Posted: April 7th, 2015

Sociology of Poverty .

Sociology of Poverty .

Question #1

Republican did not realize that they have to distant themselves from white supremacy, segregationist and antifeminist.
-Overt racism cancelled, used racial symbols, code words.
-Richard Nixon:
had public philosophy concerning race and welfare
moral opposition to civil rights, while maintaining belief in equal opportunity
was not in tune with “racial favoritism” (Affirmative Action)
civil rights product of liberal Washington elites propose
help African Americans at an expense of middle class and poor whites’
1968 extended, while campaigning he developed things and practices to use later on in his politics.
Examples:

–    Nixon met with Souther delegates, said once he became president of US he will nominate to the supreme court “strict constructionist” ( any judge that was an activist, federal intervention)
–    by doing so insured social services that helped poor were prevented by helping poor and blacks.
–    crush black radicals “ law and order” to eradicate the Black Panthers
–    Nixon says if he has to win the election he must do certain things: 2 plans
–    that divides blacks from the whites from the the democratic party and maintain whites
–    the other obtained white poor votes.

First policy :

1.    Family Assistant plan: Divide the parties. A new approach to welfare to help poor who are left behind. Motivate people to work. Replace the aid to children with guaranteed income to working and non working poor. In order to accept climate all legal rights to the poor. Procedural and legal rights that individuals in ADA had. One of the rights were that fair hearing if you get terminated. Eliminating equal opportunity would slightly increase the working poor. Locked into the payment you receive. Nixon therefore won some white votes. Corporations were then able to obtain very cheap labor. Penalized blacks and latinos in particular into permanent low wages. Unemployment to rise and lower inflation.
2.    Philadelphia Plan: break up whites from blacks: If you have a union set up, then people who one the company can hire new unions, if demographic not mixed enough. Nixon with this was splitting the democratic party.

Good things Nixon did:
–    Nixon expanded EEOP
–    DEVELOPED affirmative action policies in the housing era
–    proposed equal opportunity in 1962
–    proposed rehabilitation act, preventing people with disabilities from discrimination
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–    prior to 1960 black community leaders developed, they knew what was going on in the community
–    therefore blacks entered in political arena, got involved in electoral leader as opposed to community leader

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Question #2

-Aristocrates prevented reagan an bush prevented bush and reagan from cutting out certain programs
-state county and municipal were created to administer the destruction of affirmative action programs
The office to implement affirmative actions, they conducted research with a purpose to conform that racial disparities existed. spent 30 mill to carry it out.
After 1960’s some organizations such as
–    the national association of social workers
–    the children defense fund
–    american association of retired people
–    ALL these groups fought against reagan and bush , cutting programs.
–    the effort wanted to institutionalize affirmative action
–    Democrats, finally controlled congress: how ?
–    1.democratic party organized a solid block that strongly opposed bills that opposed affirmative action
–    2. Attach programs to republican bills that seemed to oppose democrats needs. “line item veto” helped.
–    these two strategies helped democrats to prevent the two presidents from implementing things to oppose social help for the middle class

