance is $170, compared to $442 nationally. In 2016, just 1.4 percent of new applicants for welfare were approved. The state has strict employment and drug testing requirements for TANF.
Poverty, disease-care, failing schools, scarce access to reproductive health options, and the crushing weight of white supremacy are not new conditions for many Black Mississippians and they are not yet past. Still, from Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, to the Deacons for Defense and Justice, Black people have always fought to create systemic and institutional changes that reflect the beauty and resilience of the communities that birthed us.
“We believe all people have the strength and capacity to be the authors of their own lives,” writes Aisha Nyandoro (pictured above), CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, in a guest column for the Clarion-Ledger. “And just as so many women did during the civil rights movement, they have the capacity to write a better story for their communities and, ultimately, for Mississippi.”
In an exclusive interview with ESSENCE, Nyandoro said that “we must rewrite the system” that has sought to bury us beneath the rubble of capitalism.
“This program is radical and women driven,” Nyandoro told ESSENCE. “Black women are—falsely—labeled ‘welfare queens’ and dehumanized just for trying to survive in a system constructed for us to fail—and it’s not like foundations are lining up to give money to Black women.”
These people are total bigots.
Why couldn’t it have been a lesbian black female instead of just a black female?
“and the crushing weight of white supremacy”
Well, I was sympathetic until I read that.
They used “spearhead” and no one was triggered? Now THAT is progress.
That’s a lot of lottery tickets to invest in ...
And then it almost immediately goes to drugs, alcohol and cigs.
I have no problem with private charity.
But, my spidey-sense is tingling here. I predict that these women will be reported to be doing wonderfully, and on that basis there will be recommendations that the program be made governmental, national, and expanded ten thousandfold.
Like socialism consistently does, this program, over time, will create more of the problem they claim to want to eradicate.
Most confusing idiotic sentence ever written. Systems get rewritten? Capitalism is destroyed already and is rubble? Hmmmm. Etcetcetc
And after that one year is complete will they give account of how & WHERE they spent their mercy money? This is important
Just keeping them on the plantation...
“-——received benefits under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the program sometimes derided as welfare”
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It IS welfare.
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Steal Magnolias?
Gotsta have the long nails and the hair weaves done.
>> “Black women are—falsely—labeled ‘welfare queens’ and dehumanized just for trying to survive in a system constructed for us to fail ...”
They earned the crap they voted for. No pity for the welfare queens.
They used “spearhead” and no one was triggered? Now THAT is progress.
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They changed it from, “The program is the lynchpin in the war on poverty.”
If it isn’t public money I’m all for it.
Note: It would be great to see a look back after the first year and year 5 and 10. Are these women “better off” or not???
Whoo hooo! Partah for a year!
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