God forbid some of you read the article:

The plan outlined Monday would provide 1 million fully forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. The loans would be financed through partnerships between "mission-driven lenders," community oriented banks and the Small Business Administration, the campaign said.

The agenda also includes training and mentorship programs to help Black men get jobs in high-demand industries, and greater investments in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to recruit and retain Black male teachers....

The PSLF program provides student loan forgiveness after 10 years to borrowers who work in certain nonprofit and government jobs. Black men make up less than 2% of public school teachers in the U.S., according to the findings of the National Teacher and Principal Survey for the 2020-21 school year.

Harris also promised she would support federal-level marijuana legalization, a major step beyond the Biden administration's current stance on cannabis, which includes pardoning people convicted of marijuana possession and exploring a potential reclassification of marijuana on the drug schedule.

Harris "will break down unjust legal barriers that hold Black men and other Americans back by legalizing marijuana nationally, working with Congress to ensure that the safe cultivation, distribution, and possession of recreational marijuana is the law of the land," according to a Harris campaign statement.

"I think it's ironic that she was notorious for maximum sentences for weed possession by black men"

That's not what my research shows:

Harris' Record Proves She Is a Champion of Effective Drug Policies and Marijuana Reform

The majority of marijuana cases prosecuted under Harris occurred during her role as the district attorney for San Francisco from 2004 to 2010. While her office prosecuted slightly more than 1,900 marijuana convictions during this time, most were downgraded to misdemeanor charges, if even charged at all, and very few were actually sent to state prison. In fact, as district attorney, Harris championed a policy that people should not serve jail time for a marijuana conviction, and her office often embraced alternative measures such as drug treatment programs for individuals with low-level convictions. Harris even launched the Back on Track reentry court program in 2005, which "aimed [to reduce] recidivism among low-level drug-trafficking defendants" and ultimately became a national model for other prosecutors. The program saw a less than 10 percent recidivism rate among its participants within a two-year period"a significant improvement over the general 53 percent recidivism rate among all individuals in California convicted of a drug offense during this same period.

In her role as California's attorney general from 2011 to 2017, Harris focused her resources on prosecuting more serious transnational and interstate drug trafficking organizations and was not responsible for prosecuting low-level marijuana offenses across the state, contrary to what Gabbard and others have claimed.

"JFC, if you dumbfuqs think the optics of giving free money to people to open pot shops...then keep stumping for it. You're crazy."

Where does it say that is in thed plan?

Read the article, Eberly. The 1 million forgivable loans are not for Black entrepreneurs to open pot shops.

The plan includes a list of different proposals. One proposal is the 1 million forgivable loans to black entrepereneurs. Another proposal is to make sure black men get to participate in the canabis industry. You are conflating the two different proposals.

Here is what the article says about the proposals:

The plan outlined Monday would provide 1 million fully forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. The loans would be financed through partnerships between "mission-driven lenders," community oriented banks and the Small Business Administration, the campaign said.

The agenda also includes training and mentorship programs to help Black men get jobs in high-demand industries, and greater investments in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to recruit and retain Black male teachers.

The PSLF program provides student loan forgiveness after 10 years to borrowers who work in certain nonprofit and government jobs. Black men make up less than 2% of public school teachers in the U.S., according to the findings of the National Teacher and Principal Survey for the 2020-21 school year.

Harris also promised she would support federal-level marijuana legalization, a major step beyond the Biden administration's current stance on cannabis, which includes pardoning people convicted of marijuana possession and exploring a potential reclassification of marijuana on the drug schedule.

Harris "will break down unjust legal barriers that hold Black men and other Americans back by legalizing marijuana nationally, working with Congress to ensure that the safe cultivation, distribution, and possession of recreational marijuana is the law of the land," according to a Harris campaign statement.

"She will also fight to ensure that as the national cannabis industry takes shape, Black men " who have, for years, been over policed for marijuana use " are able to access wealth and jobs in this new market," the campaign said.

Harris' new plan also contains a few lines about digital assets, another area where she appears poised to break ranks with the Biden administration.

According to her campaign, Harris "knows that more than 20% of Black Americans own or have owned cryptocurrency assets, which is why her plans will make sure owners of and investors in digital assets benefit from a regulatory framework so that Black men and others who participate in this market are protected."

It was not clear Monday what that framework would look like, but a fierce battle over cryptocurrency regulation is well underway in Washington.

-You are conflating the two different proposals.
You mean the voters are conflating the two different proposals.
Which is why this is so stupid.
Posted by eberly

Voters are conflating the two, or some of you are conflating the two? It looks like the latter to me.

You are such a shill. You can't see a pile of dog ---- when it's put right under your nose.
What about hispanics, or gays, or gay hispanics or gay hispanic women or muslims, etc.??
Blacks?
This is so stupid. It is a slow pitch beach ball to be clobbered by the opposition.
#33 | Posted by eberly

Trump wants to cut taxes for billionaires again, ballooning the deficit yet again in the process, while also doubling down on tariffs, after having spent $28 billion of taxpayer money during his previous adminstration to compensate farmers hurt by his earlier tariffs, and you are bitching about 1 million $20,000 forgivable loans to help black entreperneurs? Got it.

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such a drama queen. I agree with all of that but you're being naive about how it works. Those issues are fine to hammer Trump with but why serve up this stupid issue to be hammered by the opposition?
in exchange for what? votes from a demographic you'll get 95% of that demographic?
dumb.
#36 | Posted by eberly

I assume she is offering up these proposals because they will help members in the black community, who might not otherwise be able to do so, start a small business and begin to establish intergenerational wealth in the process.

I think it would be good if she proposed similiar plans for the working class in Appalachia, who are mostly white, for example, and not just for black entrepeneurs. Most of them would probably be too suspicious to take the money though, especially if the program it came from had Harris' name attached to it (think Obamacare vs the ACA or people in the mountains of WNC when it comes to accepting help from FEMA under Biden's presidency).