Posted on 08/17/2016 1:28:44 PM PDT by Petrosius
If you thought the mainstream media has been coming down a bit hard on Donald Trump of late, you haven't seen anything yet.
In his speech Tuesday night the businessman had the temerity to hit them where they really live by going where no Republican on a presidential level has dared to go before. He declared aloud what almost everyone secretly knows, that the horrifying condition of black people in urban America is at least partly, probably largely, the fault of the media's darling, the Democratic Party. Their failed liberal policies and exploitation of blacks have been making things worse for African-Americans for decades.
Trump is right, of course. And under Obama and Clinton, the carnage has only reached new levels with people shooting each other in the streets of Chicago and Baltimore as if they were the suburbs of Raqqa.
Pushing the envelope further, the businessman made an overt pitch to black voters to come over to him for the sake of their own communities, to make their lives better by breaking the stranglehold the Democrats have had on African-Americans.
Oh, the vapors, the vapors.
It's safe to say the MSM will now go into overdrive, attacking Trump every way they can, branding him a racist for telling the truth, and begging him to make some sort of slip, any slip, so they can change the subject as quickly as possible from this most sacred of their sacred cows. Minutes after the speech, panicked CNN was already fixating on the fact that the businessman did not make his speech in a black neighborhood, thus supposedly making it invalid although it was readily available to millions of Americans of all colors on television.
Those of us who care about our country, however, could not have but rejoiced in Trump's speech. Someone should have made it thirty years ago. (Well, in a way, Daniel Patrick Moynihan did.) Nevertheless, it was good to hear honest words like these:
The main victims of these riots are law-abiding African-American citizens living in these neighborhoods. It is their jobs, their homes, their schools and communities which will suffer as a result.Or this:There is no compassion in tolerating lawless conduct. Crime and violence is an attack on the poor, and will never be accepted in a Trump Administration.
The narrative that has been pushed aggressively for years now by our current Administration, and pushed by my opponent Hillary Clinton, is a false one. The problem in our poorest communities is not that there are too many police, the problem is that there are not enough police.
Every time we rush to judgment with false facts and narratives – whether in Ferguson or in Baltimore – and foment further unrest, we do a direct disservice to poor African-American residents who are hurt by the high crime in their communities.[snip]During the last 72 hours, while protestors have raged against the police here in Milwaukee, another 9 were killed in Chicago and another 46 were wounded. More than 2,600 people have been shot in Chicago since the beginning of the year, and almost 4,000 killed in President Obama’s hometown area since his presidency began.
For every one violent protestor, there are a hundred moms and dads and kids on that same city block who just want to be able to sleep safely at night. My opponent would rather protect the offender than the victim.Indeed. I only wish Trump had been more specific about how to solve the situation. (A couple of days ago I recommended he consider some of Jack Kemp's old proposals). But let's hope that will come and that he will indeed spend more time in African-American communities. Why not?Hillary Clinton-backed policies are responsible for the problems in the inner cities today, and a vote for her is a vote for another generation of poverty, high crime, and lost opportunities.
Like most on the right, I abhor identity politics. They are inherently divisive and racist in essence. But they are so ingrained in our culture that I suspect the only way to get rid of them is to go through them, to meet the communities head on with sensible and creative conservative proposals. Trump made a great start in this regard Tuesday night. If he continues to go forward with this and makes genuine inroads, it may well prove to be his, or anyone's, greatest contribution to this campaign.
And if, in the process, he is able to put a dent in the reactionary monoculture of mainstream media, we should take our hats off to him for a very long time.
A little late....
The Obama/Clinton/regime has done more harm to race relations and to black economic life in America... than any administation in American history
I ordinarily do NOT support specific race-based voter appeals but if Trump can at least get into black neighborhoods and talk about how America could have JOBS and opportunities for everybody including black citizens
it would help him a great deal to win the WH
I love the idea of him making a play for black voters. The standard Republican approach has been to write off black voters, allowing the Democrats to take it for granted that they will get 90-110%. Of course the media will say something like this is another sign of desperation from the Trump campaign.
HRC’s campaign is extremely focus group/data driven. There is no time for them to test a good counter. These low risk strategies can be an effective way to Cloward-Piven a top heavy operation like Clinton’s.
bkmk
AMAZING!!!
I absolutely LOVE it! Hammer this home over and over.
He is 100% right. Pandering to scuz creates more scuz.
and Democrats are the creator of division, selfishness and sleaze politics.
I don’t think this is a race-based voter appeal. He’s telling the truth about democrats and black neighborhoods.
Something has to change or there will be many many more Milwaukee’s.
He won’t necessarily get the black vote but it will allow squishy whites to feel it’s ok to vote for Trump.
Everything that Trump said is true and well known by blacks. There is no reason he shouldn’t be asking for their vote. The only thing Hillary and Soros will offer is violence and more of the same.
Great Article -
The best line was:
“There is no compassion in tolerating lawless conduct. Crime and violence is an attack on the poor, and will never be accepted in a Trump Administration.”
Glad Trump has the guts to actually say what many think but are afraid to say.
I thought it was his best speech to-date.
They will continue to get better, because it's much easier to tell the truth and speak common sense than to sell the ridiculous world view of the left.
He said he was a unifier, though we were thinking Hispanics, Asians and legal immigrants. However, he’s saying what needs to be said re- AA’s. He’s even bringing many LGTBQs.
Perhaps he’s a little more focused.
I get the feeling that a pretty fair number of the people who fear and hate him today will be fans of his after his first term is done. Whichever dem runs against him in 4 years is going to get annihilated.
It was an excellent speech and he wants all of black vote not just some of it! Love the way he thinks BIG.
Trump Speech, West Bend, WI 8/16/16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRZqz3e5Pr8
There is a simple reason why the left is against school choice..if a black child goes to a GOOD school where he/she can be around other children who want to LEARN that child has a better chance of growing up, getting a good job, making good money, and becoming a Republican..cant have that happen, so instead these kids go to crappy schools where they learn you get what you want by stealing and blaming whitey
Yes! More please, Mr. Trump!
Make $hillary run on the “results” that Dems have actually won for black people, not the false promises the Dems use to gin up votes.
GWB was so delicate when he referred to “the soft bigotry of low expectations”. The message needs to be more vivid and clear. We don’t need to win over Ramesh Ponnuru or David Brooks. We need to win over the people that are hurt by the ongoing travesty of urban policy.
If Trump gets 11 or 12% of the black vote it’s over. The Rats need 96% percent of the black vote and high turnout. If they get less than 90% in Miami, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland those battleground states are lost.
These are the DIRTY truths that the Left hates, that their cities, their states are the ones where bad things are rising. Obama claimed that with his election the oceans would stop rising but it was Chicago where the blood tide keeps rising. So many cities with decades of ‘D’ mayors and legislatures to get what?
Oh, and another thing, where does Hillary come from? Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947, at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois and lived in the Chicago area until going to college in 1965.
I liked the speech but like Trump better w/o a teleprompter.
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