Posted on 08/20/2016 9:59:08 AM PDT by quesney
By deliberately and intentionally choosing the word “WOO” they are implying that Trump has no business trying to win over African-Americans.
They know what they are saying, and why, and choose their words with full awareness and knowledge.
Read Sowell’s latest piece for some answers:
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/08/18/trump-and-blacks-n2207012
Focus on empowerment: school choice, fewer illegals taking jobs. For starters. I think K-12 school choice alone wins big for a lot of blacks who want their kids out of dead-end inner city schools and are sitting on long waiting lists for charter schools. Big pool of voters there, I’d bet.
You absolutely NAILED it. Trump needs to suit up and double down. Triple down. And multiply ways of getting his message out that bypass the mainstream media.
I talk to the building guards when I get in early. Most of them work 2+ jobs.
Very good for them. They sound like good citizens who would favor more jobs and better opportunities. Work ethic and family values mean something to them.
OTOH there are the race-baiting reparations crowd, who will fight Trump at every turn. They don't have jobs, don't want them, and don't want their neighbors to have them either. Prosperity and equal opportunity steal their power.
Don't get me wrong, what Trump is doing is the right thing to do. A poor, dependent underclass is unhealthy, unaffordable and potentially dangerous. If we can, let's change that, but don't expect 95 percent approval.
There will be opposition, probably violent. The black voting bloc will (hopefully) split on this issue. What the ratio will be remains to be seen, but if Trump can gain even 25% of the black vote, he will win.
I'll be interested to see what side black leaders take on this issue. Some of them, you can guess - doubt you see many thugs and rappers for Trump...
Check out my map below if you have any doubts about that. The red areas are counties that are predominantly Republican. The blue areas are the Democrats and it is almost entirely concentrated on major cities with large black populations.
So have no doubt that a major counterattack is coming from the Democrats. Donald Trump is OVER THE TARGET and even if he manages 20-25 per cent of the black vote this election, we are talking a landslide of epic proportions.
“After 60 years of entitlements, how many blacks will actually want jobs? There’s a large bloc out there who get paid for doing nothing at all, and having to work for their money doesn’t appeal.”
It’s true that there’s a segment of the black population who are so institutionalized, they’re unreachable, but I think a strongly delivered message of hope and dignity through self reliance, will resonate with most blacks.
Even if Trump’s message touches only one in five blacks, that’s 20% of that voting block, which spells doom for the Dems.
Trump should keep pounding away in the large urban areas that 40 years of unchecked Democratic control has destroyed cities and their lives. He might make some gains.>>> it might help in the liberal suburbs. where they don’t want the criminals emigrating to their backyard.
“96%+ of any demographic voting for one party — it’s wrong. It’s un-American. That’s North Korea. That’s not America. And it’s about damn time someone at the GOP put a stop to it.”
As a youngster, I simply took for granted that the Democrat party was the natural home for blacks, despite the fact that none of my grandparents would p!ss on a Democrat if they were on fire - much less vote for one.
The Republican party didn’t help matters by ignoring black voters, and ceding that entire demographic to the other party. By their silence, they reinforced the notions of racism and prejudice the Democrats tarred them with.
It took me until my mid thirties to finally become disillusioned enough with the Dems to finally muster up the courage to see for myself what the ‘other side’ was really about. In what seemed like no time at all, I discovered so much truth, it set me back on my heels, and caused me to flee the left like my life depended on it.
The first step to emancipation is realizing that you’re enslaved. Once that awareness dawns, theres no holding a person back from making their escape.
I hope that Donald keeps pounding on this message until he breaks the lock on black voter’s minds. It’s time they stopped allowing themselves to be owned by the Democrat party.
Great move. He’s doing so many rallies, and even if he takes 1 or 2 points away from her, it’s worth it.
This is a natural benefit from having a not PC candidate, who is willing to acknowledge & address the real problems of real people.
Baby steps. DJT will never get half of the black vote this election. But if he peels off enough, he wins. Then the game becomes delivery.
I think repeatedly pounding the stats from ‘rat infested cities helps. Don’t you want better?
And here is the indirect effect: this changes the game on the white side of the ledger as well.
Trump’s telling African Americans the truth:
That African Americans are worse off than they were ten years ago, that they have fewer jobs, that more of them are on food stamps, that their neighborhoods are more dangerous... and that - considering the statistics - they have nothing to lose by trying something different.
Trump’s telling the truth...
>>Focus on empowerment: school choice, fewer illegals taking jobs.<<
School choice is a big one because the Dems have made it clear that they’ll fight it at every opportunity even though black parents in the center cities are desperate for better schooling for their children.
But Trump is also targeting the “law and order” message to blacks and that could be an even bigger issue given the way Obama’s anti-police statements have roiled the inner cities.
School choice is nice, but first your kids have to survive to school age, and then they’ve got to be able to get to school safely.
I think most black parents will find Trump’s law and order message not only appealing, but right now absolutely a priority. I think they want the police back patrolling their streets. And if he can get his message out to them, he’ll garner a lot of black votes, justifiably.
Furthermore, if he wins and actually makes the streets safer and makes charter schools easier to get into, he could turn the black vote around for the foreseeable future. That, of course, will be tough to do, but I think it can be done. Giuliani proved that in NY City.
That African Americans are worse off than they were ten years ago, that they have fewer jobs, that more of them are on food stamps, that their neighborhoods are more dangerous... and that - considering the statistics - they have nothing to lose by trying something different.
Trump's telling the truth...
Zook - I don't think the black community aspires to be the country's losers... I think they want better for themselves and their children. Trump's right on this...
I want to see Trump air ads on BET and talk on black radio. I also want to see him go into the inner cities of Milwaukee, Detroit, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati and yes...Chicago.
He does that and he will win 20% of their vote...and win the White House in a landslide.
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