VP Harris' 'Agenda for Black men' not as exclusive as advertised

With the 2024 statesmanlike run soon coming to a close, Vice President Kamala Harris has sought to rally Black antheral voters with proposals to boost their fiscal and vocation prospects.

The "Opportunity Agenda for Black Men" released connected Monday promises that a aboriginal Harris medication would supply "1 cardinal loans that are afloat forgivable to Black entrepreneurs and others to commencement a business." Harris besides proposes caller "education, grooming and mentorship programs that assistance Black men get good-paying jobs," successful summation to legalizing marijuana and offering assistance to Black men for aged care. 

But if that each sounds exclusive to non-Black Americans, the Harris run assures it is not. In statements to The Wall Street Journal, the run said Wednesday that Harris' proposals volition beryllium unfastened to each Americans, careless of their contention oregon ethnicity. 

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Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to talk during a run rally astatine Erie Insurance Arena, successful Erie, Pa., Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The vice president is "clear-eyed astir however Black men person agelong been denied the tools that would let them to turn their wealth, get a good-paying occupation and enactment their loved ones—she is championing solutions that volition payment each Americans and code these circumstantial barriers to economical opportunity," a run adjutant told the WSJ. 

The Harris campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. 

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A idiosyncratic protests extracurricular the Supreme Court successful Washington, Thursday, June 29, 2023.  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The study notes that the U.S. Supreme Court has precocious shown hostility towards authorities programs tailored to a circumstantial race. The tribunal successful 2023 struck down assemblage and assemblage affirmative enactment policies, which made institutions of higher learning see contention successful admissions successful an effort to mandate diverseness connected campus. 

"Eliminating radical favoritism means eliminating each of it," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote successful the bulk opinion. 

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Activist Edward Blum, laminitis and president of Students for Fair Admissions, has led the complaint to unit companies and authorities entities to wantonness programs and policies that instrumentality contention into consideration, arguing immoderate specified endeavor is discriminatory. The WSJ reported that successful September, Blum settled a suit with the Atlanta-based Fearless Fund, a radical that promotes number pistillate entrepreneurs, successful which the radical agreed to extremity a assistance programme that awarded $20,000 to tiny businesses owned and operated by women of color.

Blum told the Journal that helium would question to situation the Harris medication if she delivered connected programs that exclusively benefited Black men oregon immoderate different radical group. "Racially exclusive programs similar the 1 she has projected person been repeatedly struck down by the courts successful the past," helium said.

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The Harris campaign's connection comes arsenic Democrats are progressively acrophobic astir wavering enactment among Black men, and successful peculiar younger Black men, for Harris, who would marque past if she is elected arsenic the nation's archetypal pistillate president.

Harris and Trump are locked successful a cervix and cervix contention successful the 7 cardinal battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden's 2020 predetermination triumph implicit Trump and volition apt find the victor of the 2024 White House race. Any erosion of enactment among Black voters, and successful peculiar Black males, could beryllium costly to the vice president.

Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

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