Question 4
•    Policy making in US went from liberal policy to dictating, blaming social theory.
•     economic crisis push the country until the Right
o    Religious policy
o    Very muilti right conservative
•    Conservatives Believe society getting out of control from people of below ex. warefare, Hispanics, blacks.
•    Once a society moves to the right people become very fragile and frighten because of the economic securities
o    White males very frighten start to see the investments started to crumble
•    Social division in the population of US
•    Conservative said the social order is getting out of the control bc of the blacks and Latinos
•    Both parties deal with the fear of crime and warfare of the society.
Bill Clinton proposal
o    want to bet his conservative qudentials while maintaining democrate bass
o    different view of solution with crime and warfare
o    Republicans say it’s a symptom not the cause of lack of education, job, etc.
o    democrat believe crime comes from individual perspective a structural problem not racial stereotype
o    democrats states racial inequalities makes the society and political problem worst especially African American and people of color
•    Democrats Solution as far as crime in the society
o    improving education and job opportunities
?    give them better education and training
o    equal opportunity to employment
o    create more drug treatment programs in society
o    anti grants, give grants to eliminate gangs
o    protection of freedom of speech and liberties
o    Structural point of view then to think and believe these causes are by the people from the bottom
•    Republicans Solution to crime
o    Individual responsibility
o    Genetic
o    Social environment
o    Believe it is the responbilities of the individual to help themselves
o    Not the responsibility of the government to assist individual
o    To deal with crime set up a punitive justice system
?    Lock them up and throw away the key
?    Capital punishment for greater number of offensives that should be instituted
?    Give longer sentences
?    Prosecution juvenile offenders as adults
?    Individualistic point of view/ perspective and punitive to deal with it
o    1960 increase criticism to Democrats on crime, black crime
o    Clinton has a appreciate to crime that sways for him on both sides
?    Strategy come down into the center of the democrats and republicans
?    Tough but smart crime control
?    Mix prevention and punishment (democrats and republicans)
?    Both side will be able to dictate. Each getting something, mixing it up
?    Strategy is to Define Crime definition
?    By defining crime and agree on the definition you can get a solution
•    Redefine crime as gun control and policy funding
•    Weeing his way on both sides of the parties
•    By saying so he challenge liberals to certain liberties like death row
•    Comes down hard on crime
•    Republicans didn’t want gun control but democrats did Clinton gave them that and the republicans wanted  Clinton to have strict punishment so he gave them that
•    Clinton support gun control and most Americans wanted it so he got away with it
?    By him strategizing a debate/agruemnt by saying to democrats he will come down hard on the punishment and them protesting back made the conservatives
?    Batted the liberal to oppose him to get a stronger conservative base
?    Batting CBC to oppose him by him pushing for harsher punishment on crime was a positive feedback since it made him look better to the conservative
?    Clinton Action on crime bill
?    Moves black to distance themselves from him
?    1994 Clinton proposal 30.2 billion dollars over 6 years for crime bail ledges
•    saying he want to hire over 100,000 more police officers
o    needs to address races bias.
o    If you ignore police brutality
o    If you ignore with limit appeal sponsor
o    Ignore racial profiling
o    Can not have a social justice justice system
•    expansion of new prison (more black and minority in prison)
•    will expand the death penalty on federal crime statistic show most blacks although we comprise 11% of crime committed 40% of blacks will get death penalty
•    street strict clause
o    if you commit 3 felonies you can go to prison for life
•    to establish 19 different automatic weapons to give something for the democrats to rejoice on
•    very little chance to appeal death row
?    92-94 republicans has it directed towards taking over congress so they wouldn’t have to deal with Clinton’s bill to set up more policy more primitive
•    One may ask; What happen to liberal movement and institution and how did this play out this way?
o    EX. Why didn’t it raise a strong awareness to CBC, liberal groups, and Latino organizations since this bill was a target against blacks and browns communities
?    CBC opposes at first and said they would bring the government to a stop in other words would shut down the government but didn’t do it
?    NAACP, National conference of black lawyers, national police force association form a correlation to fight the bill but didn’t succeed
?    Set up a correlation called the Racial justice act of 1994 this act would have had to used statistic to see if race was a significant factor of the death penalty.  All they could have done. Wasn’t passed.
o    Reason of failure
?    CBC didn’t have enough support to get the Racial Justice Act of 1994
?    Did not Campion the bill or better writing Campion
?    Fail to due new research to prove the death penalty was racist
?    Fail to utilize the mass needed to draw public attention to there position
?    Middle class blacks didn’t see it there problem since it effected Working class and the poor
?    Middle class blacks are not on warfare
?    Middle class black class is more important to them then there race
?    Didn’t put up a strong fight
?    Conclusion of the situation is the class position trumps their race identity
1996 Welfare Reform
Economic Facture
•    1992 global capitalism 300 billion dollars debt

•    should government be involved to help these poor people or should they cut back from it
•    Alter the nature legislator power
o    bc of the defecate this problem came about
o    We cant do anything we have this big defecate
?    We cant do anything we have this big defecate
?    We do not have any money for any new policy additiontive
o    Government has to Cut back in policy and social arena
o    No new policy just reforming old
Politically
•    Not a contract on America but a Contract on black Americans
•    Republicans control both senate and the house in the first time in 40 years
•    Republicans 1994 Contract with America on warfare reform. People stating its not a contract with America it’s a contract on black American’s
•    program to determine who gets what from the government
•    the rich gets tax breaks and the poor get cuts
•    tax relief for business
•    upper class get tax breaks in there defense they are giving back to poor
•    contract also has new long term insurance care, dependent care

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