Posted on 12/05/2016 6:07:27 AM PST by pabianice
People of color, particularly Black Americans, shouldnt be surprised in the least by Donald Trumps presidential victory. Although part of me feels like we shouldnt be acting like we havent already survived, despite vicious attempts to destroy us, I can understand the shock. Its the same thing as saying no matter how much one can prepare for death, youre never really ready. Weve been preparing for different forms of death for hundreds of years. And yet, here we are in fear, though our fears have morphed into realities time and time again through Jim Crow, lynchings, police brutality (which has been elevated into its own version of lynching), and discriminatory administrations and courts.
The most frustrating part of it all is that the toughest blows against us have often been from people who were holding our hands, claiming allegiance, while snickering over their shoulders with racist America. This is exactly what Bill Clinton did when he played saxophone on a 1992 episode of The Arsenio Hall Show, and in another engagement, gave a speech on how we Blacks were so right to think the criminal justice system is quite unjust, citing, what I call, the one-in-three. (A 2003 special report done by the Bureau of Justice says one-in-three Black men will experience jail in their lifetime, and within the past decade, the numbers havent changed. This was all another Washington discovery that Black folks figured out when our men got 10-year bids in penitentiaries for dealing with that barbaric crack when the civilized did powder.) And not long after he was elected, Clinton signed his notorious crime bill, increasing policing, granting state prisons with an amount of money Washington can never find for urban public schools, and finalizing the three-strikes-and-done deal which incarcerated some three-time offenders for life.
My grandmother just said over Thanksgiving that Clintons administration increased jobs for Black people. Yes, partially because many of us young Black women then werent competing with our imprisoned husbands and brothers. And I imagine, as a single Black woman and daughter of a single mother whose partner was incarcerated for several years, many lives of single Black women (especially those with children) in the 1990s were made that much more complicated due to many of our mens absences. (Michelle Alexanders book The New Jim Crow explains all this in more sophisticated detail.) And guess who called himself the drug czar back in 2014, crediting himself for uplifting Crime Bills policies? It was none other than our dear old Vice President, Joe Biden. Phew, Barack Obama just barely grazed it. And no, Joe isnt getting my vote if he runs in 2020.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was another beloved president, but his 1935 Social Security Act excluded domestic workers (maids: Black women) and agricultural laborers (40 percent of Black men). He also opted not to pass an anti-lynching bill. Yes, all the dead Black bodies hanging from trees in our grandparents day and the bodies bleeding onto the streets in our day (most recently, former National Football League player Joe McKnight) couldve been outlawed. But Franklin D. Roosevelt said no, because he was afraid of sabotaging his own political standing. Youve just got to sell those n when it comes to protecting your votes, you know?
But all jokes aside, Washington has been two-timing Black Americans since we got here (in chains). And from what it looks like, we wouldnt have seen any better change with Hillary Clinton than were about to see with Trump. Hillary was so gung-ho for Bills strategy that she was collecting money because of all our men her husband stacked in jails like sardines until October of last year. In comparison, Eleanor Roosevelt was apparently in favor of not killing Black people for no reason. (Why, thank you, Eleanorof course, only if the rumor is true.)
Ultimately, Im actually glad Trump won. Yup, I said it. Im also someone whos tired of Washingtons lies. Now we cant excuse anybody. We undoubtedly know where we stand in Americas priorities. And perhaps this will be the spark that gets Black people angry enough to not allow politicians to take advantage of our vulnerability in the future (of course, if we have a future). If the apocalypse arrives, and we go first, at least we can say we werent surprised.
Elisheva Azarael is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at jsimpson@umass.edu.
“Ultimately, Im actually glad Trump won. Yup, I said it. Im also someone whos tired of Washingtons lies.”
Given her summation, I think most here have been a tad too hard on the little snowflake.
The people of the United States have willfully tried to turn over their country to third worlders who hate them and this fool still calls them racists. I call them stupid.
She lumps all whites into one group, isn’t that racist?
I only have two question, how is it blacks from other countries that migrate here find a way to be successful? Are Americans only racist towards “african-americans” but not racist against real african blacks?
Yes. people are really tired of the racism and bigotry from the left, the democrats and those that claim to represent minority groups including the author of that garbage article.
This is America, we are all Americans and that’s why we voted for Trump, to improve the lives of ALL Americans.
