I can't help but think there's a late 20s lanyard dork who posts on r/neolib and has a Twitter handle with a Taiwan flag is in some semi-influential position in Harris' campaign who slipped that in as an "epic own" to us "Bernie Bros" who "harass" him online.
That particular policy is disgusting to me. Like, I understand stuff like the 2008 mortgage collapse hit black Americans the hardest in part because the loosening of loan regulations were sold to bodies like the Congressional Black Caucus in the 1990s as a way to reduce inequalities in home ownership that date back to the New Deal.
This crypto scam is even more egregious because, at least with the mortgage thing, black families got something tangible- a house, even if for some it was temporary. Here, they don't even get to have that before the rug gets pulled from under them. Just an absolutely despicable way to treat marginalized communities. Selling them snake oil like that.
And then those neolibs are the same people who cynically told us that giving every person in this country healthcare was somehow racist. What do they know, have they ever seen a morbidly obese black coworker die of a heart attack on the job after doing two days of double shifts, no because they work at Institute For Instituting Policy Initiatives. These neolibs never have to see this stuff up close in everyday life and they probably offer thanks to whatever Moloch they worship that they don't have to.
yeah, the "universal healthcare would benefit whites more" is one of those positions that is completely divorced from the data.
the biggest killers and disabling conditions in the US are, surprise, driven by a shitty food system which preys upon people with reduced social and economic power. diabetes and heart disease rates incredible, and they keep going up. and the rates are much higher among the poor and minority communities. those are the communities with limited / no access to healthcare, routine testing, and interventions that can reduce risk and buy time for those affected to come up with strategies to avoid early death and permanent disability.
He had such bad untreated diabetes. They already were cutting off some of his toes and he was only on his 50s. He kept brushing off advice from his doctor that he was on a course towards this happening. I'd like to imagine that in a world where people didn't feel pressured by finances to avoid taking care of these serious health issues, that he might have had the liberty to be more cautious.
But, you all know what, what was also sad was seeing the rest of our predominantly black kitchen staff break down into tears when they told him he wasn't going to come out of the coma his heart attack put him in. We were all talking about him making a recovery while serving lunch a couple of days after, the dinner cook has just come in. She is the sweetest lady any of you will meet, a real ally to any queer comrades, and she said to us "I'm going to give that guy the biggest mother f-ing hug when he gets out." And shortly after, the head of the facility came in and told us, and everyone started to sob and cry.
And to tragically refer back to my starting point, which was disparities in black homeownership, he had just bought a home.
When our time comes we will make no excuses for the terror