The New York Times is beside itself at the money that liberal billionaire George Soros just dumped into the social justice cause, to which he pledged to give a grand total of $220 million.
That gift, according to a New York Times write-up on Monday, is aimed at “racial equality” and “will immediately reshape the landscape of Black political and civil rights organizations, and signals the extent to which race and identity have become the explicit focal point of American politics in recent years.”
Or maybe that money, which amounts to pennies for Soros, is a P.R. stunt intended to remind everyone that he’s involved with every issue that animates the modern Democratic Party.
The article essentially admitted as much, noting that with the money gift, Soros “is also positioning his foundation near the forefront of the protest movement.”
Goody.
By the way, where’s the evidence that vast amounts of money poured into race-based political nonprofit groups has ever done anything more than elevate people like Al Sharpton?
Where’s the evidence that vast amounts of money at all will have any effect on “racial equality”?
Black people have a 22% poverty rate, compared with 9% of white people. The government currently spends almost $1 trillion annually on anti-poverty programs, including Medicaid, Section 8 housing, and food stamps, among others. Black people make up the second-largest racial group benefiting from these programs, with American Indians being the largest.
That’s not a couple hundred million dollars. That’s billions of dollars year after year devoted, at least in theory, to lifting black people out of poverty, and yet, we’re still having this same conversation.
Soros’s money impresses the New York Times. Unfortunately, that’s about the only thing it will do.
