Democrat and liberal policies have hurt the black community

Hello, Firstly, i would like to point out to the fact that my opponent in his conclusive speeches failed to mention the civil rights act of 1964 which was in fact a liberal policy as my opponent has failed to negate. I do not argue for communism, just liberalism as my opponent has tried to tie me to. In accordance to my past speeches, i will conclude with my arguements1. Civil rights act of 1964- a liberal policy that enabled black people oppurtunity to work etc and to not get discriminated against. Ensured their rights (suffrage and freedoms). Most quintessential piece of legislature by the USFG in my point of view. This allowed black people to get jobs, go to college, get welfare, and attend schools without fear of being mistreated for being black. Without this one since piece of legislature, none of the harms that pro states have any impact since without the black community having their freedoms, then they cannot attain all of this.2. Minimum wage- i have broke down the analysis and cost versus benefit in one of my rounds using statistics and proved that new minimum wage increase to $8.10 would only cost 20,000 jobs and therefore only .5% out of 3 million. This increase would therefore increase wages by 10.5% which increases the livelihoods of many afro-americans. I never admitted that the minimum wage increases would cost 200-500 thousand jobs, i merely stated estimates of higher wage increases cons. I do not advocate a massive minimum wage increase, but one to $8.10 has more benefits than consequences since 10.5% wage increase is worth .5% of them losing jobs.3. Welfare- I never stated that welfare was to allow them to escape poverty, but a means to alleviate it. Why was the welfare increasing? Simple, people aren't getting paid enough and unemployment soared after Bush's housing bubble and Obama helped stabilize it. Welfare is now constant and remains pretty high. How do we solve it? Give people more money for their work by increasing wages. More money in the system means more demand, more demand means more needed supply. Economy startes churching and leads the economy forward. simple economics really since lower paid people have a high money multiplier thus spend more then if a middle class person recieved it since the middle class person isn't living paycheck by paycheck so doesn't need to spend it. People are starving and can barely scrape along and your alternative is to stop giving the money for food so they starve and stop helping them have a roof over them so they start freezing without a home. And somehow, through some divine magic, they find jobs and work harder. Yes, someone would love to hire someone homeless and starved, genius logic. No, giving them basic resources allows them to be productive, afterall, if your eating off a really low budget from the government, i would be incentivized to work.3. Affirmative action- it give Black Americans oppurtunity. Yes it may cause them to amass student loan debt if they drop out, but isn't it worth that extra chance for them to escape the cycle of poverty that mention? since pro advocates for educational aid, i don't really see why hes arguing against me here. 4. Why won't i let poor African Americans choose their own schools? well first you worded that oddly, the real question is why won't you let everyone choose their schools? Simple really, everyone would just go to the school thats really good, then all the other schools suffer and teachers lose job etc. We cn't have everyone running around going to whatever school they desire, they need to put quota's etc since it'll lead to a brain drain. All the smart kids will probably be filtered off since these schools need to put quotas, they'd probably start admitting the best and brightest. Since we all deserve equal oppurtunity, i don't really see the benefits in school choice. Sure it may encourage diversity, but all the black people may want a sense of racial unity and all may go to one school or another. Why do black people tend to live together? sense of unity, we hang around people with commonalities. Would this school choice thing really work? doubt it, it won't encourage diversity, moreso encourage indiversity as people move to schools with similar cultural backgrounds. Also i'm having to refute this argument with completely new evidence since i really couldn't have argued it earlier in the round when we were supposed to. By the way, people can choose whatever school they want to go to, they just have to move there. Even if school choice was implemented, how much transportation complexities, money problems, potential seperatism, and other problems would we have to solve for? tons. How do we transport a kid from one side of the county to the other without sacrificing the kid's time and the states money? How would we deal with everyone trying to go to to the best school? do we make the school established elitist and only accept intelligent people? (elitist)pro, Why are you deciding to use all these statistics to prove why conservative states are better? You should have presented that evidence like a week ago. btw, the majority of the top 10 states in america are democrat and the cities arguement is kind of bad since cities don't have as much governmental jurisdiction as states and therefore are not a good measurement of policy. states by income . http://en.wikipedia.org...1.marylandd2.alaskar3.new jerseyd4. connecticutd5. massachusettsd6. new hamshired7. virginiad8. hawaiid9. delawared10. californiad ""Ultimately, the path forward for African-Americans is access to good education, colleges where they can succeed, a road off of dependence and towards independence, and too live freely, richly, and happily as the majority of Americans do. "" Pro has offered no way to attain this goal. Doesn't Affirmative action partially solve for this though? I mean colleges don't permit really undereducated Afro-americans as my opponent implies, but they are still relatively smart, they may not be tip top, but still have that oppurtunity to succeed now affirmative action is present. Now i do not support the current state of the action since i see it as semi-bias, but i think our predecessors truly tried to solve the afro-american economic difference. Affirmative action may not have it's intended consequences but the effects were both good and bad and as a Liberal, there are ways that we can tweak the system aside from getting rid of it altogether. We can make the action based upon economic status as i mentioned. Since many afro-americans are of low economic standings, maybe we can help them too as well as poor white students. To conclude, i would like to state that no political ideology can be perfect in no way shape or form in it's actions and the same can be said for humans. Humans are flawed creatures, but before 1964, African Americans were not even considered human according to law and did have the rights that many of the others had. Thanks to Liberal ideology of equality, it was able to pass this piece of legislature. Yes some liberal policy may have had inintended consequences in providing new oppurtunities to affrican americans(affirmative action) by having some students unable to take advantage of that oppurtunity to become successful. Liberal ideology also supports some aspects of minimum wage and welfare on the basis that all humans deserve to live and we are all equal. We can't expect them to pay poor people the same wage with inflation catching up to their current wages and expect them to swim, but we must constantly adjust for inflation so people aren't as needy of the government or as destitute.