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You said that African Americans support the Democrat party at such wildly disproportionate rates "because blacks have been treated differently." I pointed out that as far as I'm aware in the last fifty years the only policies which specify different treatment between African Americans and European Americans have been some limited affirmative action policies. Is that true? It seems so from your list above, since the only points specifying different treatment are the first two, from the 1960s.
Of the rest, all but one clearly relates to low income or poverty programs, or provide the most benefit to those groups. In fact even problems with voting regulations are possibly experienced mostly along low income and education lines - though that's a different type of animal, purely about politicians angling to admit or exclude demographics based on expected voting patterns. But as for the others, do 90% of voters on food stamps or minimum wage etc. vote Democrat? (Hint; it's more like 60%; site only displays <$50k information after 2000.)
We were talking about why black people support the dems. Why do you limit the reason to "only policies which specify different treatment between African Americans and European Americans"? Are those the only reasons why black people can support a party?
Or do you believe that "only policies which specify different treatment between African Americans and European Americans " can result in a racially disparate impact?