Oakland mayor excludes white people from a UBI program

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Low-income families of color in Oakland, California, could receive some extra financial assistance over the next year and a half.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced this week that the city will launch a guaranteed income project to give hundreds of Black and Indigenous families and people of color $500 per month for 18 months.

An estimated 10,000 of Oakland's 435,000 population are white residents who live in poverty, defined by earning less than $12,880.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/24/us/oakland-low-income-bipoc-guaranteed-income-trnd/index.html

 

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Oakland city government: We're giving a monthly bonus to low-income families of color. This is a test run to see if a guaranteed income stabilizes their situation, we're focussing on BIPOC primarily right now because our data shows that they've been hit the hardest financially, but we plan to expand the program to everybody if it is successful.

GagaDaily user hankhatesyouall: THEY ARE BEING RACIST AGAINST THE WHITES!!!!!!! EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE!!!!!!

You're not fooling me. You're framing an initiative to help people of color who live in poverty as discrimination against white people in poverty. You're trying to pit these two marginalized groups against each other for the sake of spreading your personal ideology.

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Wealth redistribution will never fix the root issue of why these people have so little in the first place.

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9 minutes ago, Supersonic said:

Oakland city government: We're giving a monthly bonus to low-income families of color. This is a test run to see if a guaranteed income stabilizes their situation, we're focussing on BIPOC primarily right now because our data shows that they've been hit the hardest financially, but we plan to expand the program to everybody if it is successful.

GagaDaily user hankhatesyouall: THEY ARE BEING RACIST AGAINST THE WHITES!!!!!!! EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE!!!!!!

You're not fooling me. You're framing an initiative to help people of color who live in poverty as discrimination against white people in poverty. You're trying to pit these two marginalized groups against each other for the sake of spreading your personal ideology.

well definitely they didn't focus on the reasons why it was only going for BIPOC and i personally didn't assume they were racist towards white, although that isn't really possible, however looking back at OP there was quite limited info

i reacted sad because from my knowledge, white people make up the third largest race/ethnic group in poverty behind black people and hispanic people in Oakland, however knowing that their research proved that BIPOC were hit harder during this time definitely changes the story

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This seems ripe for a Supreme Court challenge.

I hope they can make this project a success otherwise it will blow up in their faces 

[Chromatography 10,186]

how is $500 a month going to help people who earn less than $12K a year? this system is so fvcked and it’s hilarious they think that this is going to fix anything. so fvcking sad.

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19 minutes ago, Chromatography said:

how is $500 a month going to help people who earn less than $12K a year? this system is so fvcked and it’s hilarious they think that this is going to fix anything. so fvcking sad.

$500 a month is not unsubstantial. 

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Racist. There are poor white people, poor black people, poor asian people, etc. Can we stop discriminating about people? Who cares what someones race is? If they need the help, give them help! This is ridiculous.

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55 minutes ago, bionic said:

This seems ripe for a Supreme Court challenge.

I hope they can make this project a success otherwise it will blow up in their faces 

This is a research project including only 600 families. Inclusion criteria is based on data. There is no way to challenge this.

Beside, the only people who could challenge this are rich people, and rich people really really realllly do not care about poor people.

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10 minutes ago, uo111 said:

This is a research project including only 600 families. Inclusion criteria is based on data. There is no way to challenge this.

Beside, the only people who could challenge this are rich people, and rich people really really realllly do not care about poor people.

Some rich people selfishly care about poor people being given a helping hand.

I fully support this project just to make it clear. It seems like a 'clear target' for little Trumpsters with a bone to pick

[Cookie Tookie 10,546]

This was never about poverty or class. None of these “woke” programs are these days. It’s all about pandering to race.

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1 hour ago, bionic said:

This seems ripe for a Supreme Court challenge.

I hope they can make this project a success otherwise it will blow up in their faces 

From what I've read, it's 100% privately funded and no tax payer dollars are being used to stipend these individuals. This would make it almost impossible to challenge in the court of law. 

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2 minutes ago, CommonWhiteGirl said:

 

From what I've read, it's 100% privately funded and no tax payer dollars are being used to stipend these individuals. This would make it almost impossible to challenge in the court of law. 

Thanks for the info. I tried reading article but couldn't see much in there. If its privately funded then you're totally right, there's no case to answer

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1 hour ago, chromatic puzea said:

well definitely they didn't focus on the reasons why it was only going for BIPOC and i personally didn't assume they were racist towards white, although that isn't really possible, however looking back at OP there was quite limited info

i reacted sad because from my knowledge, white people make up the third largest race/ethnic group in poverty behind black people and hispanic people in Oakland, however knowing that their research proved that BIPOC were hit harder during this time definitely changes the story

Just look at the way the OP is structured.

 

Low-income families of color in Oakland, California, could receive some extra financial assistance over the next year and a half.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced this week that the city will launch a guaranteed income project to give hundreds of Black and Indigenous families and people of color $500 per month for 18 months.

This part is an actual quote from the article that is linked. So far so good.

An estimated 10,000 of Oakland's 435,000 population are white residents who live in poverty, defined by earning less than $12,880.

This is not part of the linked article. This sentence is nowhere to be found in the article. This is a unverified claim that the user posting has tacked at the bottom of his post, to make it seem like this was valid concern that CNN was raising. We don't actually know how many low-income white families would be elligible for this program. We don't know how many of these supposed 10,000 poor white people actually live in families with children under 18 years old.

So where does that claim come from?

It's a claim by UK right-wing tabloid press outlet Daily Mail that is notorious for misrepresenting facts and being sued for spreading misinformation or actual lies (This is the news outlet that Dua Lipa sued and WON against because they claimed that Covid Safety Protocols were violated on the set of her music video for Levitating).  Yikes. But also, let's talk about the Daily Mail article:

The article is actually not that bad, it even contextualizes that this is a lottery system and that only very few families will be able to participate in this test run and that BIPOC families are preferrred because their data shows that they've been hit very hard by the pandemic, however it also specifies that low-income white families are elligible to apply and allowed to parttake in the test run. 

Other newsoutlets that ran with this headline are "We Are The News", a Q-Anon MAGA blog and the news outlet "Breaking911", a news site that is frequented by Neo-Facists and the Alt-Right of the Internet. Oops.

Matter of fact, only half of the planned spots on the list are "reserved" for BIPOC families, the other half could very well be awarded to poor white families.

"Oakland Resilient Families, said it planned to steer half of the monthly checks towards black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) in East Oakland." 

So... what was the purpose of including that information in the first place? What was the purpose claiming that white people were fully excluded from participating, when they just were not the priority in this project? What was the purpose of conveniently leaving out that ALL ethnic minorty families of Oakland together have to share 50% of the spots, while white families could potentially receive the other 50% without having to share?

 

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