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.
As long as he is not pandering. As long as he is not advocating for special laws, privileges and rights. As long as he is not bashing whites. As long as he is offering help to those that help themselves. As long as the ultimate goal is to abolish all this one way racial crap.
Obama ignored blacks for too long!
Maybe. That was what the polling research showed about Dole/Kemp and Bush/Cheney.
McCain and Romney didn’t even try to get the black vote.
I think Trump stands a better chance with blacks than any Republican since Eisenhower. It’s a matter of his outsider status, direct style, and his personal success. But I could be wrong.
“The Obama/Clinton/regime has done more harm to race relations and to black economic life in America... than any administation in American history”
Yep! And it’ll only get worse if Hillary wins.
The whole frigging leftist PC inspired “African-American” label is an example of racism. I first heard it in the early 1990s and found it to be nothing but a means to pitting a group of people against another. It’s sickening!
These social engineers make sure both “African-Americans” and “Latino-Americans” remain a subclass ONLY for political power exploitation purposes. I’m sure you’ll start hearing more about a “Muslim-American” class. They do NOT want these groups mixing in with American culture! They can’t control them if that happens. They start to see the crap the left spews as nonsense and they’ll *never* vote for them again.
I promise you, should blacks in America *ever* split their vote instead of regularly voting Democrat, you’ll see the most despicable racist side of the Democratic party that’ll make white supremacists blush. They’ve proven that when a particular voting block won’t support them, they discard those people like trash.
Obama got 93% of the black vote in 2012 and won by 5 million votes. The Latino and Asian vote is now statistically significant at 13%, equal to 13% for the black vote. Obama got 73% of the Asian vote and 71% of the Latino vote.
Trump will cut into that.
“They’ve proven that when a particular voting block won’t support them, they discard those people like trash.”
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Absolutely,and they are already heading in that direction.
The new favorite class will be Hispanics-——defined by the choice of a Veep candidate that speaks fluent Spanish.
The blacks will soon be kicked aside.
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I agree.
Notice how he isn't 'moving to the center' like all previous Republican candidates?
Instead he's taken a hard right turn, a sign that he's truly a man of God.
“Absolutely,and they are already heading in that direction.”
The blue collar “class” of the USA helped give the Dems the power they have today. Look at what they call them now ... “non-college educated whites”.
My dad was a union dem his entire life ... a bitter clinger if I might add ... I wish he were around to see that snarky comment as he used to get on my case for being more right leaning due to “college” and a “white collar” job :-). The Dems have no use for butchers or steelworkers these days ... they’re pretty much garbage to them anymore.
I get *SO* pissed talking about that party. I have to contain a lot of rage when talking about people that use people the way Democrats use them :-) (<-— That’s an angry smiley face :-) ).
I just recalled that the eugenics movement in the early 20th century gave the Dems a lot of power too ... I don’t care what race you are ... eugenicists were into the eradication of PEOPLE that they felt weren’t FIT for society via birth control (or other means if you had the ability to suppress news of mass murders)!!! WHO DETERMINES FIT?!?!?! WHY WOULD YOU SUPPORT PEOPLE THAT BELIEVED THAT FRIGGING NONSENSE!!!! ARRGGHHH!!! :-)
I need a beer ...
:”As long as he is not pandering.”
Trump isn’t pandering. All he is saying is that our inner cities need fixed ... they’re broken due to crime.
I noticed that Limbaugh, never wanting to miss a chance of being critical of Trump, stated that Trump’s new campaign hiring gave the MSM an excuse to skip talking about the speech.
The only thing about that is the MSM would have spun it to Trump’s disadvantage or lied. The MSM are liars. The MSM cannot be depended on to haul any water for Trump.
Trump has to go around the MSM, like Reagan use to. It will be a bit easier with today’s technology.
Yeah, and Limbaugh is 110% absolutely positively
certainly totally dead on for sure correct about it
being an error to have announced any staffing
change just a few hours after the speech.
It was just helping the News Cartel to bury what Trump said
in crap that the general public cares nothing about.
What makes you think that the news media would have given Trump a fair shake. I heard Juan Williams and Van Jones and others talk about it. They put it down hard. So maybe it is just as well.
I don’t think Trump is counting on the MSM to get his message across.
They WON’T give him fair treatment but with the stupid timing of the staff
announcement it provided the whores with a convenient excuse
to completely ignore the speech.
His campaign “pros” should not be helping the enemy.
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