Posted on 08/22/2017 4:59:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
One lesson I've learned from working with Donald Trump is that you have to pay attention to what he does, not what he says. The left and the media are accusing Trump of being racist and a Nazi-sympathizer because of his words in response to the horrid events in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Let's all accept two truths: First, that every sane person denounces the violence and racial hatred displayed in Charlottesville by far-right-fringe white supremacists. And second, that Trump should have shown better judgment in his seeming defense of these crazed groups carrying around torches and Confederate flags as if celebrating a darker period in our history.
Words matter, of course, but actions do speak louder than words. Leftists believe that good intentions are more important than results. If you mean well and your heart is in the right place, that's what really matters, according to this creed. As Bill Clinton put it so famously: "I feel your pain." And that was enough.
No one cared more about the plight of black Americans than Barack Obama -- our first African-American president -- who won more than 90 percent of the black vote. But the sad paradox is that a president who was expected to lift up black America economically didn't deliver. From 2009 to 2015 the incomes of black Americans fell by more than $900 per family, adjusted for inflation.
Under Trump so far, median family incomes have risen by more than $1,000, according to Sentier Research and based on Census Bureau numbers. These numbers are not broken down by race, but it's a pretty good bet that black incomes have risen with those of other races under Trump.
What about other metrics of black economic progress under Trump? It's early, for sure, but we have some preliminary results since Election Day, when the stock market started its latest bull market run.
The black unemployment rate has fallen by a full percentage point in the last year; black labor-force participation is up; and the number of black Americans with a job has risen by 600,000 from last year. Preliminary data show black wages and incomes are up since the election.
So far, under Trump, the rate of job growth per month for blacks has been 40 percent higher than the monthly average under Obama. Trump has averaged nearly 30,000 new black jobs per month. That's especially remarkable because Obama was elected when employment was way down and had only one direction to go.
The other issue that is critically important to black and Hispanic economic progress is good schools. No president has done more to advance school choice so that every child can attend a quality school -- public or private. In cities such as Washington, D.C., and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 90 percent of the children who benefit from these programs are black. Trump wants to increase these vouchers and scholarships tenfold.
The goal here is to give every poor child the same range of education choices that wealthy families have. As black parents in D.C. who participate in these scholarship programs have told me, "Why does Barack Obama get to send his kids to private schools, but we don't?" Good question, one that no liberal has ever been able to answer.
The same people who denounce Trump for being racist hypocritically oppose Trump's plan for better school options for black children. I have heard many liberal commentators compare Donald Trump to George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama who defended school segregation and stood in front of white public schools with armed guards to keep the black children out.
Now we have liberals and teachers unions figuratively standing, like modern-day George Wallaces, in front of high-quality private schools, trying to keep black children out.
Trump also wants more infrastructure spending, more energy jobs and more apprenticeship programs so our youth have access to better jobs and better training. Disproportionately, blacks and other minorities will benefit from these programs, because fewer have the financial capability to go to a four-year college.
So is Trump a racist who doesn't care about the future of black Americans? Let's face it: He's no Jack Kemp when it comes to talking about race and healing wounds with his words. But Trump is creating more jobs and higher incomes for blacks (and other minorities) and trying to give a better education to every disadvantaged black child in America. That is a pretty impressive civil rights record.
What is it with people named “Moore” being such sissies? Trump should have shown better judgment? He told the truth, an the truth is apparently more popular with the voters than Moore’s virtue signalling.
Salena Zito said it best. Trump haters take him literally and not seriously. Trumpians take him seriously, but not literally.
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In this case, President Trump literally told the truth.
Weak men like Moore never miss on opportunity to virtue signal, regardless of facts.
I have been saying a way more complicated version of this for over a year. Thank you to you and Salena Zito for the concise version.
How many times has it been absolutely imperative to redirect the attention of people to one stark fact - that the National Socialists, commonly called “Nazis”, are NOT “right wing” in any way, shape, form or manner. And for that matter, the KKK has little or no connection with any version of the “right wing” of anything, they were and are the shock troops for the “Command and control” side of the old southern Democrats, and have nothing at all to do with any Republican or conservative policies.
At Charlottesville, there were no innocent parties, they were all LEFT WING fronts fighting over turf. The BLM and the KKK are directly paired, both with an abiding interest in advancing the claims of the blacks and the white folks respectively, neither willing to compromise in any manner whatsoever. They are united in only one thing - segregation forever. The Antifas and the Neo-Nazis are also a direct pair, the Antifas tracing their intellectual roots all the way back to Joseph Stalin, the original “anti-Fascist”. The Neo-Nazis pretend to be the heirs to the original German National Socialist party of the Third Reich. German Communists and German National Socialists have been at each others’ throats since the 1920’s in Germany, and the Reichstag fire (a false flag operation) was the catalyst that propelled the Nazis to their dominant position.
The confrontation at Charlottesville was supposed to be the “Reichstag fire”. Get the other side blamed for what aggressive side itself had been doing.
It is called “disinformation”, a tactic widely used throughout the whole left side of the political spectrum.
Donald Trump called it right the first time, referring to “many sides”.
Trump fervently wants to improve life for inner city blacks. He wants to improve their homes, their neighborhoods, their schools and their occupational opportunities.
This of course is a huge threat to democrats who wish to keep their 90% captive voting bloc right where it is. So the left is forced to manufacture a phony “Trump is a racist” smear hoping to at least slow to a trickle the number of blacks fleeing the democrat party plantation.
THANK YOU!!!
It makes me want to claw out my thinning hair every time I hear or read that!
The notion that the protestors were all a bunch of white supremacists has become a politically correct fact. Kinda like global warming is real. Or Assad gassed his own people. But where is the evidence that the protestors were out there asking for a return to segregation? Or for blocking blacks from voting? I do see them as asking for an end to the left’s war on white people. Should Trump have come down on them like a ton of bricks just because some of them carried confederate flags? Because they didn’t talk like William F. Buckley, Jr. (RIP)?
My old man said to me when I was a young ‘un, and had asked about race:
“Son, the only color that matters in America is green”.
I think President Trump believes much the same way, I know I do- I don’t give a fig about the race of the person I hire or work for, it’s all about business. Straight up capitalism is the most colorblind philosophy imaginable.
Remember when GWB said he denounced all 527 ads, and the media wanted him to denounce the Swift Boat Veteran ads?
The problem is who these groups tend to find affinity. And it’s God, Bible and Guns. Perverted? Yes. But it is pretty much conservative ideals.
Unfortunately for conservstives, the focus has been Antifa and BLM which these hate groups also dislike.
Finally, leaders in these groups have praised and support the President who one day makes denounce ments and the next tempers it.
Maybe it’s an unfortunate comparison. But it too easily made.
I understood that Trump was not defending what the protesters said but their right to say it.
No. I do not accept this "truth" unless it is coupled by the greater truth of denouncing the violence and racial hatred displayed by the left. It's as simple as that. Trump understands this basic truth - the press, the punditry, and the left do not.
Screw them!
The people referred to as Radical Right demonstrators, I believe had a permit from the city to conduct their demonstration. Exactly what laws were they breaking before being set upon by the mob of Bolsheviks? Was the peaceful expression of their ideology a crime? Or was it expression protected by the First Amendment?
Why don’t you shove your stupid comment up your derriere
He sure did.
When I have to fill out the Census form, I always write in Human.
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