What expectation is there that those of us of African descent will ever have the resources necessary to escape from the effects of slavery and neoslavery if the government does not develop a fair redistribution system? Similarly, how can other people of color and the white working class escape the effects of wage slavery without governmental redistributive mechanisms? Health care (both mental and physical), public education, job training for those out of school, WPA type programs, drug prevention and rehabilitation programs to list a few critical areas of need all require government financing. Of what benefit are even progressive elected officials if they are participating in a system that is wired to meet the needs of the wealthy?

B) Funding the Dream

Racism: Eliminate Racial Disparities

Immediately launch a War on Racism beginning with a study of governmental policies to determine the extent to which those policies are eliminating racial disparities. Policies that have little effect on the disparities or increase them must be replaced with policies designed to eliminate them. The studies should begin with the War on Drugs policy.

The elimination of racism is obviously a complex issue. However, any serious attempt to eliminate racism must begin with the elimination of the effects of racism on those targeted by it. A racial disparity analysis is in fact an examination of the effect of racism in a particular area of human life. Since the American government nurtured racism through enactment of government policies that maintained a system of slavery and neoslavery, it has a responsibility to focus its resources on the elimination of the effects of racism.

It must begin its work by assembling data on racial disparities of the various cultural and national groups viewed as people of color. It must then analyze the extent to which government policies are reducing the racial disparities among these groups and whites. Those policies, which are having little beneficial effect, as well as those, which are increasing the disparities, must be replaced with policies designed to eliminate them. By demilitarizing and creating equitable tax policies, we will create the resources necessary to eliminate the disparities through adequately funded government policies.