How Can Government Help Black Americans?

Except when it comes to law enforcement, by doing less. The Obama administration has been a disaster for Africa-Americans, but most pretend not to notice out of a sense of ethnic loyalty. That is understandable, but if you are an African-American and are looking past the Obama administration, wondering what policies might produce better results, check out this graphic that was tweeted a couple of days ago by the Young Conservatives:

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I haven’t gone back to try to verify the exact numbers, but I know from the research and writing that Scott and I did years ago that the Reagan years were halcyon days for black Americans. Wouldn’t it be a good idea for a Republican candidate to run ads featuring statistics of this sort and then say: “Conservative policies–they worked before, and they’ll work again”?

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