why is the second post in small font size compared to the first?
I do not know.
It does at first sight seem shameful that they have cancelled this program. On the other hand I believe it had only taken in some 300 people which is much less than was anticipated. I don't know why that has happened and, while I am not defending them, I understand Britain will still continue to take unaccompanied minors from the theatre. Though I don't know how many we have already taken from there.
A friend has been training foster parents who are set to take in the unaccompanied migrant children. She heard the news literally in the middle of a training day and was gutted. 3000 is a drop in the ocean, and there were charities and foster families already lined up to help them, with very little cost to the state. Many already had family settled in the UK. This move just before knocking off for holibobs was especially sinister.
10,000 people from 10 countries? And is there a link to how the respondents were selected?
And before someone asks, I fucking don't know why the fonts are all different in that postYou do realise nearly 3 million more people went into polling booths and ticked the box by Clinton's name than the one by Trump's name, right?
Of the African Americans who did vote, 82% of men and 94% of women went for Clinton. If you're looking at a group to "blame," how about the 53% of white women who voted Trump (as opposed to 43% for Clinton), despite ample awareness of his anti-women views, misogyny and history of sexual assaults.
I find it curious that so many outspoken liberal / left / Bernie-or-Bust / 3rd party supporter white men are so quick to blame Trump's win on Clinton being a "poor" candidate and on Black people for not turning up to vote. But those same white men seem really, really reluctant to apportion blame with the majority of white women where you don't have to speculate because they actively voted for Trump.
Here's a few pieces that unpick the "whys" behind the 53% of white women voting Trump, and
White women voted for Trump in 2016 because they still believe white men are their saviors
Why Did White Women Vote For Trump? Look At Kellyanne Conway’s Sexual Harassment Story.
Why White Women Voted for Donald Trump
Why white women voted for Trump, in their own words
The quiet racism behind the white female Trump voter
Comedian Nikki Glaser Blames Oprah for White Women Voting Trump Into Office
And for those so quick to dismiss voter suppression as a factor in fewer African Americans casting votes, I think that's pretty telling, too.
North Carolina GOP Brags Racist Voter Suppression Is Working—and They’re Right
Early-voting data confirms that blacks in the swing state aren’t voting as much as in 2012—not for a lack of enthusiasm or effort, but because of rules designed to stop them.
We Can’t Talk About the Black Vote in the 2016 Election Without Discussing Voter Suppression
Wisconsin, the state in which Gov. Scott Walker signed a voter ID law that disproportionately affects poor blacks, was won by Donald Trump by 30,000 votes — while as many as 300,000 people were prevented from voting. And 60,000 fewer people voted in Milwaukee, the city with 70% of Wisconsin's black population.
When a discriminatory piece of legislation was passed in North Carolina, then subsequently struck down by the federal courts, Republican-controlled county elections boards found other methods to suppress minority voters, such as cutting the number of locations available to vote at, and restricting the hours, both contributing to huge lines, designed to dissuade voters from participating in the election press. And it worked: Black voters were down 9% statewide in this election, and Trump won by fewer than 200,000 votes.
The real reason black voters didn’t turn out for Hillary Clinton — and how to fix it
GOP voter suppression efforts are the key to combatting a changing demographic that trends blue
The low turnout for Clinton had little to do with her black support and everything to do with the effective campaign of voter suppression run by Republicans, one that has decimated accessible options for people of color.
Harvard researcher Stephen Pettigrew found that African-Americans were six times more likely than members of demographic groups to spend more than an hour in line in order to vote.
Part of the problem is the resources allotted to polling places in predominantly black communities. Those districts have fewer poll workers to assist voters and guide them through the process and have fewer voting machines on hand to process voters in a timely manner.
Rather than making voting easier for minorities and low-income people, Republicans have engaged in a “Don’t Get Out the Vote” campaign designed to keep these populations from the voting booth.
This action was enabled by the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision to nullify Section 5, related to preclearance, in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That portion of the law, passed under the President Lyndon Johnson administration to prevent voter suppression on the basis of race, requires that states with a history of such practices gain approval from U.S. Department of Justice before making any changes to voting regulations. The absence of that federal oversight has allowed numerous states to restrict early voting hours, which is aimed at targeting voting among people of color.
If Republicans hope to keep winning elections, it’s likely that they will continue to attempt to keep people from voting. If Democrats hope to combat that strategy, they should advocate that voters have more ways to cast ballots.
I'm all in favour of this country taking in refugee children, as long as said 'children' don't look considerably older than my 19 YO gtrandson, just saying, yer knaa