Stupe.
Trump didn’t win because America is racist. He won because people have finally begun to realize that libtardism is wrong about everything. They are wrong about theology, philosophy, economics, history, psychology, science, and sociology. They are also tired of rewarding parasites with more and more free stuff at the expense of and punishment of the producers.
If Trump was honest, and I think he was, about reaching out to blacks left behind by the elites' global agenda then I believe great progress can be made for all.
Part of uniting all Americans will require moving beyond the angry recrimination/angry response cycle.
Victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim, victim.
I blame us. Our tax dollars enable it.
No, not illegal and Mexico did not send her.
Some of his Mexico rhetoric is just total garbage though.
Those racist liberals say just being white is racist.
OK, since no matter what I am a racist, might as well act like one then, right? They ain’t going to like it.
It doesn’t help when their Black Studies instructor tells them white people are the source of their oppression, of all oppression. When “color blind” is a “microaggression” etc. I agree, the greatest bigots in this fiasco are the ones shouting “racist”. Useless acedemia poisons the well.
Substitute in Gender Studies, white males, and “misogynist” for a very similar criticsm.
Well then he wasn't talking about her and other US citizens/naturalized citizens from Mexico.
Mexico does send criminals to the US, and welfare cases...illegally, just like Castro did. That's all been documented.
Trump said:
>> When Mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best. Theyre not sending you. Theyre not sending you. Theyre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyre bringing those problems with us. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. <<
That's what he said, and he excluded your wife...twice.
He continued:
>> But I speak to border guards and they tell us what were getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. Theyre sending us not the right people. <<
From Brietbart:
>> As Breitbart Texas has extensively documented, its common for human traffickers to to sexually assault or rape the females en route to the U.S., and the smugglers usually remove an article of clothing from the female they rape and they tie it tightly to a treea rape tree.
Furthermore, it is true that as the U.S. suffers from a massive heroin epidemic that killed over 47,000 people in 2014 alone, nearly all of the heroin consumed in the U.S. is smuggled in by Mexican traffickers, as the Washington Post found. Drug trafficking is an inherently violent operation. <<
Also from Brietbart:
>> UPDATE: Later in Tuesday nights vice presidential debate, while trying to attack Trumps detailed immigration policy proposals, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine again claimed that Donald Trump and Mike Pence said all Mexicans are bad.
Fact Check: FALSE. These words have never been uttered by either the Republican presidential nominee or vice presidential nominee. Again, Trump specifically criticized the rampant criminal activities committed by illegal aliens coming across the U.S.-Mexico border, many of whom are Mexican nationals. <<
Regarding Trump's position on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, presiding over his Trump University lawsuit not giving him a fair shake:
He called the US citizen judge a Mexican....well, first of all, he's an anchor baby and Mexico claims him as a citizen...he is a Mexican. Additionally, he is from LaRaza (The Race)...a racist Mexican supremacist/Anti-American group, attempting to annex the Southwestern US back to Mexico.
We've seen LaRaza protesters freaking out, flipping off the camera, burning the US flag.
Why wouldn't Trump's assumption and comments in fact be correct?
The author
Who goes to UMass anyway? Those who can’t buy their way into the Ivy elites yet are “wannabes”?
There is no welfare in Mexico, so they can’t send us their welfare cases.
He went way too far then tried to use “some” are good people suggesting the bulk of Mexicans are not good people.
Maybe not, but they learn pretty quickly once they get across our border and hit the DHHS office...Instant Parasites...that should be a jail-able offense.
He went way too far then tried to use some are good people suggesting the bulk of Mexicans are not good people.
Get your terms straight. Mexicans are fine as long as they are here legally, are naturalized citizens (US citizens) or if they actually reside in Mexico (that's why they call them "Mexicans")
The bulk of illegal aliens aren't good people. The fact that they're even here means they don't respect our laws regarding the border and our sovereignty, which makes them criminals (their initial crime) an invasion force. They absolutely should be deported.
Additionally, many commit welfare fraud, drive without licenses, often drunk, commit property crimes, steal our jobs and whatever atrocities you have seen in the news TIMES A HUNDRED, because the RATagandists won't report it.
To all those who are naturalized, productive US citizens: Welcome friends, glad to have you aboard.
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