It’s a demonstration to the communities in question and their advocates that what they would get in a GMI would mitigate problems in those communities, as a way of overcoming the resistance in those communities to the approach. The approach that is being advocated is color-blind, the issue this program is targeted at overcoming is not.
Yes, a broad color-blind GMI itself would be an even-better way of making that point, but its a lot more expensive for donation-funded charities to execute, especially when a large portion of the audience they hope to rally behind the idea is resistant to it.
This is a tool for chipping away at that resistance. And its specific shape has been shaped by interaction with the exact people whose resistance it is targeted at all.
It’s a demonstration to the communities in question and their advocates that what they would get in a GMI would mitigate problems in those communities, as a way of overcoming the resistance in those communities to the approach. The approach that is being advocated is color-blind, the issue this program is targeted at overcoming is not.
Yes, a broad color-blind GMI itself would be an even-better way of making that point, but its a lot more expensive for donation-funded charities to execute, especially when a large portion of the audience they hope to rally behind the idea is resistant to it.
This is a tool for chipping away at that resistance. And its specific shape has been shaped by interaction with the exact people whose resistance it is targeted at.
This is a targeted demonstration program specifically for the purpose of providing concrete support for the argument that guaranteed income, a color-blind policy that the sponsoring organizations are dedicated to promoting, is effective in mitigating systemic problems facing communities of color.
That is, while your complaint is (if somewhat inflammatorily phrased, given the strong historical basis on which notionally color-blind solutions are deeply distrusted) not entirely unreasonable in the abstract, it is profoundly ignorant to direct it at this project considering that the project’s premise is exactly in line with it, and the distrust for such approaches that you paint as stupid is exactly what the project aims, with regard to a particular policy, to overcome.