One of every seven black children has a parent in "behind bars', while one in every 57 white children do. Jailing of blacks, while obviously impacting the male black population, is also having a huge negative impact of children, something that is not often noted.
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, wrote Unsafe At Any Speed causing a major impact on auto safety in this country. It is noted that his book caused the creation by LBJ of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The standards the NHTSA created (safety regulations) "reduce(d) the rate of deaths per mile driven by nearly 80 %"...saving as many as 3.5 million lives (some experts claim).
"Laissez-faire" is really "laissez isn;t always fair" re article on Nader. There are three ways that capitalism can be improved by government. First, prohibit, like discrimination in hiring. Second, mandate "floors of behaviour" like how much pollution can be tolerated. Third, disclosure of things like nicotine and tar in cigarettes, or industrial pollution, or cribs that kill, etc.
United States history; the period after the Civil War was marked by and increase in democracy-former slaves could vote. That was called Reconstruction. That was followed by a reduction is voting rights for black, a period called Redemption. Then with the passage of the Voting Right Act in 1965 (VRA) a period called the Second Reconstruction. Now with the Roberts Court and the gutting of the VRA we have a Second Redemption period. What next?
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